There were some fantastic movies in 2002 and based on votes from readers here are the best 8 as they stand at the moment. See the full list of 100 movies below and vote for your favourite movies in 2002. Do your 8 best movies match the best eight?
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- 117My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- 216Catch Me If You Can
- 316Spun
- 415Chicago
- 515John Q
- 615Panic Room
- 715Insomnia
- 815Murder by Numbers
- 915Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Do you agree with the best eight movies above? Are there other movies that should be in the list? Scroll through the movies below and vote for your favourite 8 movies of 2002.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Joel Zwick
Actors : Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Christina Eleusiniotis
Catch Me If You Can
A seasoned FBI agent pursues Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars’ worth of checks while posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and a legal prosecutor.
Genre : Biography, Crime, Drama
Director : Frank Abagnale Jr.
Actors : Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen
Spun
A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a ‘speed freak’, to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
Genre : Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director : Jonas ?kerlund
Actors : Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Patrick Fugit, Brittany Murphy
Chicago
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer’s attention.Genre : Comedy, Crime, MusicalDirector : Rob MarshallActors : Ren?e Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs
John Q
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : Nick Cassavetes
Actors : Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Gabriela Oltean, Kimberly Elise
Panic Room
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house’s safe room, when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : David Fincher
Actors : Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
Insomnia
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn’t set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director : Christopher Nolan
Actors : Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Murder by Numbers
Two gifted high school students execute a “perfect” murder – then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
Genre : Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director : Barbet Schroeder
Actors : Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd.
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Drama
Director : Kelly Asbury
Actors : Lorna Cook, Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi
The Mothman Prophecies
A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
Genre : Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director : Mark Pellington
Actors : Richard Gere, Laura Linney, David Eigenberg, Bob Tracey
Spider-Man
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director : Sam Raimi
Actors : Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco
Phone Booth
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist’s sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart’s negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
Genre : Crime, Thriller
Director : Joel Schumacher
Actors : Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell
Ice Age
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Chris Wedge
Actors : Carlos Saldanha, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano
Blade II
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
Genre : Action, Fantasy, Horror
Director : Guillermo del Toro
Actors : Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela
About a Boy
A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Chris Weitz
Actors : Paul Weitz, Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.
Genre : Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director : Ron Underwood
Actors : Eddie Murphy, Jay Mohr, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson
The Scorpion King
A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy’s key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director : Chuck Russell
Actors : Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu
The Sum of All Fears
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s President by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Genre : Action, Drama, Thriller
Director : Phil Alden Robinson
Actors : Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt
Irreversible
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director : Gaspar No?
Actors : Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia
28 Days Later...
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Genre : Action, Drama, Horror
Director : Danny Boyle
Actors : Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
The Transporter
Frank Martin, who “transports” packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.
Genre : Action, Crime, Thriller
Director : Louis Leterrier
Actors : Corey Yuen, Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze
Dog Soldiers
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.
Genre : Action, Horror, Thriller
Director : Neil Marshall
Actors : Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham
Treasure Planet
A Disney animated version of “Treasure Island”. The only difference is that this movie is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Family
Director : Ron Clements
Actors : John Musker, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, Martin Short
Lilya 4-Ever
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Genre : Crime, Drama
Director : Lukas Moodysson
Actors : Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova
White Oleander
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Genre : Drama
Director : Peter Kosminsky
Actors : Michelle Pfeiffer, Ren?e Zellweger, Robin Wright, Alison Lohman
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Jay Roach
Actors : Mike Myers, Beyonc?, Seth Green, Michael York
Maid in Manhattan
A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman’s dress.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Wayne Wang
Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci
Eight Legged Freaks
Venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Ellory Elkayem
Actors : David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
An ancient prophecy seems to be coming true when a mysterious presence begins stalking the corridors of a school of magic and leaving its victims paralyzed.
Genre : Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director : Chris Columbus
Actors : Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris
Mr. Deeds
A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Steven Brill
Actors : Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert
The New Guy
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town’s other high school.
Genre : Comedy
Director : Ed Decter
Actors : DJ Qualls, Lyle Lovett, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel
Infernal Affairs
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
Genre : Action, Crime, Drama
Director : Andrew Lau
Actors : Alan Mak, Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Whale Rider
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Genre : Drama, Family
Director : Niki Caro
Actors : Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis
The Time Machine
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director : Simon Wells
Actors : Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
About Schmidt
A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter’s wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director : Alexander Payne
Actors : Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates
xXx
An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director : Rob Cohen
Actors : Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson
Femme Fatale
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director : Brian De Palma
Actors : Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney
Ali G Indahouse: The Movie
Ali G unwittingly becomes a pawn in the Chancellor’s plot to overthrow the Prime Minister of Great Britain. However, Ali is embraced by the nation as a voice of the youth, making the PM and his government more popular than ever.
Genre : Comedy
Director : Mark Mylod
Actors : Sacha Baron Cohen, Emilio Rivera, Gina La Piana, Dana de Celis
City of God
In the slums of Rio, two kids’ paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Genre : Crime, Drama
Director : Fernando Meirelles
Actors : K?tia Lund, Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele
The Hot Chick
An attractive and popular teenager, who is mean-spirited toward others, finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.
Genre : Comedy, Fantasy
Director : Tom Brady
Actors : Rob Schneider, Rachel McAdams, Anna Faris, Matthew Lawrence
The Pianist
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Genre : Biography, Drama, Music
Director : Roman Polanski
Actors : Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox
Punch-Drunk Love
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors : Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews
Blue Crush
As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.
Genre : Drama, Romance, Sport
Director : John Stockwell
Actors : Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, Sanoe Lake
Enough
After running away fails, a terrified woman empowers herself in order to battle her abusive husband.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : Michael Apted
Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis
Men in Black II
Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K’s past.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle
25th Hour
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
Genre : Drama
Director : Spike Lee
Actors : Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson
Resident Evil
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Genre : Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director : Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors : Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Hero
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Genre : Action, Adventure, History
Director : Yimou Zhang
Actors : Jet Li, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
The Sweetest Thing
A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Roger Kumble
Actors : Cameron Diaz, Thomas Jane, Christina Applegate, Lillian Adams
Big Fat Liar
After a young boy’s school essay erroneously finds its way into the hands of a Hollywood producer who turns the idea into a hit film, the boy travels to Los Angeles to claim his credit.
Genre : Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director : Shawn Levy
Actors : Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Detmer
Friday After Next
Two cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track the robber down.
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director : Marcus Raboy
Actors : Ice Cube, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Don ‘D.C.’ Curry
Equilibrium
In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
Genre : Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director : Kurt Wimmer
Actors : Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs
Secretary
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Steven Shainberg
Actors : James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren
Talk to Her
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director : Pedro Almod?var
Actors : Rosario Flores, Javier C?mara, Dar?o Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
One Hour Photo
A mentally unstable photo developer targets a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
Genre : Drama, Thriller
Director : Mark Romanek
Actors : Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith
Feardotcom
A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.
Genre : Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director : William Malone
Actors : Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier
8 Mile
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
Genre : Drama, Music
Director : Curtis Hanson
Actors : Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer
Bend It Like Beckham
The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents’ traditionalism and joins a football team.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Gurinder Chadha
Actors : Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher
Scooby-Doo
After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.
Genre : Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director : Raja Gosnell
Actors : Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini
Ken Park
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders’ lives and relationships with and without their parents.
Genre : Drama
Director : Larry Clark
Actors : Edward Lachman, Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray
Queen of the Damned
In this loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the equally beautiful and monstrous queen of all vampires.
Genre : Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director : Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Actors : Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Robert Rodriguez
Actors : Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino
The Bourne Identity
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
Genre : Action, Mystery, Thriller
Director : Doug Liman
Actors : Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padm? Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director : George Lucas
Actors : Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee
Unfaithful
A New York suburban couple’s marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Genre : Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director : Adrian Lyne
Actors : Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
Signs
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director : M. Night Shyamalan
Actors : Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
A Walk to Remember
The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
Genre : Drama, Romance
Director : Adam Shankman
Actors : Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah
Lilo & Stitch
A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually a notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive.
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Dean DeBlois
Actors : Chris Sanders, Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere
Windtalkers
Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
Genre : Action, Drama, War
Director : John Woo
Actors : Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich
Die Another Day
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director : Lee Tamahori
Actors : Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens
Star Trek: Nemesis
The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director : Stuart Baird
Actors : Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
The Rookie
A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
Genre : Drama, Family, Sport
Director : John Lee Hancock
Actors : Dennis Quaid, J.D. Evermore, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez
Frida
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Genre : Biography, Drama, Romance
Director : Frida Kahlo
Actors : Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, M?a Maestro
Van Wilder: Party Liaison
The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he’s afraid to graduate.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Walt Becker
Actors : Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson, Kal Penn
Gangs of New York
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father’s killer.
Genre : Crime, Drama
Director : Martin Scorsese
Actors : Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Crossroads
Three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a road trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Tamra Davis
Actors : Britney Spears, Anson Mount, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning
The Hours
The story of how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.
Genre : Drama, Romance
Director : Stephen Daldry
Actors : Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.
Genre : Biography, Comedy, Crime
Director : George Clooney
Actors : Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts
Minority Report
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Genre : Action, Crime, Mystery
Director : Steven Spielberg
Actors : Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
The Rules of Attraction
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director : Roger Avary
Actors : James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel
Sweet Home Alabama
A young woman who’s reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Andy Tennant
Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas, Candice Bergen
Road to Perdition
A mob enforcer’s son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : Sam Mendes
Actors : Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken
Solaris
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director : Steven Soderbergh
Actors : George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis
Cabin Fever
Five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Genre : Drama, Horror
Director : Eli Roth
Actors : Jordan Ladd, Rider Strong, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent
40 Days and 40 Nights
After a brutal break-up, a young man vows to stay celibate during the forty days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything about it.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Michael Lehmann
Actors : Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo, Adam Trese
We Were Soldiers
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Genre : Action, Drama, History
Director : Randall Wallace
Actors : Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott
Red Dragon
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down “The Tooth Fairy”, a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter.
Genre : Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director : Brett Ratner
Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron’s new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama
Director : Peter Jackson
Actors : Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom
The Cat Returns
After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director : Hiroyuki Morita
Actors : Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda, Takayuki Yamada
Adaptation.
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt ‘The Orchid Thief’ by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director : Susan Orlean
Actors : Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton
Barbershop
A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Director : Tim Story
Actors : Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson
The Count of Monte Cristo
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous “friend”, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama
Director : Kevin Reynolds
Actors : Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc
Ghost Ship
A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea, and soon notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
Genre : Horror
Director : Steve Beck
Actors : Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington
Tuck Everlasting
A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
Genre : Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director : Jay Russell
Actors : Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt
The Widowmaker
When Russia’s first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Genre : Drama, History, Thriller
Director : Kathryn Bigelow
Actors : Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Naked Weapon
40 13 y.o. girls are kidnapped and the next 6 years forcefully trained to be sexy assassins. The survivors go on to be top int’l assassins known as China dolls. A CIA agent’s on track of them.
Genre : Action, Crime, Drama
Director : Siu-Tung Ching
Actors : Anya, Maggie Q, Daniel Wu, Jewel Lee
The Ring
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Genre : Horror, Mystery
Director : Gore Verbinski
Actors : Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Two Weeks Notice
A lawyer decides that she’s used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Director : Marc Lawrence
Actors : Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey
Killing Me Softly
A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.
Genre : Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director : Kaige Chen
Actors : Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Thomsen
Reign of Fire
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director : Rob Bowman
Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
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