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Best Movies of 2000, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
61 films from 2000 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Gladiator ('2000), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Pay It Forward, 7.2 on IMDb against 40 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gladiator '2000 | Action / Drama | 8.5 | 80% | 67 | 8.2 | Ridley Scott |
| 2 | Memento '2000 | Mystery / Thriller | 8.4 | 94% | 83 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 3 | Requiem for a Dream '2000 | Crime / Drama | 8.3 | 80% | 71 | 8.0 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 4 | Snatch '2000 | Crime / Comedy | 8.2 | 74% | 55 | 7.8 | Guy Ritchie |
| 5 | Cast Away '2000 | Drama | 7.8 | 88% | 74 | 7.7 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 6 | Amores Perros '2000 | Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 93% | 83 | 7.6 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 7 | Almost Famous '2000 | Drama / Musical | 7.9 | 91% | 90 | 7.5 | Cameron Crowe |
| 8 | American Psycho '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 69% | 64 | 7.4 | Mary Harron |
| 9 | In the Mood for Love '2000 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 92% | 87 | 8.1 | Wong Kar-Wai |
| 10 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon '2000 | Drama / Action | 7.8 | 96% | 94 | 7.4 | Ang Lee |
| 11 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? '2000 | Comedy / Crime | 7.7 | 78% | 69 | 7.3 | Joel Coen |
| 12 | Remember the Titans '2000 | Drama | 7.8 | 72% | 48 | 7.7 | Boaz Yakin |
| 13 | Dancer in the Dark '2000 | Drama / Crime | 7.9 | 69% | 63 | 7.8 | Lars von Trier |
| 14 | Billy Elliot '2000 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.7 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Stephen Daldry |
| 15 | Erin Brockovich '2000 | Drama | 7.5 | 87% | 73 | 7.4 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 16 | Traffic '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 93% | 86 | 7.1 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 17 | Battle Royale '2000 | Drama / Thriller / Action | 7.5 | 90% | 81 | 7.3 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| 18 | X-Men '2000 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 82% | 64 | 7.0 | Bryan Singer |
| 19 | The Emperor's New Groove '2000 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | 86% | 70 | 7.6 | Mark Dindal |
| 20 | Unbreakable '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 71% | 62 | 7.1 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 21 | High Fidelity '2000 | Drama / Comedy / Romance / Musical | 7.4 | 91% | 79 | 7.1 | Stephen Frears |
| 22 | Malena '2000 | Drama | 7.4 | 54% | 54 | 7.6 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| 23 | Frequency '2000 | Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 70% | 67 | 7.3 | Gregory Hoblit |
| 24 | The Patriot '2000 | Drama / War | 7.2 | 61% | 63 | 7.2 | Roland Emmerich |
| 25 | Chocolat '2000 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 63% | 64 | 7.0 | Lasse Hallström |
| 26 | The Virgin Suicides '2000 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 80% | 77 | 7.1 | Sofia Coppola |
| 27 | Men of Honor '2000 | Drama | 7.2 | 42% | 56 | 7.5 | George Tillman Jr. |
| 28 | Pay It Forward '2000 | Drama | 7.2 | 39% | 40 | 7.4 | Mimi Leder |
| 29 | Chicken Run '2000 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 97% | 88 | 6.9 | Peter Lord |
| 30 | Audition '2000 | Horror / Drama | 7.1 | 81% | 70 | 7.1 | Takashi Miike |
| 31 | Meet the Parents '2000 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 85% | 73 | 6.7 | Jay Roach |
| 32 | Pitch Black '2000 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Action | 7.0 | 58% | 49 | 6.9 | David Twohy |
| 33 | The Road to El Dorado '2000 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 49% | 51 | 7.3 | Bibo Bergeron |
| 34 | The Family Man '2000 | Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.9 | 54% | 42 | 6.8 | Brett Ratner |
| 35 | The Whole Nine Yards '2000 | Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 42% | 47 | 6.5 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 36 | Taxi 2 '2000 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 6.5 | - | - | 6.3 | Gérard Krawczyk |
| 37 | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea '2000 | Animation / Comedy | 5.6 | 20% | - | 6.4 | Jim Kammerud |
| 38 | Shanghai Noon '2000 | Comedy / Western | 6.6 | 80% | 77 | 6.4 | Tom Dey |
| 39 | What Lies Beneath '2000 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 49% | 51 | 6.4 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 40 | Dinosaur '2000 | Animation / Drama | 6.4 | 65% | 56 | 6.6 | Ralph Zondag |
| 41 | Final Destination '2000 | Horror | 6.7 | 50% | 39 | 6.6 | James Wong |
| 42 | Me, Myself & Irene '2000 | Comedy | 6.6 | 47% | 49 | 6.6 | Peter Farrelly |
| 43 | The Beach '2000 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 6.6 | 21% | 43 | 6.5 | Danny Boyle |
| 44 | The Perfect Storm '2000 | Drama / Action / Thriller | 6.5 | - | 59 | 6.5 | Wolfgang Petersen |
| 45 | Road Trip '2000 | Comedy | 6.5 | 59% | 55 | 6.3 | Todd Phillips |
| 46 | What Women Want '2000 | Comedy / Romance | 6.5 | 53% | 47 | 6.5 | Nancy Meyers |
| 47 | Gone in Sixty Seconds '2000 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.5 | 25% | 35 | 6.5 | Dominic Sena |
| 48 | Bring It On '2000 | Comedy | 6.2 | 65% | 52 | 6.3 | Peyton Reed |
| 49 | Miss Congeniality '2000 | Comedy / Crime / Action | 6.4 | 42% | 43 | 6.5 | Donald Petrie |
| 50 | Bedazzled '2000 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 6.1 | 50% | 49 | 6.1 | Harold Ramis |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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