Drama Movies 2006 List

With Scarlett Johansson • Helen Hunt • Tom Wilkinson • Stephen Campbell Moore • Alan Greenspan • Diana Hardcastle • Mark Umbers • Howard Himelstein • Steven Siebert • Jonathan English • Mark Albela • Oscar Wilde

"A Good Woman" is a scandalous yet comic story set in New York and the Italian Riviera during the 1930s. Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is an audacious and well-known woman of a certain age with a reputation for entertaining wealthy, married men. Leaving her problems and unpaid bills in New York, she sets sail for Italy to pursue Meg (Scarlett Johansson) and Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), one of the most high profile couples in 1930s society. Once in Europe, she becomes embroiled in a family scandal which becomes an intriguing story of seduction, betrayal and, ultimately, surprising loyalty.

With Stellan Skarsgard • Danny Glover • John C. Reilly • Udo Kier • Jeremy Davies • Isaach de Bankolé • Lars Von Trier • Lauren Bacall • Chloë Sevigny • Bryce Howard Dallas • Jean-Marc Barr

This is the strange, disturbing story of the Manderlay plantation.

Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. Grace's father and his army of villains had spent the entire winter seeking out new hunting grounds in vain, and now they were heading south in one last attempt to find a favourable location in which to take up residence.

By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the gate, a dead oak tree towers over a heavy boulder with Manderlay hewn in monumental letters into the granite.

Just as Grace, her father and his men are about to leave after a short break and a quick lunch, a young black woman runs up to the car. She knocks on Grace's window. She hammers at the glass in despair. Ignoring her father's advice to leave others to their own affairs, Grace follows the girl through the gates of Manderlay and there, she finds a group of people living as if slavery had not been abolished seventy years earlier, with white masters and black slaves...

Grace believes that she has a duty to make it up to the slaves for injustices they have suffered at the hands of her kind: 'we brought them here, we abused them and made them what they are', as she argues to her father; and she decides that having liberated Manderlay, she will remain at the plantation until she has seen them through their first harvest.

Her father grudgingly leaves her with four henchmen and a lawyer, warning Grace that he won't be there to pick up the pieces when her plans for the resurrection of Manderlay fall apart...

With Matt Dillon • Fisher Stevens • Marisa Tomei • Lili Taylor • Charles Bukowski • Bent Hamer • Jim Stark

Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, this drama follows the author's fictional alter-ego, Henry Chinaski, as he moves from town to town looking for work and women in the 1940s.

With Rose Byrne • Dylan McDermott • Avi Lerner • Holly Wiersma • Snoop Dogg • Aldis Hodge • Laz Alonso • Niki J. Crawford • Stephen Jared • Lati Grobman • Heidi Jo Markel • David Diamond • Danny Green

Set in New York, this is the story of a writer, "Harry Lesser" (Dylan McDermott), struggling to finish his third novel, which he believes will restore his literary reputation. In the nearly abandoned apartment building in which he lives, another writer, "Willie Spearmint" (Snoop Dogg), moves in as a squatter and begins to write his first novel with an unmatched fervor. The two develop a tenuous friendship until a woman (Rose Byrne) and their own demons come between them.

With Tommy Lee Jones • Luc Besson • January Jones • Guillermo Arriaga • Barry Pepper • Dwight Yoakam • Julio Cedillo • Michael Fitzgerald

A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.

With Anthony Hopkins • Paul Rodriguez • Bruce Greenwood • Diane Ladd • Chris Lawford • Roger Donaldson • Gary Hannam

After a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian motorcycle, Burt Munro sets off from the bottom of the world to test his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. With all odds against him, he set a new speed record and captured the spirit of his times. Burt Munro's 1967 world record remains unbroken and his legend lives on today.

With Taraji P. Henson • Mike Epps • Simon Baker • Kasi Lemmons • Alfre Woodard • Sanaa Lathan • Stephanie Allain • Donald Faison • Blair Underwood • Golden Brooks • Sanaa Hamri • Lisa Jones • Kriss Turner

If love is an adventure, it's one yet to be embarked upon by Kenya Denise McQueen. A beautiful L.A. career woman, Kenya works as senior manager at a prestigious accounting firm, and is on the verge of making partner. But she has yet to find her own partner and a fulfilling personal life. It's not that she's stopped looking; her (mental) checklist is at the ready. After another Valentine's Day spent working late, Kenya agrees to a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscape architect who turns out to be not exactly what she'd pictured for herself. Then again, she does need the yard of her new house fixed up. Her girlfriends Cheryl, Suzzette, and Nedra are there for her with advice, while Cheryl's new beau Walter shares a male perspective with Brian. Kenya's socially prominent parents Joyce and Edmond and womanizing younger brother Nelsen also voice their own opinions. But it's when her perfect match, Mark, enters the picture that Kenya is truly thrown into confusion. Ultimately, Kenya has to decide for herself and follow her heart--no matter where it takes her.

With Harrison Ford • Paul Bettany • Bruce Berman • Virginia Madsen • Carly Schroeder • Jon Shestack • Alan Arkin • Richard Loncraine • Joe Forte • Graham Burke • Jimmy Bennett • Mary Lynn Rajskub • Armyan Bernstein • Brent O'Connor

"Firewall" stars Harrison Ford as bank security expert Jack Stanfield, whose specialty is designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there's a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for—himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind (Paul Bettany) kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief's own impenetrable system of subterfuge and false identities to beat him at his own game.

With Jason Statham • Chris Evans • Dane Cook • Isla Fisher • Jessica Biel • Kelli Garner • Joy Bryant • Hunter Richards

Syd is a strung-out, wealthy 20-something whose life is about to go from meaningless to futile. After a massive binging and drug spree, he awakes to the news that he is about to lose his "one true love" forever: Syd's ex-girlfriend is moving from New York to Los Angeles. Syd has one more chance to win her back, tonight, at her going-away party. Syd stocks up on cocaine and goes off to the party with Bateman, a young English banker he's just met. Throughout the evening, however—punctuated by regular drug breaks in the bathroom—we discover that Syd's relationship problems involve more than friction with his girlfriend. Is there a light at the end of his tunnel?

With Paul Walker • David Hoberman • Roy Lee • Frank Marshall • Moon Bloodgood • Todd LIeberman • David DiGilio • Jason Biggs • Mike Rich • Bruce Greenwood • Christine Iso • Masaru Kakutani

Inspired by a true story, Eight Below is an exciting action-adventure about loyalty and the bonds of friendship set in the extreme wilderness of Antarctica. The film tells the story of three members of a scientific expedition: Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), his best friend, Cooper (Jason Biggs), and a rugged American geologist (Bruce Greenwood), who are forced to leave behind their team of beloved sled dogs due to a sudden accident and perilous weather conditions in Antarctica. During the harsh, Antarctic winter, the dogs must struggle for survival alone in the intense frozen wilderness for over 6 months.

With Julianne Moore • Anthony Mackie • Edie Falco • Scott Rudin • William Forsythe • Aunjanue Ellis • Ron Eldard • Joe Roth • Sam Jackson • Richard Baratta • Richard Price • Charles Newirth

The aftermath of a carjacking becomes a racially charged media sensation.

With Will Ferrell • Zooey Deschanel • Ed Harris • Adam Rapp • Amelia Warner • Jennifer Dana • David Koplan

A reclusive novelist (Ed Harris) hasn't seen his daughter (Zooey Deschanel) in years. When she returns home after the long absence, she finds a house full of strangers, including a wandering loner (Will Ferrell) and one of her father's ex-students (Amelia Warner).

With Maria Bello • Tim McGraw • Danny Pino • Alison Lohman • Michael Mayer • Gil Netter • Lawrence Konner • Ryan Kwanten • Dallas Roberts • Kaylee DeFer • Kevin Halloran • Michael Blake • Mark D. Rosenthal • Mary O'Hara

Based on the novel by Mary O'Hara, the updated "Flicka" is set against the backdrop of a modern-day ranch in Wyoming. It tells the story of Katie (Lohman), a teenager who dreams of running her family's ranch, much to the dismay of her father (McGraw). Katie finds a wild horse she names Flicka and claims it as her own.

With Presley Chweneyagae • Mothusi Magano • Israel Makoe • Percy Matsemela • Jerry Mofokeng • Gavin Hood • Peter Fudakowski • Athol Fugard

Set amidst the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto -- where survival is the primary objective - "Tsotsi" traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a car-jacking.