Movies released in 2001| 'R Xmas | Abel Ferrara |
| 'Twas the Night | Nick Castle |
| .I. Artificial Intelligence, A | Steven Spielberg |
| 2001 | Makoto Tezuka |
| 3000 Miles to Graceland | Demian Lichtenstein |
| 61* | Billy Crystal |
| Aalavandhan | Suresh Krissna |
| Accidental Spy, The | Teddy Chan |
| Age of Bloom | Wong Kar-wai |
| Ali | Michael Mann |
| Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage | Don Dohler |
| All About Our House | Koki Mitani |
| Along Came a Spider | Lee Tamahori |
| Ambush | John Frankenheimer |
| Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| America's Sweethearts | Joe Roth |
| American Astronaut, The | Cory McAbee |
| American Pie 2 | J.B. Rogers |
| American Rhapsody, An | Éva Gárdos |
| Answering Machine | Tina Krause |
| Antitrust | Peter Howitt |
| Atlantis: The Lost Empire | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
| Avalon | Mamoru Oshii |
| Avenging Fist, The | Corey Yuen, Andrew Lau |
| Bandits | Barry Levinson |
| Bartleby | Jonathan Parker |
| Bean Cake | David Greenspan |
| Beautiful Mind, A | Ron Howard |
| Beginning: Making Episode I, The | Jon Shenk |
| Behind Enemy Lines | John Moore |
| Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre | Jean-Paul Salomé |
| Black Hawk Down | Ridley Scott |
| Blind Terror | Giles Walker |
| Blow | Ted Demme |
| Born Wild | Patrick Leung |
| Breathe In, Breathe Out | Beth B |
| Breed, The | Michael Oblowitz |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire |
| Brotherhood, The | David DeCoteau |
| Brotherhood 2: Young Warlocks, The | David DeCoteau |
| Brotherhood of the Wolf | Christophe Gans |
| Bubble Boy | Blair Hayes |
| Call Me Claus | Peter Werner |
| Cat Soup | Tatsuo Satou |
| Cat with Hands, The | Robert Morgan |
| Catharsis | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani |
| Cats & Dogs | Lawrence Guterman |
| Center of the World, The | Wayne Wang |
| Chain of Fools | Pontus Löwenhielm, Patrick von Krusenstjerna |
| Choke | John Sjogren |
| Christmas Carol: The Movie | Jimmy T. Murakami |
| Christmas Eve | Toshirô Saiga |
| Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV | Lloyd Kaufman |
| Cop on a Mission | Marco Mak Chi-Sin |
| Cow Monkey | Gabe Weisert |
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | Shinichiro Watanabe |
| CQ | Roman Coppola |
| Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The | Woody Allen |
| Dagon | Stuart Gordon |
| Devil's Backbone, The | Guillermo del Toro |
| Dirty Scoundrels | Toshirô Enomoto |
| Disco Pigs | Kirsten Sheridan |
| Dog | Andrea Arnold |
| Dog Days | Ulrich Seidl |
| Domestic Disturbance | Harold Becker |
| Don't Say a Word | Gary Fleder |
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly |
| Down | Dick Maas |
| Dream Work | Peter Tscherkassky |
| Electric Dragon 80000V | Gakuryuu Ishii |
| Enemy at the Gates | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Enigma | Michael Apted |
| Everyday is Valentine | Wong Jing |
| Evolution | Ivan Reitman |
| Exit Wounds | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| Family | Takashi Miike |
| Family 2 | Takashi Miike |
| Fast and the Furious, The | Rob Cohen |
| Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Firefly Dreams | John Williams |
| Flat 'N' Fluffy | Benoît Boucher |
| Flicker | Chris Newby |
| Flower Island | Song Il-gon |
| Flying Dutchman, The | Robin P. Murray |
| Four Play | Mike Binder |
| Freddy Got Fingered | Tom Green |
| From Hell | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes |
| Frozen with Fear | Paul Lynch |
| Fulltime Killer | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai |
| Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff |
| Ghosts of Mars | John Carpenter |
| Ginger Snaps | John Fawcett |
| Glitter | Vondie Curtis-Hall |
| Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack | Shusuke Kaneko |
| Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle | Gakuryuu Ishii |
| Goodbye, Mr. Cool | Jingle Ma |
| Gore from Outer Space | Hirohisa Sasaki |
| Gosford Park | Robert Altman |
| Grey Zone, The | Tim Blake Nelson |
| Haiku Tunnel | Josh Kornbluth, Jacob Kornbluth |
| Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge | Mary Lambert |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott |
| Happy Campers | Daniel Waters |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Chris Columbus |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell |
| Heist | David Mamet |
| Hit Team | Dante Lam |
| Hole, The | Nick Hamm |
| Hood Rat | Leslie Small |
| Hysteria | Beth B |
| I Am Sam | Jessie Nelson |
| Ichi the Killer | Takashi Miike |
| Impostor | Gary Fleder |
| In the Bedroom | Todd Field |
| In Vanda's Room | Pedro Costa |
| Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau |
| Inugami | Masato Harada |
| Jason X | James Isaac |
| Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Kevin Smith |
| Jeepers Creepers | Victor Salva |
| Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter | Lee Demarbre |
| Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius | John A. Davis |
| Josie and the Pussycats | Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont |
| Joy Ride | John Dahl |
| Jurassic Park III | Joe Johnston |
| Justice League - Starcrossed | Dan Riba, Butch Lukic |
| Justice League: Secret Origins | Dan Riba, Butch Lukic |
| K-PAX | Iain Softley |
| Kate & Leopold | James Mangold |
| Kiss of the Dragon | Chris Nahon |
| Knight's Tale, A | Brian Helgeland |
| Knockaround Guys | Brian Koppelman, David Levien |
| Lady and the Duke, The | Éric Rohmer |
| Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure | Darrell Rooney, Jeannine Roussel |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Simon West |
| Last Castle, The | Rod Lurie |
| Legally Blonde | Robert Luketic |
| Legend of Suriyothai, The | Chatrichalerm Yukol |
| Little Bear Movie, The | Raymond Jafelice |
| Little Otik | Jan Švankmajer |
| Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The | Peter Jackson |
| Lost and Delirious | Léa Pool |
| Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The | Larry Blamire |
| Love on a Diet | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai |
| Made | Jon Favreau |
| Madonna: What It Feels Like for a Girl | Guy Ritchie |
| Making of 'Dressed to Kill', The | Laurent Bouzereau |
| Man Who Bought Mustique, The | Vikram Jayanti, Joseph Bullman |
| Man Who Wasn't There, The | Joel Coen |
| Martial Angels | Clarence Yiu-leung Fok |
| Matrix Revisited, The | Josh Oreck |
| Max Keeble's Big Move | Tim Hill |
| Mayhem Motel | Karl Kempter |
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Metropolis | Rintaro |
| Mexican, The | Gore Verbinski |
| Mimic 2 | Jean de Segonzac |
| Mongoland | Arild Østin Ommundsen |
| Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair |
| Monsters, Inc. | Pete Docter |
| Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| Mummy Returns, The | Stephen Sommers |
| Musketeer, The | Peter Hyams |
| My First Mister | Christine Lahti |
| My Life as McDull | Toe Yuen |
| My Sassy Girl | Kwak Jae-yong |
| My Wife Is a Gangster | Jo Jin-kyu |
| New York in the Fifties | |
| Not Another Teen Movie | Joel Gallen |
| Ocean's Eleven | Steven Soderbergh |
| One, The | James Wong |
| One Night at McCool's | Harald Zwart |
| One Piece: Clockwork Island Adventure | Junji Shimizu |
| Osmosis Jones | Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly |
| Others, The | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Paradise Villa | Park Chong-won |
| Pearl Harbor | Michael Bay |
| Piano Teacher, The | Michael Haneke |
| Pistol Opera | Seijun Suzuki |
| Planet of the Apes | Tim Burton |
| Pokémon 4Ever | Kunihiko Yuyama |
| Pootie Tang | Louis C.K. |
| Princess Blade, The | Shinsuke Sato |
| Princess Diaries, The | Garry Marshall |
| Prozac Nation | Erik Skjoldbjærg |
| Pulse | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Red Shadow | Hiroyuki Nakano |
| Replicant | Ringo Lam |
| RoboCop: Meltdown | Julian Grant |
| RoboCop: Prime Directives | Julian Grant |
| RoboCop: Resurrection | Julian Grant |
| Royal Tenenbaums, The | Wes Anderson |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | William R. Kowalchuk Jr. |
| Running Out of Time 2 | Johnnie To, Law Wing-Cheong |
| Rush Hour 2 | Brett Ratner |
| Salad Days | Gustavo Salmerón |
| Sanitarium | Johannes Roberts, James Eaves |
| Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies | Ray Greene |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Cyber Chase | Jim Stenstrum |
| Score, The | Frank Oz |
| Scotland, PA | Billy Morrissette |
| Session 9 | Brad Anderson |
| Sex and Lucía | Julio Medem |
| Shake It All About | Hella Joof |
| Shallow Hal | Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly |
| Shaolin Soccer | Stephen Chow |
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson |
| Sidewalks of New York | Edward Burns |
| Sister LuLu | Philip John |
| Sleepless | Dario Argento |
| Soft for Digging | J.T. Petty |
| Soul Survivors | Stephen Carpenter |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Spy Game | Tony Scott |
| Spy Kids | Robert Rodriguez |
| St. John's Wort | Ten Shimoyama |
| Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies | Naoyuki Tomomatsu |
| Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Jan Harlan |
| Star | Guy Ritchie |
| Starwoids | Dennis Przywara |
| Storytelling | Todd Solondz |
| Stranded | María Lidón |
| Sugar & Spice | Francine McDougall |
| Suicide Club | Sion Sono |
| Super Troopers | Jay Chandrasekhar |
| Sweet November | Pat O'Connor |
| Swordfish | Dominic Sena |
| Tailor of Panama, The | John Boorman |
| Thir13en Ghosts | Steve Beck |
| This Is Law: Out of Justice | Byeong-jin Min |
| To End All Wars | David L. Cunningham |
| Tomcats | Gregory Poirier |
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua |
| Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | Brent Maddock |
| Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis |
| U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force | Isaac Florentine |
| Ultraman Cosmos: The First Contact | Toshihiro Iijima |
| Ultraman Dyna: The Return of Hanejiro | Masaki Harada |
| Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant | Hirochika Muraishi |
| Urban Task Force | |
| Valentine | Jamie Blanks |
| Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe |
| Vidocq | Pitof |
| Visible Secret | Ann Hui |
| Visit from the Incubus, A | Anna Biller |
| Visitor Q | Takashi Miike |
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater |
| Warrior, The | Kim Sung-soo |
| Wasabi | Gérard Krawczyk |
| Wedding Planner, The | Adam Shankman |
| Weight of Water, The | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr |
| Wet Hot American Summer | David Wain |
| Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell | Chris Angel |
| Wolf Girl | Thom Fitzgerald |
| Women Talking Dirty | Coky Giedroyc |
| Zoolander | Ben Stiller |