Best movies of 2004

Actors : Unnop Chanpaibool, Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana,

A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.

Actors : Josh Charles, Andy Richter, Jay Mohr, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : Wallace Wolodarsky,

Two months shy of their wedding, a couple decide to allow each other last flings until their wedding.

Actors : Shinohara Takahumi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Issei Ogata, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Jun Ichikawa,

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Actors : Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Duane Boutte, Daniel Sunjata, Anthony Mackie,
Directors : Rodney Evans,

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina, Eduard Tabishev,
Directors : Gulshat Omarova,

Shiza is the nickname of a 15-year-old boy. Money, power, and women - he has none of these, yet, in his young life. But, he does have the illegal, underground circuit of bare-knuckle ...

Actors : Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.

Actors : Kostja Ullmann, Miriam Morgenstern, Jürgen Tonkel, Robert Stadlober,
Directors : Marco Kreuzpaintner,

A close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.

Actors : Elsa Zylberstein, Andy Garcia, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Mick Davis,

The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Maggie Cheung, Jeanne Balibar, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser...

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Rani Mukerji, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi,
Directors : Mani Ratnam,

Michael, Arjun and Lallan, three men from three different stratas of society, cross paths one morning in Calcutta and change one another's lives forever.

Actors : Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom, Sirivech Jareonchon,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.

Actors : Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz, Shamshad Akhtar,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Sparks fly in Glasgow's south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman.

Actors : Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, Roland Uruci, Andrew Gurland,

A documentarian funds an N.Y.C. doorman's East Asian mail-order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.

Actors : Katia Zinbris, Ronit Elkabetz, Dana Ivgy, Meshar Cohen,
Directors : Keren Yedaya,

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel...

Actors : Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Ben Stiller,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.

Actors : Claudia Gerini, Natalia Barcelò, Sergio Castellitto, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Sergio Castellitto,

A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).

Actors : Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Mami Koyama,

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Actors : Kyôka Suzuki, Yui Ichikawa, Atsuro Watabe, Shô Aikawa,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

Actors : Anne Brochet, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.

Actors : Lisa Blount, Kamron Ross Stacey, Billy Bob Thornton, David Rhodes,
Directors : Ray McKinnon,

Twenty years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption.