Best 2000 Movies

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Best 2000 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2000 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. In July

- Stacker score: 84.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Fatih Akin
- Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: 71Metascore
- Box office: N/A

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#19. Pollock

- Stacker score: 84.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Ed Harris
- Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,598,593

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#18. Erin Brockovich

- Stacker score: 84.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 237,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin
- Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $125,595,205

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#17. The Taste of Others

- Stacker score: 85.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Agnès Jaoui
- Actors: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $891,369

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#16. Billy Elliot

- Stacker score: 86.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 149,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Stephen Daldry
- Actors: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $21,995,263

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6 / 20

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#15. Sexy Beast

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 74,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Jonathan Glazer
- Actors: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,946,056

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#14. Cast Away

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 673,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Actors: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez
- Runtime: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $233,632,142

8 / 20

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#13. Gladiator

- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.8 million)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
- Runtime: 2 hours 35 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $187,705,427

9 / 20

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#12. Best in Show

- Stacker score: 87.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 71,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Christopher Guest
- Actors: Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara
- Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $18,715,392

10 / 20

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#11. High Fidelity

- Stacker score: 87.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 196,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $27,287,137

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11 / 20

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#10. Requiem for a Dream

- Stacker score: 88.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 949,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Darren Aronofsky
- Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: NC-17
- Box office: $3,635,482

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#9. Under the Sand

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: François Ozon
- Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: Unrated
- Box office: $1,452,698

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#8. Before Night Falls

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 27,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Julian Schnabel
- Actors: Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $4,242,892

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#7. Battle Royale

- Stacker score: 89.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 203,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

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#6. Chicken Run

- Stacker score: 90.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 221,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
- Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels
- Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $106,834,564

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16 / 20

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#5. You Can Count on Me

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 33,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Kenneth Lonergan
- Actors: Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Amy Ryan
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $9,416,804

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#4. Traffic

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 227,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Actors: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Runtime: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $124,115,725

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#3. Memento

- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.4 (votes: 1.4 million)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
- Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,544,867

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#2. Almost Famous

- Stacker score: 96.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 308,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Cameron Crowe
- Actors: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $32,534,850

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#1. Yi Yi

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Edward Yang
- Actors: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata
- Runtime: 2 hours 53 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $1,136,776

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