Movies Released in 2001

Zoolander

📅 Release: September 28, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy...

The Piano Teacher

📅 Release: September 5, 2001

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

Sex And Lucía

📅 Release: August 24, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship....

American Pie 2

📅 Release: August 10, 2001

📖 Synopsis: After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations an...

Session 9

📅 Release: August 10, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

The Princess Diaries

📅 Release: August 3, 2001

📖 Synopsis: A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice betw...

Rush Hour 2

📅 Release: August 3, 2001

📖 Synopsis: It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get com...

The Others

📅 Release: August 2, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Grace is a 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 disturbin...

Higher Ed

📅 Release: August 1, 2001

🎭 Genre: Comedy

🎬 Starring: Pras Michel, Aries Spears, Hill Harper, Leila Arcieri, Clay Chappell, Brendan Connor, Sevier Crespo, Garry Guerrier, Grant McKaskle

📖 Synopsis:

Ed (Pras Michel) is an inner-city kid who enters college on a track scholarship to escape some thugs from his drug-dealing past. Campus life, however, is filled with hurdles, and Ed's stoner roommate, Bud (Aries Spears), makes it hard not to fall back on old habits. Fortunatel...

Legally Blonde

📅 Release: July 13, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figure...

Scary Movie 2

📅 Release: July 4, 2001

📖 Synopsis: While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue....

Cats & Dogs

📅 Release: July 4, 2001

📖 Synopsis: When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. Tinkles, squares off against wid...

Jeepers Creepers

📅 Release: July 1, 2001

📖 Synopsis: 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.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

📅 Release: June 29, 2001

📖 Synopsis: David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David....

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

📅 Release: June 15, 2001

📖 Synopsis: Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the...

Y Tu Mamá También

📅 Release: June 8, 2001

📖 Synopsis: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Mulholland Drive

📅 Release: June 6, 2001

📖 Synopsis: 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....

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

📅 Release: June 2, 2001

📖 Synopsis: A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.

Pearl Harbor

📅 Release: May 21, 2001

📖 Synopsis: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold whe...

Shrek

📅 Release: May 18, 2001

📖 Synopsis: It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey....