The Great Films of the Noughties (38 titles)
These are what I consider to be the greatest films produced this decade so far ...
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Gladiator
Sir Ridley Scott breathes life back into the swords and sandals genre.
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Gladiator
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed
Director: Ridley Scott
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Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
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Requiem For A Dream
Haunting with intensely strong imagery, this is a masterpiece from Aranofsky.
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Requiem For A Dream
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Darren Aronofsky
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For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the abyss of barren fantasies doomed to extinction. However, in Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique, ..read more »
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Best In Show
The best of Christopher Guest's improvision comedies set in the world of competitve dog showing.
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Best In Show
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Christopher Guest
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The tension is unmistakable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show. Director Christopher Guest takes a hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them). Meet the contestants - a fly-fishing ..read more »
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Das Experiment
Chilling German thriller based on the Stanford prison experiment.
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Das Experiment
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Friedrich Wildfever, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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DAS EXPERIMENT, a German film about a group of 20 men who are asked to participate in a psychological test with the promise of a monetary award, centers on Tarek (Moritz Bleibtreu) a reporter who wants to write about the event and so volunteers. When he is locked in a strange prison, not to emerge ..read more »
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The Others
Creepy, twisty Nicole Kidman vehicle which doubles up as a classic ghost story.
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The Others
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan
Director: Alejandro Amenabar
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THE OTHERS begins with a close-up of a woman screaming. By the time this intense film ends, everyone watching it will be screaming and gasping. Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, a woman raising two children by herself in a creepy mansion. World War II is over, but Grace's husband never returned. ..read more »
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Amelie
Fantastic use of colour in this quirky French romance movie.
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Amelie
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Yolande Moreau
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who glides through the streets of Paris as quietly as a mouse. With wide eyes and a tiny grin, she sees the world in a magical light, discovering minor miracles every day. A shy and reserved person whose favorite moments are spent alone skimming ..read more »
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Moulin Rouge
Spectacular! Spectacular! Indeed - Baz Luhrmann's high paced musical makes a star of Nicole Kidman.
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Moulin Rouge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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Cross LA BOHEME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the ..read more »
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Minority Report
Put simply the best adaptation of a Phillip K. Dick story. LA Confidential meets Sci-fi.
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Minority Report
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell
Director: Steven Spielberg
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The science-fiction thriller MINORITY REPORT, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is based on a short story by renowned writer Philip K. Dick. In the year 2054, in Washington, D.C., murder has been eliminated thanks to Precrime, a program that uses the visions of three psychics, ..read more »
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The Pianist
Roman Polanski shows up the true horrors of war.
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The Pianist
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
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Road To Perdition
One the most beautiful films I have ever seen. No-one uses rain better than Sam Mendes.
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Road To Perdition
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Director: Sam Mendes
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Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan,..read more »
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