Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 2002
13 Moons – Alexandre Rockwell
24 Hour Party People – Michael Winterbottom
The Adventures of Pluto Nash – Ron Underwood
All or Nothing – Mike Lee
Ali G Indahouse – Mark Mylod
Ararat – Atom Egoyan
Amen – Costa-Gavras
Analyze That – Harold Ramis
Assassination Tango – Robert Duvall
Austn Powers in Goldmember – Jay Roach
Baader – Christopher Roth
Bad Company – Joel Schumacher
Back by Midnight – Harry Basil
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever – Wych Kaosayananda
The Banger Sisters – Bob Dolman
Bend it Like Beckham – Gurider Chadha
The Best Day of My Life – Cristina Comencini
Better Luck Tomorrow – Justin Lin
Black and White – Craig Lahiff
Blade II – Guillermo del Toro
Bloody Sunday – Paul Greengrass
Blue Crush – John Stockwell
Brown Sugar – Rick Famuyiwa
Bollywood/Hollywood – Deepa Mehta
Book of Love – Jeffrey W. Wyrd
The Burial Society – Nicholas Racz
Callas Forever – Franco Zeffirelli
Changing Lanes – Rodger Michell
Chinese Odyssey 2002 – Jeffrey Lau
The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) – Tareque Masud
City by the Sea – Michael Caton-Jones
City of Ghosts – Matt Dillon
City of God – Fernando Meirelles / Katia Lund
Collateral Damage – Andrew Davis
Company – Ram Gopal Varma
The Count of Monte Cristo – Kevin Reynolds
The Country Bears – Peter Hastings
El crimen del Padre Amaro – Carlos Carrera
Crossroads – Tamra Davis
Cypher – Vincenzo Natali
The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys – Peter Care
Dark Blue – Ron Shelton
Dark Water – Hideo Nakata
Darkness – Jaume Balaguero
Death to Smoochy – Danny DeVito
Devil’s Playground – Lucy Walker
Deuces Wild – Scott Kalvert
Dirt Deeds – David Ceasar
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Callie Khouri
Divine Intervention – Elia Suleiman
Decalage Horaire – Daniele Thompson
Dog Soldiers – Niel Marshall
Dragonfly – Tom Shadyac
The Emperor’s Club – Michael Hoffman
Enough – Michael Apted
Equilibrium – Kurt Wimmer
Evelyn – Bruce Beresford
Falcons – Friorik Por Frioriksson
FeardotCom – William Malone
Filantropica – Nae Caranfil
Fine Dead Girls – Dalibor Matanic
The Four Feathers – Shekhar Kapur
Frailty – Bill Paxton
Frida – Julie Taymor
FUBAR – Michael Dowse
Gerry – Gus Van Sant
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) – AJ Schnack
Groom Lake – William Shatner
The Guru – Daisy von Scherler Mayer
H – Jong-hyuk Lee
Halloween: Resurrection – Rick Rosenthal
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Chris Columbus
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not – Laetitia Colombani
Hero – Zhang Yimou
High Crimes – Carl Framklin
Highway – James Cox
Historias minimas – Carlos Sorin
The Hot Chick – Tom Brady
House of Fools – Andrei Konchalovsky
Ice Age – Chris Wedge / Carlos Saldanha
Igby Goes Down – Burr Steers
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oliver Parker
In This World – Michael Winterbottom
Imposter – Gary Fleder
Infernal Affairs – Andrew Lau / Siu Fai Mak
Interstate 60 – Bob Gale
Irreversible – Gaspar Noe
Jackass: The Movie – Jeff Tremaine
Jason X – James Isaac
John Q – Nick Cassavetes
K-19: The Widowmaker – Kathryn Bigelow
Ken Park – Larry Clark / Edward Lachman
King of Texas –
The Laramie Project – Moises Kaufman
Last Call – Henry Bromell
Life of Something Like It – Stephen Herek
Lilo & Stitch – Dean DeBlois
Lilya 4-ever – Lukas Moodusson
Love Liza – Todd Louiso
Madame Sata – Karim Ainouz
The Magsalene Sisters – Peter Mullan
The Man from Elysian Fields – George Hickenlooper
The Man Without a Past – Aki Kaurismaki
Martin & Orloff – Lawrence Blume
Maryam – Ramin Serry
Matir Moina – Tareque Masud
Max – Menno Meyjes
Men In Black II – Barry Sonnenfeld
Men With Broomes – Paul Gross
Milae – Bryun Young-Ju
Minor Mishaps – Annette K. Olesen
The Mothman Prophecies – Mark Pellington
Mr. And Mrs. Iyer – Aparna Sen
Mr. Deeds – Steven Brill
Murder by Numbers – Barbet Schroeder
Narc – Joe Carnahan
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder – Walt Becker
The Navigators – Ken Loach
On All Floors – Geoff Evan
Orange County – Jake Kasdan
Passionada – Dan Ireland
Pate – Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosoloo
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits – Rebecca Miller
Phone Booth – Joel Schumacher
Promised Land – Jason Xenopoulos
Pinocchio – Roberto Benigni
Pumpkin – Abrams / Larson Broder
Queen of the Damned – Michael Rymer
Rabbit-Proof Fence  - Phillip Noyce
Real Women Have Curves – Patricia Cardoso
Red Dragon – Brett Ratner
Reign of Fire – Rob Bowman
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl – Jang Sun-woo
Revengers Tragedy – Alex Cox
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Kim Bartley / Donnacha O’Briain
The Ring – Gore Verbinski
Road Movie – Kim In-sik
Rollerball – John McTiernan
The Rookie – John Lee Hancock
The Rules of Attraction – Roger Avary
Un secreto de Esperanza – Leopoldo Laborde
S1m0ne – Andrew Niccol
The Salton Sea – D.J. Caruso
Scooby-Doo – Raja Gosnell
Showtime – Tom Dey
Secodn Name – Paco Plaza
Serving Sara – Reginald Hudlin
Skinwalkers – Chris Eyre
Six Days – Wong Kar-wai
Snow Dogs – Brian Levant
Speak to Me of Love – Sophie Marceau
Spellbound – Jeffrey Biliz
Spider – David Cronenberg
Standing in the Shadows of Motown – Paul Justman
Star Trek Nemesis – Stuart Baird
Stealing Harvard – Bruce McCulloch
Stolen Summer – Pete Jones
The Sum of All Fears – Phil Alden Robinson
The Sweetest Thing – Roger Kumble
Swimfan – John Polson
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance – Park Chan-wook
Tadpole – Gary Winick
They – Robert Harmon
Trapped – Luis Mandoki
The Transporter – Leterrier / Yuen
Treasure Plaet – Ron Clements / John Musker
Two Weeks Notice – Marc Lawrence
Tuck Everlasting – Jay Russell
The Tuxedo – Kevin Donovan
The Twilight Samurai – Yoji Yamada
Twin Sisters – Ben Sombogaart
Undercover Brother – Malcome D. Lee
Undisputed – Walter Hill
Unfaithful – Adrian Lyne
Valetin – Alejandro Agresti
Waiting for Happiness – Abderrahame Sissako
Walking on Water – Tony Ayres
We Were Soldiers – Randall Wallace
The Weather Underground – Sam Green / Bill Siegel
The Wild Thornberrys Movie – Malkasian / McGrath
Windtalkers – John Woo
xXx – Rob Cohen
Zemsta (The Revenge) – Andrzej Wajda