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The Coast Guard (해안선)
The Coast Guard (해안선, Hae-an-seon) is Kim Ki-duk's 2002 South Korean drama in which marine Private Kang, played by Jang Dong-gun, shoots a civilian mistaken for a North Korean spy, then descends into madness; it opened the 2002 Busan festival.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu), Cristi Puiu's 2005 Romanian New Wave drama, follows a dying 63-year-old through Bucharest hospitals; it won Cannes' Un Certain Regard Prize.
The Hamburg Cell (film)
The Hamburg Cell (2004) is a British TV docudrama directed by Antonia Bird, written by Ronan Bennett, dramatizing the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell behind 9/11, focused on hijacker Ziad Jarrah; premiered at Edinburgh, first 9/11 film adaptation.
The Hidden Blade (隠し剣 鬼の爪)
The Hidden Blade (隠し剣 鬼の爪, Kakushi ken Oni no tsume) is a 2004 Japanese samurai drama by Yoji Yamada, second in his trilogy after The Twilight Samurai, adapted from two Shuhei Fujisawa short stories and starring Masatoshi Nagase and Takako Matsu.
The Island Tales (異邦人たち)
The Island Tales (異邦人たち; 有時跳舞) is a 2000 Japan–Hong Kong drama directed by Stanley Kwan, written by Jimmy Ngai, starring Takao Osawa, Michelle Reis, Shu Qi, and Kaori Momoi, about strangers quarantined on an island near Hong Kong.
The Man Who Cried (Человек, который плакал)
The Man Who Cried (Человек, который плакал) is Sally Potter's 2000 UK-French drama starring Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro; a 1927 Russian Jewish refugee searches for her father through Paris and wartime France. Venice Golden Lion nominee, 35% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), Walter Salles's 2004 Spanish-language road film with Gael García Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna, dramatizes Che Guevara's 1952 South American journey; it won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and an Oscar for 'Al otro lado del río'.
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page is Mary Harron's 2005 biographical drama starring Gretchen Mol as 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page, covering her fetish modeling for the Klaws, the 1955 Kefauver Senate hearings, and her later religious life.
The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿)
The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿, Anyang yinger) is Wang Chao's 2001 debut feature, an unauthorized Chinese independent drama about a laid-off worker raising a prostitute's baby for 200 yuan a month, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
The Quiet American (2002 film)
The Quiet American (2002 film), Phillip Noyce adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel, starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen; 1952 Saigon love triangle, delayed post-9/11, Metacritic 84, Caine Oscar-nominated.
The Return (Возвращение) (2003 film)
The Return (Возвращение) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2003 Russian debut drama about two brothers and a suddenly returned father; it won the Venice Golden Lion, five festival prizes, and a Golden Globe nomination.
The Son (2002 film)
The Son (Le fils) is a 2002 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a carpenter whose new apprentice killed his son. Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes 2002.
The Swamp
The Swamp (La ciénaga, 2001) is Lucrecia Martel's debut feature about two decaying middle-class families in Salta, Argentina; it won Berlin's Alfred Bauer Prize and was voted greatest Argentine film in 2022.
The Way Home (집으로...)
The Way Home (집으로..., Jibeuro) is a 2002 South Korean family drama directed by Lee Jeong-hyang, starring Yoo Seung-ho and non-actor Kim Eul-boon; it drew about 4.09 million admissions and was released internationally by Paramount.
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون)
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون, Bīd-e majnūn) is a 2005 Iranian drama, Majid Majidi's sixth feature, starring Parviz Parastui as a blind professor who regains sight in France. It won four Crystal Simorghs at the 23rd Fajr Film Festival.
Time of the Wolf
Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup, Wolfzeit) is Michael Haneke's 2003 French-Austrian-German post-apocalyptic drama starring Isabelle Huppert, about a family left to survive after an unspecified catastrophe, titled after the Edda's wolf-age.
Time to Leave
Time to Leave (Le Temps qui reste) is François Ozon's 2005 French drama, in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, about Romain, a 30-year-old photographer with terminal cancer, starring Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Together (2000 film)
Together (Tillsammans) is Lukas Moodysson's 2000 Swedish comedy-drama about a 1975 Stockholm commune, starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, and Gustav Hammarsten; a critically acclaimed New Swedish Cinema landmark with a 2023 sequel, Together 99.
Touching the Void (film)
Touching the Void (2003) is a Kevin Macdonald docudrama, based on Joe Simpson's book, recounting Simpson and Simon Yates's disastrous 1985 Siula Grande descent; it won the 2004 BAFTA for Best British Film.
Under the Sand
Under the Sand (Sous le sable) is a 2000 French drama by François Ozon starring Charlotte Rampling as Marie, whose husband vanishes while swimming; her denial becomes delusional. César and European Film Award nominee, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Unknown Pleasures (2002 film)
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) is Jia Zhangke's 2002 drama, his third feature and first digital film, following unemployed youths Xiao Ji and Bin Bin in Datong, Shanxi; third in the trilogy with Xiao Wu and Platform.
Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.
What Time Is It There? (你那边几点)
What Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2001 Taiwan-France drama, Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, about a Taipei watch seller who resets clocks to Paris time after selling his dual-time watch to a woman leaving for France.
Whisky (2004 film)
Whisky is a 2004 Uruguayan comedy-drama by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, starring Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, and Jorge Bolani. A sock-factory owner has his employee pose as his wife; it won Cannes' Prix du Regard Original and FIPRESCI.
Yesterday (2004 film)
Yesterday (2004) is a South African Zulu-language drama directed by Darrell James Roodt, starring Leleti Khumalo as an HIV-positive rural mother; the first international Zulu feature and South Africa's first Oscar nominee.
You and Me (我们俩)
You and Me (我们俩) is a 2005 Chinese drama written and directed by Ma Liwen, starring Jin Yaqin and Gong Zhe as an elderly landlady and student tenant in a Beijing courtyard; it won Golden Rooster Best Director and Tokyo IFF Best Actress.