Movies produced in 2003

Kathy is an emotionally unstable and neglectful woman evicted from the house she inherited from her father when she is mistakenly charged for unpaid taxes. After the immediate auction, the house is sold in a very low price to the Iranian Colonel Behrani, a refugee who sees the chance to give some stability to his family and make a profit in the resell of the property to raise money to send his beloved son to the university. Kathy has a relationship with the abusive officer Lester, who tries to force the family leave the place, ending his attempt in a tragic way.

Several college students, Cynthia (Sonya Salomaa), Greg (Will Sanderson), Simon (Tyron Leitso), Karma (Enuka Okuma) and Alicia (Ona Grauer), travel to a huge rave party on a savage island. But when they arrive, they find the decorations up but the empty stage and no revelry. However, the friends soon have more than enough fun when they find themselves chased by rotting zombies craving for human flesh and blood. Escaping from scary creatures whose bite turns a human being into a living dead, the trembling friends take shelter in an old house in the heart of the forest. With the help of coast guard cop Jordan Casper (Ellie Cornell), the guys must fight with guileful zombies to survive the most terrible night in the "House of the Dead".

Once there were three kids Dave, Jimmy and Sean playing in a tight blue-collar Boston neighborhood. One of them, Dave, is raped and abducted by two men for several days. Twenty-five years later friends meet again: Jimmy's teen daughter is killed. Dave is haunted by memories and protective of his own son. Jimmy's an ex-con, father of three. Sean is a homicide detective, estranged from his pregnant wife. Jimmy hardly wants to find the killer before the cops. Dave becomes a primary suspect. Sean, assigned to investigate the crime, finds himself facing both demons from the past and demons in the present as the circumstances surrounding Katie's death are uncovered.

Archaeology students, Andre Marek (Gerard Butler), Chris Johnston (Paul Walker), and Kate Ericson (Frances O'Connor), working on the ruins of a 14th-century castle in France, find amazing historical artifacts - an old bifocal lens and an appeal for help dated 1357 and written by ... their history professor Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly)! The perplexed students make for International Technology Corporation headquarters to inform about the mysterious discoveries. ITC president Robert Doniger (David Thewlis) explains to them that he has created the time machine to travel into the past, and Professor Johnston, who wanted to be the first to experience it, is now trapped in world history. The students are certain that their knowledge of medieval Europe will be enough for them to get him back safe and sound, and they fearlessly travel back in time to find themselves in the midst of the Hundred Years' War. Will they manage to rescue the professor and return home if they have only six hours?

Welcome to a near future world where cloning has run amok, free relationship between a man and a woman is forbidden by genetics laws, and travel from city to city is severely restricted. A Seattle insurance fraud investigator named William Geld (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shanghai to figure out who is forging and smuggling 'papelles', identity documents that allow people to travel. But when he gets on the trail of Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), a charming woman who is supposedly responsible for the forgeries, he becomes deeply infatuated with her. He conceals her crime and enters into an illicit affair with her. Back home, William can't help thinking about Maria. He returns to Shanghai only to find that she will be severely punished for a Code 46 violation. Desperate, William is determined to leave no stone unturned to save his flame.

Can you imagine a near-future world? The time is out of joint: it's July, 2021, but snow falls in New York City, people freeze in Uganda, gravity loses its power in Africa. Despite world-wide chaos John (Joaquin Phoenix), a Polish academic on his way to Calgary, stops in New York to meet his wife Elena (Claire Danes), a world-famous figure skater, in order to get a divorce. But when John arrives at Elena's hotel, he realizes that something is wrong. John soon discovers that Elena and her staff have a secret — David (Alun Armstrong), her manager, has cloned Elena with the intention of killing her as soon as her talent finally runs short. They are soon on the run from David and his mates. Is there a corner of the world where they can seek shelter to keep themselves safe and sound?

"Webs" stars Richard Grieco as an Everyman electrician who stumbles onto a doohickey that can open a gateway to a parallel Earth. After members of Grieco’s crew accidentally activates the doohickey, the 4-men team find themselves in a Chicago that looks familiar, but has been overrun by mutant spiders from another parallel universe...

In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.

A psychological thriller: a lonely New York woman discovers the darker side of passion after becoming involved with a tough homicide detective who is investigating a series of murders in her neighborhood.

Colin's a sad-eyed British artist (Firth) holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancee (Driver). The hotel owner (Steenburgen) plays matchmaker and introduces him to a local girl (Graham). Romance ensues, though Colin's ex may be looking to reunite.

The twins of Paul "Muad'dib" Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis ("Dune") and the rest of the universe.

In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis.

World-famous astrophysicist Dr. Jack Murray (Chris Potter) and his lab partner Hank are experimenting with time travel when they mysteriously disappear without leaving a trace. Dr. Murray's children, Meg (Katie Stuart) and Charles Wallace (David Dorfman), are at a loss to know where to find their missing father. Then, guided by three cosmic beings - Mrs. Who (Alison Elliott), Mrs. Whatsit (Alfre Woodard), and Mrs. Which (Kate Nelligan) - the kids and their neighbour Calvin O'Keefe (Gregory Smith) go on a breathtaking journey to the distant planet of Camazotz where they meet with evil forces led by The Prime Coordinator (Kyle Secor), a red-eyed man. The travellers must trust each other if they want to rescue Dr. Murry and return home safe and sound.

By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy.

The movie begins with the words from Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’: ‘Dying is an art’. The movie relates the story of love and passion between two well-known poets of the XX century – Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Their first meeting developed into a stormy relationship. However, their marriage proved to be fragile, and they separated (mainly because of Hughes’ affair with Assia Wevill (Amira Casar). Down-and-out, depressed, with a broken heart, Sylvia Plath took her own life in 1963.

James Clayton (Colin Farrell), one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country, is recruited by the secret CIA training facility called the Farm at Camp Peary in Virginia. The brilliant agent trainee quickly learns the tricks of the spy trade and rises through the ranks. When he gets a special assignment to root out a suspected spy that has infiltrated the Agency, Clayton starts to doubt whom he can truly trust as he suspects his mentor, Walter Burke (Al Pacino), and others at the Farm of being double agents for the Chinese government.

Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used that technology as a doorway into ours. Now, imagine the connection we made can't be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they'll get in, you'll be infected and they'll be able to take from you what they don't have anymore — life.

The movie tells the ironical story of Donna Jensen (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young woman from a provincial town who has high hopes for the future and dreams of seeing the world. When her lover breaks her heart, she is sickly of body and mind and feels heavy-laden. But her life unexpectedly alters when she reads the book of Sally Weston, a famous flight attendant. Inspired by Sally’s story of success, Donna gets her things together and goes to a nearby city to look for a job as a flight attendant. After working for a small commuter airline Donna decides to try her luck at an international airline. However, she finds that the road to success is more twisting as it may seem.

Every 23rd spring a sinister winged monster (Jonathan Breck) awakes from sleep to eat flesh for 23 days. It is day 22. The final day of the Creeper’s dreadful feast comes to an end. Today the ancient beast hopes for a bumper catch – a high school basketball team and charming cheerleaders returning home from a championship game. They become stranded on a lonely highway after their school bus conk out. Oddly enough, their mobiles don’t work, and there is nowhere to turn for help. At sunset the voracious devil incarnate will start its bloody bacchanalia. Will the immortal creature kill the horror-stricken adults and students one by one? Or will the victims stay alive till morning?

In the branches of Axis, a tree rising 100 miles into the clouds, there is a village inhabited by human-like dwellers. One of them is Kaena (voiced by Kirsten Dunst), a young girl who dreams of the world with blue clear sky and plentiful fresh water. When Axis’s sap almost runs dry and it grows weak, it seems to Kaena that Axis is calling her for help. In defiance of her tribe's taboos the adventurous and rebellious Kaena starts on her journey beyond the confines of the village to seek help. She finds herself in the weird and wonderful world inhabited by mysterious creatures! At the end of her courageous quest Kaena will unravel a terrible secret...