2004 Movies : Crime

With Jason Bateman • Will Ferrell • Ben Stiller • Vince Vaughn • Owen Wilson • Matt Walsh • Juliette Lewis • Terry Crewes • Todd Phillips • David Siegel • Snoop Dogg • Carmen Electra • Molly Sims • Amy Smart • Richard Edson • Steve Long • Fred Williamson • Chris Penn • David Pressman • Akiva Goldsman • Stuart Cornfeld • Alan Riche • Tony Ludwig • Scot Armstrong • William Blinn • John O’Brien

In "Starsky & Hutch", the origins of the charismatic crime-fighting duo David Starsky and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson are explored when these undercover Bay City detectives are partnered for their very first assignment. Ben Stiller plays the tightly wound Detective David Starsky who is thrown together with Owen Wilson's easygoing Detective Ken Hutchinson on a high-stakes case. Platinum-selling rapper and actor Snoop Dogg plays their savvy street informant Huggy Bear. Vince Vaughn also joins the cast as Reese Feldman, a smooth-talking entrepreneur with an eye towards the future.

With Tom Hardy • Willem Dafoe • Vincent Cassel • Paul Bettany • Brian Cox • Ewen Bremner • Matthew Macfadyen • Jared Harris • Simon McBurney • Gina McKee • Luke de Woolfson • Mark Benton • Elvira Minguez • Stuart Wells • Tom Georgeson • Caroline Wood • Mark Mills

In 14th Century England, this powerful tale of redemption follows a fugitive priest (Paul Bettany) who falls in with a troupe of travelling actors (led by Willem Dafoe). As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. The fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself.

With Johnny Depp • Maria Bello • Ving Rhames • John Turturro • David Koepp • Gavin Polone • Timothy Hutton • Len Cariou • Charles Dutton

Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp), a successful writer trying to cope with a divorce, is staying in his rural home, when a stranger turns up on his doorstep and accuses him of plagiarism.

With Angelina Jolie • Dana Goldberg • Ethan Hawke • Paul Dano • Bruce Berman • David Heyman • Tcheky Karyo • Olivier Martinez • Kiefer Sutherland • Jean-Hugues Anglade • Jon Bokenkamp • D.J. Caruso • Mark Canton • Bernie Goldmann

A top FBI profiler, Special Agent Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) doesn't rely on traditional crime-solving techniques to unravel the mysteries of a murderous mind. Her intuitive, unconventional approach often makes the crucial difference between catching a killer and sending a dead-end case to the cold file. When Montreal detectives handling a local homicide investigation reluctantly ask for an outsider's help to get inside the head of a cunning serial killer, Agent Scott joins the case. With meticulous insight, she theorizes that the chameleon-like killer is "life-jacking" – assuming the lives and identities of his victims. As the pressure mounts to catch the elusive murderer, Agent Scott's unorthodox methods alienate her from a territorial police team that feels threatened by her uncanny abilities. Her seemingly cold demeanor belies an unparalleled passion for her work, and she's at her best when she's working alone. But when an unexpected attraction sparks a complicated romantic entanglement, the consummate specialist begins to doubt her finely-honed instincts. Alone in an unfamiliar city with no one she can trust, Agent Scott suddenly finds herself on a twisted and terrifying journey, surrounded by suspects in a case that has become chillingly personal.

With Cillian Murphy • Colin Farrell • Neil Jordan • Michael McElhatton • Kelly MacDonald • Shirley Henderson • Rory Keenan • Colm Meaney • Laurence Kinlan • Deirdre O'Kane • John Crowley • Stephen Woolley • Alan Moloney • Mark O'Rowe

This ensemble comedy of 11 interwoven stories set in Dublin shows how the breakup of one relationship has repurcussions on the lives of the people around them. One of those people is Lehiff (Colin Farrell), a thief trying to set his life straight by pulling off one last big heist before retiring, while Detective John Lynch (Colm Meaney) is trying to bring Lehiff down. There's also John (Cillian Murphy), who quits his job at a supermarket to join Lehiff in his plot as an effort to win back the love of Deirdre (Kelly MacDonald), who has recently moved in with a married bank manager, Sam (Michael McElhatton), whose bank Lehiff is targeting, and whose wife, Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane) ends up being a crucial element in the heist.

With Tom Hanks • Barry Sonnenfeld • Marlon Wayans • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • George Wallace • Ryan Hurst • Jason Weaver • Tom Jacobson • Steven Root • Barry Josephson • Max D. Adams

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks teams up for the first time with Academy Award–winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?") for this retelling of the critically acclaimed 1955 comedy, "The Ladykillers". Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson Dorr III, Ph.D., a charlatan professor who's assembled a gang of "experts" for the heist of the century. The thieves: experts in explosions, tunneling, and muscle, and the critical "inside man." The base of operations: the root cellar of an unsuspecting, church-going little old lady named Mrs. Munson (Irma P. Hall). The ruse: the five need a place to practice their church music. The problem: it quickly becomes evident that Dorr's thieves lack the mental capacity to do the job. The bigger problem: they all have seriously underestimated their upstairs host.