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The Life of David Gale

IMDB Rating: 7.20
19408 votes

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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.
Actors
Bitsey BloomKate Winslet
Barbara KreusterCleo King
Reporter A.J. RobertsConstance Jones
Also posted in 2003, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (2)

Head of State

IMDB Rating: 5.00
4751 votes

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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn't have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.
Actors
Mitch GilliamBernie Mac
Martin GellerDylan Baker
Brian LewisNick Searcy
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (2)

Daredevil

IMDB Rating: 5.50
34431 votes

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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened "radar sense" that allows him to "see" far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he's done his "day job" Matt takes on a secret identity as "The Man Without Fear," Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.
Actors
Matt Murdock/DaredevilBen Affleck
Elektra NatchiosJennifer Garner
BullseyeColin Farrell
Also posted in 2003, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller | Comments (11)

Identity

IMDB Rating: 7.30
30933 votes

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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.
Actors
EdJohn Cusack
RhodesRay Liotta
ParisAmanda Peet
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (7)

The Matrix Revolutions

IMDB Rating: 6.30
48364 votes

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As Neo (Keanu Reeves) somehow becomes trapped in a train station between The Matrix and the real world, Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph set out to rescue him by means of the Merovingian. As this is going on, the Machines are approaching Zion with the intent of laying waste to every human there, but they do not realize that something is taking over The Matrix, with the intent of destroying everything: Smith. After Neo is freed, he and Trinity take the Logos and make a beeline for the Machine City. The Machines have reached Zion and the battle of a lifetime rages on. However, there is one way to save Zion and put an end to the war, and that is Neo. He must venture into the Matrix and put an end to Smith's evil plans once and for all, and if he succeeds, Zion will live to see another day. It's like the Oracle says, "Everything that has a beginning has an end."
Actors
TrinityCarrie-Anne Moss
Agent SmithHugo Weaving
NeoKeanu Reeves
Also posted in 2003, Action, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (6)

Johnny English

IMDB Rating: 5.60
14198 votes

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Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Actors
Johnny EnglishRowan Atkinson
Countess AlexandraTasha de Vasconcelos
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family | Comments (2)

Evelyn

IMDB Rating: 7.00
1976 votes

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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
Actors
Evelyn DoyleSophie Vavasseur
Dermot DoyleNiall Beagan
Maurice DoyleHugh McDonagh
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Sonny

IMDB Rating: 5.50
884 votes

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New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
Actors
Sonny PhillipsJames Franco
Jewel PhillipsBrenda Blethyn
Henry WadeHarry Dean Stanton
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama | Comments (0)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

IMDB Rating: 8.70
232790 votes

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An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!
Actors
Everard ProudfootNoel Appleby
Frodo BagginsElijah Wood
Sam GamgeeSean Astin
Also posted in 2001, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (54)

A Beautiful Mind

IMDB Rating: 7.80
67284 votes

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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
Actors
John NashRussell Crowe
ParcherEd Harris
Alicia NashJennifer Connelly
Also posted in 2001, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (1)
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