In My Opinion...15 Best Movies of the 2000s.

1. MOULIN ROUGE! (2001, Baz Luhrrmann) - Nicoloe Kidman and Ewan McGregor play Satine and Christian, a courtesean and a writer, as the doomed lovers in this 19th century, sexy musical romance.

2. THE DEPARTED (2006, Martin Scorsese) - In this gripping Martin Scorsese masterpiece, Leonardo DiCaprio stars a Billy Costigan, a undercover cop looking for "himself" in the infamous Boston Mafia.

3. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005, Joe Wright) - The most underrated picture of the decade, "Pride and Prejudice" stars young Keira Knightly in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennett, the young, middle-class, outspoken girl who falls in love with someone she thought she hates!

4. COLD MOUNTAIN (2003, Anthony Minghella) - Jude Law plays Inman, a soldier trying to return to his home town of Cold Mountain, to return to Ada Monroe (Nicole Kidman), a woman he has loved for long time in this Anthony Minghella civil war epic.

5. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2002, Steven Spielberg) - Based on a true story, Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Frank Abignale Jr.: Check Fraud and Con Man who travels all around the world, extorts 5 million dollars, gets engaged and pretends to be a pilot, lawyer AND doctor all before his 19th birthday.

6. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000, Darren Aronofsky) - Marlon Wayans and Jared Leto play two best friends who associate their good-enough lives with "drugs" and ends up ruining it and not garnering thier "DREAM".

7. THE AVIATOR (2004, Martin Scorsese) - Playing Howard Hughes escorting Jean Harlow (Gwen Stefani in a cameo), Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Martin Scorsese's masterpiece set in old Hollywood, when the girls...AND airplanes were in!

8. CHICAGO (2002, Rob Marshall) - In the best stagged and most exciting musical number of the entire Best Picture winning film, Roxie (Renee Zelwegger), sings about how she's going to be famous and how her whole life will change when her charges of murder get dropped.

9. ERIN BROCKOVICH (2000, Steven Soderbergh) - Julia Roberts pulls of a-miracle-of-a-performnace in her Academy winning role as Erin Brockovich, the poor girl who discovers poison in the supply of a water company and saves THOUSANDS.

10. MYSTIC RIVER (2003, Clint Eastwood) - In this thrilling Clint Eastwood classic, a little Boston town (and especially parent Sean Penn) gets uttery disturbed when the body of a 19-year-old school girl (Emmy Rossum) gets found dead.

11. IN THE BEDROOM (2001, Todd Field) - Sissy Spacked stars as a grieving mother (ala Mary Tyler Moore in 1980's "Ordinary People") trying to cope with her life and her husband, when their only son gets murdered by his fiance's ex-husband.

12. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004, Michael Gondry) - In a truly original and rich film full of crazy shots and wonderful acting, Kate Winslet and Jim Carey lead an ensemble of stars as a man trying to forget his girl through science.

13. BIG FISH (2003, Tim Burton) - In this usual Tim Burton film (No Johnny Depp, not a dark movie?) we watch Ewan McGregor as Edward Bloom and how he pulls off a magnificent, magical life, until he becomes nothing but a "big fish".

14. WALK THE LINE (2005, James Mangold) - In the 2005 biography, Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon star as Country singing legends Johnny Cast and Reese Witherspoon who fall in each others spells after a long love-hate relationship.

15. ALMOST FAMOUS (2000, Cameron Crowe) - Kate Hudson gives one of the most cinematically iconic supporting roles of all time as Band-Aid (kinda like a groupy) Penny Lane as she leads her life following after a band called Still Water in any ways she could.

NOTE: 2007 movie not included.