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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Before Sunset
2004, in 18 top lists Check -
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Hable con ella
2002 — a.k.a. Talk to Her, in 12 top lists Check -
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Fa yeung nin wah
2000 — a.k.a. In the Mood for Love, in 30 top lists Check -
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004, in 28 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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Midnight in Paris
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
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Amour
2012, in 15 top lists Check -
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Ruang rak noi nid mahasan
2003 — a.k.a. Last Life in the Universe, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les Misérables
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
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La meglio gioventù
2003 — a.k.a. The Best of Youth, in 12 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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Good Bye Lenin!
2003, in 8 top lists Check -
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Mr. Nobody
2009, in 4 top lists Check -
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Brokeback Mountain
2005, in 21 top lists Check -
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Moonrise Kingdom
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
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Before Midnight
2013, in 6 top lists Check -
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Gegen die Wand
2004 — a.k.a. Head-On, in 11 top lists Check -
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2046
2004, in 6 top lists Check -
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Sud pralad
2004 — a.k.a. Tropical Malady, in 10 top lists Check -
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Dolls
2002, in 1 top list Check -
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Le conseguenze dell'amore
2004 — a.k.a. The Consequences of Love, in 5 top lists Check -
167 new
La vie d'Adèle
2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check -
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Bin-jip
2004 — a.k.a. 3-Iron, in 9 top lists Check -
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Frida
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wo hu cang long
2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check -
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Blue Valentine
2010, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Illusionist
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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Mies vailla menneisyyttä
2002 — a.k.a. The Man Without a Past, in 6 top lists Check -
231 new
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010, in 6 top lists Check -
232 new
Ah-ga-ssi
2016 — a.k.a. The Handmaiden, in 13 top lists Check -
242 new
Match Point
2005, in 3 top lists Check -
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Moulin Rouge!
2001, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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Almost Famous
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
276 new
Im Juli
2000 — a.k.a. In July, in 0 top lists Check -
284 new
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014, in 8 top lists Check -
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Juno
2007, in 12 top lists Check -
311 new
Jeux d'enfants
2003 — a.k.a. Love Me If You Dare, in 1 top list Check -
315 new
The Dreamers
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
326 new
Ni na bian ji dian
2001 — a.k.a. What Time Is It There?, in 6 top lists Check -
328 new
L'enfant
2005 — a.k.a. The Child, in 8 top lists Check -
333 new
Survive Style 5+
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
334 new
Her
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
340 new
The Constant Gardener
2005, in 1 top list Check -
347 new
Sideways
2004, in 8 top lists Check -
350 new
Closer
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
371 new
Mar adentro
2004 — a.k.a. The Sea Inside, in 5 top lists Check -
372 new
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check -
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Punch-Drunk Love
2002, in 12 top lists Check -
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Slumdog Millionaire
2008, in 13 top lists Check
Last updated on May 5, 2021; source