2000 movies



O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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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.”

Almost Famous (2000)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Crudup, Billy | McDormand, Frances | Hudson, Kate | Lee, Jason | Fugit, Patrick | Deschanel, Zooey | Angarano, Michael | Paquin, Anna | Balk, Fairuza | Taylor, Noah | Fedevich, John | Kozelek, Mark | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Stauber, Liz | Fallon, Jimmy
Directors: Crowe, Cameron
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.

10th Kingdom, The (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Kimberly | Cohen, Scott | Larroquette, John | Wiest, Dianne | Manheim, Camryn | Ann-Margret | O'Neill, Ed | Hauer, Rutger | Lewis, Dawnn | O'Gorman, Hugh | Lapaine, Daniel | Birkett, Jeremiah | Davis, Warwick | Thomson, Kim | Whybrow, Lucy
Directors: Wise, Herbert | Carson, David
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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 that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.

Waking the Dead (2000)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Crudup, Billy | Connelly, Jennifer | Parker, Molly | McTeer, Janet | Hipp, Paul | Oh, Sandra | Holbrook, Hal | Landrieu, Nelson | Coll, Ivonne | Dane, Lawrence | Harris, Ed | Marshall, Larry | Anderson, Stanley | Gage, Patricia | Lynch, John Carroll
Directors: Gordon, Keith
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Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he’s serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who devotes her life to helping others - unfortunately she’s killed in an explosion while assisting members of the Chilean resistance. Nine years later, in the middle of a congressional election, Fielding is suddenly flooded with thoughts and visions of his lost love.

Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Innes, Scott | Bergman, Mary Kay | Welker, Frank | Ward, B.J. | Bennett, Jeff | Hale, Jennifer | Hamill, Mark | Milo, Candi | Richardson, Kevin Michael | Ross, Neil | Wasilewski, Audrey
Directors: Stenstrum, Jim
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Get Ready for Close Encounters of the Scooby Kind! A cosmic case of UFOs, intergalactic intrigue and out-of-this-world romance launches Scooby, Shaggy and the Mystery, Inc. kids into their most unearthly adventure ever! Stranded in a remote desert town, the gang soon discovers the place is crawling with flying saucer buffs, secretive scientists… and less-than-friendly extraterrestrials! Then, after being chased by aliens and beamed aboard a UFO, something even weirder happens to Shaggy and Scooby— they fall head-over-heels in love! As clues to the mystery of the alien invaders lead them from a top-secret government research base to a huge network of caves hidden under the town, our love-struck heroes join the rest of the gang in a race to crack a case that re-defines the term “far out!”

Borstal Boy (2000)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Hatosy, Shawn | Dyer, Danny | Ingleby, Lee | Laing, Robin | Birthistle, Eva | York, Michael | Huberman, Mark | Byrne, Jim | Deady, Garret | Donohue, Darren | Drew, Ronnie | Fitzpatrick, William | Griffin, Luke | Hanly, Trevor | Hassel, Lukas
Directors: Sheridan, Peter
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as “the enemy,” a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.

Escaflowne (2000)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Sakamoto, Maaya | Seki, Tomokazu | Nakata, Jôji | Iizuka, Mayumi | Takayama, Minami | Tsujitani, Kôji | Miki, Shinichirô | Ootani, Ikue | Devall, Trevor | Dobson, Brian | Dobson, Michael | Dobson, Paul | Drummond, Brian | Francis, Andrew | Hiyama, Nobuyuki
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

Desert Saints (2000)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)

Friday, October 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Fiorentino, Linda | Malahide, Patrick | Mullan, Peter | Spacey, Kevin | Hayman, David | | | McSorley, Gerard
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Michael Lynch is Dublin’s most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms.

Proof of Life (2000)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Crowe, Russell | Morse, David | Reed, Pamela | Caruso, David | Heald, Anthony | Anderson, Stanley | John, Gottfried | Armstrong, Alun | Kitchen, Michael | Martindale, Margo | Sánchez, Mario Ernesto | Sibille, Pietro | Hernández, Vicky | Martínez, Norma
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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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 about the attraction growing between them?