2000 Movies

Gladiator

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

X-Men

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

What Lies Beneath

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Starring: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto

Country: United States of America

Outline: The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.

Magnolia

Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Country: United States of America

Outline: An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Directed by: Ang Lee

Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

Remember the Titans

Directed by: Boaz Yakin

Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst

Country: United States of America

Outline: The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Traffic

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Starring: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jacob Vargas

Country: United States of America

Outline: A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.

The Hurricane

Directed by: Norman Jewison

Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Pane e tulipani

Directed by: Silvio Soldini

Starring: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania

Country: Italy

Outline: After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice.

Finding Forrester

Directed by: Gus Van Sant

Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.

Chopper

Directed by: Andrew Dominik

Starring: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo, Renée Brack

Country: Australia

Outline: Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison. His book, "From the Inside", upon which the film is based, was a best-seller.

Pollock

Directed by: Ed Harris

Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott, Molly Regan

Country: United States of America

Outline: A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.

Tigerland

Directed by: Joel Schumacher

Starring: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry

Country: United States of America

Outline: A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Road Trip

Directed by: Todd Phillips

Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo

Country: United States of America

Outline: Four college buddies embark on a road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a female friend.

Bamboozled

Directed by: Spike Lee

Starring: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport

Country: United States of America

Outline: A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

The Emperor's New Groove

Directed by: Mark Dindal

Starring: David Spade, Eartha Kitt, John Goodman, Patrick Warburton, Wendie Malick, Eli Russell Linnetz

Country: United States of America

Boys Don't Cry

Directed by: Kimberly Peirce

Starring: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard

Almost Famous

Directed by: Cameron Crowe

Starring: Frances Mcdormand, Kate Hudson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zooey Deschanel, Bijou Phillips

Country: United States of America