Below is a list of my favourite films of the past 10 years from 2000 – 2009. This list was created by selecting my 5 most highly recommended films from each year. I would consider these films to be must see films and can definitely be watched more than once. I have seen all these films multiple times and I would show these films to friends and guests when they come to visit and I never get tired of watching them. There is a mixture of Epic and intimate, funny and serious, animated and documentary, foreign and Hollywood but they are all universal stories that speak to us all. Try them and see…
Title Year Director
Avatar 2009 James Cameron
Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams
Defiance 2009 Edward Zwick
The Cove 2009 Louie Psihoyos
Up 2009 Pete Docter, Bob Petersen
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson
Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation 2008 Cao Hamburger
Ben X 2008 Nic Balthazar
Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh
Son of Rambow 2008 Garth Jennings
The Host 2007 Joon-ho Bong
Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird
Lars and the Real Girl 2007 Craig Gillespie
Days of Glory (Indigenes) 2007 Rachid Bouchareb Algeria
The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson
Babel 2006 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2006 Zhang Yimou
I for India 2006 Sandhya Suri
Happy Feet 2006 George Miller
Manufactured Landscapes 2006 Jennifer Baichwal
Head-On 2005 Fatih Akin
Born into Brothels 2005 Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 2005 Judy Irving
March of the Penguins 2005 Luc Jacquet
War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg
Hero 2004 Zhang Yimou
House of Flying Daggers 2004 Zhang Yimou
In this World 2004 Michael Winterbottom
The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring 2004 Kim Ki-duk
City of God (Cidade de Deus) 2003 Fernando Meirelles Brazil
The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick
Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola
Winged Migration 2003 Jacques Perrin
Ten 2003 Abbas Kiarostami
The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2002 Peter Jackson
Enlightenment Guaranteed 2002 Doris Dorrie
Spirited Away 2002 Hayao Miyazaki
Y Tu Mama También 2002 Alfonso Cuaron
Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amores Perros 2001 Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Gleaners and I 2001 Agnes Varda
Himalaya 2001 Eric Valli
Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Doctor
Malèna 2000 Giuseppe Tornatore
Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott
Shower (Xizao) 2000 Zhang Yang
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee
Kikujiro 2000 Takeshi Kitano
