Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Jenifer Lewis, Theresa Randle, Spike Lee, Isaiah Washington,
Directors : Spike Lee,

This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work ...

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Judy Davis, Richard Roxburgh, Sam Neill,
Directors : Peter Duncan,

Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now ...

Actors : Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne, Anne Heche, Catherine Keener,
Directors : Nicole Holofcener,

Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the...

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Matt Dillon,
Directors : Kevin Spacey,

While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Lyle Lovett, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Glenne Headly, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Anjelica Huston,

A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?

Actors : Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Robin Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Lane,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Because of an unusual aging disorder that has aged him four times faster than a normal human being, a boy enters the fifth grade for the first time with the appearance of a 40 year old man.

Actors : Michael McGlone, Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, Edward Burns,
Directors : Edward Burns,

The love lives of two brothers, Mickey and Francis, interconnect as Francis cheats on his wife with Mickey's ex-girlfriend, while Mickey impulsively marries a stranger.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine, Miguel Sandoval,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant when her boyfriend kicks her out. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The ...

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Steven Baigelman,

An ex-convict and his bumbling crook brother fight for the same woman.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Tony Scott,

An all star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of a down on his luck salesman.

Actors : Alvin Henry, Melissa Robertson, Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.

Actors : David Morse, Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room ...

Actors : Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur,
Directors : Deepa Mehta,

Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother ...

Actors : Stockard Channing, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Jon Avnet,

An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in TV journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Harold Becker,

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Lee Tamahori,

In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Actors : Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines, Denzel Washington, Courtney B. Vance,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...