TOP 50: 2000 - 2009

By: Matt Dix

• 01
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 02
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 03
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 04
  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  Peter Jackson
• 05
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 06
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 07
  Brokeback Mountain
  Ang Lee
• 08
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 09
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 10
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 11
  Michael Clayton
  Tony Gilroy
• 12
  Amores perros
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 13
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 14
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 15
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 16
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 17
  Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Quentin Tarantino
• 18
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 19
  WALL•E
  Andrew Stanton
• 20
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 21
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 22
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 23
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 24
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 25
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 26
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 27
  Downfall
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
• 28
  This Is England
  Shane Meadows
• 29
  The Proposition
  John Hillcoat
• 30
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 31
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 32
  Mystic River
  Clint Eastwood
• 33
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 34
  The Royal Tenenbaums
  Wes Anderson
• 35
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 36
  Sideways
  Alexander Payne
• 37
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 38
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 39
  The Departed
  Martin Scorsese
• 40
  The Prestige
  Christopher Nolan
• 41
  The Bourne Ultimatum
  Paul Greengrass
• 42
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 43
  Before Night Falls
  Julian Schnabel
• 44
  The Constant Gardener
  Fernando Meirelles
• 45
  Y tu mamá también
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 46
  Touching the Void
  Kevin Macdonald
• 47
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 48
  Gladiator
  Ridley Scott
• 49
  Star Trek
  J.J. Abrams
• 50
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears