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Keith (film)
Keith (2008) is an American teen romantic drama directed by Todd Kessler from Ron Carlson's short story, starring Elisabeth Harnois and Jesse McCartney; a studious senior falls for her chemistry partner, who hides terminal cancer.
Lan Yu (蓝宇) (2001 film)
Lan Yu (蓝宇, 2001) is a Stanley Kwan Hong Kong romance drama starring Hu Jun and Liu Ye, adapted from the anonymous internet novel Beijing Story; banned on the mainland, Golden Horse audience-voted Best Film, 4K-restored since 2021.
Last Life in the Universe
Last Life in the Universe (เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล) is a 2003 Thai art-house film by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, starring Tadanobu Asano and Sinitta Boonyasak, shot by Christopher Doyle, trilingual, Venice Best Actor winner.
Laurel Canyon (2002 film)
Laurel Canyon (2002) is Lisa Cholodenko's drama starring Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, and Alessandro Nivola; released by Sony Pictures Classics in March 2003, 103 minutes, $3.7 million gross.
Linger (蝴蝶飞)
Linger (蝴蝶飛/蝴蝶飞) is a 2008 Hong Kong supernatural romantic drama directed by Johnnie To, written by Ivy Ho, starring Li Bingbing and Vic Chou; a Mandarin-language ghost-lover story, To's 48th film, released January 2008 with modest box office.
Little Children (film)
Little Children is a 2006 American drama film directed by Todd Field from Tom Perrotta's novel, starring Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson as unhappy suburban parents having an affair.
Lost in Time (忘不了)
Lost in Time (忘不了, Mong bat liu) is a 2003 Hong Kong romantic drama directed by Derek Yee, starring Cecilia Cheung, Lau Ching-Wan, and Louis Koo; it won Cheung the 23rd Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.
Love and Honor (武士の一分)
Love and Honor (武士の一分, Bushi no Ichibun) is Yoji Yamada's 2006 samurai drama starring Takuya Kimura, the final film of his Fujisawa Shuhei trilogy, about a blind poison-taster samurai dueling for honor.
Marley & Me (film)
Marley & Me (2008) is a David Frankel comedy-drama starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, adapted from John Grogan's 2005 memoir about a destructive Labrador; it opened Christmas Day 2008 and grossed about $250 million worldwide.
Mere Jeevan Saathi (2006 film)
Mere Jeevan Saathi (2006), a Suneel Darshan Hindi romantic thriller starring Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, and Ameesha Patel; released 3 February 2006, a box-office disaster with an IMDb rating of 3.4, distinct from the 1972 Rajesh Khanna film of the same name.
Millennium Mambo
Millennium Mambo (千禧曼波, Qianxi Manbo) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2001 Taiwan-France drama starring Shu Qi as Vicky, a Taipei bar hostess narrating her 2001 life from 2011; it won Cannes' Technical Grand Prize and received a 4K restoration.
Moonlight Mile (film)
Moonlight Mile is a 2002 American drama film set in a small New England town. It follows a young man, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who navigates grief and romance.
Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe is a 2008 American romantic drama directed by George C. Wolfe, adapted from Nicholas Sparks' novel and starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane.
Noel (film)
Noel (2004) is an American Christmas ensemble drama, Chazz Palminteri's directorial debut, written by David Hubbard. Susan Sarandon, Penélope Cruz, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, and an uncredited Robin Williams play lonely New Yorkers whose lives intersect on Christmas Eve; critics gave it 28% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Nuan (暖)
Nuan (暖), also released in Japan as Furusato no Kaori, is a 2003 Chinese drama by Huo Jianqi adapted from Mo Yan's novella White Dog and the Swing, starring Guo Xiaodong, Li Jia, and Teruyuki Kagawa; it won the Tokyo festival's Golden Kirin and the Golden Rooster Best Picture award.
Oasis (오아시스) (2002 film)
Oasis (오아시스) is Lee Chang-dong's 2002 South Korean drama about ex-convict Hong Jong-du and Han Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy. It won Venice's Special Director Award and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Moon So-ri.
Open Hearts
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) is a 2002 Danish Dogme 95 drama, Dogme #28, directed by Susanne Bier with Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, and Paprika Steen; Denmark's Oscar entry about an affair after a paralyzing car accident.
Pay It Forward (film)
Pay It Forward is a 2000 American drama directed by Mimi Leder, written by Leslie Dixon from Catherine Ryan Hyde's 1999 novel, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment; a $40 million Warner Bros. release that earned 39% on Rotten Tomatoes and stalled Leder's feature career until 2017.
Seven Pounds
Seven Pounds is a 2008 American drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith as a man seeking to change the lives of seven strangers.
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, about a Mumbai orphan competing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?; it won eight Academy Awards.
The Babysitters
The Babysitters (2007) is an American independent drama, the first feature of writer-director David Ross, starring Katherine Waterston as teen Shirley Lyner, who turns babysitting into a call-girl ring for married suburban men; premiered at Toronto, released 2008, Metascore 35.
The Banishment (Изгнание)
The Banishment (Изгнание) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2007 Russian drama, adapted from William Saroyan, about a marriage shattered by a pregnancy confession. It competed at Cannes 2007, winning Lavronenko the best-actor prize.
The Classic (클래식)
The Classic (클래식) is a 2003 South Korean romantic drama directed by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Son Ye-jin in a dual mother-daughter role with Cho Seung-woo and Jo In-sung; released January 30, 2003, 132 minutes, a two-era letter-based love story.
The Fountain
The Fountain (2006), Darren Aronofsky's sci-fi romance, stars Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz across three timelines; made for $35 million after the $75 million Brad Pitt version collapsed in 2002.
The Majestic (film)
The Majestic is a 2001 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont, starring Jim Carrey as a blacklisted screenwriter mistaken for a small town's lost war hero.
The Other Woman (2009 film)
The Other Woman (2009 film) is an American drama directed by Don Roos, starring Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow. It was adapted from Ayelet Waldman's 2006 novel.
The Painted Veil (2006 film)
The Painted Veil (2006) is John Curran's drama, written by Ron Nyswaner from Maugham's 1925 novel, starring Naomi Watts and Edward Norton as Kitty and Walter Fane, whose broken marriage is tested in a 1920s Chinese cholera epidemic; third adaptation after 1934 and 1957.
The Room
The Room (2003) is Tommy Wiseau's self-financed $6 million independent drama about a San Francisco love triangle; a box-office failure now famous as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" with participatory midnight screenings.
The Story of Marie and Julien
The Story of Marie and Julien (Histoire de Marie et Julien) is Jacques Rivette's 2003 supernatural romance with Emmanuelle Béart and Jerzy Radziwilowicz, revived from a 1975 project abandoned after two shooting days.
The World (世界) (2004 film)
The World (世界, Shijie) is Jia Zhangke's 2004 Chinese drama, his fourth feature and first government-approved film, set in Beijing World Park among migrant dancers and guards, starring Zhao Tao and Cheng Taishen, Metascore 81.