Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

2001

Inuktitut

7.4

♡ 3

arctic polar circle region

Zacharias Kunuk Director

Natar Ungalaaq as Atanarjuat

Madeline Ivalu as Panikpak

Eugene Ipkarnak as Sauri, the chief

Andrew Micheli as (uncredited)

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps.

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

2001

Japanese

7.0

♡ 17

65%

Shûsuke Kaneko Director

Takashi Tsukamoto as College Student

Ryô Kase as Fisher

Shirô Sano as Haruki Kadokura

Kôichi Yamadera as TV studio producer

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.

Session 9

2001

English

6.4

♡ 53

68%

Brad Anderson Director

Larry Fessenden as Craig McManus

Peter Mullan as Gordon Fleming

Josh Lucas as Hank

Brendan Sexton III as Jeff

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

Enemy at the Gates

2001

English

7.5

♡ 195

53%

82%

Action

based on a true story

Jean-Jacques Annaud Director

Ron Perlman as Koulikov

Ed Harris as Major König

Rachel Weisz as Tania

Jude Law as Vassili

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure

2001

English

5.7

♡ 16

45%

Darrell Rooney Director

Nick Jameson as Jim Dear

Frank Welker as Reggie

Dee Bradley Baker as Scratchy

Diane Michelle as (voice) (uncredited)

Lady and Tramp's mischievous pup, Scamp, gets fed up with rules and restrictions imposed on him by life in a family, and longs for a wild and free lifestyle. He runs away from home and into the streets where he joins a pack of stray dogs known as the "Junkyard Dogs." Buster, the pack's leader, takes an instant disliking to the "house-dog" and considers him a rival. Angel, a junkyard pup Scamp's age, longs for the safety and comfort of life in a family and the two become instant companions. Will Scamp choose the wild and free life of a stray or the unconditional love of his family?

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

English

7.2

♡ 168

76%

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Steven Spielberg Director

Jude Law as Gigolo Joe

Brendan Gleeson as Lord Johnson-Johnson

Matt Malloy as Robot Repairman

Eugene Osment as Supernerd

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge

2001

English

6.3

♡ 9

62%

Mary Lambert Director

Blu Mankuma as Gort

Daniel Kountz as Kal

Phillip Van Dyke as Luke

Emily Roeske as Sophie Piper

The Cromwell clan lives in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to turn Halloweentown into a grey dreary version of the real world while transforming the denizens of the real world into monsters.

The Princess Diaries

2001

English

6.4

♡ 109

49%

68%

Action

based on novel or book

Comedy

Family

grandparent grandchild relationship

Garry Marshall Director

Hector Elizondo as Joe

Jane Morris as Lady Evergreen

Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis

Patrick John Flueger as Student Jeremiah Hart

A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne.

According to Spencer

2001

English

4.5

♡ 6

21%

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Shane Edelman Director

Florence Stanley as Grandma

Giovanni Ribisi as Louis

Mia Kirshner as Melora

Adam Brody as Tommy

A mail clerk at an advertising firm sets out to climb the corporate ladder and win the woman of his dreams.

Taking Sides

2001

English

7.0

♡ 2

73%

Drama

Music

War

István Szabó Director

Oleg Tabakov as Colonel Dymshitz

Stellan Skarsgård as Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ulrich Tukur as Helmut Alfred Rode, 2nd violinist

Harvey Keitel as Major Steve Arnold

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

Jurassic Park III

2001

English

6.0

♡ 201

49%

Joe Johnston Director

Téa Leoni as Amanda Kirby

Sam Neill as Dr. Alan Grant

Taylor Nichols as Mark Degler

William H. Macy as Paul Kirby

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

Waikiki Brothers

2001

Korean

7.1

♡ 3

Soon-rye Yim Director

Dong-yong Lee as Busan bum 1

Jeong-min Hwang as Gang-soo

Guk-Hyang Jeon as Soo Chul's Wife

Hae-il Park as young Seong-woo

Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members to continue on the road. The band ends up at the lead singer's hometown, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s, but the return home is filled with reservations of previous and past disappointments, a lost love, unemployment and tragedy.

Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella

2001

Spanish

6.4

♡ 8

Santiago Segura Director

Inés Sastre as Bella cantante

Ariadna Gil as Chica grúa

Antonio Resines as Detective privado

Federico Cueva as Pistolero hotel

For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film.

Spirited Away

2001

Japanese

8.6

♡ 341

96%

parent child relationship

spirit

witch

Kirk Wise Director

Yô Ôizumi as Bandai-gaeru

Lauren Holly as Chihiro's Mother

Dee Bradley Baker as Kashira

Suzanne Pleshette as Yubaba / Zeniba

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

From Hell

2001

English

6.7

♡ 131

56%

Allen Hughes Director

Johnny Depp as Inspector Frederick Abberline

Heather Graham as Mary Kelly

Annabelle Apsion as Polly Nichols

Ian Holm as Sir William Gull

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Balto: Wolf Quest

2001

English

6.0

♡ 25

Phil Weinstein Director

Monnae Michaell as Aniu

Charles Fleischer as Boris

Mary Kay Bergman as Fox / Wolverine 3

Mark Hamill as Niju the Evil Wolf

Balto and his daughter Aleu embark on a journey of adventure and self discovery.

Lost and Delirious

2001

English

6.8

♡ 19

51%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Léa Pool Director

Emily VanCamp as Allison Moller

Graham Greene as Joe Menzies

Grace Lynn Kung as Lauren

Piper Perabo as Pauline 'Paulie' Oster

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

Rush Hour 2

2001

English

6.7

♡ 220

50%

criminal investigation

duringcreditsstinger

interracial friendship

los angeles, california

martial arts

Mystery

Thriller

Brett Ratner Director

Maggie Q as Girl in Car

Roselyn Sanchez as Isabella Molina

Jackie Chan as Lee

Jeremy Piven as Versace Salesman

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.