Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Martin Henderson, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill,
Directors : Rowan Woods,

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

Actors : Adam LeFevre, Raven-Symoné, Martin Lawrence, Kym Whitley,
Directors : Roger Kumble,

James Porter (Martin Lawrence) drives his teenage daughter Melanie (Raven Symone), from their home in Chicago to a college interview in Washington, D.C.

Actors : Cengiz Daner, Tuncel Kurtiz, Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec,
Directors : Fatih Akin,

A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.

Actors : Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Chi Cao, Penne Hackforth-Jones,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In ...

Actors : Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.

Actors : Kyle Gallner, Logan South, Maria Bello, Michael Sheen,
Directors : Shawn Ku,

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.

Actors : Valentina de Angelis, Amy Brenneman, Sam Elliott, Joan Allen,
Directors : Campbell Scott,

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

Actors : Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, Warren Jacquin, Adèle Haenel,
Directors : Céline Sciamma,

Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden, dramatic appearance.

Actors : Milhem Cortaz, Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira,
Directors : José Padilha,

1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Actors : Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford,
Directors : Elissa Down,

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?

Actors : Tammy Blanchard, Eduardo Verástegui, Manny Perez, Angélica Aragón,
Directors : Alejandro Monteverde,

A chef with a mysterious past spends the day with a waitress who needs a friend.

Actors : Eilidh Rankin, Duncan MacNeil, Jean-Claude Donda, Raymond Mearns,
Directors : Sylvain Chomet,

A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.

Actors : Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Martine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. But Terry and his crew don't realize the boxes also contain a treasure trove of dirty secrets - secrets that will thrust them into a deadly web of corruption and illicit scandal.

Actors : Leonor Varela, Carlos Padilla, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira,
Directors : Tom McCarthy,

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Actors : Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale,
Directors : Todd Haynes,

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

Actors : Zinedine Soualem, Carole Franck, Sara Forestier, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Michel Leclerc,

A young, extroverted left-wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause is successful until she meets her match.

Actors : Omar Epps, Meg Ryan, Tony Shalhoub, Charles S. Dutton,
Directors : Charles S. Dutton,

A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.

Actors : Ian Hart, David Hart, Claire Hackett, Anthony Borrows,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

A family falls into poverty during the Depression.

Actors : Jasmine Trinca, Alessio Boni, Sonia Bergamasco, Luigi Lo Cascio,
Directors : Marco Tullio Giordana,

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.