Best Drama movies of 2000

Actors : Karen Lancaume, Adama Niane, Céline Beugnot, Raffaëla Anderson,

Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences.

Actors : Matthew Settle, Lori Heuring, Nathan Bexton, Susan Ward,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

Actors : Susan Lynch, Ewan McGregor, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe,
Directors : Pat Murphy,

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's ...

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...

Actors : Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Le Khanh, Quang Hai Ngo, Nhu Quynh Nguyen,
Directors : Tran Anh Hung,

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so ...

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jacqueline Heinze,
Directors : Marc Forster,

The story of a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends confronted with the tragedy of a big loss.

Actors : Juan David Restrepo, Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Manuel Busquets,
Directors : Barbet Schroeder,

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin ...

Actors : Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches, Marieta Orozco, Esther Nubiola,
Directors : Cesc Gay,

A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.

Actors : Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Stephanie Morgenstern, Pierre Lebeau,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

After plunging her car into a river, a woman encounters a man who helps her come to terms with her life.

Actors : Daryl Hannah, Charlotte Ayanna, W. Earl Brown, Kristin Bauer van Straten,
Directors : Michael Radford,

A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of people who make their living at a strip club.

Actors : Asia Argento, Jean Shepard, Herbert Fritsch, Gianluca Arcopinto,
Directors : Asia Argento,

A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.

Actors : Samantha Morton, John Hannah, Linus Roache, Emily Woof,
Directors : Julien Temple,

Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Deborah Kara Unger, Dimitris Katalifos, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Jonathan Nossiter,

Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Winona Ryder, Richard Gere,
Directors : Joan Chen,

Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but terminally ill, young woman.

Actors : Zach Braff, Dean Cain, Ben Weber, Timothy Olyphant,
Directors : Greg Berlanti,

In the palm-shaded oasis of West Hollywood, we meet Dennis, a promising photographer. As he prepares to celebrate his twenty-eighth birthday, he laments, ' I can't decide if my friends are ...

Actors : Eloise Eonnet, Hadrian Dagannaud-Brouard, Chaya Cuénot, Demi Moore,
Directors : Alain Berliner,

A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.

Actors : Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine, Artyom Strelnikov, Steve Perry,
Directors : Pawel Pawlikowski,

When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.

Actors : Lifan Dong, Jie Dong, Benshan Zhao, Biao Fu,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, Zhao leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his ...

Actors : Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang, Tian-yi Yang, Hongwei Wang,
Directors : Zhangke Jia,

Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio-economic ...

Actors : Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand,
Directors : Marzieh Makhmalbaf,

A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ...