Best Movies of 2002

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Best Movies of 2002
Best Movies of 2002
TOP Movies: The Pianist (2002), Adaptation. (2002), Road to Perdition (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), Minority Report (2002), Chicago (2002), 28 Days Later (2002), Frida (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), 8 Mile (2002), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), A Walk to Remember (2002), Ice Age (2002), Lilo & Stitch (2002), About Schmidt (2002), 25th Hour (2002), The Ring (2002), Secretary (2002), Signs (2002).
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 8.5
 904K
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, harsh, bleak, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, pianist, nazi occupation, hunger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, persia ...
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 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
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Road to Perdition (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style: harsh, atmospheric, visually stunning, bleak, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, vengeance, organized crime, hitman, criminal's revenge, violence, revenge, road trip, murder, on the road, on the run, assassin ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, persia, michigan
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style: clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: con artists, adaptation, master criminal, prodigy, creativity, fbi, con men, deception, entrepreneur, biopic, chase, race against time ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 70s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, new orleans, los angeles, georgia, america ...
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, youth, party, fraternity, student life, high school, college life, coming of age, rich snob, flirting, sex ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 581K
Minority Report (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: 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.
Style: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, frame up, law enforcer, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, distant future, year 2002 ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
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 7.2
 242K
Chicago (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexy, stylized, colorful, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: prison, broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, legal, jail, lawyer, jazz, musician, music, flapper, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, dark fantasy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, creature, wizard, teacher, supernatural, youth, chosen one ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place: london, england, europe
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 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
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 7.3
 95K
Frida (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: 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.
Style: epic, atmospheric, exciting, captivating, dark fantasy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, manly ...
Plot: sword fight, wizard, magic, fantasy world, friendship, magical, monster, mission, creature, sword and sorcery, mythology, good versus evil ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: iran
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story: It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style: epic, rough, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, gang, gangster, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, racism, crime boss, betrayal, violent, courage, gang war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, edwardian era, 50s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Ten years after the invasion of Naboo, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Under the leadership of a renegade Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands of solar systems threaten to break away from the Galactic Republic. When an assassination attempt is ...
Style: saga, futuristic, epic, exciting, light ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: star wars, space opera, intergalactic, robot, alien, fantasy world, space travel, sword fight, jedi, space wars, clone, space ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, future, year 2016, year 2002
Place: space western
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 7.2
 318K
8 Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style: inspirational, serious, realistic, harsh, hood ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: hip hop, underdog, music, follow your dream, rap, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, musician, rapper, poverty, street gang ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, y2k, 2000s, year 1995 ...
Place: detroit, michigan, america, los angeles, usa
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
Style: surreal, romantic, dark comedy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: true love, depression, shyness, asperger's syndrome, brother sister relationship, mental illness, love and romance, insanity, eccentricity, complex characters, love story, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, los angeles, california, utah, usa
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A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
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 7.5
 515K
Ice Age (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. ...
Style: feel good, road movie, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: ice age, unlikely friendships, good versus evil, friendship, heroic mission, life risking, odd couple, talking animal, heroes, friends, bonding, animal life ...
Time: prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, year 2002, 20th century ...
Place: antarctic
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 7.3
 210K
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A lonely Hawaiian girl named Lilo is being raised by her older sister, Nani, after their parents die -- under the watch of social worker Cobra Bubbles. When Lilo adopts a funny-looking dog and names him "Stitch," she doesn't realize ...
Style: humorous, feel good, entertaining, touching, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, date night ...
Plot: alien, adoption, friendship, orphan, benign alien, space and aliens, unlikely friendships, sisters, experiment, heroes, self sacrifice, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
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 7.2
 133K
About Schmidt (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style: road movie, depressing, dark comedy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, parenthood, wedding, elderly, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, great ending, workplace, philosophy ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, colorado, denver colorado, kansas
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 7.6
 184K
25th Hour (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The filmed adaptation from David Benioff's novel of the same name. Set in New York, a convicted drug dealer named Monty has one day left of freedom before he is sent to prison. Anger, blame, frustration, betrayal, guilt and loneliness are ...
Style: depressing, psychological, emotional, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, drug, drug dealer, drug lord, 9/11, betrayal, freedom, redemption, great ending, mistrust, prison ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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 6.9
 98K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, obsession, secretary, fetish, workplace romance, sexual perversion, sex in office, submissive woman, desire, sexual relations, coitus ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.8
 384K
Signs (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style: twist ending, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, survival, faith, end of the world, first contact, loss of faith, macabre, natural disaster ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
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The Bourne Identity (2002)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him ...
Style: political thriller, intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: spy, amnesia, cia, secret agent, secret service, hitman, tough heroes, espionage, one against many, on the run, escape, black ops ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, hamburg germany, greece, europe, langley virginia ...
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 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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 6.2
 401K
Men in Black II (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's ...
Style: light, funny, humorous, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, alien, buddy cop, alien contact, extraterrestrial, hi-tech, top secret, secret agent, space and aliens, fantasy world, undercover ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, year 1978 ...
Place: new york, usa, north america, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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 7.1
 284K
Phone Booth (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, psychopath, sniper, trapped, mind game, murder, dishonesty, hopes, sin, characters in danger, plot twist, claustrophobia ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 143K
John Q (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage ...
Style: suspense, sincere, tear jerker, emotional, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, injustice, hospital, kidnapping, twists and turns, organ donation, fighting the system, father son relationship, medical, society, parent child relationship, insurance ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
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Far from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style: sincere, emotional, stylized, visual, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: racism, gay husband, gay, homosexuality, housewife, infidelity, crumbling marriage, friendship, couples, forbidden love, african american, prejudice ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2002, year 1957 ...
Place: connecticut, usa, miami, new england, baltimore
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