41. Waking Life
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Caveh Zahedi, Robert C. Solomon, Adam Goldberg
42. Pellet ( Bola, El )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Achero Mañas
Actors: Juan José Ballesta, Pablo Galán, Alberto Jiménez, Manuel Morón, Ana Wagener, Nieve de Medina
43. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Actors: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Rob Campbell, Michael Aronov
44. Gosford Park
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Camilla Rutherford, Kristin Scott Thomas , Tom Hollander, Ryan Phillippe
Plot: A mystery involving a party in a wealthy persons house in which the servants are upstairs and the guests are down stairs. Set in 1932.
45. Ichi the Killer ( Koroshiya 1 )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima, Shun Sugata
Plot: A sadistic Yakuza gangster searches for the man responsible of killing his boss. An ex-cop has a deranged killer of his own and between the two, the streets will run red with blood.
46. Baran
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Majid Majidi
Actors: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub, Abbas Rahimi, Gholam Ali Bakhshi
Plot: Lateef's hardships increase when he is shifted to heavy labor from being a kitchen help at a construction site in Tehran. The reason being Rahmat, an Afghan boy who has replaced him. Filled with anger, Lateef decides to make life hell for Rahmat. However Lateef soon discovers that Rahmat is indeed a girl named Baran, and gets to know her story. His feelings for her grow while he does everything he can to alleviate her hardships at work. But the love was to be short lived as soon Baran and her family are forced to leave town.
47. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jan Harlan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Mazursky, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen
Plot: Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket and Dr. Strangelove.
48. Shadow of the Vampire
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack, Eddie Izzard
49. Monster's Ball
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher
50. The Dish
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Sitch
Actors: Sam Neill, Billy Mitchell, Roz Hammond, Christopher-Robin Street, Patrick Warburton, Matthew Moore
