Becky Sharp is the orphan daughter of a painter and of a French opera girl; she has lived in an orphanage almost all her life, but she decides to leave and work as a governess.

She is determined, bright, pretty, she speaks fluent French and she has all the characteristics of a social climber.

Contemporary high society members will do almost anything to stop her. The film shows us 20 years of her life; her marriage, her birth, her loyalties, all the hardships.

Release Date: 1 September 2004

Genre: Drama, Romance

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Bob Hoskins, Romola Garai, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, James Purefoy, Robert Pattinson, Mathew Horne

Director: Mira Nair

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‘Taking Lives’ is a captivating thriller, that focuses on the darker aspects of the human character. Make no mistake, this is a movie about a serial killer.

Our bad character here, Martin Asher, takes the identities of the people he kills, to a point where he actually lives their lives, until he moves on to the next victim.

All these, until he meets Illeana, whom he determines to fall in love with him.

Illeana is an FBI profiler and was summoned in Montreal to study the very case of a serial killer, who steals the identity of his victims.

Her instinct quickly tells her that there is more to Martin than he wants her to find out.

Release Date: March 16, 2004

Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime

Cast:

Angelina Jolie (Illeana)

Ethan Hawke (Costa)

Director: D.J. Caruso

After her brother dies in an accident, Terry knows that she has to fight for what she wants and leaves at summer school, without her father knowing.

Here, she experiences life in a big city. She develops her musical skills and she also meets the love of her life, among her classmates.

Release Date: October 8, 2004

Genre: Romance, Drama, Music

Cast:

Hilary Duff (Terry Fletcher)

Oliver James (Jay Corgan)

David Keith (Simon Fletcher)

Director: Sean McNamara

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She is at the peek of her career in one of the most important modelling agencies in Manhattan; she is either attending fashion shows or partying in some of the newest and hottest clubs of New York.

Her crazy life style suddenly changes the moment she answers her phone one day; she is announced that her sister has passed and she is basically supposed to take care of her three children.

Without even realizing, she is now responsible for three little people, she has to put them first and her career will have to go on the second place ……so soon she has to make a choice: it is either the life she has always loved or the three new loved ones in her life….

Release Date: 28 May 2004

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Cast: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Helen Mirren, Hayden Panettiere, Abigail Breslin, Spencer Breslin, Amber Valletta, Felicity Huffman, Hector Elizondo, Joseph Mazzello, Paris Hilton

Director: Garry Marshall

It is set in Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee and it describes how Holocaust education hours influence the attending students.

They are so impressed to hear about the six million Holocaust victims that they decide to collect six million paper clips in order to deal better with the concept of crime against humanity.

Also, the students have met persons who survived that whole ordeal, and the film shows their entire journey towards knowledge.

Release Date: 8 September 2004

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Peter Schroeder, David Smith

Director: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab

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While her job requires many skills such as great personality and accurate instincts, she has bigger problems. The Monk does not want to be found and the locals aren’t helping her very much.

To make things more interesting, her over-attached boyfriend visits her uninvited and the person she has to report to, is falling in love with her. Unfortunately, he’s quite a geek.

And then, there’s the small matter of being wanted by the FBI.

Release Date: 2004

Genre: Comedy

Cast:

Marguerite Moreau (Kat Shutte)

Mackenzie Astin (Brad)

Adam Scott (David)

Director: Robert Mickelson

Living with his brother, Kip, that is searching for his soul mate on the Internet, and is uncle Rico, Napoleon counts the days as they go by without something interesting ever happening.

Rico, who is a former athlete, wishes to go back to 1982, to the days of his past glory. Napoleon’s only friend, Pedro, a Mexican that runs for class president, has to compete with the popular Summer.

So, Napoleon decides to help his friend the best way that he can: by following his heart.

Release Date: 2004

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast:

John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite)

Efren Ramirez (Pedro Sanchez)

Jon Gries (Uncle Rico)

Director: Jared Hess

They use all the methods they can thinks of and spare no means in order to obtain the information they want – the more dirt it contains, the better for them.Because of one of the paparazzi’s stalking, Bo and his family are involved in a car accident and they immediately take pictures of it, but don’t call for an ambulance.

Bo’s son goes in a coma and the man is at a crossroads in his life; he comes up with a very complicated revenge plan and starts hunting down the four paparazzi who have made his life a living hell.

Release Date: 3 September 2004

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Hollander, Kevin Gage, Blake Michael Bryan, Tom Sizemore, Andrea Baker, Jordan Baker, Joe Basile, Lauren Birkell

Director: Paul Abascal

They rent a room in an old lady’s house that they use as an operations center, and they plan to disguise in the music band members; thus the demolitions expert, the ex-general and the other thieves will have to pretend to be musicians, despite their appearance.

Their plan seems to have no flaws, but they have not taken in consideration an important element: little old Mrs. Munson, the landlady……

Release Date: 26 March 2004

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Tom Hanks (Profesor G.H. Dorr), Irma P. Hall (Marva Munson), Marlon Wayans (Gawain McSam), J.K. Simmons (Garth Pancake), Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst (Lump), Diane Delano , George Wallace (Alguacil Wyner), John McConnell,  Jason Weaver (Weemack).

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

After she wakes up from the coma, she wants revenge. She wants to kill everybody involved in the massacre at her wedding. She especially wants to kill, Bill, a professional killer.

Beatrix manages to kill her enemy Elle Driver and Bill’s brother, Bud. Now, all her revenge is focused on Bill. She wants to kill him at any cost. But Bill holds a secret that will change everything…

Release Date: April 16, 2004

Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama

Cast:

Uma Thurman (Beatrix Kiddo, The Bride)

David Carradine (Bill)

Lucy Liu

Director: Quentin Tarantino

So he decides to take off…..literally…..he ties up a couple of balloons to a deckchair and just takes off.He travels for a while and he ended up in a small town called Clarence, in a woman’s yard.

Danny and Glenda gradually fall in love and he starts to enjoy the small town quiet life as he starts teaching people how to have more fun.

Unfortunately for Danny, his past life is slowly catching up and he will have to find a way to make things work.

Release Date: 11 August 2004

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Rhys Muldoon, Justine Clarke, Jane Ruggiero

Director: Jeff Balsmeyer

The movie tells the funny story of Garfield, a cat whose master falls in love with Liz, the vet. When this happens, in the life of Garfield appears another element that he doesn’t like: Liz’s dog.

A competition begins between Garfield and Oddie. They want to gain the attention and the affection of their masters. When Garfield feels responsible for Oddie’s capture, he sets out on a rescue mission.

Release Date: June 11, 2004

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Cast:

Breckin Meyer (Jon)

Jennifer Love Hewitt (Liz)

Bill Murray (Garfield)

Director: Peter Hewitt

Every weekend, she’s taking a long train ride to make passionate love with him.

One day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and they begin a hot affair. This affair takes her to another train station, and another level of lust and desire.

Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she gets into a dark tunnel of no return.

Release Date: July 9, 2004

Genre: Drama, Romance

Cast:

Li Gong (Zhou Yu)

Tony Leung Ka Fai (Chen Quing)

Honglei Sun (Zhang Qiang)

Director: Zhou Sun

Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, takes part in the boys’ discoveries.

Ignacio, Enrique and father Manolo, meet again years later, when the boys are already grown-ups. But the meetings between the three of them, will change their lives forever…

Release Date: September 5, 2004

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Cast:

Fele Martinez (Enrique)

Francisco Boira (Ignacio)

Daniel Gimenez Chacho (Father Manolo)

Director: Pedro Almodovar

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He has fought mythical creatures that came out of the shadows of the night, and he has won; but that brought him the loss of his friends. He is a solitary man and those who cannot understand his work call him a murderer.

Van Helsing has a cursed past that he cannot leave behind or forget and he has to complete the missions he is given.

For the latest one he has to go to Transilvania, a region dominated by the eternally seductive Count Dracula; coincidentally, he is Van Helsing’s target.

Luckily, he will have the help of Anna Valerious, the last member of a blue blood family whom the Count has killed generation after generation.

She and Gabriel unite their forces in order to be able to defeat this Empire of Evil, but they will discover a terrible secret that they will have to face.

Release Date: 7 May 2004

Genre: Action, Adventure,Horror,Fantasy,Thriller

Cast: Elena Anaya, Samuel West, Robbie Coltrane, David Wenham, Kevin J. O´Connor, Kate Beckinsale, Alun Armstrong, Richard Roxburgh, Hugh Jackman, Shuler Hensley, Will Kemp, Silvia Colloca, Josie Maran.

Director: Stephen Sommers

Ocean

Danny Ocean is a very good thief and his biggest hit, in the casino of the Bellaggio hotel, has brought him a nice 160 million dollars.

He manages to get back with his wife and decides it is better to stay low for a while somewhere in Connecticut.

His peaceful and quiet life is disturbed by an unexpected visitor: Terry Benedict, the owner of the Bellaggio hotel. He has managed to track down Danny along with the other 10 men who had helped him commit the robbery and he is forcing them to pay him back.

Since a lot of the money has already been spent, the eleven people start planning another hit. Danny discovers that an incredibly rare Faberge egg will be exhibited at an important museum in Rome.

They decide to steal it, but things don’t go totally according to plan, seeing that he was not the only one going after the egg.

Release Date: 17 December 2004 (Romania)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Cast: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Don Tiffany, Andy Garcia, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Under the surveillance of his mentor, captain Mike Kennedy, firefighter Jack Morrison matures while working for a fire brigade in Baltimore.

Although he is a veteran in this field and has fought fire many times, Jack gets to a crossroads in his life, as he does not know what to do; the danger he puts himself in every time he goes to work is affecting his life with his wife and kids, but he isn’t sure he should give up.

When his biggest nightmare comes true and he gets trapped in a huge fire in a 20 stories building, Jack thinks about certain moments of his life , while Kennedy coordinates the efforts of all his colleagues, in order to save him before he dies in that fire.

Release Date: 1 October 2004

Genre: Action,  Drama, Thriller

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut

Director: Jay Russell

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Convinced that a series of coincidences regarding a door man actually hide a secret related to the main enigmas of life, Albert Markovki asks for the help of a detective agency different from all others, which will soon lead him to questioning the essence of his own existence.

In his attempt to discover the secret meaning of those coincidences, Albert also asks advice from Bernard and Vivian Jaffe, also known as the Existential Detectives, a married couple of meta-physicians. They usually investigate the mysteries that are at the base of their clients’ inner and secret lives.

When they take over a case, they closely follow their client, observe their daily activities, question their friends and work colleagues.

The only difference between them and a traditional private investigator is that they try to find the solution to the most persistent of mysteries – the one which stands at the base of all essence of reality and of existence itself……will they succeed?

Release Date: 22 October 2004

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts

Director: David O. Russell

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This film is the vision of Michael Moore on George W. Bush and on his war against terrorism.

Moore thinks Bush is a failure of a business man, with strong connections to the Saudi Arabian royalty and to the bin Laden family. He came to be president under strange circumstances and he continued to mess things up, ignoring all the people who warned him that his partners will betray him.

In relation to the 9/11 events, Moore states Bush did not protect his country, he selfishly used it to serve his own purposes.

Through facts, images and interviews, Moore illustrates his point of view and how Bush got America into the big trouble it is in now and also suggests what attitude should the American people take.

Release Date: 25 June 2004

Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama, History, War

Cast: Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder, George W. Bush,  Ricky Martin, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Osama Bin Laden

Director: Michael Moore

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Based on real facts, ‘Zelary’ tells a story that happened in the 1940s, in Czechoslovakia, during the German occupation.

Eliska, a med school student, cannot finish her studies because they have closed down all the universities, and she now works as a nurse in the local hospital.

She and her boyfriend Richard are involved in the resistance movement against the Nazis. One night a man is brought to the hospital suffering serious injuries and in desperate need of a blood transfusion.

Eliska is the only person with that blood type and ever since that moment a very strong connection exists between modern, educated Eliska and rude, barbarian Joza.

When the resistance movement is discovered, Richard has to leave the country and Eliska had to hide in a small mountain village, under Joza’s protection.

Their blood ties get stronger and their relationship as well, despite the enormous differences between them.

Release Date: 17 September 2004

Genre: Romance, Drama, Foreign

Cast: Ana Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Admová, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Dusek, Iva Bittová, Ivan Trojan, Jan Hrusínský, Ondrej Koval

Director: Ondrej Trojan