Best Drama movies of 1991

Actors : Kelly Lynch, John Getz, Alisan Porter, James Belushi,
Directors : John Hughes,

A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.

Actors : Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Udo Kier,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

Just after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Actors : Christopher McDonald, JoBeth Williams, Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry,
Directors : Peter Faiman,

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from a prep school, only to learn that her son isn't the nicest kid.

Actors : Costas Mandylor, Rodney Eastman, Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey,
Directors : Michael Karbelnikoff,

From start to finish, it's a story of friendship between 4 street-wise males who don't mind using violence to achieve the lives that they want. They trust no one but each other which is vital to their success as mobsters.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Jim Jarmusch,

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Actors : Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Jason Patric,
Directors : Lili Fini Zanuck,

Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.

Actors : Sally Field, Sheila Rosenthal, Alfred Molina, Roshan Seth,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Polly Walker, Alfred Molina, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Mike Newell,

This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners both male and female and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a ...

Actors : Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Actors : Angeline Ball, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Maria Doyle Kennedy,
Directors : Alan Parker,

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.

Actors : Li Gong, Saifei He, Jingwu Ma, Cuifen Cao,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.

Actors : David Morse, Patricia Arquette, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Sean Penn,

A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.

Actors : John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The...

Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt, Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Danny DeVito, Piper Laurie, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the ...

Actors : Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

In 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and starts traveling around the world with him. Writer Eugene follows them and writes their story, as a way of recording dreams is being invented.

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Darwyn Carson, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Michael Tolkin,

A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.

Actors : Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on...

Actors : Susan Hogan, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel, Ethan Hawke,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.