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The Best of Times (美丽时光)
The Best of Times (美麗時光) is Chang Tso-chi's 2002 Taiwanese crime drama about two 19-year-old cousins turned gang debt collectors and fugitives; it competed at Venice and won the 39th Golden Horse Best Feature Film.
The Burning Plain
The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama, Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, and Jennifer Lawrence. It competed at Venice 65, won Lawrence the Marcello Mastroianni Award, and earned mixed reviews (RT 38%, Metascore 45).
The Circle (دایره) (2000 film)
The Circle (دایره, Dayereh) is Jafar Panahi's 2000 Iranian drama about women trapped in Tehran's restrictions, told in a circular relay structure over one day. It won the Golden Lion at Venice 2000 but is banned in Iran.
The City of Your Final Destination
The City of Your Final Destination is a 2009 James Ivory romantic drama, scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from Peter Cameron's 2002 novel, in which Omar Metwally's student seeks permission to biographize Jules Gund from Hopkins, Linney, and Gainsbourg in Uruguay.
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 Coast Guard (해안선)
The Coast Guard (해안선, Hae-an-seon) is Kim Ki-duk's 2002 South Korean drama in which marine Private Kang, played by Jang Dong-gun, shoots a civilian mistaken for a North Korean spy, then descends into madness; it opened the 2002 Busan festival.
The Company (film)
The Company is Robert Altman's 2003 drama starring Neve Campbell, James Franco, and Malcolm McDowell with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, released December 25, 2003 by Sony Pictures Classics.
The Contender (2000 film)
The Contender is a 2000 American political thriller directed by Rod Lurie, starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, and Gary Oldman, about confirming the first woman Vice President.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu), Cristi Puiu's 2005 Romanian New Wave drama, follows a dying 63-year-old through Bucharest hospitals; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize.
The Drummer (战鼓)
The Drummer (戰．鼓, Zhan Gu) is a 2007 Hong Kong-Taiwan-Germany crime drama directed by Kenneth Bi, starring Jaycee Chan as a gangster's son who joins Taiwan's real Zen drum troupe U Theatre; it premiered at Locarno 2007 and won Tony Leung Ka-fai a Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor award.
The Duchess (film)
The Duchess (2008) is Saul Dibb's biographical drama starring Keira Knightley as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, adapted from Amanda Foreman's 1998 Whitbread-winning biography; it won the 2009 Oscar and BAFTA for Best Costume Design.
The Edge of Heaven
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite; Yaşamın Kıyısında) is Fatih Akin's 2007 German-Turkish drama about six lives crossing between Germany and Turkey; it won Cannes Best Screenplay 2007 and the 2008 German Film Award for Best Film.
The Edge of Love
The Edge of Love is a 2008 British drama directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, and Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas's wartime circle.
The Emperor's Club
The Emperor's Club (2002) is an American drama directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Kevin Kline as classics teacher William Hundert at St. Benedict's prep school, based on Ethan Canin's short story The Palace Thief, released November 22, 2002.
The Family That Preys
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys is a 2008 American comedy-drama written, produced, and directed by Perry, starring Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard as two mothers whose families unravel.
The Foul King (반칙왕)
The Foul King (반칙왕, Ban-chik-wang) is a 2000 South Korean comedy by Kim Jee-woon, starring Song Kang-ho in his first lead as a bullied bank clerk who becomes a masked foul-playing wrestler; it drew 817,000 Seoul admissions, ranking second among 2000 Korean films.
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 Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience: a 2009 Steven Soderbergh film starring Sasha Grey as a $2,000-an-hour Manhattan escort, and the Starz anthology series (2016–2021) adapted from it with Riley Keough.
The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) is a Disney sports drama directed by Bill Paxton, written by Mark Frost from his 2002 book, starring Shia LaBeouf as Francis Ouimet, who beats Harry Vardon at the 1913 U.S. Open.
The Hamburg Cell (film)
The Hamburg Cell (2004) is a British TV docudrama directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ronan Bennett, dramatizing the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell behind 9/11, focused on hijacker Ziad Jarrah; premiered at Edinburgh, first 9/11 film adaptation.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is a 2006 drama directed by and starring Asia Argento, adapted from the J.T. LeRoy stories, about a boy abused by his mother Sarah; released by Palm Pictures amid the LeRoy authorship hoax.
The Hidden Blade (隠し剣 鬼の爪)
The Hidden Blade (隠し剣 鬼の爪, Kakushi ken Oni no tsume) is a 2004 Japanese samurai drama by Yoji Yamada, second in his trilogy after The Twilight Samurai, adapted from two Shuhei Fujisawa short stories and starring Masatoshi Nagase and Takako Matsu.
The Human Stain (film)
The Human Stain (film) is a 2003 American drama directed by Robert Benton, starring Anthony Hopkins as a professor who passes as white and begins an affair with a janitor.
The Informers (2008 film)
The Informers (2008 film), released April 24, 2009, is a Gregor Jordan ensemble drama adapted by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki from Ellis's 1994 short-story collection, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, and Mickey Rourke; it grossed $382,174 and scored 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Island Tales (異邦人たち)
The Island Tales (異邦人たち; 有時跳舞) is a 2000 Japan–Hong Kong drama directed by Stanley Kwan, written by Jimmy Ngai, starring Takao Osawa, Michelle Reis, Shu Qi, and Kaori Momoi, about strangers quarantined on an island near Hong Kong.
The Kite Runner (film)
The Kite Runner (film): 2007 drama directed by Marc Forster, screenplay by David Benioff from Khaled Hosseini's novel, starring Khalid Abdalla, shot mainly in Dari in China, banned in Afghanistan, Oscar-nominated.
The Last Castle
The Last Castle is a 2001 Rod Lurie prison drama starring Robert Redford as court-martialed General Irwin and James Gandolfini as warden Colonel Winter; filmed at Tennessee State Prison, it grossed $18.2 million against a $72 million budget.
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance: Steven Pressfield's 1995 debut novel, a Bhagavad-Gita retelling set in Depression-era Savannah golf, and Robert Redford's 2000 film with Will Smith, Matt Damon, and Charlize Theron.
The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006 German drama by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: a Stasi captain spies on a playwright in 1984 East Berlin and turns; won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Longshots
The Longshots is a 2008 American sports comedy-drama directed by Fred Durst, starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer as a coach and his quarterback niece.