Guardian readers' top 10 of 2007

Readers of the Guardian have picked their favourite films of 2007 and Ratatouille made the final cut at number ten after audiences warmed to its humour and sparkling animation.

Number nine was This is England, a story set in Thatcher's Britain where a young boy suffers peer pressure from a group of local skinheads.

Apocalypto also made the list at number eight, described by the newspaper as a "bonkers, breathtaking epic".

David Lynch's latest surreal trip was voted at the seventh favourite of 2007. Echoing the bizarre and haunting style of his previous work, Inland Empire divided viewers into those who thought it was a work of genius and those who clearly did not.

The Bourne Ultimatum was placed at number six, followed by Into The Wild - a well-crafted and touching story of a graduate who donated his life savings to Oxfam and began a trek into the Alaskan wilderness.

David Fincher's Zodiac came next at four, teaming Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr in an examination of a still-unidentified serial killer.

Control - a portrait of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis - was placed third, with period drama Atonement second.

However, number one was agreed by readers to be The Lives Of Others, a German thriller centred on the years of Communist East Germany.

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