Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Gina Bellman, Conrad Dunn, Christopher Heyerdahl, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Russell Mulcahy,

Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.

Actors : Ashley Judd, Bruce A. Young, Jim True-Frost, Luke Perry,
Directors : John McNaughton,

Chris is young idealistic cop who falls in love and gets married to Pam, a beautiful but emotionally unstable woman who suffers from alcoholism and drug addiction. While Chris is trying ...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Larry Bishop,

With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.

Actors : Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell, Colm Meaney,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy', following 'The Commitments' and 'The Snapper', depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Upon being ...

Actors : Fred Williamson, Paul Winfield, Jim Brown, Pam Grier,

Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license number of the car to the ...

Actors : Stockard Channing, Morgan Freeman, Robin Wright, John Lynch,
Directors : Pen Densham,

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, ...

Actors : Howie Seago, Tatjana Trieb, Emmanuelle Laborit, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Caroline Link,

Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice...

Actors : Sergey Bodrov, Jemal Sikharulidze, Oleg Menshikov, Susanna Mekhraliyeva,
Directors : Sergei Bodrov,

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

Actors : Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, Maggie Cheung, Kristy Yeung,
Directors : Peter Ho-Sun Chan,

Two Chinese-mainlanders living in Hong Kong form a close friendship. Over the years this grows into love, but there are obstacles.

Actors : John C. Reilly, Lukas Haas, James Le Gros, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Stacy Cochran,

Patty Vare falls off a horse and is found unconscious by preparatory school student John Baker. He takes her to his dormitory. As he quickly discovers, she is hiding from something. For ...

Actors : Harris Yulin, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Ted Danson,
Directors : John Henderson,

A scientist tries to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

Actors : Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Silke, Karra Elejalde,
Directors : Julio Medem,

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests ...

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A lawyer assigned to the clemency case of a woman on death row finds himself forming a deep friendship with her while he tries to prevent her impending execution.

Actors : Chara, Yôsuke Eguchi, Ayumi Itô, Hiroshi Mikami,
Directors : Shunji Iwai,

The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis.

Actors : Carol Kane, Fredro Starr, Terrence Howard, Rhea Perlman,
Directors : Steve Gomer,

A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.

Actors : Zhigang Zhao, Li Chen, Zhigang Zhang, Zhaoji Jia,
Directors : Tian-Ming Wu,

Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son ...

Actors : Marton Csokas, Julian Arahanga, Rade Serbedzija, Aleksandra Vujcic,
Directors : Gregor Nicholas,

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her ...

Actors : George Shevtsov, Miranda Otto, John Alansu, Rebecca Frith,
Directors : Shirley Barrett,

In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the ...

Actors : Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská,
Directors : Jan Svankmajer,

Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk ...

Actors : Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bartlett, Michael Moriarty, Blake Heron,
Directors : Dale Rosenbloom,

Marty Preston, a small-town Southern boy, must rescue a young beagle from abusive owner and recluse Judd Travers.