Movies produced in 2004

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) returns to the screen in the action-packed thriller Sniper 3 to become National Security Agency's secret weapon. Beckett is hired to terminate a suspected terrorist and soon discovers the criminal's personality. His former best friend Paul Finnegan, believed to have been killed in action, became a dangerous spy who constantly tries to manipulate the US and whole the world. Meanwhile, Thomas realizes that his employers' motives are not apparently claimed.

Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) learns that their daughter won't be at home to celebrate Christmas due to her mission within the Peace Corps somewhere in Peru. They decide to skip the high expenses of the holiday altogether, despite the fact that they're usually the most fanatical about it. Situation becomes really hilarious when their daughter suddenly returns home and they decide to start celebration from scratch. The movie is based on John Grisham's novel "Skipping Christmas" and directed by Chris Columbus which means it will be really funny!

Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a former gangster, plans to retire but his expectancies get crash when his wife occasionally gives shelter to some fugitive Asian girl Kim. When it turns out that the girl escaped from Chinese mafia, Archer soon realizes that the powerful Chinese Triad kingpin sent his cutthroats to find her. When Ben's wife is murdered, he craves for the one thing - the revenge. Archer along with his son and Kim must survive numerous skirmishes and fights with Chinese Mafiosi in this action-packed movie abundant in stylish special effects and breathtaking dynamic.

London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow's mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens, Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

"Starsky & Hutch" takes place in the 70s. Two guys played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stripped of their badges, done by a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn) and totally ripped off in a disco contest. Vaughn's character is a maniacal drug lord with an absurd moustache who is prone to dramatic outbursts. So, yeah, they got some scores to settle. Driving a red and white Ford Torino and solving cases with the assistance of their informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), they investigate their latest case, and soon realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the criminal involved in their first bust.

This mixture of different horror styles depicts Jenna, a girl infected by a vampire's bite, on her way to find and destroy the source of infection. She and her father encounter different types of carnivore and bloodthirsty creatures along their journey through the zombie-ravaged world to the lair of Carmilla, who is suspected to be the source of Jenna's illness. The movie is respectively based on the Le Fanu's novel "Carmilla".

The spawn of the evil Chucky doll is grown up to be a peaceful kind of guy. This time around, after hearing the news of a film being made about his parents' murderous legacy, Glen (Billy Boyd), an orphan offspring, goes to Hollywood, where he promptly brings homicidal Chucky (Brad Dourif) and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) back to life. Chucky is seriously disappointed in his son's lack of inherent evil and tries to pass his vast knowledge of all murderous mayhem before Glen becomes some sort of nice guy. Tiff also doesn't hesitate to let her son repudiate their family's most cherished tradition - killing amusements. The action takes place in Hollywood, Jennifer Tilly plays herself becoming an unwitting hostess to the new family in this hilarious horror movie.

Molly Keller, a direct descendant of Jack the Ripper is sentenced to an insane asylum after a series of brutal murders. She is drawn into an unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute, where she is to enter a virtual world where the line between what's real and what's not is almost impossible to distinguish. Other patients are involved in experiment too, and soon it turns out to be too dangerous when some of them begin to die. Molly knows that the Ripper's consciousness might be still alive and she thinks that death can be the only way to stop the murders.

Four generations who haven't seen each other in years are brought together by the chance to face some unpleasant truths in this drama. It's a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises – some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal. Jason's wife left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach while she paints somewhere abroad, and his ailing grandfather Henry, a former archaeologist who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral being close to death. So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner, whose doubtful past includes varies from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life anymore. A little bit ponderous saga of fathers and sons from first-time writer/director Jordan Roberts.

A legendary zombie epic of George Romero has its remake in this impressive thriller which follows a small group of survivors that tries to find shelter from bloodthirsty hordes of decaying zombies in a massive shopping mall. Some plague invaded the Earth, and people, who died from it, aren't strictly dead, but they are terrible walking corpses craving for a living flesh. World is drawn into the despairing chaos when few survivors try to save themselves from the hordes of the dire hungry zombies. How to distinguish a live human from a freshman zombie when a former friend may become the deadly enemy? Will not he stab his teeth in your neck in next moment of a blind, bloodthirsty rage?

Bloody BDSM orgies, strange hallucinations and murder scenes float by the lens of a crime-scene photographer Daniel (Vincent Bilancio), when he gets close to uncover a series of murders linked to a secret S & M ring specializing in blood games in this erotic horror movie. He began to see some hideous demonic creatures when turned to the bottle and began to scrutinize the heart of the bondage world, where not everything is as it seems. Featuring erotic superstar Julie Strain, John Lechago's film combines horror with sexuality, doubling the pleasure for fans of both genres.

Steve Zissou, a sea-film amateur, has hard times. His partner was eaten by a shark, in addition Steve has problems with his own wife and some young man states that he is Zissou's son. Recent filming brought no success to Steve, he has troubles with money and with a pregnant reporter to whom he is attracted to. A revolt, pirates, a pursuit by shark and the bonds of fatherhood awaits him at the sea as the story unfolds. He should learn how to smile and how to handle the monster from the ocean depths... besides restoring the box office positions.

Shocked Californians woke up one day to find out there's no Latino left in the state as the strange eerie mist shrouded everything in this social-satiric mockumentary. Unable to reach the outside world, the life of the whole state begins to degenerate, and the economical, political and social importance of Latinos soon becomes very clear.

Sam, a shy schoolboy, suffers from a bully school troublemaker George in a small Oregon town. Sam tells his protective elder brother about the pummeling he suffers from that guy. Two brothers think out the revenge plan together and invite George to the river boat trip to put a stop to humiliation. During the trip Sam unexpectedly finds out that George is simply a child who can not find friends. But the boat is already on its way…

She walks past the window of the shop where he works in the Wicker Park section of Chicago, and he's immediately captivated; he follows her, they meet, and soon they fall deeply in love. It was two years ago, Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Matthew (Josh Hartnett) had a love affair, and Lisa simply vanished when Matthew invited her to move with him to New York, where he had the invitation for a better job, and Matthew is still obsessed for her. Today Matt has built a new life for himself, but he's still haunted by her memory and the nagging torment of unanswered questions. Then he catches a quick glimpse of someone he thinks must be her in a bar - but is it? Thus begins a twisting, obsessive search for the woman who captured his heart years ago - and for someone who's playing with his mind right now. Two years later, Matthew's search for the truth will lead him deeper into the mystery, with each discovery more deceiving than the next. Obsession can go both ways, and Matthew discovers it's possible to love someone too much.

Walter is released from the prison after the 12-years imprisonment and being shunned as he is a sex offender. Was he really guilty or it was a terrible mistake? Now he is to prove his innocence to the people who met him with hate and indifference. To cap it all, a maniac attacks children in the Walter's town and all victims of the villain had been arrogated to Walter. Now he has the only chance to get clear - by attempting to catch the real pervert. Walter begins an all-out war against the dangerous predator.

1660. The France is being lacerated by the struggle between the king and the cardinal, each of them is having its own army: cardinal controls guardians, and the musketeers are loyal to the king. Legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own. With her father's sword and a letter of introduction to Commander Flint (Roy Dotrice), the eager young novice sets out to seek her fortune in Paris.

This psychological sci-fi thriller starts with two young engineers who work within a research team by day for a mighty corporation and conduct extramural experiments on nights and Sundays. Their recent work seems to have created an unexpected and seemingly impossible side-effect. The device they invented that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitation pull turned out to allow various manipulations with the space-time continuum. Attempting to manipulate time to their financial and emotional benefit, engineers faced with the questions of trust, moral and ethics being enabled to do and have anything they want.

Paul, a school teacher (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Jessica (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are distraught after losing their eight-year-old son David in an accident. Dr. Richard Wells (Robert DeNiro) approaches with the incredible and illegal offer to clone Adam, essentially bringing back their boy and reuniting their broken family. After much soul searching, the grieving couple accept Wells' proposal, and, shortly afterward, the new Adam is born. He is seemingly identical to the original Adam and his live and manners are similar to his predecessor until a series of night terrors disturbs him... at the morning of his eighth birthday. Eventually, disturbing differences begin to emerge, Adam's sweetness gradually changes to ill temper. Paul and Jessie discover that Dr. Wells is not a pediatrician, but a geneticist, and that their Faustian pact was a possible mistake.

Oppositionist Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine") defiantly criticizes the Bush administration in this documentary analysis of what happened at the day the World Trade Center was attacked and what followed. The documentary uncovers the probable relationships between President George W. Bush and the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden, and casts some light on the both-ways dependence binding the American power structures and the Saudi terrorists together. You have a rare opportunity to know the Bush Administration's ways of using the tragic event to push its own plans and to serve financial and political ambitions of the backers.