Best most challenging award winning movies from 2004

View today’s top 10 movies with most challenging from 2004 based on the crowd's interest from popular searches across the country. People have searched for the greatest movies of all time with most challenging from 2004.

1 The Aviator (2004)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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2004-12-17 | Drama

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett

Rating

rating icon 7.232
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    remarkable
  2. Ranked #30 for
    monomaniacal
  3. Ranked #40 for
    Oscar nomination deserving

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The Aviator trailer
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2 2046 (2004)

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

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2004-10-29 | Drama / Science Fiction

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #127 for
    unrequited love
  2. Ranked #141 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #230 for
    symmetry plots

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2046 trailer
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3 Kinsey (2004)

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

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2004-09-04 | Drama

Cast

Liam Neeson, Laura Linney

Rating

rating icon 6.634
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #66 for
    game changer
  3. Ranked #90 for
    trailblazer

Trailer

Kinsey trailer
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4 Closer (2004)

Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

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2004-12-03 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Julia Roberts, Jude Law

Rating

rating icon 6.837
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #63 for
    backstabbing
  2. Ranked #134 for
    lust
  3. Ranked #158 for
    dishonest

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5 Bad Education (2004)

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

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2004-03-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez

Rating

rating icon 7.368
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #11 for
    sexually explicit
  2. Ranked #116 for
    scandalous
  3. Ranked #134 for
    lurid

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6 The Passion of the Christ (2004)

A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.

Info

2004-02-25 | Drama

Cast

Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern

Rating

rating icon 7.503
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #87 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #254 for
    harsh sound
  3. Ranked #282 for
    hissable

Trailer

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7 Mountain Patrol (2004)

A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

Info

2004-10-01 | Action / Drama

Cast

Duobujie, Zhang Lei

Rating

rating icon 7.348
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #47 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #70 for
    thudding sound
  3. Ranked #92 for
    cinema verite

Trailer

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8 The Sea Inside (2004)

The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.

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2004-09-03 | Drama

Cast

Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda

Rating

rating icon 7.576
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    cruel twist
  2. Ranked #77 for
    didactic
  3. Ranked #134 for
    consoling

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9 The Incredibles (2004)

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

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2004-10-27 | Action / Adventure

Cast

Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter

Rating

rating icon 7.709
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    great sound effects
  2. Ranked #61 for
    wonderful
  3. Ranked #103 for
    Claymation

Trailer

The Incredibles trailer
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10 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Info

2004-03-19 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet

Rating

rating icon 8.101
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #60 for
    sad
  3. Ranked #61 for
    exceptional

Trailer

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind trailer
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