21. In the Bedroom
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Field
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, Karen Allen, Tom Wilkinson, William Mapother
Plot: A family that was fairly close living in New England is shocked to find out what has happened to their son and his older girlfriend.
22. Vertical Ray of the Sun, The ( Mua he chieu thang dung )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Vietnamese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Actors: Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Khanh, Quang Hai Ngo, Chu Hung, Manh Cuong Tran
Plot: Three Vietnamese sisters cope with life and love - the youngest is single and lives with her older brother, whom she has a serious crush on - the middle sister is married to a man who lives a double life with another family, but she decides to continue the relationship anyone - the eldest has just found out she is pregnant, but will her husband stay loyal to her?
23. The Man Who Wasn't There
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Badalucco, Frances McDormand, Jon Polito, James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson
Plot: This barber is man no one notices, laconic, chain-smoking and completely stuck in the rut that is his life. That is until he hatches a plan to blackmail his wife and her supposed lover, her boss Big Dave, in order to fun a new dry cleaning business. Too bad his plan immediately falls apart.
24. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Plot: It's late in the season and it hasn't rained yet.the people of a small Indian village in Victorian India hope to be excused from paying the crippling tax that their British rulers have imposed. The over-confident British officer in charge, then challenges them to a game of cricket, a game totally unknown to them. If they win, they get their wish; if they lose, however, the increased tax burden will destroy their lives. Bhuvan, a young village farmer, accepts the challenge and begins to build his team of villagers for the showdown.
25. Chopper
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Dominik
Actors: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field, Daniel Wyllie, Bill Young, Kate Beahan
Plot: Mark 'Chopper' Reed is a small time crook who dreams of becoming a legendary crime figure.
26. Sexy Beast
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Actors: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox, Cavan Kendall
Plot: A gangster recruits a well-known safe-cracker for one last robbery. But, it goes horribly.
27. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: George Butler
Actors: Liam Neeson, Simon Prebble, Paul Ricketts, David Cale, Brian d'Arcy James, Peter Wordie
28. Princess and the Warrior, The ( Krieger und die Kaiserin, Der )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Joachim Król, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Ludger Pistor
Plot: Sissi is a young woman who devotes her life to working at a nurse at the Birkenhof asylum. Yet everything changes when Bodo enters her life. The accident nearly kills her, but Bodo saves her life. Sissi is convinced Bodo is the man she has been waiting for, but Bodo rejects her caught between a past he cannot forget and a future that portends a life of crime.
29. No Man's Land
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danis Tanovic
Actors: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis, Serge-Henri Valcke, Sacha Kremer
30. Escanaba in da Moonlight
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Daniels
Actors: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright, Wayne David Parker, Randall Godwin, Kimberly Guerrero
Plot: Goofball comedy about a man who feels cursed never to have bagged a deer and his hunting trip in Minnesota's Upper Peninsula with a bunch of real and imagined characters.
