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The Best Movies of 2001
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Movie: O ( 2001 )
An update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, & centered around basketball player Odin.
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Movie: Novocaine ( 2001 )
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him & steals all of the drugs from his practice.
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Movie: Not Another Teen Movie ( 2001 )
A sendup of all the teen movies that have accumulated in the past two decades.
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Movie: My First Mister ( 2001 )
A 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man.
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Movie: Mulholland Drive ( 2001 )
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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Movie: Moulin Rouge! ( 2001 )
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
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Movie: Motocrossed ( 2001 )
A young girl secretly poses as her twin brother to win the big motocross race for him after he breaks his leg.
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Movie: Monsters, Inc. ( 2001 )
In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think.
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Movie: Monster's Ball ( 2002 )
After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.
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Movie: Monkeybone ( 2001 )
In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.
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Movie: Metropolis ( 2001 )
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.
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Movie: Mean Machine ( 2001 )
A soccer star jailed for assault leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.
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Movie: Max Keeble's Big Move ( 2001 )
Max Keeble is a nice, quiet teenager, whose idea of 'superhero-requiring' danger is braving Evil Ice Cream Man who blames him for a health complaint from ma Lily. She spent six years on just the right interior and now hears from dad Don Keeble, a wimp whose 'career' in commercial publicity still only got him wearing sly costumes, a promotion requires the family to move to Chicago. Initially Max just hates giving up his high-school friends, a fatso and a music-maniac, but when their former friend Troy McGinty picks on them with his new image as bully realizes leaving means he can't be punished after Friday, and plans an orgy of revenge. Max's targets include the arrogant new principal, Elliot T. Jindraike, who spends the school budget on a new sports stadium to flatter the inspector, Superintendant Bobby 'Crazy Legs' Knebworth, and even plants to tear down the animal shelter. When it's all in motion, dad suddenly announces he has taken Max's first advice and turned down the promotion!
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Movie: Made ( 2001 )
Bobby is a struggling boxer and bodyguard for his stripper girlfriend. But he hates his work and wants to move up. So he agrees to go to New York City for his boss to help in the delivery for a money laundering scheme. His partner in crime is his best friend Ricky, an obnoxious loudmouth who has seen one too many mafia movies. Bobby tries to keep it cool and get the job done, but Ricky's antics threaten to blow the entire situation.
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Movie: Lovely & Amazing ( 2002 )
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
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Movie: Lost and Delirious ( 2001 )
A newcomer to a posh girls boarding school discovers that her two senior roommates are lovers.
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Movie: Life as a House ( 2001 )
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
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Movie: L.I.E. ( 2002 )
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
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Movie: Legally Blonde ( 2001 )
Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.
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Movie: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 )
Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.
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Movie: Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure ( 2001 )
Seeking the freedom to be a wild dog, the son of Lady and the Tramp runs away to join a gang of junkyard dogs.
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Movie: K-PAX ( 2001 )
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 explanations.
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Movie: Koroshiya 1 ( 2002 )
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
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Movie: Knockaround Guys ( 2002 )
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
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Movie: Kiss of the Dragon ( 2001 )
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 Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?
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Movie: Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) ( 2001 )
Hit-man Felix has quit his criminal activities and found employment minding a rich man's adult son. Meanwhile, Felix's old criminal gang have issued a hit on Felix.
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Movie: Kissing Jessica Stein ( 2002 )
A woman searching for the perfect man instead discovers the perfect woman.
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Movie: Kate & Leopold ( 2001 )
An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertedly dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.
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Movie: Just Visiting ( 2001 )
A French count is in England to marry the princess. She's killed. A wizard helps him to time travel back before the murder - except they end up in Chicago, April 2000. A descendant helps him. He looks for the wizard to return to the 1100s.
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Movie: Jurassic Park III ( 2001 )
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
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Movie: Joy Ride ( 2001 )
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychopathic killer.
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Movie: Josie and the Pussycats ( 2001 )
For years, the record industries have inserted subliminal messages into music so that they can turn teenagers into brain dead 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 boss, Fiona, has the plane they are flying in crashed and him looking for a new band to use for their evil schemes. Enter Josie, the ditsy Melody, and the tough Valerie, from Josie and the Pussycats, a small band who wants to make it to the big time. When they are discovered by Wyatt, they give in and become big rock stars. But will they find out that they are just pawns for the record industry or will fame take them over?
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Movie: Joe Somebody ( 2001 )
When Joe is beat up by a co-worker in front of his daughter on "Bring Your Child To Work Day", he decides to fight back.
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Movie: Joe Dirt ( 2001 )
After being abandoned by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Joe Dirt tells the story of his journey to find his parents.
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Movie: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius ( 2001 )
An eight year-old boy genius and his friends must rescue their parents after the adults are abducted by aliens.
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Movie: Jeepers Creepers ( 2001 )
A brother and sister driving home through isolated countryside for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature which is in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree.
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Movie: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ( 2001 )
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They find new purpose when their friend, Brodie, informs them a movie is being made featuring two infamous characters based on their likenesses. After visiting one of the creators of the Bluntman and Chronic, Holden McNeil, they set out to get what fat movie cash they deserve and hopefully put an end to people slandering them on the Internet. Along the way, they learn the rules of the road from a hitchhiking George Carlin, ride with a group of gorgeous jewel thieves, and incur the wrath of a hapless wildlife marshal for liberating an orangutan named Suzanne. The quest takes them from New Jersey to Hollywood where a showdown involving the police, the jewel thieves, and the Bluntman and Chronic filmmakers will decide the fate of Suzanne, Jay, Silent Bob, and their good names.
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Movie: Jason X ( 2002 )
Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st century, and is discovered in the 25th century and taken to space. He gets thawed, and begins stalking and killing the crew of the spaceship that's transporting him.
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Movie: James Dean ( 2001 )
The man behind the legend and 1950's Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic of the meteoric star whose troubled life echoed his gut-grabbing performances in East of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant.
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Movie: Iris ( 2002 )
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Movie: Intimacy ( 2001 )
A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.
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Movie: In the Bedroom ( 2001 )
A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.
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Movie: Impostor ( 2001 )
In the future, an alien race uses androids as bombs to attack Earth. A government weapons specialist is accused of being one such android and sets out to prove his innocence.
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Movie: I Am Sam ( 2002 )
A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
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Movie: Human Nature ( 2001 )
A woman is in love with a man in love with another woman, and all three have designs on a young man raised as an ape.
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Movie: How High ( 2001 )
Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.
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Movie: Holiday in the Sun ( 2001 )
Sisters Alex and Madison are whisked away to the Bahamas for winter break but soon find themselves crossing paths with a man smuggling stolen artifacts.
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Movie: High Heels and Low Lifes ( 2001 )
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for two million dollars.
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Movie: Heist ( 2001 )
A career jewel thief finds himself at tense odds with his longtime partner, a crime boss who sends his nephew to keep watch.
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Movie: Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( 2001 )
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
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Movie: Hearts in Atlantis ( 2001 )
Widowed Liz Garfield (Hope Davis) and her son Bobby (Anton Yelchin) change when mysterious stranger Ted Brautigan (Sir Anthony Hopkins) enters their lives.
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Movie: Heartbreakers ( 2001 )
A mother and daughter con team seduce and scam wealthy men.
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Movie: Head Over Heels ( 2001 )
A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone.
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Movie: Harvard Man ( 2001 )
A basketball player strikes a deal with the mob to fix a basketball game.
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ( 2001 )
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
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Movie: Hardball ( 2001 )
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling, and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
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Movie: Hannibal ( 2001 )
Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.
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Movie: Gosford Park ( 2001 )
The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.
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Movie: Glitter ( 2001 )
Billie Frank is a shy, young multiracial girl who is sent away by her alcoholic mother at a very early age. At an orphanage, she befriends Louise and Roxanne. Flash forward to 1983. Billie and her friends are spotted by a record producer, Timothy Walker, who wants them to sing backup for his latest pop-music discovery. But when super DJ Julian Dice hears Billie's incredible voice, he makes a shady deal with Timothy to get her out of that dead-end situation. Soon, Billie and Dice are making hits inside the studio, and falling in love outside of it. Eventually, the pressure of her newfound celebrity puts too heavy a strain on Billie, forcing her to decide what it is she really wants from Dice, and what she wants for herself.
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Movie: Ghost World ( 2001 )
With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.
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Movie: Ghosts of Mars ( 2001 )
200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.
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Movie: Get Over It ( 2001 )
A high school senior's girlfriend breaks up with him. His friends try to make him think of something else. His friend's sister Kelly helps him with the school musical. Spending time with Kelly has an effect.
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Movie: From Hell ( 2001 )
In Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper.
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Movie: Freddy Got Fingered ( 2001 )
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
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Movie: Frailty ( 2002 )
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
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Movie: Formula 51 ( 2001 )
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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Movie: Focus ( 2002 )
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
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Movie: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ( 2001 )
A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.
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Movie: Exit Wounds ( 2001 )
Orin Boyd, a tough cop in an inner-city precinct discovers a web of dirty cops and corruption.
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Movie: Evolution ( 2001 )
A fire-fighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky but sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.
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Movie: Enigma ( 2001 )
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
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Movie: Enemy at the Gates ( 2001 )
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Movie: Driven ( 2001 )
A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give him guidance.
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Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2 ( 2001 )
Dolittle must save a forest and a bear's life.
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Movie: Down to Earth ( 2001 )
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.
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Movie: Double Take ( 2001 )
A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler.
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Movie: Don't Say a Word ( 2001 )
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...
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Movie: Don's Plum ( 2001 )
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every week at their local diner to discuss their latest misadventures in their miserable lives.
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Movie: Donnie Darko ( 2001 )
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
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Movie: Domestic Disturbance ( 2001 )
When Danny witnesses his stepfather Rick murder a man, Danny's father Frank has to protect his son from the greatest danger.
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Movie: Daddy and Them ( 2002 )
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
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Movie: Crossfire Trail ( 2001 )
Rafe Covington promises a dying friend that he'll watch over the man's wife and ranch after he's gone. When Rafe gets to his friend's ranch, he finds that Barkow, the local power in town, wants not only the ranch but the woman, too, and hires a gang of gunfighters to make sure he gets both.
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles ( 2001 )
Australian Outback adventurer Mick "Crocodile" Dundee travels to Los Angeles with his young son while his longtime companion suspects foul play at a movie studio.
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Movie: Crazy/Beautiful ( 2001 )
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.
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Movie: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie ( 2003 )
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
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Movie: Corky Romano ( 2001 )
The loser son of a Mafia honcho must go undercover for the FBI.
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Movie: CKY 3 ( 2001 )
Based around skateboarding and crazy stunts. Starring the CKY crew, Bam Margera, Brandon DiCamillo, etc.
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Movie: Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True ( 2002 )
Jacques and Gus tell the story of how Cinderella becomes a princess but loses touch with herself.
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Movie: Chelsea Walls ( 2002 )
In New York's storied Chelsea Hotel, a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer, and a young troubadour sort out their personal and artistic lives within walls haunted by the likes of Dylan Thomas, O. Henry, and Sarah Bernhardt. A boozy novelist balances wife, mistress, and stories. A dancer who's a waitress in the basement club chooses between a Hollywood jerk and a local painter. A youth from Minnesota who composes and sings may be the next Bob Dylan. A poet decides to give her feckless boyfriend another chance, even as her eyes tell us she knows what's ahead. An old jazz artist wants to place a bet and share his love for Lady Day. These walls do seem to talk.
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Movie: Charlotte Gray ( 2002 )
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
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Movie: Cats & Dogs ( 2001 )
A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, of which their human owners are blissfully unaware.
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Movie: Captain Corelli's Mandolin ( 2001 )
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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Movie: Bully ( 2001 )
A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanour has proven too much.
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Movie: Buffalo Soldiers ( 2002 )
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Movie: Bubble Boy ( 2001 )
Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.
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Movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf ( 2002 )
In 1764 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people.To this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, a wolf? a hyena? or something supernatural? The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now. Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France in the eighteenth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada).
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Movie: Bridget Jones's Diary ( 2001 )
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
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Movie: Bones ( 2001 )
Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
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Movie: Blow Dry ( 2001 )
In 2000, a small town hosts The British Hairdressing Championship, where a former 2-time winner, his son, his run-away wife and his runaway wife's lady lover reside (not all on speaking terms).
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Movie: Blow ( 2001 )
The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.