2003 Movies : Crime

With Denzel Washington • Eva Mendes • Rob Baker • Dean Cain • Sanaa Lathan • Alex Carter • Antoni Corone • John Billingsley • Tom Hillmann • Carl Franklin

When the police chief (Denzel Washington) of a small Florida town "borrows" money from the evidence room so he can run away with a woman (Sanaa Lathan) he's always been in love with, she quickly betrays him, revealing that she only began having an affair with him as a way to seek revenge... Now, with his reputation and career on the line, an otherwise good cop must resolve his life before he runs... "Out of Time".

With François Maistre • Claude Chabrol • Benoît Magimel • Nathalie Baye • Suzanne Flon • Bernard Lecoq • Mélanie Doutey • Thomas Chabrol • Kevin Ahyi • Henri Attal • Caroline Baehr • Didier Bénureau • Françoise Bertin • Jérôme Bertin • Yvon Crenn • Michèle Dascain • Marius de Laage • Jean-Marc Druet • Michel Herbault • Edmond Kastelnik • Isabelle Mamère • Jean-Pierre Marin • Juliette Meyniac • Léa Pellepaut • Yves Pignot • Dominique Pivain • Valérie Rojan

The film follows the story of a respected upper middle class family whose high social stature is burst following a murder. Chabrol reexamines the individual family members' lives in the time period leading up to the crime unveiling their secrets and probing their character.

With Jose Padilha

This documentary captures what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000 when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventuallly agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens watching the event take place. Then, a police officer decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged at police brutality. The film intertwines the story of the standoff with biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, including his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s, and the trauma of seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.

With Quentin Tarantino • Michael Jai White • Uma Thurman • Lucy Liu • Vivica A. Fox • Michael Madsen • Daryl Hannah • David Carradine • Bo Svenson • LaTanya Richardson • Sonny Chiba

Uma Thurman's character, a pregnant assassin named the Bride, is shot by her boss, Bill, and her co-workers at her wedding (the wedding guests are also shot). She survives, though, waking up exceedingly angry after a five-year coma, and decides to hunt down and kill every single one of the assassins who were responsible, saving Bill for last.

With Hayden Christensen • Rosario Dawson • Steve Zahn • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Hank Azaria • Billy Ray • Chloë Sevigny • Peter Sarsgarrd

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Josh Lucas • Kate Bosworth • Val Kilmer • Dylan McDermott • Christina Applegate • Lisa Kudrow • Ted Levine • Janeane Garofalo • Eric Bogosian • M.C. Gainey • Natasha Gregson Wagner • Frankie G. • James Cox

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call at 8763 Wonderland Avenue and soon discovered a grisly quadruple homicide, later compared to the gruesome slaughter at the Tate household at the hands of the Charles Manson family 10 years earlier. Ron Launius (Josh Lucas), Billy Deverell (Tim Blake Nelson), Barbara Richardson (Natasha Gregson Wagner) and Joy Miller (Janeane Garofalo) were brutally murdered, and Ron's wife Susan (Christina Applegate) was left in critical condition. The police investigation that followed - led by detectives Sam Nico (Ted Levine), Louis Cruz (Frankie G.) and Mike Peters (M.C. Gainey) - would unearth a seedy world of drugs and violence, ultimately revealing a motley crew from LA's underbelly including ex-con David Lind (Dylan McDermott), nightclub impresario Eddie Nash (Eric Bogosian), the most unlikely of American heroes - porn legend John Holmes (Val Kilmer) - Holmes' estranged wife Sharon (Lisa Kudrow) and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth).

With Cate Blanchett • Colin Farrell • Joel Schumacher • Brenda Fricker • Gerard McSorley • Ciarind Hinds

Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for the Dublin Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.

With Takashi Yamazaki • Mitsuru Murata • Takeshi Kaneshiro • Yukiko Okamoto • Ann Suzuki • Kirin Kiki • Goro Kishitani • Dean Harrington • Kisuke Iida • Chiharu Kawai • Kazuya Shimizu • Masaya Takahashi

Takeshi Kaneshiro stars in this thriller as Miyamoto, an assassin who accidentally wounds a young woman during a shoot out. When Miyamoto goes to help her, she tells him that she has been sent from the future to prevent an alien invasion that will occur in 72 hours. She informs him that because he has injured her, he must now help her carry out her mission or else be responsible for the destruction of humanity.