The Dark Knight
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the…
TMDB score 8.5
If you missed them
Modern Classics, 2000 to 2014
Time is a useful filter. These films have had a decade or more of audience votes behind them, which makes their scores more settled than those of recent releases. It is a good list for catching what you missed.
Rank 1 Rank 2 Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon…
TMDB score 8.5
Rank 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the…
TMDB score 8.5
Rank 4 Interstellar
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the…
TMDB score 8.5
Rank 5 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 7 City of God
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 8 Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 9 Whiplash
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 10 Inception
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 11 The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced…
TMDB score 8.4
Rank 12 The Intouchables
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the…
TMDB score 8.3
Rank 13 Oldboy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 14 Gladiator
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus…
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 15 Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear…
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 16 The Prestige
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy…
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 17 The Help
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny…
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 18 Shutter Island
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but…
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 19 Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
TMDB score 8.2
Rank 20 Memento
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the…
TMDB score 8.2
How This List Is Built
Movies released from 2000 to 2014 with at least 5,000 TMDB votes, highest score first. The order comes from TMDB user scores and can change as new votes arrive.