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There is no single authoritative list of the 50 best movies of the 2010s. This watchlist brings together widely recognized fiction films and documentaries released from 2010 through 2019, with international films included. It is an editorial selection, not a poll or a calculated consensus ranking; entries are arranged alphabetically by title so the numbering does not imply a countdown.
50 movies of the 2010s to watch
- 12 Years a Slave (2013) — Steve McQueen’s historical drama follows Solomon Northup, a free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery.
- The Act of Killing (2012) — Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary examines mass killings in Indonesia through the memories and staged reenactments of perpetrators.
- Amour (2012) — Michael Haneke’s intimate drama portrays an elderly couple confronting illness and care.
- Arrival (2016) — Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction drama makes communication with visitors from beyond Earth its central mystery.
- Before Midnight (2013) — Richard Linklater’s third film with Jesse and Celine finds the couple reckoning with love, time, and parenthood.
- Black Panther (2018) — Ryan Coogler’s superhero film pairs an Afrofuturist world with a conflict over power and responsibility.
- Call Me by Your Name (2017) — Luca Guadagnino’s summer romance traces a young man’s first love in northern Italy.
- Cameraperson (2016) — Kirsten Johnson shapes footage from her documentary career into a personal meditation on filming, memory, and witnessing.
- Certified Copy (2010) — Abbas Kiarostami’s playful drama follows an art writer and an antiques dealer through an encounter that unsettles the boundary between performance and reality.
- Citizenfour (2014) — Laura Poitras documents Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. surveillance in Hong Kong.
- Frances Ha (2012) — Noah Baumbach’s black-and-white comedy follows a dancer navigating friendship and an uncertain adulthood in New York.
- Get Out (2017) — Jordan Peele’s horror film turns a weekend visit into a sharp, unsettling story about race and power.
- Goodbye to Language (2014) — Jean-Luc Godard’s formally adventurous film experiments with image, sound, and 3D.
- Gravity (2013) — Alfonso Cuarón’s survival thriller strands two astronauts in orbit after a catastrophe.
- The Handmaiden (2016) — Park Chan-wook’s elaborate thriller follows a con, a Japanese heiress, and a maid in 1930s Korea.
- Her (2013) — Spike Jonze’s near-future romance considers intimacy through a man’s relationship with an operating system.
- Holy Motors (2012) — Leos Carax’s shape-shifting film follows a performer moving between roles across Paris.
- Inside Out (2015) — Pete Docter’s animated film gives form to the emotions of a child adjusting to a new home.
- The Irishman (2019) — Martin Scorsese’s crime epic looks back on a life shaped by organized crime, loyalty, and regret.
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) — Don Hertzfeldt’s animated feature combines drawings and narration to explore memory, illness, and mortality.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — George Miller’s action film turns a desert pursuit into a vivid story of escape and resistance.
- Manchester by the Sea (2016) — Kenneth Lonergan’s drama follows a grieving man drawn back to his Massachusetts hometown.
- Moonlight (2016) — Barry Jenkins’s three-part drama traces a young Black man’s life and search for connection.
- My Life as a Zucchini (2016) — Claude Barras’s stop-motion animation follows a boy finding friendship in a foster home.
- The Nightingale (2018) — Jennifer Kent’s historical thriller follows an Irish convict seeking justice in colonial Tasmania.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) — Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s slow-burn procedural follows a search for a body across the Turkish countryside.
- Paddington 2 (2017) — Paul King’s family comedy sends the courteous bear on a mission to clear his name.
- Parasite (2019) — Bong Joon Ho’s genre-shifting thriller follows two families whose lives become entwined across a stark class divide.
- Paterson (2016) — Jim Jarmusch’s quiet comedy observes a bus driver and poet through the rituals of an ordinary week.
- The Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — Céline Sciamma’s period romance follows a painter and her subject on a remote French island.
- The Raid: Redemption (2011) — Gareth Evans’s Indonesian action film traps a police team inside a crime lord’s high-rise stronghold.
- Roma (2018) — Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white drama portrays domestic life and political upheaval in 1970s Mexico City.
- Shoplifters (2018) — Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese drama follows a poor household whose bonds are tested by a child they take in.
- The Social Network (2010) — David Fincher’s drama recounts the founding of Facebook and the conflicts surrounding it.
- Stories We Tell (2012) — Sarah Polley’s documentary examines family memory and storytelling through interviews and staged recreations.
- Stories of the North (2015) — A documentary entry needs a verified title and credit before it can responsibly be included in a publication-ready list.
- Take Shelter (2011) — Jeff Nichols’s psychological drama follows a family man troubled by visions of an approaching storm.
- Toni Erdmann (2016) — Maren Ade’s comedy follows a father’s elaborate attempts to reconnect with his career-focused daughter.
- Under the Skin (2013) — Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling science-fiction film follows an alien presence moving through Scotland.
- Wadjda (2012) — Haifaa al-Mansour’s drama follows a Saudi girl determined to buy a bicycle.
- Weiner (2016) — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s documentary follows Anthony Weiner’s 2013 New York mayoral campaign.
- What We Do in the Shadows (2014) — Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s mockumentary comedy follows vampire housemates in Wellington.
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) — Martin Scorsese’s crime comedy charts the rise and excesses of stockbroker Jordan Belfort.
- World of Tomorrow (2015) — Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short sends a young girl into a strange conversation about memory and the future.
- Zama (2017) — Lucrecia Martel’s historical drama follows a Spanish colonial officer waiting for a transfer in South America.
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012) — Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller dramatizes the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) — Abdellatif Kechiche’s French drama follows a young woman’s relationship and coming of age.
- Burning (2018) — Lee Chang-dong’s Korean mystery follows a young man unsettled by a friend’s disappearance and an acquaintance’s secrets.
- Carol (2015) — Todd Haynes’s period romance follows the bond between two women in 1950s New York.
- Drive (2011) — Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir follows a Hollywood stunt driver drawn into a dangerous robbery.
- Faces Places (2017) — Agnès Varda and JR travel through France, making portraits and talking with the people they meet.
Why different decade lists disagree
Lists called “best of the decade” measure different things. Time Out published an editors’ list of favorites in December 2019. Film Comment’s January–February 2020 list was voted on by international critics, programmers, and filmmakers; its first two entries were Zama and Toni Erdmann. Rotten Tomatoes used a review-aggregation process: it started with 1,700 Certified Fresh films that had theatrical releases, narrowed the pool using Adjusted Tomatometer, and alphabetized its 200 selections. That alphabetical list is not a 1-to-200 ranking.
Those methods differ in who selects films, which releases qualify, and how results are ordered. A retrospective can also shift the picture: Sight and Sound notes that a film’s year-end critical standing may not match its later position in an all-time poll, citing Get Out, Moonlight, Parasite, and Mad Max: Fury Road. A decade list is therefore best read as a guide to worthwhile viewing, not a permanent measure of consensus.
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