Film Index

American cinema: 2000s

Die Another Day (2002)
Lee Tamahori

James Bond's mission to assassinate rogue Korean colonel Tan-Sun Moon ends in a frantic chase in which 007's target appears to fall to his death...   [More...]

Atonement (2007)
Joe Wright

England, in the summer of 1935. Briony Tallis is a 13-year-old girl with an overactive imagination who lives in a large country house with her older sister Cecilia...   [More...]

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Jay Roach

On his return to Earth after his latest lunar tussle with his archenemy Austin Powers, Dr Evil wastes no time setting his latest diabolical plan in motion...   [More...]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Tim Burton

Charlie Bucket lives with his parents and four grandparents in a rundown old house, the family barely surviving on the small amount Charlie's father earns at the toothpaste factory...   [More...]

Chicago (2002)
Rob Marshall

Chicago, in the mid-1920s. Roxie Hart has ambitions to be a vaudeville star and believes her lover, Fred Casely, when he says he can find her an opening...   [More...]

Chocolat (2000)
Lasse Hallström

The tranquillity of a small French village is disturbed by the arrival of a strange young woman, Vianne Rocher, and her illegitimate daughter, Anouk...   [More...]

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Lars von Trier

1964. A Czech émigré, Selma Jezkova, works all the hours she can to earn the money so that her twelve year old son can have an operation to save his eyesight...   [More...]

Gosford Park (2001)
Robert Altman

England, 1932. Sir William McCordle, a wealthy industrialist, welcomes an assorted gathering at his stately country mansion, Gosford Park, for a hunting party...   [More...]

Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Rick Rosenthal

When she realises that she has decapitated a paramedic instead of the killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode suffers a mental collapse...   [More...]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Garth Jennings

Englishman Arthur Dent is none too happy when he wakes up one morning to find that his house is about to be demolished by a fleet of bulldozers...   [More...]

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Terry George

Early in the spring of 1994, the African country Rwanda descends into tribal anarchy as the Hutu controlled government attempts to put down an uprising by Tutsi rebels...   [More...]

In the Electric Mist (2009)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the Louisiana town of New Iberia, maverick cop Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are all vulnerable young women...   [More...]

Just Visiting (2001)
Jean-Marie Poiré

During the One Hundred Years War, the French Duke Thibault de Malfète travels to England to marry his beloved Princess Rosalind...   [More...]

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Joel Coen

In 1949, Ed Crane works as a barber in a small American town, in a shop belonging to his brother-in-law. He is married to Doris, a bookkeeper at a department store owned by Big Dave Brewster...   [More...]

Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Woody Allen

Whilst dining out with friends in a Manhattan restaurant, two playwrights get into an argument over whether life is most naturally tragic or comic...   [More...]

Mission to Mars (2000)
Brian De Palma

In 2020, Luke Graham commands the first manned mission to Mars. After a successful landing, Graham and his fellow astronauts discover a mysterious crystalline structure embedded in a mountain...   [More...]

Mondovino (2004)
Jonathan Nossiter

Winemaking is a dying art, according to one French vineyard owner. Commercial pressures are driving traditional winemakers to put quantity before quality, and, worse, to artificially alter the flavour of their wine to satisfy an increasingly standardised palate...   [More...]

No Reservations (2007)
Scott Hicks

Kate Armstrong has no husband, no children, no family ties - and this suits her find, at the present. The love of her life is the trendy Manhattan restaurant which she runs single-handedly, with an iron fist and an almost obsessive perfectionism...   [More...]

Persepolis (2007)
Vincent Paronnaud

Teheran, 1978. The dreams of 8-year-old Marjane are fractured but not crushed when the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Revolution begins...   [More...]

Planet of the Apes (2001)
Tim Burton

In 2029, Leo Davidson trains chimpanzees for space missions aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon. When the station is threatened by an approaching electromagnetic storm, Leo is forced by his superiors to launch his star pupil in a pod to investigate the storm...   [More...]

Small Time Crooks (2000)
Woody Allen

Ray is an ex-convict who has put his criminal past behind him and now earns a meagre crust as a dishwasher. When he sees a pizza restaurant up for sale next to a bank he sees an easy way to get rich quick, but can he persuade his wife Frenchy to stump up their life savings to buy the restaurant...   [More...]

The Transporter (2002)
Louis Leterrier

Frank leads a comfortable life by the sea in Nice. He earns a decent wage as a courier, delivering anything, anywhere for anyone, but only if the price is right...   [More...]

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