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2 Days in Paris (2007)
21 Grams (2004)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Day (2008)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel) (2008)
A History of Violence (2005)
A Man Without a Past (2002)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
About a Boy (2002)
Adaptation (2002)
Adventureland (2009)
Almost Famous (2000)
Amelie (2001)
American Splendor (2003)
Amores perros (2000)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
Army of the Shadows (2006)
As It Is In Heaven (2004)
Away From Her (2007)
Ballast (2008)
Beau Travail (2000)
Before Sunset (2004)
Billy Elliott (2000)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Borat (2006)
Bowling For Columbine (2002)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Broken Flowers (2005
Brothers (2005)
Bus 174 (2004)
Cache (Hidden) (2005)
Call+Response (2008)
Capote (2005)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Chicago (2002)
Chocolat (2000)
Chop Shop (2008)
City of God (2004)
Closer (2004)
Crash (2005)
Crimson Gold (2004)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
District 9 (2009)
Donny Darko (2004)
Downfall (2004)
Eastern Promises (2007)
El Crimen del Padre Amaro
Elephant (2004)
Elling (2001)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Firaaq (2008)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Garden State (2004)
Ghost World (2001)
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007)
Gladiator (2000)
Gomorrah (2009)
Goodbye, Lenin! (2004)
Goodbye Solo (2009)
Gosford Park (2001)
Great World of Sound (2007)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Half Nelson (2006)
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Hero (2002)
High Fidelity (2000)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
I Am Sam (2001)
In America (2004)
In the Bedroom (2001)
In the Loop (2009)
Iraq in Fragments (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Junebug (2005)
Juno (2007)
Kabluey (2008)
Kill Bill V. 1 & II (2004)
Killer of Sheep (2007)
L’Enfant (2006)
L’Esquive (Games of Love and Chance) (2005)
Lagaan (2001)
Le Gout des Autres (The Taste of Others) (2000)
Ledereen Beroemd! (Everybody’s Famous) (2000)
Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) (2003)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lost in Translation (2004)
Man on Wire (2008)
Manufactured Landscapes (2007)
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Master and Commander (2003)
Match Point (2005)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Memento (2002)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Milk (2008)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Momma’s Man (2008)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Monster’s Ball (2001)
Moolaade (2004)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Murderball (2005)
Musime si pomahat (Divided We Fall) (2000)
Mutual Appreciation (2006)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
My Kid Could Paint That (2007)
My Voyage to Italy (2001)
Mystic River (2003)
Nights and Weekends (2008)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Man’s Land (2001)
Nobody Knows (2005)
Nowhere in Africa (2001)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Offside (2007)
Old Joy (2006)
Once (2007)
Ondskand (Evil)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Paranoid Park (2008)
Persepolis (2007)
Pollock (2000)
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Ratatouille (2007)
Ray (2004)
Return of the King (extended edition) (2004)
Saraband (2005)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Shrek (2001)
Sideways (2004)
Son of Rambow (2008)
Son of the Bride (2001)
Spiderman 2 (2004)
Spirited Away (2002)
Star Trek (2009)
Sugar (2009)
Syndromes of a Century (2007)
Talk to Her (2002)
Ten Canoes (2007)
Thank You For Smoking (2006)
The Aviator (2004)
The Best of Youth (2005)
The Chorus (2004)
The Class (2008)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)
The Departed (2006)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (2000)
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (2007)
The Fast Runner (2002)
The Fog of War (2004)
The Holy Girl (2005)
The Hours (2002)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
The Incredibles (2004)
The King of Kong (2007)
The Kite Runner (2007)
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
The New World (2005)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
The Pianist (2002)
The Pool (2008)
The Queen (2006)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
The Sea Inside (2004)
The Son (2004)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
The Visitor (2008)
The Whale Rider (2002)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)
The Wrestler (2008)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Three Times (2006)
Tony Takitani (2005)
Traffic (2000)
TransAmerica (2005)
Triplets de Belleville (2004)
Tulpan (2009)
Twin Sisters (2002)
United 93 (2006)
Up (2009)
Vera Drake (2004)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Volver (2006)
Waitress (2007)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
WALL-E (2008)
Waltz With Bashir (2008)
Werkmeister Harmonies (2001)
When the Levees Broke (2006)
Wonder Boys (2000)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Yes (2005)
Yesterday (2004)
Yi Yi (A One and A Two) (2000)
You Can Count on Me (2000)
Zelary (2003)
Zus & Zo (2001)


1. Morvern Callar (2002)
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
4. The Filth and the Fury (2000)
5. Persepolis (2007)
6. Laurel Canyon (2001)
7. Kill Bill (both of them) (2004/2005)
8. Mean Girls (2004)
9. The Queen (2006)
10. There Will Be Blood (2007)
City of God
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
High Fidelity
Junebug
Juno
Little Miss Sunshine
O' Brother Where Art Thou
The Departed
The Last King of Scotland
The Royal Tenenbaums
1)There Will Be Blood
2)Mulholland Drive
3)Elephant
4)The Pianist
5)The Royal Tenebaums
6)A History Of Violence
7)Lost In Translation
8)In The Bedroom
9)Memento
10)Cache
Honorable Mentions
In The Mood For Love
Traffic
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Babel
Before Sunset
1 - The Royal Tenenbaums
2 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3 - Amelie
4 - Ghost World
5 - Finding Nemo
6 - Memento
7 - High Fidelity
8 - Half Nelson
9 - Kill Bill
10 - Pan's Labyrinth
1. Hallam Foe (2007)
2. Almost Famous (2000)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Garden State (2004)
5. High Fidelity (2000)
6. Billy Elliott (2000)
7. Finding Neverland
8. The Pianist (2002)
9. The Visitor (2008)
10. Amelie (2001)
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
The Departed
Gosford Park
Yi Yi
No Country for Old Men
Billy Elliot
City of God
The Hours
Million Dollar Baby
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Pianist
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Michael Clayton
Amelie
L'Enfant
There Will Be Blood
Almost Famous
In the Bedroom
Thank You For Smoking
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Volver
Adaptation
Memento
Little Miss Sunshine
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Memento
3. The Departed
4. Juno
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. Milk
7. Crash
8. Gangs of New York
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Kill Bill
Lost in Translation
Children of Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Spirited Away
Kill Bill
Almost Famous
Donnie Darko
There Will Be Blood
Atonement
The Lives of Others
1. Amelie
2. There Will Be Blood
3. No Country For Old Men
4. Almost Famous
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Whale Rider
7. The Queen
8. 2 Days in Paris
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Up
Four films that are personal favorites of mine that haven't recieved a mention yet;
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Brothers of the Head
The Proposition
Synechdoche, NY
Anyway, top 5.
Hmmm....
5. No Country for Old Men
4. Once
3. The Proposition
2. Synechdoche, NY
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Also, I just went on English language - to include foreign language would make it way more difficult.
How could one possibly choose between City of God and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Pan's Labyrinth and Once?
Too difficult.
Almost Famous
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amelie
Pan's Labyrinth
American Splendor (2003)
Before Sunset (2004)
Billy Elliott (2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Kill Bill V. 1 (2004)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Talk to Her (2002)
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (2007)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
2 Days in Paris
28 Days Later
Babel
Almost Famous
Into the Wild
City of God
Amores Perros
Bowling for Columbine
Donny Darko
Garden State
Antwone Fisher
Gladiator
Harry Potter (1-6)
House of Flying Daggers
Lord of the Rings (1-3)
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Monsoon Wedding
After the Wedding
Thank You for Smoking
The Kite Runner
The Taking of Pelham 123
The Pianist
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Waitress
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Across the Universe
Amar Te Duele
Bend it Like Beckham
Camp Blood Diamond
Finding Forrester
Fun With Dick Jane
The Girl in the Cafe
1-Lost in Translation
2-The Squid and the Whale
3-Knocked Up
4-Sin City
5-Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
6-O' Brother Where Art Thou?
7-Sideways
8-King of Kong
9-Superbad
10-The Darjeeling Limited
H.M- Old School, High Fidelity, Garden State, The United States of Leland, Little Miss Sunshine
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Y tu Mama Tambien
3. Before Sunset
4. Lost in Translation
5. The Squid and the Whale
6. Pan's Labyrinth
7. Wall-E
8. Almost Famous
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
10. Dancer in the Dark
Garden State
Closer
(500) Days of Summer
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Donnie Darko
Match Point
Brick
The Royal Tenenbaum's
American Psycho
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1. Eternal Sunshine
2. City of God
3. Once
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
6. Garden State
7. Knocked Up
8. Brick
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. The Incredibles
The Fountain
Once
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Moulin Rouge
Pan's Labyrinth... Read More
The Dark Knight
Pirates of the Caribbean
Saw
Love Actually
WALL-E
1. Amelie
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Garden State
4. The Royal Tenenbaums
5. About a Boy
6. 500 Days of Summer
7. A Love Song for Bobby Long
8. I am Sam
9. Lost In Translation
10. Adaptation
In America
Lost in Translation
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Little Miss Sunshine
Goodbye Solo
The Squid and the Whale
There Will Be Blood
Pan's Labyrinth
There were so many amazing movies in the last ten years it's crazy. I think movies have gotten so much better exponentially over the years that picking just ten seems like a crime, especially since so many of the movies in the last ten years could be considered some of the best ever.
Across the Universe (2007)
Adaptation (2002)
Children of Men (2006)
Closer (2004)
District 9 (2009)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Memento (2002)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
WALL-E (2008)
Pan's Labyrinth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Wall-E
Finding Nemo
Spirited Away
Shaun of the Dead
There Will be Blood
The Wrestler
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
King of Kong
Snatch
21 Grams
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
High Fidelity
Memento
Mystic River
Sideways
There Will Be Blood
The Royal Tenenbaums
Punch-Drunk Love
Gladiator
1. Adaptation
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Me and You and Everyone We Know
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5. The Science of Sleep
6. Amelie
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Juno
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. WALL-E
1. Crash
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. Finding Nemo (Hell yeah.)
4. Eternal Sunshine
5. Once
6. In the Valley of Elah
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. Lost in Translation
9. Amelie
10. Snow Angels
Where the heck is CHILDREN OF MEN???!!!
Aaaanyway...
10. tie: Dancer in the Dark/Dogville
9. Far From Heaven
8. Millon Dollar Baby
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Hours
5. Brokeback Mountain
4. Milk
3. Children of Men
2. Moulin Rouge!
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. Inglorious Basterds
9. Zodiac
8. The Fountain
7. No Country for Old Men
6. The Life Aquatic
5. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. There Will Be Blood
3. Big Fish
2. City of God
1. The Squid and the Whale
(in alphabetical order)
Amelie (2001)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Lost in Translation (2004)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Spirited Away (2002)
The Queen (2006)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
WALL-E (2008)
10. Moulin Rouge
9. The Departed
8. The Dark Knight
7. Kill Bill 1 & 2
6. WALL-E
5. Memento
4. Almost Famous
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Garden State
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Children of Men
4. The Wrestler
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Memento
7. Pan's Labyrinth
8. The Departed
9. The Dark Knight
10. Gangs of New York
1. City of God (2002)
2. Children of Men (2006)
2. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
2. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2000, 2001, 2002)
2. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. No Country for Old Men (2007)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
2. WALL-E (2008)
Garden State
Amelie
Once
High Fidelity
About a Boy
Little Miss Sunshine
The Tango Lesson
Lost In Translation
Vanilla Sky
Ballad of Jack and Rose
Elegy
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Grindhouse
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Lost in Translation
7. Let the Right One In
8. 28 Days Later...
9. Children of Men
10. School of Rock
Lives of Others (2006)
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Iron Man (2008)
Brick (2005)
Match Point (2005)
The Edukators (2004)
Thank You For Smoking (2006)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Go-Getter (2007)
Oops, I got to 11 before I stopped to count. But I'm going with it.
City of god. Hands down the first movie that comes to mind for the 2000s
Almost Famous, hands down.
PASTE: Will there be a best BOOK and VIDEOGAME of the decade votes too???
This is tough as I've HEARD of just about all of the movies everyone else has mentioned, I just haven't SEEN them. Even the ones I've wanted to see, I haven't yet, so I know a lot of these would be my favorites. Here are my votes:
***Mirrormask (2005) (if Paste hasn't seen this one yet it's never too late!)
28 Days Later (2002)
Serenity (2005)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
The Pianist (2002)
House of Fools (Dom durakov) (2002) (this would be my foreign film pick!)
a Heath Ledger movie
I know I'm missing some... it's hard to think back on the last 10 years. I think a Heath Ledger movie deserves to be in that list. He basically became a star and died within this decade. I was a huge fan of his movies since the beginning but I haven't seen the more recent movies (it has been hard for me to catch up on them, basically because of his death). So it is tough for me to decide between the Ledger movies I have seen and the ones I haven't. I'll leave which movie specifically for the rest of you to decide.
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Dark Knight
Finding Forrester
The Incredibles
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Ocean's Eleven
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Shrek
Spiderman 2
Up
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Departed
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. I Heart Huckabees
6. Juno
7. Big Fish
8. Milk
9. The Dark Knight
10. In Bruges
My five favorites of this decade, at the moment:
1. Michael Clayton
2. Ghost World
3. American Splendor
4. Proof
5. Dream Girls
1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
2. Before Sunset (2004)
3. Let the Right One In (2008)
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007)
5. The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
6. Heaven (2002)
7. Zodiac (2007)
8. Ratatouille (2007)
9. The Mist (2007)
10. Love Exposure (2008)
And just for kicks...
11. The Princess and the Warrior (2001)
12. Waking Life (2001)
13. 28 Days Later (2002)
14. WALL-E (2008)
15. George Washington (2000)
16. The New World (2005)
17. The Girl in the Cafe (2005)
18. The Return (2003)
19. Baran (2002)
20. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Little Miss Sunshine
High Fidelity
Wall-E
About a Boy
The Dark Knight
The Departed
Reign Over Me
Serenity
The Royal Tennenbaums
Dan in Real Life
Hot fuzz
Shaun of the Dead
Once
No Country For Old Men
The Dark Knight
The Lord Of the Rings Trilogy
Kill Bill (I and II)
Almost Famous
There Will Be Blood
Children of Men
Walle
The Road to perdition
300
Black Snake Moan
Crank
Grand Tarino
Stranger Than Fiction
1 In the Mood for Love
2 Gosford Park
3 Once
4 Adaptation
5 Hero
6 O Brother Where Art Thou
7 House of Flying Daggers
8 Persepolis
9 Billy Elliot
10 Mulholland Drive
The Squid and the Whale
Children of Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pan's Labyrinth
Lost in Translation
No Country For Old Men
The Motorcycle Diaries
Almost Famous
Mystic River
Sideways
in no particular order
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. A History of Violence
5. Adaptation
6. Kill Bill (vol. 1 and 2)
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Children of Men
9. No Country For Old Men
10. A Mighty Wind
11. (tie) Wonder Boys / High Fidelity / Almost Famous
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. City of God
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. (500) Days of Summer
7. Memento
8. Me and You and Everyone We Know
9. Once
10. The Departed
1. City of God
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Squid and the Whale
5. Adaptation
6. Half Nelson
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. High Fidelity
9. Once
10. The Dark Knight
Honorable Mention:
The Visitor
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Wonderboys
Traffic
Garden State
Sideways
Lost in Translation
1. Gosford Park
2. Amelie
3. Hot Fuzz
4. Wall-e
5. Kill Bill
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. The Life Aquatic
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. Batman Begins
10. Star Trek
Note: You guys are missing a few really really big movies from your list. Since "The Fall" was filmed over a long period, its having been an 00s movie is debatable. But "Let the Right One In" and "The Orphanage" aren't included here, and they NEED to be. I'd have put them on my list, only I didn't know if they would count, since they weren't posted as options.
1. Gomorrah (2009)
2. Lost in Translation (2004)
3. Kill Bill vol. 1 & vol. 2 (2004)
4. Elephant (2004)
5. Moulin Rouge (2001)
6. Children of Men (2006)
7. Minority Report (2002)
8. Volver (2006)
9. Talk to Her (2002)
10. Waltz With Bashir (2008)
Mulholland Drive
Synecdoche, New York
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
The Royal Tenenbaums
City of God
Mystic River
Vanilla Sky
No Country for Old Men
Match Point
Gladiator
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
2. Persepolis (2007)
3. Thank You For Smoking (2006)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
5. Ratatouille (2007)
6. Ledereen Beroemd! (Everybody’s Famous) (2000)
7. Match Point (2005)
8. Once (2007)
9. Shaun of the Dead
10. The Edukators (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amelie
Memento
Lost In Translation
A Scanner Darkly
Pan's Labyrinth
The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring
Wall-E
The Life Aquatic
Children of Men
1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Rushmore
3. The Squid and the Whale
4. Triplets of Belleville
5. The Man Who Wasn't There
6. The Departed
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. High Fidelity
9. Lost In Translation
10. Everything Is Illuminated