Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

Actors : Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Mike White, Beth Colt,
Directors : Miguel Arteta,

An oddly naive man-child stalks his childhood best friend and tries to reconnect with their past.

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Ryan Phillippe,
Directors : Peter Howitt,

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

Actors : Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Hossein Mahjoub,
Directors : Majid Majidi,

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Actors : Allie Mickelson, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr.,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

Actors : Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow, Jesse Bradford,
Directors : Don Roos,

Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictablity of life itself.

Actors : James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Donnie Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Justin Lin,

Set against the backdrop of boxing at the Naval Academy, centers on a young man from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream of attending Annapolis becomes a reality.

Actors : Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick,
Directors : John Carney,

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski,
Directors : Jon Avnet,

On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Bruce Altman, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Marcel Langenegger,

An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

Actors : Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Reda Kateb,
Directors : Jacques Audiard,

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.

Actors : Kenneth Welsh, Alan Van Sprang, Kathleen Munroe, Joshua Peace,
Directors : George A. Romero,

On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

Actors : Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani,

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.

Actors : Velizar Binev, David Chandler, David Arquette, Michael Stuhlbarg,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Clive Owen, Linus Roache, Teri Polo,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie...

Actors : Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré, Dominique Zeïda,
Directors : Ousmane Sembene,

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Actors : Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hélène Alexandridis, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Pascale Ferran,

A French adaptation of the second (and much less well-known) version of D.H. Lawrence's erotic tale.

Actors : John Howard, Stelios Yiakmis, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in ...

Actors : John Cusack, Emily Churchill, Rebecca Spence, Jennifer Tyler,
Directors : Jim Strouse,

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.

Actors : Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan,
Directors : Ari Folman,

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.