Well, we’ve about completed the first decade of the third millennium CE, and it hasn’t been a bad decade for movies, although there have been better. Anyway, I’ve made a little list of some of the great movies from this decade — 200 movies you might not have seen but ought to. I haven’t included very many blockbusters, and I’ve had to leave a lot of great pictures out of the picture. I tried to stick with ones that flew under the radar but are at least good films, if not potential classics. Without further ado…

200 Movies You Might Not Have Seen This Decade But Ought To

From the Year 2000:

  1. American Psycho
  2. Bamboozled
  3. Before Night Falls
  4. Best in Show
  5. The Big Kahuna
  6. Brother
  7. Dancer in the Dark
  8. George Washington
  9. The Gift
  10. Lost in La Mancha
  11. Malena
  12. Memento
  13. The Princess and the Warrior
  14. Small Time Crooks
  15. State and Main
  16. Tigerland
  17. Violent Cop
  18. The Way of the Gun
  19. Wonder Boys
  20. Yi Yi

From the Year 2001:

  1. Atanarjuat
  2. Bartleby
  3. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
  4. Fat Girl
  5. Ghost World
  6. Gosford Park
  7. Heist
  8. Human Nature
  9. Invincible
  10. The Man Who Wasn’t There
  11. Monsoon Wedding
  12. Mostly Martha
  13. Mulholland Drive
  14. Nowhere in Africa
  15. The Pledge
  16. The Royal Tenenbaums
  17. Spirited Away
  18. To End All Wars
  19. Trembling Before G-D
  20. War Photographer

From the Year 2002:

  1. 28 Days Later
  2. About Schmidt
  3. Adaptation
  4. Assassination Tango
  5. Blood Work
  6. City of God
  7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  8. The Dancer Upstairs
  9. Derrida
  10. Dolls
  11. Gaza Strip
  12. Gerry
  13. The Good Thief
  14. Insomnia
  15. Punch-Drunk Love
  16. Revengers Tragedy
  17. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  18. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
  19. The Twilight Samurai
  20. Whale Rider

From the Year 2003:

  1. The Agronomist
  2. The Barbarian Invasions
  3. Coffee and Cigarettes
  4. Comandante
  5. The Corporation
  6. Dogville
  7. The Dreamers
  8. The Five Obstructions
  9. The Fog of War
  10. In America
  11. Japanese Story
  12. Lost in Translation
  13. Masked and Anonymous
  14. A Mighty Wind
  15. My Life Without Me
  16. Oldboy
  17. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  18. Saints and Soldiers
  19. The Soul of a Man
  20. Stander

From the Year 2004:

  1. Bad Education
  2. Before Sunset
  3. Born into Brothels
  4. Eros
  5. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
  6. Land of Plenty
  7. The Libertine
  8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  9. Ma Mere
  10. The Machinist
  11. Maria Full of Grace
  12. The Motorcycle Diaries
  13. Primer
  14. Salvador Allende
  15. Saved!
  16. The Sea Inside
  17. She Hate Me
  18. Spartan
  19. The Take
  20. Undertow

From the Year 2005:

  1. Breakfast on Pluto
  2. Brick
  3. Broken Flowers
  4. Don’t Come Knocking
  5. Edmond
  6. Fierce People
  7. Grizzly Man
  8. A History of Violence
  9. Joyeux Noël
  10. Manderlay
  11. Match Point
  12. Melinda and Melinda
  13. Proof
  14. The Proposition
  15. Shopgirl
  16. The Squid and the Whale
  17. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  18. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  19. The Violin
  20. The World’s Fastest Indian

From the Year 2006:

  1. 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
  2. Away from Her
  3. Black Snake Moan
  4. Brand Upon the Brain!
  5. The Color of Olives
  6. Deliver Us From Evil
  7. Find Me Guilty
  8. For Your Consideration
  9. The Fountain
  10. Fur
  11. The Good German
  12. Half Nelson
  13. Iraq in Fragments
  14. Jesus Camp
  15. The Oh in Ohio
  16. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  17. A Scanner Darkly
  18. The Science of Sleep
  19. Volver
  20. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

From the Year 2007:

  1. Broken English
  2. Cassandra’s Dream
  3. The Darjeeling Limited
  4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  5. Eastern Promises
  6. For the Bible Tells Me So
  7. The Great Debaters
  8. I’m Not There
  9. Into the Wild
  10. The Kite Runner
  11. Manufacturing Dissent
  12. Margot at the Wedding
  13. Once
  14. Persepolis
  15. Redacted
  16. The Savages
  17. Sleuth
  18. Sunshine
  19. Youth Without Youth
  20. Zeitgeist

From the Year 2008:

  1. Che
  2. Doubt
  3. Easy Virtue
  4. Flame & Citron
  5. Food, Inc.
  6. Funny Games
  7. The Garden
  8. Gomorra
  9. In Bruges
  10. JCVD
  11. Paranoid Park
  12. Redbelt
  13. Religulous
  14. Revolutionary Road
  15. Synechdoche, New York
  16. Tokyo!
  17. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  18. The Visitor
  19. W.
  20. The Wrestler

From the Year 2009:

  1. Antichrist
  2. Away We Go
  3. District 9
  4. Drag Me To Hell
  5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  6. Gigantic
  7. The Girlfriend Experience
  8. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  9. The Invention of Lying
  10. The Limits of Control
  11. Mammoth
  12. Me and Orson Welles
  13. Moon
  14. The People Speak
  15. The Road
  16. A Serious Man
  17. Sin Nombre
  18. Sunshine Cleaning
  19. Whatever Works
  20. Where the Wild Things Are