Best movies of 2001

Actors : Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay, Brian Cox,
Directors : Michael Cuesta,

A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

Actors : Diane Lane, Keanu Reeves, John Hawkes, Bryan Hearne,
Directors : Brian Robbins,

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Christopher Eccleston, Jordana Brewster, Blythe Danner,
Directors : Adam Brooks,

A teenage girl travels to Paris in the 1970s trying to find out about her sister's suicide, and falls in love with her dead sister's boyfriend.

Actors : Om Puri, James Fox, Aasif Mandvi, Albert Laveau,
Directors : Ismail Merchant,

In 1950s Trinidad, a frustrated writer supports himself as a masseur--and soon becomes a revered mystic and politico.

Actors : Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Taylor Negron,

A young man employed as a fluffer in the adult entertainment industry finds himself falling for a gay-for-pay porn star whose hedonistic lifestyle may lead them both to destruction.

Actors : Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Eric Stoltz, Joey Lauren Adams,
Directors : James Toback,

A basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.

Actors : Vivica A. Fox, LL Cool J, Loretta Devine, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Directors : Doug McHenry,

A group of old family members bands together when a despicable family member thankfully expires.

Actors : Serge Livrozet, Jean-Pierre Mangeot, Karin Viard, Aurélien Recoing,
Directors : Laurent Cantet,

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Ken Magee, Tim Robbins,
Directors : Michel Gondry,

A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott, James Van Der Beek,
Directors : Steve Miner,

A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.

Actors : August Zirner, Sergio Castellitto, Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste,
Directors : Sandra Nettelbeck,

When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, David Wenham, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers,
Directors : Robert Connolly,

The Bank is a thriller about banking, corruption and alchemy.

Actors : Ye Liu, Jun Hu, Bin Li, Huatong Li,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle-age, Chen Handong has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company ...

Actors : Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier,
Directors : John Carpenter,

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

Actors : Wes Bentley, Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku,
Directors : Stephen Carpenter,

A co-ed is caught between the world of the living and the dead.

Actors : Tim Allen, Christian Slater, Portia de Rossi, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Chris Ver Wiel,

Cletis Tout is a comedy about mistaken identities, a hit man who sees everything in terms of the movies and a twenty year old diamond heist.

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 : Margherita Buy, Serra Yilmaz, Gabriel Garko, Stefano Accorsi,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

AIDS doctor Antonia's husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see ...

Actors : José Dumont, Rita Assemany, Rodrigo Santoro, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos,
Directors : Walter Salles,

When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Keanu Reeves, Greg Germann, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

A workaholic executive, and an unconventional woman agree to a personal relationship for a short period. In this short period she changes his life.