Drama Movies 2006 List

With Tom Cruise • Michelle Monaghan • Laurence Fishburne • J.J. Abrams • Alex Kurtzman • Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Simon Pegg • Ving Rhames • Keri Russell • Maggie Q • Billy Crudup • Roberto Orci • Paula Wagner

Tom Cruise returns as Special Agent Ethan Hunt, who faces the mission of his life in "Mission: Impossible III". Director J. J. Abrams brings his unique blend of action and drama to the billion-dollar franchise.

With Edward Norton • Bruce Dern • Evan Rachel Wood • Ellen Burstyn • Rory Culkin • David Morse • David Jacobson

"Down in the Valley", which stars Academy Award Nominee Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood, is a suspenseful crime story set at the edge of the San Fernando Valley, a seedy place of horse ranches and immigrant gangs, where ten-lane freeways converge to create a cultural no man's land. A rebellious high school senior Tobe (Wood) and her anemic 11-year old brother Lonnie (Rory Culkin) struggle to escape their grim and hopeless existence and their overbearing father, Wade (David Moorse). Their hoped-for deliverance comes in the form of Harlan, a charming, yet mercurial man (Norton) who thinks he's a cowboy.

With Danny Huston • Guy Pearce • Ray Winstone • Emily Watson • Nick Cave • John Hurt

Australian director John Hillcoat and singer Nick Cave reconvene for 2006's "The Proposition", with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a soundtrack written with Dirty Three member Warren Ellis. Cave's 19th-century tale begins with the proposition of the title, as Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) captures fugitive brothers Charley (Guy Pearce) and Mikey Burns (Richard Wilson) at a scene of bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur (Danny Huston), in order to be set free, Stanley drags Mikey to a decrepit jailhouse while he waits for Charley to carry out the deed.

With Hiroyuki Sanada • Chen Kaige • Cecilia Cheung • Chen Hong • Jang Dong-kun • Etchie Stroh • Han San Ping • Zhang Tan

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

With Emmy Rossum • Josh Lucas • Kurt Russell • Richard Dreyfuss • Wolfgang Petersen • Sheila Allen • Diana Rathbun • Mike Vogel • Mia Maestro • Chris Briggs • Sam Dickerman • Jimmy Bennett • Freddy Rodriguez • Andre Braugher • Jacinda Barrett • Kevin Dillon • Akiva Goldsman • Mike Fleiss • Kevin Burns • Jon J. Jashni • Mark Protosevich

When a rogue wave capsizes a luxury cruise ship in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. As the unstable vessel rapidly floods with water, they face unimaginable odds and life-altering decisions in their desperate fight to the surface.

With Ralph Fiennes • Jonathan Hyde • Harry Eden • Tim Plester • Lara Flynn Boyle • Mem Ferda • Robert Daws • Laura Fraser • Nigel Whitmey • Jon Avnet • Leigh Zimmerman • Marc Warren • Ian Chorao • Ron Cook • Mackenzie Crook • Michael De Nola • Mark Dymond • Jonathan Emmett • Enoch Frost • Max Harvey • Matthew Marsh • Jodhi May • Cory McAbee • Camilla Rutherford • Michael Smiley • Don Warrington • Bob Edwards • Philippe Martinez

A prisoner recounts his life as a soldier-turned-dissident and his role in the overthrow of his country's totalitarian government.

With Ion Fiscuteanu • Razvan Radulescu • Luminita Gheorghiu • Mihai Bratila • Doru Ana • Dana Dogaru • Cristi Puiu • Al Munteanu

One evening, Mr. Lazarescu, an ailing retired engineer who lives alone—and is too fond of booze—feels a bit dizzy. He finally ends up being driven away in an ambulance, which is the start of a tragicomic odyssey. Each doctor who examines him arrives at an entirely different diagnosis, and his emergency treatment is incessantly postponed. The physicians are deaf to the entreaties of the patient and his friends, and are devoid of sympathy for the elderly Mr. Lazarescu as he again plunges into the Bucharest night.

With Tom Hanks • Ian McKellen • Audrey Tautou • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Paul Bettany • Alfred Molina • Jean Reno • Karen Kehela Sherwood • Akiva Goldsman • John Calley • Matt Tolmach • Andrea Giannetti

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci—clues visible for all to see—yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret—and an explosive historical truth—will be lost forever.

With Jeremy Renner • Zoe Weizenbaum • Michael Cuesta • Conor Donovan • Jesse Camacho • Annabella Sciorra • Anthony Cipriano

The explores dark adolescent issues through three friends' reactions after a boy (Conor Donovan) dies in a tree house fire set by local bullies. His twin brother (also played by Donovan) sets out for revenge, and an overweight survivor of the fire (Jesse Camacho) loses his sense of taste and smell, leading him to force his obese mother to lose weight. Their female friend (Zoe Weizenbaum) tries to seduce a grief-stricken patient of her therapist mother (Annabella Sciorra).

With Orsi Toth • Zsolt Trill • Ildiko Cserna • Denes Gulyas • Kornel Mundruczo • Viktoria Petranyi • Yvette Biro

A female drug addict falls into a coma after a traffic accident, miraculously recovers, and stays on in the lugubrious hospital as a nurse, curing patients by lying beside them. The joint's regular staff, eventually turns against her, and she ends up in a body bag, incinerated on a garbage heap.

With Walter Salles • Alice Braga • Ricardo Luedy • Harildo Deda • José Dumont • Olga Machado • Sergio Machado

Deco and Naldinho have been buddies since childhood. Now they own a motorboat, which they use for their illicit dealings and their career as petty criminals. One day, they meet the stripper Karinna, and, of course, both fall in love with her.

With Ian Gamazon • Dominique Gonzalez • Jeffrey Lagda • Neill Dela Llana • Quynn Ton

In the town of Cavite, Philippines, people will do just about anything to survive. This is the harsh reality for many Filipinos living in a poverty stricken nation. Adam, an American citizen visiting his home country for his father's funeral, soon realizes this when he arrives at the Philippines Airport and receives a phone call from an anonymous caller letting him know that his mother and sister have been kidnapped and will be killed if he doesn't comply with his demands. Helpless and alone in a country he barely knows, he must submit himself to the fanatic's every wish or face the consequences. Soon Adam realizes that the caller on the other end is with the country's most infamous bandits, the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim terrorist group fighting the Philippine government for Muslims to own the southern part of the country. Known for their kidnap, ransom and beheading of their victims if demands aren't met, he is at the caller's mercy. But when he finds out the caller's real motivation, Adam finds himself in a dilemma, having to choose between sacrificing the ones he loves, or commiting a horrendous act that will cost the lives of many.

With Josh Brolin • Timothy Olyphant • William Forsythe • Sarah Wynter • Angela Bettis • Victor Nunez • Caroline Kaplan • Jonathan Sehring

An ex-con returns to his hometown after a three year prison stint and becomes embroiled in an affair with a woman who is married to his best friend, the local sheriff.