Best Movies of 2001

Added on by C. Maoxian.

This is a list of the Best Movies of 2001 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.

English-language movies:

  1. 61*

  2. And the Band Played On

  3. Ghost World

  4. Gosford Park

  5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

  6. L.I.E.

  7. Memento

  8. Monsoon Wedding

  9. Mulholland Drive

  10. Tape

  11. The Deep End

  12. The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit

  13. The Others

  14. Wit

Foreign-language movies:

  1. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Japanese)

  2. Amélie (French)

  3. Baran (Farsi)

  4. Elling (Norwegian)

  5. I’m Going Home (French)

  6. La Cienaga (Spanish)

  7. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (Hindi)

  8. Late Marriage (Georgian)

  9. Mostly Martha (German)

  10. Musa, the Warrior (Korean)

  11. My Father and I (French)

  12. Nine Queens (Spanish)

  13. No Man’s Land (Bosnian)

  14. Nowhere in Africa (German)

  15. Pauline and Paulette (Dutch)

  16. Safe Conduct (French)

  17. Spirited Away (Japanese)

  18. The Devil's Backbone (Spanish)

  19. The Piano Teacher (French)

  20. The Road Home (Mandarin)

  21. The Son’s Room (Italian)

  22. The Tunnel (German)

  23. Time Out (French)

  24. Under the Skin of the City (Farsi)

  25. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Spanish)

English-language documentaries:

  1. New York in the Fifties

  2. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

  3. Startup.com

  4. War Photographer

Foreign-language documentaries:

  1. Children Underground (Romanian)