Drama Movies 2005 List

With Robert De Niro • Rosario Dawson • Taye Diggs • Chris Columbus • Idina Menzel • Mark Radcliffe • Michael Barnathan • Stephen Chbosky • Anthony Rapp • Jane Rosenthal • Jesse L. Martin • Tracie Thoms • Wilson Jermaine Heredia • Adam Pascal • Julie Larson • Lata Ryan • Allan S. Gordon • Jeffrey Seller • Kevin McCollum

Based on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical, "Rent" chronicles a group of New York village artists struggling with identity and artistic integrity in an HIV-positive world. Roommates Roger and Mark, a songwriter-recovering addict and a guerrilla filmmaker, respectively, must find a way to pay their former roommate-turned-landlord when he decides to reneg on his promise to provide them rent-free living.

With Richard Gere • Kate Bosworth • Juliette Binoche • Max Minghella • Flora Cross • Scott McGehee • Albert Berger • Ron Yerxa • Adam Robinson • Dana J. Reid • David Siegel (II)

Eliza Naumann (Flora Cross) has no reason to believe she is anything but ordinary. Her father Saul (Richard Gere), a beloved university professor, dotes on her talented elder brother Aaron (Max Minghella). Her scientist mother, Miriam (Juliette Binoche), seems consumed by her career. When a spelling bee threatens to reaffirm her mediocrity, Eliza amazes everyone: she wins. Her newfound gift garners an invitation not only to the national competition, but an entrée into the world of words and Jewish mysticism that have so long captivated her father's imagination. But Eliza's unexpected success hurls the Naumann family dynamic into a tailspin, long-held secrets emerge and she is forced to depend upon her own divination to hold the family together.

With Jennifer Aniston • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Vincent Cassel • Clive Owen • David Oyelowo • Mikael Hafstrom • Stuart Beattie • Brandon DeShazer • RZA • Melissa George • Joshua Brail • James Siegel

Charles Schine is a New York businessman who meets a sexy woman on a train and ends up in a seedy hotel room with her. While there, he's beaten and she is raped by a man who also robs them. The robber then begins to blackmail Schine so that his wife and family don't find out about his infidelity with the woman. This drives Schine from his humdrum life into a world of fraud, betrayal, and murder.