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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Inception
2010, in 21 top lists Check -
11 new
Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
15 new
Interstellar
2014, in 13 top lists Check -
22 new
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004, in 28 top lists Check -
62 new
Children of Men
2006, in 12 top lists Check -
82 new
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015, in 23 top lists Check -
107 new
Blade Runner 2049
2017, in 9 top lists Check -
117 new
District 9
2009, in 10 top lists Check -
129 new
Arrival
2016, in 11 top lists Check -
159 new
The Mist
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
177 new
The Man from Earth
2007, in 1 top list Check -
202 new
Moon
2009, in 5 top lists Check -
262 new
Melancholia
2011, in 10 top lists Check -
277 new
Snowpiercer
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
295 new
Gwoemul
2006 — a.k.a. The Host, in 11 top lists Check -
299 new
Avengers: Infinity War
2018, in 8 top lists Check -
301 new
The Martian
2015, in 5 top lists Check -
334 new
Her
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
349 new
Minority Report
2002, in 8 top lists Check -
381 new
Black Mirror: Shut Up and Dance
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
390 new
Red Cockroaches
2003, in 0 top lists Check -
392 new
Looper
2012, in 2 top lists Check -
450 new
G.O.R.A.
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
451 new
Paprika
2006, in 7 top lists Check -
461 new
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
478 new
Under the Skin
2013, in 10 top lists Check -
502 new
Ex Machina
2014, in 5 top lists Check -
557 new
Logan
2017, in 9 top lists Check -
559 new
Black Mirror: San Junipero
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
594 new
Watchmen
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
598 new
Kaboom
2010, in 0 top lists Check -
600 new
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001, in 11 top lists Check -
606 new
Equilibrium
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
610 new
Gravity
2013, in 12 top lists Check -
629 new
Primer
2004, in 6 top lists Check -
670 new
Unbreakable
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
685 new
Los cronocrímenes
2007 — a.k.a. Timecrimes, in 1 top list Check -
704 new
Okja
2017, in 2 top lists Check -
732 new
Black Mirror: Nosedive
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
740 new
Cloud Atlas
2012, in 1 top list Check -
749 new
The Fountain
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
784 new
Innocence
2004 — a.k.a. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, in 3 top lists Check -
831 new
Edge of Tomorrow
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
846 new
Monsters
2010, in 3 top lists Check -
849 new
Star Trek
2009, in 5 top lists Check -
855 new
A Scanner Darkly
2006, in 3 top lists Check -
888 new
A.R.O.G
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
894 new
The Butterfly Effect
2004, in 0 top lists Check -
903 new
Attack the Block
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
920 new
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014, in 3 top lists Check
Last updated on May 5, 2021; source