Best Films of the Aughts

By: Justin LaLiber​ty

• 01
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 02
  Love Exposure
  Sion Sono
• 03
  In the Bedroom
  Todd Field
• 04
  Lilya 4-ever
  Lukas Moodysson
• 05
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 06
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 07
  Monsters, Inc.
  Pete Docter
• 08
  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  Park Chan-wook
• 09
  Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
  Guy Maddin
• 10
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 11
  Quiet City
  Aaron Katz
• 12
  The Five Obstructions
  Jørgen Leth
• 13
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 14
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 15
  Fat Girl
  Catherine Breillat
• 16
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 17
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 18
  Memories of Murder
  Bong Joon-ho
• 19
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 20
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 21
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 22
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 23
  WALL•E
  Andrew Stanton
• 24
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 25
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 26
  Dear Wendy
  Thomas Vinterberg
• 27
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 28
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 29
  Baadasssss!
  Mario Van Peebles
• 30
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 31
  Breaking News
  Johnnie To
• 32
  Superbad
  Greg Mottola
• 33
  [REC]
  Jaume Balagueró
• 34
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 35
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 36
  Bad Education
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 37
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 38
  Batman Begins
  Christopher Nolan
• 39
  Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
  Kurt Kuenne
• 40
  The Devil's Backbone
  Guillermo del Toro
• 41
  Brand upon the Brain!
  Guy Maddin
• 42
  George Washington
  David Gordon Green
• 43
  The Happiness of the Katakuris
  Takashi Miike
• 44
  Hot Fuzz
  Edgar Wright
• 45
  I Heart Huckabees
  David O. Russell
• 46
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 47
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 48
  Jesus Camp
  Heidi Ewing
• 49
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 50
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Miranda July
• 51
  Mutual Appreciation
  Andrew Bujalski
• 52
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 53
  Old Joy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 54
  The Protector
  Prachya Pinkaew
• 55
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 56
  Inside
  Alexandre Bustillo
• 57
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 58
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 59
  Gran Torino
  Clint Eastwood
• 60
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 61
  Lake of Fire
  Tony Kaye
• 62
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 63
  Dog Days
  Ulrich Seidl
• 64
  Kings and Queen
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 65
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson
• 66
  Songs from the Second Floor
  Roy Andersson
• 67
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 68
  Friday Night
  Claire Denis
• 69
  Lake Tahoe
  Fernando Eimbcke
• 70
  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  Seth Gordon
• 71
  I'm Not There.
  Todd Haynes
• 72
  Trouble Every Day
  Claire Denis
• 73
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 74
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 75
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 76
  Shortbus
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 77
  Shotgun Stories
  Jeff Nichols
• 78
  A Bittersweet Life
  Kim Ji-woon
• 79
  Black Dynamite
  Scott Sanders
• 80
  Gomorrah
  Matteo Garrone
• 81
  Sigur Rós - Heima
  Dean DeBlois
• 82
  The House of the Devil
  Ti West
• 83
  Secretary
  Steven Shainberg
• 84
  Paprika
  Satoshi Kon
• 85
  Taxidermia
  György Pálfi
• 86
  Infernal Affairs
  Andrew Lau
• 87
  Black Book
  Paul Verhoeven
• 88
  Watchmen
  Zack Snyder
• 89
  Love Actually
  Richard Curtis
• 90
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 91
  Birdemic: Shock and Terror
  James Nguyen
• 92
  The Room
  Tommy Wiseau
• 93
  Attack the Gas Station!
  Sang-Jin Kim
• 94
  A Christmas Tale
  Arnaud Desplechin