2000s
Less Than Kind (2008) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Less Than Kind
actor: Wendel Meldrum / Jesse Camacho
Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older brother Josh, and Nancy Sorel as his aunt, Clara. The Blechers struggle to operate a driving school out of their home in Winnipeg's fading North End. Less Than Kind made its debut October 13, 2008, on Citytv, and moved to HBO Canada in February 2010.

The ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed series won Canadian Comedy Awards in 2009 and 2010.Less Than Kind received the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Comedy Program or Series and the inaugural award for Best Comedy Series at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards.

The title sequence and logo for Less Than Kind were inspired by an iconic highway sign at Winnipeg's Confusion Corner intersection, depicting arrows pointing in every direction.

The name of the series is found in the first line spoken by Hamlet: "A little more than kin, and less than kind."
The Man Without a Past (2002) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Aki Kaurismäki actor: Markku Peltola / Kati Outinen
other title: L'uomo senza passato / O Homem Sem Passado
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
A Bittersweet Life (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
달콤한 인생
7.4 (7 ratings) director: Kim Jee-woon actor: Lee Byung-hun / Kim Yeong-cheol
other title: Bittersweet life / Doce Tortura
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData Melon Log
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7.5 (13 ratings) director: Garth Jennings actor: Martin Freeman / Yasiin Bey
other title: Guida galattica per autostoppisti / Håndbog for vakse Galakseblaffere
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Coffee and Cigarettes
director: Jim Jarmusch actor: Roberto Benigni / Steven Wright
other title: Café e Cigarros
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Jerry Springer: The Opera (2005) TMDB IMDb
Jerry Springer: The Opera
director: Peter Orton actor: David Bedella / David Soul
"Jerry Springer: The Opera" tells the story of a day in the job of world famous talk-show host, Jerry Springer. Jerry has to sort out a number of guests problems; including a man who wants to dress up as a baby, a man with 3 lovers (one of them a transgender person) and a fat woman who wants to be a pole dancer. However, on this particular day, something out of the ordinary will happen...
Save the Green Planet! (2003) NeoDB WikiData ReviewDB IMDb TMDB Douban
지구를 지켜라!
director: Jang Joon-hwan actor: Shin Ha-kyun / Baek Yoon-sik
other title: Save the Green Planet / Save The Green Planet
A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.
Oldboy (2003) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb NeoDB Test
올드보이
7.7 (22 ratings) director: Park Chan-wook actor: Choi Min-sik / Yoo Ji-tae
other title: Old Boy / Oldboy: Hævnen
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Snakes on a Plane (2006) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Snakes on a Plane
director: David R. Ellis actor: Samuel L. Jackson / Julianna Margulies
other title: Snakes On A Plane / Serpentes a Bordo
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Almost Famous (2000) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
Almost Famous
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Cameron Crowe actor: Billy Crudup / Frances McDormand
other title: Quasi famosi / Quase Famosos
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
El Cantante (2006) IMDb WikiData
El cantante
director: Leon Ichaso actor: Marc Anthony / Jennifer Lopez
other title: O cantor / El cantante
The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.
Texas Rangers (2001) WikiData IMDb
Texas Rangers
director: Steve Miner actor: James Van Der Beek / Rachael Leigh Cook
other title: Texas Rangers : La Revanche des justiciers
Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.