Best movies of 2001

Actors : Regina King, Eugene Levy, Chazz Palminteri, Chris Rock,

After dying before his time, an aspiring black comic gets a second shot at life - by being placed in the body of a wealthy white businessman.

Actors : Hugh Jackman, Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Tony Goldwyn,

After being jilted by her boyfriend, a talk show talent scout writes a column on the relationship habits of men which gains her national fame.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Anouk Aimée, Maximilian Schell, Rachel Bailit, 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 : 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 : Anne Heche, Christina Ricci, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

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

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

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

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 : 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 : Larry Fessenden, Eleanor Hutchins, Holly Ramos, Barbara Sicuranza,
Directors : Ilya Chaiken,

In Brooklyn, Zelda, her lover Max, and their small daughter Little Z share one room in a flat with seven others, including Natali, a best friend of Zelda's just out of detox. Max is a ...

Actors : Molly Parker, William Hurt, Andy Jones, Vicky Hynes,
Directors : Sturla Gunnarsson,

A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Duong Don, Hiep Thi Le, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Timothy Linh Bui,

The story of some Vietnamese refugees as they first arrive at Camp Pendleton in the United States as the Vietnam war ends in 1975.