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Candy (2006 film)
Candy is a 2006 Australian drama directed by Neil Armfield, adapted from Luke Davies's novel, starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, and Geoffrey Rush as Sydney lovers destroyed by heroin addiction.
Carandiru
Carandiru (2003) is a Brazilian drama film by Hector Babenco, adapted from Drauzio Varella's book Estacao Carandiru, about a doctor in Sao Paulo's largest prison, culminating in the 1992 massacre of 111 inmates; it competed at Cannes.
Cast Away
Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks as a FedEx engineer who survives alone on a remote Pacific island for four years.
Center Stage (2000 film)
Center Stage is a 2000 American drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, and ballet dancer Ethan Stiefel as students competing for a professional ballet company.
Cheaters (2000 film)
Cheaters (2000) is an HBO television film directed and written by John Stockwell, starring Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, and Paul Sorvino, dramatizing the 1995 Steinmetz High School academic decathlon cheating scandal in Chicago.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
Coach Carter
Coach Carter is a 2005 American sports drama directed by Thomas Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson as coach Ken Carter, who benched his undefeated team over grades.
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف)
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف; Code inconnu) is Michael Haneke's 2000 French drama, his first French film, starring Juliette Binoche. Single-take vignettes linked by a Paris street incident; Cannes 2000 competition, Ecumenical Jury Prize.
Cracks (film)
Cracks (2009) is Jordan Scott's feature debut, adapted from Sheila Kohler's 1999 novel, starring Eva Green as teacher Miss G obsessed with new pupil Fiamma (María Valverde) at a 1934 English boarding school; premiered at TIFF 2009, grossed $101,860 worldwide.
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart is a 2009 drama, Scott Cooper's directorial debut adapted from Thomas Cobb's 1987 novel, starring Jeff Bridges as alcoholic country singer Bad Blake. It won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Song, "The Weary Kind."
Crazy N' the City
Crazy N' the City (神經俠侶, San Ging Hap Lui) is a 2005 Hong Kong comedy-drama directed by James Yuen, starring Eason Chan, Joey Yung, and Francis Ng as Wan Chai beat cops and a mentally ill man facing a serial killer; it grossed $877,803 in Hong Kong.
Crying Fist (주먹이 운다)
Crying Fist (주먹이 운다) is a 2005 South Korean boxing drama by Ryoo Seung-wan starring Choi Min-sik and Ryoo Seung-bum as two desperate men meeting in an amateur title final; it won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 2005 Directors' Fortnight.
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ)
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ, Sekachu) is Isao Yukisada's 2004 Toho film adapting Kyoichi Katayama's novel, starring Osawa, Shibasaki, Nagasawa, and Moriyama; a 3.24-million-admission hit that sparked Japan's pure-love boom.
Curse of the Golden Flower (满城尽带黄金甲)
Curse of the Golden Flower (满城尽带黄金甲) is Zhang Yimou's 2006 Tang-court epic adapted from Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm, starring Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, and Jay Chou; it broke Chinese box-office records and won Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Actress.
Daisy (데이지) (2006 film)
Daisy (데이지) is a 2006 South Korea–Hong Kong–Netherlands romantic action film directed by Andrew Lau, starring Jeon Ji-hyun, Jung Woo-sung, and Lee Sung-jae in an Amsterdam love triangle between a painter, a hitman, and an Interpol agent.
Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター)
Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター) is Miwa Nishikawa's 2009 Japanese drama starring Shofukutei Tsurubei in his film lead debut as a beloved rural village doctor who vanishes, exposing that he held no medical license; it won the Japan Academy Best Screenplay and Blue Ribbon Best Director awards.
Departures (おくりびと) (2008 film)
Departures (おくりびと, Okuribito) is a 2008 Japanese drama directed by Yojiro Takita, starring Masahiro Motoki as a cellist who becomes a nōkanshi encoffiner; first Japanese film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Distance (DISTANCE) (2001 film)
Distance (ディスタンス) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2001 Japanese drama about relatives of cult mass-murderers, In Competition at Cannes 2001, 132 minutes, starring ARATA, Iseya, Terajima, Natsukawa, and Asano.
Dog Days (2001 film)
Dog Days (Hundstage) is Ulrich Seidl's 2001 Austrian debut feature, six interwoven stories of loneliness and aggression in a Vienna suburb during a heat wave; it won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice 2001 and was Austria's most successful film of 2001/2002.
Dolls (2002 film)
Dolls (ドールズ, Dōruzu) is Takeshi Kitano's 2002 drama, his tenth film and first love story, structured after bunraku puppet theatre and Chikamatsu's The Courier for Hell, interweaving three tragic love stories across Japan's four seasons, released October 12, 2002 by Shochiku.
Don's Plum
Don's Plum is a black-and-white improvised indie drama directed by R.D. Robb, shot in 1995-1996, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, whose 1999 settlement bans its US and Canada release.
Double Teamed
Double Teamed is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie, premiered January 18, 2002, directed by Duwayne Dunham, dramatizing WNBA twins Heidi and Heather Burge's Palos Verdes High basketball years.
Dream (비몽) (2008 film)
Dream (비몽, Bi-mong) is Kim Ki-duk's 2008 South Korean-Japan co-production drama-fantasy, his 15th film, starring Joe Odagiri and Lee Na-young as strangers linked by dreams acted out in sleepwalking; 95 minutes, 89,858 admissions, Best Director from Korean film critics.
Drumline (film)
Drumline is a 2002 American comedy-drama directed by Charles Stone III, starring Nick Cannon as a Harlem street drummer who wins a scholarship to a historically Black university in Atlanta.
Durian Durian (榴梿飘飘)
Durian Durian (榴槤飄飄, Liulian Piao Piao) is Fruit Chan's 2000 Hong Kong-China drama about a mainland sex worker in Mong Kok; Golden Lion nominee, 2001 Golden Horse Best Picture, first of his prostitute trilogy.
Eight Below
Eight Below is a 2006 Disney survival adventure film directed by Frank Marshall, starring Paul Walker, inspired by the 1983 Japanese film Nankyoku Monogatari and a 1957 Antarctic expedition; sled dogs left behind survive 152 days; $81.6M US gross.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is Shekhar Kapur's 2007 sequel to Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, covering the Babington plot, Mary Queen of Scots' execution, and the 1588 Spanish Armada.
Everybody's Fine (2009 film)
Everybody's Fine is a 2009 American comedy-drama directed by Kirk Jones, starring Robert De Niro as a widowed father who travels the country visiting his four adult children.
Everything Is Illuminated (film)
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 American comedy-drama directed by Liev Schreiber in his debut, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel and starring Elijah Wood.
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal is a 2008 Lifetime TV movie directed by Tom McLoughlin, starring Jenna Dewan, Ashley Benson, and Tatum O'Neal, dramatizing the 2006 McKinney North High School cheerleader scandal in Texas.