Best movies of 2003

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Jenna Boyd, Tommy Lee Jones, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Ron Howard,

In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

Actors : Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Larry Charles,

A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.

Actors : Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly, Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Yann Samuell,

As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.

Actors : Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Cécile De France,
Directors : Alexandre Aja,

Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.

Actors : Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike, Laila Boonyasak, Tadanobu Asano,
Directors : Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,

A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.

Actors : Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts,
Directors : Gregor Jordan,

An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.

Actors : Ieroklis Michaelidis, Georges Corraface, Tamer Karadagli, Renia Louizidou,
Directors : Tassos Boulmetis,

"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a ...

Actors : Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

Actors : Marta Belaustegui, Rosa María Bianchi, Rafael Inclán, Diego Luna,
Directors : Hugo Rodríguez,

A real-time dark comedy about a science geek who tangles with a clutch of Russian gangsters after he delivers them the wrong computer disk.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry,
Directors : Michael Burke,

Sensitive, somewhat effeminate farm-boy Duncan Mudge can barely cope with grim, since Ma's death even gloomier father Edgar's manly expectations, and seeks comfort in petting a chicken he ...

Actors : Gilbert Melki, Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Isabelle Renauld,
Directors : François Dupeyron,

In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.

Actors : Jason Priestley, Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Angela Paton,
Directors : Mark Rucker,

An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.

Actors : Maya Sansa, Paolo Briguglia, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka,
Directors : Marco Bellocchio,

The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Actors : Maria Schrader, Katja Riemann, Svea Lohde, Jutta Lampe,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.

Actors : Kiichi Nakai, Xueqi Wang, Wei Zhao, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Ping He,

A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.

Actors : Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Gabriele Muccino,

In the dysfunctional Italian middle-class family Ristuccia, the middle-aged executive Carlo has a stalled life without passion, bored in his work and having a monotonous life with his wife ...

Actors : Leonor Silveira, John Malkovich, Filipa de Almeida, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.

Actors : Ivan Franek, Romen Avinian, Lala Sarkissian, Ruzan Mesropyan,
Directors : Hiner Saleem,

In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the ...

Actors : Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Tomas Norström, Joachim Calmeyer,
Directors : Bent Hamer,

A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.