2001-2005 Top 50 Popular Movies, a list by dom837

9.0

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88

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84

/25842/

4.5

/1926836/

94

/279/

86

/2050091/

94

/41/

3.5

age 11+

As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

87

8.8

/1929546/

87

/53331/

84

/23266/

4.4

/1885599/

95

/258/

95

/72895/

87

/39/

3.0

age 11+

Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.

87

IMDb 64

8.9

/2174366/

87

/63890/

84

/26809/

4.4

/2531333/

91

/235/

95

/80557/

92

/34/

3.0

age 11+

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.

87

8.2

/1192976/

81

/44271/

78

/20170/

4.0

/2132468/

99

/266/

86

/1434748/

90

/38/

4.0

age 5+

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.

86

8.3

/1167607/

82

/27927/

80

/15933/

4.2

/3112609/

93

/256/

94

/46679/

89

/41/

3.5

age 16+

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

86

8.0

/26019/

79

/611/

77

/291/

4.0

/19000/

96

/141/

93

/1006/

87

/36/

4.0

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

85

8.1

/759885/

80

/13478/

79

/10115/

4.0

/430761/

90

/268/

90

/15860/

86

/39/

4.0

age 14+

Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.

85

7.9

/799742/

79

/36865/

78

/18271/

4.1

/2392470/

88

/212/

90

/84689/

84

/34/

4.0

age 6+

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.

84

7.9

/516773/

77

/10401/

77

/7211/

3.9

/452275/

89

/203/

89

/7570/

84

/42/

4.0

age 17+

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

84

7.7

/66739/

75

/1795/

75

/916/

4.1

/129225/

93

/147/

85

/3212/

87

/35/

4.0

age 16+

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

84

7.9

/421479/

76

/10734/

78

/6802/

4.3

/1090053/

84

/264/

87

/10340/

87

/38/

4.0

age 18+

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.

84

8.6

/20430/

83

/498/

80

/323/

4.1

/9495/

92

/364/

Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit.

84

7.7

/522410/

75

/13717/

73

/7820/

3.8

/1316459/

95

/234/

85

/22275/

91

/44/

4.0

age 16+

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

84

8.0

/859302/

80

/25078/

79

/14703/

4.1

/1501858/

84

/247/

89

/30858/

83

/41/

4.0

age 18+

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.

83

8.2

/1691726/

81

/49554/

77

/22126/

3.8

/1861219/

85

/285/

94

/66667/

70

/41/

4.0

age 13+

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

83

7.5

/215628/

72

/3418/

71

/1815/

3.8

/174024/

97

/230/

79

/10798/

94

/42/

4.0

age 17+

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

83

7.7

/212597/

75

/4797/

73

/2682/

4.1

/296348/

90

/208/

85

/8477/

83

/40/

4.0

age 16+

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.

83

7.7

/412137/

76

/9289/

77

/7383/

4.2

/1315606/

88

/262/

82

/27141/

87

/41/

4.0

age 15+

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

83

8.0

/886825/

80

/41289/

77

/18526/

4.1

/2100830/

97

/248/

75

/1099153/

90

/41/

3.5

age 7+

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

82

8.2

/1288274/

81

/34338/

80

/18454/

4.2

/2745489/

85

/238/

81

/1050705/

69

/43/

4.0

age 18+

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

82

8.2

/1044417/

81

/21555/

78

/10805/

3.9

/569523/

74

/214/

93

/20845/

72

/33/

4.0

age 14+

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. His life takes a nightmarish turn and he soon finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.

82

8.1

/1060178/

81

/41732/

78

/19351/

4.1

/1974633/

96

/190/

90

/65706/

79

/35/

3.0

age 5+

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

82

7.4

/54396/

71

/863/

71

/518/

3.8

/36630/

94

/185/

86

/2157/

90

/42/

4.0

age 15+

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

82

7.6

/69174/

76

/1588/

75

/918/

3.9

/72850/

81

/144/

87

/4568/

85

/32/

4.0

age 17+

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

81

7.6

/28461/

72

/844/

71

/351/

3.6

/20468/

97

/152/

88

/678/

90

/39/

3.5

age 17+

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.

81

7.4

/44110/

70

/659/

69

/388/

3.9

/26685/

93

/141/

81

/1066/

86

/31/

4.0

age 16+

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.

81

7.6

/615694/

76

/21820/

74

/9333/

3.8

/493497/

89

/262/

80

/16815/

80

/37/

4.0

age 15+

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

81

7.7

/38939/

77

/1031/

74

/411/

4.1

/68401/

92

/117/

93

/3140/

85

/29/

3.0

age 15+

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.

81

7.5

/21081/

76

/1135/

71

/288/

3.7

/16115/

97

/117/

87

/982/

82

/37/

3.5

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

81

7.6

/78482/

74

/1546/

73

/744/

3.8

/45146/

94

/159/

89

/2032/

81

/36/

3.5

age 16+

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

81

7.6

/83643/

76

/2064/

77

/1212/

4.2

/513347/

86

/116/

89

/2800/

74

/32/

3.5

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

81

7.4

/104644/

73

/1889/

71

/1064/

3.7

/47970/

93

/226/

83

/4959/

80

/41/

4.0

age 13+

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

80

7.6

/329993/

75

/7967/

74

/4830/

4.1

/893702/

81

/219/

89

/14399/

76

/34/

3.5

age 17+

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

80

7.7

/450168/

78

/13597/

74

/6160/

3.7

/247933/

77

/172/

88

/18043/

74

/33/

4.0

age 17+

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

80

8.0

/17309/

79

/474/

79

/289/

3.6

/8163/

93

/598/

age 15+

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

80

8.0

/151928/

74

/3523/

75

/1638/

3.9

/93495/

95

/172/

83

/6983/

72

/32/

3.5

age 17+

This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

80

7.7

/164043/

77

/3793/

74

/2127/

3.8

/90980/

79

/203/

87

/7334/

73

/40/

4.0

age 15+

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

80

7.5

/252844/

75

/6496/

71

/3395/

4.0

/173321/

85

/227/

80

/5392/

81

/42/

4.0

age 13+

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

79

7.5

/403523/

73

/8524/

72

/5660/

3.8

/318729/

86

/227/

79

/7991/

77

/41/

4.0

age 16+

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

79

7.2

/101114/

69

/1958/

68

/1182/

3.7

/91057/

87

/163/

78

/2472/

90

/34/

4.0

age 15+

In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

79

7.2

/254689/

74

/5505/

71

/2815/

4.0

/437545/

87

/260/

83

/17473/

81

/39/

3.5

age 14+

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

79

8.0

/207675/

78

/3877/

75

/2331/

3.8

/85332/

80

/209/

91

/9021/

69

/40/

3.5

age 14+

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

79

7.2

/18692/

69

/315/

68

/244/

3.8

/4698/

95

/106/

91

/1029/

78

/32/

3.5

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.

79

7.6

/12625/

76

/305/

74

/115/

3.8

/6736/

97

/137/

83

/706/

3.0

age 8+

This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.

79

7.9

/10037/

78

/195/

78

/167/

3.8

/2705/

77

/87/

90

/470/

66

/33/

3.5

age 17+

Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.

79

7.3

/51255/

70

/790/

70

/655/

3.8

/45031/

87

/222/

79

/1099/

84

/37/

4.0

age 16+

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

79

7.5

/156359/

73

/5022/

71

/2991/

3.9

/316384/

95

/182/

79

/385428/

87

/38/

age 7+

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

79

7.8

/278689/

77

/5985/

75

/3038/

3.8

/218403/

83

/208/

90

/27741/

72

/39/