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. L'enfer [Hell] (Danis Tanovic, France) Dramas
  75. April Snow (Jin-ho Hur, S. Korea) Tragic Romance
  76. The Matador (Richard Shepard, US/Germany/Ireland) Crime/Comedy
  77. The Art of Seduction (Ki-hwan Oh, S. Korea) Romance/Comedy
  78. Sad Movie (Jong-kwan Kwon, S. Korea) Melodrama
  79. All For Love (Kyu-Dong Min, S. Korea) Romance/Melodrama
  80. Bystanders (Kyung-soo Lim, S. Korea) Drama/Mystery/Crime
  81. Strange Circus (Sion Sono, Japan) Surreal/Perverse Horror
  82. Princess Aurora (Eun-jin Bang, S. Korea) Crime/Drama
  83. Murder, Take One [The Big Scene] (Jin Jang, S. Korea) Crime/Mystery
  84. Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman, US) Horror/Thriller
  85. The Island (Michael Bay, US) Action/Sci-fi
  86. The Great Raid (John Dahl, US) War/Drama
  87. Hostage (Florent Emilio Siri, US) Crime/Thriller
  88. Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (Pete Michels/Peter Shin, US) Cartoon/Comedy
  89. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie, US) Horror

  90. -=6=-

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

  150. -=5=-

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

  202. -=4=-

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

  232. -=3=-

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

  248. -=2=-

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

  255. -=1=-

  256. Dirty Love (John Mallory Asher, US) Moronic
  257. 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.