Down to You
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Kris Isacsson
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Selma Blair, Freddie Prinze Jr., Henry Winkler, Shawn Hatosy, Lauren German, Julia Stiles
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
This light-hearted romantic comedy centers tells of love sought, found, lost, and found again, revolving around the lives of two college students in New York City. Sophomore Al Connelly meets the girl of his dreams, freshman Imogen, and true love abounds. The two engage on a whirlwind courtship--they pick a song, eat a cake together, even make love. But Imogen's fear of lost youth causes her to push away from Al, and they go their separate ways. Al attempts to rebound from the relationship, determined to forget Imogen, and he goes to desperate measures to do so. The story is told from the points of view of both Al and Imogen.
The Opportunists
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Year: 2000
Country: USA, UK
Director: Myles Connell
Starring: Olek Krupa, Christopher Walken, Vera Farmiga, Kate Burton, Donal Logue, John Ortiz, Anne Pitoniak
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Adventure
Year: 2000
Country: USA, UK, France
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Ed Gale, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, J.R. Horne, John Goodman, Daniel von Bargen, Holly Hunter
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque 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, bankrobber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
Shadow Hours
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Isaac H. Eaton
Starring: Peter Greene, Peter Weller, Brad Dourif, Michael Dorn, Richard Moll, Balthazar Getty, Johnny Whitworth
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Michael is a recovering alcoholic/drug user. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy stranger, Stuart, enters Michael's life, taking Michael through a tour of the seediest and slimiest parts of L.A. underbelly. Is Stuart leading Michael to hell, or salvation?
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Year: 2000
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Ireland
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Kevin Spacey, Peter Mullan, David Hayman, Colin Farrell, Stephen Dillane, Paul Ronan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Garda
Love & Sex
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Valerie Breiman
Starring: Noah Emmerich, Jon Favreau, Ann Magnuson, Famke Janssen, Robert Knepper, Josh Hopkins, Cheri Oteri
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Bread and Roses
Genres: Drama
Year: 2000
Country: Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Jack McGee, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Pilar Padilla, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila, Lillian Hurst
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers...
Romeo Must Die
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Starring: Terry Chen, Henry O, DMX, Delroy Lindo, Anthony Anderson, Isaiah Washington, Jet Li
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.
The 10th Kingdom
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Year: 2000
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: David Carson, Herbert Wise
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Warwick Davis, Ed O'Neill, Daniel Lapaine, Dianne Wiest, Robert Hardy, Edward Jewesbury
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man's form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror tha...
Little Nicky
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Jonathan Loughran, Rhys Ifans, Michael McKean, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his underworld thrown to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of the three escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves there. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to begin withering away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell. Can Nicky learn his way around Earth and round up his brothers in time to save Satan?
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Year: 2000
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Michael Kalesniko
Starring: David Krumholtz, Lynn Redgrave, Robin Wright Penn, Peri Gilpin, Kenneth Branagh, Jared Harris, Lucinda Jenney
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelga...
Proof of Life
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Anthony Heald, David Caruso, Stanley Anderson, David Morse, Gottfried John, Michael Kitchen, Russell Crowe
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do abo...
Terror Tract
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Clint Hutchison, Lance W. Dreesen
Starring: Ray Lykins, John Ritter, Kelli Mix, Allison Smith, David DeLuise, Kim Correll, Aaron J. Alberts
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him only to be killed by his spouse and her boyfriend in which she begins having dreams of her husband not staying dead. The second story "Bobo" involves increasing fear and paranoia from a kindly family man whose young daughter finds and adopts a stray monkey who turns out to be more than meets the eye. The third story "Come To Granny" involves a trouble teenager with psychic abilities ...