The Best Films of 2005

Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Best of Youth (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
Schultze Gets The Blues (dir. Michael Schorr)
Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (dir. Miranda July)
Sin City (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
Mysterious Skin (dir. Gregg Araki)
Duane Hopwood (dir. Matt Mulhern)
Junebug (dir. Phil Morrison)
Nine Lives (dir. Rodrigo García)
The Squid and the Whale (dir. Noah Baumbach)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (dir. Tommy Lee Jones)
Munich (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Weather Man (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Sweet Land (dir. Ali Selim)
Oldboy (dir. Chan-wook Park)
Saraband (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Millions (dir. Danny Boyle)
Nuit Noire, 17 Octobre 1961 (dir. Alain Tasma)
Firecracker (dir. Steve Balderson)
Match Point (dir. Woody Allen)
Tokyo Godfathers (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Downfall (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (dir. Judd Apatow)
Volver (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Crash (dir. Paul Haggis)
Shopgirl (dir. Anand Tucker)
Good Night, and Good Luck (dir. George Clooney)
Batman Begins (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (dir. Alex Gibney)
The New World (dir. Terrance Malick)
Eve and the Fire Horse (dir. Julia Kwan)
Yes (dir. Sally Potter)
Cache (aka Hidden) (dir. Michael Haneke)
Syriana (dir. Stephen Gaghan)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (dir. Nick Park)
Lord of War (dir. Andrew Niccol)
King Kong (dir. Peter Jackson)
Thumbsucker (dir. Mike Mills)
Grizzly Man (dir. Werner Herzog)
Hard Candy (dir. David Slade)
Paradise Now (dir. Hany Abu-Assad)
L’enfant (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Upside of Anger (dir. Mike Binder)
The Matador (dir. Richard Shepard)
Look Both Ways (dir. Sarah Watt)
Hustle & Flow (dir. Craig Brewer)
North Country (dr. Niki Caro)
Our Daily Bread (dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Three Times (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Three… Extremes
(dir. Fruit Chan “Dumplings”, Chan-wook Park “Cut”, Takashi Miike “Box”)
Broken Flowers (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Pride & Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright)
Duma (dir. Carroll Ballard)
Mrs Henderson Presents (dir. Stephen Frears)
Thieves of Innocence (dir. Paul Arcand)
Walk the Line (dir. James Mangold)
Prime (dir. Ben Younger)
Fever Pitch (dir. Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Murderball (dir. Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
Corpse Bride (dir. Tim Burton and Mike Johnson)
The Aristocrats (dir. Paul Provenza)
Jarhead (dir. Sam Mendes)
Off the Map (dir. Campbell Scott)
Stay (dir. Marc Forster)
March of the Penguins (dir. Luc Jacquet)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (dir. Marc Rothemund)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (dir. Bill Paxton)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dir. Tim Burton)
Where the Truth Lies (dir. Atom Egoyan)
The World’s Fastest Indian (dir. Roger Donaldson)
Havoc (dir. Barbara Kopple)
Sky High (dir. Mike Mitchell)
Cinderella Man (dir. Ron Howard)
Bee Season (dir. Scott McGehee and David Siegel)
Wah-Wah (dir. Richard E. Grant)
Game 6 (dir. Michael Hoffman)
In Her Shoes (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Tupac: Resurrection (dir. Lauren Lazin)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (dir. Katsuhito Ishii and Hajime Ishimine)
Domino (dir. Tony Scott)
Honourable Selection: The “Up” Documentaries
49 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2005)
42 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1998)
35 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1991)
28 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1984)
21 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1977)
7 Plus Seven (dir. Michael Apted, 1970)
Seven Up! (dir. Paul Almond, 1964)
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