Best Drama movies of 2006

Actors : Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken, Lewis Black,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.

Actors : Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Sima Mobarak-Shahi,
Directors : Jafar Panahi,

Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums.

Actors : Emilia Fox, Sean Biggerstaff, Michelle Ryan, Erica Ellis,
Directors : Sean Ellis,

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

Actors : Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.

Actors : Toni Collette, Brittany Murphy, Marcia Gay Harden, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Karen Moncrieff,

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

Actors : Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant, Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith,
Directors : Susannah Grant,

A woman struggles to accept the death of her fiancé and the secrets he kept from her as she rebuilds her life.

Actors : Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Sienna Miller,
Directors : George Hickenlooper,

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

Actors : Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Daniel London,
Directors : Kelly Reichardt,

Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn,
Directors : Steven Zaillian,

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Stan Collymore, David Thewlis, David Morrissey,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Joe Roth,

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Actors : Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matthew Goode,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.

Actors : T.I., Lauren London, Evan Ross, Greg Andrews,
Directors : Chris Robinson,

As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

Actors : Sam Bottoms, Ryan Simpkins, Michelle Hurst, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Laurie Collyer,

Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.

Actors : Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Nazan Kesal,
Directors : Nuri Bilge Ceylan,

A dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed and selfish, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.

Actors : Shohreh Aghdashloo, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Hiam Abbass, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Catherine Hardwicke,

A drama that focuses on the period in Mary and Joseph's life where they journeyed to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus.

Actors : Jordana Brewster, James Franco, 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 : Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, Eileen Atkins, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Robert Towne,

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

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

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