My Top 100 Films of the Decade

Okay, so here is my list of the top 100 films of the decade (in my humble opinion), some are there because they are great films and others because I simply enjoyed them. I had originally done a top 50, with blurbs about each film, but I accidentally deleted most of them then the stupid blog autosaved and I couldn't be bothered to write it all out again so you're just getting a list, sorry...


1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003, Peter Jackson)*

2. Dead Man's Shoes (2004, Shane Meadows)

3. Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)

4. The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat)

5. Control (2007, Anton Corbijn)

6. Hunger (2008, Steve McQueen)

7. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)

8. Fish Tank (2009 Andrea Arnold)

9. Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)

10. The Road (2009, John Hillcoat)**

11. The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont)

12. 28 Days Later (2002, Danny Boyle)

13. Amelie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

14. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)

15. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)

16. Up (2009, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)

17. District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp)

18. My Summer of Love (2004, Pawel Pawlikowski)

19. In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonagh)

20. Moon (2009, Duncan Jones)

21. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)

22. The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow)

23. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen)

24. Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)

25. Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)

26. Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)

27. Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)

28. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007, Tim Burton)

29. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)

30. Atonement (2007, Joe Wright)

31. Y Tu Mamá También (2001, Alfonso Cuarón)

32. A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)

33. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)

34. Brick (2005, Rian Johnson)

35. Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

36. City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles)

37. Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)

38. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)

39. WALL·E (2008,Andrew Stanton)

40. Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku)

41. The Dark Knight (2008, Chirstopher Nolan)

42. The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)

43. American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)

44. Être et Avoir (2002, Nicolas Philibert)

45. Ginger Snaps (2000, John Fawcett)

46. Head-On (2004, Fatih Akin)

47. The Devil's Rejects (2005, Rob Zombie

48. The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)

49. Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki)

50. In the Loop (2009, Armando Iannucci)

51. Zombieland (2009, Ruben Fleischer)

52. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, Michael Moore)

53. Secretary (2002, Steven Shainberg)

54. The Escapist (2008, Rupert Wyatt)

55. Bourne Trilogy (2002, Doug Liman 2004, 2007, Paul Greengrass)*

56. The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin Macdonald)

57. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski)

58. The Descent (2005, Neil Marshall)

59. This is England (2006, Shane Meadows)

60. 24 Hour Party People (2002, Michael Winterbottom)

61. Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)

62. Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn)

63. Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki)

64. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)

65. Motorcycle Diaries (2004, Walter Salles)

66. London to Brighton (2006, Paul Andrew Williams)

67. Red Road (2006, Andrea Arnold)

68. Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)

69. In America (2002, Jim Sheridan)

70. Gangster No. 1 (2000, Paul McGuigan)

71. In the Cut (2003, Jane Campion)

72. Taxi to the Darkside (2007, Alex Gibney)

73. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Spike Jonze)

74. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)

75. Hidden (2005, Michael Haneke)

76. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)

77. Waltz With Bashir (2008, Ari Folman)

78. Inside (2007, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury)

79. Stranger Than Fiction (2006, Marc Forster)

80. An Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim)

81. Bad Education (2004, Pedro Almodóvar)

82. Monsters, Inc. (2001, Pete Docter and David Silverman)

83. Switchblade Romance (2003, Alexandre Aja)

84. L.I.E. (2001, Michael Cuesta)

85. Sicko (2007, Michael Moore)

86. Milk (2008, Gus Van Sant)

87. Irreversible (2002, Gaspar Noé)

88. Chopper (2000, Andrew Dominik)

89. Far from Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)

90. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Niels Arden Oplev)**

91. Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood)

92. Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer)

93. Code 46 (2003, Michael Winterbottom)

94. Revolutionary Road (2008, Sam Mendes)

95. Teeth (2007, Mitchell Lichtenstein)

96. Bubba Ho-tep (2002, Don Coscarelli)

97. The Woodsman (2004, Nicole Kassell)

98. The House of the Devil (2009, Ti West)

99. Psycho Beach Party (2000, Robert Lee King)

100. Carriers (2009, Àlex Pastor and David Pastor)


* I'm counting trilogies as one, if you don't like it - screw you!
** I know these aren't technically released in the UK until next year, but I saw them in 2009 so I'm still counting them.

The best year was 2007 with 14 entries and the worst was 2003 with 8 entries.