The Top 250 Movies of the 2000s

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The Top 250 Movies of the 2000s
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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11 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson PG13 -
49 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson PG13 -
72 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
74 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson PG13 -
90 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese R -
95 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
100 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino R -
123 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright R -
129 Kill Bill Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino R -
131 No Country for Old Men 2007 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
135 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong Kar-Wai PG -
136 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott R -
143 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry R -
144 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho NR -
164 Iron Man 2008 Jon Favreau PG13 -
171 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
187 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund R -
198 WALL·E 2008 Andrew Stanton PG -
209 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird PG -
224 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton G -
235 Kill Bill Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino R -
236 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
238 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
239 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman PG13 -
243 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro R -
244 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón R -
246 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh PG13 -
253 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel & Ethan Coen PG13 -
257 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
264 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie R -
272 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter G -
278 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
295 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
303 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright R -
313 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell PG13 -
314 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet R -
321 Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams PG13 -
332 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly R -
354 Up 2009 Pete Docter, Bob Peterson PG -
358 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron R -
375 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To NR -
380 28 Days Later... 2002 Danny Boyle R -
383 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones R -
386 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh R -
398 V for Vendetta 2006 James McTeigue R -
411 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe R -
424 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski PG13 -
438 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon PG13 -
443 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky NC17 -
448 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino R -
464 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass PG13 -
469 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass PG13 -
473 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky R -
474 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi PG13 -
493 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola R -
495 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
503 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón PG -
517 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears R -
519 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay PG13 -
520 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp R -
525 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer PG13 -
529 Zombieland 2009 Ruben Fleischer R -
534 The Hangover 2009 Todd Phillips R -
546 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola R -
552 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck R -
553 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird G -
559 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese R -
560 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson R -
572 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan R -
573 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris R -
587 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis PG13 -
592 Once 2006 John Carney R -
595 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
599 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson R -
603 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black R -
620 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard PG13 -
621 The 40-Year-Old Virgin 2005 Judd Apatow R -
631 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro R -
634 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder R -
635 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku NR -
665 (500) Days of Summer 2009 Marc Webb PG13 -
668 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson PG -
681 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel PG13 -
682 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater R -
684 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee PG13 -
686 Yi Yi: A One and a Two 2000 Edward Yang NR -
689 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson PG -
694 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi PG13 -
695 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman R -
700 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan PG13 -
708 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood R -
713 300 2007 Zack Snyder R -
721 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski R -
732 Adaptation 2002 Spike Jonze R -
743 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau, Alan Mak R -
753 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton PG13 -
762 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus PG -
767 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman PG13 -
780 X2 2003 Bryan Singer PG13 -
783 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua R -
791 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow R -
796 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh R -
803 Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon R -
804 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard R -
812 Avatar 2009 James Cameron PG13 -
815 Mother 2009 Bong Joon Ho NR -
826 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott R -
828 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik R -
836 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Mike Newell PG13 -
843 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch R -
849 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher R -
854 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella R -
887 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002 Chan-wook Park R -
909 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann R -
914 Tropic Thunder 2008 Ben Stiller R -
924 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 David Yates PG -
926 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest NR -
938 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 David Yates PG13 -
949 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth PG13 -
950 Up in the Air 2009 Jason Reitman R -
958 Ip Man 2008 Wilson Yip NR -
960 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg R -
965 The Station Agent 2003 Tom McCarthy R -
973 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu NR -
976 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Ben Affleck R -
977 A Serious Man 2009 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
986 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke R -
991 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold PG13 -
1002 Amores Perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu R -
1006 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg R -
1009 Lady Vengeance 2005 Chan-wook Park R -
1015 In the Loop 2009 Armando Iannucci NR -
1017 Into the Wild 2007 Sean Penn R -
1018 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel PG13 -
1020 You Can Count on Me 2000 Kenneth Lonergan R -
1045 Caché 2005 Michael Haneke R -
1046 Dear Zachary 2008 Kurt Kuenne NR -
1049 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot PG -
1051 Y Tu Mamá También 2001 Alfonso Cuarón NR -
1055 Hedwig and The Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell R -
1058 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood R -
1060 Knocked Up 2007 Judd Apatow R -
1071 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold R -
1073 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes R -
1104 School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater PG13 -
1124 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas PG13 -
1130 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Nicholas Stoller R -
1131 [REC] 2007 Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza R -
1132 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Chris Columbus PG -
1133 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1135 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood PG13 -
1149 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen NR -
1150 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant R -
1166 The Proposition 2005 John Hillcoat R -
1175 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Mamoru Hosoda NR -
1176 Tokyo Godfathers 2003 Satoshi Kon PG13 -
1180 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon PG -
1196 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows NR -
1198 The Orphanage 2007 J.A. Bayona R -
1202 Thank You for Smoking 2005 Jason Reitman R -
1215 Elf 2003 Jon Favreau PG -
1221 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog R -
1223 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi PG13 -
1224 Sherlock Holmes 2009 Guy Ritchie PG13 -
1228 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki NC17 -
1230 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff R -
1233 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh R -
1237 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
1238 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick R -
1253 Inside Man 2006 Spike Lee R -
1255 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier R -
1260 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick R -
1271 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer R -
1272 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang PG13 -
1276 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Ki-duk Kim R -
1292 The King of Kong 2007 Seth Gordon PG13 -
1301 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis R -
1302 Little Children 2006 Todd Field R -
1303 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick PG -
1306 Wedding Crashers 2005 David Dobkin R -
1310 Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters PG13 -
1313 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg R -
1319 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel R -
1321 Old School 2003 Todd Phillips R -
1329 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson R -
1355 Sunshine 2007 Danny Boyle R -
1362 Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 2001 Shinichirô Watanabe NR -
1370 Black Dynamite 2009 Scott Sanders R -
1377 Hellboy 2004 Guillermo del Toro PG13 -
1381 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley PG13 -
1383 The Fog of War 2003 Errol Morris PG13 -
1384 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney PG -
1393 Pineapple Express 2008 David Gordon Green R -
1399 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson R -
1400 The Squid and the Whale 2005 Noah Baumbach R -
1404 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George PG13 -
1428 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee R -
1436 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller PG13 -
1441 Timecrimes 2007 Nacho Vigalondo R -
1454 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain R -
1472 American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini R -
1474 Enter the Void 2009 Gaspar Noé NR -
1478 Frost/Nixon 2008 Ron Howard R -
1479 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff R -
1488 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho NR -
1494 Remember the Titans 2000 Boaz Yakin PG -
1503 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh PG13 -
1505 Grindhouse 2007 Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino R -
1506 Mr. Nobody 2009 Jaco van Dormael NR -
1512 Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki G -
1519 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese PG13 -
1527 I Am Legend 2007 Francis Lawrence PG13 -
1529 Dogtooth 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos NR -
1538 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke NR -
1540 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1544 Stranger Than Fiction 2006 Marc Forster PG13 -
1567 A Single Man 2009 Tom Ford R -
1572 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow R -
1582 Michael Clayton 2007 Tony Gilroy R -
1583 Moulin Rouge 2001 Baz Luhrmann PG13 -
1585 Bronson 2008 Nicolas Winding Refn R -
1594 Dodgeball 2004 Rawson Marshall Thurber PG13 -
1596 The Brothers Bloom 2008 Rian Johnson PG13 -
1601 An Education 2009 Lone Scherfig PG13 -
1602 I Love You, Man 2009 John Hamburg R -
1606 Irreversible 2002 Gaspar Noé NR -
1611 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee R -
1614 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson R -
1615 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman R -
1616 The Good, The Bad, The Weird 2008 Jee-woon Kim R -
1619 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne R -
1620 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 2008 Joss Whedon NR -
1627 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Niels Arden Oplev NR -
1630 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood R -
1632 Meet the Parents 2000 Jay Roach PG13 -
1633 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker R -
1635 Joint Security Area 2000 Chan-wook Park NR -
1636 Half Nelson 2006 Ryan Fleck R -
1646 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike NR -
1648 2046 2004 Wong Kar-Wai R -
1656 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch R -
1660 In America 2002 Jim Sheridan PG13 -
1663 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess PG -
1670 The Visitor 2007 Tom McCarthy PG13 -
1679 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Gore Verbinski PG13 -
1685 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 David Fincher PG13 -
1686 Lars and the Real Girl 2007 Craig Gillespie PG13 -
1692 The Illusionist 2006 Neil Burger PG13 -
1696 Kung Fu Panda 2008 John Stevenson PG -

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