8.7

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2001, USA, New Zealand, Germany

• Actors: Bruce Allpress, Sean Astin, John Bach, Sala Baker, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Jed Brophy, Sam Comery, Brad Dourif, Calum Gittins, Bernard Hill, Bruce Hopkins, Paris Howe Strewe, Christopher Lee, Nathaniel Lees, John Leigh, Robbie Magasiva, Robyn Malcolm, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, Craig Parker, Bruce Phillips, Robert Pollock, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Olivia Tennet, Ray Trickett
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
• Director(s): Peter Jackson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam march on into Mordor, unprotected. A number of new allies join with Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin and Merry. And they must defend Rohan and attack Isengard. Yet, while all this is going on, Sauron's troops mass toward the City of Gondor, for the War of the Ring is about to begin.

  8.6

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

2001, Japan

• Actors: Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashûin, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yumi Tamai, Yô Ôizumi, Koba Hayashi, Tsunehiko Kamijô, Takehiko Ono, Bunta Sugawara, Noriko Kitou, Shiro Saito, Ken Yasuda, Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers, Lauren Holly, Michael Chiklis, John Ratzenberger, Tara Strong, Mickie McGowan, Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Rodger Bumpass, Jennifer Darling
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a bathhouse for the thousands of Japan's gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel's stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest's dinner.

  8.5

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

2001, France, Germany

• Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Clotilde Mollet, Claire Maurier, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Maurice Bénichou, Michel Robin, Andrée Damant, Claude Perron, Armelle, Ticky Holgado, Kevin Fernandes, Flora Guiet, Amaury Babault, André Dussollier, Eugène Berthier, Marion Pressburger, Charles-Roger Bour, Luc Palun, Fabienne Chaudat, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jacques Viala
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Available languages:
  • French French.

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.

  8.5

The Pianist

2001, France, Poland, Germany, UK

• Actors: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski, Ed Stoppard, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay, Jessica Kate Meyer, Julia Rayner, Wanja Mues, Richard Ridings, Nomi Sharron, Anthony Milner, Lucy Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping, Ben Harlan, Thomas Lawincky, Joachim Paul Assböck, Roy Smiles, Paul Bradley, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrzej Blumenfeld, Darian Wawer, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Lejb Fogelman, Detlev von Wangenheim, Popeck, Zofia Czerwinska, Emilio Fernandez, Udo Kroschwald, Uwe Rathsam
• Genre: Biography, Drama, War
• Director(s): Roman Polanski
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.

  8.2

Yeopgijeogin geunyeo

2001, South Korea

• Actors: Tae-hyun Cha, Gianna Jun, Jin-hie Han, Sook-hee Hyun, Il-woo Kim, In-mun Kim, Tae-hyeon Kim, Mu-yeong Lee, Ho Lim, Dong-won Seo, Wok-suk Song, Kwang-eop Son, Geum-Seok Yang, Jae-young Kwak
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Jae-young Kwak
• Available languages:
  • Korean Korean.

Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of Kyun-woo (Cha) and an unnamed girl. Kyun-woo is shamed into assisting the girl because the other passengers mistakenly think she is his girlfriend. Once he helps her, Kyun-woo develops a deep sense of responsibility for her which enables him to tolerate (somehow) the girls abuses.

  8.1

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

2001, India

• Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuvir Yadav, Rajendra Gupta, Rajesh Vivek, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Javed Khan, Rajendranath Zutshi, Akhilendra Mishra, Daya Shankar Pandey, Yashpal Sharma, Amin Hajee, Aditya Lakhia, A.K. Hangal, John Rowe, David Gant, Jeremy Child, Ben Nealon, Anupam Shyam, Raja Awasthi, Pramatesh Mehta, Bhim Vakani, Amin Gazi, Anu Ansari, Parveen Bano, Chris England
• Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Sport
• Director(s): Ashutosh Gowariker
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

This is the story about the resilience shown by the Indians when they were under the British Rule. They are already taxed to the bone by the British and their cronies, but when Jack Russell announces that he will double the Lagaan (tax) from all villagers, they decide to oppose it. Leading the villagers is a handsome young man named Bhuvan, who challenges them to a game of cricket, a game that is to be played by veteran British cricket players, versus villagers, including Bhuvan himself, who have never played this game before, and do not even know a bat from a piece of wood. As the challenge is accepted, the interest grows and attracts Indians from all over the region, as well as the British from all over the country - as everyone gathers to see the 'fair play' that the British will display against their counter-parts, who are aided by none other than the sister, Elizabeth, of Captain Rusell.

  8.0

Monsters, Inc.

2001, USA

• Actors: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly, Bob Peterson, John Ratzenberger, Frank Oz, Daniel Gerson, Steve Susskind, Bonnie Hunt, Jeff Pidgeon, Samuel Lord Black, Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Rodger Bumpass, Gino Conforti, Jennifer Darling, Patti Deutsch, Pete Docter, Bobby Edner, Ashley Edner, Paul Eiding, Katie Scarlett, Bill Farmer, Keegan Farrell, Pat Fraley, Teresa Ganzel, Taylor Gifaldi
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Pete Docter
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a city of monsters with no humans called Monstropolis centers around Monsters, Inc., the city's power company. Monsters, Inc. The lovable confidant, tough large, furry blue behemoth-like giant monster named James P. Sullivan (A.K.A. better known as Sulley) and his Cyclops wisecracking best friend short, green monster with one large eye, Mike Wazowski discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo," who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. And now it's up to Sulley and Mike to send Boo back in her door before anybody and especially two evil villains such as Sulley's main rival as a scarer chameleon-like Randall(a monster that Boo is very afraid of), who possesses the ability to change the color of his skin and Mike and Sulley's boss Mr. Waternoose the chairman and chief executive officer of Monsters, Inc.

  8.0

Ying xiong

2001, Hong Kong, China

• Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tia Yong, Yan Qin, Chang Xiao Yang, Yakun Zhang, Ma Wen Hua, Jin Ming, Xu Kuang Hua, Wang Shou Xin, Zi Hei, Cao Hua, Li Lei, Xia Bin, Peng Qiang, Liu Jie, Zhang Yi, James Hong, Emil Lin, Angela Oh, Elizabeth Sung
• Genre: Action, Adventure
• Director(s): Yimou Zhang
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

  8.0

No Man's Land

2001, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, France, UK, Belgium

• Actors: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Sacha Kremer, Alain Eloy, Mustafa Nadarevic, Bogdan Diklic, Simon Callow, Katrin Cartlidge, Tanja Ribic, Branko Zavrsan, Djuro Utjesanovic, Mirza Tanovic, Boro Stjepanovic, Almir Kurt, Ratko Ristic, Peter Sedmak, Sasa Petrovic, Boris Cindric, Danijel Smon, Peter Prikratki, Primoz Ranik, Jure Plesec, Gordon Wilson, Maëlys De Rudder, Alan Fairbairn, Michel Obenga, Rok Strehovec
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
• Director(s): Danis Tanovic
• Available languages:
  • Serbian Serbian.

After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along.

  7.9

Shrek

2001, USA

• Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel, Peter Dennis, Clive Pearse, Jim Cummings, Bobby Block, Chris Miller, Cody Cameron, Kathleen Freeman, Michael Galasso, Christopher Knights, Simon J. Smith, Conrad Vernon, Jacquie Barnbrook, Guillaume Aretos, John Bisom, Matthew Gonder, Calvin Remsberg, Jean-Paul Vignon, Val Bettin, Andrew Adamson, Charles Dennis, Elisa Gabrielli
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrew Adamson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a green ogre called Shrek discovers his swamp has been 'swamped' with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming Lord Farquaad, Shrek sets out, with a very loud donkey by his side, to 'persuade' Farquaad to give his swamp back. Instead, a deal is made. Farquaad, who wants to become the King, sends Shrek to rescue Princess Fiona, who is waiting for her one true love. But once they head back with Fiona, it starts to become apparent that not only does Shrek like Fiona, but Fiona is keeping something secret.

  7.8

Catch Me If You Can

2001, USA

• Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, James Brolin, Brian Howe, Frank John Hughes, Steve Eastin, Chris Ellis, John Finn, Jennifer Garner, Nancy Lenehan, Ellen Pompeo, Elizabeth Banks, Guy Thauvette, Candice Azzara, Matthew Kimbrough, Joshua Boyd, Kaitlin Doubleday, Kelly McNair, Jonathan Dankner, Maggie Mellin, Thomas Kopache, Margaret Travolta, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Alex Hyde-White, Lilyan Chauvin, Eugene Fleming
• Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.

  7.8

The Bourne Identity

2001, USA, Germany, Czech Republic

• Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gabriel Mann, Walton Goggins, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Orso Maria Guerrini, Tim Dutton, Denis Braccini, Nicky Naude, David Selburg, Demetri Goritsas, Russell Levy, Anthony Green, Hubert Saint-Macary, David Bamber, Gwenaël Clause, Emanuel Booz, Philippe Durand, Vincent Franklin, Paulette Frantz, Thierry René, Roger Frost, David Gasman, Harry Gilbert, Delphine Lanson
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Doug Liman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.

  7.8

Adaptation.

2001, USA

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson, Agnes NaDene Baddoo, Paul Fortune, Paul Jasmin, Lisa Love, Wendy Mogel, David O. Russell, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Stephenson, Bob Yerkes, Lynn Court, Roger E. Fanter, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Caron Colvett, Larry Krask
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Spike Jonze
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

  7.8

Conspiracy

2001, UK, USA

• Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover, David Willoughby, Tom Hiddleston, David Spinx, Dirk Martens, Barnaby Kay, Peter Sullivan, Ben Daniels, Andreas Günther, Ewan Stewart, Brian Pettifer, Kevin McNally, Florian Panzner, Ross O'Hennessey, Colin Firth, Nicholas Woodeson, Jonathan Coy, David Threlfall, Hinnerk Schönemann, Ian McNeice, Owen Teale, Brendan Coyle, Sebastian Jakob, Paul Bannon, Nick Brown, Terence Mustoo
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Frank Pierson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". Lead by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich, this group of high ranking German officials came to the historic and far reaching decision that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated in what would come to be known as the Holocaust.

  7.7

Equilibrium

2001, USA

• Actors: Dominic Purcell, Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Christian Kahrmann, John Keogh, Sean Pertwee, William Fichtner, Angus Macfadyen, David Barrash, Dirk Martens, Taye Diggs, Matthew Harbour, Maria Pia Calzone, Emily Siewert, Emily Watson, Mike Smith, Florian Fitz, Danny Lee Clark, Francesco Cabras, Kurt Wimmer, Anatole Taubman, Brian Conley, Alexa Summer, Brian W. Cook, Mehmet Kurtulus, David Hemmings, Klaus Schindler, Oliver Brandl, Armin Marewski, Wolfgang Stegemann
• Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Kurt Wimmer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

  7.7

Y tu mamá también

2001, Mexico

• Actors: Ana López Mercado, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Nathan Grinberg, Verónica Langer, María Aura, Giselle Audirac, Arturo Ríos, Andrés Almeida, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echevarría, Marta Aura, Maribel Verdú, Juan Carlos Remolina, Liboria Rodríguez, Silverio Palacios, Mayra Serbulo, Andrea López, Amaury Sérbulo, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jorge Vergara
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Alfonso Cuarón
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch's cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven's Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don't exist. When Luisa learns of Jano's latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse's mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio's offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach's location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.

  7.6

28 Days Later...

2001, UK

• Actors: Alex Palmer, Bindu De Stoppani, Jukka Hiltunen, David Schneider, Cillian Murphy, Toby Sedgwick, Naomie Harris, Noah Huntley, Christopher Dunne, Emma Hitching, Alexander Delamere, Kim McGarrity, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Justin Hackney, Luke Mably, Stuart McQuarrie, Ricci Harnett, Leo Bill, Junior Laniyan, Ray Panthaki, Christopher Eccleston, Sanjay Rambaruth, Marvin Campbell, Adrian Christopher, Richard Dwyer, Nick Ewans, Terry John, Paul Kasey, Sebastian Knapp
• Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Danny Boyle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature.

  7.6

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Alec Baldwin, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Aram Aslanian-Persico, Irene Gorovaia, Amedeo Turturro, Stephen Lea Sheppard, James Fitzgerald, Larry Pine, Don McKinnon, Frank Wood, Al Thompson, Jennifer Wachtell, Donal Lardner Ward, Andrew Wilson, Dipak Pallana, Sanjay Mathew, Mary Wigmore, Sonam Wangmo, Gita Gabriel
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Wes Anderson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.

  7.6

Ghost World

2001, USA, UK, Germany

• Actors: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Stacey Travis, Charles C. Stevenson Jr., Dave Sheridan, Tom McGowan, Debra Azar, Brian George, Pat Healy, Rini Bell, T.J. Thyne, Ezra Buzzington, Lindsey Girardot, Joy Bisco, Venus DeMilo, Ashley Peldon, Chachi Pittman, Janece Jordan, Kaileigh Martin, Alexander Fors, Marc Vann, James Sie, Paul Keith, David Cross, J.J. Bad Boy Jones, Dylan Jones
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Terry Zwigoff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the story of Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems to be related with people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they met Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old vinyl records, the life of Enid will change forever.

  7.6

El espinazo del diablo

2001, Spain, Mexico

• Actors: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Francisco Maestre, Junio Valverde, Berta Ojea, Adrián Lamana, Daniel Esparza, Miguel Ortiz, Juan Carlos Vellido, Javier Bódalo, Víctor Elías, José Luis Torrijo, Álvaro Vega, Jonas Batlecas, Daniel Cuño, Rubén Escamilla, Andreas Muñoz, Adrián Serna, Javier González Sánchez, Álvaro Román, Mikel Selles, Leandro Tejada, Izan Checa, Víctor Barroso, Martín Hernández
• Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Guillermo del Toro
• Available languages:
  • Spanish Spanish.

It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos, the son of a fallen Republican war hero, is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen and a kindly Professor Casares, both of whom are sympathetic to the doomed Republican cause. Despite their concern for him, and his gradual triumph over the usual schoolhouse bully, Carlos never feels completely comfortable in his new environment. First of all, there was that initial encounter with the orphanage's nasty caretaker, Jacinto, who reacts even more violently when anyone is caught looking around a particular storage room the one with the deep well. Second, and more inexplicable, is the presence of a ghost, one of the former occupants of the orphanage named Santi. Not long after Carlos' arrival, Santi latches onto Carlos, badgering him incessantly at night and gloomily intoning, "Many of you will die." As if that wasn't enough to keep the orphanage's occupants in an unrelenting state of terror, there's the un-exploded bomb that dominates the orphanage's courtyard, still ticking away; With the orphanage left defenseless by its isolation, and the swift progression of Franco's troops, the ghost's prediction seems depressingly accurate. Nevertheless, with every step of the plot, it becomes apparent that the ghost's predictions as to who (or what) will die, the real source of danger and even the definition of death itself may be more ambiguous than first thought.