Best movies of 2001

Actors : Mathieu Kassovitz, Audrey Tautou, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

Actors : Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, David Spade, Adam Beach,
Directors : Dennie Gordon,

After being abandoned by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Joe Dirt tells the story of his journey to find his parents.

Actors : Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega,
Directors : Guillermo del Toro,

After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover.

Actors : Tom Green, Rip Torn, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas,
Directors : Tom Green,

An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Frederick Weller, Mary Testa, Julia Stiles,
Directors : Patrick Stettner,

Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.

Actors : Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Frank Oz,

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

Actors : Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Tim Allen, Greg Germann,
Directors : John Pasquin,

When Joe is beat up by a co-worker in front of his daughter on "Bring Your Child To Work Day", he decides to fight back.

Actors : Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Mark Woodbury, Michael Kaycheck,
Directors : Daniel Minahan,

A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

Actors : Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.

Actors : Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Haley Joel Osment,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Sharon Maguire,

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

Actors : Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

Alexander Dumas' novel is updated with an eastern influence as D'Artagnan attempts to join the king's elite guards, the Royal Musketeers, and find the man who killed his parents.

Actors : Michelle Williams, Ella Jones, Anna Popplewell, Anna Friel,
Directors : Sandra Goldbacher,

Two best friends grow up on the Isle of Wight and in Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s.

Actors : Stephen Chow, Yat-Fei Wong, Wei Zhao, Man-Tat Ng,
Directors : Stephen Chow,

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

Actors : Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht,
Directors : Les Mayfield,

When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is ...

Actors : Freddie Prinze Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Monica Potter,
Directors : Mark Waters,

A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone.

Actors : Matt O'Leary, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Bill Paxton,

A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions led to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."

Actors : Jessica Capshaw, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, David Boreanaz,
Directors : Jamie Blanks,

Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.

Actors : Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Directors : Michael Tollin,

A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player.

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.