Best Drama movies of 2000s

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 : Iben Hjejle, Tom Watson, Ian Holm, Tim McInnerny,
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 : Rory Culkin, Bernadette Peters, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

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

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 : 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.

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.

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 : Slim Twig, Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Matthew Morales,
Directors : Kim Chapiron,

Three juvenile delinquents are sentenced to a correctional facility where they encounter gang violence, death, and harassment from staff and other inmates.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Samy Naceri, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.

Actors : Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg, Mads Mikkelsen,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Actors : Jet Li, Jinglei Xu, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro,

It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about ...

Actors : Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Danuta Stenka, Artur Zmijewski,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Actors : Thanapat Saisaymar, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

Actors : Antoine Chappey, Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Xavier Beauvois,

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.

Actors : Tshewang Dendup, Sonam Lhamo, Lhakpa Dorji, Deki Yangzom,
Directors : Khyentse Norbu,

The two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to ...

Actors : Andie MacDowell, Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Josh Lucas,
Directors : Michael Goldbach,

A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.

Actors : Shane Edelman, Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Balthazar Getty,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, ...

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Vicente Amorim,

The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Christian Carion,

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.