Drama Movies 2006 List

With Nick Nolte • Paul Wesley • Scott Mechlowicz • Amy Smart • Robin Schorr • Agnes Bruckner • Ashton Holmes • Victor Salva • Bob Dolman • Mark Amin • Cami Winikoff • David Welch • Kevin Bernhardt

Dan (Scott Mechlowicz), a college student and world-champion athlete, is haunted by the feeling that something is missing from his life. A chance encounter with the enigmatic "Socrates" (Nick Nolte) starts Dan on a spiritual odyssey, which throws his "perfect" but shallow life into total disarray. He eventually discovers a surprising and powerful road to enlightenment and the true meaning of winning.

With Christian Slater • Harvey Kahn • Robert Loggia • Selma Blair • Colm Feore • Angie Harmon • Ruth Epstein • Chris Dorr

A Wall Street financial hot shot and his eager new recruit get involved in government secrecy, illegal oil trading and the Russian Mafia.

With Jose Garcia • Michele Moretti • Daniel Auteuil • Marilyne Canto • Pierre Salvadori • Philippe Martin • Benoit Graffin • David Leotard • Daniele Dubroux

An unlikely bond forms between a man determined to commit suicide and the man who saves him. Antoine is a reserved and placating maitre d' at a well-regarded bistro. He quickly rushes to the aid of Louis, an effusive, lovelorn bachelor who attempts to kill himself following a romantic breakup. But it's not long before Antoine's act of charity becomes a comedy of false pretenses and mixed motives.

With Mi-yeon Lee • Chatthapong Pantanaunkul • Jang Dong Gun • Jung-Jae Lee • David McInnis • David No • Kyung-Taek Kwak

A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.

With Cuba Gooding Jr. • Helen Mirren • Wes Bentley • Vanessa Ferlito • Lee Daniels • Will Rokos

"Shadowboxer" centers on the unusual relationship between a mother and her stepson. The duo, who have a romantic relationship, work as contract killers. Bentley will play the lead villain on the hunt for the killer couple.

With Michel Aumont • Daniel Chiefetz • Laurent Lucas • Irene Jacob • Dinara Droukarova • Ra'up McGee

A tale about a troubled hit man who is starting to realize that he has too much conscience to kill. Having recently rekindled his relationship with his childhood soul mate, Michelle, he sees their love as a way out. But reality soon grips him when he learns that she has stolen a mysterious briefcase, forcing Jean-Pierre to walk a fine line between protecting the woman he loves and falling back into the world of crime he just left--an impossible task that soon unravels in ways that he can neither imagine nor control.

With Forest Whitaker • Heather Graham • Juliette Binoche • Matthew Modine • Marion Cotillard • Gabriella Wright • Simone Lageoles • Massimo Cortesi

An actress (Juliette Binoche) goes on a globe-trotting hunt for the truth about Mary Magdalene after portraying her in a movie.

With Tommy Lee Jones • Meryl Streep • Maya Rudolph • Woody Harrelson • John C. Reilly • Virginia Madsen • Lindsay Lohan • Kevin Kline • Lily Tomlin • Robert Altman • Lyle Lovett • Garrison Keillor

The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show. It adds a slight story of the radio show ending as a new owner (Tommy Lee Jones) has bought the Fitzgerald theater that the show broadcasts from and is going to tear it down. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor plays the lead character, coincidentally called GK. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who tells the story. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.

With Keanu Reeves • Christopher Plummer • Shohreh Aghdashloo • Ebon Moss-Bachrach • John Corbett • Willeke van Ammelrooy • David Auburn

A doctor (Sandra Bullock) and an architect (Keanu Reeves) living in the same house two years apart develop a letter-based romance using a mailbox that serves as a time portal.

With Bow Wow • Sung Kang • Justin Lin • Neal H. Moritz • Lucas Black • Brian Tee • Nathalie Kelley • Zachery Bryan • Nikki Griffin • Jason Tobin • Chris Morgan • Clayton Townsend

Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to- head on some of the most perilous courses in the world.

Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo.

Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form--with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks.

On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han (Kang). Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off.