Best movies of 2001

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara,
Directors : Robert Rodriguez,

The children of secret-agent parents must save them from danger.

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight,
Directors : Michael Mann,

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.

Actors : Georges Siatidis, Filip Sovagovic, Rene Bitorajac, Branko Djuric,
Directors : Danis Tanovic,

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Liotta,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Living in exile, Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.

Actors : Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Marc Forster,

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Actors : Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman,
Directors : John Dahl,

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Davis, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair,
Directors : Robert Luketic,

Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.

Actors : Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor,
Directors : Ben Stiller,

At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Actors : Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez,

Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Connor must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.

Actors : Catherine McCormack, Robert Redford, Stephen Dillane, Brad Pitt,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.

Actors : Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Aamir Khan,
Directors : Ashutosh Gowariker,

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

Actors : Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon,
Directors : Brian Helgeland,

After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels, Benicio Del Toro, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Sean Penn,

A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

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

A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Troy Garity,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.

Actors : Ed Harris, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Actors : Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz,
Directors : Mira Nair,

A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Robbie Coltrane, Heather Graham, Ian Holm,

In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.

Actors : Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Ryan Gosling, Garret Dillahunt,
Directors : Henry Bean,

A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.

Actors : Kerry Armstrong, Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Blake,
Directors : Ray Lawrence,

The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.