2004 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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1. Free to Fly the US-Cuba Link (2004)
Documentary
This film begins with the idea that families have the right to see one another and that U.S. citizens have the constitutional right to go where they please, arguing that such travel ... See full summary »
Director: Estela Bravo
2. Los debutantes (2003)
Not Rated | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives. Sexy, gritty, emotional.
Director: Andrés Waissbluth | Stars: Antonella Ríos, Néstor Cantillana, Juan Pablo Miranda, Alejandro Trejo
Votes: 886
3. Aci (1971)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After fifteen years Çiçek Ali is released from prison and visits the family that he had murdered their son.
Director: Yilmaz Güney | Stars: Yilmaz Güney, Fatma Girik, Hayati Hamzaoglu, Mehmet Büyükgüngör
Votes: 234
4. Opening Night (1977)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama
A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell
Votes: 12,221
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,341
6. Trilogia: To livadi pou dakryzei (2004)
170 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos
Votes: 5,285 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Ira Madiyama (2003)
108 min | Drama
Ira Madiyama is set in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s and tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war. Chamari ( is searching for her husband, a ... See full summary »
Director: Prasanna Vithanage | Stars: Rajeena Begum, Dimuthu Chinthaka, Peter D'Almeida, Gayani Gisanthika
Votes: 163
8. Alexandra's Project (2003)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge
Votes: 5,220
9. Alila (2003)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv.
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laslo, Uri Klauzner, Liron Levo
Votes: 648 | Gross: $0.05M
10. 16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama
16 years of alcohol is about a skinhead named Frankie; his violent childhood, alcoholism and his love for Ska.
Director: Richard Jobson | Stars: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Stuart Sinclair Blyth
Votes: 1,744 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Ana y los otros (2003)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
Director: Celina Murga | Stars: Camila Toker, Ignacio Uslenghi, Juan Cruz Díaz la Barba, Natacha Massera
Votes: 359
12. Motherland Hotel (1987)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
Director: Ömer Kavur | Stars: Macit Koper, Sahika Tekand, Serra Yilmaz, Osman Alyanak
Votes: 4,605
13. Pieces of April (2003)
PG-13 | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
Director: Peter Hedges | Stars: Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke
Votes: 22,127 | Gross: $2.53M
14. Intermission (2003)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson
Votes: 16,603 | Gross: $0.90M
15. Shattered Glass (2003)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, History
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Director: Billy Ray | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard
Votes: 37,683 | Gross: $2.22M
16. Women in Love (1969)
R | 131 min | Drama, Romance
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Votes: 8,564 | Gross: $1.03M
17. Love Streams (1984)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 6,641
18. Under the Same Sky (2003)
86 min | Drama
Rufie is a fifteen-year old girl who lives with her grandmother in a mountain village. Her father, Hairedin, has gone to look for work in Turkey, because of the unemployment at home. There ... See full summary »
Director: Krassimir Kroumov | Stars: Marta Kondova, Ivan Kondov, Krassimir Dokov, Nikolai Urumov
Votes: 26
19. Father and Son (2003)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama
A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Neymyshev, Aleksandr Razbash, Fyodor Lavrov
Votes: 2,642 | Gross: $0.04M
20.
The Blues (2003)
Episode:
Godfathers and Sons
(2003)
133 min | Documentary, Music
Explores the legacy of Chicago Blues through the making of an album by Chuck D of Public Enemy and Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder, that brings together hip-hop artists like Common with blues legends like Howlin' Wolf.
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Ahmir, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Jamar Chess
Votes: 149
21. Mou lene na mi s' agapo - To Smyrneiko-Politiko tragoudi (2003)
89 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Giorgos C. Zervas
22. O dromos pros ti Dysi (2003)
61 min | Drama
The film is a combination of documentary and fiction. A woman from the former Soviet Union, Irina, comes to Greece in search of a better life and falls victim to the sex slave trade (... See full summary »
Director: Kyriakos Katzourakis | Stars: Katia Gerou, Nicos Arvanitis, Maria Eglezaki, Vasias Eleftheriadis
Votes: 29
23. The Waiting Room (2003)
94 min | Drama
Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, ... See full summary »
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz | Stars: Zeki Demirkubuz, Nurhayat Kavrak, Nilüfer Açikalin, Serdar Orçin
Votes: 3,305
24. Maybe Some Other Time (1988)
159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mr. Modabber who is a dubber see his wife Kian sitting in a car of a stranger in one scene of a documentary he is been dubbing. With the help of the director and the editor of the ... See full summary »
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Susan Taslimi, Dariush Farhang, Simin Ansari, Siamak Atlassi
Votes: 757
25. Amor en concreto (2004)
102 min | Drama
Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.
Director: Franco de Peña | Stars: Erich Wildpret, Francisco Alfaro, Aroldo Betancourt, Alejandro Chabán
Votes: 114
26. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
108 min | Comedy, Western
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 954
27. Science Fiction (2003)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
At a motivation seminar, the smart instructor Marius comes up against an awkward participant. Jörg Karsunke, an entrepreneur from the eastern part of Germany, simply refuses to understand ... See full summary »
Director: Franz Müller | Stars: Arved Birnbaum, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Nicole Marischka, Heidi Ecks
Votes: 146
28. Mille mois (2003)
124 min | Drama
It is the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco in 1981. Amina, accompanied with her seven years old son Mehdi, come to live with her father-in-law Ahmed in a small village in Morocco, after her... See full summary »
Director: Faouzi Bensaïdi | Stars: Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahile, Mohamed Majd, Mohammed Afifi
Votes: 256
29. A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Romance
Gerardo, a 17-year old guy has just finished his relationship with Bruno and starts wandering hopeless through the streets of the city. In his wandering he's tortured by images: each ... See full summary »
Director: Julián Hernández | Stars: Juan Carlos Ortuño, Juan Carlos Torres, Salvador Alvarez, Gloria Andrade
Votes: 521
30. The Soul of a Man (2003)
103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of director Wim Wenders's favorite blues artists.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Chris Thomas King, Keith B. Brown, James Hughes, David F. Hughes
Votes: 938
31. Il est plus facile pour un chameau... (2003)
110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Chiara Mastroianni, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Denis Podalydès
Votes: 901 | Gross: $0.02M
32. Japanese Story (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Brooks | Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 6,762 | Gross: $0.65M
33. One Point O (2004)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins.
Directors: Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson | Stars: Richard Rees, Jeremy Sisto, Udo Kier, Deborah Kara Unger
Votes: 5,986
34. Ena tragoudi de ftanei (2003)
118 min | Drama
In the winter of '72 a young actor and separated mother, she is arrested and enters Korydallos for resistance. But her 9-year-old daughter, Olga, who now has to live with her father, will ... See full summary »
Director: Elissavet Chronopoulou | Stars: Gogo Brebou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Petros Alatzas, Katerina Filiotou
Votes: 64
35. In This World (2002)
R | 88 min | Drama
A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha, Hiddayatullah
Votes: 4,410
36. Hoy y mañana (2003)
87 min | Drama
At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn't find her rent money she'll be homeless in 24 hours. Paula is so desperate that she seriously contemplates becoming a prostitute.
Director: Alejandro Chomski | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Lipsic, Romina Ricci, Horacio Acosta
Votes: 350
37. Bukowski: Born into This (2003)
R | 130 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'.
Director: John Dullaghan | Stars: Charles Bukowski, Bono, John Bryan, Linda Lee Bukowski
Votes: 3,645 | Gross: $0.30M
38. Bulutlari Beklerken (2004)
90 min | Drama
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Rüçhan Çaliskur, Ridvan Yagci, Dimitris Kaberidis, Ismail Baysan
Votes: 970
39. The Big Feast (1973)
NC-17 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 14,716
40. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman
Votes: 27,147 | Gross: $3.12M
41. A Place Among the Living (2003 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Thierry Gibault, Valérie Kaprisky, Cécile Bois
Votes: 117
42. Dependencia sexual (2003)
104 min | Drama
Five teenagers in the U.S. and Bolivia try to make sense of their sexuality and the complexity of their identity.
Director: Rodrigo Bellott | Stars: Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina, Jorge Antonio Saavedra, Ronica V. Reddick
Votes: 811
43. Condor - les axes du mal (2003)
90 min | Documentary
In 1973, Chile undergoes a coup d'etat. 30 years later, it appears that it was - alongside with all the coups in the southern cone - organised by the CIA in order to stop the possibility of having a communist block on its south.
Director: Rodrigo Vázquez | Stars: Paul Aussaresses, Manuel Contreras, Henry Kissinger, Augusto Pinochet
Votes: 17
44. Çamur (2003)
97 min | Drama
Four 40 something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager.
Director: Dervis Zaim | Stars: Engin Alkan, Taner Birsel, Murat Garibagaoglu, Tomris Incer
Votes: 567
45. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
R | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips
Votes: 14,765
46. A Woman of Affairs (1928)
Passed | 98 min | Drama
When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 1,695 | Gross: $0.85M
47. Skinhead Attitude (2003)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
A fascinating road movie tracing history and origin of a subculture of youth that is known as one of the most radical and contradictory of our time.
Director: Daniel Schweizer | Stars: Laurel Aitken, Buster Bloodvessel, Jimmy Pursey, Ian Stuart
Votes: 630
48.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Song of Summer
(1968)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Traces last 5 years of the life of Frederick Delius through the eyes of the young composer Eric Fenby
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Max Adrian, Maureen Pryor, Christopher Gable, David Collings
Votes: 399
49. Seawards Journey (2003)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy
A group of men travel across Uruguay to watch the sea.
Director: Guillermo Casanova | Stars: Hugo Arana, Julio César Castro, Julio Calcagno, Diego Delgrossi
Votes: 393
50. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
Unrated | 74 min | Documentary
In April 2002, an Irish film crew is making a documentary about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, when a coup from the opposition is made.
Directors: Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain | Stars: Hugo Chávez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell
Votes: 2,629
51. The Return (2003)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 47,523 | Gross: $0.50M
52. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox
Votes: 6,322 | Gross: $0.67M
53. O Caminho das Nuvens (2003)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A man and his family travel 3200km (1984 miles) by bicycle, from the State of Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in search of a job.
Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Wagner Moura, Cláudia Abreu, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Manoel Sebastião Alves Filho
Votes: 1,217
54. Burden of Dreams (1982)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 8,144
55. Love in Thoughts (2004)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
Director: Achim von Borries | Stars: Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Jana Pallaske
Votes: 4,286
56. Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 1,380
57. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
82 min | Drama, Comedy
On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih
Votes: 6,182 | Gross: $0.03M
58. Frères (2004)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Xavier de Choudens | Stars: Serge Riaboukine, Mathieu Genet, Bruce Myers, Elisabeth Kaza
Votes: 13
59. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
R | 155 min | Drama, Romance
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands
Votes: 28,735 | Gross: $13.34M
60. Last Life in the Universe (2003)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike, Laila Boonyasak
Votes: 11,561 | Gross: $0.03M
61. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
PG | 158 min | Adventure, Drama
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Votes: 38,631
62. Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
R | 90 min | Comedy
An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.
Director: Mark Rucker | Stars: Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Angela Paton
Votes: 2,138
63. Gece Yolculugu (1988)
100 min | Drama
A confused scriptwriter takes refuge in the ruins of a Byzantine church in a remote village while scouting locations for his next film.
Director: Ömer Kavur | Stars: Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Sahika Tekand, Arslan Kacar
Votes: 704
64. Matia apo nyhta (2003)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Chronis, Valia and Eleftheria are not "IN." They are not featured in glossy magazines. They don't have perfect bodies, they don't make love on the first date. These three characters will cross paths.
Director: Periklis Hoursoglou | Stars: Evangelia Adreadaki, Giannis Karatzogiannis, Ekavi Douma, Spyros Stavrinidis
Votes: 126
65. Vai~E~Vem (2003)
175 min | Comedy, Drama
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas
Votes: 731
66. Mingri tianya (2003)
96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to "Prosperity Camp" for reeducation. They ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Lik-wai Yu | Stars: Yong-won Cho, Yi'nan Diao, Ren Na, Wei Wei Zhao
Votes: 159
67. Hymypoika (2003)
Unrated | 104 min | Drama
Taavi, who never goes anywhere without his video camera, and his young and wealthy friends find themselves on the cusp of adulthood. After throwing a wild party at the mansion left to him ... See full summary »
Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili | Stars: Jussi Nikkilä, Reino Nordin, Jarkko Niemi, Jenni Banerjee
Votes: 1,904
68. The Secret Face (1991)
118 min | Drama, Romance
A young man, who came to Istanbul to study despite his father's objection, started photography when he was out of money. He takes souvenir photos for people in taverns. One day, a ... See full summary »
Director: Ömer Kavur | Stars: Zuhal Olcay, Fikret Kuskan, Sevda Ferdag, Savas Yurttas
Votes: 1,240
69. Gloria (1980)
PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich
Votes: 11,441
70. Gozu (2003)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Yûta Sone, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita
Votes: 12,742 | Gross: $0.05M
71. Jealousy Is My Middle Name (2002)
124 min | Drama, Romance
This award winning debut film from director Park chan-ok tells the story of a young graduate student who takes a job under false pretenses in order to get close to an editor at a magazine. ... See full summary »
Director: Chan-ok Park | Stars: Park Hae-il, Bae Jong-ok, Moon Sung-Keun, Seo Yeong-hie
Votes: 248
72. Shadows (1958)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
Votes: 12,566
73. American Splendor (2003)
R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose
Votes: 52,387 | Gross: $6.00M
74. Choker Bali: A Passion Play (2003)
167 min | Drama
Binodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Lily Chakravarty
Votes: 1,826
75. Good Morning, Night (2003)
106 min | Drama
The 1978 kidnapping of politician Aldo Moro as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants: a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Maya Sansa, Luigi Lo Cascio, Roberto Herlitzka, Paolo Briguglia
Votes: 4,045 | Gross: $0.01M
76. Las horas del día (2003)
103 min | Drama, Crime
The gray and monotonous life of Abel takes place between a small family shop selling unisex clothes, his dates with his girlfriend Tere, his mother's house, a friend's kiosk and the ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Rosales | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Vicente Romero, Antònia Martínez, Àgata Roca
Votes: 674
77. Le soleil assassiné (2003)
85 min | Biography, Drama
Jean Senac, a French settler in North Africa, poet and creator of radio programs, decided to stay in Algeria after the declaration of independence in 1962. Ten years later he is now under police surveillance.
Director: Abdelkrim Bahloul | Stars: Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 161
78. Más ¡vampiros en La Habana! (2003)
80 min | Animation
Pepín, Pepe's little son, is a gifted child who, despite his young age, develops a new magical drink more powerful than Vampisol, which he calls Vampiyaba because it is made from guava. ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Padrón | Stars: Irela Bravo, Frank González, Manuel Marín, Mirella Guillot
Votes: 145
79. Vampires in Havana (1985)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror
A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.
Director: Juan Padrón | Stars: Frank González, Manuel Marín, Irela Bravo, Carlos Gonzalez
Votes: 1,463
80. Kiss of Life (2003)
100 min | Drama
Helen lives in London with her father and her kids. John, her husband, is an aid-worker in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months. Helen is desperately anxious that he should come ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Young | Stars: Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Peter Mullan, David Warner, Millie Findlay
Votes: 296
81. Imitations of Life (2003)
75 min | Documentary, Drama
Director: Mike Hoolboom | Stars: Liza Agrba, Bill Evans, Janieta Eyre, Jack Daniels Fuller
Votes: 68
82. Nothing (2003)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
After a terrible day, two good friends and housemates find the outside world converted into a featureless and empty white void.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Gordon Pinsent, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 6,131
84. Silence Between Two Thoughts (2003)
95 min | Drama
In an unnamed country in a small village the young local executioner is carrying out the execution of three people on the orders of the outside hard core cleric, Hadji. After the first two ... See full summary »
Director: Babak Payami | Stars: Moazen, Maryam Moghadam, Kamalan Narouli
Votes: 83
85. La primera noche (2003)
94 min | Drama
A couple of farmers have been displaced from their land, a jungle area, isolated from the world, where lived his childhood and youth, and was brutally thrown to face the streets of an unfamiliar city, huge and ruthless.
Director: Luis Alberto Restrepo | Stars: Carolina Lizarazo, Jhon Álex Toro, Hernán Méndez, Enrique Carriazo
Votes: 185
86. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim, Kim Young-min
Votes: 86,855 | Gross: $2.38M
87. Inat hikayeleri (2003)
90 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Reis Çelik and actor Tuncel Kurtiz set out together to the town of Çildir in Ardahan province to trace the tradition of improvised storytelling of Anatolian folk poets based on the concept of intransigence.
Director: Reis Çelik | Star: Tuncel Kurtiz
Votes: 239
88. Insaat (2003)
113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The series of extreme events happens to two construction workers when one of them discovers something bad about their boss.
Director: Ömer Vargi | Stars: Emre Kinay, Sevket Çoruh, Suna Pekuysal, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Votes: 4,084
89. Cavale (2002)
R | 117 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
After nearly fifteen years behind bars, lefty revolutionary Bruno escapes and heads back to Grenoble, France. His plan? Settle some old scores, hook up with his foxy ex-lover, and avoid the... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc, Ornella Muti
Votes: 1,245 | Gross: $0.06M
90. Games of Love and Chance (2003)
123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Krimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou
Votes: 3,252 | Gross: $0.01M
92. Pas de repos pour les braves (2003)
Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scintillating metaphysical tale, the film follows the picaresque adventures of Basile, an angst-ridden French teenager who is convinced that he will die if he falls asleep. This leads him... See full summary »
Director: Alain Guiraudie | Stars: Thomas Suire, Laurent Soffiati, Thomas Blanchard, Jeanine Canezin
Votes: 379
93. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA
Votes: 67,517 | Gross: $1.97M
94. Kamchatka (2002)
106 min | Drama
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral
Votes: 3,715
95. Return to Kandahar (2003)
65 min | Documentary
Nelofer Pazira returns to Afghanistan to find her lost friend.
Directors: Paul Jay, Nelofer Pazira
Votes: 111
96. Buddy (2003)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls into pieces. He feels like a loser. By ... See full summary »
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Aksel Hennie, Anders Baasmo, Pia Tjelta
Votes: 4,652
97. Crimson Gold (2003)
Unrated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri
Votes: 5,306 | Gross: $0.15M
98. His Brother (2003)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Bruno Todeschini, Éric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu, Maurice Garrel
Votes: 1,981
99. Karpuz Kabugundan Gemiler Yapmak (2004)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a ... See full summary »
Director: Ahmet Uluçay | Stars: Fizuli Caferof, Gülayse Erkoc, Hasbiye Günay, Kadir Kaymaz
Votes: 6,571
100. Mestecko aneb Sláva vítezum, cest porazeným (2003)
99 min | Comedy
The film titled Small Town is a mosaic of stories and episodes from a small Czech town during the period of change between the totalitarian era and the post-communist capitalism that ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Kraus | Stars: Otmar Brancuzský, Vlastimil Brabec, Ivo Hýbl, Rostislav Novák
Votes: 82
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