Best Movies of the 21st Century

Compiled 2026-10-23. The main table is the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century published on June 23, 2025, all 100 films. No. 1 is Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019). No. 2 is David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001). No. 100 is Superbad (2007). The publish date and the compile date stay separate. More than 500 people voted.

The 100 films

All 100 rows follow the vote. Years are the release years on the list, from 2000 through 2023.

The 2020s films inside the same list

These 8 films were released in 2020 or later. The numbers are their places on the list of 100, not a new countdown from 1 to 8.

How this ranking was built

Compiled 2026-10-23. The New York Times published the list on 2025-06-23. The vote was taken in June 2025 among more than 500 directors, actors, and other film workers. The main table is all 100 ranks. Release years run from 2000 to 2023. 8 films are from 2020 or later. They keep their original ranks.

The interactive page did not return the full text to a plain fetch. Titles, years, and order were read from IMDb list ls599610113. The Wikipedia article prints the top 50 and cites later ranks 26, 31, 34, 50, 51, 65, 66, 68, 73, 77, 82, 88, 92, and 98. Those positions match the IMDb list, including No. 1 Parasite, No. 98 Grizzly Man, and No. 100 Superbad. Chinese and Russian titles are the Wikidata labels for each IMDb id, simplified for Chinese.

The picture, and the other movie pages

Rows S through D hold all 100 films in rank order, 20 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 100.

The 2000s: 100 best movies of the 2000s. The 2010s: 100 best movies of the 2010s. IMDb voter ratings: IMDb Top 250. Each page keeps its own order.