Favorite Films of Every Year Since I Was Born
by joeldosdosen | created - 16 Nov 2020 | updated - 1 month ago | Publicthis my favorite films of every year since I was born in 2000
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1. Poor Things (2023)
R | 141 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef
Votes: 254,906
Possible Contenders:
The Zone of Interest, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, May December, Godland, About Dry Grasses, Skip and Loafer, BlackBerry, All of Us Strangers, The First Slam Dunk Movie.
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan
Votes: 533,918 | Gross: $72.86M
Possible Contenders:
Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision to Leave, The Rehearsal, Bocchi the Rock, Triangle of Sadness, Aftersun, Fire of Love, Nope, Marcel the Shell with the Shoes On.
3. Listening to Kenny G (2021)
97 min | Documentary, Music
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Clive Davis, Craig Ferguson, Kenny G, James Gardiner
Votes: 1,227
Possible Contenders:
Red Rocket, Titane, The Worst Person in the world, Compartment Number 6 .
The Father
Shiva Baby
Inside (2021)
The Humans
Some Kind of Heaven
Judas and the Black Messiah
4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
R | 134 min | Drama, Thriller
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Votes: 100,137
Possible Contenders for now:
Feels Good Man, The Climb, Mangrove, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds.
Wolfwalkers
Another Round
5. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
Votes: 255,401 | Gross: $0.43M
Possible Contenders:
Parasite, One Cut of the Dead, Uncut Gems, Marriage Story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, An Elephant Sitting Still, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Midsommar, The Irishman, Knives Out, First Love.
6. Climax (I) (2018)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Music
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile
Votes: 79,506 | Gross: $0.80M
Possible Contenders:
Burning, Roma, Under the Silver Lake, The Sisters Brothers, Museo, Suspiria (2018), Thunder Road.
7. Good Time (2017)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress
Votes: 140,410 | Gross: $2.03M
Possible Contenders:
Blade Runner 2049, Phantom Thread, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Call Me by Your Name, Paddington 2, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Bad Genius.
8. The Handmaiden (2016)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri
Votes: 172,997 | Gross: $2.01M
Possible Contenders:
A Silent Voice, The Nice Guys, I, Daniel Blake, Paterson, The Salesman, O.J: Made in America, Tickled, Nocturnal Animals, La la Land, Graduation, Moonlight
9. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz
Votes: 1,087,547 | Gross: $154.06M
Possible Contenders:
Anomalisa, The Revenant, Son of Saul, Embrace of the Serpent, The Lobster
The Look of Silence
What We Do in the Shadows
James White
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
10. Mommy (I) (2014)
R | 139 min | Drama
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard
Votes: 61,870 | Gross: $3.49M
Possible Contenders:
Birdman, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Leviathan, Gone Girl, The Raid 2, Paddington, Under the Skin
11. Her (2013)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara
Votes: 670,110 | Gross: $25.57M
Possible Contenders:
Inside Llewyn Davis, The Act of Killing, Prisoners, 12 Years a Slave
12. The Hunt (2012)
R | 115 min | Drama
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm
Votes: 364,719 | Gross: $0.69M
Possible Contenders:
The Master, Samsara, Daily Lives of High School Boys
13. Shame (2011)
NC-17 | 101 min | Drama
A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Lucy Walters
Votes: 206,334 | Gross: $4.00M
Possible Contenders:
The Kid with the Bike, Midnight in Paris, The Raid, Rango.
14. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Votes: 759,303 | Gross: $96.96M
Possible Contenders:
Incendies, Black Swan, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Enter The Void, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Dogtooth, 127 Hours, Boy, I Saw the Devil.
15. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Votes: 270,637 | Gross: $21.00M
Possible Contenders:
A Serious Man, The White Ribbon, Black Dynamite, Mother, The Secret in Their Eyes, Mary and Max, Moon, Thirst, Coraline, A Town Called Panic.
16. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
R | 124 min | Drama
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener
Votes: 98,282 | Gross: $3.08M
Possible Contenders:
Burn After Reading, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Hunger, Let the Right One In, The Chaser, The Dark Knight, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E.
17. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 641,612 | Gross: $40.22M
Possible Contenders:
No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Hot Fuzz, Hot Rod, Ratatouille, Funny Games, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Secret Sunshine
18. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 703,361 | Gross: $37.63M
Possible Contenders:
The Host (2006), Children of Men
19. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 85,286 | Gross: $3.63M
Possible Contenders:
Sin City, The Descent, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lady Vengeance
20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne
Votes: 1,078,848 | Gross: $34.40M
Possible Contenders:
Shaun of the Dead, Before Sunset, Spider-Man 2, Paranoid Agent, Kung Fu Hustle, Primer, The Incredibles, Mysterious Skin, Team America: World Police
21. Memories of Murder (2003)
Not Rated | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho
Votes: 216,774 | Gross: $0.01M
Possible Contenders:
Oldboy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Corporation, Tokyo Godfathers, Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
22. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews
Votes: 177,627 | Gross: $17.84M
Possible Contenders:
Oasis, The Pianist, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), Adaptation, Bowling for Comlombine, 28 Days Later, City of God, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Irreversible, Kung Pow, May.
23. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,892 | Gross: $1.90M
Possible Contenders:
Spirited Away, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Amélie, Ichi the Killer, Waking Life
24. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 716,504 | Gross: $15.07M
Possible Contenders: Yi Yi, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Amores Perros, In The Mood for Love, Unbreakable, Snatch, Dancer in the Dark
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