Top Crime Movies 2003
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November 14 • November 21 • November 26 • October 3 • October 8 • October 10 • October 17 • September 5 • September 12 • September 19 • August 1 • August 8 • August 22 • August 29 • July 18 • July 25 • June 6 • June 13 • June 27 • May 2 • May 9 • May 30 • April 2 • April 4 • April 11 • April 18 • April 25 • March 7 • March 14 • March 28 • February 21 • February 28 • January 17
The Cooler
Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is the unluckiest man in Las Vegas... he's so unlucky, it's contagious. Looking to knock out their highest rollers, one of the last mob-run casinos in town, the Shangri-La Hotel and Casino downtown, decides to use Bernie as a "cooler" to defuse their lucky streaks. The scheme goes fine until Bernie falls in love with a cocktail waitress, Natalie (Maria Bello), who becomes his "lady luck", much to the chagrin of the casino's crooked director (Alec Baldwin) who aims to break up the romance, and Bernie's newfound luck...
Ron Livingston, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Paul Sorvino, Tony Longo, Wayne Kramer, William H. Macy, Joey Fatone
R
Tupac: Resurrection
A documentary about the pivotal hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur that is narrated entirely in the words of the deceased artist himself. Through a variety of interviews, journal readings, poetry performances, private home movies, and never-before-seen concert footage, the film serves as a "self-portrait" of a cultural icon whose career and persona, both, continue to grow from beyond the grave.
Lauren Lazin, Tupac Shakur
R
21 Grams
From the Mexican writing-directing team behind the Oscar-nominated "Amores Perros" comes this explosive, emotionally charged English-language drama about a woman (Naomi Watts), her cheating lover (Sean Penn), and an ex-convict (Benicio Del Toro).
Melissa Leo, Sean Penn, Eddie Marsan, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Benicio Del Toro, Clea DuVall, Charlotte Gainsbourg
R
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Bad Santa
This is the story of two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus (Billy Bob Thornton) and his elf, traveling across the country to major malls, using the good will people have towards Santa to rob the stores blind. The plan is going great until the two baddies meet an introverted 8-year-old boy who reminds them of the true meaning of Christmas.
Billy Bob Thornton, Bob Weinstein, John Requa, Lauren Tom, Terry Zwigoff, Sarah Aubrey, John Cameron, Glenn Ficarra
R
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Out of Time
When the police chief (Denzel Washington) of a small Florida town "borrows" money from the evidence room so he can run away with a woman (Sanaa Lathan) he's always been in love with, she quickly betrays him, revealing that she only began having an affair with him as a way to seek revenge... Now, with his reputation and career on the line, an otherwise good cop must resolve his life before he runs... "Out of Time".
Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, Carl Franklin, Rob Baker, John Billingsley, Alex Carter
PG-13
The Flower of Evil
The film follows the story of a respected upper middle class family whose high social stature is burst following a murder. Chabrol reexamines the individual family members' lives in the time period leading up to the crime unveiling their secrets and probing their character.
Suzanne Flon, Claude Chabrol, Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Bernard Lecoq, Mélanie Doutey, Thomas Chabrol, Kevin Ahyi
Bus 174
This documentary captures what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000 when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventuallly agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens watching the event take place. Then, a police officer decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged at police brutality. The film intertwines the story of the standoff with biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, including his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s, and the trauma of seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.
Jose Padilha
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Kill Bill: Volume 1
Uma Thurman's character, a pregnant assassin named the Bride, is shot by her boss, Bill, and her co-workers at her wedding (the wedding guests are also shot). She survives, though, waking up exceedingly angry after a five-year coma, and decides to hunt down and kill every single one of the assassins who were responsible, saving Bill for last.
Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Michael Jai White, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
R
Wonderland
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call at 8763 Wonderland Avenue and soon discovered a grisly quadruple homicide, later compared to the gruesome slaughter at the Tate household at the hands of the Charles Manson family 10 years earlier. Ron Launius (Josh Lucas), Billy Deverell (Tim Blake Nelson), Barbara Richardson (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and Joy Miller (Janeane Garofalo) were brutally murdered, and Ron's wife Susan (Christina Applegate) was left in critical condition. The police investigation that followed - led by detectives Sam Nico (Ted Levine), Louis Cruz (Frankie G.) and Mike Peters (M.C. Gainey) - would unearth a seedy world of drugs and violence, ultimately revealing a motley crew from LA's underbelly including ex-con David Lind (Dylan McDermott), nightclub impresario Eddie Nash (Eric Bogosian), the most unlikely of American heroes - porn legend John Holmes (Val Kilmer) - Holmes' estranged wife Sharon (Lisa Kudrow) and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth).
Ted Levine, Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Christina Applegate, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Dylan McDermott, Janeane Garofalo
R
Veronica Guerin
Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for the Dublin Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.
Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Ciarind Hinds, Joel Schumacher, Brenda Fricker, Gerard McSorley
R
Shattered Glass
Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question.
Rosario Dawson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Billy Ray, Hank Azaria, Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgarrd, Steve Zahn
PG-13
Returner
Takeshi Kaneshiro stars in this thriller as Miyamoto, an assassin who accidentally wounds a young woman during a shoot out. When Miyamoto goes to help her, she tells him that she has been sent from the future to prevent an alien invasion that will occur in 72 hours. She informs him that because he has injured her, he must now help her carry out her mission or else be responsible for the destruction of humanity.
Kirin Kiki, Takashi Yamazaki, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ann Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, Yukiko Okamoto, Dean Harrington, Kisuke Iida
R
Party Monster
Set in the New York nightclub scene of the late 1980's and 1990's, this is the story of Michael Alig (Macaulay Culkin), a Club Kid party organizer originally from Indiana, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his drug dealer and roommate, Angel Melendez (Wilson Cruz).
Seth Green, Lucy Liu, Natasha Lyonne, Dylan McDermott, Fenton Bailey, Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Daniel Franzese
R
Home Room
The aftermath of a high school shooting leaves Deanna (Erika Christensen), seriously wounded and nine others dead. Det. Van Zandt (Victor Garber), is assigned the task of finding someone to hold responsible. His attention settles on Alicia (Busy Philipps), a troubled outsider considered both the key witness and a possible suspect. Worlds collide when the high school principal compels Alicia to pay a reluctant visit on the still-hospitalized Deanna. United by their traumatic experience, the two young women form an unlikely friendship -- one tested by depression, despair, and the growing weight of the police investigation.
Constance Zimmer, Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, Agnes Bruckner, Taylor, Raphael Sbarge, James Pickens
R
No Good Deed
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, Jack (Jackson) stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend, Erin (Jovovich), is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical pianist. She finds Jack's captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can't figure out if she's for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin's connection intensifies...
Milla Jovovich, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Rafelson, Stellan Skarsgard, Doug Hutchison, Grace Zabriskie, Jonathan Higgins, Shannon Lawson
R
Matchstick Men
Phobia-addled con artist Roy (Nicolas Cage) and his protégé Frank (Sam Rockwell) are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the unexpected arrival of Roy's teenage daughter Angela (Alison Lohman) disrupts his carefully-ordered life and jeopardizes his high-risk scam.
Nicolas Cage, Ridley Scott, Bruce Altman, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce McGill
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The third installment in Robert Rodriguez's trilogy that began with 1992's "El Mariachi" and continued with 1995's "Desperado", the latter of which also starred Antonio Banderas. El Mariachi makes his way across a rugged landscape on the blood trail of Barrillo (Willem Dafoe), a cartel kingpin with one last score to settle who is planning a coup d'etat against the president of Mexico. Enlisted by Sands (Johnny Depp), a corrupt CIA agent, El Mariachi demands retribution, and the adventure begins against a backdrop of revolution, greed, and revenge.
Robert Rodriguez, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Eva Mendes, Rubén Blades, Mickey Rourke
R
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Scarface
Released in 1983, Scarface is directed by Brian Del Palma and written by Oliver Stone and stars Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer. Scarface is the rags-to-riches story of Tony “Scarface” Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams…at a price he never imagined. Tony Montana’s meteoric rise, lavish life and soul-destroying fall anchor an epic film that inspired a worldwide following.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, Brian De Palma, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia
R
Gigli
"Gigli", is a new romantic gangster comedy from director Martin Brest, ("Scent of a Woman", "Midnight Run", "Beverly Hills Cop") about a lowly thug who lets love get in the way of a high-risk mob assignment. Gigli (Ben Affleck) is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), a gorgeous, free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.
Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Christopher Walken, Jenna Fischer, Missy Crider, Al Pacino, Martin Brest, Nichole Hiltz
R
S.W.A.T.
In the explosive action-thriller "S.W.A.T." starring Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Farrell, and inspired by the '70s television series, Farrell portrays Jim Street, an L.A.P.D. officer whose recent demotion to a desk job leaves him desperate for a second chance to don the elite S.W.A.T. uniform. That break comes when team commander Hondo (Samuel L. Jackson) is assigned to recruit and train five top-notch officers for a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit (S.W.A.T.).
Michelle Rodriguez, Jeremy Renner, Josh Charles, Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Clark Johnson, LL Cool J, Brian Van Holt
Dust
This movie tells two stories in three settings, going back and forth between each story as the film proceeds. One is the story of two cowboy brothers (Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham) who worked as mercenaries in Turkey around the turn of the century, and fall in love with the same woman (Anne Brochet). The other is set in contemporary New York, and is about a 90-year-old woman with a secret horde of Balkan gold and a thief (Adrian Lester), who surprisingly become friends. The third setting is the Ottoman Empire, circa 1913.
Adrian Lester, Nikolina Kujaca, Joseph Fiennes, Anne Brochet, David Wenham, Eric Colvin, Vera Farmiga, Rosemary Murphy
R
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gat...
This documentary, filmed over six years (1996-2002), is about Mark "Gator" Rogowski, a pro skateboarding star in the '80s currently serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a woman he barely knew. The film mixes old footage of Gator skating and carousing with recent interviews with such skateboarding icons as Tony Hawk and Stacey Peralta. It examines what drove a charming, rich, and famous bad-boy skater to kill.
Helen Stickler, Mark Rogowski, Tony Hawk, Jason Jessee, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero
The Medallion
Combining the physicality of international action superstar Jackie Chan with state-of-the-art special effects, Highbinders is an action comedy co-starring Claire Forlani and Julian Sands. Chan stars as Eddie, an indomitable Hong Kong cop who, after a near-fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion, is suddenly transformed into a Highbinder -- an immortal warrior with superhuman powers. Eddie enlists the help of fellow agent Nicole (Claire Forlani) to determine the secret of the medallion and face down the evil Highbinders who so desperately want it back.
Jackie Chan, John Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani, Gordon Chan, Lee Evans, Christy Chung
R
Civil Brand
Women prisoners strike up a friendship with a young law student who works as a part-time prison guard. Together they discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their "slave labor", the women take over the prison - A rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates.
Tichina Arnold, Mos Def, Reed McCants, Neema Barnette, Lisa Raye, Monica Calhoun, Da Brat, Clifton Powell
R
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Dek and Shirley live together with 12 year-old Marlene, her daughter by the sexy, delinquent Jimmy who went off into the badlands of Glasgow years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Decent-but-dull Dek loves Shirley so much that he humiliates her by proposing without warning on national television. Like everyone else Shirley has ever met, Jimmy is watching when she turns Dek down on TV and he returns to town, determined to win her back. Shirley seems destined to succumb to Jimmy's charms, but he hasn't reckoned on the obstacles: their daughter Marlene, his sister Carol, her estranged husband Charlie, their sons Emerson and Lake, Carol's daughter Donna, her boyfriend Donut. Nor could he anticipate the heroic, last-minute challenge from mild-mannered, love-sick Dek.
Robert Carlyle, Vic Reeves, Shane Meadows, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Vanessa Feltz
R
This Thing of Ours
"This Thing of Ours" tells a true to life crime story of a 21st century breed of gangsters who steal hundreds of millions from the world's banks. Though a highly sophisticated computer internet and satellite system the gang manages to pull off the biggest heist in the vast and violent history of the American mafia.
Vincent Pastore, Frank Vincent, Danny Provenzano, Edward Lynch, James Caan
R
Buffalo Soldiers
Set on an American Army Base in 1989, as the Berlin Wall is about to fall, "Buffalo Soldiers" takes a satiric look as these men steal, drink, fight, and make, take, and sell drugs. Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) is the brains behind the operation, easily duping his superior (Ed Harris) and sleeping with his wife (Elizabeth McGovern). But with the arrival of the new Sergeant (Scott Glenn), everything changes. The Sergeant cracks down; Elwood retaliates by dating his daughter (Anna Paquin) and attempting a big "weapons for drugs" deal, with the Sergeant in closer pursuit.
Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn, Gregor Jordan, Gabriel Mann, Leon Robinson, Dean Stockwell
R
Scorched
Three individual employees (Paulo Costanzo, Woody Harrelson, Alicia Silverstone) of a bank in a small desert town (managed by Joshua Leonard) all make plans to rob it on the same weekend... except, none of them knows about the others. Meanwhile, a clothing store employee (Rachael Leigh Cook) has plans for revenge against a local millionaire (John Cleese).
Woody Harrelson, Alicia Silverstone, David Krumholtz, Rachael Leigh Cook, Paulo Costanzo, John Cleese, Gavin Grazer, Joshua Leonard
PG-13
2 Fast 2 Furious
Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), stripped of his badge after the events of the first film, gets a chance to redeem himself by going undercover to infiltrate the world of Miami street racing.
Tyrese Gibson, Cole Hauser, Paul Walker, Eva Mendes, Michael Ealy, Neal H. Moritz, Derek Haas, Thom Barry
PG-13
Love the Hard Way
Claire (Ayanna), a goal-oriented Columbia University graduate student, meets Jack (Brody). At once unimpressed and intrigued by his bad-boy persona, Claire eventually agrees to meet him. Attraction quickly turns into infatuation and love. Jack runs a regular scam conning foreign businessmen with his partner Charlie (Seda) and two struggling actresses. Though charmed by Claire's acute intellect, he pushes her away, just like he has with previous partners. Abandoned and traumatized, Claire begins to neglect her studies and throws herself into a self-destructive downward spiral. As Detective Linda Fox's (Grier) efforts to expose Jack and Charlie's scam intensifies, the once self-assured Jack finds his world crumbling.
Peter Sehr, Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, August Diehl, Pam Grier, Katherine Moennig
R
Hollywood Homicide
Combines the worlds of law enforcement and the music industry. It pairs a young cop and older cop, both of whom moonlight in other jobs -- acting and real estate -- who get themselves involved in a crime within the music business. Washington will play Sartain, a feared rap impresario who in the past has arranged the murder of several rappers who wanted out of their contract. He also is working in tandem with a former LAPD officer who is now the head of security for Sartain's music company.
Harrison Ford, Ron Shelton, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lou Diamond Phillips, Keith David, K.D. Aubert, Lolita Davidovich
PG-13
The Hard Word
When sex and greed mix with cops and criminals, things get messy in this Guy Pearce crime comedy, directed by Scott Roberts.
Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Damien Richardson, Vince Colosimo, Rhondda Findleton, Kate Atkinson
R
Owning Mahowny
Polite, mild-mannered Dan Mahowny is an assistant bank manager with a head for numbers, a knack for making decisions, and a devastating appetite for gambling. Dan Mahowny is the unlikely hero who takes on two of the financial institutions everyone loves to hate, the bank and the casino, and, for a brief while, he wins.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Hurt, Judi Embden, Richard Kwietniowski, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, Matthew Ferguson, M.J. Kang
R
Man on the Train
At a deserted train station, a teacher and a gangster meet and realize that each might have been better suited to the other man's way of life. As a friendship of sorts develops between these opposite personalities, each starts to envy the other and by the week's end, everything will change for both of them.
Edith Scob, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Charlie Nelson, Pascal Parmentier, Jean-François Stévenin, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Alain Guellaff
R
The Italian Job
A band of thieves, led by Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg), pulls off the ultimate heist by rigging the stoplights of the city of Los Angeles so that they can drive right out of the city with a carful of gold (in a safe that they're stealing back after Croker's double-crossing ex-partner, played by Edward Norton, stole it from Croker first), with nothing but greenlights, while everyone else gets redlights, thus keeping the roads plugged with the largest traffic jam in L.A. history, and the police from pursuing them. Aiding their escape is the fact that the bandits are driving BMW Mini Coopers (tiny cars), so they're able to use sidewalks and the subway system in addition to L.A.'s streets and highways. That, of course, is how it's *supposed* to work...
Jason Statham, Edward Norton, Donald De Line, Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Mos Def, Seth Green, F. Gary Gray
PG-13
The Three Marias
Focuses on Filomena Capadscio, the matriarch of a family who is abruptly visited by tragedy. Filomena's husband and two sons are brutally murdered by the sons of Firmino Santos Guerra. Thirty years earlier, Filomena had been engaged to Santos Guerra but left him before their wedding to marry his rival Borges Capadscio. The result of this union filled Santos Guerra with rage and promise to someday exact revenge on the newly married couple. Filomena buries her husband and sons and begins to set plans to have revenge against the Santos Guerra family. She brings together her three daughters (Maria Francisca, Maria Rosa and Maria Pia) and sends them off into the backlands of Brazil to locate and hire three ruthless killers. Maria Francisca has to find the gunman known as Zi das Cobras, who has not spoken to a woman since the death of his mother. Maria Rosa looks for Chief Tensrio, a backwoods cop who is also a knife specialist, and convince him to break the laws he defends. Maria Pia goes off in search of Jesulino Cruz, also known as "The Devil's Horse," but there is a slight obstacle in her path: this killer is locked up in prison."
Aluisio Abranches, Cassiano Carneiro, Enrique Díaz, Wagner Moura, Tuca Andrada, Taveira Júnior, Júlia Lemmertz, Fábio Limma
The Good Thief
Nick Nolte delivers a riveting performance as Bob Mantagnet, a wisecracking master thief whose luck seems to have finally run out. Pursued by the police at every turn, the king of con gambles it all on the casino heist of a lifetime inside the decadent world of the French Riviera. A savvy rogue with the perfect quote for every occasion, Bob's last bid at glory is to rob the priceless paintings inside an underground vault that's impossible to crack.
Nick Nolte, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Ryan Phillippe, Tcheky Karyo, Neil Jordan, Emir Kursturica, Said Taghmaoui
R
A Man Apart
Vin Diesel stars as Agent Sean Vetter, a DEA operative fighting the drug wars along the US/Mexican border. After a major player from the Baja Cartel is imprisoned, a new mysterious figure known as Diablo wrests control over the entire operation. But when Vetter's wife is murdered in a botched hit, he and his partner (Larenz Tate) must join forces with the jailed Cartel boss to hunt down the dangerous and elusive new player.
Vin Diesel, George Sharperson, F. Gary Gray, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors, Geno Silva, Steve Eastin
R
Better Luck Tomorrow
Ben is an overachieving high-school student in Orange County, Calif. He's at the top of his class and set to matriculate at an Ivy League school. But Ben has a darker side. While he maintains academic success, to alleviate the pressure put upon him by his parents, he indulges in acts of crime. His life slowly begins to spin out of control and he eventually joins a gang.
Justin Lin, Aaron Takahashi, Rick Cortes, Karin Anna Cheung, Parry Shen, Jason J. Tobin, Sung Kang, Roger Fan
R
Holes
Based on Louis Sachar's popular children's book. It's about a young boy who is punished for a crime he didn't commit and is sent to a juvenile detention center where he is forced to dig holes under the watchful eye of a mean-spirited warden.
Shia LaBeouf, Henry Winkler, Khleo Thomas, Andrew Davis, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson
PG
Lilya 4-Ever
Follows young Lilya, who moves to Sweden from the Soviet Union with her boyfriend after her mother leaves for America. Once she gets there, she finds nothing but deceit, betrayal, and violence.
Lukas Moodysson, Tomas Neumann, Anastasiya Bedredinova, Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Lyubov Agapova, Liliya Shinkaryova, Elina Benenson
R
Confidence
Following in the long tradition of heist films, "Confidence" tells the story of con man Jake Vig (Ed Burns), who gets a few thousand dollars from a victim who is actually a powerful crime mogul's accountant with the help of his friends. When the mob boss, appropriately named "Boss" (Dustin Hoffman), finds out, Jake and his pals have to cut a deal to pay him back.
James Foley, Edward Burns, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Rachel Weisz, Morris Chestnut, Tom Lister Jr.
R
Bringing Down the House
When a lonely guy (Steve Martin) meets a woman (Queen Latifah) on the Internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to be with him, and quickly proceeds to bring chaos and some much-needed change into his middle-class life...
Queen Latifah, Adam Shankman, Steve Martin, Joan Plowright, Betty White, Eugene Levy, Missi Pyle, Jean Smart
PG-13
Irreversible
After a fight with her coked-up boyfriend Marcus, Alex leaves a party to go home. She never gets there; instead she's raped in a desolate tunnel. Her angry boyfriend, and her buddy Pierre decide to take justice into their own hands and hunt down the rapist themselves.
Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Louis Costes, Stephane Drouot
The Hunted
This is the story of an FBI "deep woods tracker" (Jones) who captures an assassin (Del Toro) who makes a sport of hunting deer hunters in the forests outside Portland. When he escapes in the city, the tracker must team up with a female FBI agent (Nielsen) to hunt the assassin down before he comes hunting for them... the assassin kills for fun
Tommy Lee Jones, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd, William Friedkin, Benicio Del Toro
Spun
A three-day drug adventure awaits the speed junkies in "Spun". Jason Schwartzman ("Rushmore") stars as a young speed addict who embarks on an adventure with his dealer, played by John Leguizamo, and the drug chemist, played by Mickey Rourke. Patrick Fugit ("Almost Famous") plays a fellow speed addict, while Brittany Murphy and Mena Suvari play girlfriends of the drug dealers.
Eric Roberts, Jonas Åkerlund, John Leguizamo, Jason Schwartzman, Mena Suvari, Brittany Murphy, Patrick Fugit, Alexis Arquette
R
Stevie
Steve James's new film takes a deeply personal turn as he returns to the town where 10 years earlier he was a "big brother" to a troubled young boy named Stevie. As he resumes his connection with this emotionally and socially challenged man after so many years, we get a glimpse into the difficulties Stevie faced as a product of his environment. Abandoned by his mother at a young age, he bounced from foster home to foster home, abused and neglected. He soon found his way into trouble with the law, which complicated his strained relationships with what little family he had.
Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler, Verna Hagler, Brenda Hickam, Doug Hickam
R
Dark Blue
Set in the LAPD in April 1992, it takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent LA riots. In this racially charged climate, the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) tutors rookie Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman) in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland (Ving Rhames), the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of single-handed "justice" on the LA streets. While navigating through tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central LA, Perry and Keough must track down killers and face their own demons.
Ron Shelton, Ving Rhames, Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Kurupt, Michael Michele
R
Cradle 2 the Grave
When an international criminal (Mark Dacascos) kidnaps the daughter of a gang leader (DMX) and demands extremely rare "black diamonds" in exchange for her safety, it forces the gangster to align with a Taiwanese Intelligence Agent (Jet Li) to find and procure the jewels... even as they discover that the bad guy wants them so that he can build a dangerous new weapon that could jeopardize the entire world.
Mark Dacascos, Jet Li, Joel Silver, DMX, Andrzek Bartkowiak, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Joseph O'Brien, Channing Gibson
R
City of God
The main character in Cidade de Deus is not a person. It is a place. Cidade de Deus is a poor housing project started in the 60's that became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro by the beginning of the 80's. In order to tell the story of the place the film tells us the stories of many characters. But all is seen through the eyes of the narrator: Busca-Pi, a poor black kid too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with an underpaid job. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But he discovers he can see the reality with a different eye: the eye of an artist. Eventually he becomes a professional photographer. That is his redemption... Buscapi is not the real protagonist of the film. He is not the one who makes the story moves on [sic]. He is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the main chain of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story but it is also through his perspective of life that we understand the humanity of a world apparently condemned to endless violence.
Seu Jorge, Renato de Souza, Matheus Nachtergaele, Gero Camilo, Karina Falcão, Graziela Moretto, Roberta Rodriguez Silvia, Douglas Silva
R
Kangaroo Jack
Two friends from Brooklyn (Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson) are forced to deliver mob money to Australia. Their misadventures begin when one of them places his red jacket on a kangaroo while attempting to snap a picture. When the kangaroo bounces off, they realize the mob money is in the jacket and are forced to give chase through the Outback.
Christopher Walken, Jerry O'Connell, Marton Csokas, Michael Shannon, David McNally, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Dyan Cannon
PG
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Extremely Unique Dynamic
changed the US film release date from January 3, 2025 to January 10, 2025
Left At Wall
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