The 21st century’s 100 greatest movies. The BBC appealed to the views of 177 film critics from different countries to identify the top 100 films of the 21st century. In a poll conducted last year to identify the 100 best American films ever, only six films made after 2000 were listed. So The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.
And what can we really call a new classic? What in recent vintage can hold its own on the big screen with the likes of The Searchers, The Godfather, The Rules of the Game, Seven Samurai or Citizen Kane? Each of the critics listed up to 10 films to their favorite movie list. Out of a total of 599 films, the top 100 films were listed.
Directed by David Lynch, Mulholland Drive was ranked number 1 by most critics. In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai is number two and There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson is number three. Fourth on the list is Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and the fifth on Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater.
We believe that the new classics on this list are destined to become old classics. Whether or not that happens is ultimately up to you, the moviegoers. But one thing is certain: cinema isn’t dying, it’s evolving.
21st Century Top 100 Movies
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
13. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
14. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
16. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
17. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
18. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
19. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
20. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
21. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
22. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
23. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
24. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
25. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
26. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
27. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
28. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
29. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
30. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
31. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
32. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
33. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
34. Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
36. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
37. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
38. City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
39. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
40. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
41. Inside Out (Pete Docter, 2015)
42. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
43. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
44. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
45. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
46. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
47. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
48. Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
49. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
50. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
51. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
52. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
53. Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
54. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
55. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
56. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
57. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
58. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
59. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
60. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
61. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
62. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
63. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
64. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
65. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
66. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
67. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
68. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
69. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
70. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
71. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
72. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
73. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
74. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
75. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
76. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
77. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
78. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
79. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
80. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
81. Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
82. A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
83. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
84. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
85. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
86. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
87. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
88. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
89. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
90. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
91. The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
92. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
93. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007)
94. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
95. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
96. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, 2003)
97. White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
98. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
99. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
100. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
100. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
100. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
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