Ladder 49
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Jay Russell
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Morris Chestnut, Billy Burke, John Travolta, Jay Hernandez, Tim Guinee, Robert Patrick
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Assistant Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him.
The Lion King 1½
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Bradley Raymond
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Robert Guillaume, Nathan Lane, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Cheech Marin, Whoopi Goldberg
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Imagine a cross between _Lion King, The (1994)_ and Back to the Future Part II (1989). This is a separate story thread, that of Timon and Pumbaa, intertwined with the original story. Thus, along with seeing new events (e.g. Timon's departure from the meerkat colony, Timon and Pumbaa's first meeting, the origin of "Hakuna Matata"), we get to see a new perspective on (and some previously unseen causes for) some of the events in the original film. Oh, and the whole thing is told in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988) framework, with Timon and Pumbaa narrating and interacting with the "onscreen" movie.
The Banker
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Hattie Dalton
Starring: Michael Sheen, Kieran O'Brien, Jane Robbins, Amerjit Deu, Iain McKee, Seeta Indrani, Adam Cocker
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.
School Rumble - Season One
Year: 2004
Country: Japan
Director: Jin Kobayashi
Starring: Jin Kobayashi
Available Quality: DivX
School Rumble is a Japanese Sh?nen manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. First serialized in Weekly Sh?nen Magazine from October 22, 2002 to July 23, 2008, all 345 chapters were later collected in 22 tank?bon volumes by Kodansha. Sh?nen Magazine Special published a sequel, School Rumble Z, monthly from August 20, 2008 to May 20, 2009. A romance comedy centering on relationships between Japanese high school students, School Rumble focuses on a love triangle involving the series' two protagonists, Kenji Harima and Tenma Tsukamoto, and one of their classmates, Oji Karasuma. The series often discards realism in favor of comedic e...
13 Going on 30
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Judy Greer, Mark Ruffalo, Kiersten Warren, Joe Grifasi, Lynn Collins, Jennifer Garner, Kathy Baker
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
Daffy Duck for President
Genres: Comedy, Family, Animation
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Joe Alaskey
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Daffy Duck tries to go into the government to make a law stating that Rabbit Season shall be a minimum of 12 months, while Bugs tries to stop him by means of the U.S. constitution.
Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys
Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Kunihiko Yuyama
Starring: Ikue Ootani, Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Madeleine Blaustein, Kayzie Rogers, Amy Birnbaum
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A comet bearing a deadly Pokemon creature crash-lands onto Earth, terrorising a nearby high-tech city, where Ash, Pikachu and friends are currently visiting...
The Merchant of Venice
Genres: Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK, Italy, Luxembourg
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Anton Rodgers, Gregor Fisher, Kris Marshall, John Sessions
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Venice, 1596. Melancholy Antonio loves the youthful Bassanio, so when Bassanio asks for 3000 ducats, Antonio says yes before knowing it's to sue for the hand of Portia. His capital tied up in merchant ships at sea, Antonio must go to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender he reviles. Shylock wraps his grudge in kindness, offering a three-month loan at no interest, but if not repaid, Antonio will owe a pound of flesh. The Jew's daughter elopes with a Christian, whetting Shylock's hatred. While Bassanio's away wooing Portia, Antonio's ships founder, and Shylock demands his pound of flesh. With court assembled and a judgment due, Portia swings into actio...
Green Wing - Season One
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Victoria Pile
Starring: Olivia Colman, Sally Bretton, Oliver Chris
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Yu-Gi-Oh! - Season One
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Hatsuki Tsuji
Starring: Toshiyuki Morikawa, Hikaru Midorikawa, Megumi Ogata
Available Quality: DivX
Underneath the sands of Egypt, Anubis, an ancient evil spirit, has awakened. It's up to Yugi, who defeated Anubis centuries ago, to use his skill and determination to rid the world of evil once again.
Monk - Season Three
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Andy Breckman
Starring: Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford, Andy Tony Shalhoub
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The series debuted on July 12, 2002 on USA Network. It was well received and continued for eight seasons, with the final season concluded on December 4, 2009. The series currently holds the record for the most watched scripted drama episode in cable television history, a record previously held by The Closer. Monk set the record with "Mr. Monk and the End Part II", its series finale, with 9.4 million viewers; 3.2 million of them in the 1849 demographic.
Doc Martin - Season One
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Dominic Minghella, Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson
Starring: Ian McNeice, Martin Clunes, Caroline Catz
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes and production in a converted local barn. Four seasons of episodes were aired between 2004 and 2009, together with a feature-length special that aired on Christmas Day 2006. A fifth season is being filmed in 2011.
Sideways
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, M.C. Gainey, Sandra Oh, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Gallagher, Shaun Duke
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Ghost Hunters - Season One
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Steve Gonsalves
Starring: Grant Wilson, Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ghost Hunters is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on October 6, 2004, on Syfy (previously the Sci Fi Channel). The program features paranormal investigators Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson who investigate places that are reported to be haunted. The two originally worked as plumbers for Roto-Rooter as a day job while investigating locations at night. Since the show's success, the series now takes precedence in their lives, but they are still honorary employees with the company and continue to do jobs for them if time permits.
Dragons' Den - Season Three
Genres: Reality Show
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Evan Davis, James Caan, Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis
Starring: James Caan, Peter Jones, Evan Davis, Duncan Bannatyne, Theo Paphitis, Deborah Meaden
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Contestants have what they perceive to be a viable and potentially profitable business idea but lack funding, or are already trading in their business but need additional funds for promotion or expansion. They are required as part of their opening pitch to specify the amount of money they require from the Dragons. The rules stipulate that if they do not raise at least this amount from one or more Dragons, they must leave with nothing. In exchange for the investment, the contestants offer equity in their business, the percentage of which is also stipulated at the beginning of the pitch. If the Dragons see potential in the business idea or prod...
Las Vegas - Season Two
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Gary Scott Thompson
Starring: James Caan, Josh Duhamel, James Lesure
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The series originally centered around Ed Deline, (James Caan) a strict ex-CIA officer who went from being Head of Security to becoming President of Operations of the Montecito, whose job is to run the day-to-day operations of the casino. Following his departure from the series in Season 5, former Marine Danny McCoy (Josh Duhamel), Ed's former protege, became the Montecito's new President of Operations. The series abruptly ended with a cliff hanger because NBC cancelled Las Vegas in the off season following season five.
Nighty Night - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Julia Davis, Angus Deayton, Rebecca Front
Starring: Julia Davis, Rebecca Front, Angus Deayton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Nighty Night is a British dark comedy written by and starring Julia Davis; it was broadcast on BBC Three before moving to BBC2.Notorious for its dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell (Julia Davis) - who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic assistant Linda (Ruth Jones) - as she learns of her husband's cancer diagnosis and uses it to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole (Rebecca Front), a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don (Angus Deayton), a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with.
The Practice - Season Eight
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: David E. Kelley
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Lara Flynn Boyle, Kelli Williams
Available Quality: DivX
Alan and Tara are hired by Crane, Poole & Schmidt as an associate and paralegal respectively. After this case the tensions caused between the partners' loyalties during the Shore months leads to the dissolution of the firm. Shore offers to forfeit his winnings, but the offer is declined. A soul searching discussion between Jimmy and Jamie about being true to his original reasons for wishing to become a lawyer leads Jimmy to decide to start practicing in his own neighborhood. Eugene is appointed a superior court judge, and Ellenor takes time out from law to spend time with her daughter. Jamie later joins Jimmy and his childhood friend to start...
Big Brother - Season Five
Genres: Reality Show
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Julie Chen, Phil Proctor, George Boswell, Will Kirby
Starring: Phil Proctor, Julie Chen, George Boswell, Will Kirby, Marcellas Reynolds
Available Quality: DivX
Besides living together under continuous observation, which is the major attraction of the contest, the program relies on four basic props: The stripped-bare back-to-basics environment in which they live, the evictions, the weekly tasks and competitions set by Big Brother and the "Diary/Confession Room," in which the housemates individually convey their thoughts, feelings, and frustrations and reveal their nominees for eviction.
Howl's Moving Castle
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 2004
Country: Japan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Christian Bale, Lauren Bacall, Jean Simmons, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer, Akio Ôtsuka, Daijiro Harada
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.