Best Movies of 2000

Added on by C. Maoxian.

This is a list of the Best Movies of 2000 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.

English-language movies:

  1. Almost Famous

  2. Best in Show

  3. Billy Elliot

  4. Bread and Roses

  5. George Washington

  6. Girlfight

  7. High Fidelity

  8. Innocence

  9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  10. Our Song

  11. Pollock

  12. Requiem for a Dream

  13. Sexy Beast

  14. Snatch

  15. Songcatcher

  16. The Contender

  17. Traffic

  18. You Can Count on Me

Foreign-language movies:

  1. A Matter of Taste (French)

  2. Amores Perros (Spanish)

  3. Bread and Tulips (Italian)

  4. Code Unknown (French)

  5. Coronation (Spanish)

  6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Mandarin)

  7. Gloomy Sunday (German)

  8. Il Mare (Korean)

  9. In the Mood for Love (Cantonese)

  10. Italian for Beginners (Danish)

  11. Lumumba (French)

  12. Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish)

  13. The Circle  (Farsi)

  14. The Day I Became a Woman (Farsi)

  15. The Fast Runner (Inukitut)

  16. The Taste of Others (French)

  17. The Widow of Saint-Pierre French)

  18. Under the Sand (French)

  19. With a Friend Like Harry (French)

  20. Yi Yi (Mandarin)

English-language documentaries:

  1. Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation

  2. Dark Days

  3. Half Past Autumn

  4. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

  5. Napoleon: Soldier, Emperor, Lover, Statesman

  6. Ring of Fire

  7. Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

  8. Sound and Fury

  9. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

  10. The Endurance

  11. The Filth and the Fury

  12. Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election

  13. World War II: The Lost Color Archives

Foreign-language documentaries:

  1. Calle 54 (Spanish)

  2. Paragraph 175 (German)

  3. The Gleaners and I (French