Best films of the 21st century

Considered the best films of the 21^st century

BBC ranking

No.	Title	Director	Year
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	Coen brothers	2007
11	Inside Llewyn Davis	Coen brothers	2013
12	Zodiac	David Fincher	2007
13	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuaron	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	2001
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 Colour	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 and Ágnes Hranitzky	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	Coen brothers	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	Carlos	Olivier Assayas	2010
100	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky	2000
100	Toni Erdmann	Maren Ade	2016

 The New Yorker magazine top 25 of the 21^st century

1.      “In Praise of Love” (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)

2.      “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013, Martin Scorsese)

3.      “The Future” (2011, Miranda July)

4.      “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” (2014, Josephine Decker)

5.      “Like Someone in Love” (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)

6.      “The Last of the Unjust” (2013, Claude Lanzmann)

7.      “Holy Motors” (2012, Leos Carax)

8.      “The Darjeeling Limited” (2007, Wes Anderson)

9.      “The Beaches of Agnès” (2008, Agnès Varda)

10.  “The World” (2004, Jia Zhangke)

11.  “A Quiet Passion” (2017, Terence Davies)

12.  “Margaret” (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)

13.  “Somewhere” (2010, Sofia Coppola)

14.  “Frownland” (2007, Ronald Bronstein)

15.  “Chi-Raq” (2015, Spike Lee)

16.  “Little Sister” (2016, Zach Clark)

17.  “Moolaadé” (2004, Ousmane Sembene)

18.  “Funny People” (2009, Judd Apatow)

19.  “Gentlemen Broncos” (2009, Jared Hess)

20.  “Coma” (2016, Sara Fattahi)

21.  “American Sniper” (2014, Clint Eastwood)

22.  “Woman on the Beach” (2006, Hong Sang-soo)

23.  “Li’l Quinquin” (2014, Bruno Dumont)

24.  “Viktoria” (2014, Maya Vitkova)

25.  “Hamilton” (2006, Matthew Porterfield)

USA Today

10        Once

9          Atonement 

8          Persepolis

7          Zodiac

6          Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

5          Into the Wild

4          Juno

3          The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2          There Will Be Blood

1         No Country for Old Men