If someone could only watch five movies from the 2000s/2010s...

which would you recommend?

Don't assume this is the average movie goer. These are people really serious about the art of cinema.

That being said, it doesn't have to be academic. Just movies you think are great/important/fun/noteworthy/whatever.

2010s:
Tree of Life
Midnight in Paris
The Artist
Her
Wolf of Wall Street
Holy Motors and Oslo, August 31 cause I'm not gonna NOT put them...

2000s:
There Will Be Blood
Oldboy
Inglorious Basterds
Wall-E
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I want to die for leaving off some of the movies that I did, but there. That's my list. Will be curious to read yours.

If I just go by my rankings / ratings (ie, what I consider to be the best)...

2000s:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Brokeback Mountain
The Dark Knight
Capote
The Departed

2010s:

The Artist
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The World's End


If I were to adjust the list based on a combination of quality, depth (ie, how much there is to discuss / examine within the film) and (potential) influence, the list changes quite a bit.

Adjusted 2000s:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Brokeback Mountain
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
In the Mood for Love

Adjusted 2010s:

The Artist
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (although I still prefer The Avengers, this has far more discoursive "meat" on it)
The Tree of Life
The Social Network
Drive

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movies? BS, watch the 11 episode TV series: Ping Pong The Animation. It's from 2014 and it is the greatest thing in the history of mankind, After watching it I noticed that my life had no real meaning before Ping Pong! It is that good.

2000s
Oldboy
Lost in Translation
Brokeback Mountain
Downfall
Head-On

2010s
Wadjda
Cloud Atlas
Only Lovers Left Alive
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Under the Skin

Better than PMMM? Still, I'll be sure to check it out when I have time.

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2000s
Snatch
Memento
City Of God
Zombieland
Lucky Number Slevin

2010s
Attack In Block
The Avengers
World War Z
Shutter Island
21 Jump Street

Lucky Number Slevin? I don't think so.

2000s

Zodiac
Children Of Men
The Machinist
Road To Perdition
Tropic Thunder

2010s

The Fighter
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Blue Valentine
Starred Up
Drive (Watched it again recently, loved)

2000s
Man on Fire
Mystic River
Gone Baby Gone
Wedding Crashers
Million Dollar Baby

2010s
The Descendants
Inception
Flight
The Avengers
Gravity

2000s

There Will Be Blood
Pan's Labyrinth
Sweet Sixteen
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Mulholland Drive

2010s

The Master
The Wolf Of Wall Street
A Seperation
Drive
Winters Bone

2000's:
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Requiem for a Dream
Wall-E
Mulholland Drive

2010's:
Gravity
Black Swan
The Master
12 Years a Slave
Drive

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I think that's one of the most underrated crime movies. And you know why? Because every crime movie that tries to be smart and with humor, everyone try to compare to Pulp Fiction. And of course Lucky Number Slevin ain't close to Pulp Fiction, but that doesn't mean it's not a great movie, but only that Quentin Tarantino have set a very high standarts on crime movie genre.

the movie has too much style and too little substance, it's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination but it is a weak one.

btw, interesting thread, I'd go for:

2000s
There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
Spirited Away
LOTR: The Two Towers (difficult to choose which one but this was my favourite)
Pan's Labyrinth

Honourable Mentions: (sory just had to write about these lol) District 9, Arrietty, Wall-E, Up, The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, OldBoy, No Country For Old Men, The Bourne everything lol

2010s
Inception
Cloud Atlas
The Raid (a top 10 all time action movie)
Drive (such a different experience to most modern cinema)
Life of Pi (for the visual spectacle)

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2000s

Inland Empire
Caché
Werckmeister Harmonies
Inglourious Basterds
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2010s

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Rango
Killing Them Softly
The Tree of Life
The Master

2000s

Mulholland Dr.
There Will Be Blood
Inglourious Basterds
Werckmeister Harmonies
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2010s

Tree of Life
Drive
The Hunt
The Great Beauty
A Separation

2000's:
There Will Be Blood
Inglorious Basterds
The Fall
Zodiac
Donnie Darko

2010's:
Gone Girl
The Master
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Social Network
Seven Psychopaths
Prisoners

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Based on Personal favorites, here's mine, no order.

2000's
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Spirited Away
Memento
Elf
Up

2010's
Toy Story 3
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
Lego Movie
Wreck it Ralph

00s:
King Kong
The Prestige
Gentlemen Broncos
Wet Hot American Summer
Lady Vengeance

10s:
Mysteries of Lisbon
The World's End
Calvary
Life of Pi
Birdman

what is Werckmeister Harmonies about? who stars in it? I have never heard of it till today

2000's:
Caché (2005)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Platform (2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Yi Yi (2000)

2010's:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Holy Motors (2012)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Aurora (2010)
The Turin Horse (2011)

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