Best movies of 2002

Actors : Matthew Lawrence, Rachel McAdams, Rob Schneider, Anna Faris,
Directors : Tom Brady,

An attractive and popular teenager who is mean-spirited toward others finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back to her original body.

Actors : Laura Morante, Elvira Mínguez, Juan Diego Botto, Javier Bardem,
Directors : John Malkovich,

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Adrian Rawlins, Jamie Sives, Lisa McKinlay,
Directors : Lone Scherfig,

The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose ...

Actors : Susanna Thompson, Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near death experiences.

Actors : Julia Roberts, David Duchovny, David Hyde Pierce, Nicky Katt,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, Edward Burns,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A reporter interviews a psychic, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless.

Actors : Jet Li, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

Actors : Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Actors : Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Spike Jonze,

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

Actors : Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen,

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

Actors : Leelee Sobieski, John Cusack, Molly Parker, Noah Taylor,
Directors : Menno Meyjes,

A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.

Actors : Frances Fisher, David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin,
Directors : Karen Moncrieff,

A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, Emily Watson, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.

Actors : Julianna Margulies, Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Vavasseur,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

1953. Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children,...

Actors : Robin Tunney, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.

Actors : Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Alan King, Angela Bassett,
Directors : John Sayles,

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

Actors : Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Actors : Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Yasiin Bey, Nicole Ari Parker,
Directors : Rick Famuyiwa,

Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.

Actors : Annie Morgan, J.D. Walsh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates,
Directors : Todd Louiso,

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, a web designer turns to gasoline fumes and remote-control airplanes while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.

Actors : Parker Posey, John Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Rebecca Miller,

Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.