Best Drama movies of 2009

Actors : Zach Gilford, Emmy Rossum, Ashley Springer, Cady Huffman,
Directors : Adam Salky,

A drama centered around three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - who become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.

Actors : Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu,
Directors : Corneliu Porumboiu,

A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.

Actors : Ben Shenkman, Michael Cerveris, Timothy Hutton, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : John Krasinski,

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Actors : Hamed Behdad, Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Babak Mirzakhani,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.

Actors : Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado, Attilia Boschetti,
Directors : Javier Fuentes-León,

An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Actors : Uma Thurman, David Schallipp, Minnie Driver, Anthony Edwards,
Directors : Katherine Dieckmann,

In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

Actors : Kathy Bates, Frances Tomelty, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

Actors : Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Chandler Canterbury,
Directors : Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo,

After a car accident, a young woman who is caught between life and death, meets a funeral director who appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead into the afterlife.

Actors : Sébastien Huberdeau, Maxim Gaudette, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier,
Directors : Denis Villeneuve,

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

Actors : Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton,
Directors : Sebastian Gutierrez,

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Meagan Good, Cam Gigandet, Odette Annable,
Directors : David S. Goyer,

A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

Actors : Garance Le Guillermic, Anne Brochet, Togo Igawa, Josiane Balasko,
Directors : Mona Achache,

Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents ...

Actors : Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church,
Directors : Karey Kirkpatrick,

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

Actors : Jennifer Connelly, Guy Henry, Ian Kelly, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Ally Sheedy, Allison Janney, Michael Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Todd Solondz,

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

Actors : Steve Buscemi, Mariann Mayberry, Aidan Quinn, Jamey Sheridan,
Directors : Bette Gordon,

An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.

Actors : Tinkerbell, Ran Danker, Tzahi Grad, Zohar Shtrauss,
Directors : Haim Tabakman,

A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Carla Gugino, Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz,
Directors : Tim Chambers,

In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- and the school itself is in danger of being sold -- Coach Rush looks to steer her girls to their first national championship.

Actors : Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón, Magaly Solier,
Directors : Claudia Llosa,

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ...

Actors : Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, Clive Owen, George MacKay,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

A sports writer becomes a single parent in tragic circumstances.