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House of Sand and Fog (film)
House of Sand and Fog is Vadim Perelman's 2003 drama debut, adapted from Andre Dubus III's novel, starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly in a house-ownership tragedy with three Oscar nominations.
Hustle & Flow
Hustle & Flow is a 2005 American drama and music film directed by Craig Brewer, starring Terrence Howard as a Memphis pimp who decides to become a rapper.
Hwang Jin Yi (film)
Hwang Jin Yi (황진이) is a 2007 South Korean period romance film directed by Chang Yoon-hyun, starring Song Hye-kyo and Yoo Ji-tae, adapted from North Korean writer Hong Seok-jung's novel under the first South-North film copyright contract, released June 6, 2007.
I Am Love (film)
I Am Love (Italian: Io sono l'amore) is a 2009 Italian drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Tilda Swinton as the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family.
I Am Sam
I Am Sam (2001) is a Jessie Nelson drama starring Sean Penn as Sam Dawson, a father with an intellectual disability fighting for custody of daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) with lawyer Michelle Pfeiffer; Oscar-nominated for Penn, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (黑眼圈, Hei yan quan) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2006 drama, his first film set in Malaysia. A beaten homeless man in Kuala Lumpur is nursed by Bangladeshi worker Rawang; Venice 2006 Official Competition, New Crowned Hope Mozart commission.
Import Export (Импорт-экспорт)
Import Export (Импорт-экспорт), also styled Import/Export, is Ulrich Seidl's 2007 Austrian-French-German drama, in Cannes competition, about Ukrainian nurse Olga migrating to Austria and Viennese Pauli traveling to Ukraine.
In America (film)
In America is Jim Sheridan's 2002 semiautobiographical drama about an Irish family settling in Hell's Kitchen, New York, co-written with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, and Djimon Hounsou, with three Oscar nominations.
In Praise of Love
In Praise of Love (Éloge de l'amour) is Jean-Luc Godard's 2001 French-Swiss drama, in Cannes competition, told in two halves: black-and-white 35mm present and saturated digital-video past, about love, memory, and Hollywood buying history.
Iris (2001 film)
Iris (2001) is Richard Eyre's biographical drama about novelist Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Bonneville; Broadbent won the 2002 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Isabella (伊莎贝拉) (2006 film)
Isabella (伊莎貝拉, Yi sa bui lai) is Pang Ho-cheung's 2006 Hong Kong drama starring Chapman To and Isabella Leong, set in pre-handover Macau; it won the Berlin Silver Bear for Peter Kam's score and the Bangkok festival's Best Film.
Island Etude (练习曲)
Island Etude (練習曲) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama directed by Chen Huai-en about a hearing-impaired student cycling around Taiwan's coast for seven days; it topped 2007 Taiwanese box office and sparked a bicycle touring boom.
Jolene (film)
Jolene (2010) is Dan Ireland's drama, Dennis Yares's adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's story "Jolene: A Life," starring Jessica Chastain in her debut as a fifteen-year-old orphan on a decade-long cross-country journey; not the Dolly Parton NBC film, the Dutch documentary, or Benny & Jolene.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) (2003 film)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (ジョゼと虎と魚たち) is a 2003 Japanese romance drama by Isshin Inudo, adapted from Seiko Tanabe's short story, starring Satoshi Tsumabuki and Chizuru Ikewaki; it drew about 300,000 Japanese admissions and inspired 2020 anime and Korean remakes.
Juana la Loca (2001 film)
Juana la Loca (Mad Love) is Vicente Aranda's 2001 Spain-Italy-Portugal historical drama starring Pilar López de Ayala as Juana I of Castilla and Daniele Liotti as Felipe el Hermoso; it won her a Silver Shell and a Goya and was Spain's Oscar entry.
Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama directed by Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell.
Kamchatka
Kamchatka: primarily the 2002 Argentine-Spanish drama by Marcelo Piñeyro about a family hiding from Argentina's 1976 dictatorship, seen through ten-year-old Harry; also a 2013 Polish film, documentaries, and a Catalan theatre company.
Kandahar (سفر قندهار) (2001 film)
Kandahar (Safar-e Ghandehar, سفر قندهار) is Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 2001 Iranian semi-documentary about an Afghan-Canadian journalist crossing Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to save her suicidal sister; Cannes 2001 Ecumenical Prize winner.
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.
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (可可西里) is a 2004 Chinese drama film directed by Lu Chuan, based on the true story of volunteer patrols fighting Tibetan antelope poachers in the 1990s.
Khuda Kay Liye (خدا کے لیے)
Khuda Kay Liye (خدا کے لیے, In the Name of God) is Shoaib Mansoor's 2007 Pakistani Urdu drama debut about two musician brothers and their cousin after 9/11; the first Pakistani film released in Indian theaters in over four decades.
Kim Kardashian, Superstar
Kim Kardashian, Superstar is the 41-minute 2007 Vivid Entertainment sex tape with Ray J, shot in 2003 in Cabo, Mexico; Kardashian's lawsuit ended in an April 2007 settlement, and the release preceded her reality-TV fame.
L'Enfant
L'Enfant (The Child) is a 2005 Belgian-French drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Déborah François, about a petty thief who sells his newborn son; it won the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or, their second after Rosetta.
La Ciénaga
La Ciénaga (The Swamp), 2001 Argentine drama, Lucrecia Martel's debut feature about two families decaying at a Salta finca; Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin, Sundance screenplay prize, landmark of New Argentine Cinema.
La Vida Mancha
La Vida Mancha (Life Marks) is a 2003 Spanish drama by Enrique Urbizu, written by Michel Gaztambide, starring José Coronado, Zay Nuba, and Juan Sanz; the middle film of his noir trilogy, released 9 May 2003.
Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama, Charles Dance's directorial debut adapted from a William J. Locke short story, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith as Cornish sisters who nurse a shipwrecked Polish violinist (Daniel Brühl) in 1936.
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.
Lantana (2001 film)
Lantana (2001) is an Australian psychological mystery drama by Ray Lawrence, adapted by Andrew Bovell from his play Speaking in Tongues, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, and Barbara Hershey; it won seven AFI Awards including Best Film.
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.