50 Best Films: 2000-2009

By: Stephen

My favorite films of the decade, more or less in order.

Also these films which are not on the Auteurs site:

Man on the Moon – Milos Forman
El Custodio – Rodrigo Moreno

• 01
  Three Times
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 02
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 03
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 04
  The World
  Jia Zhangke
• 05
  Regular Lovers
  Philippe Garrel
• 06
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 07
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 08
  Millennium Mambo
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 09
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 10
  Frontier of Dawn
  Philippe Garrel
• 11
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 12
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 13
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 14
  Flight of the Red Balloon
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 15
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 16
  Hidden
  Michael Haneke
• 17
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  David Fincher
• 18
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 19
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 20
  Night and Day
  Hong Sang-soo
• 21
  We Own the Night
  James Gray
• 22
  El Otro
  Ariel Rotter
• 23
  Notre musique
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 24
  Paranoid Park
  Gus Van Sant
• 25
  Waltz with Bashir
  Ari Folman
• 26
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 27
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 28
  The Darjeeling Limited
  Wes Anderson
• 29
  Good Bye Lenin!
  Wolfgang Becker
• 30
  The Captive
  Chantal Akerman
• 31
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 32
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 33
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 34
  Moulin Rouge!
  Baz Luhrmann
• 35
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 36
  The Yards
  James Gray
• 37
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 38
  The Fog of War
  Errol Morris
• 39
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 40
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 41
  Chéri
  Stephen Frears
• 42
  The Dreamers
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 43
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 44
  The Limits of Control
  Jim Jarmusch
• 45
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 46
  A Very Long Engagement
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 47
  I Served the King of England
  Jiří Menzel
• 48
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 49
  Lady Chatterley
  Pascale Ferran
• 50
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson