Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Judy Davis, F. Murray Abraham, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh,
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 : Theresa Randle, Spike Lee, Isaiah Washington, Jenifer Lewis,
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 : Gary Sinise, Faye Dunaway, 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 : Kôji Yakusho, Eri Watanabe, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

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 : Brendan Fraser, Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, 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 : 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 : Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, 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 : Delroy Lindo, Cameron Diaz, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Sally Field, Olivia Burnette,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

Actors : Meera Syal, Martin Walsh, Glen Berry, Linda Henry,
Directors : Hettie Macdonald,

In a suburb of London, young Jamie is escaping sport hours, to avoid being the victim of his comrades. Young Ste, his neighbor, is beaten by his father, and comes to sleep overnight. They discover new feelings, sleeping in the same bed.

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.