100 Favorite of the Oughts

By: PViewSh​ake

My favorite 100 films from 2000-2009 in alphabetical order.

Note: There are 101 films on the list because I’m counting parts 1 and 2 of The Best of Youth as one film.

• 01
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 02
  28 Days Later
  Danny Boyle
• 03
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 04
  A Scanner Darkly
  Richard Linklater
• 05
  About Schmidt
  Alexander Payne
• 06
  All the Real Girls
  David Gordon Green
• 07
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 08
  Amores perros
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 09
  Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater
• 10
  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  Sidney Lumet
• 11
  The Best of Youth (Part 1)
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 12
  The Best of Youth (Part 2)
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 13
  Borat
  Larry Charles
• 14
  Broken Flowers
  Jim Jarmusch
• 15
  Capote
  Bennett Miller
• 16
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Andrew Jarecki
• 17
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 18
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 19
  Climates
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 20
  Collateral
  Michael Mann
• 21
  The Descent
  Neil Marshall
• 22
  Distant
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 23
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 24
  Eastern Promises
  David Cronenberg
• 25
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Alex Gibney
• 26
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 27
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 28
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 29
  Flight of the Red Balloon
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 30
  George Washington
  David Gordon Green
• 31
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 32
  Gosford Park
  Robert Altman
• 33
  Grizzly Man
  Werner Herzog
• 34
  Half Nelson
  Ryan Fleck
• 35
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 36
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 37
  The Host
  Bong Joon-ho
• 38
  The Illusionist
  Neil Burger
• 39
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 40
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 41
  In the Bedroom
  Todd Field
• 42
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 43
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 44
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 45
  Jesus Camp
  Heidi Ewing
• 46
  Kings and Queen
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 47
  Knocked Up
  Judd Apatow
• 48
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 49
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  Wes Anderson
• 50
  The Limits of Control
  Jim Jarmusch
• 51
  Lorna's Silence
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 52
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 53
  Lust, Caution
  Ang Lee
• 54
  Man on Wire
  James Marsh
• 55
  The Man Without a Past
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 56
  Match Point
  Woody Allen
• 57
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 58
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Miranda July
• 59
  Memories of Murder
  Bong Joon-ho
• 60
  Miami Vice
  Michael Mann
• 61
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 62
  Morvern Callar
  Lynne Ramsay
• 63
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 64
  Munich
  Steven Spielberg
• 65
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 66
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 67
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 68
  Old Joy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 69
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 70
  Persepolis
  Vincent Paronnaud
• 71
  The Piano Teacher
  Michael Haneke
• 72
  Pineapple Express
  David Gordon Green
• 73
  The Pool
  Chris Smith
• 74
  The Proposition
  John Hillcoat
• 75
  Pulse
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 76
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 77
  The Queen
  Stephen Frears
• 78
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 79
  Requiem
  Hans-Christian Schmid
• 80
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 81
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 82
  The Saddest Music in the World
  Guy Maddin
• 83
  Saraband
  Ingmar Bergman
• 84
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 85
  Shaun of the Dead
  Edgar Wright
• 86
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 87
  Spider
  David Cronenberg
• 88
  The Squid and the Whale
  Noah Baumbach
• 89
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 90
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 91
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 92
  Three Monkeys
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 93
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 94
  Time of the Wolf
  Michael Haneke
• 95
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 96
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 97
  Tropic Thunder
  Ben Stiller
• 98
  Undertow
  David Gordon Green
• 99
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 100
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 101
  Zodiac
  David Fincher