Best Movies of 2004

Added on by C. Maoxian.

This is a list of the Best Movies of 2004 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.

English-language movies:

  1. As It Is in Heaven

  2. Before Sunset

  3. Clean

  4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  5. Finding Neverland

  6. John Cassavetes: Five Films [no, no, no, no, no]

  7. Layer Cake

  8. Maria Full of Grace

  9. Million Dollar Baby

  10. Millions

  11. Miracle

  12. Mysterious Skin

  13. Omagh

  14. Police Beat

  15. Ray

  16. Sideways

  17. The Chorus

  18. The Door in the Floor

  19. The Machinist

  20. Vera Drake

  21. Walk on Water

Foreign-language movies:

  1. 2046 (Cantonese)

  2. 3-Iron (Korean)

  3. A Very Long Engagement (French)

  4. A World Without Thieves (Mandarin)

  5. Bad Education (Spanish)

  6. Brothers (Danish)

  7. Citizen Dog (Thai)

  8. District B13 (French)

  9. Downfall (German)

  10. Howl’s Moving Castle (Japanese)

  11. Innocent Voices (Spanish)

  12. Intimate Strangers (French)

  13. Kings and Queen (French)

  14. Kontroll (Hungarian)

  15. La Sierra (Spanish)

  16. Live-in Maid (Spanish)

  17. Machuca (Spanish)

  18. Moolaadé (Bambara)

  19. Mountain Patrol (Mandarin)

  20. Nobody Knows (Japanese)

  21. Our Own (Russian)

  22. Red Lights (French)

  23. Shutter (Thai)

  24. Simon (Dutch)

  25. The Edukators (German)

  26. The Hidden Blade (Japanese)

  27. The Holy Girl (Spanish)

  28. The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish)

  29. The Sea Inside (Spanish)

  30. The Syrian Bride (Arabic)

  31. The Taste of Tea (Japanese)

  32. The Triplets of Belleville (French)

  33. The Weeping Meadow (Greek)

  34. Tony Takatani (Japanese)

  35. Turtles Can Fly (Kurdish)

  36. Whisky (Spanish)

  37. Yesterday (Zulu)

English-language documentaries:

  1. 5 Films about Christo and Jean-Claude

  2. A State of Mind

  3. A Touch of Greatness

  4. After Innocence

  5. Born Into Brothels

  6. Broadway: The Golden Age, By the Legends Who Were There

  7. Citizen King

  8. Darwin’s Nightmare

  9. Fahrenheit 9/11

  10. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

  11. Heir To An Execution: A Grandaughter's Story

  12. In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger

  13. Lightning in a Bottle

  14. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

  15. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

  16. Paper Clips

  17. Super Size Me

  18. The Devil and Daniel Johnston

  19. The Staircase

  20. The Take

  21. Twist of Faith

  22. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

  23. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Foreign-language documentaries:

  1. Control Room (Arabic)

  2. Czech Dream (Czech)

  3. Death in Gaza (Arabic)

  4. The Man Who Planted Trees (German)

  5. The Ritchie Boys (German)