Movie Releases by Genre
|
The Five Senses
July 14, 2000
Five people, each representing one of the senses, feel their way toward love or reconciliation through five interconnected stories taking place over a three day period in Montreal.
|
|
Shadow Hours
July 14, 2000
A recovering alcoholic and expectant father is paid by a wealthy sensation seeker to hang out with him after hours in Los Angeles, observing and participating in many of the unreported shocking things that happen after dark.
|
|
The Big Blue
July 14, 2000
Two young men who are deep-sea divers and long-time rivals come together again in competition with one having an advantage with his unusual trait (something to do with dolphins).
|
|
All the Rage
July 7, 2000
A holdup at gunpoint affects the lives of a cross section of people in a variety of ways in this dark comedy.
|
|
But I'm a Cheerleader
July 7, 2000
Suspected of being a lesbian, an unsophisticated teenager is sent to rehab camp by her conventional parents and friends.
|
|
Shower
July 7, 2000
Set in and around a traditional Chinese communal bathhouse, the film chronicles changing times that put the bathhouse's future in doubt, as the son of the owner comes home to visit when he receives a postcard from his mentally challenged brother informing him that their father has died.
|
|
The Perfect Storm
June 30, 2000
The film follows a sudden and violent storm -- the emotional ups and downs of the six stranded fishermen, the surviving families and the rescue crews. Based on a true story.
|
|
The Patriot
June 28, 2000
In this story of the American Revolution, Gibson plays a pacifist turned warrior. Gibson joins his son (Ledger) in a bitter and personal battle for independence after experiencing the iron fist of a cold-blooded British officer.
|
|
Praise
June 23, 2000
A sex-charged relationship between an unfocused, chain-smoking asthmatic and a nymphomaniac with eczema.
|
|
Boricua's Bond
June 21, 2000
Story about a Latino pop star (Negron) growing up in a Puerto-Rican neighborhood in the Bronx.
|
|
Jesus' Son
June 16, 2000
Stumbling across America in the 1970's, a young junkie (Crudup) searches for meaning in everything from sex and drugs to meetings with strangers.
|
|
Butterfly Tongues
June 16, 2000
Explores the extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho (Lozano), and his incredibly compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio (Gomez), who teaches Moncho to find his way in a world that is increasingly frightening. (Miramax Films)
|
|
Humanité
June 16, 2000
A police detective with unusual methods investigates the murder of an 11-year-old girl; the film is about his daily life, including the yearning he has for his neighbor.
|
|
Marcel Proust's Time Regained
June 16, 2000
Based on the last book of Proust's saga "a la recherche du temps perdu."
|
|
Boys and Girls
June 16, 2000
College students at Berkeley and longtime friends, Ryan (Prinze) and Jennifer (Forlani) learn that love sometimes finds you when you are least expecting it.
|
|
Sunshine
June 9, 2000
The story of three generations of scions during the tragic and turbulent history of Hungary in the 20th century. Fiennes plays all three leads.
|
|
Groove
June 9, 2000
This film is set during one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
|
|
Running Free
June 2, 2000
The film reveals the story of how herds of wild horses came to Namibia's vast desert -- and what it says about humans in their relationship to animals.
|
|
Better Living Through Circuitry
May 26, 2000
Documentary about the rave phenomenon, going deeper than you'll want to go unless you are already a fan of electronic dance music.
|
|
Passion of Mind
May 26, 2000
The story about a woman who must choose between love and illusion.
|
|
KikujirĂ´ no natsu
May 26, 2000
It's summer and nine-year old Masao (Sekiguchi) has no one to play with. He decides to go in search of the mother he has never met. Kikujiro (Takeshi), a brash, loudmouthed and irresponsible adult, agrees to accompany him on his quest. Ultimately, the two of them end up at a destination that neither of them could have imagined. (Sony Pictures Classics)
|
|
8 ½ Women
May 26, 2000
Two wealthy businessmen, a father and son, decide to set up their own brothel. . .an erotic fantasy (including father-son incest).
|
|
Luminous Motion
May 19, 2000
A mother and her 10-year old son, who has an active fantasy life, drive across the country on the proceeds of the mother's trick-turning; that is, until her car dies. She temporarily moves in with a hardware store owner, and the boy's father tries to track them down.
|
|
Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
May 19, 2000
In between the birth of a guileless boy and his rediscovery in old age of his childlike sense of wonderment, performers demonstrate incredible feats of coordination and physical boldness.
|
|
Young Dr. Freud
May 19, 2000
Corti's 1976 biography of Sigmund Freud delves into the mind of the father of psychoanalysis, focusing on the highlights of his emotional and intellectual development and projecting their impact on the legend's life and his theories.
|
|
The Well
May 19, 2000
Hester (Rabe) brings a young woman, Katherine (Otto) in to live with her and her father and to help with chores on their farm in the Australian Outback. The two women form an atypical relationship as one is older and more conservative while the other is younger and energetic. They must come to terms after a tragic night on the town puts them at odds.
|
|
Center Stage
May 12, 2000
A drama that follows the hopes and dreams of a tight-knit group of young dance students as they try to make a name for themselves and become stars in the fiercely competitive world of professional dance.
|
|
Hamlet
May 12, 2000
Michael Almereyda's update of the Shakespeare play, starring Ethan Hawke as the young prince of the Denmark Corporation film empire.
|
|
Kadosh
May 12, 2000
The son of a rabbi is pressured to end his childless marriage, but his wife is still hopeful they can conceive. Her sister is enamored with a musician but betrothed to a scholar.
|
|
Gladiator
May 5, 2000
Before Maximus (Crowe), the heroic Roman General, can honor the wishes of his dying emperor Marcus Aurelius (Harris) by assuming the emperor's role, the emperor's cruel and corrupt son Commodus (Phoenix) orders the execution of Maximus and his family. Escaping death, Maximus assumes the life of an anonymous gladiator, fighting his way back to the Roman Colosseum where he seeks revenge and a return to justice for Rome.
|
|
Dream of Light
May 5, 2000
A lovely portrait of celebrated Spanish painter Antonio Lopez Garcia as he paints the quince tree growing in his courtyard. The two and a half hour film offers perspectives on everything from artistic vision, realism, painting and film to life, mortality and possibility of eternal rebirth.
|
|
I Dreamed of Africa
May 5, 2000
Based on the story of a privileged Italian woman named Kuki Gallmann, who lives with her young son and new husband on a 100,000-acre cattle ranch called Ol Ari Nyiro in Africa.
|
|
Into My Heart
May 5, 2000
Two old friends go to Cambridge University together and meet a woman (Forlani) at a pub. One (Weber) marries her. After several failed relationships and a bad marriage, the other (Morrow) has an affair with his friend's wife.
|
|
Human Traffic
May 5, 2000
A group of best friends in downbeat, industrial Cardiff, Wales, sheds their dead-end jobs on Fridays for raves, clubs and a party scene where ecstasy and techno tunes abound.
|
|
The Basket
May 5, 2000
Shortly after World War I, a new teacher (Coyote) brings basketball to a school in a small Pacific Northwest town. He helps to unite the town during a tense period which includes the immigration to the United States of German citizens.
|
|
La Nouvelle Ăˆve
May 5, 2000
A portrait of a restless, impulsive Parisiane who throws herself with abandon into relationships with men and women. When she falls madly in love with a man who is happily married with two children, it does not occur to her that breaking up his marriage might be wrong. When he resists, she literally throws herself into the arms of another man to make him jealous and to assuage her wounded pride.
|
|
Up at the Villa
May 5, 2000
Adapted from a Somerset Maugham novella, the film is set in a 1938 Florence provincial town struggling to maintain its equilibrium as Mussolini's Fascists are consolidating their power.
|
|
The Big Kahuna
April 28, 2000
Two veteran industrial lubricant salesmen (Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey) attempt to break-in their enthusiastic young colleague (Peter Pacinelli) while sharing old stories in a hospitality suite at an annual manufacturer's convention in Wichita. All the while they hope they can persuade Dick Fuler, the "Big Kahuna," to place the mother of all orders which could revive their company's pitiful sales.
|
|
Committed
April 28, 2000
A young woman goes in search of her husband who, suffering from a mid-life crisis, left her.
|
|
The Idiots
April 28, 2000
At a home in a Copenhagen suburb, a group of people get together to break all the limitations and to bring out the inner idiots in themselves.
|
|
Bossa Nova
April 28, 2000
A struggling Brazilian lawyer (Fagundes) is surrounded by failed romance. Mary Ann (Irving) is an American English teacher still recovering from the loss of her husband two years earlier. Alone and unhappy, both have nearly given up hope of finding their lifelong soul-mate. (Sony Pictures)
|
|
Frequency
April 28, 2000
In this mind-bending thriller, director Gregory Hoblit presents a fresh and original take on time travel with the gripping human story of a father (Quaid) and a son (Caviezel) who reach out to one another across parallel universes to stop a terrible crime. (New Line Cinema)
|
|
Where the Heart Is
April 28, 2000
Abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart, a pregnant 17 year-old (Portman) rebuilds her life.
|
|
Timecode
April 28, 2000
Mike Figgis's boldly innovative movie, using entirely improvised dialogue, simultaneously shows the audience four separate digital "movies," directing the audience's attention by manipulating the volume within the shots. The four individual movies, each shot simultaneously in 93 minutes of "real time" and synchronized by a series of earthquakes, tell the story of the casting of a bizarre movie in a Hollywood film production company.
|
|
Croupier
April 21, 2000
A struggling writer (Clive Owen) finds a job at a casino to support his craft and to collect material for his novel, but he becomes embroiled in the temptations that come with his new life.
|
|
U-571
April 21, 2000
A team of American seamen, disguised as soldiers on a German rescue submarine, sneak aboard a disabled German U-Boat in an attempt to capture the Enigma machine, a master encryption device which has enabled Axis forces to execute maritime attacks without fear of interference or interception by the Allies.
|
|
Gossip
April 21, 2000
Sex, deception and rumor detonate when fellow university students and roommates Derrick (Marsden), Jones (Headey) and Travis (Reedus) collaborate on their new journalism class assignment: identifying the link between news and gossip. (Warner Brothers)
|
|
From the Edge of the City
April 21, 2000
17-year-old Sasha (Papadopolous) is the center of a gang of hustling kids who live on the drug infested fringes of Athens society. Kazakhstan refugees, they are shunned in their new homeland, even though they are ethnic Greeks.
|
|
The Virgin Suicides
April 21, 2000
After the suicide death of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbon family descend into a deep melancholy and eventually become isolated socially and physically by their parents (Woods, Turner) within their small-town Michigan house. Their only contact with the outside world is a group of neighborhood boys who become obsessed with watching and attempting to communicate with the girls.
|
|
The Last September
April 21, 2000
An elderly couple reside over a country estate in 1920s Ireland. They have living with them a niece, a nephew and a couple who are homeless and trying to hide this fact. All of these individuals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives.
|
|
Love & Basketball
April 21, 2000
Two college basketball players (Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan) have known each other since childhood. Their love of basketball sometimes conflicts with their love for each other.
|
|
J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
April 21, 2000
Morgue workers Ben (Barr) and Boris (Catalifo) find themselves experimenting with acts of sexual deviancy and thrill-seeking during their off-hours.
|
|
28 Days
April 14, 2000
For Gwen Cummings (Bullock), a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane, life is just an exercise in debauchery. That is, until Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's (Perkins) wedding, when she gets drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in court-ordered rehab. (Columbia Tristar)
|
|
American Psycho
April 14, 2000
Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis and featuring the sounds of Huey Lewis and other classic early 80s gems, this satire set in 1980s Manhattan follows the dual life of Patrick Bateman (Bale), zealously materialistic and misogynisitc Wall Street executive by day, murdering sociopath by night.
|
|
Set Me Free
April 14, 2000
Set in 1963 Montreal, Lea Pool's coming-of-age story examines the life of a 13-year-old girl (Vanasse) who escapes her life as the illegitimate daughter of a struggling Jewish writer and a Catholic seamstress through her love of films. She adopts an unlikely role model in the prostitute heroine of Godard's "Vivre sa vie."
|
|
Keeping the Faith
April 14, 2000
Best friends since they were kids, Jake (Stiller), a rabbi, and Brian (Norton), a Catholic priest, are single, successful, handsome, and confident young men living on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna (Elfman), their childhood friend, returns to New York, she reenters their lives and hearts with a vengeance and a complicated love triangle is created. (Touchstone Pictures)
|
|
East Is East
April 14, 2000
Set in England during the 1970's, a traditional Pakistani man (Om Puri) finds his family's actions are definitely taking on non-traditional qualities.
|
|
Third World Cop
April 14, 2000
Set in Kingston, Jamaica, a cop goes back to his old hood.
|
|
Where the Money Is
April 14, 2000
A beautiful but bored small town nurse (Fiorentino) discovers one of her catatonic patients (Newman) was once a bank robber and has faked his paralysis to get out of prison. Together they pull a heist.
|
|
Restaurant
April 7, 2000
Restaurant spins the tale of a group of young friends struggling to keep their dreams alive in Hoboken, New Jersey. The stories of these twenty-somethings intersect at J.T. McClure's, an upscale bar and grill where most of them make a living while chasing their ambitions on their days off. (Palisades Pictures)
|
|
Rules of Engagement
April 7, 2000
Retired Marine Colonel and attorney Hays Hodges (Jones) defends his old friend and comrade-in-arms Col. Terry Childers (Jackson), a highly decorated 30-year Marine veteran, who has been court-martialed for ordering his troops to fire on a hostile crowd storming the U.S. embassy in Yemen which results in the deaths of many civilians.
|
|
Return to Me
April 7, 2000
A young man (Duchovny) falls in love with a woman (Driver) and later learns she is the one who received his former wife's heart. He must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.
|
|
Est - Ouest
April 7, 2000
In 1946, Stalin invites Russian expatriates to return to the motherland. A promise of open arms turns into a situation where many of them are shot or imprisoned. This film follows the story of a young family from France.
|
|
Joe Gould's Secret
April 7, 2000
Filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes viewers into the poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the 1940s. This is the true story of two men, one of whom would tell the other's story: famed "The New Yorker" writer Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould. [USA Films]
|
|
Black and White
April 5, 2000
A searing, comedic and exhilarating look at race, sex and hip hop in the melting pot that is Manhattan at the turn of the 21st century. (Screen Gems)
|
|
Price of Glory
March 31, 2000
Arturo Ortega (Smits), a former boxing champion, focuses all his attention on the single-minded pursuit of training his three sons to follow in his footsteps, coming close to tearing his family apart in the process.
|
|
High Fidelity
March 31, 2000
In this biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. His needle, however, skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Hjejle), walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. (Touchstone Pictures)
|
|
Beau Travail
March 31, 2000
The soldiers of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills and exercising. Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a brooding, young loner who runs his troop efficiently until Sentain, a new recruit, arrives and threatens to upset the balance of his world.
|
|
The Skulls
March 31, 2000
For Luke McNamara (Jackson), an invitation to join the prestigious secret society, The Skulls, is a dream come true. But just when it seems that everything in Luke's life is finally going right, it all goes horribly wrong. (Universal Pictures)
|
|
The Color of Paradise
March 24, 2000
The story of an active 8 year-old blind boy who shows how he senses the world without sight. The film also follows the progress of the father-son relationship after the death of the mother.
|
|
Whatever It Takes
March 24, 2000
Based upon the classic Cyrano de Bergerac tale. A socially inept boy (West) teams up with an athletic type (Franco) to get their respective dream dates.
|
|
Here on Earth
March 24, 2000
The lives of three young people - a rich student, a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" and her boyfriend - unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer. (Twentieth Century Fox)
|
|
Buddy Boy
March 24, 2000
An introverted teenager (Gillen) relieves the bordom of caring for his alcoholic, disabled mother (Tyrrell) by spying on his neighbor.
|
|
Waking the Dead
March 24, 2000
A lawyer (Crudup) running for Congress starts seeing visions of his dead girlfriend (Connelly) and believes he might be losing his mind.
|
|
Winter Sleepers
March 22, 2000
An unsual, visually-striking melodrama from the director of "Run Lola Run" about two couples who share an Alpine Villa in rural German ski village.
|
|
Romeo Must Die
March 22, 2000
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," this crime plot features Jet Li as an emprisoned son of a Chinese crime family who escapes his Hong Kong prison and flees to Oakland to avenge the death of his brother who is killed by the rival black crime family. Both families become involved in competing corrupt schemes to finance the building of a waterfront football stadium.
|
|
Babymother
March 17, 2000
This reggae musical tells the story of Anita (Smith), a mother of two with the burning desire to become a London dancehall star. (Independent Pictures)
|
|
Erin Brockovich
March 17, 2000
An unconventional drama based on true events, starring Julia Roberts as the twice-divorced mother of three young children who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins. (Universal Pictures)
|
|
Soft Fruit
March 17, 2000
A comical family drama about going home, letting go and finding acceptance in the most unlikely places. (20th Century Fox)
|
|
The Disappearance of Finbar
March 17, 2000
Danny Quinn (Griffin) travels to Sweden after receiving a call from his friend Finbar Flynn (Rhys Meyers), who mysteriously disappeared three years ago.
|
|
Les convoyeurs attendent
March 17, 2000
In this Belgian comedy-drama, a father coerces his teenage son to pursue a world record in order to win a car. He urges his son to become the record holder by opening and closing the most doors in a twenty-four hour period.
|
|
Deterrence
March 10, 2000
While snowed in at a diner in Colorado during a freak snowstorm, the President (Pollak) of 2006 must deal with an international military crisis.
|
|
Mission to Mars
March 10, 2000
The extraordinary story of the astronauts of the Mars Recovery Mission, the nearly insurmountable dangers that confront the heroic crew on their journey through space, and the amazing discovery they make when they finally reach Mars. (Touchstone Pictures)
|
|
The Ninth Gate
March 10, 2000
A rare book dealer (Depp) seeking out the last two copies of a demon text discovers a strange demonic conspiracy.
|
|
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
March 3, 2000
Jarmusch's spiritual gangster film tells the story of an inner-city hit man (Whitaker) who lives on a rooftop, training himself as a samurai in the strictest sense. He communicates primarily by carrier pigeon, while remaining loyal to a gangster (Tormey) who once saved his life.
|
|
Claire Dolan
February 25, 2000
Claire Dolan (Cartlidge) is an immigrant who works as a prostitute in New York City in order to pay off an ever-escalating debt to her pimp. When her mother dies in a local nursing home, Claire attempts to extricate herself from her life as a call girl. (New Yorker Films)
|
|
Reindeer Games
February 25, 2000
The film enters the colorful and conniving world of lowlife criminals scheming to turn a straightened ex-con (Affleck) crooked again. (Dimension Films)
|
|
Judy Berlin
February 25, 2000
When the small suburban town of Babylon, Long Island, in engulfed in the darkness of a strange solar eclipse, two former classmates (Harnick and Falco) pass the day reminiscing. (Shooting Gallery)
|
|
Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist
February 25, 2000
Inspired by the events surrounding the Assassination of Indian prime minister Rajiv Ghandi, The Terrorist focuses on the making of a nineteen year old suicide bomber marching toward the end of her life. (Phaedra Cinema)
|
|
Wonder Boys
February 25, 2000
Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years -- not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. It's hardly surprising, then that his college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with more than his usual quota of self-doubt and anxiety. This festival weekend, however, proves even worse than he could have imagined as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy, his most gifted writing student James Leer (Maguire). (Paramount Pictures)
|
|
Mifune's Last Song
February 25, 2000
In this bittersweet comedy, a newlywed businessman who is faced with the death of his father returns to the family farm to care for his mentally disabled brother.
|
|
Hanging Up
February 18, 2000
A trio of sisters (Ryan, Keaton, Kudrow) come together at the (possible) imminent death of their father (Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close.
|
|
Not One Less
February 18, 2000
In a remote mountain village, the teacher (Gao) must leave for a month to care for his mother. The mayor can find only a 13-year old girl (Wei) to substitute, even though she is only a few years older than her students.
|
|
Boiler Room
February 18, 2000
A riveting expose of one of the biggest and most lucrative scams in American history—and a dramatic look at a generation obsessed with the speed of wealth and success. [New Line Cinema]
|
|
The Whole Nine Yards
February 18, 2000
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) is a nice dentist living in suburban Montreal. His new next door neighbor, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis), is a hit man hiding out from a dangerous Chicago crime family. Despite their differences, Oz and Jimmy have one thing in common: someone's trying to kill them both. (Warner Bros.)
|
|
The Beach
February 11, 2000
Richard (DiCaprio) is a young American backbacker who arrives in Thailand seeking to connect with something or someone "real." When a crazy neighbor (Carlyle) in his hotel offers him a mysterious map to a legendary beach paradise off the coast, he jumps at the chance and urges a French couple to join him. The explorers discover a mysterious colony of travelers sworn to protect a secret which may destroy the new found paradise.
|
|
Cotton Mary
February 11, 2000
Set in post-colonial India of the 1950's, this is the story of Cotton Mary (Jaffrey), an Anglo-Indian (part English and part Indian) woman, and her tangled and complicated interactions with a British family. (Artistic License Films)
|
|
Beloved/Friend
February 4, 2000
A mature and ill man, a medieval literature professor, has gone over his personal life and has decided, amongst his doubts, what he wants to leave others once he passes away. An inheritance in the form of an essay, based on Llull's "The Book of the Friend and the Beloved," which he has saved in the memory of his personal computer. (Strand Releasing)
|
|
Knockout
February 4, 2000
This inspiring movie tells the story of determined young woman (Hernandez) from East L.A. who enters the world of professional boxing.
|
|
Santitos
January 28, 2000
Alejandro Springall directs this Spanish-language film about a pious widow Esperanza (Heredia) who uses magic to try and locate her lost and presumed dead daughter who she believes was the victim of a mysterious virus and all kinds of other lurid happenings.
|
Coming Soon
-
Girls Lost
- Runtime: 106 min
-
Maktub
- Runtime: 100 min
-
Based on a True Story
- Runtime: 110 min
Essential Links
Most Talked About Trailers




































































































