Search of 2003 on SouthFilms.
Chinese Series
Genres: Short
Starring: Stan Brakhage
Directors: Stan Brakhage
Country: USA
Year: 2003
The story of Stan Brakhage's CHINESE SERIES is both a somewhat sad and yet an incredibly beautiful one. After having retired from teaching and moving to Vancouver, Canada, Brakhage began work on a "dream-project" of sorts, a series of film's to be made completely by scratching into the film emulsion, as he had successfully done so many times previous with eloquent and visually captivating results; this was to be the CHINESE SERIES. But the filmmaker was taken once again by his battle with debilitatingly-painful terminal cancer and, as such, was unable to complete the film by the time of his death. As a final wish he asked his wife to release ...
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
Starring: Luke Wilson, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, Cameron Diaz, Shia LaBeouf, Crispin Glover
Directors: McG
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Natalie, Dylan, and Alex, three glamorous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents - who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing jewelry bands. These are no ordinary wedding rings. They contain valuable information that reveals the new identities of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program. After five of the program's participants turn up dead, only the Angels can stop the perpetrator, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts.
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Michele Greene, Joe Lando, Matthew Ewald
Directors: Doug Campbell
Country: USA
Year: 2003
When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; returns. He insists that the dam be drained and inspected but Walker claims it would take too long and would be too costly. David goes to the dam and notices a few anomalies. He then tries to warn the deputy mayor who happens to be his estranged wife but out of anger she refuses to listen. Also David tries to reconnect with his son who resents his desertion.
Scooby-Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire
Genres: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Starring: Jane Wiedlin, Frank Welker, Phil LaMarr, Jeff Bennett, Jennifer Hale, Kevin Michael Richardson, Tom Kenny
Directors: Scott Jeralds
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
On vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music contest held at Vampire Rock---where the legendary 'Yowie Yahoo' Vampire is kidnapping the musical acts, including the Hex Girls. Masquerading as heavy-metal band 'Those Meddling Kids,' Scooby and the others must discover the identity of the Vampire's minions.
Under the Tuscan Sun
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta, Mario Monicelli, Roberto Nobile
Directors: Audrey Wells
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def
Frances Mayes is a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love.
Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt
Genres: Action, Comedy
Starring: Curtis Armstrong, Adam West, Jim Jansen, Jason Marsden, Betty White, Brett Rickaby, Lee Meriwether
Directors: Paul A. Kaufman
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Adam West and Burt Ward are taken on a crazy adventure when the Batmobile is stolen from a car museum and they must track down the thief and return it. After solving a puzzle, they realize that the clues to finding the fiend who stole the Batmobile are hidden in their past. During the search, they flashback to their three seasons in tights, including their many sexual escapades. Ultimately they find the Batmobile, but get caught in the villain's lair. Tied to dynamite, will Adam and Burt get out in time? Tune in next time...same bat time...same bat channel!!
In Hell
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Bailey Smith, Paulo Tocha, Robert LaSardo, Billy Rieck, Lawrence Taylor, Carlos Gómez
Directors: Ringo Lam
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod
Kyle LeBlanc is an American working overseas in Russia. When he hears his wife being attacked over the phone, Kyle rushes home to find that he's too late. The man who killed his wife is found not guilty on lack of evidence. So Kyle takes the law into his own hands, and kills the man to avenge his wife's death. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Russian prison he is sent to is tough, and the warden amuses himself by putting on fights where he fills his pockets with money by betting on the fights. Kyle begins to break and go crazy, so he is forced into these fights because the warden knows he is a sure thing. Kyle's cellmate ...
Brother Bear
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Starring: Rick Moranis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Greg Proops, Joaquin Phoenix, Harold Gould, D.B. Sweeney, Jeremy Suarez
Directors: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Long ago, as the Earth was emerging from the Ice Age, there were three brothers. After a bear takes the life of the oldest brother, impulsive youngest brother Kenai kills the bear in revenge, only to be transformed into a bear himself. Denahi, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed Kenai, vows revenge. Now brother hunts brother and Kenai's only hope for survival is to befriend his own worst enemy, a grizzly cub named Koda. Koda main goal is to show Kenai the real meaning of brotherhood.
Finding Nemo
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Stephen Root, Austin Pendleton, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Perkins, Geoffrey Rush, Joe Ranft
Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A clown fish named Marlin living in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbor. While the two are doing ...
The Core
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Eileen Pedde, Rekha Sharma, Tom Scholte
Directors: Jon Amiel
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Scientists discover that the Earth's core is about to stop spinning. This will cause tremendous natural disasters, wiping out life as we know it. A team of scientists are recruited in a crash project to send a ship and bomb into the center of the Earth to prevent the catastrophe.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Starring: Julio Oscar Mechoso, Danny Trejo, Eva Mendes, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The film is based on the story of a drug lord Barrillo, who pretends to overthrow the Mexican president. Within the drama, another of the principal persons is a corrupt CIA agent Sands who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy in order to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government. El Mariachi (Antonio Bandares) is recruited by Sands to take out General Marquez (has a huge score to settle with the Mariachi), who has major beef with Mariachi to begin with. He sends Cucuy (the muscle for Sands) to shadow and keep tabs on the Mariachi. Marquez is working with Barrillo, and is about to assassinate the president and...
Love Actually
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Martin Freeman, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Rory MacGregor, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher
Directors: Richard Curtis
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.
Lonely Planet Six Degrees Auckland
Genres: Adventure, Documentary
Starring: Toby Amies, Asha Gill
Directors: Toby Amies, Asha Gill
Country: Australia
Year: 2003
Lonely Planet Six Degrees explores the world's coolest cities by connecting with the people who live in them. By emphasising the human dimension of travel, Lonely Planet Six Degrees moves beyond sightseeing and offers the surest way of being whisked off your feet and fast-tracked to the heart of the city.
Destino
Genres: Animation, Short
Starring: Dominique Monfery
Directors: Dominique Monfery
Country: USA, France
Year: 2003
Available Quality: Hi Def
To a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game. From the melting clocks and hourglass sand, to the figure rendered in strips, to the character covered in eyeballs, the style and themes of Dalí are clearly recognizable throughout.
Saints and Soldiers
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Larry Bagby, Michael Buster, Ben Gourley, Kirby Heyborne, Curt Dousett, Corbin Allred, Peter Holden
Directors: Ryan Little
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: Hi Def
After surviving a massacre in Malmedy, a location behind the German army in Europe, four American soldiers with only one weapon rescue the British pilot Oberon Winley (Kirby Heyborn) in a tree and they move together, trying to reach the allied forces and save a great number of allied soldiers from a German attack with the information got by Winley in his flight. While marching, each soldier discloses inner secrets to the rest of the group.
The Haunted Mansion
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Family
Starring: Terence Stamp, Marc John Jefferies, Eddie Murphy, Jim Doughan, Jennifer Tilly, Deep Roy, Wallace Shawn
Directors: Rob Minkoff
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Realtor workaholic Jim Evers and his wife and business partner Sara gets a call late one night from mansion owner Edward Gracey, who is looking to sell his property. Smelling the biggest deal of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou. A torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen. At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories about ghosts and hauntings, until he unearths the mystery of the mansion and finds that his wife Sara ha...
The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien
Directors: Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Why learn new tricks when you can still get big laughs milking the old ones? Everyone's favorite foul-mouthed canine puppet simply takes the same material he's been using since Don Rickles was in short pants, and stretches it over a series of musical pastiches, from calypso ("Underage Bichon") to, um, Yiddish musical theater ("My Mama"). With contributions from Adam Sandler,Conan O'Brien, Jack Black, and SNL vets Maya Rudolph and Horatio Sanz, this features more guests than a Jerry Lewis telethon (alas, no --though he gets name-checked on the hip-hop jam "I Keed"). The Jerky -style crank calls quickly wear thin, and the bonus DVD is a hodgepo...
A Trip to the City
Genres: Short
Starring: Constantin Dita, Ion Sapdaru
Directors: Corneliu Porumboiu
Country: Romania
Year: 2003
Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera dOr prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of well-known football referee Adrian Porumboiu.
Ed - Season Four
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Josh Randall, Julie Bowen, Tom Cavanagh
Directors: Jon Beckerman, Rob Burnett
Country: USA
Year: 2003
The show revolved around Cavanagh's Ed Stevens, a hotshot New York lawyer who on the same day is fired from his job (for drafting a contract with a misplaced comma that ended up costing his firm $1.6 million) and comes home to discover his wife sleeping with a mailman (the wife makes the point that it is not their mailman in particular, but another mailman).
The Drew Carey Show - Season Nine
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles
Directors: Bruce Helford, Drew Carey
Country: USA
Year: 2003
Mr. Bell was replaced by Nigel Wick, who served as a foil for both Drew and Mimi in the workplace. During this period Drew and Mr. Wick periodically took the top management job away from each other. Kate and Drew got romantically involved, and were on the verge of getting married, but they called it off when they realized they didn't feel the same about the prospect of children. Drew's cross-dressing brother Steve was introduced during this period. He eventually fell in love with Mimi and they had a child, Gus.