Best Drama movies of 2004

Actors : Elsa Zylberstein, Andy Garcia, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Mick Davis,

The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Maggie Cheung, Jeanne Balibar, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser...

Actors : Tomer Russo, Mohammad Bakri, Lior Miller, Hend Ayoub,
Directors : Saverio Costanzo,

A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.

Actors : Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz, Shamshad Akhtar,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Sparks fly in Glasgow's south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman.

Actors : Anne Brochet, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Bonnaire, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

Actors : Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Mami Koyama,

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Actors : Anny Mariano, Judy Marte, Paola Mendoza, Dominic Colón,

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Actors : Claudia Gerini, Natalia Barcelò, Sergio Castellitto, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Sergio Castellitto,

A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).

Actors : Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang,
Directors : Zhangke Jia,

An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.

Actors : Lisa Blount, Billy Bob Thornton, Kamron Ross Stacey, David Rhodes,
Directors : Ray McKinnon,

Twenty years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Frank Wood, Jake Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell,
Directors : Peter Riegert,

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist...

Actors : Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea,
Directors : Fernando Eimbcke,

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, ...

Actors : Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros, Emily Brooke Hands, Rebekah Kochan,
Directors : Q. Allan Brocka,

After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb's roommate, Gwen thinks he's gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc.

Actors : Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche, Mercedes Morán,
Directors : Lucrecia Martel,

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul a middle-aged doctor.

Actors : Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh,
Directors : Asghar Farhadi,

Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the...

Actors : Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small ...

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Actors : Mare Winningham, Taryn Manning, Arliss Howard, Vincent Kartheiser,
Directors : Mark Milgard,

In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason ...

Actors : Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M. Wallace,
Directors : David Gebroe,

Zombie Honeymoon is a gore-soaked exploration of how far the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point.

Actors : Chris Kendrick, Nate Bynum, Randall Newsome, Nick Whitaker,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Three unlikely, unsuspecting souls who come face-to-face with that moment in their lives when they must stand and be counted. For Sheldon, it's difficult because he doesn't appear to be the...