Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Shepard, Natalie Portman,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.

Actors : Jimmy Smits, Kim Basinger, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman,
Directors : Chuck Russell,

Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an FBI agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities and the abductees are a Satanic cult wanting to harness her abilities.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Keira Knightley, Dominic Cooper,
Directors : Saul Dibb,

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg, André Dussollier, Laurent Lucas,
Directors : Dominik Moll,

After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.

Actors : Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Robert Forster, Jason Behr,
Directors : Hyung-rae Shim,

Based on the Korean legend, unknown creatures will return and devastate the planet. Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called in to investigate the matter, and he arrives at the conclusion that a ...

Actors : Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : Xavier Beauvois,

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

Actors : Rhys Ifans, Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Vanessa Feltz,
Directors : Shane Meadows,

After seeing his ex-girlfriend (Henderson) turn down a nationally televised marriage proposal, a small-time crook (Carlyle) returns to his hometown to try and win back her heart.

Actors : Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstein, Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz,
Directors : Carlos Reygadas,

A working-class man named Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general for ...

Actors : Charles S. Dutton, Danny Glover, Yaya DaCosta, LisaGay Hamilton,
Directors : John Sayles,

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the ...

Actors : Sian Breckin, Nichola Burley, Robert Boulter, Jaime Winstone,
Directors : Oliver Blackburn,

Things go drastically wrong for a group of British holidaymakers in Spain.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Judy Herrera,
Directors : Maria Ripoll,

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

Actors : Brendon Ryan Barrett, Gay Thomas Wilson, Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani,
Directors : Robert Iscove,

A friendship is put to the ultimate test when two best friends wind up in bed together.

Actors : Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kesal,
Directors : Nuri Bilge Ceylan,

After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.

Actors : Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber,
Directors : Marianna Palka,

A look at the relationship between a lonely introverted girl and a young video store clerk vying for her attention.

Actors : John Krasinski, Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

When attending their son's college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship. But the complicated fact is they're divorced and he's remarried.

Actors : Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto, Alex Descas, Eriq Ebouaney,
Directors : Raoul Peck,

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical ...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Zoë Tapper, Robert Lang, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Dan Ireland,

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.

Actors : Scott Thornton, Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson,
Directors : Warwick Thornton,

Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, ...

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson,
Directors : Dennis Lee,

The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.

Actors : Anne Archer, Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.