Best movies of the last 20 years

kibitzer wrote:

Just parenthetically wanna say the Netflix, in addition to a lot of dreck, has some *really* good films available. I guess it's just that they have a lot of films, period: good, bad, and meh.

I'm looking at their "award-winning films" category. It too is variable but they've got some *great* stuff, including some of the titles mentioned in this thread.

Okay, carry on.

Yes, thats why I like these threads. after I read posts I go on netflix and catch up on films I haven't seen.

1. In the Mood for Love

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Pan's Labyrinth

4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

5. Mad Max: Fury Road

6. Spirited Away

7. City of God

8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

9. Grizzly Man

10. Inside Llewyn Davis

1. Spirited Away

2. John Wick

3. Napoleon Dynamite

4. The Dark Knight

5. Arrival

6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

8. Wall-E

9. Inception

10. Elf

11. Oh Brother Where Art Thou

12. Interstellar

13. Law Abiding Citizen

14. The Big Short

15. District 9

16. Captain Phillips

17. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

18. The Revenant

19. Unbroken

20. The Polar Express

21. August Rush

22. 1 Mile to You

23. The Fat Boy Chronicles

24. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

25. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

26. Anger Management

27. Click

28. The Incredibles

29. The Time Traveler's Wife

30. Taken

*All Harry Potter films

*All Studio Ghibli films

Really surprised to have seen "Spotlight" mentioned only once(?).

I just finished watching it again on Netflix (saw it in theaters and once or twice since then). It's probably one of the least-heralded Best Picture Oscar™ winners but I think it's brilliant--one of those movies that stay with you, as someone was mentioning above.

Great work from an ensemble cast, and usually we give credit for that to the director (Tom McCarthy), right? Although I will say he had some fine people to work with. He didn't win for directing but did share the Original Screenplay award.

This thread is proof that a great Hollywood movie hasn't been made in the last 20 years. There are very few good ones. Ex Machina comes to mind. Most of the really good stuff are foreign, TV or netflix mini-series. Breaking Bad, The Wire, etc. There must be 20 great ones.

If you liked 'In Bruges', I would suggest the other films by McDonaugh: 'Six Shooter' (which is a short film), 'Seven Psychpaths', 'Three Billboards...' also both movies done by his brother: 'The Guard', and 'Calvary'

Also get very used to Brendan Gleeson: He is not only in 'In Bruges', he is also in 'Six Shooter', 'The Guard' and 'Calvary'

There are so many good movies! I alway find something that I haven't watched yet and which is pretty good. Where do you watch movies and discover new ones, by the way? I have found some good free streamnig services on https://streamingsites.com which I am sure you will find helpful to you too, have a look there. Good luck with it!

Nice movies here, thank you!

If I list all my favorite movies or TV series, then there will be a lot of them. I think I would make a list of films in which there would be more than a thousand good and high-quality films. I love cinema very much, especially I like watch series free online and find good platforms without ads. It's hard to do that today, isn't it? Of course, if you do not pay for such streaming services as Netflix or Showtime, YouTube and others. You don't always want to pay for a movie or TV series because you can find it in free mode, namely on https://watchseries.ga/movies

I prefer catastrophe films more, and I would say that all the movies up to 2013 are interesting, including all, even if the graphics are not so good, at least the meaning is clearly.

Nutsack McGee wrote:

Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

What's the criteria here? It seems like your a list that you could just as easily look up on IMDB by searching for critically acclaimed movies within that time period, but don't forget that Zoolander, Superbad, Mean Girls, 40 Year Old Virgin, Step Brothers, The Hangover, The Notebook, The Fast and the Furious (all of them), Love Actually, Remember the Titans, Legally Blonde, V for Vendetta, Wedding Crashers, The Prestige, Gladiator, etc. were all released in the past 20 years.

I could see someone making a valid argument that any one of these is "better" than any one movie from your list.

They don't allow comedies in these lists btw.

Because you are spot on, step Brothers step Brothers step Brothers then oh brother where art thou then wedding Crashers. Your list is exactly my list and by the way (except legally blonde for Christ's sake)... The prestige, way way under appreciated. And released at the exact same time as another magic related movie that is also underappreciated... The Illusionist.

NeverAWMDRF2020 wrote:

The Dictator is the better Sacha Baron Cohen movie.

https://youtu.be/MFsNeR1aJx0

Changing the language so everything positive and negative is "Aladdin" (sp?) is priceless, quite possibly the funniest line in any movie in the last 20 years. HIV...Aladdin.

But, recently I started watching Turkish series on https://turkiseries.com/titles/117/erkenci-kus . I knew that they were long enough and that the content might not be attractive, but I decided to try. I didn't regret it because I loved watching them so much. My favorites genres are love with the mafia and crime. An enormous passion is presented between the main actors. Does anyone else watch such shows, and do u like them?

Freddy Got Fingered. Watch it again and you'll see what I mean. It's a comedy masterpiece. Way ahead of it's time.

My favorites from 2000-2024:

American Psycho

Gladiator

Requiem for a Dream

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

In the Mood for Love

Moulin Rouge

Ocean's Eleven

About a Boy

The Pianist

Adaptation

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Memories of Murder

Lost in Translation

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Napoleon Dynamite

Spider-Man 2

The Bourne Supremacy

Grizzly Man

Munich

The New World

The Host

Pan's Labyrinth

Miami Vice

The Departed

Atonement

Ratatouille

There Will Be Blood

Wendy and Lucy

The Dark Knight

The Wrestler

A Serious Man

How to Train Your Dragon

Inception

Take Shelter

The Raid

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Skyfall

The Act of Killing

Zero Dark Thirty

Before Midnight

Inside Llewyn Davis

12 Years a Slave

Frozen

Whiplash

Boyhood

100 Seconds to Beat the World

Gone Girl

Kingsman: The Secret Service

McFarland USA

Mad Max: Fury Road

Carol

Sicario

Mission Impossible: Rouge Nation

Spotlight

The Revenant

Manchester by the Sea

To Hell or High Water

Moonlight

Nocturnal Animals

Moana

Icarus

Get Out

Faces Places

Blade Runner 2049

Coco

The Greatest Showman

Phantom Thread

Mission Impossible: Fall Out

Never Look Away

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Knives Out

The Father

Nine Days

Nomadland

Petite Maman

Nobody

Drive My Car

The Last Duel

West Side Story

Navalny

RRR

Prey

Call Me Chihiro

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

American Fiction

Society of the Snow

Godzilla Minus One

Dune Part 2