Drama Movies 2008 List

With Scarlett Johansson • Benedict Cumberbatch • Eric Bana • Natalie Portman • Juno Temple • Scott Rudin • Alison Owen • Christopher Fosh • Philippa Gregory • Peter Morga • Justin Chadwick

Two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary and Anne Boleyn, were rivals for the bed and heart of the 16th century English king Henry VIII. The elder, Mary, bore two bastard children by Henry, but she found herself usurped by her younger sister, whom Henry married (divorcing his first wife and causing a church schism in the process) and beheaded three years later for adultery.

With Jessica Lange • Kathy Bates • Joan Allen • Daniel D. Davis • Christine Baranski • Victor Rasuk • Christopher N. Rowley • R. Michael Bergeron • Bob Brown • Robert May

The story follows recently widowed Arvilla (Lange), who is accompanied by her best friends Margene (Spacek) and Carol (Bates) as she takes her husband Joe's vintage Bonneville and heads towards Santa Barbara to deliver Joe's ashes to his recentful daughter, Francine. En route, however, a series of offbeat adventures leads the women on a journey that will change their lives and show them there is more than one way to keep a promise.

With Darlan Cunha • Douglas Silva • Paulo Morelli • Regina Case • Andrea Barata Ribeiro

Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola and Laranjinha have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.

With Eric Bana • Richard Roxburgh • Gary Hamilton • Victor Syrmis • Andrew Myer • Franka Potente • Marton Csokas • Russell Dykstra • Jacek Koman

An immigrant family heads to Australia to start a new life. When the young boy's mother dies his father teaches him lessons about life.