Best award winning movies with ratcheting up tension from 2001

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

1 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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The Others trailer
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2 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
    shoo in
  3. Ranked #110 for
    great acting

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In the Bedroom trailer
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3 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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Sexy Beast trailer
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4 The Piano Teacher (2001)

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

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2001-09-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #57 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #68 for
    tremendously talented
  3. Ranked #103 for
    prissy

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The Piano Teacher trailer
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5 The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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2001-04-20 | Fantasy / Drama

Cast

Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega

Rating

rating icon 7.283
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #79 for
    lovecraftian
  2. Ranked #174 for
    punching bag
  3. Ranked #221 for
    spine-tingling

Trailer

The Devil's Backbone trailer
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6 Mulholland Drive (2001)

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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2001-06-06 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Naomi Watts, Laura Harring

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #127 for
    impressionistic
  3. Ranked #142 for
    puzzled

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Mulholland Drive trailer
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7 Hannibal (2001)

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

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2001-02-08 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore

Rating

rating icon 6.774
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #158 for
    Grand-Guignol
  2. Ranked #206 for
    Splatter Movie
  3. Ranked #300 for
    cat-and-mouse

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Hannibal trailer
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8 Jeepers Creepers (2001)

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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2001-07-01 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Gina Philips, Justin Long

Rating

rating icon 6.47
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #72 for
    Monster Movie
  2. Ranked #142 for
    Urban Legend
  3. Ranked #177 for
    for Stephen King's fans

Trailer

Jeepers Creepers trailer
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9 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

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2001-12-18 | Adventure / Fantasy

Cast

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen

Rating

rating icon 8.415
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #14 for
    wonderful
  2. Ranked #29 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #31 for
    great sound effects

Trailer

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring trailer
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10 Training Day (2001)

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

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2001-10-05 | Action / Crime

Cast

Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    hard-nosed
  2. Ranked #84 for
    like The Equalizer
  3. Ranked #98 for
    callow

Trailer

Training Day trailer
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