Best of the Aughts

By: Ricky Blue

favorite movies, 2000-2009.

No entry on this site for: The 11th Hour, Aimee & Jaguar, L’auberge espagnole, The Beliver, Berlin Babylon, Best in Show, Black Snake Moan, Blind Spot- Hitlers Secretary, Boy A, Broken English, Cherry Blossoms, The Color of Paradise, Control Room, Dear Zachary, Derrida, The Devil Came on Horseback, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Friends with Money, Heaven, Into the Arms of Strangers, Iron Jawed Angels, jimmy Carter Man from Plains, No End in Sight, No Man’s Land, The Nomi Song, Protagonist, Raging Sun Raging Sky, Real Women Have Curves, Sleepy Time Gal, Sophie Scholl, Southern Comfort, Stevie, Strella

• 01
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 02
  8 Women
  François Ozon
• 03
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 04
  After the Wedding
  Susanne Bier
• 05
  All About My Mother
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 06
  American Gangster
  Ridley Scott
• 07
  Avatar
  James Cameron
• 08
  The Aviator
  Martin Scorsese
• 09
  Away from Her
  Sarah Polley
• 10
  Bad Education
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 11
  The Barbarian Invasions
  Denys Arcand
• 12
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 13
  Black Book
  Paul Verhoeven
• 14
  Brand upon the Brain!
  Guy Maddin
• 15
  Charlie Wilson's War
  Mike Nichols
• 16
  Chicken Run
  Peter Lord
• 17
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 18
  The Constant Gardener
  Fernando Meirelles
• 19
  Control
  Anton Corbijn
• 20
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 21
  demonlover
  Olivier Assayas
• 22
  The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  Jeff Feuerzeig
• 23
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 24
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 25
  Doubt
  John Patrick Shanley
• 26
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 27
  East/West
  Régis Wargnier
• 28
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 29
  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Alex Gibney
• 30
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 31
  The Fall
  Tarsem Singh
• 32
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 33
  The Fast Runner
  Zacharias Kunuk
• 34
  Fat Girl
  Catherine Breillat
• 35
  Flow: For Love of Water
  Irena Salina
• 36
  The Fog of War
  Errol Morris
• 37
  The Fountain
  Darren Aronofsky
• 38
  Frozen River
  Courtney Hunt
• 39
  A Frozen Flower
  Yu Ha
• 40
  George Washington
  David Gordon Green
• 41
  Gerry
  Gus Van Sant
• 42
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 43
  Girl on the Bridge
  Patrice Leconte
• 44
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 45
  Good Bye Lenin!
  Wolfgang Becker
• 46
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  George Clooney
• 47
  Happy-Go-Lucky
  Mike Leigh
• 48
  Head-On
  Fatih Akin
• 49
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 50
  Hipsters
  Valeriy Todorovskiy
• 51
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 52
  The Host
  Bong Joon-ho
• 53
  Hotel Rwanda
  Terry George
• 54
  The Hours
  Stephen Daldry
• 55
  The House of Mirth
  Terence Davies
• 56
  Inland Empire
  David Lynch
• 57
  Iris
  Richard Eyre
• 58
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 59
  I've Loved You So Long
  Philippe Claudel
• 60
  Julia
  Erick Zonca
• 61
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 62
  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Peter Jackson
• 63
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 64
  Lovely and Amazing
  Nicole Holofcener
• 65
  Lust, Caution
  Ang Lee
• 66
  The Man Who Wasn't There
  Joel Coen
• 67
  Manderlay
  Lars von Trier
• 68
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 69
  A Mighty Wind
  Christopher Guest
• 70
  Mister Lonely
  Harmony Korine
• 71
  Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• 72
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 73
  Munich
  Steven Spielberg
• 74
  The Order of Myths
  Margaret Brown
• 75
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 76
  Persepolis
  Vincent Paronnaud
• 77
  The Princess and the Warrior
  Tom Tykwer
• 78
  The Queen
  Stephen Frears
• 79
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 80
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 81
  Russian Ark
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 82
  Russian Dolls
  Cédric Klapisch
• 83
  The Science of Sleep
  Michel Gondry
• 84
  Scoop
  Woody Allen
• 85
  Shortbus
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 86
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 87
  Standard Operating Procedure
  Errol Morris
• 88
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 89
  Swimming Pool
  François Ozon
• 90
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 91
  Syriana
  Stephen Gaghan
• 92
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 93
  Tell No One
  Guillaume Canet
• 94
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 95
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 96
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 97
  Under the Sand
  François Ozon
• 98
  United 93
  Paul Greengrass
• 99
  Up the Yangtze
  Yung Chang
• 100
  Vera Drake
  Mike Leigh
• 101
  A Very Long Engagement
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 102
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 103
  Volver
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 104
  Waltz with Bashir
  Ari Folman
• 105
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 106
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 107
  Who's Afraid of the Wolf?
  Maria Procházková
• 108
  Yella
  Christian Petzold
• 109
  Yossi & Jagger
  Eytan Fox
• 110
  Young @ Heart
  Stephen Walker
• 111
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 112
  Apocalypto
  Mel Gibson
• 113
  The Baader Meinhof Complex
  Uli Edel
• 114
  The Edge of Heaven
  Fatih Akin
• 115
  Half Nelson
  Ryan Fleck
• 116
  The Magdalene Sisters
  Peter Mullan
• 117
  Man on the Train
  Patrice Leconte
• 118
  The Man Who Cried
  Sally Potter
• 119
  Monster
  Patty Jenkins
• 120
  The Station Agent
  Thomas McCarthy
• 121
  Still Walking
  Hirokazu Kore-eda