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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Ombres vives ...une autre histoire du cinema...
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
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Yi yi
2000 — a.k.a. Yi Yi: A One and a Two..., in 19 top lists Check -
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La pianiste
2001 — a.k.a. The Piano Teacher, in 7 top lists Check -
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Whiplash
2014, in 14 top lists Check -
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He ni zai yi qi
2002, in 1 top list Check -
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Almost Famous
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
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Samsara
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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Saraband
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
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Searching for Sugar Man
2012, in 6 top lists Check -
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Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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Zivot je cudo
2004 — a.k.a. Life Is a Miracle, in 1 top list Check -
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Coffee and Cigarettes
2003, in 1 top list Check -
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Ray
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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Inside Llewyn Davis
2013, in 8 top lists Check -
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001, in 10 top lists Check -
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Billy Elliot
2000, in 7 top lists Check -
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Once
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
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Taare Zameen Par
2007 — a.k.a. Like Stars on Earth, in 3 top lists Check -
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School of Rock
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
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Les choristes
2004 — a.k.a. The Chorus, in 2 top lists Check -
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High Fidelity
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
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Control
2007, in 1 top list Check -
741 new
Okuribito
2008 — a.k.a. Departures, in 8 top lists Check -
751 new
Du levande
2007 — a.k.a. You, the Living, in 6 top lists Check -
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Walk the Line
2005, in 4 top lists Check -
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Uçurtmam tellere takildi
2010, in 0 top lists Check -
788 new
A People Uncounted
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
860 new
deUsynlige
2008 — a.k.a. Troubled Water, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Boat That Rocked
2009 — a.k.a. Pirate Radio, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rudderless
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
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El violín
2005 — a.k.a. The Violin, in 1 top list Check -
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Beynelmilel
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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Bikur Ha-Tizmoret
2007 — a.k.a. The Band's Visit, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on May 5, 2021; source