Best award winning movies with competent acting from 2001

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with competent acting from 2001! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with competent acting from 2001, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 In the Bedroom (2001)

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. His son is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.

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2001-11-23 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #86 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #110 for
    great acting
  3. Ranked #110 for
    shoo in

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2 Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening (2001)

Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.

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2001-03-11 | Drama

Cast

Ximena Ayala, Nancy Gutiérrez

Rating

rating icon 7.815
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #88 for
    naturalist
  2. Ranked #105 for
    neo-realism
  3. Ranked #179 for
    wayward

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3 A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Brilliant mathematician, John Nash, is on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy.

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2001-12-14 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly

Rating

rating icon 7.858
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #65 for
    poindexter
  3. Ranked #75 for
    remarkable

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4 Ali (2001)

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

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2001-12-10 | Drama

Cast

Will Smith, Jamie Foxx

Rating

rating icon 6.753
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #82 for
    brash
  2. Ranked #103 for
    Biography
  3. Ranked #139 for
    cocksure

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5 Late Marriage (2001)

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 beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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2001-10-24 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #144 for
    highly erotic
  2. Ranked #222 for
    interpersonal relation
  3. Ranked #299 for
    sad

Trailer

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6 Sex and Lucía (2001)

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

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2001-08-24 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa

Rating

rating icon 6.658
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #81 for
    highly erotic
  2. Ranked #104 for
    little lame
  3. Ranked #133 for
    waggish

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7 Sexy Beast (2001)

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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2001-01-12 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    potty-mouthed
  2. Ranked #74 for
    like Cape Fear
  3. Ranked #88 for
    bully

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8 The Others (2001)

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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2001-08-02 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston

Rating

rating icon 7.615
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    chilling
  2. Ranked #27 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #151 for
    suspenseful atmosphere

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9 Gosford Park (2001)

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

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2001-11-07 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    like Knives Out
  2. Ranked #72 for
    prissy
  3. Ranked #82 for
    decadent

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10 Iris (2001)

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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2001-12-14 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Kate Winslet, Judi Dench

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #108 for
    downward spiral
  2. Ranked #111 for
    juxtaposition
  3. Ranked #135 for
    flirtatious

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