List of drama films of the 2000s

This is a list of drama films of the 2000s.

2000

• 28 Days
• Adanggaman
• Aberdeen
• Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
• Almost Famous
• Before Night Falls
• Before the Storm ^[1]
• Blackboards
• Cast Away
• The Circle
• Dancer in the Dark
• The Day I Became a Woman
• Dinosaur
• Faithless
• George Washington
• The Girl
• Hamlet
• In Vanda's Room
• Our Lady of the Assassins
• Our Song
• The Patriot ^[2]
• Pollock
• Remember the Titans
• Requiem for a Dream
• Road Home
• The Sea
• Traffic
• Under the Sand
• Water Drops on Burning Rocks
• Where the Heart Is
• Yi Yi
• You Can Count on Me

2001

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• A Beautiful Mind
• Dog Days
• Fat Girl
• Ghost World
• In the Bedroom
• In Praise of Love
• The Last Castle
• Kandahar
• Lagaan
• Lantana
• Maangamizi: The Ancient One
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• Millennium Actress
• Millennium Mambo
• Monsoon Wedding
• Monster's Ball
• Mulholland Drive
• Nowhere in Africa
• The Others
• Prancer Returns
• The Son's Room
• Stranger Inside
• Time Out

2002

• 8 Mile
• About Schmidt
• AKA
• All or Nothing
• Amen. ^[3]
• Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
• The Best Day of My Life
• Better Luck Tomorrow
• Bloody Sunday
• Catch Me If You Can
• City of God
• Company
• Crossroads
• Distant
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Far from Heaven
• Frida
• Gangs of New York
• The Honeytrap
• The Hours
• The Laramie Project
• Last Call
• Lilya 4-ever
• The Loser Takes It All
• Madame Satã
• The Magdalene Sisters
• The Pianist
• The Quiet American
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Road to Perdition
• The Son
• Springtime in a Small Town
• Talk to Her
• Ten
• Unfaithful
• Waiting for Happiness
• Whale Rider

2003

• 11:14
• 16 Years of Alcohol
• 21 Grams
• At Five in the Afternoon
• BAADASSSSS!
• Best of Youth
• Big Fish
• Cold Creek Manor
• Cold Mountain
• Crimson Gold
• Le Divorce
• Dogville
• The Five Obstructions
• Garden of Heaven
• House of Sand and Fog
• How to Deal
• Hulk
• The Human Stain
• In America
• The Last Samurai
• The Life of David Gale
• Lost in Translation
• Maria Full of Grace
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Memories of Murder
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Monster
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• My Life Without Me
• Mystic River
• Osama
• Party Monster
• Radio
• The Return
• The Room ^[4]
• Rosenstrasse
• Saraband
• Seabiscuit
• Shattered Glass
• Son frère
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...And Spring
• Sylvia
• Tears of the Sun
• Thirteen
• Till There Was You

2004

• 18-J
• 5x2
• 69
• Anatomy of Hell
• The Aviator
• Bad Education
• Being Julia
• Black Friday
• Brothers
• Closer
• Finding Neverland
• Flying Boys
• Forty Shades of Blue
• Garden State
• Gilles' Wife
• Head-On
• The Holy Girl
• Hotel Rwanda
• House of Flying Daggers
• Innocence
• L'Intrus
• Keane
• Kinsey
• Maria Full of Grace
• Mean Creek
• Million Dollar Baby
• Moolaadé
• My Summer of Love
• Mysterious Skin
• Nine Lives
• Nobody Knows
• The Notebook
• The Passion of the Christ
• Raising Helen
• Ray
• The Sea Inside
• Souli
• Tony Takitani
• Turtles Can Fly
• Vera Drake
• A Very Long Engagement
• Wild Side
• Winter Solstice
• You Got Served

2005

• 3 Needles
• A Lot Like Love
• À travers la forêt
• Alice
• Arashi no Yoru ni
• Batman Begins
• Brokeback Mountain
• Broken Flowers
• Capote
• The Child
• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
• Empire Falls
• Fateless
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Green Street Hooligans
• Hidden
• Hustle & Flow
• Jarhead
• Junebug
• Lackawanna Blues
• Lady Vengeance
• Manderlay
• Match Point
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Mother of Mine
• Munich
• Mysterious Skin
• Nana
• Nicky's Game
• North Country
• Oliver Twist
• Paradise Now
• Shopgirl
• Sometimes in April
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
• The Squid and the Whale
• Syriana
• Transamerica
• Walk the Line
• The Zero Years

2006

• 10 Items or Less
• 12 and Holding
• 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
• The 9/11 Commission Report
• Ad-lib Night
• After the Wedding
• Akeelah and the Bee
• ATL
• Babel
• Barakat!
• Children of Men
• Climates
• Colossal Youth
• Dreamgirls
• Flags of Our Fathers
• Flight 93 – television film
• Half Nelson
• Home of the Brave
• The Illusionist
• Just Like the Son
• Kidulthood
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Le Lièvre de Vatanen
• Lights in the Dusk
• Little Children
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Maundy Thursday
• Nana 2 ^[5]
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Queen
• Traces of Love
• United 93
• We Are Marshall
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• World Trade Center

2007

• Alpha Dog
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Atonement
• Black Snake Moan
• Bridge to Terabithia
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)
• Ezra
• Freedom Writers
• Herb
• The Invisible
• Lonely Hearts
• Miss Potter
• No Smoking
• Reign Over Me
• Spider Lilies
• Spider-Man 3
• Stomp the Yard
• Team Picture
• There Will Be Blood
• Zodiac

2008

• 21
• ATL
• Australia
• BA:BO
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Frozen River
• Gran Torino
• His Last Gift
• Keith
• Milk
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• The Secret Life of Bees
• Seven Pounds
• Sleepwalking
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Sunshine Cleaning
• The Visitor
• The Wrestler

2009

• 2012
• Antichrist
• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• Bright Star
• Coco Before Chanel
• Crackie
• Crazy Heart
• Dev.D
• An Education
• Gulaal
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• The Hurt Locker
• Invictus
• The Last Station
• The Lovely Bones
• The Messenger
• Monsters
• Moon
• My Sister's Keeper
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• A Single Man
• Up
• Up in the Air
• White Material
• The Young Victoria

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