2005 Movies : Historical

With Michelle Yeoh, Akiva Goldsman, Ken Watanabe, Bonnie Curtis, Rob Marshall, Robin Swicord, Ted Levine, Zhang Ziyi, Lucy Fisher, Ian Bryce, Koji Yakusho, Karl Yune, Youki Kudoh, Douglas Wick, Ron Bass

Based on the best-selling novel by Arthur Golden, "Memoirs of a Geisha" is the epic drama of a young girl sold into the slavery of a geisha house and her rise through the ranks as she becomes one of Japan's most famous geishas.

With Eric Bana, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Roth, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ciaran Hinds, Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Tony Kushner, Hanns Zischler

The film recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre—and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. Eric Bana stars as the Mossad agent charged with leading the band of specialists brought together for this operation.

Inspired by actual events, the narrative is based on a number of sources, including the recollections of some who participated in the events themselves.

With Christian Bale, Noah Taylor, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis, Jamie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Marsan, Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Mechanic, Jason Aaron Baca, Terrence Malick, Rolf Mittweg, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Wes Studi, Raoul Trujillo, Jeremy Wade, Will Wallace, Yorick van Wageningen, Roger Rees, Joe Inscoe, Sarah Green, Trish Hofmann, Mark Ordesky

"The New World" is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and discovery, both a celebration and an elegy of the America that was…and the America that was yet to come. Against a historically accurate Virginia backdrop, Malick has set a dramatized tale of two strong-willed characters-a passionate and noble young native woman and an ambitious soldier of fortune-torn between the undeniable requirements of their civic duty and the inescapable demands of the human heart.