2000s
Billy Elliot (2000) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Billy Elliot
8.4 (7 ratings) director: Stephen Daldry actor: Jamie Bell / Gary Lewis
other title: Billy Elliot - I Will Dance / Billy Elliot (Quiero bailar)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003) NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb Douban
铁西区
9.7 (6 ratings) director: Wang Bing
other title: Tie Xi Qu. Il distretto di Tiexi / À l'ouest des rails
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) IMDb TMDB WikiData
ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜
other title: Funky Forest - The First Contact / Funky Forest : The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
The Lives of Others (2006) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Das Leben der Anderen
8.9 (23 ratings) director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck actor: Martina Gedeck / Ulrich Mühe
other title: Le vite degli altri / De andres liv
In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
City of God (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB
Cidade de Deus
8.7 (14 ratings) director: Fernando Meirelles actor: Alexandre Rodrigues / Leandro Firmino
other title: Cidade de Deus / La Cité de Dieu
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Scratch (2001) IMDb WikiData
Scratch
director: Doug Pray actor: Jazzy Jay / DJ Krush
A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities of vinyl.
Secondhand Lions (2003) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Secondhand Lions
director: Tim McCanlies actor: Michael Caine / Robert Duvall
other title: Lições Para Toda Vida / Löwen aus zweiter Hand
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Superbad (2007) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Superbad
6.8 (8 ratings) director: Greg Mottola actor: Jonah Hill / Michael Cera
other title: Su×bad: 3 menti sopra il pelo / Super Baldas
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Kung Faux (2003) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kung Faux
actor: Harold Hunter
other title: Virgin Atlantic - helt oppe i skyerne
Old 1970s Martial arts films individually re-cut down to standard television half hour lengths, re-scored with hit music, re-dubbed with the comedic voice overs of hip hop personalities, and re-combined with comic book style graphics and video game theme pacing.
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."