2005 Films: Ranked

Submitted by hinterland on Sun, 04/17/2005 - 02:28
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  1. -=10=-

  2. -=9=-

  3. Green Chair (Cheol-su Park, S. Korea) Erotic Romance/Drama
  4. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, US/Canada) Drama
  5. The Intimate (Tae-eun Kim, S. Korea) Romance
  6. 13 [Tzameti] (Géla Babluani, France/Georgia) Intense Thriller
  7. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, US) Social Commentary/Thriller
  8. Brick (Rian Johnson, US) Mystery/High School Noir

  9. -=8=-

  10. Manderlay (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden) Allegory
  11. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, US) Sci-fi/Fantasy
  12. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino/Frank Miller, US) Action/Noir
  13. The President's Last Bang (Sang-soo Im, S. Korea) Politics/History/Drama
  14. Tale of Cinema (Sang-soo Hong, S. Korea) Drama
  15. A Bittersweet Life (Ji-woon Kim, S. Korea) Thriller/Drama
  16. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park, S. Korea) Drama/Thriller
  17. Mickybo and Me (Terry Loane, Ireland/UK) Adventure/Comedy
  18. Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, Japan/France/Germany/UK/Belgium/Romania) War/History/Drama
  19. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, US) Action/Adventure
  20. The Descent (Neil Marshall, UK) Adventure/Horror
  21. The Constant Gardner (Fernando Meirelles, UK) Geopolitical Drama
  22. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, France) Documentary/Family
  23. Crying Fist (Seung-wan Ryoo, S. Korea) Drama/Sports
  24. The Beast and the Beauty (Gye-byeok Lee, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  25. Serenity (Joss Whedon, US) Sci-fi/Action/Adventure
  26. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, US) Crime/Mystery/Comedy
  27. Next Door (Pål Sletaune, Norway) Psychological Drama/Thriller
  28. Mother of Mine (Klaus Härö, Finland/Sweden) Drama
  29. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, Israel/France/Germany/Neth) Drama
  30. A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, UK) Comedy/Meta-film
  31. Occupation: Dreamland (Ian Olds/Garrett Scott, US) Documentary/War
  32. My Girl and I (Yun-su Jeon, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  33. Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega, US) Black Comedy
  34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell, UK/US) Fantasy/Thriller
  35. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, US) Documentary/Editorial
  36. Jenny, Juno (Ho-joon Kim, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy

  37. -=7=-

  38. Antarctic Journal (Pil-Sung Yim, S. Korea) Adventure/Mystery
  39. The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski, US) Drama/Comedy
  40. Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, US) Crime/Drama
  41. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, US) Comedy/Drama
  42. The New World (Terrence Malick, US) Adventure/History/Romance
  43. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, US) Quasi-black Comedy
  44. Caché [Hidden] (Michael Haneke, France) Drama/Mystery
  45. Munich (Steven Spielberg, US) Politics/History/Drama
  46. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, US) Drama/Sports
  47. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, Australia) Horror
  48. Rules of Dating (Jae-rim Han, S. Korea) Sweet and Sour Romance
  49. Love is a Crazy Thing (Seok-geun Oh, S. Korea) Romance/Drama
  50. Train Man (Masanori Murakami, Japan) Romance/Comedy
  51. Perhaps Love (Peter Chan, China/HK/Malaysia) Romance/Musical/Metafilm
  52. The Method (Marcelo Piñeyro, Spain/Argentina) Job Interview
  53. Mozart and the Whale (Petter Næss, US) Autistic Drama/Romance
  54. Revolver (Guy Ritchie, UK) Interiorized Heist
  55. The Wayward Cloud (Ming-liang Tsai, Taiwan) Porn/Musical
  56. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, US) Drama/Road Movie
  57. Antimatter [Antibodies] (Christian Alvart, Germany) Serial Killer Drama/Thriller
  58. Takeshis' (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) Self-Parody
  59. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Sam Dunn/Scot McFadyen/Jessica Joy Wise, Canada) Documentary
  60. The Proposition (John Hillcoat, Australia/UK) Western/Drama
  61. Mrs. Henderson Presents (Stephen Frears, UK) Musical/Drama
  62. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright, UK) Drama/Romance
  63. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box/Nick Park, UK) Adventure/Comedy
  64. The Jacket (John Maybury, US/UK) Psychological Drama
  65. Marathon [Running Boy] (Yun-cheol Jeong, S. Korea) Drama
  66. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, US) Sci-fi/Drama
  67. Land of the Dead (George A. Romero, US) Horror
  68. Welcome to Dongmakgol (Kwang-Hyun Park, S. Korea) War/Unification
  69. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan, US) Geopolitical Drama
  70. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney, US) Documentary
  71. The Twins (Heung-Sik Park, S. Korea) Crime/Drama/Comedy
  72. Mr. Housewife (Seon-Dong Yun, S. Korea) Comedy/Family
  73. King Kong (Peter Jackson, New Zealand/US) Action/Adventure
  74. The Magicians (Il-gon Song, S. Korea) Single Take Drama
  75. L'enfer [Hell] (Danis Tanovic, France) Dramas
  76. April Snow (Jin-ho Hur, S. Korea) Tragic Romance
  77. The Matador (Richard Shepard, US/Germany/Ireland) Crime/Comedy
  78. The Art of Seduction (Ki-hwan Oh, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  79. Sad Movie (Jong-kwan Kwon, S. Korea) Melodrama
  80. All For Love (Kyu-Dong Min, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  81. Bystanders (Kyung-soo Lim, S. Korea) Drama/Mystery/Crime
  82. Strange Circus (Sion Sono, Japan) Surreal/Perverse Horror
  83. Princess Aurora (Eun-jin Bang, S. Korea) Crime/Drama
  84. Murder, Take One [The Big Scene] (Jin Jang, S. Korea) Crime/Mystery
  85. Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman, US) Horror/Thriller
  86. The Island (Michael Bay, US) Action/Sci-fi
  87. The Great Raid (John Dahl, US) War/Drama
  88. Hostage (Florent Emilio Siri, US) Crime/Thriller
  89. Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (Pete Michels/Peter Shin, US) Cartoon/Comedy
  90. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, US) Horror

  91. -=6=-

  92. King and the Clown (Jun-ik Lee, S. Korea) Period Drama
  93. The Promise (Kaige Chen, China/HK) Romance/Fantasy
  94. Sky High (Mike Mitchell, US) Action/Comedy/Drama
  95. Istanbul Tales (Selim Demirdelen/Kudret Sabanci/Umit Unal/Yücel Yolcu, Turkey) Drama(s)
  96. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, US) Gay Drama
  97. Dark Water (Walter Salles, US) Horror
  98. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney, US) Drama/History
  99. Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer, US) Rap Drama
  100. The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, US) Pinup Biopic
  101. Angel-A (Luc Besson, France) Romance/Drama with the Heavens
  102. Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki, Japan) Musical/Play/Romance
  103. Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, US) Documentary/Politics
  104. Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall, US) Drama/Determinism
  105. The Red Shoes (Yong-gyun Kim, S. Korea) Horror/Drama
  106. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman, US) Romance/Thriller
  107. Derailed (Mikael Håfström, US) Drama/Thriller
  108. Protocols of Zion (Marc Levin, US) Documentary
  109. Haan (In-soo Lee, S. Korea) War/History/Espionage
  110. Proof (John Madden, US) Drama
  111. Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, US) Religion/War
  112. Assault on Precinct 13 (Jean-François Richet, US) Crime/Thriller
  113. Wedding Campaign (Byung-guk Hwang, S. Korea) Drama/Comedy/Romance
  114. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, US) Adventure/Comedy
  115. Su-ki-da (Hiroshi Ishikawa, Japan) Minimalist Drama/Romance
  116. The Dark Hours (Paul Fox, Canada) Psychological Drama/Mystery
  117. Another Public Enemy (Woo-Suk Kang, S. Korea) Cop Drama
  118. Never to Lose (Hee-chang Son, S. Korea) Cop Drama/Action
  119. Bravo, My Life (Heung-Sik Park, S. Korea) Melodrama/Comedy
  120. My Boyfriend is Type-B (Seok-won Choi, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  121. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Garth Jennings, US) Sci-fi/Comedy
  122. Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe, US) Whimsical Romance
  123. Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin, US) Comedy
  124. Adam's Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark) Black Comedy/Drama
  125. When Romance Meets Destiny (Hyeon-seok Kim, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  126. Tom Yum Goong (Prachya Pinkaew, Thailand) Action
  127. A Stranger of Mine (Kenji Uchida, Japan) Crime/Romance/Comedy/Drama
  128. Taga Tameni (Taro Hyugaji, Japan) Drama/Romance
  129. Are you the Favorite Person of Anybody? [short] (Miguel Arteta, US) Comedy
  130. Winter Passing (Adam Rapp, US) Drama
  131. The Great Yokai War (Takashi Miike, Japan) Adventure/Comedy
  132. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, US) Drama
  133. Madagascar (Eric Darnell/Tom McGrath, US) Children/Animation
  134. Corpse Bride (Tim Burton/Mike Johnson, US) Morbid Animation/Family
  135. Transporter 2 (Louis Leterrier, France/US) Action
  136. House of Bugs (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) Horror/Short
  137. Aeon Flux (Karyn Kusama, US) Action/Thriller
  138. Jarhead (Sam Mendes, US) War/Drama
  139. Constantine (Francis Lawrence, US) Religious Fantasy (is that redundant?)
  140. Daddy-Long-Legs (Jeong-Sik Gong, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  141. Canary (Akihiko Shiota, Japan) Drama
  142. Severed (Carl Bessai, Canada) Zombie/Horror
  143. Blood Rain (Dae-seung Kim, S. Korea) Period Drama/Mystery
  144. Unleashed (Louis Leterrier, France/UK/US) Action/Martial Arts
  145. The Bow (Ki-duk Kim, S. Korea) Drama
  146. Duelist (Myung-se Lee, S. Korea) Avant-garde Action/Romance
  147. Everything is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber, US) Adventure/Drama
  148. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, France) Drama/Crime
  149. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund, Germany) Anti-Nazi Drama
  150. The Myth (Stanley Tong, China/HK) Action/Fantasy

  151. -=5=-

  152. Ah! My Goddess [TV Series] (Hiroaki Gohda, Japan) Anime/Romance
  153. Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin/Dana Adam Shapiro, US) Documentary/Sports
  154. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, US) Fantasy/Adventure
  155. Speed Grapher [TV Series] (Kunihisa Sugishima, Japan) Anime/Action
  156. Blossom Again [Close to You] (Ji Woo Chung, S. Korea) Drama/Romance
  157. Love in Magic (Se-Hwan Cheon, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  158. Dear Wendy (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/France/Germany/UK) Drama
  159. The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, Spain) Drama
  160. Funky Forest: The First Contact (Katsuhito Ishii/Hajime Ishimine/Shunichiro Miki, Japan) Comedy
  161. Bad News Bears (Richard Linklater, US) Sports/Comedy
  162. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry, US) Documentary/Party
  163. Shopgirl (Anand Tucker, US) Drama/Romance
  164. The Skeleton Key (Iain Softley, US) Horror
  165. Match Point (Woody Allen, UK/Luxembourg) Drama/Thriller
  166. Thumbsucker (Mike Mills, US) Angst/Drama
  167. The Amityville Horror (Andrew Douglas, US) Horror/Thriller
  168. Cracked Eggs and Noodles (Sang-hun Oh, S. Korea) Comedy/Melodrama
  169. Hitch (Andy Tennant, US) Romance/Comedy
  170. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, US) Indie Comedy
  171. Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello, US) High School Comedy
  172. The Chumscrubber (Arie Posin, US) Angst/Satire/Comedy
  173. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Yimou Zhang, HK/China/Japan) Drama
  174. Storm (Måns Mårlind/Björn Stein, Sweden) Mystery/Thriller
  175. North Country (Niki Caro, US) Drama
  176. Keep Your Distance (Stu Pollard, US) Mystery/Drama
  177. Cello (Woo-cheol Lee, S. Korea) Horror
  178. Walk the Line (James Mangold, US) Biopic/Drama/Musical
  179. Red Eye (Wes Craven, US) Thriller
  180. Capote (Bennett Miller, US) Biopic/Drama
  181. S.P.L. [Mainland China Edit] (Wilson Yip, China/HK) Action
  182. Whispering Corridors 4: Voice (Ik-hwan Choe, S. Korea) Horror
  183. She's on Duty (Kwang-chun Park, S. Korea) Comedy
  184. The Pacifier (Adam Shankman, US) Comedy
  185. Azumi 2: Death or Love (Shusuke Kaneko, Japan) Action/Cheese
  186. Innocent Steps (Young-hoon Park, S. Korea) Romance/Dance
  187. The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, US) Comedy
  188. Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (Liam Lynch, US) Comedy
  189. Fun with Dick and Jane (Dean Parisot, US) Drama/Comedy
  190. The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, US) Comedy
  191. You Are My Sunshine (Jin-pyo Park, S. Korea) Overblown/Sappy Romance
  192. Verlengd Weekend (Hans Herbots, Belgium) Crime/Comedy
  193. Heaven's Soldiers (Joon-ki Min, S. Korea) History/Action/Comedy
  194. The Unforgiven (Jong-bin Yoon, S. Korea) Military/Drama
  195. Hoodwinked (Cory Edwards/Todd Edwards/Tony Leech, US) Children/Comedy
  196. Hostel (Eli Roth, US) Horror
  197. Shadowless Sword (Young-jun Kim, S. Korea) Action/Period Drama
  198. Waiting... (Rob McKittrick, US) Comedy
  199. Green Street Holigans (Lexi Alexander, UK/US) Football/Drama
  200. Fantastic Four (Tim Story, US) Superhero/Action
  201. Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, US) Hollywood Culture/Comedy
  202. Kicking & Screaming (Jesse Dylan, US) Family/Comedy

  203. -=4=-

  204. MirrorMask (Dave McKean, UK/US) Fantasy
  205. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks, US) Comedy
  206. Beowulf & Grendel (Sturla Gunnarsson, Canada/Iceland/UK) Drama/Adventure
  207. House of 9 (Steven R. Monroe, UK) Reality TV/Horror
  208. Happy Endings (Don Roos, US) Drama
  209. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ken Kwapis, US) Friendship
  210. The Ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller, US) Drama/Hippies
  211. Love, Ludlow (Adrienne J. Weiss, US) Drama
  212. House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra, US) Horror
  213. Mr. Socrates (Jin-won Choi, S. Korea) Action/Drama
  214. The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata, US) Horror
  215. The Dukes of Hazzard (Jay Chandrasekhar, US) Action/Comedy
  216. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Darren Grant, US) Family/Soap Opera
  217. The Wig (Shin-yeon Won, S. Korea) Atmospheric Horror
  218. Flightplan (Robert Schwentke, US) Suspense/Thriller
  219. Reincarnation (Takashi Shimizu, Japan) Horror
  220. Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou, Taiwan/China) Soporific Drama
  221. Typhoon (Kyung-Taek Kwak, S. Korea) Action/Thriller
  222. Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, UK/S. Africa) Drama
  223. Spring Snow (Isao Yukisada, Japan) Period Drama/Romance
  224. The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, UK/US/France/Germany) Sci-fi Poetry
  225. Hide and Seek (John Polson, US) Drama/Horror
  226. The Aggressives (Jae-eun Jeong, S. Korea) Rollerblading Drama
  227. Grave of the Fireflies [Live Action TV Movie] (??, Japan) Drama
  228. Man with the Screaming Brain (Bruce Campbell, US) B-movie/Cheese
  229. Junebug (Phil Morrison, US) Drama
  230. BloodRayne (Uwe Boll, US/Germany) Action/Thriller
  231. Alone in the Dark (Uwe Boll, Canada/Germany/US) Action/Thriller
  232. The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (Gary Trousdale, US) Short/Animation

  233. -=3=-

  234. Robots (Chris Wedge/Carlos Saldanha, US) Children/Animation
  235. Chicken Little (Mark Dindal, US) Children/Animation
  236. The Cave (Bruce Hunt, US/Germany) Action/Suspense
  237. Nanny McPhee (Kirk Jones, US/UK/France) Fantasy/Family
  238. Love Talk (Yoon-ki Lee, S. Korea) Drama
  239. Be With Me (Eric Khoo, Singapore) Silent Drama/Isolation
  240. Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Diet (Tadafumi Itô, Japan) Horror
  241. Boy Eats Girl (Stephen Bradley, Ireland) Horror
  242. Nine Lives (Rodrigo García, US) Emotional Baggage/Drama
  243. Geochilmaru: The Showdown (Jin-sung Kim, S. Korea) Martial Arts
  244. Hard Candy (David Slade, US) Forced Drama/Thriller
  245. Last Days (Gus Van Sant, US) Ennui
  246. Herbie: Fully Loaded (Angela Robinson, US) Sports/Family
  247. Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, US) Boring Drama/Mystery
  248. Initial D (Wai Keung Lau/Siu Fai Mak, China/HK) Racing

  249. -=2=-

  250. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Scott Derrickson, US) Horror/Emotional Pandering
  251. Doom (Andrzej Bartkowiak, US/Czech Republic) Action/Video Game
  252. Transamerica (Duncan Tucker, US) Gay Drama
  253. I Am A Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi, US) Prostitute Fetish
  254. Ellie Parker (Scott Coffey, US) Waste of Naomi Watts
  255. Cursed (Wes Craven, US) Werwolf Stupidity

  256. -=1=-

  257. Dirty Love (John Mallory Asher, US) Moronic
  258. The Crow: Wicked Prayer (Lance Mungia, US) Goth Stupidity
Author Comments: 

The higher up in the list, the better I think it is.
Release date based on date it first came out, not when it managed to get a theatrical release in my country.

CaptMal03/24/2006

It is amazing that you have seen that many films from 2005. I thought I was doing a pretty good job of 70+.

And, yay, Serenity makes the top 20.

(Yeah, I always have to mention that movie. Sort of in my contract for being named "CaptMal.")

Also good to see that you don't hate Episode III. I loved it; far better than the other two prequels.

hinterland03/25/2006

And there's so much more to see. Between school work and movies, I have no life. heh

I like Episode III, though I think it's currently placed too high on this list. I'm sure if I rewatch it, its placement will drop at least a point. Or maybe it'll hold up, who knows.