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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    Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue

    2000 — a.k.a. Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 270 new

    Almost Famous

    2000, in 9 top lists Check
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    American Psycho

    2000, in 12 top lists Check
  4. 109 new

    Amores perros

    2000, in 17 top lists Check
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    Batoru rowaiaru

    2000 — a.k.a. Battle Royale, in 9 top lists Check
  6. 601 new

    Billy Elliot

    2000, in 7 top lists Check
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    Capitães de Abril

    2000 — a.k.a. April Captains, in 1 top list Check
  8. 449 new

    Cast Away

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
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    Chopper

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 525 new

    Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages

    2000 — a.k.a. Code Unknown, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 126 new

    Dancer in the Dark

    2000, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 993 new

    Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha

    2000 — a.k.a. Dead or Alive 2: Birds, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 997 new

    El Bola

    2000 — a.k.a. Pellet, in 1 top list Check
  14. 17 new

    Fa yeung nin wah

    2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check
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    Final Destination

    2000, in 1 top list Check
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    George Washington

    2000, in 5 top lists Check
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    Ginger Snaps

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  18. 65 new

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
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    Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

    2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 520 new

    Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA

    2000 — a.k.a. Joint Security Area, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 133 new

    Guizi lai le

    2000 — a.k.a. Devils on the Doorstep, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 248 new

    Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien

    2000 — a.k.a. With a Friend Like Harry..., in 1 top list Check
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    Hera Pheri

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 711 new

    High Fidelity

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 276 new

    Im Juli

    2000 — a.k.a. In July, in 0 top lists Check
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    Malèna

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 720 new

    Musíme si pomáhat

    2000 — a.k.a. Divided We Fall, in 2 top lists Check
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    No Quarto da Vanda

    2000 — a.k.a. In Vanda's Room, in 6 top lists Check
  30. 95 new

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  31. 336 new

    Otesánek

    2000 — a.k.a. Greedy Guts, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 325 new

    Princes et princesses

    2000 — a.k.a. Princes and Princesses, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 9 new

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  34. 505 new

    Sånger från andra våningen

    2000 — a.k.a. Songs from the Second Floor, in 14 top lists Check
  35. 567 new

    Sexy Beast

    2000, in 8 top lists Check
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    Snatch

    2000, in 11 top lists Check
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    Sous le sable

    2000 — a.k.a. Under the Sand, in 0 top lists Check
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    Takhté siah

    2000 — a.k.a. Blackboards, in 4 top lists Check
  39. 608 new

    Tillsammans

    2000 — a.k.a. Together, in 9 top lists Check
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    Traffic

    2000, in 7 top lists Check
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    Unbreakable

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
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    Werckmeister harmóniák

    2000 — a.k.a. Werckmeister Harmonies, in 12 top lists Check
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    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
  44. 33 new

    Yi yi

    2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check
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    You Can Count on Me

    2000, in 2 top lists Check
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    Zamani barayé masti asbha

    2000 — a.k.a. A Time for Drunken Horses, in 3 top lists Check
  47. 361 new

    Zhantai

    2000 — a.k.a. Platform, in 10 top lists Check
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    A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    2001, in 11 top lists Check
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    Abril Despedaçado

    2001 — a.k.a. Behind the Sun, in 2 top lists Check
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    Band of Brothers

    2001, in 2 top lists Check
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