21. The Bourne Ultimatum
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Albert Finney
Plot: The latest showdown for the Bourne Series. Bourne will fight the past in order to make his future free from it.
22. City of God ( Cidade de Deus )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Actors: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Seu Jorge
Plot: Growing up in the same town, two boys take life differently in Rio de Janeiro. One becomes a successful photography and the other a drug dealer while their lives continue to pass as they grow older.
23. Gran Torino
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Haley
Plot: When a teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a Korean war veteran decides to take matters into his own hands and reform the boy.
24. Kill Bill: Volume 1
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Plot: A woman, who her assasins believe to be dead find that she is alive and try to kill her, while at the same time, she goes after revenge against them.
25. The Pianist
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard
Plot: A Jewish pianist must flee is home country as Germany invades. He is reluctant to flee and struggles to survive because of it.
26. Shaun of the Dead
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Nicola Cunningham
Plot: A man needs to sort out his life: with his girlfriend, his mother and
step-father, his job and his best friend. Oh, and the recently deceased
are now rising from the dead and trying to eat everyone.
27. Donnie Darko
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Kelly
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Patrick Swayze, Mary McDonnell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore
Plot: A movie of a teenage boy who sees an imaginary six foot tall bunny rabbit who tells him when the world is going to end.
28. Amélie ( Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze
Plot: A Paris woman, in search of helping others finds love in mysterious ways.
29. Monsters, Inc.
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Pete Docter
Actors: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Tilly, John Ratzenberger, Frank Oz
Plot: The lives of monsters are maintained by scaring children, but they are afraid of children entering their lives; not for fear of ruining a secret but for fear of disease - when one monster accidentally lets a child into the monster world, his life and many others are turned upside down.
30. Star Trek
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana
Plot: Chronicles the origins of the Enterprise, including a headstrong Iowa farm boy, James T. Kirk and a half-Vulcan coming to terms with his heritage, Spock. When a threat appears that has plans to destroy the future, the young crew must come together to avert disaster.
