Classic films of the 2000s A new millennium sees a new movement. Independent, risky and distinct adventures from future legends. Read more Hidden Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt. Drama Thriller 2004 113 mins Michael Haneke Volver Family secrets echo around a Spanish clan, ringing loud enough to rouse the dead, in Pedro Almodóvar's assured melodrama. Drama 2005 121 mins Pedro Almodóvar Memories of Murder A pair of detectives clash trying to solve the brutal murders of two women, in Bong Joon Ho’s masterful blend of true crime and dark social satire. Detective drama Thriller 2003 131 mins Bong Joon-ho Amélie Audrey Tautou plays the shy waitress whose altruism leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance. Drama 2001 117 mins Jean-Pierre Jeunet Palindromes Todd Solondz’s casting of eight different actors of varying ages, genders and races to play the lead role of Aviva, makes for a truly original film. Comedy Drama 2004 100 mins Todd Solondz Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke star as criminal brothers whose botched heist leads to escalating turmoil, in Sidney Lumet's twisty thriller. Thriller 2008 117 mins Sidney Lumet Martyrs A revenge mission leads two young women to the heart of a deranged cult, in Pascal Laugier’s notoriously brutal and unflinching horror. Horror 2008 99 mins Pascal Laugier Hunger Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen made his cinema debut with this provocative portrait of Irish republican prisoners defying the British government. Biopic 2008 96 mins Steve McQueen Air Doll A blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting meditation on urban alienation. Drama 2009 116 mins Hirokazu Koreeda Available in 4K The Proposition John Hillcoat and Nick Cave's brilliant bushranger western, with Guy Pearce as the outlaw tasked with tracking down his psychopathic elder brother. Western 2006 104 mins John Hillcoat Irreversible Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Drama 2002 93 mins Gaspar Noé The Secret in Their Eyes A retired legal investigator revisits an unresolved case that still haunts him, in Juan José Campanella’s taut, Academy Award winning, thriller. Thriller 2009 129 mins Juan José Campanella BFI Restoration The House of Mirth Terence Davies and Gillian Anderson take us to the epitome of heartbreak in a visually intoxicating adaptation of Edith Wharton’s era-defining novel. Drama 2001 140 mins Terence Davies Downfall Bruno Ganz is extraordinary as Adolf Hitler, living out his final days during the fall of Berlin in Oliver Hirschbiegel's acclaimed drama. Historical drama War 2004 155 mins Oliver Hirschbiegel Dogtooth Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships Drama 2009 93 mins Yorgos Lanthimos In the Cut Jane Campion’s feminist erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo adds a frisson of dangerous sex to a murder investigation. Thriller 2003 119 mins Jane Campion Trouble Every Day Clare Denis’ transgressive erotic horror … with cannibals, starring Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo. Drama 2001 101 mins Claire Denis The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning tale of two brothers joining the fight for Irish independence in the 1920s, starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney Drama 2006 122 mins Ken Loach Red Road Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons. Thriller 2006 110 mins Andrea Arnold Me without You Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns. Drama 2001 103 mins Sandra Goldbacher The Descent Six friends on a caving expedition get trapped deep underground and discover they are not alone in this visceral, claustrophobic horror. Horror 2005 99 mins Neil Marshall Oldboy Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past. Thriller 2003 120 mins Park Chan-wook Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier’s unique and divisive dissection of the American Dream, featuring Björk as an immigrant worker finding escape in musical cinema. Drama Musical 2000 141 mins Lars von Trier The Dreamers Paris in 1968 forms the backdrop for this romantic drama about an American student who bonds with a brother and sister over their love of cinema. Drama 2004 115 mins Bernardo Bertolucci
Hidden Haneke’s Cannes award-winning masterpiece is both an enthralling thriller and a piercing analysis of colonial guilt. Drama Thriller 2004 113 mins Michael Haneke
Volver Family secrets echo around a Spanish clan, ringing loud enough to rouse the dead, in Pedro Almodóvar's assured melodrama. Drama 2005 121 mins Pedro Almodóvar
Memories of Murder A pair of detectives clash trying to solve the brutal murders of two women, in Bong Joon Ho’s masterful blend of true crime and dark social satire. Detective drama Thriller 2003 131 mins Bong Joon-ho
Amélie Audrey Tautou plays the shy waitress whose altruism leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance. Drama 2001 117 mins Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Palindromes Todd Solondz’s casting of eight different actors of varying ages, genders and races to play the lead role of Aviva, makes for a truly original film. Comedy Drama 2004 100 mins Todd Solondz
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke star as criminal brothers whose botched heist leads to escalating turmoil, in Sidney Lumet's twisty thriller. Thriller 2008 117 mins Sidney Lumet
Martyrs A revenge mission leads two young women to the heart of a deranged cult, in Pascal Laugier’s notoriously brutal and unflinching horror. Horror 2008 99 mins Pascal Laugier
Hunger Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen made his cinema debut with this provocative portrait of Irish republican prisoners defying the British government. Biopic 2008 96 mins Steve McQueen
Air Doll A blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting meditation on urban alienation. Drama 2009 116 mins Hirokazu Koreeda
Available in 4K The Proposition John Hillcoat and Nick Cave's brilliant bushranger western, with Guy Pearce as the outlaw tasked with tracking down his psychopathic elder brother. Western 2006 104 mins John Hillcoat
Irreversible Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Drama 2002 93 mins Gaspar Noé
The Secret in Their Eyes A retired legal investigator revisits an unresolved case that still haunts him, in Juan José Campanella’s taut, Academy Award winning, thriller. Thriller 2009 129 mins Juan José Campanella
BFI Restoration The House of Mirth Terence Davies and Gillian Anderson take us to the epitome of heartbreak in a visually intoxicating adaptation of Edith Wharton’s era-defining novel. Drama 2001 140 mins Terence Davies
Downfall Bruno Ganz is extraordinary as Adolf Hitler, living out his final days during the fall of Berlin in Oliver Hirschbiegel's acclaimed drama. Historical drama War 2004 155 mins Oliver Hirschbiegel
Dogtooth Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships Drama 2009 93 mins Yorgos Lanthimos
In the Cut Jane Campion’s feminist erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo adds a frisson of dangerous sex to a murder investigation. Thriller 2003 119 mins Jane Campion
Trouble Every Day Clare Denis’ transgressive erotic horror … with cannibals, starring Béatrice Dalle and Vincent Gallo. Drama 2001 101 mins Claire Denis
The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning tale of two brothers joining the fight for Irish independence in the 1920s, starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney Drama 2006 122 mins Ken Loach
Red Road Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons. Thriller 2006 110 mins Andrea Arnold
Me without You Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two troubled girls whose tumultuous friendship takes many twists and turns. Drama 2001 103 mins Sandra Goldbacher
The Descent Six friends on a caving expedition get trapped deep underground and discover they are not alone in this visceral, claustrophobic horror. Horror 2005 99 mins Neil Marshall
Oldboy Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past. Thriller 2003 120 mins Park Chan-wook
Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier’s unique and divisive dissection of the American Dream, featuring Björk as an immigrant worker finding escape in musical cinema. Drama Musical 2000 141 mins Lars von Trier
The Dreamers Paris in 1968 forms the backdrop for this romantic drama about an American student who bonds with a brother and sister over their love of cinema. Drama 2004 115 mins Bernardo Bertolucci
