Best movies of 2004

Actors : Nicholas Downs, Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant,
Directors : Luke Greenfield,

A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.

Actors : Pavan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aditya Srivastava,
Directors : Anurag Kashyap,

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Actors : Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Bill Paxton, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Frank E. Flowers,

In Cayman Island, the daughter of a powerful man - Andrea - and the fisherman Shy are in a deep but secret love, hidden from Andrea's parents. When Andrea's father sails in a fish-trip, ...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, Jim Caviezel,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

Jim Caviezel stars as golf legend Bobby Jones, the icon who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

Actors : Michael Ealy, Courteney Cox, Dori Mizrahi, James Le Gros,
Directors : Greg Harrison,

Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.

Actors : Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane,
Directors : Antoine Fuqua,

A demystified take on the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Actors : Toni Collette, Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Jeff Nathanson,

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Actors : María Botto, Guillermo Toledo, Fernando Ramallo, Marian Aguilera,

Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. ...

Actors : Bai Ling, Byung-hun Lee, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau,

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Allison Janney, Mark Webber,
Directors : Josh Sternfeld,

In this suburban drama, a widower (played by Anthony LaPaglia) confronts his older son's (played by Aaron Stanford) decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.

Actors : Vahina Giocante, Moa Khouas, Karim Ben Haddou, Lotfi Chakri,
Directors : Ziad Doueiri,

Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila's sexually explicit overtures.

Actors : Kris Holden-Ried, Suleka Mathew, Kyle MacLachlan, Jimi Mistry,
Directors : Ian Iqbal Rashid,

A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.

Actors : Asanee Suwan, Orn-Anong Panyawong, Nukkid Boonthong, Sorapong Chatree,
Directors : Ekachai Uekrongtham,

Bio-pic of transgender Muay Thai boxer Parinya Charoenphol who pursued the sport to pay for her sex change operation.

Actors : Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina, Anne Suzuki,
Directors : Katsuhiro Ôtomo,

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

Actors : Vera Farmiga, Hugh Dillon, Caridad 'La Bruja' De La Luz, Clint Jordan,
Directors : Debra Granik,

A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.

Actors : Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich Thomsen, Connie Nielsen, Sarah Juel Werner,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.

Actors : Frederick Weller, Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese, Ashley Shelton,
Directors : James Toback,

Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.

Actors : David Castillo, Empar Ferrer, Elvira Lindo, José Luis García Pérez,
Directors : Miguel Albaladejo,

Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, ...

Actors : Rip Torn, Hank Azaria, Ray Romano, Jesse Bradford,
Directors : Michael Clancy,

A black comedy that follows three generations of a family, who come together for the funeral of the patriarch - unveiling a litany of family secrets and covert relationships.

Actors : Freddie Highmore, Oanh Nguyen, Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.