Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Amy Ryan, Colm Feore,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.

Actors : Bárbara Mori, Steven Michael Quezada, Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : Anurag Basu,

A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.

Actors : Justin Salinger, Luke Treadaway, Jim Sturgess, Clémence Poésy,
Directors : Philip Ridley,

Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.

Actors : Michael Shannon, Udo Kier, Chloë Sevigny, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.

Actors : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Actors : Walter Matthau, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Diane Keaton,

A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay 1958, and rises from its streets to become the GURU, the biggest tycoon in Indian history.

Actors : Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti, Juhani Niemelä,
Directors : Aki Kaurismäki,

The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or ...

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Igal Naor, Matt Damon,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

Actors : Artel Great, Matt Newton, Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison,
Directors : David Jacobson,

Biopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.

Actors : Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo, Penélope Cruz, José Luis Gómez,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Actors : John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Neeral Mulchandani, Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Actors : Xiaoming Huang, Lynn Hung, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Donnie Yen,
Directors : Wilson Yip,

Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

Actors : Scott Anton, Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Andie MacDowell,
Directors : Élie Chouraqui,

When a Newsweek photojournalist disappears in war-torn Yugoslavia, his wife travels to Europe to find him.

Actors : Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn,
Directors : Sofia Coppola,

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Actors : Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro,
Directors : John Woo,

The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).

Actors : Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Kevin Macdonald,

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.