Top 10 Films of 2000
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1. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,323,602 | Gross: $25.54M
2. Finding Forrester (2000)
PG-13 | 136 min | Drama
Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin
Votes: 89,597 | Gross: $66.40M
3. The Tao of Steve (2000)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Director: Jenniphr Goodman | Stars: Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, John Harrington Bland
Votes: 7,786 | Gross: $4.34M
4. Girlfight (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sport
Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Douglas Santiago, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon
Votes: 11,383 | Gross: $1.52M
5. Panic (2000)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Alex, a hit man, tries to get out of the family business, but his father won't let him do so. While seeking the help of a therapist, he meets a sexually charged 23-year-old woman with whom he falls in love.
Director: Henry Bromell | Stars: William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, John Ritter, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 9,045 | Gross: $0.78M
6. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,891 | Gross: $22.00M
7. Gladiator (2000)
R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
Votes: 1,621,278 | Gross: $187.71M
8. The Way of the Gun (2000)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother carrying a baby for a powerful, shady man.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs
Votes: 35,235 | Gross: $6.06M
9. Time and Tide (2000)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He befriends a disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life anew. They find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, but their partnership can't last.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Candy Lo, Cathy Tsui
Votes: 5,127 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Frequency (2000)
PG-13 | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell
Votes: 115,795 | Gross: $45.01M
11. Seven Days to Live (2000)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving woman suffers terrifying visions of her own demise after she and her husband move into a country mansion.
Director: Sebastian Niemann | Stars: Nick Brimble, Zdenek Maryska, Rich Gold, Renee Ackermann
Votes: 2,168
12. Groove (2000)
R | 86 min | Drama, Music
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Director: Greg Harrison | Stars: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Elizabeth Sun, Steve Van Wormer
Votes: 4,528 | Gross: $1.11M
13. Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Come inside for a look behind-the-scenes at the world of an aspiring actress on the verge of stardom. Follow her journey from obscurity to fame, the hilarious tale of one New Yorker who will do whatever it takes to make it to the big time.
Director: Griffin Dunne | Stars: Laura Kirk, Nat DeWolf, Griffin Dunne, Daniel London
Votes: 626 | Gross: $0.11M
14. The Monkey's Mask (2000)
R | 93 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
Director: Samantha Lang | Stars: Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis, Abbie Cornish, Brendan Cowell
Votes: 1,645 | Gross: $0.05M
15. Other Voices (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
This stylized turn-of-the-millennium thriller follows troubled couple Phil and Anna, each suspecting the other of infidelity, as they try to keep their paranoia and distrust from further fracturing the strange world around them.
Director: Dan McCormack | Stars: David Aaron Baker, Mary McCormack, Stockard Channing, Campbell Scott
Votes: 301
16. Tully (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
Tully can get any girl he wants and often does every night - until he meets the new girl, Ella - who reveals something within him and his family they've long buried.
Director: Hilary Birmingham | Stars: Glenn Fitzgerald, Anson Mount, Bob Burrus, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.43M
17. Fallen Arches (2000)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Transplanted from New York, Duke and his brother Frankie Romano live in a rundown LA apartment with their alcoholic mother (Karen Black).
Director: Ron Cosentino | Stars: Carmine Giovinazzo, Louis Ferreira, Karen Black, Peter Onorati
Votes: 109
18. Rave (2000)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Kids go to a rave and not all of them make it home the next day.
Director: Ron Krauss | Stars: Douglas Spain, Aimee Graham, Nicholle Tom, Dante Basco
Votes: 193
19. One Week (2000)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A soon-to-be groom learns that he may have contracted HIV. Waiting a full seven days for the test results turns out to be the most hectic week of his life.
Director: Carl Seaton | Stars: Kenny Young, Saadiqa Muhammad, Eric Lane, Milauna Jackson
Votes: 272 | Gross: $0.24M
20. Complicity (2000)
R | 99 min | Thriller, Drama
Cameron Colley is a young scottish journalist, with an interest in exposing the wrongs committed by the rich and powerful. Life is comfortable enough but uneventful, until someone starts murdering the people in his articles.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, Keeley Hawes, Paul Higgins
Votes: 927
21. Red Dirt (2000)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Red Dirt offers the story of a young man's search to belong in this sublime expression of love and reconciliation. At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring... See full summary »
Director: Tag Purvis | Stars: Dan Montgomery Jr., Aleksa Palladino, Karen Black, Peg O'Keef
Votes: 1,022
22. Boiler Room (2000)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
Director: Ben Younger | Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt
Votes: 56,465 | Gross: $16.94M
23. The Captive (2000)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 1,959
24. Animal Factory (2000)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Director: Steve Buscemi | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 14,650 | Gross: $0.04M
25. Brooklyn Sonnet (2000)
R | 95 min | Drama, Action
A young man must decide between a life on the streets and a career in the theater.
Director: Elyse Lewin | Stars: Jim Stanek, Kerry Butler, Philip Bosco, Joseph Lyle Taylor
Votes: 120
26. Under Hellgate Bridge (1999)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being falsely imprisoned Ryan looks up his old girlfriend Carla who set him up. Carla is now married to Vincent who is Ryan's old nemesis and old vendettas resurface.
Director: Michael Sergio | Stars: Michael Rodrick, Jonathan LaPaglia, Frank Vincent, Jordan Bayne
Votes: 330 | Gross: $0.03M
27. Gangster No. 1 (2000)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 14,545 | Gross: $0.03M
28. Cement (2000)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's ... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Pasdar | Stars: Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Anthony DeSando, Sherilyn Fenn
Votes: 657
29. Once in the Life (2000)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama
Street hustler Mike cooks up a drug rip-off with his estranged half-brother Torch. Simple robbery turns fatal bloodbath, so they hide out in a claustrophobic rat hole waiting for Mike's buddy Tony, who's "out of the life," or so he says.
Director: Laurence Fishburne | Stars: Eamonn Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Gregory Hines, Michael Paul Chan
Votes: 804 | Gross: $0.05M
30. Clean and Narrow (2000)
R | 82 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.
Director: William Katt | Stars: Jack Noseworthy, Laura Leighton, Jackie Belvin, Wings Hauser
Votes: 178
31. Double Parked (2000)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
Director: Stephen Kinsella | Stars: Callie Thorne, Bill Sage, Noah Fleiss, Rufus Read
Votes: 195
32. Stardom (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Comedy
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Jessica Paré, Victoria Snow, Jessica Mackenzie, Macha Grenon
Votes: 1,800 | Gross: $0.08M
33. The Stonecutter (2000)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A heart-hardened son returns home to keep a promise to his dying father, a master stonecutter. This story touches a universal chord as it explores the passing on of an artistic legacy in spite of the dark shadows of an unresolved past.
Director: Stephen Erickson | Stars: Michael Cavalieri, Trisha Melynkov, Harold Cannon, Karin Argoud
Votes: 15
34. Small Time Crooks (2000)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, Carolyn Saxon
Votes: 40,667 | Gross: $17.07M
35. Lakeboat (2000)
R | 98 min | Drama
Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.
Director: Joe Mantegna | Stars: Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster
Votes: 748
36. Catch a Falling Star (2000 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sydney Clarke is a spoiled famous actress who is shooting a film when she suddenly gets angry and storms off. She wakes up in the middle of nowhere and gets a ride to a small New England ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Sela Ward, Rebecca Jenkins, Andrew Jackson, Jane Curtin
Votes: 558
37. Chinese Coffee (2000)
R | 99 min | Drama
Harry and Jake, two unsuccessful writers, spend a cathartic evening arguing about money, aesthetics, their friendship, and Harry's new manuscript.
Director: Al Pacino | Stars: Al Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd, Ellen McElduff
Votes: 4,637
38. Attraction (2000)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
Director: Russell DeGrazier | Stars: Samantha Mathis, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Settle, Tom Everett Scott
Votes: 799
39. Other Voices (2000)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
This stylized turn-of-the-millennium thriller follows troubled couple Phil and Anna, each suspecting the other of infidelity, as they try to keep their paranoia and distrust from further fracturing the strange world around them.
Director: Dan McCormack | Stars: David Aaron Baker, Mary McCormack, Stockard Channing, Campbell Scott
Votes: 301
40. Retiring Tatiana (2000)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy
A thirty-something avowed bachelor from Los Angeles invites a jazz singer that he is barely acquainted with, to accompany him to Detroit for his father's retirement celebration.
Director: Thom Steinhoff | Stars: Tony Winters, Nikki Crawford, Kellita Smith, Kymberly Newberry
Votes: 31
41. A Question of Faith (2000)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.
Director: Tim Disney | Stars: Bernard Hill, Paul Guilfoyle, Daniel von Bargen, Naveen Andrews
Votes: 85 | Gross: $0.02M
42. We All Fall Down (2000)
92 min | Biography, Drama
Caught in the jagged downtown world of drugs, prostitutes and violence, three young artists lead tumultuous lives in desperate need of an overhaul. Relationships stumble as careers take ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Cummins | Stars: Darcy Belsher, Martin Cummins, Françoise Robertson, Helen Shaver
Votes: 236
43. Tick Tock (2000)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy man becomes suspicious of his younger wife and hires a private detective in time to thwart her plans to have him killed.
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Megan Ward, Kristin Minter, Linden Ashby, John Ratzenberger
Votes: 886
44. Maze (2000)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An artist with Tourette Syndrome falls in love with his best friend's pregnant girlfriend.
Director: Rob Morrow | Stars: Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, Craig Sheffer, Rose Gregorio
Votes: 923 | Gross: $0.02M
45. Boxes (2000)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A businessman begins to realize that his whole life is made out of metaphorical and literal boxes.
Director: René Besson | Stars: Jimmy Vollman, John Bagdasarian, Robert Berson, Don Danielson
Votes: 44
46. Now Chinatown (2000)
112 min | Drama, Romance
Lee's family sent her from China to Los Angeles three years ago to be a waitress in a Chinatown restaurant and send money home to support her ailing grandmother. She lives with her bitter ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Dunning | Stars: Lianne X. Hu, Steve Dunning, Denise Ames, Dana Byrne
Votes: 82
47. Train Ride (2000)
R | 93 min | Drama
What started out as an innocent night of fun and games with upperclassmen and younger freshman college women turns into lies betrayal and an ultimate journey on the train ride
Director: Rel Dowdell | Stars: Dakota Anderson, Thomas Braxton Jr., Joe Clair, Rel Dowdell
Votes: 278
48. Masquerade (2000 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
After moving to LA, a young woman (Simbi Khali) starts a romance with a man (Cress Williams) she met on the internet. Trouble brews when she discovers that a friend (Kellita Smith) also is attracted to him.
Director: Roy Campanella II | Stars: Simbi Kali, Cress Williams, Kellita Smith, Anna Maria Horsford
Votes: 78
49. Living the Life (2000)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Two childhood friends, now in a street gang, look to their dancing ability as a way out.
Director: Alex Munoz | Stars: Katrina Gibson, Jay Hernandez, Melida Prado, Yvette Cruise
Votes: 142
50. The Poor & Hungry (2000)
118 min | Drama
A Memphis car thief falls in love with one of his victims, an attractive cellist.
Director: Craig Brewer | Stars: Eric Tate, Lindsey Roberts, Lake Latimer, John Still
Votes: 240
51. Astoria (2000)
R | 103 min | Drama
In Queens, NY, aka "Little Athens," a blue-collar Greek-American family struggle to hold on to the American Dream. Follow the journey of 28-year-old Alex and his desire to escape his urban hometown to pursue an off-beat dream.
Director: Nick Efteriades | Stars: Rick Stear, Ed Setrakian, Joseph D'Onofrio, Paige Turco
Votes: 76 | Gross: $0.04M
52. Urbania (2000)
R | 103 min | Drama
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
Director: Jon Shear | Stars: Dan Futterman, Scott Denny, Paige Turco, Sam Ball
Votes: 3,163 | Gross: $1.03M
53. Everything Put Together (2000)
R | 87 min | Drama
The story of a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends confronted with the tragedy of a big loss.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jacqueline Heinze
Votes: 815
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