Best movies of 2004

Actors : Tomer Russo, Mohammad Bakri, Lior Miller, Hend Ayoub,
Directors : Saverio Costanzo,

A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.

Actors : Anny Mariano, Judy Marte, Paola Mendoza, Dominic Colón,

Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

Actors : Eddie Griffin, Michael Imperioli, Paula Jai Parker, Anthony Anderson,
Directors : Cheryl Dunye,

A trio of young men (Griffin, Anderson, and Imperioli) are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.

Actors : Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea,
Directors : Fernando Eimbcke,

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, ...

Actors : Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, Jan Hooks, Martin Short,
Directors : Vadim Jean,

Culture critic Jiminy Glick gets tied up in a murder case at the Toronto Film Festival.

Actors : Tao Zhao, Taishen Cheng, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang,
Directors : Zhangke Jia,

An exploration on the impact of urbanization and globalization on a traditional culture.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Frank Wood, Jake Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell,
Directors : Peter Riegert,

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and his wife is losing her patience. A twist...

Actors : Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros, Emily Brooke Hands, Rebekah Kochan,
Directors : Q. Allan Brocka,

After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb's roommate, Gwen thinks he's gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc.

Actors : Bianca Lawson, Jeremy Sisto, Oz Perkins, Erik Palladino,
Directors : Matthew Leutwyler,

A night at a local bed and breakfast turns into a bloody supernatural fight to the death.

Actors : Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small ...

Actors : Faramarz Gharibian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Ansari, Hossein Farzi-Zadeh,
Directors : Asghar Farhadi,

Akbar has just turned eighteen. He has been held in a rehabilitation centre for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the...

Actors : David M. Wallace, Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse,
Directors : David Gebroe,

Zombie Honeymoon is a gore-soaked exploration of how far the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point.

Actors : Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alche, Mercedes Morán,
Directors : Lucrecia Martel,

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul a middle-aged doctor.

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Actors : Kippei Shîna, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kaoru Kobayashi, Keiko Toda,
Directors : Yôichi Sai,

As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to...

Actors : Anna Tsuchiya, Kyoko Fukada, Sadao Abe, Hiroyuki Miyasako,
Directors : Tetsuya Nakashima,

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.

Actors : Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham, Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning,
Directors : Mark Milgard,

In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason ...

Actors : Clara Khoury, Makram Khoury, Ashraf Barhom, Hiam Abbass,
Directors : Eran Riklis,

In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the...

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor, Yekaterina Golubeva, Bambou,
Directors : Claire Denis,

Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years ...

Actors : Nick Cheung, Kelly Chen, Siu-Fai Cheung, Richie Jen,
Directors : Johnnie To,

When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a ...