Best Movies of 2004
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Best Movies of 2004
TOP Movies: The Notebook (2004), The Aviator (2004), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Shrek 2 (2004), Collateral (2004), Saw (2004), The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Terminal (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004), 50 First Dates (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Mean Girls (2004), Hellboy (2004), Troy (2004), National Treasure (2004), The Butterfly Effect (2004), The Girl Next Door (2004), I, Robot (2004).
List of Best Movies
679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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405K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, realistic, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, success, aviation, entrepreneurship, businessman, test pilot, entrepreneur, biopic, business, filmmaking, obsessive compulsive disorder, corruption ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, connecticut, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
Style:
emotional, depressing, touching, sad, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
boxing, underdog, female boxer, female protagonist, determination, mentor protege relationship, athlete's life, female athlete, boxing trainer, strong female character, euthanasia, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, europe, london, las vegas ...
Is relevant?
775K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style:
sincere, exciting, saga, visually stunning, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, boys' night, kids ...
Plot:
superhero, mad scientist, superhuman powers, double life, disguise, vigilante, spider man, super villain, good versus evil, friendship, experiment gone awry, fantasy world ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
550K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fairy godmother discovers that Shrek has ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, 3d animation, computer animated, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
princess, cat, transformation, kingdom, creature, shrek, dragon, talking animal, donkey, godmother, prince, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, medieval times, middle ages, 16th century
Is relevant?
464K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
hitman, hostage, taxi, taxi driver, contract killer, sociopath, twists and turns, assassin, nihilism, merciless, professional killer, death ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, southern california, persia ...
Is relevant?
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
"The Passion of the Christ" is a film about the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus. Director Mel Gibson received much criticism from critics and audiences for his explicit depiction of and focus on violence and on christs suffering, ...
Style:
biblical, christian film, controversial, spiritual, brutal ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, adult
Plot:
jesus, christianity, jesus christ, redemption, religion, religious, bible, torture, suffering, betrayal, death, roman ...
Time:
ancient times, year 2004, 2000s, 1930s, 1st century ...
Place:
holy land, jerusalem, greece, ancient greece, middle east ...
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531K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, romania ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, zombie apocalypse, pub, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, satire, zombie violence, eaten alive, supernatural, siege, flesh eating zombie ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
Is relevant?
481K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Style:
teen, feel good, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, high school, teenage girl, teenage life, fish out of water, adolescence, high school life, bullying, popularity, jealousy, friendship, female friendship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, 21st century
Place:
illinois, chicago, africa, usa, pennsylvania ...
Is relevant?
369K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, cult classic, visually stunning, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, date night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, superhero, monster, supernatural ability, demon, comic book, occult, comic hero, superhuman powers, undercover, danger, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2004, 1940s, y2k, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, america, moscow russia, scotland ...
Is relevant?
610K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Malta, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
Style:
epic, exciting, heroic, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, manly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
sword fight, mythology, ancient history, ancient, vengeance, battlefield, courage, greek mythology, warrior, war, ancient world, king ...
Time:
ancient times, year 2004, middle ages, 2000s
Place:
greece, ancient greece, britain, hellas, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, clever, satanic, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure hunter, archaeologist, adventurer, secret place, riddles and clues, map, ancient, artifact, journey ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, year 1974, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot:
high school, teenager, youth, dream come true, teenage sex, sex, sexual relations, virginity, fall in love, lifestyle, couple relations, porn star ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, california, usa, los angeles, cambodia
Is relevant?
611K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, dystopia, dystopian future, androids, technology gone awry, fate of humanity, hi-tech ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2030s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, India, Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, entertaining, satanic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night
Plot:
cia, conspiracy, spy, amnesia, espionage, hitman, revenge, on the run, chase, assassin, dark past, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, manhattan new york city, moscow russia ...
Is relevant?
416K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save ...
Style:
suspense, tense, brutal, bloody, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, kidnapping, vigilante, vigilantism, child in peril, lone hero, mercenary, cia, justice, violence, bodyguard ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, exciting, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
superhero, good versus evil, heroes, secret identity, superhuman powers, superhuman speed, superheroine, strong female character, satire, disguise, superhero team, villain ...
Time:
year 2004, 60s, year 1947, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, north america, chicago, fictional island, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Is relevant?
305K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, scary, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, werewolf, supernatural, dracula, steampunk, frankenstein, fantasy world, good versus evil, undead, dark hero, transformation, monster ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2004, 15th century, 1880s ...
Place:
transylvania, europe, budapest, italy, france ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. ...
Style:
spoof, humorous, cult classic, stylized, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, lone hero, kung fu fighting, gangster, master warrior, heroes, mob boss, chaos, violence, violent ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 2004, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, shanghai, asia
Is relevant?
398K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still ...
Style:
psychological, costume drama, harsh, disturbing, epic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, hitler, nazi, war, nazism, suicide, fascism, holocaust, national socialism, dictatorship, third reich, paranoia ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, prague, europe, bavaria ...
Is relevant?
461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five ...
Style:
brutal, action thriller, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
hitman, revenge, vengeance, strong female lead, tough girl, dark humor, femme fatale, sword fight, mission, one woman army, female assassin, female warrior ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
austin texas, persia, el paso texas, mexico, japan ...
Is relevant?
164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
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