Sunday, January 6, 2008

2000s (34)

High Fidelity (2000) - Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Meet the Parents (2000) - Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.

Memento (2000) - A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

Amelie (2001) - Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.


A Beautiful Mind (2001) - After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Gladiator (2001) -


I Am Sam (2001) - A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.

The Score (2001) An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.

City of God (2002) - Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.


The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) - A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge

25th Hour (2002) - Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

Finding Nemo (2003) - A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney, and search Sydney Harbour find Nemo.


The Life of David Gale (2003) - A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring (2003) - The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.


Lost In Translation (2003) - A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.

Old School (2003) - Three men are disenchanted with life and try to recapture their college days.

Mystic River (2003) - With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.

The Recruit (2003) - A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.

Garden State (2004) - A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004) - A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

The Notebook (2004) - An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun.

Sideways (2004) - 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.

Batman Begins (2005) - The story of how Bruce Wayne became what he was destined to be: Batman.

Babel (2006) - Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Casino Royale (2006) - In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.

The Departed (2006) - Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

The Prestige (2006) - Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick.

Rescue Dawn (2006) - A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.

3:10 to Yuma (2007) - A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Darjeeling Limited

Into the Wild (2007) - After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

Juno (2007) - Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Ratatouille (2007) - Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris, only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual alliance with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal adventures begin despite Remy's family's skepticism and the rat-hating world of humans.


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