8.8

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003, USA, New Zealand, Germany

• Actors: Noel Appleby, Alexandra Astin, Sean Astin, David Aston, John Bach, Sean Bean, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Sadwyn Brophy, Alistair Browning, Marton Csokas, Richard Edge, Jason Fitch, Bernard Hill, Ian Holm, Bruce Hopkins, Ian Hughes, Lawrence Makoare, Ian McKellen, Bret McKenzie, Sarah McLeod, Maisy McLeod-Riera, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Noble, Paul Norell, Miranda Otto, Bruce Phillips, Shane Rangi
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
• Director(s): Peter Jackson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.

  8.5

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2003, USA

• Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Adams, David Cross, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Ryan Whitney, Debbon Ayer, Amir Ali Said, Brian Price, Paulie Litt, Josh Flitter, Lola Daehler, Deirdre O'Connell, Lauren Adler
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Michel Gondry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

  8.4

Oldeuboi

2003, South Korea

• Actors: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim, Seung-Shin Lee, Jin-seo Yun, Dae-yeon Lee, Kwang-rok Oh, Tae-kyung Oh, Yeon-suk Ahn, Il-han Oo, Su-hyeon Kim, Seung-jin Lee, Su-kyeong Yun, Myeong-shin Park, Dae-han Chi, Yi Yong
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Chan-wook Park
• Available languages:
  • English English,
  • Korean Korean.

An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him and is set onto a path of pain and suffering in an attempt to uncover the motive of his mysterious tormentor.

  8.2

Million Dollar Baby

2003, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anthony Mackie, Margo Martindale, Riki Lindhome, Michael Peña, Benito Martinez, Bruce MacVittie, David Powledge, Joe D'Angerio, Marcus Chait, Tom McCleister, Erica Grant, Naveen, Morgan Eastwood, Jamison Yang, Dean Familton, Dr. Louis Moret, V.J. Foster, Jon D. Schorle II, Marty Sammon, Steven M. Porter, Ray Corona, Lo Ming, Miguel Pérez
• Genre: Drama, Sport
• Director(s): Clint Eastwood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym...

  8.2

The Corporation

2003, Canada

• Actors: Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Carlton Brown, Smedley Darlington Butler, Noam Chomsky, Víctor Hugo Daza, Peter Drucker, Samuel Epstein, Milton Friedman, Kathie Lee Gifford, Naomi Klein, Susan E. Linn, Luke McCabe, Mikela J. Mikael, Robert Monks, Michael Moore, Jonathan Ressler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vandana Shiva, Steve Wilson, Howard Zinn, Kofi Annan, George W. Bush, Jean Chrétien, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Frank Gifford, Adolf Hitler
• Genre: Documentary, History
• Director(s): Mark Achbar
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.

  8.1

Finding Nemo

2003, Australia, USA

• Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis, Joe Ranft, Geoffrey Rush, Andrew Stanton, Elizabeth Perkins, Nicholas Bird, Bob Peterson, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Bruce Spence, Bill Hunter, LuLu Ebeling, Jordan Ranft, Erica Beck, Erik Per Sullivan, John Ratzenberger
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
• Director(s): Andrew Stanton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing this, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to Sydney Harbor to live their lives free again.

  8.1

Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom

2003, South Korea, Germany

• Actors: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim, Jae-kyeong Seo, Yeo-jin Ha, Jong-ho Kim, Jung-young Kim, Dae-han Ji, Min Choi, Ji-a Park, Min-Young Song
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Ki-duk Kim
• Available languages:
  • Korean Korean.

In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis...

  8.0

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2003, USA

• Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chia Hui Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Michael Parks, Bo Svenson, Jeannie Epper, Stephanie L. Moore, Shana Stein, Caitlin Keats, Christopher Allen Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Reda Beebe, Sid Haig, Larry Bishop, Laura Cayouette, Clark Middleton, Claire Smithies, Perla Haney-Jardine, Helen Kim, Venessia Valentino, Thea Rose, William Paul Clark, Victoria Lucai, Stevo Polyi, Al Manuel Douglas, Jorge Silva
• Genre: Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The murderous Bride is back and she is still continuing her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and taking aim at Bill's younger brother Budd and Elle Driver, the only survivors from the squad of assassins who betrayed her four years earlier. It's all leading up to the ultimate confrontation with Bill, the Bride's former master and the man who ordered her execution!

  8.0

Crash

2003, USA, Germany

• Actors: Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Art Chudabala, Sean Cory, Tony Danza, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Ime Etuk, Eddie J. Fernandez, William Fichtner, Howard Fong, Brendan Fraser, Billy Gallo, Ken Garito, Nona Gaye, Octavio Gómez Berríos, James Haggis, Terrence Howard, Sylva Kelegian, Daniel Dae Kim, Bruce Kirby, Ludacris, Jayden Lund, Jack McGee, Amanda Moresco, Thandie Newton
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Paul Haggis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.

  8.0

Mystic River

2003, USA, Australia

• Actors: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Kevin Chapman, Tom Guiry, Emmy Rossum, Spencer Treat Clark, Andrew Mackin, Adam Nelson, Robert Wahlberg, Jenny O'Hara, John Doman, Cameron Bowen, Jason Kelly, Connor Paolo, T. Bruce Page, Miles Herter, Cayden Boyd, Tori Davis, Jonathan Togo, Shawn Fitzgibbon, Will Lyman, Celine du Tertre, Ari Graynor, Zabeth Russell, Joe Stapleton, Susan Willis
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Clint Eastwood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.

  8.0

Before Sunset

2003, USA

• Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres, Rodolphe Pauly, Mariane Plasteig, Diabolo, Denis Evrard, Albert Delpy, Marie Pillet
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Richard Linklater
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jesse, a writer from the US, and Celine, a Frenchwoman working for an environment protection organization, acquainted nine years ago on the train from Budapest to Vienna, meet again when Jesse arrives in Paris for a reading of his new book. As they have only a few hours until his plane leaves, they stroll through Paris, talking about their experiences, views and whether they still love each other, although Jesse is already married with a kid.

  8.0

Orwell Rolls in His Grave

2003, USA

• Actors: Charles Lewis, Robert McChesney, Mark Crispin Miller, Bernie Sanders, Danny Schechter, Vincent Bugliosi, Jeff Cohen, Dennis Kucinich, Mark Lloyd, Michael Moore, John Nichols, Greg Palast, Tim Robbins, Helen Thomas
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Robert Kane Pappas
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss & examine the mix of businesses...

  7.9

The Notebook

2003, USA

• Actors: Ryan Gosling, Tim Ivey, Rachel McAdams, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Sam Shepard, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Joan Allen, Ed Grady, James Marsden, Heather Wahlquist, Jennifer Echols, Geoffrey Knight, Kevin Connolly, Renée Amber, Andrew Schaff, Matt Shelly, Michael D. Fuller, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Leslea Fisher, Jude Kitchens, David Thornton, Tim O'Brien, Meredith O'Brien, Cullen Moss, Traci Dinwiddie, Pat Leonard, Kweli Leapart, James Middleton
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Nick Cassavetes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

  7.9

Dear Frankie

2003, UK

• Actors: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small, Sophie Main, Katy Murphy, Sean Brown, Jayd Johnson, Anna Hepburn, Rony Bridges, Douglas Stewart Wallace, Elaine M. Ellis, Carolyn Calder, John Kazek, Gerard Butler, Garry Collins, Anne Marie Timoney, Maureen Johnson, Andrea Gibb, Cal Macaninch, Sharon MacKenzie, Jonathan Pender, Robert Harrison, Alan Marsh
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Shona Auerbach
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

  7.8

The Butterfly Effect

2003, USA

• Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Irene Gorovaia, Kevin G. Schmidt, Jesse James, Logan Lerman, Sarah Widdows, Jake Kaese, Cameron Bright, Eric Stoltz, Callum Keith Rennie, Lorena Gale, Nathaniel DeVeaux, John Tierney, Kendall Cross, Ted Friend, John B. Lowe, Ethan Suplee, Camille Sullivan, Tara Wilson, Jesse Hutch, Jacqueline Stewart, Grant Thompson, Sadie Lawrence, Bill Croft, Glenn Richards
• Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Eric Bress
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!

  7.8

Garden State

2003, USA

• Actors: Zach Braff, Kenneth Graymez, George C. Wolfe, Austin Lysy, Gary Gilbert, Jill Flint, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Alex Burns, Jackie Hoffman, Michael Weston, Christopher Carley, Armando Riesco, Amy Ferguson, Trisha LaFache, Jim Parsons, Jean Smart, Yvette Mercedes, Jayne Houdyshell, Natalie Portman, Ron Leibman, Ann Dowd, Ato Essandoh, Wynter Kullman, Geoffrey Arend, Soara-Joy Ross, Ryan B. Moschetti, Method Man, Joe Bacino, Tracey Antosiweicz
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Zach Braff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a retarded quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.

  7.8

The Machinist

2003, Spain

• Actors: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian, Michael Ironside, Larry Gilliard Jr., Reg E. Cathey, Anna Massey, Matthew Romero Moore, Robert Long, Colin Stinton, Craig Stevenson, Ferran Lahoz, Jeremy Xido, Norman Bell, Nancy Crane, Richard Torrington, Buffy Davis, Reg Wilson, Ramon Camín, Christopher Hood, Marc Aspinall, Guillermo Ayesa, Daniel Ceren, Marta Rubio, Ewan Watson, Chike Johnson, Molly Malcolm, Jaume Mimó, Flora Álvarez
• Genre: Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Brad Anderson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Trevor Reznik is a lathe-operator who suffers from insomnia and hasn't slept in a year. Slowly, he begins to doubt his sanity as increasingly bizarre things start happening at work and at home. Haunted by a deformed co-worker who no one seems to think exists, and an ongoing stream of indecipherable Post-It notes he keeps finding on his fridge, he attempts to investigate what appears to be a mysterious plot against him and, in the process, embroils two women in his madness.

  7.8

Kung fu

2003, China, Hong Kong

• Actors: Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Zhi Hua Dong, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Chi Chung Lam, Siu-Lung Leung, Qiu Yuen, Kai Man Tin, Kang Xi Jia, Hak On Fung, Shengyi Huang, Suet Lam, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Chi Ling Chiu, Yu Xing, Yibai Zhang, Si Lu Ren, Xiao Lung Ding, Ming Ming Zhang, Oliver Wong, Kai Shi Chen, Wellson Chin, Wen Hui He, David Hung, Billy Ma, Hao Tian Yuan, Min Hun Fung, Lun Yeung, Chao Xia Liu
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
• Director(s): Stephen Chow
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu master of all.

  7.8

The Station Agent

2003, USA

• Actors: Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin, Jase Blankfort, Paula Garcés, Josh Pais, Richard Kind, Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson, Lynn Cohen, Raven Goodwin, Marla Sucharetza, Michelle Williams, Jayce Bartok, Joe Lo Truglio, John Slattery, Maile Flanagan, Sarah Bolger, Ileen Getz, Jeremy Bergman, Annie Del Moro, Carlos Rosas
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Thomas McCarthy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.

  7.8

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

2003, Japan, France

• Actors: Romanthony
• Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Kazuhisa Takenôchi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An unscrupulous music executive and his flunky kidnap an alien, blue-skinned techno band, rob them of their identities, pass them off as human, and foist them on an unsuspecting public on Earth. After their arrival and their impact on the human population, the members of the band try to piece back their identities, escape from the clutches of the evil music executive, and return to their own world.