Favorite Movies of the 21st Century

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For IMDb list please follow the link: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082436943/

This list is a personal favorites list, and the films are chosen and listed according to subjective preferences, between 8.240 movies, that match criterias below.

The criterias for being chosen for this list are listed below.
- All movies must be released in year 2000, or later.
- Feature films, documentaries, TV movies, mini series, movies released directly to video (or internet) and TV-episodes from anthology series, where the episodes are unrelated, are accepted. TV-series and short movies are not accepted.
- All movies must be 45 minutes, or longer.
- Adult movies are accepted. However, no adult movie could make it through Top 1.000 in 2021.
The list is prepared on 31.01.2021. Movies I watched later are excluded. List is going to be updated annually.

For detailed info please follow the link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1peGnA0ie29RIOWb42f5rtoDG-2_W3UQudlSYFZOnsZA/

Directors:
- 712 directors are represented in the list.
- Christopher Nolan is the most time represented director with 8 movies. (In list order: Memento, Inception, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, The Prestige, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk)
- Wes Anderson, Hirokazu Koreeda, Richard Linklater, Takashi Miike, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier follow him with 7 representations each.
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Bong Joon Ho each has 6 movies in this list, while Fatih Akin, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Darren Aronofsky, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Coen Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, David Fincher, Michael Haneke, Peter Jackson, James Mangold, Chan-wook Park, Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve each has 5.

Countries:
- Movies from 58 different countries are chosen for the list.
- For co-productions; the first country listed on IMDb is counted as the production country.
- USA is the most time represented country with 338 movies. United Kingdom (105), France (73), Turkey* (63), Japan (39), Canada (31), Spain (29), Germany and South Korea (28) are coming behind USA respectively.
*Turkey has a competitive advantage at this point, for being my home county, as I watched a very high number of Turkish movies.

Genres*:
- Drama (760), Comedy (250), Thriller (250), Crime (187) and Romance (166) are the most common genres in this list.
- Adult (0), News (2), Western (12), Musical (19) and Sport (19) are the least common genres.
* Genre information on IMDb is accepted as source.

Release Years:
- The list contains movies from 2000 to 2020.
- 2004 seems to be the most succesful year with 74 entries. While 2002 (70), 2003 (63), 2007 (56) and 2008 (56) follows it respectively.

Actors/Actresses:
- More than 40.000 different actors and actresses appeared (including voice actors and archive footages) in these movies.
- Arnold Montey acts in 29 movies from the list, according to IMDb. However he is not credited in any of them.
- Brad Pitt (16), Cate Blanchett (13), Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Serkan Keskin (12) are the most time credited actors and actresses.

IMDb Ratings*:
- Average IMDb Rating for the movies from the list is 7.6.
- Top 5 titles with the highest IMDb rating are Band of Brothers (9.4), Chernobyl (9.4), Planet Earth (9.4), The Last Dance (9.1) and Sahsiyet (9.1). All of them are mini series.
- Movies with the highest IMDb rating are The Dark Knight (9.0), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (8.9), Inception (8.8), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (8.8) and Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (8.8).
- Titles with the lowest IMDb rating are Red Cockroaches (4.7), Srpski film (5.0), Cosmopolis (5.1), Spring Breakers (5.3) and Twentynine Palms (5.3).
- Ombres vives ...une autre histoire du cinema... is the only movie in the list that has no IMDb rating due to not having 5 votes.
*Ratings are listed as of 04.05.2021.

Note: The ranking of movies, especially the ones below 500, is likely to change dramatically in the next version.

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  1. 137 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  2. 12 new

    The Dark Knight

    2008, in 27 top lists Check
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    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 3 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  5. 6 new

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 22 new

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  7. 51 new

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  8. 2 new

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
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    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 8 new

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  11. 27 new

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  12. 5 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  13. 66 new

    Inglourious Basterds

    2009, in 17 top lists Check
  14. 10 new

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
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    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  16. 146 new

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  17. 4 new

    Cidade de Deus

    2002 — a.k.a. City of God, in 22 top lists Check
  18. 31 new

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    2003, in 18 top lists Check
  19. 11 new

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  20. 17 new

    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
  21. 122 new

    Django Unchained

    2012, in 13 top lists Check
  22. 9 new

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  23. 44 new

    The Departed

    2006, in 20 top lists Check
  24. 65 new

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  25. 42 new

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  26. 36 new

    Black Swan

    2010, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 82 new

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  28. 100 new

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    2014, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 234 new

    Drive

    2011, in 8 top lists Check
  30. 483 new

    Toy Story 3

    2010, in 16 top lists Check
  31. 224 new

    The Social Network

    2010, in 13 top lists Check
  32. 62 new

    Children of Men

    2006, in 12 top lists Check
  33. 194 new

    Finding Nemo

    2003, in 17 top lists Check
  34. 48 new

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  35. 49 new

    Up

    2009, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 187 new

    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
  37. 68 new

    Batman Begins

    2005, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 94 new

    The Pianist

    2002, in 21 top lists Check
  39. 92 new

    The Incredibles

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
  40. 334 new

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  41. 105 new

    The Wolf of Wall Street

    2013, in 13 top lists Check
  42. 15 new

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  43. 138 new

    Whiplash

    2014, in 14 top lists Check
  44. 64 new

    Das Leben der Anderen

    2006 — a.k.a. The Lives of Others, in 20 top lists Check
  45. 55 new

    Shaun of the Dead

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
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    Låt den rätte komma in

    2008 — a.k.a. Let the Right One In, in 14 top lists Check
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    The Dark Knight Rises

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  48. 60 new

    Kill Bill: Vol. 2

    2004, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 102 new

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
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    Avatar

    2009, in 13 top lists Check
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