This is a list of the Best Movies of 2006 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.
English-language movies:
Akeelah and the Bee
Away From Her
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
Half Nelson
Inland Empire
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Old Joy
Once
Ten Canoes
The Bubble
The Illusionist
The Last King of Scotland
The Queen
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
This Is England
United 93
Venus
Foreign-language movies:
12:08 East of Bucharest (Romanian)
After the Wedding (Danish)
Apocalypto (Mayan)
Black Book (Dutch)
Blame It on Fidel (French)
Bombón: El Perro (Spanish)
Days of Glory (Arabic)
Four Minutes (German)
Golden Door (Italian)
Lady Chatterley (French)
Mirage (Macedonian)
Offside (Farsi)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
Paprika (Japanese)
Paris, Je T'Aime (French)
Private Fears in Public Places (French)
Private Property (French)
Reprise (Norwegian)
Still Life (Mandarin)
Summer Palace (Mandarin)
Syndromes and a Century (Thai)
Tell No One (French)
The Host (Korean)
The House of Sand (Portuguese)
The Lives of Others (German)
The Science of Sleep (French)
Vitus (Swiss German)
English-language documentaries:
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A Lion in the House
Alice Neel
An Inconvenient Truth
Billy Wilder Speaks
Deliver Us From Evil
Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
God Grew Tired of Us
Iraq for Sale
Jesus Camp
Lake of Fire
Manufactured Landscapes
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Radiant City
Rivers and Tides
Shut Up and Sing
TR: The Story of Teddy Roosevelt
The Bridge
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
The Road to Guantanamo
The War Tapes
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
When The Levees Broke
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Wordplay