Count Rickula's Best of 2000
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1.
Memento
(2000)
A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (113 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
2.
Battle Royale
(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. (114 mins.)
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
3.
Traffic
(2000)
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business. (147 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
4.
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
(2000)
The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender. (109 mins.)
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
5.
Ginger Snaps
(2000)
Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf. (108 mins.)
Director: John Fawcett
6.
Snatch
(2000)
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. (104 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
7.
Sexy Beast
(2000)
Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them. (89 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Glazer
8.
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000)
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. (107 mins.)
Director: Joel Coen
9.
Gladiator
(2000)
When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. (155 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
10.
Truth About Demons
(2000)
An Anthropologist's life and reality are ripped apart by a Satanic cult. (90 mins.)
Director: Glenn Standring
11.
Wild Zero
(1999)
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies. (98 mins.)
Director: Tetsuro Takeuchi
12.
Best in Show
(2000)
A colorful array of characters compete at a national dog show. (90 mins.)
Director: Christopher Guest
13.
Spiral
(2000)
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals. (90 mins.)
Director: Higuchinsky
14.
Shadow of the Vampire
(2000)
The filming of Nosferatu is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible. (92 mins.)
Director: E. Elias Merhige
15.
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
(2000)
When a girl is abducted by a vampire, a legendary bounty hunter is hired to bring her back. (103 mins.)
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
16.
Dude, Where's My Car?
(2000)
Two potheads wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. (83 mins.)
Director: Danny Leiner
17.
Psycho Beach Party
(2000)
Spoof of 1960s Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films. Florence Forrest, a not-so-innocent girl in 1960s Malibu... (95 mins.)
Director: Robert Lee King
18.
American Psycho
(2000)
A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. (102 mins.)
Director: Mary Harron
19.
Hellraiser: Inferno
(2000 Video)
A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer". (99 mins.)
Director: Scott Derrickson
20.
Frequency
(2000)
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. (118 mins.)
Director: Gregory Hoblit
21.
The Emperor's New Groove
(2000)
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder. (78 mins.)
Director: Mark Dindal
22.
Scrapbook
(2000 Video)
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his "life story" by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims... (95 mins.)
Director: Eric Stanze
23.
The Gift
(2000)
A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared. (112 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
24.
Unbreakable
(2000)
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident. (106 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
25.
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
(2000 Video)
A cosmic case of flying saucers, intergalactic intrigue and out-of-this-world romance launches Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang into their most unearthly adventure ever. (74 mins.)
Director: Jim Stenstrum
26.
Cast Away
(2000)
A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island. (143 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
27.
What Women Want
(2000)
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking. (127 mins.)
Director: Nancy Meyers
28.
Anatomy
(2000)
Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body... (103 mins.)
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
29.
Road Trip
(2000)
Four college buddies embark on a road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a female friend. (93 mins.)
Director: Todd Phillips
30.
Panic
(2000)
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. (88 mins.)
Director: Henry Bromell
31.
With a Friend Like Harry...
(2000)
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn. (117 mins.)
Director: Dominik Moll
32.
Final Destination
(2000)
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one. (98 mins.)
Director: James Wong
33.
What Lies Beneath
(2000)
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind. (130 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
34.
Pitch Black
(2000)
A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur. (109 mins.)
Director: David Twohy
35.
Rape Me
(2000)
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. (77 mins.)
Director: Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi
36.
Another Heaven
(2000)
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the... (132 mins.)
Director: Jôji Iida