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100 best films of the noughties: Nos 11-100

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The Guardian film team's pick of the top 100 movies of the decade. Check back from 21 December as we unveil the top 10 day by day

11-20

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
No 15. Photograph: Miramax/Everett/Rex Features

11. Waltz With Bashir
12. Dig!
13. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
14. The Consequences of Love
15. No Country for Old Men
16. Silent Light
17. Japon
18. The Sun
19. What Time Is It There?
20. Before Sunset

21-30

Control (2007)
No 30. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Momentum Pictures

21. Unrelated
22. One and a Two
23. Ivansxtc
24. Let the Right One In
25. Of Time and the City
26. When the Levees Broke
27. You Can Count on Me
28. A Serious Man
29. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
30. Control

31-40

Julianne Moore in Far from Heaven
No 35. Photograph: David Lee/AP

31. The Death of Mr Lazarescu
32. Grizzly Man
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
34. Être et Avoir
35. Far from Heaven
36. Hidden
37. The Hurt Locker
38. Oldboy
39. The New World
40. The Piano Teacher

41-50

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
No 45. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

41. Spirited Away
42. Vera Drake
43. American Splendor
44. Capturing the Friedmans
45. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
46. Crimson Gold
47. A History of Violence
48. In the Mood for Love
49. Movern Callar
50. The Night of the Sunflowers

51-60

Still from Together, directed by Lukas Moodysson
No 53

51. The Royal Tenenbaums
52. Taxi to the Darkside
53. Together
54. Volver
55. Antichrist
56. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
57. Brokeback Mountain
58. Elephant
59. In the Loop
60. In This World

61-70

Y Tu Mama Tambien
No 64. Photograph: EPA

61. Shaun of the Dead
62. Sideways
63. Talk to Her
64. Y Tu Mamá También
65. Couscous
66. La Ñina Santa
67. Russian Ark
68. Mid-August Lunch
69. Chuck and Buck
70. Amores Perros

71-80

My Summer of Love
No 74

71. The Class
72. Gomorrah
73. Man On Wire
74. My Summer of Love
75. The Wrestler
76. You the Living
77. Roger Dodger
78. Days of Glory
79. Time Regained
80. Downfall

81-90

Ben Stiller in Zoolander
No 86. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/AP

81. Garage
82. Hunger
83. Red Road
84. Sexy Beast
85. WALL-E
86. Zoolander
87. Beau Travail
88. Bombon El Perro
89. The Bourne trilogy
90. L'Enfant

91-100

Persepolis (2007)
No 99. Photograph: Sony/Everett/Rex Features

91. City of God
92. The Circle
93. The Departed
94. Head-On
95. House of Flying Daggers
96. Juno
97. Memento
98. Pan's Labyrinth
99. Persepolis
100. Zodiac

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