Drama Movies 2004 List

With Julia Roberts • Natalie Portman • Jude Law • Scott Rudin • Clive Owen • Michael Haley • Mike Nichols • Robert Fox • John Calley • Cary Brokaw • Patrick Marber

"Closer" explores the ever-changing state of modern relationships through a quartet of lovers tangled in a web of love, lust sex and betrayal. Based on Patrick Marber's hit play about sexual politics, which was nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Play" in 1999.

With Paul Feig • Jim Caviezel • Silvia De Santis • Elisabetta Bartolomei • Anne Holm • Ben Tibber • Maria Bonnevie • Francesco De Vito • Adrian McCourt • Matt Patresi • Joan Plowright Paco Reconti • Lucy Russell • Hristo Shopov • Clem Tibber • Carinci Viola • Davina Belling

This is the story of a 12-year-old boy, David (Ben Tibber), who travels across Europe by himself in 1952 after escaping from the Communist concentration camp in Bulgaria where he's spent most of his life. Advised and helped by a fellow inmate, Johannes (James Caviezel), David makes his way out of the camp with only a loaf of bread, a compass to guide him and a letter he's been told to deliver to Copenhagen, Denmark. Not even knowing where Denmark is, David must first make his way from Bulgaria to Italy...

With Mads Mikkelsen • Aksel Erhardtsen • Bodil Jørgensen • Hanne Løvendahl • Nikolaj Lie Kaas • Nicolas Bro • Line Kruse • Ole Thestrup • Lily Weiding • Camilla Bendix • Anders Thomas Jensen

Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident.

With John Goodman • Kevin Spacey • Caroline Aaron • Kate Bosworth • Brenda Blethyn • Bob Hoskins • Greta Scacchi • James Toback • Jan Fantl • Arthur Friedman • Andy Paterson • Paul Attanasio • Lorenzo Carcaterra • Jeffrey Meek

For Bobby Darin, performing was his life. It kept his heart beating. He came alive onstage, even when he was near collapse offstage. From the age of seven, Walden Robert Cassotto—Little Bobby knows the odds are stacked against him. Rheumatic fever has permanently damaged his heart, and he's not expected to make it to age fifteen. Bobby's family pour all their energies into caring for him. Bobby's frail heart may be one truth, but his mother Polly, a former singer, introduces her boy to another wonderful truth: music. Music becomes Bobby's bargaining chip against time; he's not only singing, but also playing piano, drums and guitar before he even hits his teens. Music takes him into a world beyond the Bronx, and beyond sickness. It's a world of effortlessly swinging songs, and couples dancing to the lilt of Bobby's voice. Bobby has a plan, and no heart ailment will stop him.

With Yeom Jeong-ah • Im Soo-jung • Moon Geun-young • Lim Ji-Eun • Kim Kab-su • Kim Jee-woon • Oh Gi-min • Oh Jeong-wan

Inspired by a Korean legend, this is the odyssey of two sisters, who after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Their recovery is affected by their stepmother's increasing cruelty, together with appearances of the ghost of their mother, which creates an atmosphere of strange occurrences and irrespirable fear.

With Gerard Butler • Patrick Wilson • Emmy Rossum • Ciaran Hinds • Minnie Driver • Alan Cumming • Andrew Lloyd Webber • James Fleet • Simon Callow • Victor McGuire • Jennifer Ellison • Joel Schumacher

Based on the hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the tale tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera--exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.

With Jodie Foster • Audrey Tautou • Gaspard Ulliel • Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Denis Lavant • Jean-Paul rouve • Jean-Pierre Darroussin • Dominique Pinon • Chantal Neuwirth • Ticky Holgado • André Dussollier • Albert Dupontel • Jérôme Kircher • David Puttnam • Guillaume Larant

Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

With Don Cheadle • Nick Nolte • Sophie Okonedo • Antonio David Lyons • Keir Pearson • Terry George • A Kitman Ho

Ten years ago, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda; and in an era of high-speed communication and round-the-clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, almost 1 million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

With Kevin Bacon • Kyra Sedgwick • Damon Dash • Michael Shannon • Benjamin Bratt • Eve • Lee Daniels • Brook • David Alan Grier • Nicole Kassell • Valerie Hoffman • Dawn Lenfest • Lisa Cortés • Dave Robinson • Steven Fechter

Walter, a convicted sex offender, is trying to put his life back together. He lands a steady job, he sees an earnest therapist, and he spends time with his sympathetic brother-in-law. Still, he cannot escape his past--his sister shuns him, and he lives in fear of being discovered. Walter finds unexpected comfort in Vicki, a tough-talking woman who doesn't judge him for his history, but even her love is not enough to keep the demons away. As he discovers, it is hard to resist old temptations.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Cate Blanchett • Kate Beckinsale • Alec Baldwin • Martin Scorsese • John Logan • Gwen Stefani • Adam Scott • Willem Dafoe • Matt Ross • Kelli Garner • Michael Mann • Danny Hughes • Nellie Sciutto • Graham King • Charles Evans Jr

"The Aviator" tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s though the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative aircraft he designed and created. A daredevil pilot, the most famous flyer since Charles Lindbergh, Hughes became a major force in commercial aviation. He was a mythic figure in the America of his day, imbued with an aura of excitement, glamour and mystery. "The Aviator" looks at Hughes' emotional life, and his love affairs with two Hollywood legends, elegant, Yankee-bred screen star Katharine Hepburn in the 1930s, and the sensual and luminous screen beauty of the 1940s, Ava Gardner. It also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical disabilities and phobias, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that leads him ultimately to isolate himself from his associates and withdraw from the world.

With Sean Penn • Alfonso Cuarón • Don Cheadle • Naomi Watts • Joana Vicente • Niels Mueller • Jack Thompson • Brad Henke • Jason Kliot • Jorge Vergara • Kevin Kennedy

Meticulously depicts the disintegration of Samuel Bicke (Sean Penn), a failed salesman and ineffectual would-be assassin. Unwillingly separated from his beautiful wife, Marie (Naomi Watts), Samuel is a meek and earnest everyman who grows increasingly embittered as mounting disappointment and rejection dash his dreams one by one. On the brink of a nervous collapse, he yearns for the success he sees in others, unable to understand why it cannot also be his. Inspired by real-life events, The Assassination of Richard Nixon tells the story of Samuel's breakdown and his subsequent attempt to assassinate the president – an endeavour which, like everything in his life, is inevitably doomed to failure. With the noise of Watergate providing a constant blaring background to the dissolution of his marriage and the loss of his job, Bicke loses his tenuous grip on reality. His desire to lash out at the government for his personal anguish drives him to conceal a gun under an orthopaedic leg brace. His intention: to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House.

With Al Pacino • Charlie Cox • Lynn Collins • Jeremy Irons • Joseph Fiennes • Mackenzie Crook • Zuleikha Robinson • John Sessions • Barry Navidi • Allan Corduner • Radica Jovicic • Michael Radford • Jason Piette • Kris Marshall • Gregor Fisher • Julian Nest • Tony Schiena • Cary Brokaw • Michael Cowan • Michael Lionello Cowan

Set in 16th century Venice, this adaptation of the Shakespeare play tells the story of Antonio, who goes into debt with moneylendor Shylock (Al Pacino) so his friend Bassanio can impress the object of his affection, Portia.

With Scarlett Johansson • John Travolta • George Furla • R. Paul Miller • Brad Krevoy • Deborah Kara Unger • Brooke Allen • Warren Blosjo • Clayne Crawford • Shainee Gabel • John Penotti • Tim Williams • Bob Yari • David Lancaster • Paul Miller • John M Penotti

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht). These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.