Action Movies 2005 List

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Jamie Foxx • Peter Sarsgaard • Jacob Vargas • Sam Mendes • William Broyles • Dennis Haysbert • Evan Jones • Doug Wick • Anthony Swofford • Lucas Black • Laz Alonso • Brian Geraghty • Chris Cooper • Lucy Fisher

"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA—their elite Marine Unit.

With Viola Davis • Stuart Parr • Terrence Howard • Daniel Lupi • Omar Benson Miller • 50 Cent • Jim Sheridan • Chris Lighty • David Gale • Paul Rosenberg • Joy Bryant • Bill Duke • Ashley Walters • Tory Kittles • Adewale Akinnuoye-Abaje • Heather Parry • Jimmy Lovine • Van Toffler • Arthur Lappin • Terence Winter • Gene Kirkwood

From acclaimed "In America" director Jim Sheridan comes the first film starring mega-hit rapper 50 Cent. This tale follows an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of dangerous crime to pursue his true passion, rap music. The road to change isn't easy however.

With James McAvoy • Andrew Adamson • Stephen McFeely • Georgie Henley • Tilda Swinton • Mark Johnson • Christopher Markus • William Moseley • Anna Popplewell • Perry Moore • Cary Granat • Douglas Gresham • Joel Stillerman • Ann Peacock

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe", the first in an exciting series of films in the making and based on the phenomenal bestselling novels, concerns a war between good and evil, pitting the magnificent lion Aslan against the forces of darkness in the magical world of Narnia. A White Witch has used her dark powers to keep Narnia in winter for 100 years, but it is foretold that four humans will be able to help Aslan break the spell. When the Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Susan, Edmund, and Peter - discover the magic of Narnia by entering the enchanted world through a wardrobe, the stage is set for a classic battle of epic proportions.

With Kristen Stewart • Josh Hutcherson • Jon Favreau • Dax Shepard • Tim Robbins • Scott Kroopf • William Teitler • Jonah Bobo • Douglas Tait • David Koepp • Michael De Luca • Chris Van Allsburg • Erica Huggins • John Camps

Two brothers discover an oblong box in the park, which they dismiss as just some dumb old game. The boys turn their attention away from the game's jungle adventure board to discover a second game board inside with an outer-space theme and a colored path leading to the purple planet, Zathura. Mayhem ensues each time one of the boys draws a game card or rolls the dice. Facing meteors and giant robots, the brothers begin to appreciate each other and their sibling rivalry dissolves.

With Emma Watson • Ralph Fiennes • Tom Felton • Robert Pattinson • Rupert Grint • Daniel Radcliffe • David Tennant • Gary Oldman • Brendan Gleeson • Michael Gambon • David Barron • Steve Kloves • Jason Isaacs • Frances de la Tour • Matthew Lewis • Clemence Poesy • Shirley Henderson • Stanislav Ianevski • Mike Newell • Mark Williams • Timothy Spall • Alan Rickman • Jarvis Cocker • Robbie Coltrane • Robert Hardy • Roger Lloyd-Pack • Pedja Bjelac • Jeff Rawle • Katie Leung • Dame Maggie Smith • Devon Murray • Jamie Waylett • Joshua Herdman • Alfie Enoch • James Phelps • Chris Rankin • David Heyman

Harry's fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort's rebirth be too much for the young hero?

With Charlize Theron • Sophie Okonedo • Karyn Kusama • Jonny Lee Miller • Marton Csokas • Amelia Warner • Frances McDormand • Gale Anne Hurd • Phil Hay • Gregory Goodman • Caroline Chikezie • Jonathan Hensleigh • Gary Lucchesi • Matt Manfredi • Michael Finch • Peter Chung

Based on the MTV animated series by Peter Chung, "Aeon Flux" is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron), the top operative in the underground ‘Monican' rebellion – led by The Handler (Frances McDormand). When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

With Jack Black • Adrien Brody • Peter Jackson • Naomi Watts • Jamie Bell • Thomas Kretschmann • Andy Serkis • Fran Walsh • Colin Hanks • Carolynne Cunningham • Jan Blenkin • Philippa Boyens

It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow has found herself--like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression--without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan. When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor's stall, she is rescued--literally--by filmmaker and multiple hyphenate Carl Denham. It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft, having that day lifted the only existing print of his most recent and unfinished film from under his studio executives' noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds. Carl has until the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer, the S.S. Venture, in hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that, the showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner--and although the crew believe that corner to be Singapore, Denham actually hopes to find and capture on film the mysterious place of legend: Skull Island. Unfortunately for Carl, his headlining actress has pulled out of his project, but his search for a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has, fatefully, led him to Ann. The struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham, until she learns that the up-and-coming, socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll is penning the screenplay--the fees his friend Carl pays for potboiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll's nominal income from his stage plays. With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard, Denham's moving picture ship heads out of New York Harbor--and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee.