2003 Movies : Romance

With Brad Pitt • Michelle Pfeiffer • Dennis Haysbert • Tim Johnson • Joseph Fiennes • Catherine Zeta-Jones • John Logan • Patrick Gilmore

Sinbad (Brad Pitt) sets off across the seas with Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones) to confront Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer), restore calm in Syracuse, retrieve the Book of Peace, and save his rival and childhood friend, Proteus (Joseph Fiennes). Little is known about the project other than that, but filming is supposedly underway.

With Jacques Frantz • Axelle Abbadie • Jean-Pierre Bacri • Émilie Dequenne • Brigitte Catillon • Catherine Breillat

After his wife leaves him, a man (Jean-Pierre Bacri) hires an unqualified but lovely suburban girl to clean his Paris apartment. The two become close as they chat while she's working, but can the lonely older guy sweep her off her feet?

With Henry Cavill • Rose Byrne • Henry Thomas • Romola Garai • Tara Fitzgerald • Tim Fywell • Bill Nighy • Marc Blucas • Sinéad Cusack

The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai), and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Her father (Bill Nighy) is desperate to repeat the spectacular success of his first novel, but hasn't written a word for 12 years; her exquisite sister Rose (Rose Byrne) can only rail against their fate, and their bohemian step-mother Topaz (Tara FitzGerald) is a nudist and no help at all. Salvation comes in the form of their American landlord Simon Cotton (Henry Thomas) and his brother Neil (Marc Blucas).

With Travis Willingham • Darryl Cox • Dylan Bruno • Steve Van Wormer • Bo Barron • Laurel Whitsett • John Savage • Johnny Whitworth • Devon Gummersall • Gina Philips • Katharine Towne • Sabine Singh • Richard Black • Kinna McInroe • Todd Terry • Ryan Thomas Brockington • Deidre A. Cannon • Irene Cortez • Justin Howard • Richard Jackson • Cameron Longfellow • Scarlett McAlister • Robert N. McLain • Cliff Stephens • Jordan Susman

This is Mr. Puck. Honor student. Rebel. All-American Hero. The Anarchist Collective and their crash pad known as SAM housed an idealistic assortment of unruly characters looking to make a difference and find a happier way of life. And then came Johnny Black...

With Allison Janney • Mandy Moore • Erica Huggins • Neena Beber • Scott Kroopf • Peter Gallagher • William Teitler • Dylan Baker • Mackenzie Astin • Trent Ford • Klare Kilner • Heidi Ferrer • Sarah Dessen

Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her father has a pretty new girlfriend who she can't stand. Her mother can't seem to find anyone. Her sister is so dumbstruck with the planning of her marriage that she has become a non-person, and the shallow cheerleaders at her school and their jock boyfriends are beyond comprehension. All these have combined to convince Halley that love is a ridiculous impossibility. But when a tragic event in her life leads to a romantic encounter with a young man, Halley realizes the possibility of true love can sometimes lie in the most unconventional of places.

With Eiji Okuda • Yumiko Nogawa • Misa Shimizu • Nagiko Tono • Masatoshi Nagase • Hidetaka Yoshioka • Renji Ishibashi • Miho Tsumiki • Michiko Kawai • Tenshi Kamogawa • Yukiya Kitamura • Kumiko Tsuchiya • Kei Kumai

Set in a small Edo period Japanese brothel near Tokyo, this is the story of a young samurai, Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka), who seeks refuge there in the company of a young prostitute, Oshin (Nagiko Tono), after he accidentally wounded a powerful samurai during an argument whose colleagues are now seeking to kill Fusanosuke in return. Soon falling in love with Oshin, Fusanosuke hopes to be able to cleanse her from the sins of her occupation so that she may be his wife, even as danger lurks all around the brothel.

With Bernardino Terracciano • Ernesto Mahieux • Valerio Foglia Manzillo • Elisabetta Rocchetti • Lina Bernardi • Pietro Biondi • Marcella Granito

A man too small, a boy too tall, a girl with her mouth made over all meet by chance. An encounter that seems fated to have no story but, as fate would have it, it becomes the tormented chronicle of denied love. Peppino, the man too small, is a taxidermist. Valerio, the boy too tall, is a waiter. Deborah, the girl with her mouth made over, is one who continually changes jobs… all have different dreams, hidden needs, secret drives. They are three castaways trying to cling to the certainty of a love that can justify the common ills of living and make them normal. They are just as incapable of communicating the ideals of the others as they are incapable of accepting them, they will tragically become lost.