2003 Films: Ranked

Submitted by hinterland on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 06:57
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati

  1. -=10=-

  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, US/New Zealand)
  3. Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki, Japan) Road Movie

  4. -=9=-

  5. Gozu (Takashi Miike, Japan) Surreal Oddity
  6. Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Thailand/Japan) Drama/Romance
  7. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, S. Korea) Baroque Revenge
  8. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, Japan) Blind Samurai
  9. A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim, S. Korea) Horror

  10. -=8=-

  11. Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden) Allegory
  12. Bright Future (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
  13. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Ki-duk Kim, S. Korea)
  14. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, S. Korea) Detective Drama
  15. Classic (Jae-young Kwak, S. Korea) Romance
  16. ...ing (Eon-hie Lee, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  17. Big Fish (Tim Burton, US) Fantasy/Adventure/Melodrama
  18. 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu, US) Interconnecting Dramas
  19. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, US) Pirates!
  20. Azumi (Ryuhei Kitamura, Japan) Live-Action Anime/Manga
  21. One Missed Call (Takashi Miike, Japan) Cell Phone Ringu
  22. Collage of Our Life (Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Japan)
  23. Villmark (Pål Øie, Norway) Horror in the Woods
  24. If You Were Me (Various, S. Korea) Human Rights
  25. Open Water (Chris Kentis, US) Lost at Sea
  26. X2 (Bryan Singer, US) Mutants

  27. -=7=-

  28. Bad Santa
  29. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  30. Lost in Translation
  31. The Blue Light
  32. Aragami
  33. Please Teach Me English
  34. Spring Bears Love
  35. Love Actually (Richard Curtis, UK/US) Romance/Comedy
  36. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  37. School of Rock
  38. Success
  39. Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
  40. The Matrix Reloaded
  41. The Matrix Revolutions
  42. High Tension (Alexandre Aja, France) Grindhouse/Horror
  43. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  44. The I Inside
  45. The Messenger
  46. Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem
  47. The Station Agent
  48. House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, US) Grindhouse/Horror
  49. Negotiator [Kôshônin] (Takashi Miike, Japan) Crime/Mystery
  50. Open Range
  51. Wonderful Days
  52. The Barbarian Invasions
  53. The Fog of War (Errol Morris, US) Documentary/War
  54. Dead End

  55. -=6=-

  56. Noi the Albino
  57. 1-Ichi
  58. Uninvited
  59. The Five Obstructions
  60. Finding Nemo
  61. Elephant
  62. Infernal Affairs II (Wai Keung Lau/Siu Fai Mak, HK/China) Crime/Drama
  63. I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores, Italy) Drama/Quasi-Thriller
  64. Elf
  65. Hulk
  66. Ju-on: The Grudge
  67. Kontroll
  68. Kopps
  69. My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet, Canada/Spain) Melodrama
  70. Ju-on: The Grudge 2
  71. Sky High
  72. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (Lance Laspina, US) Biopic
  73. Under the Tuscan Sun
  74. Singles
  75. Underworld (Len Wiseman, US/Germany/Hungary/UK) Action/Thriller
  76. Save the Green Planet (Joon-Hwan Jang, S. Korea) Aliens! Kill them!
  77. Freddy Vs. Jason
  78. Sweet Sex and Love
  79. Veronica Guerin
  80. Pieces of April

  81. -=5=-

  82. Code 46
  83. Spring Breeze
  84. Ong-bak
  85. Undead
  86. Reversal of Fortune (Yong-woon Park, S. Korea) Life Switching Comedy
  87. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, UK/France/Italy) Coming of Age
  88. Monster
  89. How to Deal
  90. Old School
  91. American Wedding
  92. Scary Movie 3
  93. Skagerrak (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Denmark) Drama
  94. Buddy (Morten Tyldum, Norway) Friendship/Comedy/Romance
  95. Anything Else (Woody Allen, US) Comedy/Drama/Romance
  96. The Crescent Moon (Kil-soo Chang, S. Korea) Melodrama
  97. Something's Gotta Give
  98. The Italian Job
  99. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
  100. Brother Bear
  101. Battle Royale II
  102. D.E.B.S. (Short)
  103. All The Real Girls (David Gordon Green, US) Heavyhanded Drama
  104. The Hebrew Hammer

  105. -=4=-

  106. Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou, Japan/Taiwan) Ozu Tribute
  107. Wild Berries (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan) Drama
  108. The Corporation (Mark Achbar/Jennifer Abbott, Canada) Polemic
  109. Identity (James Mangold, US) Mystery/Thriller
  110. Haggard: The Movie (Bam Margera, US/Canada)
  111. Kikoku (Takashi Miike, Japan) Yakuza Drama
  112. It's All About Love (Thomas Vinterberg, US/Denmark) Title Says All
  113. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

  114. -=3=-

  115. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, US) Artsy Ennui
  116. Anger Management (Peter Segal, US) Unfunny Comedy
  117. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Donald Petrie, US) Weak Romance/Comedy
  118. Show Show Show (Jeong-ho Kim, S. Korea) Period Comedy
  119. Ultrachrist! (Kerry Douglas Dye, US) Amateur/Low Budget Cheese

  120. -=2=-

  121. House of the Dead (Uwe Boll, US/Germany/Canada) Horror
  122. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, US) Worthless Shorts
  123. Fat Pizza (Paul Fenech, Australia) Terrible Comedy

  124. -=1=-

  125. Red Cockroaches (Miguel Coyula, US/Cuba) Completely Incompetent
Author Comments: 

Formerly the top 10 of 2003 list now expanded to include (most) all of the movies I've seen of 2003.

Many of these need re-rating though.