Drama Movies 2005 List

With Elle Fanning • AnnaSophia Robb • Eva Marie Saint • Jeff Daniels • Dave Matthews • Cicely Tyson • Wayne Wang • Trevor Albert • Joan V. Singleton • Kate DiCamillo

Opal, a 10-year-old girl and the only daughter of a an emotionally distant preacher, is a lonely outsider looking for friends. Opal comes upon a mutt-like dog at the Winn-Dixie supermarket, and it's love at first sight. Together, the two open hearts and make friends wherever they travel. Now, Opal must open the heart of her father to learn about the mother who left her when she was only three-years-old. Opal learns that life is made up of love and loss—and that one can sometimes compensate for the other.

With Shia LaBeouf • Keanu Reeves • Akiva Goldsman • Djimon Hounsou • Peter Stormare • Tilda Swinton • Rachel Weisz • Gavin Rossdale • Francis Lawrence • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Erwin Stoff • Michael Uslan • Benjamin Melniker • Lauren Shuler-Donner • Mark Bomback • Kevin Brodbin • Frank Cappello

John Constantine has been to hell and back. Born with a gift he didn't want, the ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons that walk the earth in human camouflage, Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was driven to take his own life to escape the tormenting clarity of his vision. But he failed. Resuscitated against his will, he found himself cast back into the land of the living. Now, marked as an attempted suicide with a temporary lease on life, he patrols the earthly border between heaven and hell, hoping in vain to earn his way to salvation by waging war on the earthbound minions of evil. But Constantine is no saint. Increasingly disillusioned by the world around him and at odds with the one beyond, he's a hard-drinking, hard-living bitter hero who scorns the very idea of heroism. Constantine will fight to save your soul but he doesn't want your admiration or your thanks—and certainly not your sympathy. All he wants is a way out. When a desperate but skeptical police detective (Rachel Weisz as Angela Dodson) enlists his help in solving the mysterious death of her beloved twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldy events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.

With Thomas Kretschmann • Ulrike Krumbiegel • Ulrich Noethen • Bruno Ganz • Daniel Brühl • Christian Berkel • Birgit Minichmayr • Fabian Busch • Heino Ferch • Corinna Harfouch • André Hennicke • Juliane Köhler • Ulrich Matthes • Michael Mendl • Götz Otto • Justus von Dohnanyi • Bernd Eichinger

Traudl Junge (Lara), the final stenographer for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

With Sean Astin • Clare Higgins • Al Corley • John Corbett • Amy Smart • Marcus Thomas • Allan Corduner • Patty Duke • J.W. Crawford • Victor Morris • Brian Urspringer • Kenneth Jones • Orianna Herrman • Pam Mahon • Ernie Garrett • Matt Salinger • Rodney Patrick Vaccaro

A successful community theatre company is turned upside down when the director of an upcoming production of "Cyrano" casts an inexperienced young man with no apparent talent in the lead. The young man, Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas), soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the "theater people," including the charming but mercurial Michael (John Corbett), the beautiful leading lady Grace (Amy Smart), and a colorful cast of eccentric players (including Sean Astin, Patty Duke and Alan Corduner). Peter soon discovers that in the world of theater the normal rules do not apply–but in the end there is a role for everyone.

With Jack Christie • Gary Sweet • Helen Buday • Bogdan Koca • Samantha Knigge • Rolf De Heer • Domenico Procacci • Julie Ryan

Steven's birthday promises to be a particularly happy day, because he has finally gotten his much-sought-after promotion. Steven sets off on his homeward journey bearing the good news. He drives out to the suburb where he lives, looking forward to the party Alexandra, his wife, is sure to have organized for him. However, when he gets home, the house is strangely quiet. After searching the darkened rooms in vain for party guests, Steven finally comes across a video tape with the words play me written on it. It's a tape of Alexandra with a gun pointed at her head. Steve grabs the phone in panic, but the line is dead. He tries to leave for help, but now his keys no longer fit the lock and the security system has locked him indoors. Now alone, and a prisoner in his own house, he has no choice other than to watch the tape to the end.

With Illana Diamant • Sigourney Weaver • Emile Hirsch • Dan Harris • Art Linson • Jeff Daniels • Kip Pardue • Moshe Diamant • Frank Hübner • Tommy Johnson • Deborah Lee • Gina Resnick • Denise Shaw • Jan Fantl

Starring Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch, and Michelle Williams, "Imaginary Heroes" is a funny and poignant coming of age story in which the façade of an ordinary American family is peeled back to reveal that nothing is as it seems. Tim Travis (Hirsch) is walking through his life like it's a bad dream. His mother Sandy (Weaver) is the master of the Travis house - with a healthy drug habit, a decade long grudge, and a secret that is literally tearing her apart. His father Ben (Daniels) is a shell of the man he once was, crippled by circumstance and blind to the mistakes of his past. But in typical American style, the Travises aren't depressed - they're living their lives in a forlorn haze. As painful revelations are made that threaten to divide the family, moments of laughter and truth provide the salve that ultimately bring them closer together.

With Soran Ebrahim • Bahman Ghobadi • Olivier Gourmet • Morgan Marinne • Hirsh Feyssal • Avaz Latif

Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border, 13-year-old Soran orders other children around as he installs an antennae for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a landmine and who can now seemingly predict the future.