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1000 Best Films of the 21st Century

by Sean-Ebert • Created 9 years ago • Modified 9 years ago
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  • Colin Firth and Julianne Moore in A Single Man (2009)

    501. A Single Man

    20091h 39mR77Metascore
    7.5 (120K)
    An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
    DirectorTom FordStarsColin FirthJulianne MooreMatthew Goode
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

    502. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    20111h 45mPG-1368Metascore
    7.6 (593K)
    A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.
    DirectorRupert WyattStarsJames FrancoAndy SerkisFreida Pinto
  • Magic Mike (2012)

    503. Magic Mike

    20121h 50mR72Metascore
    6.1 (150K)
    A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
    DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsChanning TatumAlex PettyferOlivia Munn
  • The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

    504. The Saddest Music in the World

    20031h 40mR78Metascore
    7.0 (6.4K)
    A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
    DirectorGuy MaddinStarsIsabella RosselliniMark McKinneyMaria de Medeiros
  • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007)

    505. Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

    200758mNot Rated
    6.4 (323)
    A visual meditation on the progressive history of the United States as seen through cemeteries, historic plaques and markers. Inspired by Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".
    DirectorJohn Gianvito
  • Neil Maskell in Kill List (2011)

    506. Kill List

    20111h 35mNot Rated67Metascore
    6.4 (48K)
    Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
    DirectorBen WheatleyStarsNeil MaskellMyAnna BuringHarry Simpson
  • Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris (2011)

    507. Midnight in Paris

    20111h 34mPG-1381Metascore
    7.6 (462K)
    While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsOwen WilsonRachel McAdamsKathy Bates
  • Vincere (2009)

    508. Vincere

    20092h 8mUnrated85Metascore
    6.8 (6K)
    The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
    DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFilippo TimiFausto Russo Alesi
  • Will Ferrell in Elf (2003)

    509. Elf

    20031h 37mPG66Metascore
    7.1 (330K)
    Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
    DirectorJon FavreauStarsWill FerrellJames CaanBob Newhart
  • Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen in Knocked Up (2007)

    510. Knocked Up

    20072h 9mR85Metascore
    6.9 (392K)
    For fun-loving party animal Ben Stone, the last thing he ever expected was for his one-night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks later to tell him she's pregnant with his child.
    DirectorJudd ApatowStarsSeth RogenKatherine HeiglPaul Rudd
  • Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko in To the Wonder (2012)

    511. To the Wonder

    20121h 52mR58Metascore
    5.8 (30K)
    After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
    DirectorTerrence MalickStarsBen AffleckOlga KurylenkoJavier Bardem
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    512. Bamboozled

    20002h 15mR56Metascore
    6.7 (13K)
    A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDamon WayansSavion GloverJada Pinkett Smith
  • Kaya Scodelario in Wuthering Heights (2011)

    513. Wuthering Heights

    20112h 9mNot Rated70Metascore
    6.0 (11K)
    A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
    DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsKaya ScodelarioJames HowsonSolomon Glave
  • Melancholia (2008)

    514. Melancholia

    20087h 30mNot Rated
    7.3 (597)
    Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
    DirectorLav DiazStarsAngeli BayaniPerry DizonRoeder Camanag
  • Junebug (2005)

    515. Junebug

    20051h 46mR80Metascore
    6.9 (24K)
    A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.
    DirectorPhil MorrisonStarsEmbeth DavidtzAlessandro NivolaDavid Kuhn
  • Toni Servillo in The Great Beauty (2013)

    516. The Great Beauty

    20132h 21mNot Rated86Metascore
    7.7 (102K)
    Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
    DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloCarlo VerdoneSabrina Ferilli
  • Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, and Scarlett Johansson in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

    517. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    20081h 36mPG-1370Metascore
    7.1 (275K)
    Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsRebecca HallScarlett JohanssonJavier Bardem
  • 518. Extraordinary Stories

    20105mShort
    The story of a business man on a business trip having a bad day, and what he encounters to change his whole day around.
    DirectorWill Oldham
  • Matt Damon in The Martian (2015)

    519. The Martian

    20152h 24mPG-1380Metascore
    8.0 (968K)
    An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsMatt DamonJessica ChastainKristen Wiig
  • Timbuktu (2014)

    520. Timbuktu

    20141h 36mPG-1392Metascore
    7.1 (19K)
    A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
    DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou Kiki
  • Benicio Del Toro in Che: Part One (2008)

    521. Che: Part One

    20082h 14mNot Rated
    7.1 (49K)
    In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
    DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJulia OrmondBenicio Del ToroOscar Isaac
  • Benicio Del Toro in Che: Part Two (2008)

    522. Che: Part Two

    20082h 15mNot Rated64Metascore
    6.8 (36K)
    In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
    DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsDemián BichirRodrigo SantoroBenicio Del Toro
  • Jeanne Balibar in Who Knows? (2001)

    523. Who Knows?

    20012h 34mPG-1379Metascore
    6.8 (2.6K)
    Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
    DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJeanne BalibarSergio CastellittoMarianne Basler
  • Ed Harris, John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Octavia Spencer, and Tilda Swinton in Snowpiercer (2013)

    524. Snowpiercer

    20132h 6mR84Metascore
    7.1 (407K)
    In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
    DirectorBong Joon HoStarsChris EvansJamie BellTilda Swinton
  • Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Michael Kevin Walker, Ed Vassallo, Michael Arthur, Becky Ann Baker, Gene Barry, David Alan Basche, John Michael Bolger, Justin Chatwin, Robert Cicchini, Vito D'Ambrosio, Marianne Ebert, John Eddins, Dakota Fanning, Daniel Franzese, Peter Gerety, Stephen Gevedon, Rick Gonzalez, Jim Hanna, Danny Hoch, Amy Hohn, Tracy Howe, Omar Jermaine, Erika LaVonn, Adam Lazarre-White, Mark Manley, Mariann Mayberry, Sharrieff Pugh, Ana Maria Quintana, Zoe Quist, Ann Robinson, Amy Ryan, Camillia Monet, John Scurti, Yul Vazquez, Lenny Venito, Jerry Walsh, Lisa Ann Walter, Christopher Evan Welch, Julie White, Marlon Young, Dan Ziskie, David Harbour, Michael Stanton, Lisa Waters, Michael Brownlee, GoGo Toucette, Rafael Sardina, Stacy Ann Wilkins, Patrick Tierney, Ty Simpkins, Ed Schiff, Channing Tatum, David Conley, Tommy Guiffre, Michael Waldron, Athena Stamos, January LaVoy, Miguel Antonio Ferrer, Mark Valinsky, Lorelei Llee, Daniel Eric Gold, Ellen Barry, Roz Abrams, Kenneth Wright, Nicole Signore, Tasciotti, Johnny Torres, Rochelle Warner, Joseph Benjamin Stewart, Terry Ward, Tracy Lee Staton, Jessica Anne Taylor, Mike Yedwab, and William G. Stowell in War of the Worlds (2005)

    525. War of the Worlds

    20051h 57mPG-1373Metascore
    6.5 (490K)
    An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseDakota FanningTim Robbins

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