Best Drama movies of 2006

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Carice van Houten,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Neeral Mulchandani, Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Actors : Leon Lucev, Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Kenan Catic,
Directors : Jasmila Zbanic,

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

Actors : Judy Davis, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn,
Directors : Sofia Coppola,

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Actors : Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Kim Uylenbroek,
Directors : Tarsem Singh,

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.

Actors : Shawn Parr, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

Actors : Blair Underwood, Boris Kodjoe, Lynn Whitfield, Tyler Perry,
Directors : Tyler Perry,

While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, 50 Cent, Brian Presley,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

Three soldiers struggle to readjust to life at home after returning home from a lengthy tour in Iraq.

Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Manny Perez, Marc Anthony, John Ortiz,
Directors : Leon Ichaso,

The life story of Hector Lavoe who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.

Actors : Ye Liu, Li Gong, Yun-Fat Chow, Jay Chou,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Actors : Billy Connolly, Kesun Loder, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Kaye,
Directors : Andrew Currie,

In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon ...

Actors : Timothy Hutton, Amber Tamblyn, Vincent Piazza, Tilda Swinton,
Directors : Hilary Brougher,

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

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 : Romain Duris, Joana Preiss, 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 : Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruveart, Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Actors : Derek Luke, Josh Lucas, Jon Voight, Austin Nichols,
Directors : James Gartner,

In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

Actors : James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Joseph Friend, Rebecca Hall,
Directors : Tom Vaughan,

Set in 1985, working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) navigates his first year at Bristol University.

Actors : Maura Tierney, Paul Rudd, Ron Eldard, Ken Marino,
Directors : Katherine Dieckmann,

A story about a tight-knit group of friends, who try to maintain their small-town way of life in the face of enormous changes in 1970s Long Island.

Actors : Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance,
Directors : Paul Andrew Williams,

Desperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.