Best movies of 2001

Titles indexed: 190

Shrek

Rating: 7.8

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess f...

Monsters, Inc.

Rating: 7.8

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstr...

Spirited Away

Rating: 8.5

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must cal...

Super Troopers

Rating: 6.6

Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After...

Ocean's Eleven

Rating: 7.5

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked cr...

The Mummy Returns

Rating: 6.4

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracele...

Donnie Darko

Rating: 7.8

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit...

Pandaemonium

Rating: 4.9

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to r...

Black Hawk Down

Rating: 7.4

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot ...

Zebra Lounge

Rating: 4.3

Alan and Wendy Barnet have been married just long enough for the excitement to have gone out of their relationship, and they're looking for ...

Pearl Harbor

Rating: 6.9

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled ...

Amélie

Rating: 7.9

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her...

Wolf Girl

Rating: 5.1

Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Du...

Serendipity

Rating: 7.0

Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – ...

A Beautiful Mind

Rating: 7.9

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathe...

Monkeybone

Rating: 5.2

After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilarious alter-ego, wake up in a wacke...

Ambush

Rating: 6.5

While escorting an elderly man to an undisclosed location, The Driver is confronted by a van full of armed men and is warned that the old ma...

Legally Blonde

Rating: 6.8

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before...

Original Sin

Rating: 6.1

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite withi...

Wit

Rating: 7.3

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer....

Scary Movie 2

Rating: 5.8

While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movie...

Guardian

Rating: 5.5

With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With ...

Rock Star

Rating: 6.7

A wannabe rock star who fronts a Pennsylvania-based tribute band is devastated when his bandmates kick him out of the group he founded. Thin...

The Others

Rating: 7.6

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light...

The Animal

Rating: 5.1

When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half anima...

Tart

Rating: 4.3

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York....

Sweet November

Rating: 6.9

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is v...

Shaolin Soccer

Rating: 7.2

A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage....

Rush Hour 2

Rating: 6.8

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and me...

Moulin Rouge!

Rating: 7.5

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th ...

A Knight's Tale

Rating: 6.9

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight him...

The Order

Rating: 5.1

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police c...

Wasabi

Rating: 6.7

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on wor...

The Score

Rating: 6.7

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist....

Visitor Q

Rating: 6.4

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleepi...

Chop Suey

Rating: 4.0

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer...

Zoolander

Rating: 6.2

Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal t...

Thir13en Ghosts

Rating: 6.3

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied...

Blow

Rating: 7.4

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for t...

Vanilla Sky

Rating: 6.8

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face ...

Iris

Rating: 6.4

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle wit...

Gosford Park

Rating: 6.8

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder ...

American Pie 2

Rating: 6.2

After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summe...

15 Minutes

Rating: 5.9

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and ...

The Musketeer

Rating: 5.2

Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been di...

Down

Rating: 5.0

After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman an...

Count Axel

Rating: 6.2

Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong...

Saiyuki: Requiem

Rating: 4.9

The Sanzo party has always been haunted by the past. And they've always been able to deal with their ghosts. But when they enter the House O...

Necrocam

Rating: 0.0

Xeno, Christine, and Bivak spend their days and nights together in dimly lit rooms cast in the glow of shadows by their computer monitors. T...

American Desi

Rating: 5.6

College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is ...

Swordfish

Rating: 6.3

Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants...

Picture Claire

Rating: 5.5

Quebec native Claire Beaucage has a one-night stand with a photographer of some renown. Despite the language barrier between them, he invite...

I Am Sam

Rating: 7.6

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on...

K-PAX

Rating: 7.2

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt h...

Ali

Rating: 6.8

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cu...

Erotic Survivor

Rating: 4.8

Two teams have been assembled and taken to a remote island to compete in a series of tasks to determine the winner of Erotic Survivor. The H...

Jet Boy

Rating: 6.4

A coming-of-age story of a reluctant 13-year-old hustler named Nathan who will do whatever it takes to feel loved....

Evolution

Rating: 6.1

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "surviv...

Intacto

Rating: 6.6

An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is somethin...

Ichi the Killer

Rating: 7.0

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be ...

Tape

Rating: 6.9

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend ...

Baran

Rating: 7.4

On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The r...

Ticker

Rating: 3.7

Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When...

Aita

Rating: 3.6

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old...

Behind the Sun

Rating: 7.3

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he comm...

Daddy and Them

Rating: 5.3

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationshi...

The Experiment

Rating: 7.4

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive beh...

GO

Rating: 7.4

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him....

The Body

Rating: 5.5

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of dea...

Kandahar

Rating: 6.3

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghani...

Fulltime Killer

Rating: 6.8

Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent...

Enigma

Rating: 6.3

The story of the WWII project to crack the code behind the Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages sent to their submarines....

Sleepless

Rating: 6.1

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin...

Tomcats

Rating: 5.1

College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,...

Another Day

Rating: 5.5

Kate's boyfriend dies in a fire after a fight over the couple's unborn child. After Kate is involved in a near-drowning accident a few years...

Eureka

Rating: 7.7

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose....

His Secret Life

Rating: 7.3

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a prod...

Yamakasi

Rating: 6.0

Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a grou...

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