Best movies of 2004

Actors : Leigh Whannell, Ken Leung, Danny Glover, Cary Elwes,
Directors : James Wan,

Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there or why, and soon discover they are pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.

Actors : Sam Neill, Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Jon Favreau,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.

Actors : Clea DuVall, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother,
Directors : Takashi Shimizu,

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Actors : Paddy Considine, Dean Andrews, Emily Blunt, Natalie Press,
Directors : Pawel Pawlikowski,

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : David Koepp,

A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice."

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Colin Farrell, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Actors : Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Adam Sandler,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Stephen Sommers,

The notorious monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for some sinister purpose.

Actors : Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Jay Roach,

All hell breaks loose when the Byrnes family meets the Focker family for the first time.

Actors : Debra Messing, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ben Stiller,
Directors : John Hamburg,

A buttoned up newlywed finds his too organized life falling into chaos when he falls in love with an old classmate.

Actors : Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Lynn Collins,
Directors : Michael Radford,

In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Jon Turteltaub,

A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.

Actors : Raquel Castro, Betty Aberlin, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck,
Directors : Kevin Smith,

After his career is sidelined by an unexpected tragedy and a personal blow-up, a single man must take care of his precocious daughter.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn,
Directors : Niels Mueller,

Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Joaquin Phoenix, Jacinda Barrett, John Travolta,
Directors : Jay Russell,

A firefighter, injured and trapped in a burning building, has flashbacks of his life as he drifts in and out of consciousness. Meanwhile, fellow firefighters led by the Chief attempt to rescue him.

Actors : Derek Luke, Tia Texada, Val Kilmer, William H. Macy,
Directors : David Mamet,

The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.

Actors : Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz, Julianne Moore, Dominic West,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

After being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she's dreamed of having.

Actors : Renée Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Jude Law, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Will Ferrell, Vinessa Shaw, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.