Best movies of 2004

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Kerry Conran,

After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Sam Robards, Corbin Bleu, Kristen Stewart,
Directors : Bart Freundlich,

A girl and her two friends raid a bank, looking for the money needed for financing the cure of her dying father.

Actors : Laura Smet, Benoît Magimel, Bernard Le Coq, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union,
Directors : Daniel Taplitz,

Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up hand-book for men, becoming a best-selling author in the process.

Actors : Jonah Bobo, Michael Caine, Josh Lucas, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Jordan Roberts,

In Los Angeles, Jason Lair is recently separated, living with his grandfather and his son; he's a banker, tense, with a limp. Grandfather Henry, an archaeologist, wants to take the family ...

Actors : Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.

Actors : Feng Tien, Chun-Luk Chan, Li Gong, Chen Chang,

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hanks, Chi McBride,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian, Joan Allen,
Directors : Sally Potter,

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ...

Actors : David Ogden Stiers, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Shaun Fleming,
Directors : Timothy Björklund,

Spot (Lane) is a dog who can talk and read. Posing as a human, he sneaks into school with his master Leonard (Flemming). Educational adventures ensue.

Actors : Burghart Klaußner, Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Hans Weingartner,

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Directors : Timur Bekmambetov,

A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.

Actors : Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won,
Directors : Je-kyu Kang,

A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean War.

Actors : Leif Sylvester, Anne Sørensen, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg, Mads Mikkelsen,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Actors : Michael Ealy, Drew Sidora, David Arquette, DMX,
Directors : Ernest R. Dickerson,

A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.

Actors : Shannon Elizabeth, Vanessa Williams, Cedric the Entertainer, Shad Moss,
Directors : Christopher Erskin,

AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their ...

Actors : Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Broderick, Toni Collette, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Jeff Nathanson,

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Actors : Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams II,
Directors : Zak Penn,

A documentary exploring the myth of the Loch Ness monster.

Actors : Brigitte Lahaie, Gigi Coursigny, Jean-Luc Couchard, Laurent Lucas,
Directors : Fabrice du Welz,

Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van brakes in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitans.