Man on Fire (2004)

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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone …

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/
Release Date: 23 April 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Stars: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

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In 1939, an intrepid reporter in New York City makes a connection between the story she’s covering– of famous scientists suddenly disappearing around the world, and a recent attack on the city by giant robots. Determined to find the solution to these happenings, she seeks the help of her ex-boyfriend, the captain of a mercenary legion of pilots. The two are investigating the case when the robots attack the city again, though in a stroke of luck, Sky Captain’s right hand man is able to locate their source. They then set off on an adventure in search of the evil mastermind behind these schemes, who is bent on creating a utopia and destroying the current world.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/
Release Date: 17 September 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie

Friday Night Lights (2004)

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Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that “Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down”, is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390022/
Release Date: 8 October 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Drama | Sport
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke

The Scarlet Letter (2004)

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A detective, his 3 girls & a murder case. Complex emotional relationships and human nature’s darker sides are explored in this captivating suspense drama about a cop whose lust for love threatens to get in the way of his professional life.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427411/
Release Date: 28 October 2004 (South Korea)
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Stars: Suk-kyu Han, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeon-a Seong

Resident Evil Apocalypse (2004)

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Alice awakes in Raccoon City, only to find it has become infested with zombies and monsters. With the help of Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, Alice must find a way out of the city before it is destroyed by a nuclear missile.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318627/
Release Date: 10 September 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius

Appleseed (2004)

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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?

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401233/
Release Date: 17 April 2004 (Japan)
Genre: Sci-Fi | Action | Animation
Stars: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka

Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)

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Two college friends get together and reminisce on the woman they both fell in love with at different times in their past, and are thus propelled to find her.

aka Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda
Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403692/
Release Date: 14 May 2004 (South Korea)
Genre: Drama
Stars: Ji-tae Yu, Tae-woo Kim, Hyeon-a Seong

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. Colm Feore plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. Judi Dench is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296572/
Release Date: 11 June 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Stars: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore

Kamikaze Girls (2004)

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Momoko Ryugasaki is the daughter of a smalltime gangster that forges Versace brand and a lowlife woman. Momoko is smitten by the Rococo period and dresses in a Lolita style, with frilly dresses and embroidery bonnet. She is raised by her father since her mother divorced him to marry her gynecologist, and he has taught her how to perfectly embroider. When Mr. Ryugasaki includes the Universal Studios brand in his products, he is forced to move to the rural Shimotsuma with Momoko to live in the house of her grandmother. Momoko decides to sell her collection of forged Versace and Universal Studios to make money to buy her expensive clothing. The rebel “yanki” Ichigo Shirayuri visits Momoko to buy clothes and soon they begin the most unlikely friendship.

aka Shimotsuma monogatari
Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416220/
Release Date: 29 May 2004 (Japan)
Genre: Comedy
Stars: Kyôko Fukada, Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Miyasako

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

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In 1939, an intrepid reporter in New York City makes a connection between the story she’s covering– of famous scientists suddenly disappearing around the world, and a recent attack on the city by giant robots. Determined to find the solution to these happenings, she seeks the help of her ex-boyfriend, the captain of a mercenary legion of pilots. The two are investigating the case when the robots attack the city again, though in a stroke of luck, Sky Captain’s right hand man is able to locate their source. They then set off on an adventure in search of the evil mastermind behind these schemes, who is bent on creating a utopia and destroying the current world.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/
Release Date: 17 September 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

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After escaping from the emotional and physical pain he previously encountered. Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie begin a new life as far away as possible. But when an assassination attempt on Bourne goes horribly wrong, Bourne must re-enter the life he wanted to leave behind, in order to find out the truth why they are still after him.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/
Release Date: 19 August 2004 (Indonesia)
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente and Joan Allen

National Treasure (2004)

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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who’ve all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben’s close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/
Release Date: 19 November 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

Swades: We, the People (2004)

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Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. The film uses the contrast between the highly developed world of NASA, which has been at the forefront of advances in space research, and this world back home in India, which is at the crossroads of development. Mohan’s simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called “home”.

aka Swades: We, the People
Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367110/
Release Date: 17 December 2004 (India)
Genre: Drama
Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Balal

Spider Man 2 (2004)

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Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius.

Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/
Release Date: 30 June 2004 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Stars : Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina