54th Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or (1-23) and Un Certain Regard (24-47) competitors (2001)
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1. The Son's Room (2001)
R | 99 min | Drama
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice
Votes: 21,446 | Gross: $1.01M
2. Desert Moon (2001)
131 min | Drama
Nagai, a software industry expert is an absolute slave to his work. It is no wonder that his personal life is a complete mess. His wife and daughter left him but he has kept a camera with him to preserve their memory.
Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Hiroshi Mikami, Maho Toyota, Shûji Kashiwabara, Yukiko Ikari
Votes: 226
3. Distance (2001)
Unrated | 132 min | Drama
Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members of those affected by it meet at the lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Arata Iura, Yûsuke Iseya, Susumu Terajima, Yui Natsukawa
Votes: 1,806
4. I'm Going Home (2001)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Antoine Chappey
Votes: 1,848
5. In Praise of Love (2001)
PG | 97 min | Drama
An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny
Votes: 3,021 | Gross: $0.25M
6. Kandahar (2001)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri
Votes: 7,065 | Gross: $0.02M
7. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini
Votes: 115,019 | Gross: $7.49M
8. Millennium Mambo (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Jun Takeuchi
Votes: 6,760 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 299,409 | Gross: $57.39M
10. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,964 | Gross: $7.22M
11. No Man's Land (I) (2001)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis
Votes: 48,837 | Gross: $1.06M
12. La chambre des officiers (2001)
135 min | Drama, Romance, War
French lieutenant has been mutilated in the early days of World War I, so he is forced to adapt in hospital to a new life.
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Derangère, Sabine Azéma
Votes: 1,742
13. Pau and His Brother (2001)
112 min | Drama
After his brother commits suicide, a man informs his mother and friends about the death.
Director: Marc Recha | Stars: David Selvas, Nathalie Boutefeu, Marieta Orozco, Luis Hostalot
Votes: 239
14. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,842 | Gross: $1.90M
15. The Pledge (I) (2001)
R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels
Votes: 67,737 | Gross: $19.72M
16. The Profession of Arms (2001)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, War
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in ... See full summary »
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Rachkov, Fabio Giubbani
Votes: 1,909
17. La répétition (2001)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama
Louise and Nathalie's childhood friendship gets tangled in jealousy, unrest, relationships and tragedy after college. After seeing each other after 10 years the obsession and attraction between them becomes stronger.
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Dani Levy, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 1,208
18. Roberto Succo (2001)
124 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of ... See full summary »
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Stefano Cassetti, Isild Le Besco, Patrick Dell'Isola, Viviana Aliberti
Votes: 1,258
19. Shrek (2001)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow
Votes: 734,439 | Gross: $267.67M
20. Taurus (2001)
104 min | Drama
Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko
Votes: 1,049
21. Who Knows? (2001)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles
Votes: 2,505 | Gross: $0.91M
22. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
119 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa
Votes: 2,845 | Gross: $0.06M
23. What Time Is It There? (2001)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Romance
A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-ching Lu, Miao Tien
Votes: 5,323 | Gross: $0.19M
24. Boyhood Loves (2001)
102 min | Drama, Family
This feature length entry from shorts director Caumon deals with a turbulent mother and son relationship in a rural setting.
Director: Yves Caumon | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Lauryl Brossier, Fabrice Cals, Michèle Gary
Votes: 73
25. The Anniversary Party (2001)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love is complex and relationships deteriorate.
Directors: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh | Stars: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline
Votes: 8,753 | Gross: $4.01M
26. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
R | 172 min | Drama
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Votes: 6,861 | Gross: $3.79M
27. Carrément à l'Ouest (2001)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Alex becomes caught in a love triangle with two young girls in Paris.
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Lou Doillon, Caroline Ducey, Guillaume Saurrel, Camille Clavel
Votes: 198
28. Maimil (2001)
90 min | Drama
A teenager in a Kirgiz provincial town passes the time between his work at the railroad and hanging out with his friends before he has to join the military service.
Director: Aktan Arym Kubat | Stars: Mirlan Abdykalykov, Dzylykcy Dzakypov, Sergey Golovkin, Alexandra Mitrokhina
Votes: 130
29. Clement (2001)
139 min | Drama, Romance
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Olivier Gueritée, Emmanuelle Bercot, Kevin Goffette, Rémi Martin
Votes: 575
30. Pattiyude Divasam (2001)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
The traditional ruling Lord grants democracy to a rural province. As a token of good will, the Lord gives royal dog Apu to his former obedient servant. Koran and his wife proudly care for ... See full summary »
Director: Murali Nair | Stars: K. Krishna Kaimal, Mohan Thomas, Lakshmi Raman, Suhas Thayat
Votes: 39
31. La libertad (2001)
73 min | Drama
A man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, clean them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell its timber.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Misael Saavedra, Humberto Estrada, Rafael Estrada, Omar Didino
Votes: 929
32. Ganhar a Vida (2001)
115 min | Drama
During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, ... See full summary »
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Teresa Madruga, Alda Gomes
Votes: 160
33. H Story (2001)
111 min | Drama
A European actress is remaking the 1959 classic film "Hiroshima Mon Amour" forty years after its premiere. We can witness her fatigue and inability to remember the lines.
Director: Nobuhiro Suwa | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Kou Machida, Hiroaki Umano, Nobuhiro Suwa
Votes: 259
34. Hijack Stories (2000)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A young Soweto actor joins a gang to study up and be more convincing in a gangster role he wants.
Director: Oliver Schmitz | Stars: Tony Kgoroge, Rapulana Seiphemo, Percy Matsemela, Makhaola Ndebele
Votes: 232
35. Ty da ya, da my s toboy (2001)
28 min | Short
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia. It is an screen adaptation ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Veledinskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Aulov, Varvara Kalganova, Elena Kollegova, Svetlana Kufal
Votes: 15
36. Pulse (2001)
R | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka
Votes: 25,604 | Gross: $0.05M
37. Lan Yu (2001)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Ye Liu, Jun Hu, He Du, Bin Li
Votes: 3,024 | Gross: $0.12M
38. Late Marriage (2001)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be ... See full summary »
Director: Dover Koshashvili | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Koshashvili
Votes: 3,547 | Gross: $1.55M
39. Lovely Rita (2001)
79 min | Drama
Rita is an outcast teenager in suburban Austria, misunderstood both at school and at home. When Rita sets out to seduce her school bus driver, she sets in motion a series of events that changes everyone's lives irrevocably.
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Barbara Osika, Christoph Bauer, Peter Fiala, Wolfgang Kostal
Votes: 610
40. Aruku, hito (2001)
103 min | Drama, Comedy
Scene: Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years ago. Yasuo is his youngest son ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi | Stars: Ken Ogata, Yasufumi Hayashi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Sayoko Ishii
Votes: 160
41. No Such Thing (2001)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Margrét Ákadóttir, Julie Anderson
Votes: 4,459 | Gross: $0.06M
42. 'R Xmas (2001)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Lisa Valens, Ice-T
Votes: 1,630 | Gross: $0.00M
43. Jol (2001)
85 min | Drama
A film director takes to the road on a trip to visit his sick mother and we follow his thoughts and human encounters along the way.
Director: Darezhan Omirbayev | Stars: Jamshed Usmonov, Saule Toktybayeva, Alnur Turgambayeva, Magjane Omirbayev
Votes: 136
44. Storytelling (2001)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer
Votes: 18,336 | Gross: $0.91M
45. Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
Unrated | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
With its loud acting style, exuberant sets and stunning shots in pastel colours, this Thai cult film is as much a parody as an homage to the Western and the romantic tearjerker.
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng | Stars: Chartchai Ngamsan, Stella Malucchi, Supakorn Kitsuwon, Suwinit Panjamawat
Votes: 2,918 | Gross: $0.07M
46. Domani (2001)
88 min | Drama
This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The original story, a fiction about the historic earthquake was written by middle ... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Marco Baliani, Ornella Muti, Valerio Mastandrea, Ilaria Occhini
Votes: 164
47. Le parole di mio padre (2001)
90 min | Drama
At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a successful gallery owner with four daughters, he's impressed by Malfenti's energy, and... See full summary »
Director: Francesca Comencini | Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Chiara Mastroianni, Mimmo Calopresti, Claudia Coli
Votes: 112
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