The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible 2. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor (Russell Crowe).
Dinosaur was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success.
2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series X-Men, Final Destination, Scary Movie, and Meet the Parents.
Among the films based on TV shows are Mission: Impossible 2, Traffic, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Charlie's Angels, Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and Thomas and the Magic Railroad.
The most acclaimed films of the year are Gladiator, Traffic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, American Psycho, Almost Famous and Erin Brockovich.
The top films released in 2000 by worldwide gross are as follows:
Chicken Run became the highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever.
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas's opening weekend, became the highest debut for a Christmas-themed film.
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A Better Way to Die
Across the Line, starring Brad Johnson
Adventures in Wild California
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, starring Rene Russo, Jason Alexander and Robert De Niro
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
All the Pretty Horses, directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz
Almost Famous, directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, Anna Paquin, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Frances McDormand
American Psycho, directed by Mary Harron, starring Christian Bale, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto and Willem Dafoe
Amores perros (Love's a Bitch), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, starring Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal and Adriana Barraza
Adanggaman
Animal Factory, directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold and Mickey Rourke
The Art of War, starring Wesley Snipes
Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder
B
Baise-moi, directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi
Bait, starring Jamie Foxx
Baller Blockin
Bang Rajan - the highest-grossing film in Thai film history
Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker — Winner of 9 Razzie Awards including worst film of the decade (awarded in 2010)
Battle Royale, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, starring Takeshi Kitano
The Beach, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton and Robert Carlyle
Beautiful, directed by Sally Field, starring Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams and Kathleen Turner
Bedazzled, directed by Harold Ramis, starring Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley and Frances O'Connor
Before Night Falls, directed by Julian Schnabel, starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp and Sean Bean
The Bench (Bænken), directed by Per Fly
Best in Show, directed by and starring Christopher Guest, with Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Jane Lynch and Parker Posey
Big Momma's House, starring Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Terrence Howard and Paul Giamatti
Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Jamie Bell and Julie Walters
Blue's Big Musical Movie
Boiler Room, starring Vin Diesel and Giovanni Ribisi
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, directed by Joe Berlinger
Bootmen, starring Adam Garcia and Sam Worthington
A Boy Named Sue
Bounce, starring Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow
Boys and Girls
Bring it On, directed by Peyton Reed, starring Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and Eliza Dushku
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, starring Timothy Olyphant, Zach Braff, John Mahoney, Nia Long and Mary McCormack
Brother, directed by Takeshi Kitano
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La Captive, directed by Chantal Akerman
Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt
Cecil B. Demented, directed by John Waters, starring Melanie Griffith and Stephen Dorff
The Cell, directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn
Center Stage
The Chaos Factor, starring Antonio Sabàto Jr., Fred Ward, Kelly Rutherford, R. Lee Ermey
Charlie's Angels, directed by McG starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu and Bill Murray
Chicken Run, directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park with the voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Timothy Spall and Miranda Richardson
Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina and Judi Dench
Chopper, starring Eric Bana
The Circle (دایره), directed by Jafar Panahi
Circus, starring John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Fred Ward, Peter Stormare, Tiny Lister, Amanda Donohoe, Eddie Izzard
The Claim, directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Sarah Polley, Peter Mullan and Nastassja Kinski
Code Unknown, directed by Michael Haneke, starring Juliette Binoche
Coming Out
La comunidad, starring Carmen Maura
The Contender, starring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Gary Oldman and Christian Slater
Coyote Ugly, starring Piper Perabo, Maria Bello, Tyra Banks and John Goodman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee, starring Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi
The Crow: Salvation, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Fred Ward
D
Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, starring Björk, Peter Stormare and David Morse
The Day I Became a Woman
Devils on the Doorstep (鬼子來了), directed by Jiang Wen
Digimon: The Movie
Dinosaur, directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton with the voices of D. B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis and Samuel E. Wright
Ditto
Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat)
Djomeh
Down to You, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles
Dr. T & the Women, directed by Robert Altman, starring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler
Dude, Where's My Car?, starring Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott and Jennifer Garner
Duets, directed by Bruce Paltrow, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Maria Bello, Paul Giamatti and Huey Lewis
Dungeons & Dragons, starring Jeremy Irons, Thora Birch and Marlon Wayans
Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler and Christopher Plummer
Durian Durian (榴槤飄飄), directed by Fruit Chan
E-F
El Bola (Pellet)
The Emperor's New Groove, directed by Mark Dindal with the voices of David Spade and John Goodman
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart and Albert Finney
Escaflowne: The Movie
VeggieTales: Esther, the Girl Who Would Be Queen
An Everlasting Piece, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Barry McEvoy and Billy Connolly
Faat Kiné, directed by Ousmane Sembène
Face (顔)
The Family Man, directed by Brett Ratner, starring Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni and Don Cheadle
Final Destination, directed by James Wong, starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter and Seann William Scott
Finding Forrester, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Connery, Rob Brown, Anna Paquin and F. Murray Abraham
For All Time
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy García
Forbidden Fruit
The Foul King (반칙왕), directed by Kim Jee-woon
Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid
G
Gangster No. 1, starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany and David Thewlis
Get Carter, directed by Stephen Kay, starring Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Mickey Rourke and Michael Caine
The Gift, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank, Greg Kinnear and Keanu Reeves
Ginger Snaps
The Girl
Girlfight, starring Michelle Rodriguez
Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Golden Bowl, The
Gone in 60 Seconds, directed by Dominic Sena, starring Nicolas Cage, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Duvall and Angelina Jolie
Gossip, starring James Marsden
Greenfingers, starring Clive Owen and Helen Mirren
Gun Shy, starring Liam Neeson
H
Hanging Up, starring Diane Keaton and Meg Ryan
Happy Accidents
Happy Times
Here on Earth, starring Chris Klein and Josh Hartnett
High Fidelity, directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lisa Bonet Joan Cusack and Jack Black
Highlander: Endgame, starring Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert
Hollow Man, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, and Josh Brolin
The House of Mirth, directed by Terence Davies, starring Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney and Dan Aykroyd
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, directed by Ron Howard, starring Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon and Taylor Momsen
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright
Help! I'm a Fish
J-K
Il Mare
In the Mood for Love, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung
The Irrefutable Truth about Demons
The Isle
Italian for Beginners, directed by Lone Scherfig
Ivans Xtc, directed by Bernard Rose, starring Danny Huston and Peter Weller
Joint Security Area (Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok), directed by Park Chan-wook
Keeping the Faith, directed by and starring Edward Norton, with Ben Stiller and Jenna Elfman
The Kid, starring Bruce Willis, Lily Tomlin and Spencer Breslin
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang), starring Stellan Skarsgård and Martine McCutcheon
VeggieTales: King George and the Ducky
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The Last Producer, directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, with Rod Steiger and Ann-Margret
The Legend of Bagger Vance, directed by Robert Redford, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron and Jack Lemmon
Little Nicky, directed by Steven Brill, starring Adam Sandler, Rhys Ifans, Harvey Keitel, Patricia Arquette and Rodney Dangerfield
The Little Vampire, starring Jonathan Lipnicki and Richard E. Grant
Longshot
Loser, directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Dan Aykroyd and Greg Kinnear
Love's Labour's Lost, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Alicia Silverstone, Emily Mortimer, Natascha McElhone and Nathan Lane
Love & Basketball, starring Omar Epps
M
Maryam
Me, Myself & Irene, directed by the Farrelly brothers, starring Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger
Meet the Parents, directed by Jay Roach, starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson
Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano
Men of Honor, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr.
Mercy Streets, starring Eric Roberts
The Million Dollar Hotel, directed by Wim Wenders, starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, and Mel Gibson
Miss Congeniality, starring Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine and William Shatner
Mission: Impossible 2, directed by John Woo, starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton and Anthony Hopkins
Mission to Mars, directed Brian De Palma, starring Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise
Mr. Accident
My Dog Skip, starring Diane Lane and Kevin Bacon
N-O
The New Country
The Next Best Thing, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Madonna, Rupert Everett and Neil Patrick Harris
Next Friday, starring Ice Cube
No Quarto da Vanda (Portugal)
Nothin' 2 Lose
Nurse Betty, directed by Neil LaBute, starring Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring George Clooney, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and John Goodman
The Original Kings of Comedy, documentary directed by Spike Lee, starring Steve Harvey, D. L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac
Our Song, starring Kerry Washington
P-Q
Panic, starring William H. Macy
The Patriot, directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger
Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment
Peppermint Candy, directed by Lee Chang-dong
The Perfect Storm, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring George Clooney, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane and Mark Wahlberg
Pitch Black, directed by David Twohy, starring Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell and Keith David
Pokémon: The Movie 2000
Pollock, directed by and starring Ed Harris, with Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly and Val Kilmer
The Price of Milk, starring Karl Urban
Prince of Central Park, starring Kathleen Turner
Princes et princesses
Proof of Life, directed by Taylor Hackford, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan
Psycho Beach Party, starring Lauren Ambrose
Purely Belter, directed by Mark Herman
Quills, directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine and Joaquin Phoenix
R
Ready to Rumble, starring David Arquette
Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss
Relative Values, starring Julie Andrews and Colin Firth
Remember the Titans, starring Denzel Washington
The Replacements, starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman
Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jennifer Connelly, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald and Ellen Burstyn
Return to Me, starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver
The Road to El Dorado, directed by Bibo Bergeron and Don Paul with the voices of Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline
Road Trip, directed by Todd Phillips, starring Breckin Meyer, Amy Smart, Tom Green, Fred Ward and Seann William Scott
Le Roi Danse (The King is Dancing)
Romeo Must Die, starring Jet Li and Aaliyah
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
Rules of Engagement, directed by William Friedkin, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley
S
Sade
Saving Grace, starring Brenda Blethyn, Martin Clunes, Bill Bailey and Craig Ferguson
Scary Movie, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans
Scream 3, directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Patrick Dempsey and Courteney Cox
Seventeen Again, starring Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry
Sexy Beast, directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ian McShane and Ben Kingsley
Shadow of the Vampire, starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe and Eddie Izzard
Shaft, directed by John Singleton, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Bale, Jeffrey Wright and Richard Roundtree
Shanghai Noon, starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson
The Skulls
Small Time Crooks, directed by and starring Woody Allen, co-starring Tracey Ullman, Jon Lovitz and Hugh Grant
The Smokers
Snatch, directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Jason Statham and Dennis Farina
Some Voices
Songcatcher, starring Janet McTeer
Souls Protest
Space Cowboys, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner
The Specials, starring Thomas Haden Church and Rob Lowe
Subconscious Cruelty
Supernova, directed by Walter Hill, starring James Spader and Angela Bassett
T
The Tao of Steve, starring Donal Logue
Terror Tract
Thirteen Days, starring Kevin Costner and Bruce Greenwood (as John F. Kennedy)
The Three Stooges
Tigerland, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Colin Farrell
Time of Favor
Thomas and the Magic Railroad, directed by Britt Allcroft, starring Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Didi Conn, Mara Wilson and Thomas the Tank Engine
The Tigger Movie
Timecode, directed by Mike Figgis, Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kyle MacLachlan, Saffron Burrows and Holly Hunter
Titan A.E., directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman with the voices of Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Nathan Lane and Bill Pullman
Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Dennis Quaid and Benicio del Toro — Winner of 4 Academy Awards & 2 Golden Globes
Tripfall
Turn It Up
U-V
U-571, directed by Jonathan Mostow, starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Jon Bon Jovi and Harvey Keitel
Unbreakable, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and Robin Wright
Up at the Villa, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne Bancroft and Sean Penn
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Vatel, directed by Roland Joffé, starring Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman and Tim Roth
Vertical Limit, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton and Robin Tunney
The Visit
W
The Watcher, starring James Spader and Keanu Reeves
The Way of the Gun, directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, and James Caan
Whipped, starring Amanda Peet
Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes and Robert Downey Jr.
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What Lies Beneath, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford
What Women Want, directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei and Alan Alda
What Planet Are You From?, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman, Greg Kinnear, Linda Fiorentino and Ben Kingsley
The Whole Nine Yards, directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet and Michael Clarke Duncan
X-Z
X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer, starring Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin and Ian McKellen
Yi Yi, directed by Edward Yang
John Cena - Ready to Rumble
Michael Cera - Frequency
Paul Dano - The Newcomers
Chris Evans - The Newcomers
Topher Grace - Traffic
Jon Hamm - Space Cowboys
Josh Peck - The Newcomers
Chris Pratt - Cursed Part 3
Michelle Rodriguez - Girlfight
Zoe Saldana - Center Stage
Kristen Stewart - The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Amber Valletta - Drop Back Ten
Kerry Washington - Our Song
Sam Worthington - Bootmen
