Movies In 2000
Director: Rob Cohen
Stars: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald, Steve Harris, William Petersen, Craig T. Nelson, David Asman, Scott Gibson
Storyline: Luke McNamara a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called The Skulls in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law School. At first seduced by the clubs trapping of power and wealth a series of disturbing incidents such as his best friends suicide leads Luke to investigate the true nature of the organization...
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Harrison Ford, Victoria Bidewell, Diana Scarwid, Dennison Samaroo, Jennifer Tung, Eliott Goretsky
Storyline: Norman Spencer a university research scientist is growing more and more concerned about his wife Claire a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin Normans stepdaughter to college. Now Claire reports hearing voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home...
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni, Gaetano Aronica, Gilberto Idonea, Angelo Pellegrino, Gabriella Di Luzio, Pippo Provvidenti, Maria Terranova, Marcello Catalano, Elisa Morucci, Domenico Gennaro, Vitalba
Storyline: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful silent outsider whos moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nino. He promptly goes off to war leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few...
Director: John Fawcett
Stars: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton, John Bourgeois, Peter Keleghan, Christopher Redman, Jimmy MacInnis, Lindsay Leese, Wendii Fulford, Ann Baggley, Graeme Robertson, Maxwell Robertson
Storyline: Is becoming a woman analogous in some deep psychological way to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16 edgy tough and with her younger sister into staging and photographing scenes of death. Theyve made a pact about dying together. In early October on the night she has her first period which is also the night of a full moon a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days some serious...
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng, Fa Zeng Li, Xian Gao, Yan Hai, De Ming Wang, Li Li, Su Ying Huang, Jin Ting Zhang, Rei Yang, Kai Li
Storyline: The disappearance of a magical jade sword spurs a breathtaking quest for the missing treasure. Li is embittered by the loss of his jade sword and his unrequited pursuit of Yu is further complicated by the mysterious intrusion of an assassin. The identity of the assassin is gradually unveiled as another poignant tale of love begins to ravel with that of Li and Yu against the backdrop...
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Liev Schreiber, Beth Toussaint, Roger Jackson, Kelly Rutherford, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Julie Janney, Richmond Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Lynn McRee, Nancy O'Dell, Ken Taylor, Scott Foley, Roger Corman, Lance Henriksen
Storyline: A new film is currently in production and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter ex-cop and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy and in a trilogy...anything can...
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli, Doug Hutchison, Kimberly Elise, David Paymer, Mike Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Nestor Serrano, Kirk Acevedo, Jeffrey Donovan, Megan Dodds, Tia Texada, Neil Crone, Matthew Witherly
Storyline: In New York Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief whos just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns shrimp from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster one half of a high-tech criminal team thats just stolen $42000000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition Jaster tells Alvin to...
Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins, Chris Rehmann, Ben Carr, Lili Taylor, Joelle Carter, Natasha Gregson Wagner
Storyline: High Fidelity follows the mid-life crisis of Rob a thirty-something record-store owner who must face the undeniable facts - hes growing up. In a hilarious homage to the music scene Rob and the wacky offbeat clerks that inhabit his store expound on the intricacies of life and song all the while trying to succeed in their adult relationships. Are they listening to pop music because...
Director: Tarsem Singh
Stars: Jennifer Lopez , Colton James, Dylan Baker, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Gerry Becker, Musetta Vander, Patrick Bauchau, Vincent D'Onofrio, Catherine Sutherland, Vince Vaughn, James Gammon, Jake Weber, Dean Norris
Storyline: Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer Carl Stargher whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in...
Director: Walter Hill
Stars: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Wilson Cruz, Eddy Rice Jr.
Storyline: Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a Captain and Pilot a co-pilot a medical officer a medical technician a search and rescue paramedic and a computer technician. When their vessel the Nightingale 229 answers an emergency distress signal from a comet mining operation in...
Director: Brian Levant
Stars: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, Joan Collins, Thomas Gibson, Alan Cumming, Harvey Korman, Alex Meneses, John Taylor, Tony Longo, Danny Woodburn, Taylor Negron, Jack McGee, David Jean Thomas
Storyline: The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilmas...
Director: David McNally
Stars: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, John Goodman , Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan, Melanie Lynskey, Del Pentecost, Michael Weston, LeAnn Rimes, Jeremy Rowley, Ellen Cleghorne, John Fugelsang, Bud Cort
Storyline: Sexy romantic comedy about a girl in her early 20s named Violet Sanford going to NYC to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. Violet gets a day job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly. Coyote Ugly is the citys newest hot spot where the employees are a team of sexy resourceful women that provoke the clientele and press with their...
Director: Allan A. Goldstein
Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Ophélie Winter, Ezio Greggio, Peter Egan, Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld, Damien Masson, Pierre Edwards, David Fox, Sam Stone, Verona Pooth, Michel Perron, Paul Rainville, Yvan Ducharme, Marc Hervieux, Perry Canestrari
Storyline: Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the Naked Gun movies but this time as Marshall Richard Dick Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the USA is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone the US Marshall Service...
Director: Joel Coen
Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, Del Pentecost, Michael Badalucco, J.R. Horne, Brian Reddy, Wayne Duvall, Ed Gale, Ray McKinnon, Daniel von Bargen
Storyline: Loosely based on Homers Odyssey the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens a cyclops bank robber George Babyface Nelson...
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Janet Sarno, Suzanne Shepherd, Joanne Gordon, Charlotte Aronofsky, Michael Kaycheck, Chas Mastin
Storyline: Drugs. They consume mind body and soul. Once youre hooked youre hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control we bear witness to the dirtiest ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both...
Director: Sally Potter
Stars: Christina Ricci, Oleg Yankovskiy, Claudia Lander-Duke, Danny Scheinmann, Anna Tzelniker, Barry Davis, Thom Osborn, Frank Chersky, Daniel Hart, Peter Majer, Hana Maria Pravda, Ayala Meir, Abraham Hassan, Lloyd Martin, Uri Meir
Storyline: A Russian Jewish father emigrates to America in 1923 with a promise to send for his mother and young daughter when he is settled. When his village is burned in a pogrom his mother is killed and his daughter is separated from other youngsters who make it to the port to emigrate. She ends up on a ship bound for England where she is renamed Suzie and raised by a British family. Many...
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, John Fedevich, Mark Kozelek, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liz Stauber, Jimmy Fallon
Storyline: William Miller is a 15 year old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life love and...
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sôsuke Takaoka, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yukihiro Kotani, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Kamiya, Aki Inoue, Takayo Mimura, Yutaka Shimada, Ren Matsuzawa, Hirohito Honda
Storyline: Forty-two students three days one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred with a few minor rules game...
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Amanda Schull, Christine Dunham, Stephen Stout, Maryann Plunkett, Laura Hicks, Barbara Caruso, Jeff Hayenga, Zoe Saldana, Victor Anthony, Karen Shallo, Carlo Alban, Giselle Daly, Ethan Stiefel, Susan May Pratt, Shakiem Evans
Storyline: The education of three young students Jodie Eva and Maureen as they study at the American Ballet Academy. Life isnt what they expected at the esteemed ABA and all three face problems along the road. Jodie doesnt have the ideal body for dancing Eva doesnt have the right attitude and Maureen doesnt have the heart. Along the way they learn that love can be found in unlikely...
Director: Ed Bye
Stars: Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Laura Fraser, James Fleet, Tabitha Wady, Paul Whitehouse, Natasha Little, Anna Shillinglaw, Badi Uzzaman, Sam Parks, Kenneth Cranham, Mark Tonderai, Patsy Byrne
Storyline: Kevin and Perry are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe. In the rare moments when theyre not thinking about girls Kevin dreams of being a singer and Perry has ambitions toward becoming a dance music DJ. When Kevin and Perry manage to stop a bank robbery theyre given a sizable cash reward and they decide to go...
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Stars: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore, Ron Perlman, Alex D. Linz, Tone Loc, Jim Breuer, Christopher Scarabosio, Jim Cummings, Charles Rocket, Ken Hudson Campbell, Tsai Chin
Storyline: In the year 3028 A.D. Earth is being attacked by the Drej which are aliens made of pure energy! The Drej mother-ship destroys Earth with an energy beam just as hundreds of space vehicles manage to escape with the last of mankind aboard! One of the escapees is Sams young son Cale who carries with him a ring given to him by his father. Fifteen years later Cale works on a salvage...
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Peter Outerbridge, Kavan Smith, Jill Teed, Elise Neal, Kim Delaney, Marilyn Norry, Freda Perry, Lynda Boyd, Patricia Harras
Storyline: When a mysterious storm kills all but one crew member of the first manned mission to mars a rescue mission is launched. Once on the red planet the crew finds the sole survivor of the first mission who informs them that this was no ordinary storm. It was meant to protect something. But...
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Stars: Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichirô Nagai, Kôichi Yamadera, Megumi Hayashibara, Emi Shinohara, Yûsaku Yara, Rintarou Nishi, Keiji Fujiwara, Toshihiko Seki, Takeshi Aono, Motomu Kiyokawa
Storyline: It is many thousand years in the future. Vampires once ruled the night but have seen their numbers reduced by fearless bounty hunters. One such hunter is D the halfbreed son of a human mother and vampire father. When a girl from a rich family is taken from her home by the vampire Meier Link her father contracts both D and the Markus brothers a rival group of hunters to race to...
Director: Michael Coldewey, Michel Lemire
Stars: Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Pier Paquette, Sonja Ball, Brady Moffatt, Rick Jones, Arthur Holden, Alan Fawcett, Jane Woods, Elizabeth Robertson, Vlasta Vrana
Storyline: Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar a miner named Tyler who becomes possessed by an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to the planet of youth Tyler wipes out most of a space colony and kidnaps a sexy woman. His big mistake is that he doesnt kill the womans sister Julie who then sets out on a mission of rescue and...
Director: Spike Lee
Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, Gillian Iliana Waters
Storyline: Dark biting satire of the television industry focusing on an Ivy-League educated black writer at a major network. Frustrated that his ideas for a Cosby Show-esque take on the black family has been rejected by network brass he devises an outlandish scheme: reviving the minstrel show. The hook: instead of white actors in black face the show stars black actors in even blacker face....
Director: Antony Hoffman
Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker, Terence Stamp, Jessica Morton, Caroline Bossi, Bob Neill
Storyline: In the near future Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanitys only hope. A team of American astronauts each a specialist in a different field is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers...
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Sarah Wynter, Wendy Crewson, Rodney Rowland, Terry Crews, Ken Pogue, Colin Cunningham
Storyline: In the near future cloning is now technically advanced but human cloning is still illegal. Adam Gibson Schwarzenegger returns home after working with his friend Hank Morgan Rapaport only to find a clone of himself with his family. Before he has chance to find out the truth he is attacked by a group who want him dead. Adam must escape and find out the truth from the creator of...
Director: Stephen Kay
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, John C. McGinley, Alan Cumming, Michael Caine, John Cassini, Mickey Rourke, Mark Boone Junior
Storyline: Years ago Jack Carter left his Seattle home to become a Las Vegas mob casino financial enforcer. He returns for the funeral of his brother Richard Richie after a car crash during a storm atypical of the careful house-father. Talking to the widow daughter Doreen and enigmatic Geraldine Jack suspects it was murder. Cliff Brumby whose club Richie ran is financially linked to porn...
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black, Rhiana Griffith, John Moore, Simon Burke, Les Chantery, Sam Sari, Firass Dirani, Ric Anderson, Vic Wilson, Angela Moore
Storyline: The space transport vessel Hunter-Gratzner carrying 40 people on-board crashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm. There are only 10 survivors among them are pilot Carolyn Fry Who has assumed command after the ships captain is killed bounty hunter William J. Johns religious man Abu Al-Walid Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie runaway teenager Jack...
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Josh Ryan Evans, Mindy Sterling, Rachel Winfree
Storyline: Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville live the Whos an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Whos love Christmas yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet...