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21 Grams21 Grams (2003)
Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro
For his English–language debut, the celebrated Mexican director of AMORES PERROS weighs in with an unconventional, soul–baring drama that…
Agent Cody BanksAgent Cody Banks (2003) Recommended
Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff
Teen heart–throb Frankie Munz plays a junior CIA agent in this lightweight but savvy James Bond–parody. Skateboarding his way into a…
Back River Rd (2003)
Dir. Peter Tait
A roughly–hewn thriller set in the backroads of northern New Zealand, where various characters in the dope–growing scene vie for success.…
Blind FlightBlind Flight (2003)
Dir. John Furse
Feat. Ian Hart, Linus Roache
True story of the 4–year kidnapping in 80s Lebanon of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy, given an affecting depth by its…
HeavenHeaven (2002)
Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi
An art–thriller worked from a script by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski which follows the enigmatic trail of recently widowed and vengeful Cate…
Missing Gun, The (Xun qiang) (2002)
Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Wen Jiang
Wound–up thriller set in a small and eccentric Chinese village, where a policeman wakes one morning with a hangover to find his…
Anti-TrustAnti-Trust (2001)
Dir. Peter Howitt
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Tim Robbins, Rachael Leigh Cook
Dot.com billlionaire Tim Robbins (modelled on Bill Gates) tries to buy the soul of computer whizz Ryan Phillippe in this competent hacker thriller,…
Forever MineForever Mine (2001)
Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, Joseph Fiennes
The victim of a squelched distribution deal, this film–noir romance from dir. Schrader (AFFLICTION) is one of the most notable films to ever go…
Four DaysFour Days (2001) Recommended
Dir. Curtis Wehrfritz
Feat. Colm Meaney, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin Zegers
This accomplished 'existential thriller', based on 60s crime novel by John Buell, fuses genre conventions with weightier concerns about loneliness…
Love the Hard WayLove the Hard Way (2001)
Dir. Peter Sehr
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pam Grier
Big–city fable with Brody playing a snakeskin–jacketed thief with some polished one–liners, who nurses a secret ambition to be a…

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