I, Robot
Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery
Year: 2004
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith, Bruce Greenwood, Terry Chen, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Scott Heindl, Alan Tudyk
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
This is the year 2035. Everybody in the world relies on a huge system of robots, which are programmed specifically to help humans and not harm them in any way. But one person does not think that robots are helpful. Chicago homicide detective Del Spooner. but one day, he received a call from the United States Robotics (USR) about a recent death of renowned robot scientist Dr. Alfred J. Laning. Spooner immediately blamed this incident on robots without justifiable reason or proof. Then, he begins his investigation on Lanning's death, only to discover Sonny, a "unique" robot. What Spooner does not realize, is that something is about to happen. S...
Boa vs. Python
Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: David Flores
Starring: Velizar Binev, Kirk B.R. Woller, Griff Furst, Harry Anichkin, Angel Boris Reed, Jonas Talkington, David Hewlett
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!
Decoys
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Year: 2004
Country: Canada
Director: Matthew Hastings
Starring: Richard Burgi, Elias Toufexis, Kim Poirier, Corey Sevier, Stefanie von Pfetten, Meghan Ory, Krista Morin
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
In St. John College, the freshmen and best friends Luke and Roger meet the sexy blond cousins Lilly and Constance in the laundry of their building. They are next-door neighbors, and the experienced girls invite the young men to visit them anytime. Lilly forgets a package of coins in the laundry, and Luke goes to their room to return it. The room is empty, and he sneaks around, when the two girls arrive. Luke hides himself in the wardrobe, and through an opening, he sees Lilly with many tentacles on her breast. Luke tries to convince his friends that the girls are aliens, planning to attack Earth, but nobody believes in him. Meanwhile, some fr...
A Day Without a Mexican
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Director: Sergio Arau
Starring: Caroline Aaron, Frankie J. Allison, Elpidia Carrillo, Larry Carroll, Tony Abatemarco, Todd Babcock, Melinda Allen
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. Th...
Garfield
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Peter Hewitt
Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Bill Murray, Eve Brent, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Michael Monks, Mark Christopher Lawrence
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Garfield, who competes with a dog named Odie for the affection and attention of their human master, Jon Arbuckle, when Odie is introduced into their home much to Garfield's disgust. When Odie runs away, he gets picked up by a mean dog trainer, however, Garfield feels responsible, so he gets off his favorite spot and gets into action to rescue his fellow pet Liz, Garfield's veterinarian and romantic interest; Cannon plays a "city mouse" who helps Garfield in his search; Messing voices Arlene, Garfield's girlfriend)
The Day After Tomorrow
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Dennis Quaid, Sela Ward, Arjay Smith, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Jake Gyllenhaal
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall, who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam, who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one go...
Stateside
Year: 2004
Country: Germany, USA
Director: Reverge Anselmo
Starring: Ed Begley Jr., Agnes Bruckner, Val Kilmer, Jonathan Tucker, Daniel Franzese, Carrie Fisher, Rachael Leigh Cook
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In the 1970's, the irresponsible teenager Mark Deloach of a wealthy and powerful family causes an accident crashing his car and seriously wounding a priest and a school friend. The judge offers him the chance to join the Marines as alternative sentence. Later he meets the schizophrenic singer and actress Dori Lawrence and they fall in love for each other. However, their love becomes almost impossible when he has to travel overseas and she worsens her mental illness.
One Point O
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Iceland, Romania
Director: Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Starring: Udo Kier, Jeremy Sisto, Bruce Payne, Lance Henriksen, Deborah Kara Unger, Eugene Byrd, Emil Hostina
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Simon is a computer programmer living in a future dystopia where cameras are watching our every move. Every time he goes out, he finds that someone has entered his apartment and left a seemingly empty package for him. He begins to suspect the other people in his building, but they all seem either absorbed and isolated within their own worlds, or completely deranged from paranoia. Could it be that everyone is out to get him?
Collateral
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Richard T. Jones, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Cruise, Bruce McGill, Peter Berg, Javier Bardem, Barry Shabaka Henley
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
For Max, the dreams of his own limo company are what keep him afloat from the mundane reminder of his real job: taxi driver, which he has been doing for over a decade. But one fateful night, Max has one cab fare that he would never expect named Vincent. He's a smooth, charismatic fellow who is sharply dressed and apparently wealthy, offering Max an excellent tip if he'll bring him to five stops throughout Los Angeles. But fate intervenes and Max soon finds out that Vincent isn't a businessman, but a contract hitman making his rounds. As the night progresses, Max finds himself under the microscope of a coldblooded killer. Meanwhile, the police...
Vanity Fair
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd-Pack
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited...
Ghost Game
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Joe Knee
Starring: Sarah Shoup, Alexandra Barreto, Shelby Fenner, Curt Cornelius, Aaron Patrick Freeman, Robert Berson, Danielle Hartnett
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
7 Friends go out to cabin for a weekend of relaxing and find a game that should not be opened!
Blast
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Year: 2004
Country: Germany, USA, South Africa
Director: Anthony Hickox
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Vivica A. Fox, Eddie Griffin, Langley Kirkwood, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Breckin Meyer, Nadine Velazquez
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A terrorist, Michael Kittredge, posing as an environmentalist protester leads a team of highly-skilled mercenaries to take control of an oil rig off the coast of California, intending to detonate an electromagnetic bomb over the United States, striking a sort of "new Pearl Harbor" attack on behalf of enemies to the nation. What Kittredge didn't count on is a tugboat captain, Lamont Dixon, who survives an attack on his ship, and is soon recruited by an FBI agent to infiltrate the oil rig and procure information about their plans... and if possible, stop them. In the process, Dixon meets an eager computer expert aboard the oil rig who helps Dix...
Fahrenheit 9/11
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Michael Moore
Starring: Ben Affleck, Al Gore, George W. Bush, Stevie Wonder, James Baker III, Richard Gephardt, Tom Daschle
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq instead of focusing on getting the real culprit(s) behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This documentary also focuses on how some Saudis were safely and secretly flown out of America while planes were ostensibly grounded after the attacks. Archived film footage, candid interviews with politicians, and an overall waste of public funds...
Helter Skelter
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: John Gray
Starring: Graham Beckel, Jeremy Davies, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robert Joy, Michael Weston, Rick Gomez, Clea DuVall
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Hidalgo
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Omar Sharif, J.K. Simmons, Viggo Mortensen, Adoni Maropis, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Victor Talmadge, Harsh Nayyar
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Frank T. Hopkins, a cowboy working in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is troubled by the events he saw at Wounded Knee and by the way the Indians are treated in the show. Billed as the world's greatest endurance rider, an Arabian sheik challenges the title and the rider to come ride in a great race across the desert. Once there he becomes embroiled in political intrigue - a desert prince is trying to seize the sheik's breeding secrets to the great Arabian horses. Also an Englishwoman is trying to win the rights to breed one of her thoroughbred with the great Arabian champion. Hidalgo is the small, mixed breed horse that Hopkins rides and is a m...
The Passion of the Christ
Genres: Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Claudia Gerini, James Caviezel, Francesco De Vito, Maia Morgenstern, Mattia Sbragia, Toni Bertorelli
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A depiction of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. The story opens in the Garden of Olives where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the controversial Jesus--who has performed 'miracles' and has publicly announced that he is 'the Son of God'--is arrested and taken back within the city walls of Jerusalem. There, the leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy; subsequently, his trial results with the leaders condemning him to his death. Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor of Palestine, for his sen...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris, Richard Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe, Fiona Shaw, Robert Hardy, Jimmy Gardner
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In the summer before his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter becomes fed up with his horrible aunt and uncle, and after accidentally inflating his visiting aunt Marge, he runs away. Unfortunately, there's much more danger in the wizarding world than harry thought; convicted mass murderer, Sirius Black, has escaped from the wizarding prison Azkaban. Black is known as Lord Voldemort's most devoted follower, and he's after Harry to avenge Voldemort and finish the job. But not everything is what it seems, and inside of Hogwarts there may just be a traitor...
She Hate Me
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Monica Bellucci, Paula Jai Parker, John Turturro, Lonette McKee, Anthony Mackie, Ossie Davis
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman--and now a lesbian--offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, Jack is persuaded by the chance to make easy money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek...
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Guy Ferland
Starring: Romola Garai, Sela Ward, Diego Luna, John Slattery, January Jones, Jonathan Jackson, Mika Boorem
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An American girl (Garai) and her parents arrive in Cuba right before the Revolution breaks out. She meets a local boy (Luna) who instantly notices her dancing abilities and romances her. But as Castro's forces are forcing Americans to leave the country, will she stay or will she go?
The Ladykillers
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Ryan Hurst, Tom Hanks, J.K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Stephen Root, John McConnell, Tzi Ma
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.