Top Movies of 2004


The top movies of 2004 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

111. Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Actors: Matt Damon, Howard Zinn, Daniel Berrigan, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, John Silber

112. A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gary Leva
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Dalva, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese

113. Purple Butterfly ( Zi hudie )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura, Bingbing Li, Kin Ei

114. 50 First Dates

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Segal
Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Dan Aykroyd, Rob Schneider, Lusia Strus, Sean Astin
Plot: A some what of a playboy meets the women of his dreams until he realizes that she has short term memory loss and he must reintroduce himself each time he meets her - even though she never remembers who he is.

115. Good Bye, Dragon Inn aka Goodbye, Dragon Inn ( Bu san )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao, Chun Shih, Chao-jung Chen

116. Napoleon Dynamite

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jared Hess
Actors: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Tina Majorino, Diedrich Bader
Plot: A unpopular high school student tries to help his friend become class president.

117. Intermission

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Crowley
Actors: Colin Farrell, Owen Roe, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Colm Meaney, Rory Keenan

118. Fahrenheit 9/11

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Moore
Actors: George W. Bush, Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice
Plot: A liberal look at the events of 9/11 and the role that the Bush administration played during and after the tragedy.

119. Love Me If You Dare ( Jeux d'enfants )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yann Samuell
Actors: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Thibault Verhaeghe, Joséphine Lebas-Joly, Gilles Lellouche, Emmanuelle Grönvold

120. Three... Extremes ( Sam gang yi )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park
Actors: Ling Bai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Miki Yeung, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hie Lim, Kyoko Hasegawa
Plot: In this Asian horror film, there are three sub plots:

The first story is called Dumplings and a woman is trying very hard to have a child to keep her marriage from falling apart. She goes to desperate lengths to do this when she finds out she is unable to bare children.

The second story called The Cut involves a director who is casting a movie that involves someone he knows. This someone is asked to do things for the movie that seem odd and scary.

The third story is called The Box and it involves the relationship of a girl and her sister. She is buried in the snow and tries to separate between dream and reality.

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