Best movies of 2001

Actors : Kevin McNally, Mary McCormack, Minnie Driver, Mark Williams,
Directors : Mel Smith,

A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.

Actors : Daryl Hannah, Jon Gries, Garrett Morris, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Michael Polish,

Sunny Holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a nine-month tour of bleak western towns. He takes off with his road manager in a pink Chrysler in ...

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Carrie Morgan, Richard Dutcher, Matthew A. Brown,
Directors : Richard Dutcher,

The sheriff of a small Utah community searches for a serial killer.

Actors : Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni, Line Renaud,
Directors : Coline Serreau,

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the ...

Actors : Antoine Chappey, John Malkovich, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. ...

Actors : Jim Gaffigan, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Denis Leary,
Directors : Campbell Scott,

Bill wakes up from a coma in a hospital ward, raving about tissue regeneration experiments, final injections, organ transplants and having been cryogenically frozen. Battling flashbacks of ...

Actors : Anouk Aimée, Rachel Bailit, Maximilian Schell, Greta Scacchi,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, ...

Actors : Anne Heche, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard.

Actors : Pierre Bokma, Carice van Houten, Theo Maassen, Sarah Bannier,
Directors : Vincent Bal,

A cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan.

Actors : Bianca Hunter, Kevin Corrigan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Paz de la Huerta,
Directors : Ethan Hawke,

This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.

Actors : Simon Yam, Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin,

Two very different hitmen find themselves to be in each other's way. They use all their skill to solve the problem.

Actors : Drea de Matteo, Lisa Valens, Ice-T, Lillo Brancato,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

Actors : Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol, Shah Rukh Khan,
Directors : Karan Johar,

Yashvardhan Raichand lives a very wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Nandini, and two sons, Rahul and Rohan. While Rahul has been adopted, Yashvardhan and Nandini treat him as their own...

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 : Tara Fitzgerald, Ondrej Vetchý, Krystof Hádek, Charles Dance,
Directors : Jan Sverák,

The friendship of two men becomes tested when they both fall for the same woman.

Actors : Bin Li, Xun Zhou, Lin Cui, Yuanyuan Gao,
Directors : Xiaoshuai Wang,

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

Actors : Penny Balfour, Michael Leydon Campbell, Heather Graham, Edward Burns,
Directors : Edward Burns,

The interlocking lives and loves of six New Yorkers.

Actors : Sara Rue, Kett Turton, John Doe, Karen Black,
Directors : Todd Stephens,

Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they...

Actors : Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Bill Duke, Caroline Aaron,
Directors : Eric Schaeffer,

Two people who have pledged never to fall in love again then discover each other in a gay bar.