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24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People: 2002 Michael Winterbottom comedy-drama, written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson of Factory Records and the Haçienda, covering Manchester music 1976–1992; 4K re-release October 2026.
A Time for Drunken Horses (زمانی برای مستی اسبها)
A Time for Drunken Horses (Kurdish: ساتێک بۆ مەستیی ئەسپەکان) is a 2000 Iranian drama directed by Bahman Ghobadi, the first Kurdish-language feature film produced in Iran.
Address Unknown (수취인불명)
Address Unknown (수취인불명) is Kim Ki-duk's 2001 Korean drama about mixed-race Chang-guk, his mother's returned letters to an American soldier, and life beside a U.S. base in 1970s Pyeongtaek; Venice Golden Lion nominee.
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue) is a 2000 Moroccan drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch about street children in Casablanca.
All or Nothing
All or Nothing is a 2002 Mike Leigh drama, also known as Todo o nada, set on a South London estate, starring Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville; a Palme d'Or nominee at Cannes 2002 about a family reshaped by their son's heart attack.
Always: Sunset on Third Street (ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日)
Always: Sunset on Third Street (ALWAYS 三丁目の夕日) is a 2005 Toho drama directed by Takashi Yamazaki, adapted from Ryōhei Saigan's manga, set in 1958 Tokyo; it won 12 Japan Academy Outstanding Prizes including Best Picture and spawned 2007 and 2012 sequels.
Antwone Fisher (film)
Antwone Fisher (2002), also released as The Antwone Fisher Story, is Denzel Washington's directorial debut, a Fox Searchlight biographical drama written by Antwone Fisher from his life, starring Derek Luke, grossing $21.1 million and earning AFI top-ten and Independent Spirit honors.
At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon (Panj-e asr) is a 2003 Iran-France drama by Samira Makhmalbaf about Noqreh, an Afghan girl secretly attending school and dreaming of becoming president; it won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2003.
Bad Guy (나쁜 남자) (2001 film)
Bad Guy (나쁜 남자, Nabbeun Namja) is Kim Ki-duk's 2001 South Korean crime drama in which mute pimp Han-gi (Cho Jae-hyun) forces student Sun-hwa (Seo Won) into prostitution; premiered at Pusan 2001, competed at Berlin 2002.
Behind the Sun
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado) is Walter Salles' 2001 Brazil-France-Switzerland drama, adapted from Ismail Kadare's novel, about a 1910 Brazilian blood feud, starring Rodrigo Santoro, a Venice Little Golden Lion winner.
Beijing Bicycle (十七岁的单车)
Beijing Bicycle (十七岁的单车), also released in China as Bicycle (自行车), is Wang Xiaoshuai's 2001 Sixth Generation drama about a migrant courier and a Beijing schoolboy fighting over a stolen bike; it won the 2001 Berlinale Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear and was banned domestically until 2004.
Bright Future (アカルイミライ) (2003 film)
Bright Future (アカルイミライ, Akarui Mirai) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 Japanese drama, in Cannes competition, about alienated workers Yuji and Mamoru, a murdered boss, and a poisonous red jellyfish multiplying in Tokyo's canals.
Bright Young Things (film)
Bright Young Things is Stephen Fry's 2003 directorial debut, a British comedy-drama adapting Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies about 1930s London socialites, gossip culture and celebrity, starring Emily Mortimer and Stephen Campbell Moore; the real Bright Young Things were the tabloid-named 1920s party set.
Carandiru
Carandiru (2003) is a Brazilian drama film by Hector Babenco, adapted from Drauzio Varella's book Estacao Carandiru, about a doctor in Sao Paulo's largest prison, culminating in the 1992 massacre of 111 inmates; it competed at Cannes.
Cheaters (2000 film)
Cheaters (2000) is an HBO television film directed and written by John Stockwell, starring Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, and Paul Sorvino, dramatizing the 1995 Steinmetz High School academic decathlon cheating scandal in Chicago.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف)
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف; Code inconnu) is Michael Haneke's 2000 French drama, his first French film, starring Juliette Binoche. Single-take vignettes linked by a Paris street incident; Cannes 2000 competition, Ecumenical Jury Prize.
Crazy N' the City
Crazy N' the City (神經俠侶, San Ging Hap Lui) is a 2005 Hong Kong comedy-drama directed by James Yuen, starring Eason Chan, Joey Yung, and Francis Ng as Wan Chai beat cops and a mentally ill man facing a serial killer; it grossed $877,803 in Hong Kong.
Distance (DISTANCE) (2001 film)
Distance (ディスタンス) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2001 Japanese drama about relatives of cult mass-murderers, In Competition at Cannes 2001, 132 minutes, starring ARATA, Iseya, Terajima, Natsukawa, and Asano.
Dog Days (2001 film)
Dog Days (Hundstage) is Ulrich Seidl's 2001 Austrian debut feature, six interwoven stories of loneliness and aggression in a Vienna suburb during a heat wave; it won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice 2001 and was Austria's most successful film of 2001/2002.
Durian Durian (榴梿飘飘)
Durian Durian (榴槤飄飄, Liulian Piao Piao) is Fruit Chan's 2000 Hong Kong-China drama about a mainland sex worker in Mong Kok; Golden Lion nominee, 2001 Golden Horse Best Picture, first of his prostitute trilogy.
Everything Is Illuminated (film)
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 American comedy-drama directed by Liev Schreiber in his debut, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel and starring Elijah Wood.
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is Martin Scorsese's 2002 historical drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, set in Manhattan's Five Points and ending in the 1863 Draft Riots; based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book, it earned ten Oscar nominations.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Ghosts of the Abyss is James Cameron's 2003 IMAX 3D documentary about his 2001 return to the Titanic wreck aboard the Keldysh, with Bill Paxton, Sony-Pace 3D cameras, and the ROVs Jake and Elwood.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) is Peter Webber's feature debut drama, adapted from Tracy Chevalier's novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as maid Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer in 17th-century Delft.
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night, and Good Luck. is George Clooney's 2005 black-and-white drama, co-written with Grant Heslov, about Edward R. Murrow's CBS showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy; six Oscar nominations, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 2025 five-time Tony-nominated Broadway adaptation.
Hanging Garden (空中庭園)
Hanging Garden (空中庭園, Kūchū Teien) is a 2005 Japanese family drama by director Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Mitsuyo Kakuta's award-winning novel, starring Kyoko Koizumi as a mother whose no-secrets family rule collapses.
In America (film)
In America is Jim Sheridan's 2002 semiautobiographical drama about an Irish family settling in Hell's Kitchen, New York, co-written with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, and Djimon Hounsou, with three Oscar nominations.
Iris (2001 film)
Iris (2001) is Richard Eyre's biographical drama about novelist Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Bonneville; Broadbent won the 2002 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Juana la Loca (2001 film)
Juana la Loca (Mad Love) is Vicente Aranda's 2001 Spain-Italy-Portugal historical drama starring Pilar López de Ayala as Juana I of Castilla and Daniele Liotti as Felipe el Hermoso; it won her a Silver Shell and a Goya and was Spain's Oscar entry.