2003 Movies : Thriller

With Heath Ledger • Peter Weller • John Schwab • Adam Merims • Shannyn Sossamon • Benno Furmann • Matt Patresi • Mark Addy • Seeta Indrani • Paola Emilia Villa • Craig Baumgarten • Tim Van Rellim

Alex Bernier (Heath Ledger) is a member of an arcane order of priests who is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of the head of this order. The body may be of a Sin Eater, a renegade who offers absolution, last rites and therefore a path to heaven outside the jurisdiction of the church. Alex enlists the aid of his old comrade Father Thomas and of a troubled artist (Shannyn Sossamon) upon whom he once performed an exorcism. He soon finds himself plunged directly into the face of unimaginable evil, murder, and ultimately, a fate worse than death.

With Samuel L. Jackson • Stellan Skarsgard • Milla Jovovich • Robert Welch • Shannon Lawson • Bob Rafelson • Grace Zabriskie • Doug Hutchison • Jonathan Higgins • Joris Jarsky

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, Jack (Jackson) stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend, Erin (Jovovich), is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical pianist. She finds Jack's captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can't figure out if she's for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin's connection intensifies...

With Kristen Stewart • Dennis Quaid • Sharon Stone • Juliette Lewis • Christopher Plummer • Stephen Dorff • Ryan Wilson • Mike Figgis • Dana Eskelson

A couple (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone) and their son (Ryan Wilson) and daughter (Kristen Stewart) relocate from the city to the country, where they discover that their dream home, a sprawling farmhouse, is more of a nightmare, as the previous owner (Stephen Dorff) returns from prison... and wants his home back. Badly.

With Karen Mok • Shu Qi • Vicki Zhao • Yasuaki Kurata • Candy Lo

A fast and furious action tale of three tough, hard-hitting women who take on a powerful pair of computer moguls, the Hong Kong police, two deadly assassins, and... each other. Shu Qi and Zhao Wei play sisters whose family inheritances are a state-of-the-art computer surveillance system and an unresolved family vendetta. After a wealthy Shanghai computer magnate is murdered, a beautiful and ambitious young undercover detective (Mok) is assigned to the case. Finding herself further drawn-in when she discovers the criminal masterminds are two women, the young detective eventually comes face-to-face with the sisters who, despite their delicate appearance, hold mental and combat skill to match her own. A battle of wits and force ensues in this tale of technological wizardry.

With Laurence Fishburne • Sean Penn • Emmy Rossum • Kevin Bacon • Clint Eastwood • Marcia Gay Harden • Laura Linney • Tim Robbins • Cayden Boyd • Robert Lorenz • Kevin Chapman • Jonathan Togo • Judie Hoyt • Dennis Lehane

When Jimmy Markum's daughter is found murdered, his childhood friend Sean Devine--now a detective--is assigned to the case. Sean's personal life starts unraveling, as his investigation takes him back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. It also puts him on a collision course with Jimmy Markum, a man with his own mysterious dark past, who is now eager to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, a man who hides monstrous secrets beneath a bland facade--secrets that his wife, Celeste, is only beginning to suspect. As the race for a killer heats up, all are pulled closer toward an abyss that will force them to face their true selves--and will mark them as irrevocably, as the past itself has tainted their lives.

With Kate Beckinsale • Danny McBride • Wentworth Miller • Michael Sheen • Scott Speedman • Sophia Myles • Len Wiseman • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Kevin Grevioux • Bill Nighy • Shane Brolly • Robby Gee • Erwin Leder • Richard S. Wright • Robert Bernacchi

"Underworld" reimagines Vampires as a secretive clan of modern, aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. The balance of power is upset when a beautiful young Vampire and a nascent Lycan - deadly rivals for centuries - fall in love. Len Wiseman directs Kate Beckinsdale and Scott Speedman in a fast-paced, modern-day tale of deadly action, ruthless intrigue and forbidden love, all set against the backdrop of an ancient feud between the two tribes in a timeless, Gothic metropolis.

With Gina Gershon • Connie Nielsen • Edwin Gerard • Thomas M. Pollard • Jean-Charles Dumay • Chloë Sevigny • Charles Berling • Jean-Baptiste Malartre • Dominique Reymond • Abi Sakamoto • Julie Brochen • Jorgen Doering • Jean-Pierre Gos • Gilles Masson • Mathias Mlekuz • Nao Omori • Alexis Pivot • Ludovic Schoendoerffer • Taro Suwa • Ikko Suzuki • Naoki Yamazaki • Olivier Assayas

A young woman, Diane, works for a multinational corporation run by Henri-Pierre Volf. In the logic of the diversification of its activities - from real estate to clothing design - the Volf Group is negociating the acquisition of TokyoAnime, a Japanese company which produces a new form of manga and their pornographic version, hentaï, in digital 3D images that will outdate and destroy the competition in this extraordinarily lucrative market. Two companies battle to obtain exclusive diffusion of Volf's new images on the Web: Mangatronics and Demonlover. Mangatronics has recruted Diane as a sort of industrial spy to serve its interests by torpedoing the Demonlover contract from within. The links between Demonlover and various violent and illegal pornographic sites dangerously weakens the relationship with the Volf Group, unaware of the existence of those secret sites. Diane discovers that they also have their strategy and their spies in the form of her seemingly neutral, naive colleagues. She ends up knowing too much and becomes a danger to Demonlover. Soon there is no way out, except fading into the cyber-reality of which she was perhaps a part from the start.