An tentative list of my favorite 100 movies of the past decade (2000-2009)

By: bryan jacob

Below are stills from all of my picks. The list farther below is missing a couple films because Mubi doesn’t presently have all of them in the database. At any rate, I’m sure this list will change as I continue to see movies that were made during this time period.

The New World, directed by Terrence Malick, United States, 2005

No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, United States, 2007

Ballast, directed by Lance Hammer, United States, 2008

Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, United Kingdom, 2006

The Son, directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2002

Morvern Callar, directed by Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom, 2002

Elephant, directed by Gus Van Sant, United States, 2003

Wonderful Town, directed by Aditya Assarat, Thailand, 2007

Werckmeister Harmonies, directed by Béla Tarr, Hungary, 2000

Paranoid Park, directed by Gus Van Sant, United States, 2007

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, directed by Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2005

George Washington, directed by David Gordon Green, United States, 2000

Silent Light, directed by Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 2007

The Class, directed by Laurent Cantet, France, 2008

Gomorra, directed by Matteo Garrone, Italy, 2008

Punch-Drunk Love, directed by Paul Thoma Anderson, United States, 2002

Nobody Knows, directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan, 2004

Fish Tank, directed by Andrea Arnold, United Kingdom, 2009

You, the Living, directed by Roy Andersson, Sweden, 2007

The White Ribbon, directed by Michael Haneke, Austria, 2009

Junebug, directed by Phil Morrison, United States, 2005

Three Times, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan, 2005

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, directed by Michel Gondry, United States, 2004

Old Joy, Directed by Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2006

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, directed by Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2007

Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen, Ireland, 2008

Revanche, directed by Götz Spielmann, Austria, 2008

Better Things, directed by Duane Hopkins, United Kingdom, 2008

Caché, direct by Michael Haneke, France, 2005

The Child, directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2005

Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola, United States, 2003

12:08 East of Bucharest, directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2006

Tulpan, directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan, 2008

In the Mood for Love, directed by Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2000

Last Days, directed by Gus Van Sant, United States, 2005

Y Tu Mamá También, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2001

The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, France, 2002

There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, United States, 2007

Treeless Mountain, directed by So Yong Kim, United States, 2008

The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky, United States, 2008

Che, directed by Steven Soderbergh, Spain, 2008

Still Walking, directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu, Japan, 2008

Syndromes and a Century, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2006

Lake Tahoe, directed by Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico, 2008

Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt, United States, 2008

In Between Days, directed by So Yong Kim, United States, 2006

Once, directed by John Carney, Ireland, 2006

A Prophet, directed by Jacques Audiard, France, 2009

The Proposition, directed by John Hillcoat, Australia, 2005

Turtles Can Fly, directed by Bahman Ghobadi, Iran, 2004

Summer Hours, directed by Olivier Assayas, France, 2008

Schultze Gets the Blues, directed by Michael Schorr, Germany, 2003

All the Real Girls, directed by David Gordon Green, United States, 2003

Sweet Sixteen, directed by Ken Loach, United Kingdom, 2002

The Royal Tenenbaums, directed by Wes Anderson, United States, 2001

Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, United States, 2000

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, directed by Cao Hamburger, Brazil, 2006

The Science of Sleep, directed by Michel Gondry, France, 2006

The Man from London, directed by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, France, 2007

The Intruder, directed by Claire Denis, France, 2004

Baran, directed by Majid Majidi, Iran, 2001

Regular Lovers, directed by Philippe Garrel, france, 2005

The Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin, Israel, 2007

Let the Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson, Sweden, 2008

La Danse, directed by Frederick Wiseman, France, 2009

A Serious Man, directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, United States, 2009

Unknown Pleasures, directed by Jia Zhangke, China, 2002

The Wind That Shakes the Barley, directed by Ken Loach, Ireland, 2006

Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, Denmark, 2000

Mulholland Dr., directed by David Lynch, United States, 2001

The Departed, directed by Martin Scorsese, United States, 2006

The Heart is Elsewhere, directed by Pupi Avati, Italy, 2003

I Served the King of England, directed by Jirí Menzel, Czech Republic, 2006

Police, Adjective, directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009

The Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles, Argentina, 2004

Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg, United States, 2004

The Man Who Wasn’t There, directed by Joel Coen, United States, 2001

Reprise, directed by Joachim Trier, Norway, 2006

The Darjeeling Limited, directed by Wes Anderson, United States, 2007

The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, United States, 2008

Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman, Untied States, 2008

Grizzly Man, directed by Werner Herzog, United States, 2005

Decasia, directed by Bill Morrison, United States, 2002

Me and You and Everyone We Know, directed by Miranda July, United States, 2005

Millions, directed by Danny Boyle, United Kingdom, 2004

Control, directed by Anton Corbijn, United Kingdom, 2007

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by Tommy Lee Jones, United States, 2005

Rivers and Tides, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, Germany, 2001

No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese, United Kingdom, 2005

Café Lumière, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Japan, 2003

Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant, United States, 2008

This is England, directed by Shane Meadows, United Kingdom, 2006

Secret Sunshine, directed by Chang-dong Lee, South Korea, 2007

Where the Wild Things Are, directed by Spike Jonze, United States, 2009

Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, United States, 2004

Paradise Now, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2005

Mutual Appreciation, directed by Andrew Bujalski, United States, 2005

Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2002

Broken Flowers, directed by Jim Jarmusch, United States, 2005

The Mourning Forest, directed by Naomi Kawase, Japan, 2007