The trouble with most “Greatest Movies” lists is that they have to include boring old stuff from the 50’s that nobody actually wants to watch anymore.
Sure, there’s still a few good old flicks, but if I’m going to be renting a movie for the night I want something a bit more recent. With that in mind, I present the 100 greatest movies since the year 2000 (feel free to add your own picks in the comments):
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
300 (2006)
American Gangster (2007)
American Splendor (2003)
Amores Perros (2000)
Amélie (2001)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007)
Aviator, The (2004)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Before Sunset (2004)
Believer, The (2001)
Big Fish (2003)
Black Snake Moan (2006)
Blow (2001)
Boiler Room (2000)
Borat (2006)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Capote (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
Chocolat (2000)
Cinderella Man (2005)
City of God (2002)
Closer (2004)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Departed, The (2006)
Descent, The (2005)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Downfall (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Frozen River (2008)
Girlfight (2000)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Host, The (2007)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Hustle & Flow (2005)
Incredibles, The (2004)
Into the Wild (2007)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Ju-on: The Grudge (2003)
Juno (2007)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Kite Runner, The (2007)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Little Otik (2000)
Lives of Others, The (2006)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Matchstick Men (2003)
Memento (2000)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Milk (2008)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Munich (2005)
Mystic River (2003)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Old School (2003)
Oldboy (2003)
Orphanage, The (2007)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Pianist, The (2002)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Prestige, The (2006)
Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006)
Ratatouille (2007)
Ray (2004)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Return, The (2003)
Serenity (2005)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Sideways (2004)
Sin City (2005)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Snatch. (2000)
Spirited Away (2001)
Sunshine (2007)
Superbad (2007)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Syriana (2005)
Talk to Her (2002)
Talk to Me (2007)
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Thirteen (2003)
Traffic (2000)
United 93 (2006)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Wall-E (2008)
{ 133 comments… read them below or add one }
where the heck is twilight!
surley Harry Potter had a couple that could make it into this list!!!!
Moulin Rouge
I think you did a great job compiling this list…..Twilight wasnt that great, maybe if your 12 or 12 and a hlf or even 12 and three quarters just no
twilight sucked
Twilight=worst movie ever… So no…
that movie sucked ass
What about Fight Club or I am Legend
the notebook, HELLO!
pirates of the carribean two nd three.
the harry potter series.
atonement
pride and prejudice
…….you forgot a lot i can go on and on./
HA! twilight is wayyy overrated… but i would like to know where transformers is.. Suckkkyyyyy… I should make my own top 100……
Twilight is bullshit, that’s why. Gothic/romantic/soap opera/psuedo-vampiric bullshit.
Obviously not on this list.
That movie wasn’t great, the books way better.
TWILIGHT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where it should be! To put it bluntly its not one of the best films in the last nine years!
I was wondering is this thing like personally opinions or an autual proffosional
Because I think that the two movies Dumber and Dumber (with Jim Carrey, forgot what the other guys name was, but whatever) and, without a paddle (with the guy from the scooby doo, but it is a real life one non animated!!)
thanks
hope that you watch and then put them on, they are the funniest movies alive, I have cried laughing so hard from without a paddle!!!
thanks again
Rose <3
I think that Memoirs of a Geisha is the only one missing
Ugh!I hate when people are obsessed with twilight.I love slumdog millionaire!its sad funny and so GOOD!
Where is being it on in it to win it?I love all those movies,their my good luck charms,they helped me and my squad when 1st at all stars and we each got a 500 dollar saving bond to go to a certain college and cheer for them
Twilght was a TERRIBLE movie. It DOES NOT belong on that list, and it shall stay off, because the acting in it was atrocious and an orangatan would have done a better job as Bella than Kristin Stewart did.
Batman Begins or The Dark Knight?
Left off this list, because it was garbage.
Not on this list cause it was shit.
Twilight is nowhere. Because it sucks.
Yeah where is Twilight? lol well I really loved Slumdog millionaire. I also loved the pianist. I recommend the movie the Painted Veil. I think it is one of the saddest movies ever to watch. I cry every time I watch it and the Lion King. ok that is it.
hopefully rotting the pits of helllllllll!
Twilight is in the bin, like the rest of the rubbish.
The Dark Knight
Transformers 1
Vampires are not meant to fall in love…they are meant to kick ass
Dark Knight would be a nice add…pineapple express too…hilarious for anyone
How about Forgeting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne, or countless others?
THE DARK KNIGHT!??
Top movie of 2008 AND 2009..
I love how everyone who has left a comment asking for an awful movie has used simply atrocious spelling.. It just goes to show that small children and high school bimbo cheerleaders <3 twilight. Except for Victoria /thumbsup. My personal favorite is and always will be (probably?) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and it IS in fact on the list so i recommend that anyone reading these comments that actually wants to watch a decent movie.. Look it up on surfthechannel.com
wheres “Taken” probably better than any of these films
WHY ISNT HP IN DAT LIST JESUS MAN LYK…?
Sorry, but V for Vendetta for needs to be on this list.
and btw, where is Kingdom of Heaven?
the lion king? are you retarded?
Where’s forest gump? It’s an epic film and I think you should add it, that is all.
TWILIGHTS GREAT
Not a bad list, but……you could probably revise it and take off ones like Brokeback mountain, Sweeney Todd, Finding Neverland, 28 Weeks Later, United 93……..and then watch ones like Lucky Number Slevin, Running Scared, Anchorman, Gladiator, Tropic Thunder, The Dark Knight, Transformers, Fightclub, The Illusionist, Year One, Crash, and Gangs of New York. Just a suggestion..
I second that, the notebook ranks up there. V for Vendetta was good. On the note of animation although its really old, Anastasia is real good, what about Cars I didn’t see that.
twilight, harry potter, pirates 2 and 3 you’ve got to be kidding they are some of the worst movies around, so generic. The Shawshank Redemption is one that was left out that should be there. btw twilight is one of the worst movies around.
how about The Day after Tomorrow or Independence Day or I am legend or 2012 or TRANSFORMERS or Apollo 13 or The day the earth stood still.
Just a few for you to consider
Good work making the list!!
Dark Knight or Wedding Crashers……. WTF!?!
Pathfinder
Apocalypto
Death at a funeral
Joe Dirt
You people are retarded. This is his opinion, not yours. Why the hell are you suggesting movies that he may have never even have seen? Why should he add them if he doesn’t agree with them?
Twilight sucks and should not be on this list
twilight was so bad, i was so disappointed because i loved the books, although the more i read them the more i realise there not all that (and i’m 12). Good List though.
Twilight is not on here because it sucks.
“Oh Edward so hott” Really. This is why you watch a movie. I don’t think you can swear in this forum or I totally would.
Twilight is overrated, just a lot of screaming teenagers and desperate middle age mums have nothing better to do that rant about it.
The Dark Knight should be in there for sure, fantastic film. What about Crash? Does anyone think Ladder 49 deserves to be in there?
Wedding Crashers, Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Minority Report, Casino Royale, Bad Santa, Jarhead, Gan gs of New York, Knocked Up, Anchorman, and V for Vendetta also could have also been canidates