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Best Movies of 2006, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
84 films from 2006 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Prestige ('2006), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Underworld: Evolution, 6.7 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Prestige '2006 | Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 77% | 66 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | The Departed '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.5 | 91% | 85 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 3 | V for Vendetta '2006 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 73% | 62 | 7.9 | James McTeigue |
| 4 | Pan's Labyrinth '2006 | Fantasy / Drama / War | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 7.8 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 5 | The Lives of Others '2006 | Drama / Thriller | 8.4 | 92% | 89 | 8.0 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
| 6 | Casino Royale '2006 | Action / Thriller | 8.0 | 94% | 80 | 7.6 | Martin Campbell |
| 7 | The Pursuit of Happyness '2006 | Drama | 8.0 | 67% | 64 | 7.9 | Gabriele Muccino |
| 8 | Blood Diamond '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Action | 8.0 | 64% | 64 | 7.6 | Edward Zwick |
| 9 | Children of Men '2006 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action | 7.9 | 92% | 84 | 7.6 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 10 | Little Miss Sunshine '2006 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 91% | 80 | 7.7 | Valerie Faris |
| 11 | Apocalypto '2006 | Action / Drama | 7.9 | 65% | 68 | 7.7 | Mel Gibson |
| 12 | Lucky Number Slevin '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.7 | - | 53 | 7.5 | Paul McGuigan |
| 13 | Inside Man '2006 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 86% | 76 | 7.4 | Spike Lee |
| 14 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest '2006 | Fantasy / Action | 7.4 | 53% | 53 | 7.4 | Gore Verbinski |
| 15 | The Illusionist '2006 | Fantasy / Drama / Thriller / Romance | 7.5 | 74% | 68 | 7.3 | Neil Burger |
| 16 | Letters from Iwo Jima '2006 | Action / Drama / War | 7.8 | 91% | 89 | 7.5 | Clint Eastwood |
| 17 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan '2006 | Comedy | 7.4 | 90% | 89 | 6.8 | Larry Charles |
| 18 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer '2006 | Crime / Fantasy / Drama | 7.5 | 59% | 56 | 7.4 | Tom Tykwer |
| 19 | The Last King of Scotland '2006 | Drama | 7.6 | 87% | 74 | 7.4 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 20 | Stranger Than Fiction '2006 | Drama / Comedy / Romance / Fantasy | 7.5 | 73% | 67 | 7.3 | Marc Forster |
| 21 | Babel '2006 | Drama | 7.4 | 68% | 69 | 7.2 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 22 | Cars '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | 75% | 73 | 7.1 | John Lasseter |
| 23 | Paprika '2006 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.7 | 87% | 81 | 7.8 | Satoshi Kon |
| 24 | Volver '2006 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 91% | 84 | 7.5 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 25 | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time '2006 | Fantasy / Animation / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 87% | 66 | 7.8 | Mamoru Hosoda |
| 26 | Déjà Vu '2006 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 55% | 59 | 6.9 | Tony Scott |
| 27 | The Fountain '2006 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.1 | 52% | 51 | 6.9 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 28 | Rocky Balboa '2006 | Drama / Action | 7.1 | 78% | 63 | 6.9 | Sylvester Stallone |
| 29 | The Devil Wears Prada '2006 | Drama / Comedy | 7.0 | 75% | 62 | 7.4 | David Frankel |
| 30 | The Holiday '2006 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 51% | 52 | 7.1 | Nancy Meyers |
| 31 | The Host '2006 | Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 93% | 85 | 7.0 | Bong Joon Ho |
| 32 | Eight Below '2006 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | 64 | 7.0 | Frank Marshall |
| 33 | Flags of Our Fathers '2006 | War / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 79 | 6.9 | Clint Eastwood |
| 34 | Hard Candy '2006 | Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 67% | 58 | 6.8 | David Slade |
| 35 | Mission: Impossible III '2006 | Action / Thriller | 6.9 | 73% | 66 | 6.8 | J.J. Abrams |
| 36 | A Scanner Darkly '2006 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 68% | 73 | 6.8 | Richard Linklater |
| 37 | Crank '2006 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.9 | 62% | 57 | 6.7 | Brian Taylor |
| 38 | OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies '2006 | Crime / Action / Comedy | 7.0 | 76% | 62 | 7.2 | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 39 | Ice Age: The Meltdown '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 6.8 | 56% | 59 | 6.7 | Carlos Saldanha |
| 40 | The Lake House '2006 | Romance / Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 36% | 52 | 7.0 | Alejandro Agresti |
| 41 | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny '2006 | Comedy / Musical / Fantasy | 6.8 | 53% | 55 | 6.8 | Liam Lynch |
| 42 | Monster House '2006 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 6.7 | 75% | 68 | 6.7 | Gil Kenan |
| 43 | Over the Hedge '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | 75% | 67 | 6.6 | Karey Kirkpatrick |
| 44 | Underworld: Evolution '2006 | Fantasy / Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 17% | 36 | 6.6 | Len Wiseman |
| 45 | The Da Vinci Code '2006 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.7 | 25% | 46 | 6.7 | Ron Howard |
| 46 | 16 Blocks '2006 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 55% | 63 | 6.5 | Richard Donner |
| 47 | Flushed Away '2006 | Animation / Comedy | 6.6 | 72% | 74 | 6.3 | David Bowers |
| 48 | Smokin' Aces '2006 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 31% | 45 | 6.5 | Joe Carnahan |
| 49 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby '2006 | Comedy | 6.6 | 71% | 66 | 6.4 | Adam McKay |
| 50 | Marie Antoinette '2006 | Drama | 6.5 | 58% | 64 | 6.7 | Sofia Coppola |
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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