Best movies of 2001

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.

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 : Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence, Rickey D'Shon Collins,
Directors : Chuck Sheetz,

TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever.

Actors : Chris Klein, Sally Field, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones,
Directors : J.B. Rogers,

Young orphan Gilly (Klein) finds out his lover Jo (Graham) may actually be his biological sister. After they break up he discovers he's not related and travels across the country to stop ...

Actors : Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, Fred Ward, 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 : 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 : Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams,
Directors : George Hickenlooper,

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

Actors : Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Moritz Bleibtreu,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Judy Herrera,
Directors : Maria Ripoll,

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Tom Watson, Ian Holm, Tim McInnerny,
Directors : Alan Taylor,

During Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, some loyalists hire a look-alike to swap places with the deposed emperor. While the impostor lives in luxury on the island, the real Napoleon returns to Paris in order to retake the throne.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Heino Ferch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Nicolette Krebitz,
Directors : Roland Suso Richter,

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. ...

Actors : Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Perrier, Vincent Cassel,
Directors : Jacques Audiard,

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Actors : Michael T. Weiss, Snoop Dogg, Clifton Powell, Pam Grier,
Directors : Ernest R. Dickerson,

Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos,
Directors : Larry Fessenden,

George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his...

Actors : Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Shannon Elizabeth, Horatio Sanz,
Directors : Gregory Poirier,

Seven years ago, a bunch of friends make a bet that'll give the last remaining bachelor a ton of money. Now, after losing a ton of money at a Vegas Casino, Michael Delaney has to quickly ...

Actors : Kevin Corrigan, Maura Tierney, James Le Gros, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Billy Morrissette,

A modernized retelling of "MacBeth" set in 1970s suburban Pennsylvania. Joe McBeth, an unambitious hamburger stand employee, is driven to success by his scheming wife.

Actors : Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Berg, Peter Falk,
Directors : Rob Pritts,

The loser son of a Mafia honcho must go undercover for the FBI.

Actors : Shane Edelman, Peter Sarsgaard, Balthazar Getty, Molly Parker,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, ...

Actors : Toshio Furukawa, Scott Weinger, Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi,
Directors : Rintaro,

Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.