The film tells his life as a bushranger in north-east Victoria, where he lived all his life. He, his brother Dan, and two other men — Steve Hart and Joe Byrne — formed a gang of Irish Australians in response to Irish and English tensions that arose in 19th century Australia. The film starts out with a mysterious setting of a young Ned Kelly, rescuing a young boy from drowning. The film then pans to the beautiful Australian wild and Ned Kelly talking about his father. He then wakes up from sleeping in the Australian wilderness, to see a beautiful white mare. He rides the horse into town, only to be arrested for supposed horse stealing. The horse, that he supposedly stole, was actually stolen by Wild Wright, Ned's friend, but wandered off until Ned found it and was innocently imprisoned.

Three years later, Ned is released from prison. He comes home with a warm welcome to his Catholic Irish family. Ned and the rest of the family, are seemingly working to get ahead in life, as he puts it, by farming, owning horses, and working. One night at the bar, Ned's sister, Kate, gets up to have another drink. A local Victorian police officer, named Fitzpatrick, offers to buy her another drink. But after several attempts, Kate insists she doesn't want one. Ned comes in telling Officer Fitzpatrick that she doesn't want one from the likes of him, and hostilities ensue when the fellow officers believe Ned, "acts as if he owns the place." Getting back at Ned Kelly, the Victorian police steal Ned's horses. Ned, his brother Dan, his friends Steve Hart, Joe Byrne, and Wild Wright, investigate the matter, and steal back their horses. Fitzpatrick arrives one evening at Ned's house, while he's away, to see Kate, only to be told that she doesn't want to see him. Officer Fitzpatrick tells them they have warrants for them, for horse stealing. A fight ensues, and Fizpatrick rushes back to the police office, telling the other officers that Ned Kelly shot him.

The Victorian police then arrest Ned's mother, and Ned, Dan, Steve, and Joe become outlaws and run from the law. They meet with the Victorian police in the woods, and kill Constable Lonnigan, along with two other officers. For years on, Ned, Dan, Steve, and Joe, now called the Kelly Gang, avoid capture, living in the wild, often without food. The British Empire sends in Francis Hare, who arrests many people to possibly force out where Ned Kelly might be, including Joe Byrne's life-long friend, Aaron Sherrit. Aaron Sherrit, being told that they don't want to harm his friend Joe, but only wants the Kellys, gives them a location where they might be. Joe Byrne finds out, and arrives one night at his house wearing a dress and armed with a loaded shotgun, and shoots Aaron, killing him.

Along the end of the crusade of the Kelly Gang, they take over the town of Glenrowan, winning the trust of the townspeople there. Lieutenant Hare and the Police force are set to capture Ned at Glenrowan, and a large battle with many casualties ensues. The Kelly gang uses an armor, which covers their entire chest, stomach, and head. Joe Byrne is shot inside the local pub, and dies. Morning passes, and the officers are wondering where Ned and Dan Kelly, and Steve Hart are. Dan and Steve then shoot themselves in the head, committing suicide. Ned wakes up from having a dream, and even though gravely injured, continues to fire at the police. He finally is shot to the ground, where the officers gather around him.

Loaded on a train, a medical officer takes away Ned's beloved green sash and gives it to Lieutenant Hare, asking him if he may have it. Ned then shakes his head while Lieutenant Hare takes away the green and gold sash the train steers away. It was noted that even with a pardon which had a petition of 32,000 signatures, Ned Kelly was hanged on November 11, 1880.

The film's premise that there is another way to heaven than adherence to the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. A secular Sin Eater can remove all taint of sin, no matter how foul, from the soul just before death. The purified soul can then ascend into heaven. The Roman Catholic church, according to the film, considers this heresy.

Heath Ledger plays an unhappy and disillusioned priest, Alex Bernier, whose religious order, the Carolingians, specializes in fighting demons and other hell spawn. Father Dominic, the head of the Carolingians, has died in Rome under suspicious circumstances and Alex leaves the USA to investigate. In Rome, Alex visits the morgue and sees strange markings on Dominic's corpse that he recognizes as being the sign of a Sin Eater's work. He heads to the Vatican, where an official tells him that Sin Eaters don't exist and that Dominic may not be buried on sacred ground because he had been excommunicated for his beliefs. Alex, moving ever farther from his vocation, defies his superiors and secretly reads a holy service over the body and buries Dominic in the Carolingian cemetery (the service takes place off screen but is referred to later).

Thomas Garrett, another Carolingian (there seem to have only been a total of three including Dominic), arrives in Rome to help investigate Dominic's death.

Early in the film we meet Mara Sinclair, an artist Alex once exorcised, who has escaped from a mental hospital and come to Alex at his church in the USA because she has a feeling that something terrible is going to happen to him. The police come looking for her, but Alex lies and denies that he's seen her and through this exchange we learn that Mara was in the hospital because she had tried to kill Alex during the exorcism. Mara goes to Rome with Alex after promising that she won't try to kill him again.

Cardinal Driscoll (Peter Weller), who is introduced at the beginning of the film and who is tipped to be the next Pope, arrives in Rome from the USA and gives Alex a special dagger. According to a fragment of parchment Alex and Thomas find among Dominic's books, the dagger is to be plunged into the Sin Eater while reciting a text in Aramaic. Alex and Thomas take these instructions to mean that the dagger and incantation will kill the Sin Eater and they begin hunting for the Sin Eater and the remainder of the parchment instructions.

Thomas leads Alex to a nightclub where they are taken to the underground base of operations of a masked man called Chirac, the 'Black Pope.' The Black Pope owes a favor to Thomas and Alex asks where to find the Sin Eater. The Black Pope then hangs three people and tells Alex to ask his question of the dying men who can see what the living cannot. One of the dying tells Alex a riddle that leads to a rendezvous with the Sin Eater.

On the way out of the Black Pope's HQ, demons attack and injure Thomas, but Alex saves him and gets him to a hospital.

Alex leaves Thomas in the hospital and meets the Sin Eater, William Eden, who explains that he has been a Sin Eater for centuries, taking over for an earlier Sin Eater (a Carolingian priest) who ate the sins of Eden's brother. Eden tells Alex that he is tired and ready to die and asks Alex to take his place. Alex has the dagger with him, but is curious and so doesn't use it to kill Eden. Instead, he assists Eden with a sin eating ritual. But in the end, Alex refuses Eden's offer because he has decided to leave the priesthood to be with Mara.

Later Alex returns to their lodgings and finds Mara near death, an apparent suicide. In actuality, Eden slit her wrists and left her for Alex to find. With Mara dead, Eden reasons, Alex has no reason to refuse to take over as Sin Eater. Mara is beyond medical help and Alex quickly performs the sin eating ritual so that she can go to heaven. After absorbing Mara's sins, though, Alex sees that there is no sin of suicide on Mara's conscience and realizes Eden's deception. Alex goes after Eden to kill him.

The rationale that leads Alex to perform the sin eating ritual instead of giving Mara Roman Catholic Last Rites is that Alex has already made the decision to leave the priesthood to be with Mara and he has broken his vows of obedience and of sexual abstinence. He therefore considers himself ineligible to offer Mara Last Rites.

Meanwhile, the injured Thomas is out of the hospital and goes to see the Black Pope who reveals himself to be Cardinal Driscoll. Driscoll shows Thomas the second half of the parchment which instead of being instructions on how to kill a Sin Eater is actually instructions on how to become a Sin Eater. The entirety of Alex's and Mara's lives have been a plot among Dominic, Eden and Driscoll to entrap Alex. Eden wants to die, Driscoll wants to be Pope and Dominic wanted the financial resources to pursue arcane knowledge.

Driscoll prevents Thomas from leaving to warn Alex.

Alex cannot find Eden and returns to the Black Pope to learn where Eden is. The Black Pope (face hidden) tells Alex again to ask the dying. Alex recognizes Thomas as the man being hanged and frees him using a pistol. However, Thomas's throat is too injured by the noose to tell Alex the truth of the parchment.

Alex finds Eden and stabs him with the dagger while reciting the incantation. He quickly realizes what is actually happening but it is too late, Eden's powers are transferred to Alex and Eden, happy to be free of his burden of the sins of others, dies. In the mean time, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome crumbles around them.

Thomas, who arrives at the scene too late to prevent the transfer, vows he will find a way to save Alex, even if it means killing him.

Alex informs the church about Driscoll's activities and Driscoll is ruined. He decides to kill himself and calls on the Sin Eater, now Alex, to remove his sins. Driscoll slits his wrists and when he is near death, Alex tells him that he knows that Eden and Driscoll caused Mara's death. Alex does not eat Driscoll's sins but forces them down Driscoll's throat. Driscoll dies a painful death and presumably goes straight to hell.

The Sin Eater William Eden used his power to accumulate wealth. The Sin Eater Alex Bernier decides to act as a power for good, saving only those who deserve it and allowing evildoers to die in sin.

n New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

The movie centers on a new student, Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Cameron develops a crush on Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), but he is informed by his new friend Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz) that Bianca can't date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) finds a boyfriend. He and Michael set up an elaborate plan to find Kat a boyfriend in which they persuade another boy who has a crush on Bianca, Joey (Andrew Keegan), to pay an intimidating guy with a bad reputation to go out with Kat, leading Joey to believe that he will have Bianca when she is free to date.

Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) seems like a good match for equally ill-tempered Kat. However, Kat resists his advances. Eventually she allows him to escort her to a party, so that Bianca too can go to the party. At the party, Cameron finds out that Bianca wanted to date Joey the entire time, while Kat gets drunk and must be cared for by Patrick. Bianca spends time with Joey at the party and realizes he is far from the perfect guy she expected him to be. Bianca catches up with Cameron before he leaves the party, and he ends up giving her a ride home. Kat however, becomes angry with Patrick when he doesn't kiss her while she's drunk.

At this point, Patrick has fallen for Kat, and tries to win her back. Joey pays for Patrick to take Kat to prom, though at first he is reluctant to take the money. Kat refuses to go to prom, thinking that Patrick has an ulterior motive. Bianca is upset that she can't go to prom. Kat reveals that after their mother left, she slept with Joey in a moment of distress, and was trying to protect her younger sister from making a similar mistake. She and Patrick go to the prom together, and Bianca goes with Cameron.

At the prom, Joey finds Patrick and expresses his anger that while he kept up his end of the bargain and paid Patrick to go out with Kat, Bianca ended up with Cameron instead. Kat hears this, and despite Patrick's attempts to explain, walks out on him. Joey confronts Cameron and becomes violent, only to be given a black eye by Bianca. The following school day, Kat reads her English assignment, an interpretation of Sonnet 141, aloud to the class, which includes Patrick. To apologize, Patrick buys Kat a guitar which she had been longing for, and they end up together.

Two Hands is set in locations around Sydney, starting in the red light district of Kings Cross. Jimmy, while working at a strip club, is approached by local mob boss Pando who says he has work for him. Pando gives Jimmy $10,000 to deliver to a woman in Bondi, and when she appears not to be home, he goes for a swim on the beach. Unfortunately the $10,000 is stolen by street kids while he is swimming, leaving him heavily indebted to the understandably furious Pando and his gang.

The car Jimmy was using on the job - a Ford Falcon belonging to Pando's associate Acko - is stolen by a young man and taken to a car dealer. The dealer happens to be a friend of Acko's, who, displeased at the news of his car being stolen, suspects Jimmy's involvement.

Jimmy comes up with a plan to pay off the debt by robbing a bank the next day in Bankstown, New South Wales along with two others. The night before he arranges to meet new friend and love interest Alex at a pub. Unfortunately the meeting's arrangements are heard by Les, a friend jealous of Alex's attraction to Jimmy and keen to get in with Pando's gang. After informing the gang of the couple's whereabouts, Jimmy is forced to flee the pub with Alex, attempting to escape on the Sydney Monorail, however the escape proves unsuccessful and Jimmy is taken to a remote location where the gang plan to kill him. Through the indirect intervention of Jimmy's dead brother (who acts as a guardian angel figure throughout the film), Jimmy is able to escape alive, and make his way back home to prepare for the bank robbery.

The robbery is not without its problems, but is on the whole successful, and Jimmy gets the money he needs, escaping in a stolen Toyota Celica with his accomplice. Ironically, the stolen auto's radio station bumper sticker is spotted by the station's competition team, and Jimmy wins a $10,000 prize. Not needing the money, and most likely angered at the irony of the situation, he rams the station's Ford Explorer off the road.

Jimmy returns to Pando's office to pay off his debt, but thinking he has a gun the gang once again attempt to kill him. Luckily he is able to give them the money before he is killed, and is now offered more work by Pando for his impressive performance escaping the gang on their first attempt to kill him. Jimmy leaves in disgust after pulling a gun on Pando, and the movie ends with Jimmy and Alex buying tickets at an airport to a location 'up north', away from the pressures of life in Sydney. As Jimmy leaves, one of the street kids passes Jimmy, and in retaliation for the death of her friend shoots Pando and all his mates.

It is the late 18th century, in South Carolina. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) is a veteran of the French and Indian War and a widower raising his seven children on his farm. Gabriel (Heath Ledger), the eldest, is anxious to join the American forces fighting the British in the Revolutionary War, without his father's permission. Martin, who knows from first-hand experience the horrifying carnage that war presents, wants to discourage his son from participating.

Against his father's wishes, Gabriel does join up. He returns home after two years, stumbling wounded into the family home, carrying dispatches between commanders. That night, a skirmish between the British and the patriots wakes the Martins and they give care to the wounded of both sides the next morning. British soldiers approach the house, proceed to kill the Colonial wounded, burn down the house and take Gabriel into custody as a spy, intending to hang him. Martin's 15-year-old (and second) son Thomas (Gregory Smith) is killed trying to free Gabriel as he is taken prisoner, shot by the cold-hearted leader of the Green Dragoons, Col. William Tavington (Jason Isaacs) even though the boy poses no real threat. (The Dragoons are a small, elite force of British soldiers.)

An enraged Martin sets about to free his son Gabriel, with the help of his two younger sons Nathan and Samuel (played by Trevor Morgan and Bryan Chafin). The three of them slaughter, in brutal fashion, the British troops holding Gabriel. While their brother is freed, the boys are all horrified -- particularly Samuel -- at their first glimpse of their kindly father ripping men to shreds with his knife and tomahawk. Gabriel re-joins the cause against his father's will again stating it is his duty as a soldier. Martin decides to join the fight later when he catches up with his son and they report together, leaving the rest of the children in the care of their aunt Charlotte (Joely Richardson), the sister of Martin's deceased wife.

Father and son come to the conclusion that the poorly trained Colonials cannot hope to beat the British in set piece battles; the British are too numerous and well armed. Instead, they rally a militia, including French Officer Jean Villeneuve (Tchéky Karyo), from among the men of South Carolina and proceed to harry the British supply lines (including the capture of Lord Cornwallis' personal effects and prize hounds and the destruction of a supply ship in front of a ball at Middleton Place for the British officers). To combat the militia, Cornwallis authorizes Tavington to pursue more brutal tactics to draw Martin out. Tavington tracks Martin's family to their refuge with Charlotte and burns down her plantation. However, the family escapes, and are led to a safe haven by Gabriel and Martin. During this time, Gabriel marries Anne Howard (Lisa Brenner), a wartime marriage during a furlough. Soon after the marriage, returning home, Anne and her family, along with all the townspeople, are burned alive whilst locked in the church. The orders for this horrific act came from Tavington.

After a furious Gabriel discovers what has happened, he and a small group of men ride to engage the Dragoons. During the fight, many men on both sides are killed, leaving Gabriel and the Reverend to face off against Tavington. A few others escape with major wounds. The Reverend is shot, but throws his loaded musket to Gabriel, who shoots Tavington, who promptly falls to the ground. However, as Gabriel approaches Tavington's body, he quickly turns around and stabs him with his sword. As Tavington escapes, Benjamin approaches the scene in time to find Gabriel dying on the ground.

In the final battle, Col. Harry Burwell (Chris Cooper) and Villeneuve help Benjamin defeat the British, by using the militia (who are held in low regard by the British officers) as a feint.

Soon Martin and Tavington are able to face off, one on one. As Tavington gains the upper hand in their vicious fight, and Benjamin is staring into the distance, Tavington mutters, "Kill me before the war is over, will you? It appears, you are not the better man." As he swings his sword ready to kill Benjamin, Martin stabs him with a bayonet-fitted musket, picks up a detached bayonet and replies, "You are right... my sons were better men." Martin impales Tavington in the throat, killing him.

Meanwhile, a disappointed General Cornwallis (Tom Wilkinson) sounds the retreat as the rebels celebrate. As Martin narrates, we are told that the British were defeated when the French finally arrived to block the British off. The final scene features Martin and his family arriving at a site where the foundations of homes lie. Occam tells Martin, "Gabriel said that if we won the war, we could build a whole new world. Just figured we'd get started right here, with your home." Benjamin smiles as he replies, "Sounds good", before shaking hands with Occam and walking with his family towards their new, free future.

Set in late medieval Europe in the 1370s, the plot centers on a young peasant squire called William Thatcher, played by Heath Ledger, who, after the death of his knight, Sir Ector, joins the jousting circuit, an act forbidden to those not of noble birth. Thatcher travels around Europe under the pseudonym of Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein, along with two fellow squires, Wat and Roland (Alan Tudyk and Mark Addy); his well-spoken herald, Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany); and his armourer, Kate the Farrier (Laura Fraser). Along the way, he falls in love with a noble young lady, Jocelyn (Shannyn Sossamon), and develops a rivalry with Count Adhemar of Anjou (Rufus Sewell).

Brokeback Mountain is the story of ranch hand Ennis del Mar (Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal), two young men who meet and fall in love in 1963 on a sheepherding job on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming. The film documents their complex relationship over the next twenty years.

The film begins with Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist arriving to Brokeback Mountain to herd sheep, where Aguirre (Quaid) explains their duties. They meet only for meals at the base camp, where they gradually become friends. After one night of heavy drinking, Jack and Ennis have their first sexual experience, which ends in a fight when Ennis punches Jack in the face as a result of mixed emotions.

After the two part ways at the end of their job, Ennis married his long-time fiancée Alma Beers and Jack ends up in Texas, where he meets and marries rodeo princess Lureen Newsome. Four years later, Ennis receives a postcard from Jack saying he will be passing through the area, and asking if Ennis wants to meet him. When Jack arrives, their passions for each other quickly rekindle, and Alma accidentally witnesses the two men passionately kissing at the stairwell. They go to a motel, where, after sex, Jack broaches the subject of creating a life together on a small ranch. Ennis, haunted by a painful childhood memory of the torture and murder of a suspected homosexual in his hometown, fears that such an arrangement can only end in tragedy. He is also unwilling to abandon his wife and daughters. Unable to be open about their relationship, Ennis and Jack then settle for infrequent meetings on fishing trips in the mountains.
Williams and Ledger as Alma Beers and Ennis Del Mar.
Williams and Ledger as Alma Beers and Ennis Del Mar.

As the years pass, Ennis and Alma's marriage deteriorates. Although Ennis hadn't realized it, Alma has been aware of the real nature of his "fishing trips" with Jack, creating a strain on the couple's relationship. Eventually, their marriage ends in divorce. Jack, upon hearing the news of the divorce, drives to Wyoming in hopes that they can live together at last, but Ennis refuses to move away from his children and is still fearful of possible repercussions if they live together. Jack is heartbroken and frustrated.

On their last camping trip in the mountains in, Ennis tells Jack that because of his job he has to cancel their next planned outing. Jack's frustration of seeing so little of Ennis erupts into an argument. In return, Ennis blames Jack for "making me the way I am" and for being the cause of his conflicted feelings. Ennis then laments that these emotions have trapped him and ruined his life and begins to cry. When Jack attempts to hold him, there is a brief struggle as Ennis tries to push Jack away, but they end up locked in an embrace.

Months later, a postcard Ennis sent to Jack about their upcoming meeting in November is returned to Ennis in the mail stamped "Deceased." In a strained telephone conversation, Jack's wife Lureen tells a stunned Ennis that Jack died in an accident while changing a tire that exploded. Her explanation of the injuries that were inflicted, however, is overlaid with images of Jack being beaten brutally by three men; it is possible to interpret this as either Ennis' fear of what actually happened (inspired by his experience of the homophobic murder in his childhood) or a portrayal of what Lureen knows to be Jack's real fate, the account she relates to Ennis being a well-rehearsed, sanitized version of her husband's demise. Lureen tells Ennis that Jack had wished to have his ashes scattered on Brokeback Mountain, but she didn't know where that was. Ennis travels to see Jack's mother and father, where he offers to take Jack's ashes to Brokeback Mountain. Jack's mother asks Ennis if he would like to see Jack's childhood bedroom before he leaves. In this room, Ennis discovershis old blood-stained shirt that he left on Brokeback Mountain in 1963. Jack had kept it on a hanger underneath his own blue shirt, hidden in a narrow space to the side of his open closet. Ennis holds the shirts up to his face breathing in the scent and silently weeps.

In the final scene, a 19-year-old Alma Jr. drives up to Ennis's run down trailer in her fiancé's sports car with the news that she's engaged. She asks her father for his blessings and attend the wedding. Ennis asks her pointedly if this man really loves her since he now is finally aware of the importance of love in a relationship and marriage. At first he is reluctant to commit to attending the wedding due to a conflict with his work.Learning from his mistakes, he attends the the upcoming wedding. After Alma's departure, Ennis notices she has forgotten her sweater. Folding the sweater, he puts it into his bedroom area closet. In opening the door the two shirts are again seen one inside the other with Ennis' shirt over Jack's, on a hanger hanging on a nail pounded into the closet door with the postcard of Brokeback Mountain alongside. Ennis carefully fastens the top button of Jack's shirt, and with tears in his eyes mutters, "Jack, I swear....", while slowly straightening the postcard.

The film starts at the end of the 18th century and begins with a scene of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm as children. Their sister is dying and Jacob has been sent to sell the cow in order to have money for a doctor. However, when Jacob returns, he innocently explains that he has traded the cow for "magic" beans. Will is furious with Jacob, and it is implied that their sister died as a result of his mistake.

The story jumps ahead fifteen years (into the early 19th century) with Will and Jake riding into a town in "French occupied Germany," to rid the town of a witch's ghost. However, after killing the "ghost," it is revealed that the Brothers Grimm are actually con artists, setting up fake demons and monsters to trick gullible townspeople.

Afterwards, as they are celebrating at an inn, Cavaldi, an Italian torturer, captures them and takes them to the French General, Delatombe. Delatombe forces them to solve a mystery: the girls of the small village of Marbaden are going missing. The Brothers are charged with finding out who is responsible, under the assumption that it is the work of con artists like themselves. However, they soon discover that it is in fact the work of a real supernatural force: the beautiful yet horribly dangerous Mirror Queen who is stealing young girls for their youth.

Long ago, the Queen tormented the villagers' ancestors to possess their magic, including a spell for eternal life. Only a year later, her kingdom was destroyed by the plague. She built a high tower to avoid it, as her husband and everyone below her perished--unfortunately, she did not understand that plague was carried by wind. She was extraordinarily vain and soon began to rot away as she decayed over the years. Her spell granted her immortal life, but not the youth and beauty to go along with it. Her youthful appearance now only exists in her mirror, the source of her life, as an illusion and nothing more.

The queen is working an enchantment to regain her beauty with the aid of her shape-shifting huntsman with a magic ax (which can operate like a boomerang), crow familiars, and various creatures in the forest. She needs to drink the blood of twelve young women. The Brothers Grimm, with the help of Angelika, a knowing huntress from the village, and Cavaldi, must stop her.
The Mirror Queen (Monica Bellucci) revives the fallen and stabbed Will Grimm (Matt Damon).
The Mirror Queen (Monica Bellucci) revives the fallen and stabbed Will Grimm (Matt Damon).

The woodsman turns out to be Angelika's father, who was saved by the Queen from a frozen death and pierced in the heart with a spike or thorn which keeps him under her spell. Eventually, the Brothers gain entrance to the Queen's tower but the spell to return her youth is nearly complete because Angelika has become the twelfth victim.

The Brothers Grimm attack the Queen but she turns their weapons on each other and Will is stabbed. The Queen decides to revive the fallen Grimm and make him her new "prince" by taking the thorn from the woodsman's heart and embedding it in Will's. Jake finally manages to shatter the enchanted mirror inside the tower, causing the Queen to shatter as well. Jake awakens Angelika and everyone else who had been enchanted by giving her the kiss of true love. With the menace gone and their daughters returned to them, the villagers of Marbaden celebrate and give their heart-felt thanks to the Brothers Grimm, who have decided to pursue a new vocation. At this point, the words "And they all lived happily ever after..." appear on screen. However, a crow flies over this cheerful scene with a surviving fragment of the Mirror Queen in its beak and the message on screen changes to "...well maybe not".

In the 1970s, a group of apathetic teen surfers from a rough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Santa Monica, California, created a cultural revolution by transforming skateboarding from a recreational activity into an extreme sport.

When a shipment of urethane wheels arrives at Santa Monica's Zephyr Surf/Skate Shop (traded by Mitch Hedberg's character to the owner of the shop for weed) the owner, Skip Engblom, played by Heath Ledger, puts together a team of local layabout skaters to compete.

Known as the Zephyr Skateboard Team, the boys transferred their surf skills to drain pipes and empty swimming pools with stunning results. Their acrobatic maneuvers inspired generations of teens to join the skateboarding frenzy and catapulted them to fame and fortune.

The movie is based on the real rise of skateboarding started by Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams. It follows their friendship, the rise and fall of the Zephyr skateboarding team and the tragic loss of one of their friends, Sid, to brain cancer. It follows their rise to fame and the struggle to stay on top as they begin to turn on each other.

The movie has a soundtrack (Lords of Dogtown: Music From the Motion Picture) featuring songs by David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, and Iggy Pop, among others, as well as The Clash's "Death or Glory" being covered by Social Distortion.[1]

A poet (Heath Ledger) falls in love with an art student (Abbie Cornish) who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle - and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

The film is organized in three acts of roughly 7 scenes each, titled Heaven, Earth, and Hell. In Heaven, sex and drugs are experienced ecstatically by the young lovers. In Earth they are married and confront the reality of the untenablity of addiction and family life. In Hell they experience the dissolution of their relationship and the recovery of one of the characters.

The film intercuts stories featuring different actors playing characters based on the life or the legend of Bob Dylan. Marcus Carl Franklin, a young black actor, plays a version of the 11-year old Dylan, who calls himself 'Woody Guthrie' and escapes from a juvenile correction centre by hitching a ride on a train, carrying a guitar labelled 'This Machine Kills Fascists'. Christian Bale plays Jack Rollins, a version of Dylan as a young folk singer with a political conscience, and who later becomes 'Pastor John', a version of Dylan the born again Christian, here singing gospel songs in a small town church. Cate Blanchett plays Jude Quinn, a version of Dylan at the height of his fame in the 1960s, when his original fan base was rejecting him as a sell-out. Ben Whishaw plays a version of Dylan as a young rebel who calls himself after the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Heath Ledger plays Robbie Clark, a Hollywood actor best known for his performance in a film about Jack Rollins; he represents Dylan the divorcee, estranged from his wife Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Richard Gere plays the elderly Dylan as an aging Billy the Kid in a surreal Wild West town, who defeats an even more elderly Pat Garrett (played by Bruce Greenwood).

The storylines are shot in different film stocks and styles. The scenes featuring Woody Guthrie, Robbie Clark and Billy the Kid are in colour. The scenes involving Jack Rollins/Pastor John are shot on 16mm colour stock, and are framed as a documentary with interviews from people who knew him describing his transformation. Jude Quinn's scenes are in black and white, and use surreal imagery based on that in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1962). Arthur Rimbaud's scenes are shot on very grainy black and white stock.

Premise

After Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, a mysterious criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS........

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is an unfinished American fantasy-adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and screenwriter Charles McKeown. The Imaginarium had been cast to star Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger in a story about the leader of a traveling theater troupe who, through a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations. Production began on the film in London in December 2007 and was planned to move on to Vancouver. In January 2008, the death of Heath Ledger resulted in the suspension of production while the producers determine whether to recast or scrap the film.

PREMISE:
In the present day, immortal 1,000-year-old Doctor Parnassus (Plummer) leads a traveling theater troupe that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror in his possession. Parnassus had been able to guide the imagination of others through a deal with the Devil (Waits), who now comes to collect on the arrangement, targeting the doctor's daughter (Lily Cole). The troupe, who is joined by a mysterious outsider named Tony (Ledger)embark through parallel worlds to rescue the girl.

In 1753, in Venice, Casanova, portrayed by Heath Ledger, is famous/notorious for his success and promiscuity with women. The Doge, the ruler of the city, is sympathetic to Casanova, but cannot be too lenient, to avoid trouble with the church. He warns Casanova that he must soon marry or be exiled from the city.

Casanova is in love with Francesca (Sienna Miller), who writes illegal feminist books under the name of a man. However, her mother (Lena Olin) pushes her to marry Paprizzio (Oliver Platt), a corpulent rich man from Genoa, whom she has never seen. When Paprizzio arrives in Venice, Casanova lies to him that the hotel he booked is closed and lets him stay at his house. Casanova also lies that he is the author of the feminist books. While Paprizzio, preparing to visit Francesca, stays at Casanova's house, Casanova visits Francesca, pretending to her to be Paprizzio.

Later he confesses to her who he really is, which makes her angry. Casanova is arrested for crimes against sexual morality, such as debauchery and heresy with a novice. He saves Francesca by pretending to be the author of the feminist books, which impresses her very much. However, the truth comes out, and both are sentenced to death. Just in time, when they are about to be hanged in the city square, they are saved by a fake announcement that the Pope, because of his birthday, gives amnesty to all prisoners who were to be executed on this day. It was discovered that it was an impostor who ended up being his step father, wedded to his mother that came back for him like she promised as a child. As they escaped together, leaving on Paprizzio's boat, Francesca's brother, Giovanni (Charlie Cox), stayed behind to continue Casanova's womanizing legend in his place.

Harry Faversham, a young British officer of the Royal Cumbrians infantry regiment and the son of a stern British general, celebrates his recent engagement to the beautiful young Ethne in a lavish ball with his fellow officers and his father in attendance. When the regimental colonel announces that the regiment is being dispatched to Egyptian-ruled Sudan to rescue the British general Charles "Chinese" Gordon (who was being besieged in Khartoum by Islamic rebels of The Mahdi), young Faversham becomes nervous and resigns his officer commission. The night before his resignation he asks Jack Durrance, "What does a godforsaken desert, in the middle of nowhere, have to do with Her Majesty the queen?" Although he claims to have quit the army in order to stay in England with new fiancee because he would never "go to war for anyone or anything", he is nonetheless censured by three fellow officers (other than Faversham's closest friend and comrade Jack Durrance) for cowardice (as signified by the delivery of three white feathers to him). He also loses the support of his fiancee Ethne, who presents him with the fourth feather. Lastly, he is disowned by his strict father.

With his former comrades already en route to the conflict, the young Faversham questions his own true motives, and resolves to redeem himself through combat in the Sudan. Disguised as an Arab labourer, he pays a French slave trader to take him deep into the Sudanese desert. Faversham is left alone in the vast sands when the slave trader is killed by his own Sudanese slaves. Eventually a lone black Sudanese warrior named Abou Fatma (Djimon Hounsou), who is against the Mahdists' rebellion, locates the abandoned Faversham who had fallen unconscious from heat exhaustion. With the help of this unexpected guide, Faversham locates his old regiment but maintains an observing distance from his former comrades. Faversham sends Abou to warn the British about an upcoming attack, but Abou is whipped for claiming that a British officer had sent him, although it was true. When Mahdist rebels attack the regiment during the Battle of Abu Klea, the British square formation is broken by enemy cavalry and young Faversham rescues Jack Durrance (who had just been blinded by a rifle misfire) as the British forces rout.

Upon learning that another comrade had been captured by the Mahdist rebels, Faversham goes to the prison-fortress at Omdurman and allows himself to be taken in. He locates his comrade inside the prison amidst a sea of other prisoners and, with the help of Abou Fatma, escapes from the rebels. His courageous exploits in the Sudan puts him back in the good graces of his comrades, his fiancee and his father. Meanwhile, the warrior guide who had helped the young Faversham redeem his manhood disappears into the vast Sudanese desert.

Hank Grotowski (Thornton), a widower, and his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger), are employed as correctional officers. They reside in Louisiana with Hank's ailing father, Buck (Boyle), an unwavering racist whose wife had committed suicide. Buck has influenced Hank's hateful attitude towards others, which resulted in Hank's hatred of his father, his son, and members of the neighboring community.

As Hank and Sonny assist in the execution of convicted murderer Lawrence Musgrove (Combs), the proceedings prove too intense for Sonny, who begins to vomit as he is leading Lawrence to the electric chair. Hank humiliates Sonny for this perceived weakness and hits him. Unable to cope with the estrangement, Sonny lashes out at his father, armed with a revolver. The confrontation ends in their living room with Hank at gunpoint, lying on the carpet, and Sonny in his grandfather's customary chair. Sonny asks his father, "You hate me, don't you"? After his father calmly answers yes, Sonny responds, "Well, I always loved you," before shooting and killing himself. Hank subsequently buries his son, quits his job at the detention center, and burns his uniform in the backyard.

During the years of Lawrence's imprisonment, his wife, Leticia Musgrove (Berry), has been struggling while raising their son, Tyrell. The boy, who inherited his father's artistic talent, is also morbidly obese. In facing these hurdles, Leticia drinks frequently and is thereby unable to pay her bills, leading to an eviction notice. In desperate need of money, Leticia becomes employed at a coffee shop frequented by Hank. One night, Leticia and Tyrell are walking down a rain-soaked highway when the boy is struck by a car. Leticia is left helpless on the side of the road, grasping her son and calling out to passing motorists for help, although no one stops to help.

Hank happens to be driving along, however, and sees Leticia, cradling her mortally wounded son. He initially drives by as well, but eventually goes back to pick them up, driving them to a hospital. Tyrell dies upon arrival, and Hank reluctantly takes the mourning Leticia home. There, the two form an unexpected bond in their collective grief. They begin an affair, which is initially based on sex and relief from loneliness but later becomes emotionally supportive. Hank finds out that Leticia is Lawrence's widow, but he does not tell her that he participated in her husband's execution.

Buck insults Leticia, using strong racial language; and Hank turns his back on his father's hateful influence by sending him to a nursing home. At the end of the film, Leticia, despite having uncovered Hank's complicity in her husband's death, decides to stay with him. As they sit on the porch and gaze up at the stars, he says, "We're going to be all right."