A pre-WWII drama where a life-changing incident turns a professor into a fugitive.

Young Florentines regale one another in the Italian countryside while the black plague decimates their city.

A plastic surgeon (Madsen) searches for answers in the aftermath of a plane crash in Kenya which claimed the lives of her husband and children.

A woman (Campbell) from an isolated island community writes to the mainland about a murder she witnessed as a girl. An investigator (Roth) travels to the island to discover the truth behind the case.

Drama
The story of Binh, a shy Vietnamese man in his 20s who embarks on a personal journey with a young beautiful woman, Ling, aboard a refugee ship to America in search of a better life and Binh's estranged American father.

Thriller
Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly) is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment - dilapidated, cramped, and worn - seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, leaving her to wonder who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia's world: no matter what it is that's out there, nothing is going to harm her little girl.

Kathy's (Andie MacDowell) attempts to overcome the death of her husband, Jeremy (Tim Roth), take some strange twists in director Douglas Laws' LAST SIGN. Jeremy was volatile and abusive towards Kathy in real life, and now it seems the pattern of behavior is continuing--from beyond the grave. Experiencing conflicting emotions of love, hate, and fear, Kathy has a tough job on her hands in this provocative thriller.

Drama
2 hrs. 09 min. Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," SILVER CITY follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during his gubernatorial campaign. When Pilager finds that he's reeled in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his ferocious campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss), hires former idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien (Danny Huston) to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers. SILVER CITY offers John Sayles' toxic look at the state of the union on the eve of the 2004 Presidential election.

Scott Wolf stars in this thriller as Emmett Young, a Philadelphia homicide detective who learns that he has a terminal illness and only a short time left to live. While working a bizarre serial killer case, Emmett meets with a shadowy government agent who convinces him that the best way to die is to put out a hit on himself. Surprisingly, Emmett eventually agrees, and hires a hitman to kill him sometime in the coming weeks. Throwing himself into his work, Emmett now struggles to solve his final case before his time is up.

Drama
2 hrs. 11 min. Invincible tells the true story of Zishe Breibart, a Jewish blacksmith from eastern Poland who travels to Berlin in the 1930s to join a nightclub cabaret. He is billed as the world's strongest man - a claim that is not well received by the rising Nazi party. Using his role as the modern day Samson to defend his own people, Zishe embarks on an inevitable path to tragedy.

Art/Foreign, Romance and Thriller
2 hrs. 02 min. In this Wim Wenders-directed film, Mel Gibson plays a detective investigating the murder of a millionaire's son. He died in a run-down hotel on the edge of Hollywood that is inhabited by a closely knit group of eccentric mentally ill people (Milla Jovovich and Jeremy Davies play two of them). With a script based on ideas by U2's Bono, THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a smorgasbord of interesting components.

Action/Adventure and Drama
1 hr. 44 min. THE MUSKETEER is director-cinematographer Peter Hyams’ (TIMECOP, END OF DAYS) fresh new take on Alexandre Dumas’ classic adventure tale, The Three Musketeers. Newcomer Justin Chambers stars as D’Artagnan, a dashing swordsman whose courage and willful nature place him at odds with powerful forces in 17th century Paris.

Legendary Hong Kong action choreographer Xin Xin Xiong (ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA) designed the film’s dazzling fight sequences, mixing eastern and western styles and traditions to stunning effect.

Action/Adventure and Drama
2 hrs. 00 min. Tim Burton reinvents Pierre Boulle's classic novel, beginning with the famed original film's premise - a pilot finds himself in a world turned upside down after landing on a strange planet - with Burton's unique vision and style breaking new ground in story, design, makeup and visual effects.

Art/Foreign, Drama and Romance
Set in 1671 France under the decadent reign of Louis XIV, VATEL charts the events of a three-day feast in an impoverished western province. In an effort to impress the gilded king and then ask him for financial support, Prince de Condי (Julian Glover) invites Louis XIV (Julian Sands) to his country chateau for a weekend of courtly merriment. Gerard Depardieu stars as Vatel, the chef and entertainment planner, who must succeed in presenting the most lavishly organized occasion the king has ever witnessed. Vatel masterminds the sumptuous details of the weekend with gusto and charming bravura. The chateau of de Condי is transformed into a world of delights, enthralling the king, his court, and especially the king's favorite lady-in-waiting, Anne de Montausier (Uma Thurman). But when the kindly Vatel wins Anne's fancy, he is in danger of angering the opulent and lustful king and his villainous cohort Marquis de Lauzan (Tim Roth). Based on a true story, with a screenplay cowritten by Tom Stoppard and Jeanne LaBrune, this decadent period piece from director Roland Joffי is a fine visual confection. The film features stunning production and costume design that captures the opulence of France's most legendary court and most celebrated king.

Drama
2 hrs. 03 min. THE LEGEND OF 1900 recounts the life of a gifted piano player who is abandoned at birth on a trans-Atlantic ship. Named for the year in which he was born, Nineteen Hundred grows up in a charmed world of stormy gales, swaying decks and rare beauty at the keyboard. His prodigious talent is ultimately tested in a rivalry of mythic proportions with jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton. Ultimately, that very same gift will bind him to the ocean forever.

Art/Foreign and Drama
1 hr. 38 min. The molten emotional power that flows from Tim Roth's directorial debut carries multiple messages that sear one's soul. Yet it also faithfully portrays one of the harshest aspects of the relationship between children and parents. Based on an acclaimed novel by Alexander Stuart, The War Zone is an often-troubling exposition on family dynamics and the dysfunction that bubbles beneath the surface. Award winning actors Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton, along with complete newcomers Lara Belmont and Freddie Cunliffe, give such incredibly deep and intense performances that one is definitely riveted (almost painfully so) to the screen. The family has just resettled in the Devon countryside from London, and fifteen-year-old Tom is bored and lonely, while his eighteen-year-old sister, Jessie, seems much more comfortable in the new surroundings. When "mum" gives birth to the family's third child, despite a near-tragic car accident on the way to the hospital, all appears to be ! well. But this happy event is shattered when Tom stumbles upon a horrific scene, and in short order the appearance of normality is unmasked, and any semblance of trust and kinship is threatened. Director Roth designs an inexorably desperate drama that questions the very fabric of family life even as it eschews pat explanations or psychological reduction. With an extraordinary feel for the banality of real-life evil and an almost-claustrophobic jolt of narrative truth, The War Zone stays with you long after you have left the theatre.

Comedy and Romance
Russ Richards (John Travolta) seems to have it all. A popular local television weatherman from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he has a reserved parking space and table at his favorite restaurant, a beautiful Jaguar convertible, and a rambling house. Unfortunately, he's also squandered most of his money, and the snowmobile dealership that he owns is going under because of a warm winter that shows no signs of snow. Desperate for a financial break, Russ seeks guidance from his friend Gig (Tim Roth), a sleazy Brit who owns a strip club and has connections with various undesirables. Initially, Gig's suggestion that Russ should rig the state lottery makes Russ cringe, but out of desperation he enlists the help of the Lotto lady, Crystal (Lisa Kudrow), and they fix the numbers of a six-million-dollar drawing. Of course, the plan goes terribly wrong in this clever dark comedy from director Nora Ephron (YOU'VE GOT MAIL, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE). The all-star cast includes Michael Rapaport as psychotic Dale the Thug, Bill Pullman as lackadaisical Detective Lakewood, Ed O'Neill as Crystal and Russ's boss, and Michael Moore as Crystal's seemingly straitlaced cousin.

1 hr. 44 min. A New York cabbie encounters some remarkable characters who inspire him to set off on a journey and discover the meaning of life. He is spiritually dead until, after almost being killed by a criminal, he meets some strange young men who involve him in events in the midst of which he meets the love of his life.

Drama
An underachieving, underemployed, pathologically dishonest, and inestimably brilliant epileptic plays cat-and-mouse games with the two homicide detectives assigned to plumb his mind for a motive for the murder and mutilation of a prostitute.

Comedy
1 hr. 30 min. A dark comedy about two junkies who, while waiting to be admitted to a detox center, become implicated in the murder of a drug dealer.

Drama and Crime/Gangster
HOODLUM stars Laurence Fishburne in a powerful performance as Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the notorious Harlem gangster of the 1930s. Director Bill Duke mixes a sumptuous visual style with a message of black empowerment. Bumpy gets out of prison and goes to work for the Harlem numbers powerhouse known as Madam Queen (Cicely Tyson), bringing him into conflict with the psychopathic Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), who is trying to take over the numbers racket in Harlem. As the blood flows through Harlem streets, those around Bumpy begin to question his methods-- and his morals.

Comedy
1 hr. 37 min. Woody Allen's 26th film is a celebration of an eccentric and very= extended family living on New York's upper east side, exploring a broad= spectrum of romantic entanglements as they fall in and out of love. Allen= creates a world in which Yves St. Laurent mannequins come to life in store= windows and dance, in which hospital orderlies and nurses join their= patients in a musical sequence, and in which ghosts and jewelry salespeople= alike participate in intricately staged production numbers.

Drama
A paroled murderer returns to the Staten Island home of his youth, where a poignant friendship blossoms with the restrained wife of his temperamental--and jealous--brother.

Comedy
A hapless Los Angeles bellhop struggles to survive New Year's Eve in this quartet of episodes each directed by a rising independent film auteur. "The Missing Ingredient" (Allison Anders) involves a coven of witches who lack a necessary life fluid; "The Wrong Man" (Alexandre Rockwell) centers on an abusive S&M couple; "The Misbehavers" (Robert Rodriguez) offers the bratty kids of a dangerous gangster; and "The Man From Hollywood" (Quentin Tarantino) re-creates a gruesome Hitchcock bet.

Action/Adventure
A rousing film version of Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romantic adventure based on the life of Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor who battled a despotic English secretary appointed by the king to watch over Scottish highlands.

Recovering from a broken marriage, a beautiful prison dentist succumbs to the advances of a charming patient, launching an ill-advised love affair. Able to see each other once a week while he's on a day pass, the relationship ultimately turns dangerous when fellow prisoners coerce them into aiding their drug-dealing. Inspired by a true story.

Drama
When a hit-man for the Russian Jewish Mafia returns to his native Brooklyn neighborhood to do a job, he must face his family and the reasons he was forced to leave in the first place.

Drama and Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 45 min. An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss. While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.

Drama
Four twenty-something American adults try to sort out their feelings about life and love in this offbeat generational comedy.

Drama
Manny is unemployed and struggling to find himself and Danny, his brother, is a drug addict. They have one day to rebuild their relationship and retrace their childhood footsteps through the meanest streets of New York City. Only with each other's help can they find the strength to change their lives, or be lost forever.

Drama
A rich costume drama in which a womanizer is confronted by the husband of one of his past loves.

Drama and Crime/Gangster
Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino’s directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew of top-notch criminals to pull off a jewelry store heist. As the film opens it becomes immediately clear that the plan backfired, forcing the survivors, who have gathered at an abandoned warehouse, to figure out if one of them is, in fact, a police informer. The crew--Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), an aged veteran; Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), a wounded newcomer; Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), a psychopathic parolee; Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), a bickering weasel; and Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn), Joe’s son--begin to unravel as the pressure becomes too much for them to handle. When Joe arrives, the truth becomes clear in a vicious Mexican standoff.

Tarantino takes liberally from Hong Kong action flicks, most notably Ringo Lam’s CITY ON FIRE, but his ultra-hip ‘70s soundtrack and hysterical pop culture dialogue make the film seem wholly original and new. Taking a cue from the French New Wave--most notably Jean-Luc Godard--RESERVOIR DOGS remains one of the decade’s most influential motion pictures.

Comedy
Centering on two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, two off-kilter rogues are summoned to the court of the King of Denmark, where they meet a traveling entertainer and attempt to solve a mystery. Based on Tom Stoppard's play, this film won Best Picture at the 1991 Venice Film Festival.

Drama
A blistering, unsentimental portrait of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, Robert Altman’s VINCENT AND THEO focuses on the deeply neurotic relationship between the unstable, impoverished Vincent (Tim Roth) and his art dealer brother, Theo (Paul Rhys). Specifically, it investigates the role Theo played in providing the normality and connection to the outer world that Vincent lacked--while Vincent, in turn, acted as the living embodiment of Theo's unfulfilled artistic aspirations. In the end, Theo's inability to secure his brother's financial independence and help him achieve a sense of self-worth by selling his paintings caused him a misery almost as profound as Vincent's. Altman's theatrical version of what was originally a four-hour European miniseries is a bold return to form for the director after a stint directing film adaptations of plays. As the introverted Vincent, Roth delivers an intensely passionate performance, and Rhys is just as moving as the more reserved Theo. Altman chooses to concentrate on the artist himself, likely providing a deeper insight into the individual than scenes of him painting ever could. VINCENT AND THEO remains an unflinching and powerful interpretation of the life of one of the world’s most famous artists.

Master director Greenaway (THE PILLOW BOOK) outdoes himself with this grisly fairy tale. The thief, Albert Spica, (Gambon) is a gangster, repugnant and boorish, who holds court at the same table in his opulent restaurant every night surrounded by his lackeys (Tim Roth and the late Ian Dury included). When his cultured and repressed wife Georgina (Mirren) becomes magnetically attracted to a solitary diner in the restaurant, the two begin a secret affair under the nose of her dangerous husband. With the help of the restaurant's chef, the time the lovers share is kept secret from the vicious Albert...for a while. Despite the breathtaking production design and artful camera work, this violent, disturbing and very darkly comic work is not for everyone. Those with the stomach for it, however, will reap generous rewards.

Comedy and Crime/Gangster
Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) is a mobster-turned informant living in relative seclusion and philosophical exile in rural Spain, until he is kidnapped one day and delivered to Braddock (John Hurt), a calculating and maniacal hit man who has been hired to deliver Parker to Paris, where his execution will take place. Braddock's partner, Myron (Tim Roth) is a young punkish fellow with an impulsive and violent streak. As they set out for Paris they realize they are being followed and must stop in Madrid to pick up a new car. They also acquire another hostage, Maggie (Laura Del Sol), whose boyfriend was killed for the car. Tension and the threat of violence hovers over every scene of the movie, creating a claustrophobic atmosphere that mirrors the confines of the car as they drive through miles of beautifully shot desert. Fast paced flamenco music from Spanish great Paco De Lucia ignites the screen and creates a haunting and moody atmosphere.The fine ensemble work from the brilliant cast members helps to create this richly woven and darkly humorous ride.