Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Kenneth Welsh, Louca Tassone, Rachel Blanchard, Devon Bostick,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.

Actors : Adam LeFevre, Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné, 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 : Rhys Wakefield, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, 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 : Greta Gerwig, Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Elise Muller,

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror ...

Actors : John Malkovich, Natalie Becker, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney,
Directors : Steve Jacobs,

After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

Actors : Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond, Pell James, Caroline Aaron,
Directors : Jennifer Lynch,

Two FBI agents attempt to clarify the murders occurring in a desolate region. They approach the witnesses of the latest incident with the help of the local police. All of them hide something and all have wildly different stories to tell.

Actors : Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong, Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller,
Directors : John Maybury,

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.

Actors : Lene Maria Christensen, Lars Brygmann, Jakob Cedergren, Kim Bodnia,
Directors : Henrik Ruben Genz,

A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.

Actors : Julia Ormond, Pablo Guevara, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Actors : Eddie Redmayne, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Udayan Prasad,

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Actors : Ricky Gervais, Jordan Carlos, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear,
Directors : David Koepp,

Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Actors : Ice Cube, Loretta Devine, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams,
Directors : David E. Talbert,

Durell Washington and LeeJohn Jackson are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son Durell Jr.--...

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith,
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 : 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 : Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck,
Directors : Jonathan Levine,

It's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

Actors : Abigail Breslin, Rachel Weisz, An Nguyen, Ryan Reynolds,
Directors : Adam Brooks,

A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.

Actors : Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Actors : Siu-Wong Fan, Simon Yam, Donnie Yen, Ka Tung Lam,
Directors : Wilson Yip,

During the Japanese invasion of 1937, when a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home and work to support his family, he reluctantly agrees to train others in the art of Wing Chun for self-defense.

Actors : Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Motoki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill,
Directors : Philippe Claudel,

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.