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15 Minutes
15 Minutes is a 2001 American crime thriller directed by John Herzfeld, starring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns as investigators hunting killers who film their crimes.
3000 Miles to Graceland
3000 Miles to Graceland is a 2001 Warner Bros. action film directed by Demian Lichtenstein, starring Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner as ex-cons robbing Las Vegas's Riviera Casino disguised as Elvis impersonators during International Elvis Week, stealing $3.2 million.
Baise-moi
Baise-moi (Rape Me) is a 2000 French film by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi, adapted from Despentes's novel, starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach; famous for its unsimulated sex, French X-rating controversy, and bans in Australia and Ontario.
Bandits (2001 film)
Bandits is a 2001 American crime comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson, starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett as two escaped bank robbers and the housewife who joins them.
Better Luck Tomorrow
Better Luck Tomorrow is Justin Lin's 2002 Sundance crime drama about Asian American overachievers descending into crime, financed by credit cards and MC Hammer, released by MTV Films in 2003.
Blood Work (film)
Blood Work (2002) is a Clint Eastwood mystery thriller, directed by and starring Eastwood as FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, adapted from Michael Connelly's 1998 novel; released by Warner Bros. August 9, 2002, with Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston.
Boiler Room (film)
Boiler Room (2000), Ben Younger's debut crime drama, stars Giovanni Ribisi as Seth Davis, a college dropout selling stocks at the fraudulent Long Island brokerage JT Marlin; with Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck, Nia Long; Metascore 63.
Brother (2000 film)
Brother (2000) is Takeshi Kitano's first English-language, first film shot outside Japan: a UK-France-Japan-USA yakuza crime film in which exiled gangster Yamamoto builds a Los Angeles drug empire with half-brother Ken and Denny, clashing with the Mafia; produced by Jeremy Thomas, scored by Joe Hisaishi.
Burnt Money
Burnt Money (Plata quemada) is Marcelo Piñeyro's 2000 Argentine-Spanish crime film based on Ricardo Piglia's novel, about criminal lovers El Nene and Ángel whose 1965 armored-truck robbery fails; it won the 2001 Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.
Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes is a 2002 American drama-thriller directed by Roger Michell. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star as two men whose lives spiral into revenge after a New York City collision.
Chopper (film)
Chopper is Andrew Dominik's 2000 Australian biographical crime film starring Eric Bana as criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read; a box-office number one and multi-award winner, re-released in 2021 and 2025.
City of God (2002 film)
City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, adapted from Paulo Lins's novel, about Rocket and Li'l Zé in a Rio favela; four Oscar nominations, Cannes 2002, HBO sequel series 2024.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (film)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is George Clooney's 2002 directorial debut, a Charlie Kaufman adaptation of Chuck Barris's memoir claiming a CIA assassin double life, starring Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, and Julia Roberts.
D-Tox
D-Tox, also released as Eye See You, is a 2002 Jim Gillespie thriller starring Sylvester Stallone as an FBI agent at a snowbound Wyoming rehab clinic stalked by a serial killer; it cost $55 million and grossed about $6.6 million.
Dark Blue (film)
Dark Blue (2002) is an American crime thriller directed by Ron Shelton, written by David Ayer from a James Ellroy story, starring Kurt Russell as a corrupt LAPD SIS detective during the 1992 Rodney King riots.
Das Experiment
Das Experiment (The Experiment) is a 2001 German psychological thriller, Oliver Hirschbiegel's feature debut, based on Mario Giordano's novel Black Box and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Moritz Bleibtreu as prisoner Tarek Fahd.
Dirty Pretty Things (film)
Dirty Pretty Things is a 2002 Stephen Frears thriller, Steven Knight's first screenplay, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou as undocumented London immigrants who uncover a hotel-based organ trafficking ring; Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
Domestic Disturbance
Domestic Disturbance is a 2001 American psychological thriller directed by Harold Becker. It stars John Travolta as a father who believes his son's new stepfather committed a murder.
Don't Say a Word
Don't Say a Word is a 2001 American psychological thriller directed by Gary Fleder, starring Michael Douglas as a psychiatrist whose daughter is kidnapped.
Enough (film)
Enough is a 2002 American drama-thriller directed by Michael Apted, starring Jennifer Lopez as a waitress who flees her violent wealthy husband with their daughter and trains herself to fight him.
Frailty (2001 film)
Frailty (2001) is Bill Paxton's directorial debut, a psychological horror thriller starring Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, and Powers Boothe, about a Texas family whose father believes God commands him to kill demons; released by Lionsgate in April 2002.
From Hell (film)
From Hell is a 2001 American crime-horror film directed by the Hughes brothers, starring Johnny Depp as a Scotland Yard detective hunting Jack the Ripper in 1888 London.
Gangster No. 1
Gangster No. 1 (2000) is a British crime film directed by Paul McGuigan, starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, and David Thewlis, adapted from a stage play by Louis Mellis and David Scinto, about a gangster's betrayal of his mentor Freddie Mays.
Get a Clue
Get a Clue is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Maggie Greenwald, starring Lindsay Lohan as teen sleuth Lexy Gold, who investigates her teacher's disappearance; 83 minutes, TV-G, premiered June 28, 2002.
Get Carter (2000 film)
Get Carter (2000) is Stephen Kay's remake of the 1971 British crime classic, starring Sylvester Stallone as Vegas enforcer Jack Carter investigating his brother's death in Seattle, with Michael Caine in a supporting role; critically panned at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
High Crimes
High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller directed by Carl Franklin, based on Joseph Finder's novel, in which attorney Ashley Judd defends her husband in a military court.
Ichi the Killer (film)
Ichi the Killer (殺し屋1, Koroshiya 1) is Takashi Miike's 2001 yakuza film adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's manga, starring Tadanobu Asano and Nao Ōmori; notorious for graphic violence, BBFC cuts, and a 2026 4K restoration.
Insomnia (2002 film)
Insomnia is a 2002 American psychological thriller directed by Christopher Nolan, a remake of a 1997 Norwegian film, starring Al Pacino as a detective in Alaska opposite Robin Williams.
Irréversible
Irréversible (2002) is Gaspar Noé's French reverse-chronology rape-revenge drama starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel; it scandalized Cannes 2002, was passed uncut at 18 by the BBFC, and exists in a 2019 chronological Straight Cut.
John Q.
John Q. is a 2002 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, in which Denzel Washington plays a father who takes a hospital emergency room hostage over his son's transplant.