The Perfect Tenant (2000)

Synopsis:
Twenty years ago Danny Summer found his father hanging from the rafters on Christmas Eve. Ever since that night he has been plotting revenge. When Brian Hartwell moves into Jessica Michael's guesthouse, she has no idea that her new tenant has a deadly agenda to go with his new identity. Her daughter Laura doesn't trust him from the beginning but can't convince her mother that there's more to "The Perfect Tenant" than meets the eye.

Starring:
Linda Purl
Maxwell Caulfield
Stacy Hogue

Director: Doug Campbell

Pay it Forward (2000)

AKA:
Das Glücksprinzip >> German

About:
A bollywood big bannered movie "Jai Ho" starring Salman Khan in the lead is heavily based on this very movie. Another South Indian Bollywood movie called "Stalin" is based on this film too.

Synopsis:
Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward--repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor's efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.

Starring:
Kevin Spacey
Haley Joel Osment
Helen Hunt

Director: Mimi Leder

A Nation On Drugs - Yemen (2000)

About:
Al Saqqaf, a newspaper publisher, is one of the loudest critics of the drug that has become a Yemeni national obsession.

Jolo Crisis - Philippines (2000)

Synopsis:
Will the two aims of the Filipino government - to save the hostages and destroy their kidnappers -prove incompatible? This film gives the background to a conflict between a Catholic state and an extremist Muslim minority.

Juste une question d'amour (2000)

AKA:
Just a Question of Love

Synopsis:
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

Starring:
Cyrille Thouvenin
Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
Eva Darlan

Director: Christian Faure

Death Row - Philippines (2000)

Synopsis:
A man lies down to die. He is strapped to a bed and his left arm is punctured with a crude yet fatal drip.

He is not alone. Over 1300 prisoners in the Philippines are on death row, awaiting their lethal injection. Among them are women and even children. The rising number of executions is part of a crackdown on crime -- Zero Tolerance Filipino style. The man in charge of this campaign is Ping Lacson of the Philippines National Police. He was nick-named Dirty Harry when he broke a big gang of Manila bank robbers and took no prisoners. Instead eleven suspects were shot dead in suspicious circumstances. "I would rather be feared than loved ... as long as I get things done", he says. And he is getting things done. In his first six months petty crime is down 30 percent and drug arrests have doubled. While politicians score points, human rights activists and leaders of the Catholic Church call for an abolition of the death penalty.

Nowhere to Land (2000)

AKA:
Der Tod fliegt mit >> German

Synopsis:
Over 300 people are believed to be held hostage in a Boeing 747 enroute from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, California. The plane, under command of veteran pilot Captain John Prescott, is two hours from land; however, early reports suggest that a biochemical device hidden onboard the plane is timed to detonate within the hour. The device, believed to contain a nerve gas ten times deadlier than the Sarin gas released in a Tokyo subway in 1995, is reported to be tied to a countdown trigger with less than an hour remaining. Apparently disguised within passenger carry-on luggage, the bomb seems to have been planted not by a political terrorist, but by a madman acting in hopes of revenge. Alerted to the man's presence in Australia, both governments have begun the chase. The American FBI, present in Australia for security preparations in advance of the upcoming 2000 Olympic Games, have dispatched agents to work in collaboration with Australian police forces.

Starring:
Jack Wagner
Christine Elise
James Sikking

Director: Armand Mastroianni

Swimming (2000)

Synopsis:

Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town during the summer.

The Invisible Man (2000)

Synopsis:
"Darien Fawkes is a petty thief and conman who is bailed out of jail by his brother in return for undergoing an experiment that implants a "quicksilver" gland in his head that allows him to turn invisible. When his brother is killed, he ends up working for a top-secret government organization (disguised as the Department of Fish & Game) in return for a counter-agent which keeps the gland from driving him insane."

Chal Mere Bhai (2000)

AKA:
चल मेरे भाई

Starring:
Salman Khan
Sanjay Dutt

Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge (2000)

AKA:
दुल्हन हम ले जाएंगे

Starring:
Salman Khan
Karishma Kapoor
Om Puri
Paresh Rawal
Anupam Kher

Director: David Dhawan

The Beach (2000)

Synopsis:
Richard (DiCaprio) a young American backpacker, is willing to risk his life for just one thing: that mind-blowing rush you can only get from braving the ultimate adventure. But on a secret, deceptively perfect beach, he'll soon discover that, as the level of intensity rises and the stakes climb higher, desire grows stronger... and danger grows deeper.

Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio 
Tilda Swinton
Robert Carlyle
Virginie Ledoyen
Guillaume Canet

Hollow Man I (2000)

AKA:
Hollow Man >> Original Title
Hollow Man 1

Synopsis:
Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (c) drives a sports car, and (d) spies on his comely next-door neighbor while eating Twinkies. Sadly, this is the most character development anyone gets in this undernourished action/sci-fi thriller, which boasts some amazing special effects and some amazingly ridiculous plot twists. After experimenting rather ruthlessly on a menagerie of lab animals, Bacon finally cracks the code that will turn the invisible gorillas, dogs, and so on, back into their visible forms. Does it work on humans? Faster than you can say "six degrees," Mr. Bacon appoints himself human guinea pig, strapping down for an injection of fluorescent-colored serum. Thanks to some phenomenal, seamless and Oscar-worthy computer effects, Bacon is indeed rendered invisible, organ by organ, vein by vein. And what's the first thing you'd do if you were invisible? Why, spy on your female coworkers in the bathroom and molest your comely next-door neighbor, of course! Soon, Bacon is thoroughly psychotic.

Starring:
Kevin Bacon
Josh Brolin
William Devane
Elisabeth Shue
Kim Dickens

Directors: Paul Verhoeven

Vengo (2000)

Synopsis:
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his wildly protective love and attention onto his physically challenged nephew, Diego. It seems that Diego's father, Caco's brother, is in hiding after having killed a man from the Caravaca family, who are equally powerful in the community. They are looking for vengeance and have come to Caco for justice. When he refuses to betray his brother, the Caravacas grow impatient. When they realize they are getting nowhere, they threaten to kill Diego. Despite his fierce pride, Caco eventually realizes that the cycle of killing and revenge must be broken.

Starring:
Antonio Canales
Orestes Villasan Rodríguez
Antonio Dechent

Director: Tony Gatlif

Pyar Ki Tarang (2000)

Starring:
Shyam
Laxmi
Parasnath
Meena

Director: Sunder Murthy

Bawandar (2000)

Starring:
Nandita Das
Raghuvir Yadav
Deepti Naval
Rahul Khanna
Laila Rouass
Govind Namdeo
Ishrat Ali
Yashpal Sharma
Lalit Tiwari
Anupam Shyam
Ashok Banthia
Shri Vallabh Vyas
Ravi Jhankal
Mohan Bhandari
Lillete Dubey

Director: Jag Mundhra

Uncle Saddam (2000)

Synopsis:
Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

Director: Joel Soler

Perfume de Violetas (2000)

Refugee (2000)

About:
The debut movie of Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor.

Synopsis:A Bangladeshi Muslim family must relocate to Pakistan, for which they must cross two borders, one with India and Bangladesh and the second with India and Pakistan. The family head Manzur Ahmed (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) hires a nameless Refugee (Abhishek Bachchan) to guide the family over the immense desert to reach Pakistan. Refugee is a man of self-discipline and refuses to be emotionally involved with the people he helps to cross borders. Then he meets Manzur's daughter, Naaz (Kareena Kapoor) and soon they both fall in love with each other. Officials on both sides of the border are aware of the human trafficking and Refugee comes under their scanner. Indian officer of the border security forces, Raghuvir Singh (Jackie Shroff) and the Pakistani Ranger, Mohammad Ashraf (Sunil Shetty), up the ante to stop all the illegal activities on the border. Mohammad Ashraf also falls in loves with Naaz and his conflict with Refugee heightens. To complicate matters, Raghuvir Singh apprehends Refugee with a load of RDX explosives and Naaz's parents arrange her marriage with Mohammad Ashraf.

Starring:
Abhishek Bachchan
Kareena Kapoor
Jackie Shroff
Sunil Shetty
Reena Roy
Anupam Kher
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Sudesh Berry

Director: J.P. Dutt

Kandukondein Kandukondein (2000)

Synopsis:
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Sense And Sensiblity, 'Kandukondein Kandukondein' is the tale of the trials and tribulations in the life of two sisters. Soumya (Tabu) is matured and practical, while Meenakshi (Aishwarya Rai) lives in her own dreamy and poetic world. Sowmya is considered unlucky because every boy who has come to see her for marriage has suffered one mishap or the other. As a result, she has remained unmarried till date. On the other hand, Meenu dreams of being with a person who will come and sweep her off her feet by rendering Bhartiyar's poetry. As the story progresses, the sisters do come across men of their liking.

Starring:
Mammootty
Ajithkumar
Tabu
Abbas
Aishwarya Rai
Manivannan
Nizhalgal Ravi
Srividya
Shamili
Raghuvaran
Dino Morea
Anita Ratnam

Director: Rajiv Menon