Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 2001 | Peter Jackson | 43 |
2 | The Dark Knight | 2008 | Christopher Nolan | 47 |
3 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 2003 | Peter Jackson | 48 |
4 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 2002 | Peter Jackson | 67 |
5 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 76 |
6 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 79 |
7 | WALL•E | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | 82 |
8 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 119 |
9 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 124 |
10 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 128 |
11 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Kar-Wai Wong | 135 |
12 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 137 |
13 | Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | 139 |
14 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 146 |
15 | There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 147 |
16 | Brokeback Mountain | 2005 | Ang Lee | 153 |
17 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 161 |
18 | Finding Nemo | 2003 | Andrew Stanton | 168 |
19 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 176 |
20 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 188 |
21 | No Country for Old Men | 2007 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 189 |
22 | Oldboy | 2003 | Chan-wook Park | 190 |
23 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 191 |
24 | The Incredibles | 2004 | Brad Bird | 205 |
25 | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 218 |
26 | The Departed | 2006 | Martin Scorsese | 238 |
27 | Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | 258 |
28 | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | 259 |
29 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 260 |
30 | Avatar | 2009 | James Cameron | 262 |
31 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 269 |
32 | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | 272 |
33 | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Quentin Tarantino | 274 |
34 | Before Sunset | 2004 | Richard Linklater | 315 |
35 | Million Dollar Baby | 2004 | Clint Eastwood | 331 |
36 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | 2003 | Gore Verbinski | 344 |
37 | Shrek | 2001 | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | 353 |
38 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 357 |
39 | The Bourne Ultimatum | 2007 | Paul Greengrass | 384 |
40 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 394 |
41 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 395 |
42 | Monsters, Inc. | 2001 | Pete Docter | 397 |
43 | The Hurt Locker | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | 399 |
44 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | 400 |
45 | Hidden | 2005 | Michael Haneke | 409 |
46 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 412 |
47 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 414 |
48 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 424 |
49 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 426 |
50 | Casino Royale | 2006 | Martin Campbell | 431 |
51 | The Royal Tenenbaums | 2001 | Wes Anderson | 434 |
52 | Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Quentin Tarantino | 439 |
53 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 449 |
54 | Amores perros | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 457 |
55 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | 2006 | Larry Charles | 458 |
56 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 472 |
57 | The Wrestler | 2008 | Darren Aronofsky | 475 |
58 | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | 2004 | Adam McKay | 491 |
59 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 503 |
60 | A History of Violence | 2005 | David Cronenberg | 509 |
61 | Sin City | 2005 | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 515 |
62 | Minority Report | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 516 |
63 | District 9 | 2009 | Neill Blomkamp | 518 |
64 | Juno | 2007 | Jason Reitman | 522 |
65 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | 524 |
66 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
67 | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Lars von Trier | 532 |
68 | Iron Man | 2008 | Jon Favreau | 537 |
69 | Yi yi: A One and a Two... | 2000 | Edward Yang | 552 |
70 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
71 | The Prestige | 2006 | Christopher Nolan | 555 |
72 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
73 | Howl's Moving Castle | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki | 573 |
74 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 577 |
75 | A.I.: Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Steven Spielberg | 593 |
76 | Battle Royale | 2000 | Kinji Fukasaku | 600 |
77 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 601 |
78 | Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne | 606 |
79 | Little Miss Sunshine | 2006 | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | 607 |
80 | Hot Fuzz | 2007 | Edgar Wright | 608 |
81 | The 40 Year Old Virgin | 2005 | Judd Apatow | 609 |
82 | Chicago | 2002 | Rob Marshall | 617 |
83 | Star Trek | 2009 | J.J. Abrams | 623 |
84 | Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | 626 |
85 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog | 629 |
86 | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Michael Moore | 630 |
87 | Talk to Her | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | 634 |
88 | Love Actually | 2003 | Richard Curtis | 636 |
89 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 652 |
90 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 655 |
91 | Moon | 2009 | Duncan Jones | 660 |
92 | 300 | 2006 | Zack Snyder | 666 |
93 | Snatch. | 2000 | Guy Ritchie | 673 |
94 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 681 |
95 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 | Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak | 685 |
96 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | 689 |
97 | Napoleon Dynamite | 2004 | Jared Hess | 690 |
98 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | Wes Anderson | 694 |
99 | V for Vendetta | 2005 | James McTeigue | 705 |
100 | Big Fish | 2003 | Tim Burton | 711 |
101 | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | 717 |
102 | The Notebook | 2004 | Nick Cassavetes | 732 |
103 | X2 | 2003 | Bryan Singer | 736 |
104 | The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | Paul Greengrass | 737 |
105 | Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 748 |
106 | Mystic River | 2003 | Clint Eastwood | 759 |
107 | Atonement | 2007 | Joe Wright | 771 |
108 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 777 |
109 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | 779 |
110 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | 789 |
111 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 797 |
112 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
113 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu | 808 |
114 | Mean Girls | 2004 | Mark Waters | 815 |
115 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 827 |
116 | Punch-Drunk Love | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 829 |
117 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | 837 |
118 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 842 |
119 | The Hangover | 2009 | Todd Phillips | 844 |
120 | In Bruges | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | 846 |
121 | Best in Show | 2000 | Christopher Guest | 849 |
122 | Memories of Murder | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho | 852 |
123 | The Bourne Identity | 2002 | Doug Liman | 854 |
124 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 855 |
125 | Zoolander | 2001 | Ben Stiller | 866 |
126 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | 870 |
127 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 886 |
128 | Adaptation. | 2002 | Spike Jonze | 888 |
129 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 2000 | Béla Tarr | 890 |
130 | Serenity | 2005 | Joss Whedon | 891 |
131 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | 895 |
132 | Hero | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | 898 |
133 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 902 |
134 | Brick | 2005 | Rian Johnson | 919 |
135 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki | 924 |
136 | The Gleaners & I | 2000 | Agnès Varda | 926 |
137 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 2003 | Errol Morris | 929 |
138 | Team America: World Police | 2004 | Trey Parker | 936 |
139 | Sexy Beast | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | 941 |
140 | Once | 2007 | John Carney | 942 |
141 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 945 |
142 | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Michael Haneke | 946 |
143 | Black Hawk Down | 2001 | Ridley Scott | 947 |
144 | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord and Nick Park | 962 |
145 | Waking Life | 2001 | Richard Linklater | 970 |
146 | Ocean's Eleven | 2001 | Steven Soderbergh | 984 |
147 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 988 |
148 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 1006 |
149 | Primer | 2004 | Shane Carruth | 1011 |
150 | United 93 | 2006 | Paul Greengrass | 1012 |
151 | King Kong | 2005 | Peter Jackson | 1027 |
152 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 1029 |
153 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 1030 |
154 | Zodiac | 2007 | David Fincher | 1037 |
155 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | 1046 |
156 | Murderball | 2005 | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro | 1051 |
157 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1052 |
158 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | 1053 |
159 | Crash | 2004 | Paul Haggis | 1054 |
160 | 3:10 to Yuma | 2007 | James Mangold | 1059 |
161 | Kung Fu Hustle | 2004 | Stephen Chow | 1070 |
162 | Bridget Jones's Diary | 2001 | Sharon Maguire | 1091 |
163 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Ki-duk Kim | 1098 |
164 | Far from Heaven | 2002 | Todd Haynes | 1099 |
165 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | 2005 | Shane Black | 1101 |
166 | (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | Marc Webb | 1106 |
167 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff | 1112 |
168 | Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | Charlie Kaufman | 1123 |
169 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard | 1126 |
170 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 | Peter Weir | 1130 |
171 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 1131 |
172 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | 2005 | George Lucas | 1139 |
173 | The Best of Youth | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana | 1147 |
174 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | Sam Mendes | 1149 |
175 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 1151 |
176 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 1153 |
177 | Elf | 2003 | Jon Favreau | 1154 |
178 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | 1158 |
179 | Ice Age | 2002 | Chris Wedge | 1163 |
180 | Taken | 2008 | Pierre Morel | 1166 |
181 | X-Men | 2000 | Bryan Singer | 1167 |
182 | Paprika | 2006 | Satoshi Kon | 1168 |
183 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant | 1170 |
184 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | 1171 |
185 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | 1172 |
186 | Touching the Void | 2003 | Kevin Macdonald | 1180 |
187 | Monster | 2003 | Patty Jenkins | 1183 |
188 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | 1199 |
189 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows | 1205 |
190 | Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | Joe Wright | 1208 |
191 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 1211 |
192 | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 1215 |
193 | 25th Hour | 2002 | Spike Lee | 1219 |
194 | Volver | 2006 | Pedro Almodóvar | 1221 |
195 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1228 |
196 | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | 1232 |
197 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1234 |
198 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford | 1239 |
199 | Friday Night Lights | 2004 | Peter Berg and Josh Pate | 1249 |
200 | March of the Penguins | 2005 | Luc Jacquet | 1252 |