Cinema Tropical's 100 Best Latin American Films (2000-2009)

By: MUBI

To commemorate the end of the ’00s, Cinema Tropical polled 35 New York-area critics, scholars and film professionals to compile a list of the Best Latin American films of the decade. You can see the full list here but these are the top 104 (due to tying votes).

• 01
  La ciénaga
  Lucrecia Martel
• 02
  Amores perros
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 03
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 04
  City of God
  Víctor González
• 05
  Bus 174
  José Padilha
• 06
  Y tu mamá también
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 07
  Whisky
  Juan Pablo Rebella
• 08
  The Headless Woman
  Lucrecia Martel
• 09
  The Holy Girl
  Lucrecia Martel
• 10
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 11
  Nine Queens
  Fabián Bielinsky
• 12
  Bolivia
  Adrián Caetano
• 13
  The Maid
  Sebastián Silva
• 14
  Madame Satã
  Karim Ainouz
• 15
  Japón
  Carlos Reygadas
• 16
  Intimate Stories
  Carlos Sorin
• 17
  La libertad
  Lisandro Alonso
• 18
  The Milk of Sorrow
  Claudia Llosa
• 19
  The Motorcycle Diaries
  Walter Salles
• 20
  XXY
  Lucía Puenzo
• 21
  Santiago
  João Moreira Salles
• 22
  Playing
  Eduardo Coutinho
• 23
  The Violin
  Francisco Vargas
• 24
  Lake Tahoe
  Fernando Eimbcke
• 25
  The Blonds
  Albertina Carri
• 26
  The Pope's Toilet
  César Charlone
• 27
  Master: A Building in Copacabana
  Eduardo Coutinho
• 28
  Days of Santiago
  Josué Méndez
• 29
  Duck Season
  Fernando Eimbcke
• 30
  Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
  Marcelo Gomes
• 31
  The Magic Gloves
  Martín Rejtman
• 32
  Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening
  Marisa Sistach
• 33
  Tony Manero
  Pablo Larraín
• 34
  Machuca
  Andrés Wood
• 35
  El bonaerense
  Pablo Trapero
• 36
  Live-In Maid
  Jorge Gaggero
• 37
  Lost Embrace
  Daniel Burman
• 38
  The Sacred Family
  Sebastián Lelio
• 39
  Oscar
  Sergio Morkin
• 40
  In the Pit
  Juan Carlos Rulfo
• 41
  Los muertos
  Lisandro Alonso
• 42
  Havana Suite
  Fernando Pérez
• 43
  Crónicas
  Sebastián Cordero
• 44
  Metalworkers
  Eduardo Coutinho
• 45
  Burnt Money
  Marcelo Piñeyro
• 46
  Elite Squad
  José Padilha
• 47
  25 Watts
  Juan Pablo Rebella
• 48
  Cocalero
  Alejandro Landes
• 49
  Anger
  Albertina Carri
• 50
  Estamira
  Marcos Prado
• 51
  Extraordinary Stories
  Mariano Llinás
• 52
  The Son of the Bride
  Juan José Campanella
• 53
  Nunca más
  Marta Rodríguez
• 54
  Perpetuum Mobile
  Nicolás Pereda
• 55
  Maladies of Love
  Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz
• 56
  War Takes
  Patricia Castaño
• 57
  La mujer de mi hermano
  Ricardo de Montreuil
• 58
  The Pinochet Case
  Patricio Guzmán
• 59
  El Grito en El Cielo
  Dunia Ayaso
• 60
  The House of Sand
  Andrucha Waddington
• 61
  Stones in the Sky
  Eryk Rocha
• 62
  Paraguayan Hammock
  Paz Encina
• 63
  Music on Hold
  Hernán A. Golfrid
• 64
  Drained
  Heitor Dhalia
• 65
  Bombón: El Perro
  Carlos Sorin
• 66
  The Gift of Pachamama
  Toshifumi Matsushita
• 67
  The Ballroom
  Laís Bodanzky
• 68
  En la cama
  Matías Bize
• 69
  The Passion of María Elena
  Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez
• 70
  Window of the Soul
  João Jardim
• 71
  El custodio
  Rodrigo Moreno
• 72
  Lion's Den
  Pablo Trapero
• 73
  The Immortal
  Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez
• 74
  A Year Without Love
  Anahí Berneri
• 75
  Carandiru
  Héctor Babenco
• 76
  Raging Sun, Raging Sky
  Julián Hernández
• 77
  Prisoner of the Iron Bars
  Paulo Sacramento
• 78
  Liverpool
  Lisandro Alonso
• 79
  Nada +
  Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
• 80
  Missing Young Woman
  Lourdes Portillo
• 81
  Suddenly
  Diego Lerman
• 82
  The Sugar Curtain
  Camila Guzmán Urzúa
• 83
  The End and the Beginning
  Eduardo Coutinho
• 84
  Addictions and Subtractions
  Víctor Gaviria
• 85
  Behave
  María Ramos
• 86
  The Method
  Marcelo Piñeyro
• 87
  Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
  Gonzalo Arijon
• 88
  The Fish Child
  Lucía Puenzo
• 89
  Accident
  Cao Guimarães
• 90
  Forging a Nation
  David Blaustein
• 91
  Cleópatra
  Júlio Bressane
• 92
  Alamar
  Pedro González-Rubio
• 93
  The Aura
  Fabián Bielinsky
• 94
  The Dead Girl's Feast
  Matheus Nachtergaele
• 95
  I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
  Vicente Ferraz
• 96
  The Crime of Padre Amaro
  Carlos Carrera
• 97
  Born and Bred
  Pablo Trapero
• 98
  The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
  Cao Hamburger
• 99
  La Sierra
  Scott Dalton
• 100
  Horn of Plenty
  Juan Carlos Tabío
• 101
  Copacabana
  Martín Rejtman
• 102
  Kill Them All
  Esteban Schroeder
• 103
  Battle in Heaven
  Carlos Reygadas