Best Music movies of 2001

Actors : John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Miriam Shor,
Directors : John Cameron Mitchell,

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

Actors : Susanne Lothar, Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bonham, Dominic West, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

Lead singer of a tribute band becomes lead singer of the real band he idolizes.

Actors : Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington, Fredro Starr, Julia Stiles,
Directors : Thomas Carter,

A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Gabriel Mann,

A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music in this send up of the music industry and pop culture.

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : John Madden,

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Actors : Max Beesley, Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Da Brat,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson, Damir Andrei,
Directors : Kasi Lemmons,

A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy, and bring him to justice.

Actors : Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô, Takao Ohsawa,
Directors : Shunji Iwai,

The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Actors : Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Annie Golden, Gregory Russell Cook,
Directors : Cory McAbee,

Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him.

Actors : Jonathan Pryce, Vincent Perez, Sarah Wynter, Simon Verhoeven,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

This movie is a biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Actors : Birgit Minichmayr, Harvey Keitel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : István Szabó,

A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular ...

Actors : Sven Wollter, Linda Källgren, Reine Brynolfsson, Viveka Seldahl,
Directors : Bille August,

Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. After divorcing their spouses, Martin and Barbara marry and begin a happy life ...

Actors : Zoë Poledouris, Kinnie Starr, Melody Moore, Nicole Barrett,
Directors : Kurt Voss,

The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.

Actors : Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

Benoit Jacquot reinvents the way we view opera in this magnificent production of Puccini's story of Tosca's love for the painter Cavaradossi and the intervention of Scarpia.

Actors : Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle, Thierno Ndiaye Doss,
Directors : Joseph Gaï Ramaka,

Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.

Actors : Hongshen Jia, Xiuling Chai, Fengsen Jia, Tong Wang,
Directors : Yang Zhang,

An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.

Actors : Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Hans Sonneveld, Derek Jacobi,
Directors : Paul Cox,

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.

Actors : Zoe Saldana, Sam Jones III, Nelly, Dean Winters,
Directors : Rich Murray,

The Music Business Can Be Murder

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Rossie Harris, Beth Orton, Rory Cochrane,
Directors : Steve Hanft,

Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way