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Best Movies of 2002

The highest-rated films released in 2002, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 154 titlesavg ★ 6.55 avg 106 min Drama Comedy Thriller Action

Most watched in 2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002 · ★ 8.4 · 2h 59m

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets2002 · ★ 7.7 · 2h 41m

Spider-Man2002 · ★ 7.4 · 2h 1m

Catch Me If You Can2002 · ★ 8.0 · 2h 21m

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002 · ★ 6.6 · 2h 22m

Ice Age2002 · ★ 7.4 · 1h 21m

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#1 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) · ★ 8.4 · 24,583 votes · 2h 59m · action, fantasy, adventure
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 Towe…
#2 The Pianist (2002) · ★ 8.4 · 10,494 votes · 2h 30m · drama, war
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work…
#3 City of God (2002) · ★ 8.4 · 8,434 votes · 2h 9m · drama, crime
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related vio…
#4 Catch Me If You Can (2002) · ★ 8.0 · 17,525 votes · 2h 21m · drama, crime
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…
#5 Millennium Actress (2002) · ★ 7.9 · 1,084 votes · 1h 27m · romance, drama, animation
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a ke…
#6 Infernal Affairs (2002) · ★ 7.8 · 1,938 votes · 1h 41m · action, thriller, drama
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their o…
#7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 23,981 votes · 2h 41m · fantasy, adventure
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a w…
#8 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 5,016 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, adventure, romance
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.…
#9 A Walk to Remember (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 4,342 votes · 1h 42m · romance, drama
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 h…
#10 The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 2,121 votes · 2h 11m · action, adventure, thriller
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.…
#11 Lilo & Stitch (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 7,251 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, science-fiction, animation
As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl…
#12 Treasure Planet (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 4,744 votes · 1h 36m · fantasy, adventure, science-fiction
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space…
#13 Talk to Her (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 1,488 votes · 1h 52m · romance, drama
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.…
#14 Lilya 4-ever (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 695 votes · 1h 49m · drama, crime
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei…
#15 The Bourne Identity (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 10,412 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, drama
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 reconst…
#16 Hero (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 2,600 votes · 1h 39m · action, adventure, drama
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's l…
#17 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 1,785 votes · 2h 9m · action, thriller, drama
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a c…
#18 Bowling for Columbine (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 1,751 votes · 2h 0m · drama, documentary
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 constitu…
#19 Spider-Man (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 21,378 votes · 2h 1m · action, science-fiction
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as S…
#20 Ice Age (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 14,667 votes · 1h 21m · comedy, adventure, animation
Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ic…
#21 Minority Report (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 9,978 votes · 2h 25m · action, thriller, science-fiction
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 investigat…
#22 Road to Perdition (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 4,132 votes · 1h 57m · thriller, drama, crime
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…
#23 Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 3,848 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.…
#24 Frida (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 2,222 votes · 2h 3m · romance, drama
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.…
#25 Interstate 60 (2002) · ★ 7.4 · 832 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.…
#26 Gangs of New York (2002) · ★ 7.3 · 7,443 votes · 2h 48m · drama, history, crime
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a po…
#27 Adaptation. (2002) · ★ 7.3 · 2,897 votes · 1h 55m · comedy, drama, crime
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…
#28 25th Hour (2002) · ★ 7.3 · 2,664 votes · 2h 15m · drama, crime
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall…
#29 The Hours (2002) · ★ 7.3 · 1,912 votes · 1h 54m · drama
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…
#30 28 Days Later (2002) · ★ 7.2 · 8,911 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, horror, science-fiction
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…
#31 Irreversible (2002) · ★ 7.2 · 3,443 votes · 1h 37m · thriller, drama, crime
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Becaus…
#32 John Q (2002) · ★ 7.2 · 2,736 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, drama, crime
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 i…
#33 Russian Ark (2002) · ★ 7.2 · 519 votes · 1h 39m · fantasy, drama, history
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.…
#34 8 Mile (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 7,983 votes · 1h 51m · drama, music
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his…
#35 Equilibrium (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 5,238 votes · 1h 47m · action, thriller, science-fiction
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…
#36 Red Dragon (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 4,886 votes · 2h 4m · thriller, horror, crime
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one w…
#37 Chicago (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 2,990 votes · 1h 53m · comedy, drama, crime
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.…
#38 Punch-Drunk Love (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 2,879 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, romance, drama
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.…
#39 The Cat Returns (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 2,537 votes · 1h 15m · fantasy, adventure, drama
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.…
#40 We Were Soldiers (2002) · ★ 7.1 · 2,377 votes · 2h 18m · action, history, war
The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Dr…