Movies In 2001
Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Hélène Lapiower
Storyline: Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together a life complicated by Shanes mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field he happens upon the doctors wife another victim of the same malady....
Director: Shion Sono
Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô, Takashi Nomura, Rolly, Joshua, Masato Tsujioka, Kôsuke Hamamoto, Kei Nagase, Yôko Kamon, Maiko Mori, Sayako Hagiwara, Takatoshi Kaneko, Mika Miyakawa
Storyline: 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. This appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer which isnt as simple as one could...
Director: Stephen Carpenter
Stars: Melissa Sagemiller, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Angela Featherstone, Luke Wilson, Allen Hamilton, Ken Moreno, Carl Paoli, Barbara E. Robertson, Richard Pickren, Candace Kroslak, Ryan Kitley, Rick Snyder, Danny Goldberg
Storyline: College freshman Cassandra Cassie steps into a nightmare of otherworldly visitations after surviving a devastating car accident. Haunted by a grim reaper of a far different kind her only hope is to cling to chance encounters with her lost love Sean and the aid of a mysterious young priest named Father Jude. It is the spirit of Sean her soul mate who guides her to love but it is...
Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez, Brendan Price, Birgit Bofarull, UxÃa Blanco, Ferran Lahoz
Storyline: Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft the undisputed master of the macabre Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help....
Director: Roman Coppola
Stars: Jeremy Davies, Angela Lindvall, Élodie Bouchez, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ghini, Jason Schwartzman, Billy Zane, John Phillip Law, Silvio Muccino, Dean Stockwell, Natalia Vodianova, Bernard Verley, L.M. Kit Carson, Chris Bearne
Storyline: Paris 1969. The filming of a sci-fi movie set in the distant year 2000 is in trouble. The directors obsession with the actress who plays the sexy secret agent Dragonfly has clouded his judgment and the film has no ending. A young American in Paris to document his life on film with total honesty is brought in to finish the movie with a bang. This proves to be difficult when the line...
Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima, Shun Sugata, Toru Tezuka, Yoshiki Arizono, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Satoshi Niizuma, Suzuki Matsuo, Jun Kunimura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Moro Morooka, Hôka Kinoshita
Storyline: When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen his chief henchman a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara...
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas, Peter Mullan, Charley Broderick, Lonnie Farmer, Larry Fessenden,Jurian Hughes
Storyline: An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward if rather rushed job is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular Hank is dating Phils old girlfriend and Gordons new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a...
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Ãñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Francisco Maestre, Junio Valverde, Berta Ojea, Adrián Lamana, Daniel Esparza, Miguel Ortiz, Juan Carlos Vellido, Javier Bódalo
Storyline: It is 1939 the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain and General Franco right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces. A ten-year-old boy named Carlos the son of a fallen Republican war hero is left by his tutor in an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. The orphanage is run by a curt but considerate headmistress named Carmen and a kindly...
Director: Nick Hamm
Stars: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz, Steven Waddington, Emma Griffiths Malin, Jemma Powell, Gemma Craven
Storyline: One misty morning Liz Dunn stumbles down the road to her school and screams for help. A police psychologist gets her to reveal her story: A month earlier: three rebellious teenagers - Mike Frankie and Geoff are trying to ditch the school field trip to Wales. The school nerd Martin helps them out by allowing them to stay in an old war bunker for the three days on the condition that...
Director: Steve Beck
Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts, JR Bourne, Rah Digga, F. Murray Abraham, Matthew Harrison, Jacob Rupp, Mike Crestejo, Aubrey Culp
Storyline: Arthur and his two children Kathy and Bobby inherit his Uncle Cyruss estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family accompanied by Bobbys Nanny and an attorney enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine designed by the devil and powered by the dead to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis a ghost hunter and his rival...
Director: Wai-Tak Law
Stars: Cheung-Lung Kai, Carrie Ng, Miho Nomoto, Elvis Tsui, Yeung Ming Wan
Storyline: A team of scientists conducting a biological study in the underground sewage system discovers a group of alien-looking eggs that they subsequently destroy. However unknown to them one of the eggs had hatched and escaped. It is a snake-like creature that can adapt quickly to human society and it soon adopts human form. As a beautiful woman the snake creature seeks food and a way to...
Director: Chris Nahon
Stars: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo, Max Ryan, Ric Young, Burt Kwouk, Laurence Ashley, Cyril Raffaelli, Didier Azoulay, John Forgeham
Storyline: Liu Jian a police officer from China comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard the head of the vice squad who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of...
Director: Victor Salva
Stars: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, Eileen Brennan, Brandon Smith, Peggy Sheffield, Jeffrey William Evans, Patrick Cherry, Jon Beshara, Avis-Marie Barnes, Steve Raulerson, Tom Tarantini, William Haze, Kim Kahana
Storyline: On their way back home during the spring break Darry and Patricia Jenner witness a mysterious person dumping something down a tunnel. Deciding to discover what was dumped down there Darry discovers a huge disturbing hideout full of modified bodies. Darry and Patricia set off to get help unaware that the individual is now aware of who has been down the tunnel. Darry and Patricia soon...
Director: Peter Chelsom
Stars: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Bridget Moynahan, Eugene Levy, Lilli Lavine, Michael Guarino Jr., Abdul Alshawish, Stephen Bruce, David Sparrow, Ann Talman, Crystal Bock, Gary Gerbrandt, Kate Blumberg, Ron Payne
Storyline: Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasnt sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together... Many years...
Director: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin, Allison Mackie, Joan Pringle, Cordelia Richards, James Haven, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mario Iván MartÃnez, Harry Porter, Fernando Torre Laphame, Shaula Vega, Lisa Owen
Storyline: When a man selects a mail order bride he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However what she is a con artist prostitute and actress who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with...
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: George Clooney, Cecelia Ann Birt, Paul L. Nolan, Carol Florence, Lori Galinski, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Mark Gantt, Timothy Paul Perez, Elliott Gould, Frank Patton, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Eddie Jemison, Jorge R. Hernandez
Storyline: Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heist in history. He combines an eleven member team including Frank Catton Rusty Ryan and Linus Caldwell. Their target? The Bellagio the Mirage and the MGM Grand. All casinos owned by Terry Benedict. Its not going to be easy as they plan to get in secretly and out with $150...
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kylie Minogue
Storyline: The year is 1899 and Christian a young English writer has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the citys drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers but things take a wicked turn for Christian...
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Heath Ledger, Amber Rules, Peter Boyle, Charles Cowan Jr., Taylor LaGrange, Mos Def, Anthony Bean, Francine Segal, John McConnell, Marcus Lyle Brown, Milo Addica
Storyline: Set in the Southern USA Monsters Ball is a tale of a racist white man Hank who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticias husband. Hank and Leticias interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely...
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Stars: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski, Bartlomiej Swiderski, Katarzyna Bargielowska, Alicja Sapryk, Michal Breitenwald, Zuzanna Kasz, Adam Szyszkowski, Krzysztof Szczerbinski, Marek Stawinski, Jaroslaw Budnik, Andrzej
Storyline: In a future world young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal and potentially deadly battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash a star player hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level will she ever be able to come back to...
Director: J.B. Rogers
Stars: Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Natasha Lyonne, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Chris Owen, Eugene Levy, Molly Cheek, Denise Faye, Lisa Arturo
Storyline: The whole gang are back and as close as ever. They decide to get even closer by spending the summer together at a beach house. They decide to hold the biggest party ever to be seen even if the preparation doesnt always go to plan. Especially when Stifler Finch and Jim become more close to each other than they ever want to be and when Jim mistakes super glue for...
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Rob Campbell, Michael Aronov, Andrea Martin, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Alberta Watson, Gene Pyrz, Michael Pitt, Karen Hines, Max Toulch, Maurice Dean Wint, Ermes Blarasin
Storyline: Hedwig born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S. telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants....
Director: John Madden
Stars: Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, Irene Papas, Gerasimos Skiadaressis, Aspasia Kralli, Mihalis Giannatos, Dimitris Kaberidis, Pietro Sarubbi, Viki Maragaki, Joanna-Daria Adraktas, Ira Tavlaridis, Katerina Didaskalou, Emilios Chilakis, Nikos Karat
Storyline: In 1941 Italy allies with Germany and ruthlessly conquers the much weaker country of Greece. On a remote Greek island an Italian artillery garrison is established to maintain order. One Italian officer Captain Corelli adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor. In 1943...
Director: James Wong
Stars: Jet Li, Carla Gugino, Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham, James Morrison, Dylan Bruno, Richard Steinmetz, Steve Rankin, Tucker Smallwood, Harriet Sansom Harris, David Keats, Dean Norris, Ron Zimmerman, Darin Morgan, Mark Borchardt
Storyline: There is not one universe but there are many which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person there are many other versions of you in the other universes there are ways to travel but only a police agencyMVA can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw is a former MVA agent who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him...
Director: John Dahl
Stars: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone, Basil Wallace, Brian Leckner, Mary Wickliffe, McKenzie Satterthwaite, Dell Yount, Kenneth White, Michael McCleery, Jim Beaver, Rachel Singer
Storyline: College student Lewis decides to drive across the country to see Venna a friend who doesnt know that Lewis is interested in her romantically. Unfortunately for his plans Lewis gets saddled with his raucous-spirited older brother Fuller whose on-the-road pranks get the brothers and Venna sucked into a nightmare when a psychotic truckdriver takes...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Jude Law, William Hurt, Ken Leung, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman, Tom Gallop, Eugene Osment, April Grace, Matt Winston, Sabrina Grdevich, Theo Greenly
Storyline: In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents the human race keeps advancing reaching to the point of creating realistic robots called mechas to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David an artificial kid which is the...
Director: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Stars: Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, Tara Reid, Gabriel Mann, Paulo Costanzo, Missi Pyle, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, Tom Butler, Carson Daly, Aries Spears, Alexander Martin, Faedragh Carpenter, Justin Chatwin, Marites Pineda
Storyline: For years the record industries have inserted subliminal messages into music so that they can turn teenagers into braindead zombies who do nothing but buy buy buy. And whenever the musician or band finds out the truth the record company silences them to keep the truth from coming out. When the hot boy band DuJour discovers this their manager Wyatt Frame under his evil corrupt...
Director: Pitof
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Canet, Inés Sastre, André Dussollier, Edith Scob, Moussa Maaskri, Jean-Pierre Gos, Isabelle Renauld, Jean-Pol Dubois, André Penvern, Gilles Arbona, Jean-Marc Thibault, François Chattot, Fred Ulysse
Storyline: Paris. 1830. In the heart of the town Vidocq a famous detective disappeared as he fights the Alchemist an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer Etienne Boisset decides to have revenge on Vidocqs death and takes the investigation...
Director: Iain Softley
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Saul Williams, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Ajay Naidu, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray, John Toles-Bey, Kimberly Scott, Conchata Ferrell, Vincent Laresca
Storyline: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him only to begin to doubt his own...
Director: Richard Kelly
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell, James Duval, Arthur Taxier, Patrick Swayze, Mark Hoffman, David St. James, Tom Tangen, Jazzie Mahannah, Jolene Purdy
Storyline: Donnie Darko doesnt get along too well with his family his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank - a large bunny which only Donnie can...
Director: John A. Davis
Stars: Megan Cavanagh, Mark DeCarlo, Debi Derryberry, Jeffrey Garcia, Bob Goen, Mary Hart, Carolyn Lawrence, Andrea Martin, Candi Milo, Rob Paulsen
Storyline: Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends but when it comes to being cool hes a little behind. All until one day when his parents and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens its up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their...