The Millennium Movie List

The best movies since 2000. Includes all A-listed movies seen up to the end of 2005.

1. Time Out (Laurent Cantet) A++
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) A++

   A PLUS

3. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
5. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7. Spellbound (doc, Jeffrey Blitz)
8. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
9. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
10. Springtime in a Small Town (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
11. The New Country (Geir Hansteen Jorgensen)
12. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
13. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
14. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
15. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
16. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
17. Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi)
18. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)

    A

19. Donnie Darko
20. Spider
21. Kings and Queen
22. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
23. Almost Famous
24. Friday Night
25. Bus 174 (doc)
26. The Heart of the World (short)
27. Crimson Gold
28. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
29. Gosford Park
30. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
31. Infernal Affairs
32. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
33. Last Life in the Universe
34. Finding Nemo
35. Moulin Rouge!
36. Catch Me If You Can
37. Spirited Away
38. Marooned in Iraq
39. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
40. The Gleaners and I (doc)
41. In This World
42. Hotel Rwanda
43. Me and You and Everyone We Know
44. A Mighty Wind
45. Oldboy
46. 2046
47. Los Angeles Plays Itself
48. Lovely and Amazing
49. War and Peace (doc)
50. Domestic Violence (doc)
51. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
52. A History of Violence
53. House of Flying Daggers
54. Ray
55. To Be and To Have
56. The Animation Show 2005
57. Morvern Callar
58. Mystic River
59. Love and Diane (doc)
60. Chicken Run
61. The Animation Show
62. Tarnation
63. The Manchurian Candidate
64. About a Boy
65. Primer
66. Femme Fatale
67. Shaun of the Dead
68. Lilya 4-Ever
69. Raising Victor Vargas
70. Whale Rider
71. Iris
72. Together (Lukas Moodysson)
73. Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
74. Camp
75. Star Spangled to Death
76. Cutie Honey
77. Waking Life
78. American Splendor
79. Land of the Dead

    A MINUS

80. Festival Express
81. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
82. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
83. The House of Mirth
84. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
85. The Pianist
86. Apocalypse Now Redux
87. Monster
88. Sexy Beast
89. The Station Agent
90. Elephant
91. Gangs of New York
92. Y tu mama tambien
93. The Corporation
94. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
95. Doppelganger
96. High Fidelity
97. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
98. The World (Jia Zhangke)
99. Route 181
100. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (Adam Curtis)
101. In America
102. Distant
103. Storytelling
104. Before Night Falls
105. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
106. Va Savoir
107. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
108. Head-On (Fatih Akin)
109. Russian Ark
110. Red Eye (Wes Craven)
111. Dirty Pretty Things
112. Unknown Pleasures
113. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
114. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
115. Hustle and Flow (Craig Brewer)
116. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow Sing-chi)
117. Butterfly (Mak Yan Yan)
118. Auto Focus
119. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
120. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park and Steve Box)
121. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
122. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
123. Secretary
124. Vera Drake
125. School of Rock
126. Mr. 3000
127. Platform
128. Born Romantic
129. Japon
130. Oasis
131. The Incredibles
132. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
133. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
134. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
135. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner)
136. The Fog of War
137. Old Men in New Cars
138. Elf
139. Sideways
140. Infernal Affairs II (Andrew Lau Wai-Keung and Alan Mak Siu-Fai)
141. You Can Count on Me
142. Personal Velocity
143. Possession
144. The Royal Tenenbaums
145. Decasia
146. The Fast and the Furious
147. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
148. Being Julia (István Szabó)
149. Collateral
150. MUSA: The Warrior
151. The Saddest Music in the World
152. Wonder Boys
153. Shrek 2
154. Cowards Bend the Knee
155. The Mother
156. Shaolin Soccer
157. 8 Mile
158. Last Orders
159. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
160. Control Room
161. Together (Chen Kaige)
162. Cold Mountain
163. The Man without a Past
164. Maria Full of Grace
165. 13 Going On 30 (Gary Winick)
166. Nobody Knows (Koreeda Hirokazu)
167. The Endurance
168. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
169. Dumplings (Fruit Chan)
170. Balseros
171. Palindromes (Todd Solondz)
172. The Circle
173. Walk the Line (James Mangold)
174. The Matrix Reloaded
175. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
176. Millennium Mambo
177. Southern Comfort
178. Requiem for a Dream
179. Born into Brothels (Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman)
180. Masked & Anonymous
181. All About Lily Chou-Chou
182. The Adventures of Iron Pussy
183. Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki Hayao)
184. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
185. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
186. We Don't Live Here Anymore
187. Osama
188. The trailer for Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
189. From the Other Side (doc)
190. Kissing Jessica Stein
191. The Original Kings of Comedy
192. The Hours
193. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
194. Monsters, Inc.
195. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
196. Cinévardaphoto (Agnès Varda)
197. Talk to Her
198. The Agronomist
199. 24 Hour Party People
200. Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin)
201. Traffic
202. End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
203. Capturing the Friedmans
204. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
205. The Princess and the Warrior
206. Pollock
207. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
208. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
209. The Good Girl
210. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
211. Purple Butterfly
212. Arna's Children (Danniel Danniel and Juliano Mer Khamis)
213. Better Luck Tomorrow