Best Drama movies of 2000s

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 : Shirley Henderson, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian, Joan Allen,
Directors : Sally Potter,

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ...

Actors : Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds,
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 : Claudia Coli, Pascal Greggory, Thierry Hancisse, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

The marriage between Gabrielle and Jean begins to fray after the discovery of a letter that belongs to Gabrielle.

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 : John Krasinski, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep,
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 : Wood Harris, Kevin Carroll, Mekhi Phifer, Chi McBride,
Directors : Charles Stone III,

A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.

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 : Stephen Dorff, Anne Archer, 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.

Actors : Peter Gerety, Lynn Redgrave, Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rossellini,

The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.

Actors : Tim McInnerny, Iben Hjejle, Tom Watson, Ian Holm,
Directors : Alan Taylor,

During Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, some loyalists hire a look-alike to swap places with the deposed emperor. While the impostor lives in luxury on the island, the real Napoleon returns to Paris in order to retake the throne.

Actors : Ahmad Razvi, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza, Leticia Dolera,
Directors : Ramin Bahrani,

A night in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan.

Actors : Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Marc Warren, Claire Forlani,
Directors : Lexi Alexander,

A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Barry Otto, Geoffrey Rush, Samuel Johnson,
Directors : Tatia Rosenthal,

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.

Actors : Laura Smet, Benoît Magimel, Bernard Le Coq, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

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 : Bernadette Peters, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Rory Culkin,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Audrey Tautou,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

Actors : Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon,
Directors : Louis Leterrier,

A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life.