141. In Hell
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ringo Lam
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista, Carlos Gómez, Manol Manolov, Chris Moir
Plot: Kyle LeBlanc is an American working overseas in Russia. When he hears his wife being attacked over the phone, Kyle rushes home to find that he's too late. The man who killed his wife is found not guilty on lack of evidence. So Kyle takes the law into his own hands, and kills the man to avenge his wife's death. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Russian prison he is sent to is tough, and the warden amuses himself by putting on fights where he fills his pockets with money by betting on the fights. Kyle begins to break and go crazy, so he is forced into these fights because the warden knows he is a sure thing. Kyle's cellmate 451 begins to make him think what he fighting for. With that, Kyle knows now he must fight another battle: the fight for inner peace. It is the only way he can become the man he once was.
142. Stevie
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve James
Actors: Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler, Verna Hagler, Brenda Hickam
143. Amen
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Hanns Zischler, Sebastian Koch, Michel Duchaussoy
Plot: A priest and a member of the SS work together to try to stop the massacre of Jews in Nazi Germany.
144. The Sleeping Dictionary
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Jenkin
Actors: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Ling Lee Ian
Plot: An eager young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government, encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful young Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.
145. Man Without a Past, The ( Mies vailla menneisyyttä )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Actors: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemelä, Kaija Pakarinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Annikki Tähti
146. Final Destination 2
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David R. Ellis
Actors: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, Tony Todd, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Jonathan Cherry
Plot: A normal road trip ends in horror after Kimberly Corman has a premonition of a terrible multi-car pileup. She manages to block the ramp, but in doing so causes death's design to be disrupted. She has to seek out Clear Rivers, the only living survivor of flight 180, and figure out how to escape death.
147. Confidence
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Foley
Actors: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Leland Orser, Paul Giamatti, Jay Giannone, Dustin Hoffman
Plot: A con artist tries to get back at his friends killer when his last hit goes awry as he is left at the crime boss's feet to do his duties.
148. One Missed Call ( Chakushin ari )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Kou Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata, Atsushi Ida, Mariko Tsutsui
149. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, R. Lee Ermey, Eric Balfour
Plot: A group of college students traveling the back roads to Texas en route to Dallas pick up a strange female hitchhiker. What follows is a gruesome series of event involving a small community and a demented madman.
150. Party Monster
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Actors: Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, Chloë Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott
Plot: Michael Alig is a club promoter who creates not only an over-the-top and extravagant lifestyle in New York clubs (largely centered on drugs), but also a paranoid, confused, sociopathic reality of murder. He hosts Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the 90's, and leads a rag-tag group of raving druggies into realities they never dreamed of. This is his story.
