01. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)
02. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
03. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
04. In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
05. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
06. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
07. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
08. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
09. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. The Social Network (David Fincher)
11. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
12. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
14. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
15. City of God (Fernando Mereilles)
16. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
17. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
18. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
19. Zodiac (David Fincher)
20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
21. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
23. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
24. Her (Spike Jonze)
25. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
26. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
27. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
28. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
29. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
30. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
31. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
32. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
33. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
34. WALL-E Andrew Stanton)
35. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
36. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
37. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
38. Portrait of A Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
39. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
40. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
41. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
42. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
43. Oldboy (Park Chan Wook)
44. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
45. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
46. ROMA (Alfonso Cuaron)
47. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
48. The Lives of Others (Florian Donnersmarck)
49. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
50. Up! (Pete Docter)
51. 12 Years A Slave (Steve McQueen)
52. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
53. Borat (Larry Charles)
54. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
55. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
56. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
57. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
58. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
59. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
60. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
61. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
62. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
63. Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton & Faris)
64. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
65. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
66. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
67. TAR (Todd Field)
68. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
69. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
70. Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
71. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
72. Carol (Todd Haynes)
73. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
74. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
75. Amour (Michael Haneke)
76. O Brother Where Art Thou (Joel & Ethan Coen)
77. Everything Everywhere All At Once (The Daniels)
78. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
79. Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
80. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
81. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
82. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
83. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
84. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
85. Anchorman (Adam McKay)
86. Past Lives (Celine Song)
87. The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
88. The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda)
89. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
90. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
91. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
92. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
93. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
94. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
95. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
96. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
97. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
98. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
99. Memories of A Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
100. Superbad (Greg Motolla)
Nolan leads the pack with 5 films in the top 100, follow by Cuarón (4), Coen (4), PTA (4), Tarantino (3), and Fincher (3).
Some of the submitted lists published include Edgar Wright, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, Pedro Almodovar, Bong Joon Ho, Sofia Coppola, Robert Eggers, Luca Guadagnino, Barry Jenkins, Sean Baker, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lee Chang-dong, Cristian Mungiu, and Joachim Trier.
I haven’t seen any of those movies. My favorite films of the century are “Unplanned,” “Sound of Freedom,” “I Heard the Bells” and “The Darkest Hour.”
never heard of most of these movies, and I’m glad about that!
In looking at that list I have only seen 5 of those movies.
My favorites not on this list were made in the 1930s, 40s, 50s. 60s when movies were fit to watch.
I just KNEW #96 would be listed...
Out of that list, these were the only ones I thought that belonged in the top 100 of the 21st Century, certainly not in that order-but...movie quality has so dropped off that I suppose many of those in the list would be included.
02. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
03. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
06. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
07. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
31. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
41. Amalie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
44. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
45. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
48. The Lives of Others (Florian Donnersmarck)
0. Up! (Pete Docter)
62. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
71. Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
73. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
87. The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
92. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
94. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
I included Memento only for the sheer and incomparable uniqueness of the movie. I fully get why people don’t get it. Also, I included The Fellowship of the Ring, simply because it is so popular and it has never even approached the quality people have always wanted. It was close in many respects.
But including “Brokeback Mountain” at #17????
Ugh.
But, as they say, art is in the eye of the beholder!
What a dumb list.
“The Death of Stalin” - at least as good as the satirical stuff from Christopher Guest, and he made the list easily.
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
I LOL every time I see that title.
Back in the day here on FR there was a thread of suggested book titles for Clinton memoirs. The best one, IMO, was “Crouching Intern, Hidden Cigar”.
For comparison, here are the top English-language movies (with at least 25,000 user ratings) since 1/1/2000 as rated by users on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&release_date=2000-01-01,2026-12-31&num_votes=25000,&languages=en&sort=user_rating,desc
Lists are always fun, and of course are usually a matter of taste (for which there is little or no accounting). I do however enjoy seeing what others think are gross misplacements in such lists.
I haven’t seen a lot of the flics on this list, but based on the ones I have seen:
Ones I rate significantly higher:
06. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
39. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
41. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
48. The Lives of Others (Florian Donnersmarck)
83. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Ones I’d rate a good bit lower:
01. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)
14. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
17. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
53. Borat (Larry Charles)
55. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
I’ve seen six of the films listed. I should get out more.
07. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Love this movie.
34. WALL-E Andrew Stanton)
73. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
These aren’t particularly good
The Incredibles is the best Pixar
50. Up! (Pete Docter)
2nd best Pixar
57. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
overall funny but the homosexual propaganda ruins it
87. The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
The best of the trio but it sets up Frodo as a failure for some reason only
Jackson knows.
89. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
Love this movie
I’m not at all a movie buff - have only seen a select few in the theater in the last 20 years, don’t own discs, don’t stream, etc., so I’m no judge, but I haven’t even heard of most of their top 10 and the only one on the list I’ve seen is Fellowship of the Ring. Am I depraved on account of I’m deprived?