A good film to us is one that sticks in your mind long after you have left the cinema or turned off the DVD player. It might be a scene that you can't get out of your head, a joke that keeps making you laugh or simply a performance that changes the way you think about the world. Good films linger. This little lot all have that quality: be it the extraordinary plot of Memento, the sheer bravado of City of God or the balls out humour of Anchorman. These are our movies of the decade.
The Lives of Others (2006)
East German Stasi agent tormented by his spying on others tracked as Communism falls.
City of God (2003)
Two boys in drug-infested Rio slum take two paths: one crime, one photography.
Memento (2000)
A man suffering from memeory loss uses notes and tattoos to track his wife's killers.
Training Day (2002)
A rookie narcotics cop teams up with a rogue detective with brutal results.
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
A soldier returns home to take revenge on thugs who brutalised his disabled brother.
Anchorman (2004)
Top rated newsman in the 70s, has to face the rising tide of equal rights for women.
Downfall (2004)
The final eight days of Adolf Hitler and his men in the Berlin Bunker almost elicits sympathy.
No Country for Old Men (2004)
A hunter stumbles upon heroin, cash and dead men. Mayhem and slaughter ensue.
Wonderboys (2000)
English professor deals with wife leaving him and a deadline on his long awaited novel.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Disfunctional family bond taking daughter across country to beauty pageant in VW bus.
MORE FEATURES
Bookmark this post with: