Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Samy Naceri, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Jamel Debbouze,
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 : Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López,
Directors : Catherine Corsini,

Suzanne is a well married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

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 : 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 : 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 : Malik Zidi, Anna Levine, Ludivine Sagnier, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : François Ozon,

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

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 : 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 : 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.

Actors : Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy,
Directors : György Pálfi,

Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old...

Actors : Joana Preiss, Romain Duris, Alice Butaud, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Christophe Honoré,

Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey, Jalil Lespert,
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 : Gary Oldman, Steve Valentine, Colin Firth, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Actors : Keeley Hawes, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Jeremy Northam,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."

Actors : Brett Jacobsen, Claire Sloma, Marlon Morton, Amanda Bauer,
Directors : David Robert Mitchell,

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.