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Combined Film Canon - 2000 / 2006

Updated: September 2007

The “Combined Film Canon” is a list of 2,000 great movies, assembled by combining the “They Shoot Pictures Don’t They” list of 1,000 movies and a “Doubling the Canon” list, created by participants on the IMDb Classic Film message board, which added an additional 1,000 great movies. The result is a list of 2,000 movies, which includes feature films, shorts, TV-movies, and TV mini-series. It does not include TV series or music videos.

Because of its unwieldy size, the Combined Film Canon will be posted as nine lists: 1890-1929, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000-present. These lists will be updated regularly, as They Shoot Pictures and the “Doubling the Canon” project make revisions.

On each of the nine Combined Film Canon lists, movies are first listed chronologically, and then alphabetically within the years.

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1. Amores Perros
by Alejandro González Iñárritu
 
2. Battle Royale Directors Cut
by Kinji Fukasaku
 
3. Burnt Money
by Marcelo Piñeyro
 
4. The Claim
by Michael Winterbottom
 
5. Code Unknown
by Michael Haneke
 
6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  
7. Dancer in the Dark (New Line Platinum Series)  
8. Divided We Fall
by Jan Hrebejk
 
9.
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Eureka
by Aoyama Shinji
 
10.
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The Heart of the World
by Guy Maddin
 
11. In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
by Kar Wai Wong
 
12. Memento (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Christopher Nolan
 
13. Nine Queens
by Fabián Bielinsky
 
14. Peppermint Candy
by Chang-dong Lee
 
15. The Princess and the Warrior
by Tom Tykwer
 
16. Quills  
17. Songs From the Second Floor
by Roy Andersson
 
18. Suzhou River
by Ye Lou
 
19. Together  
20. Tully
by Hilary Birmingham
 
21. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
by Anh Hung Tran
 
22. Werckmeister Harmonies
by Béla Tarr
 
23. Yi Yi - Criterion Collection
by Edward Yang
 
24. A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)  
25. Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
 
26. Band of Brothers  
27. Beijing Bicycle
by Xiaoshuai Wang
 
28. The Believer
by Henry Bean
 
29. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Kelly (II)
 
30. Elling
by Petter Næss
 
31. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)  
32. L.I.E. (Unrated)
by Michael Cuesta
 
33. Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India
by Ashutosh Gowariker
 
34. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)  
35. Millennium Actress
by Satoshi Kon
 
36. Mulholland Dr.
by David Lynch
 
37. The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
by Michael Haneke
 
38. Sex and Lucia (Unrated Edition)
by Julio Medem
 
39. Shaolin Soccer  
40. The Son's Room  
41. Spirited Away
by Hayao Miyazaki
 
42. Take Care of My Cat
by Jae-eun Jeong
 
43. Time Out
by Laurent Cantet
 
44. Visitor Q (Sub)
by Takashi Miike
 
45. Waking Life  
46. Wit
by Mike Nichols
 
47. Y Tu Mama Tambien
by Alfonso Cuarón
 
48. Bowling for Columbine  
49. Bus 174
by José Padilha
 
50. City of God
by Fernando Meirelles
 
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Created by lee109 on Dec 16, 2006.