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The Best Movies of 2006 - Original Release   (199 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 2006, # 190 Overall Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA BD
# 2 for 2006, # 319 Overall The Lives of Others 2006 von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel Germany BD
# 3 for 2006, # 420 Overall The Queen 2006 Frears, Stephen UK BD
# 4 for 2006, # 540 Overall The Departed 2006 Scorsese, Martin USA BD
# 5 for 2006, # 718 Overall Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Dayton, Jonathan / Faris, Valerie USA D
# 6 for 2006, # 722 Overall Babel 2006 Iñárritu, Alejandro González USA BD
# 7 for 2006, # 728 Overall Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 Charles, Larry USA D
# 8 for 2006, # 796 Overall The Host 2006 Bong, Joon-ho South Korea BD
# 9 for 2006, # 808 Overall Volver 2006 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain BD
# 10 for 2006, # 812 Overall Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Eastwood, Clint USA BD
# 11 for 2006, # 838 Overall United 93 2006 Greengrass, Paul France / UK / USA BD
# 12 for 2006, # 1081 Overall Apocalypto 2006 Gibson, Mel USA BD
# 13 for 2006, # 1265 Overall Once 2006 Carney, John Ireland DS
# 14 for 2006, # 1293 Overall Days of Glory 2006 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
# 15 for 2006, # 1336 Overall Ten Canoes 2006 de Heer, Rolf / Djigirr, Peter Australia D
# 16 for 2006, # 1360 Overall Dreamgirls 2006 Condon, Bill USA BDS
# 17 for 2006, # 1437 Overall Little Children 2006 Field, Todd USA D
# 18 for 2006, # 1471 Overall Children of Men 2006 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA BD
# 19 for 2006, # 1481 Overall Flags of Our Fathers 2006 Eastwood, Clint Iceland / USA BD
# 20 for 2006, # 1539 Overall A Prairie Home Companion 2006 Altman, Robert USA DS
# 21 for 2006, # 1592 Overall Inland Empire 2006 Lynch, David USA / Poland / France D
# 22 for 2006, # 1719 Overall Shut Up and Sing 2006 Kopple, Barbara / Peck, Cecilia USA D
# 23 for 2006, # 1744 Overall Superman Returns 2006 Singer, Bryan Australia / USA BD
# 24 for 2006, # 1783 Overall Black Book 2006 Verhoeven, Paul Netherlands / UK / Germany BD
# 25 for 2006, # 1814 Overall The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006 Loach, Ken France / Ireland / UK D
# 26 for 2006, # 1845 Overall Notes on a Scandal 2006 Eyre, Richard UK D
# 27 for 2006, # 1846 Overall The Painted Veil 2006 Curran, John USA D
# 28 for 2006, # 1850 Overall Casino Royale 2006 Campbell, Martin USA / UK / Czech Republic BDS
# 29 for 2006, # 1853 Overall Away from Her 2006 Polley, Sarah Canada D
# 30 for 2006, # 1873 Overall This Is England 2006 Meadows, Shane UK D
# 31 for 2006, # 1887 Overall Neil Young: Heart of Gold 2006 Demme, Jonathan USA D
# 32 for 2006, # 1888 Overall The Last King of Scotland 2006 Macdonald, Kevin UK BD
# 33 for 2006, # 1908 Overall Blood Diamond 2006 Zwick, Edward USA BD
# 34 for 2006, # 1914 Overall Marie Antoinette 2006 Coppola, Sofia Japan / France / USA D
# 35 for 2006, # 1945 Overall An Inconvenient Truth 2006 Guggenheim, Davis USA D
# 36 for 2006, # 1950 Overall Cars 2006 Lasseter, John USA BD
# 37 for 2006, # 1956 Overall The Science of Sleep 2006 Gondry, Michel France D
# 38 for 2006, # 1985 Overall World Trade Center 2006 Stone, Oliver USA BD
# 39 for 2006, # 2002 Overall Hollywoodland 2006 Coulter, Allen USA D
# 40 for 2006, # 2009 Overall Half Nelson 2006 Fleck, Ryan USA D
# 41 for 2006, # 2031 Overall The Ground Truth 2006 Foulkrod, Patricia USA D
# 42 for 2006, # 2033 Overall God Grew Tired of Us 2006 Quinn, Christopher Dillon / Walker, Tommy USA D
# 43 for 2006, # 2040 Overall Lake of Fire 2006 Kaye, Tony USA D
# 44 for 2006, # 2046 Overall The Devil Wears Prada 2006 Frankel, David USA BD
# 45 for 2006, # 2057 Overall Offside 2006 Panahi, Jafar Iran D
# 46 for 2006, # 2058 Overall The Fall 2006 Singh, Tarsem India / UK / USA BD
# 47 for 2006, # 2110 Overall Quinceañera 2006 Glatzer, Richard / Westmoreland, Wash USA D
# 48 for 2006, # 2115 Overall For Your Consideration 2006 Guest, Christopher USA D
# 48 for 2006, # 2115 Overall Tell No One 2006 Canet, Guillaume France BD
# 49 for 2006, # 2135 Overall 300 2006 Snyder, Zack USA BD
# 50 for 2006, # 2165 Overall The Good Shepherd 2006 De Niro, Robert USA D
# 51 for 2006, # 2166 Overall I Served the King of England 2006 Menzel, Jirí Czech Republic / Slovakia D
# 51 for 2006, # 2166 Overall When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006 Lee, Spike USA D
# 52 for 2006, # 2177 Overall Longford 2006 Hooper, Tom UK / USA
# 53 for 2006, # 2180 Overall Still Life 2006 Jia, Zhang Ke China / Hong Kong / Japan D
# 54 for 2006, # 2196 Overall After the Wedding 2006 Bier, Susanne Denmark / Sweden D
# 55 for 2006, # 2212 Overall Stranger Than Fiction 2006 Forster, Marc USA BD
# 56 for 2006, # 2221 Overall Bobby 2006 Estevez, Emilio USA D
# 57 for 2006, # 2222 Overall The Namesake 2006 Nair, Mira India / USA D
# 58 for 2006, # 2225 Overall My Country My Country 2006 Poitras, Laura USA D
# 58 for 2006, # 2225 Overall An Unreasonable Man 2006 Mantel, Henriette / Skrovan, Steve USA D
# 58 for 2006, # 2225 Overall Vitus 2006 Murer, Fredi M. Switzerland DS
# 59 for 2006, # 2230 Overall The Fountain 2006 Aronofsky, Darren USA BD
# 59 for 2006, # 2230 Overall Private Fears in Public Places 2006 Resnais, Alain France / Italy D
# 60 for 2006, # 2237 Overall Private Property 2006 Lafosse, Joachim Luxembourg / Belgium / France D
# 61 for 2006, # 2248 Overall The History Boys 2006 Hytner, Nicholas UK D
# 62 for 2006, # 2250 Overall Akeelah and the Bee 2006 Atchison, Doug USA D
# 63 for 2006, # 2252 Overall Exiled 2006 To, Johnny Hong Kong D
# 64 for 2006, # 2268 Overall Red Road 2006 Arnold, Andrea UK D
# 65 for 2006, # 2275 Overall The Lake House 2006 Agresti, Alejandro USA BD
# 65 for 2006, # 2275 Overall Something New 2006 Hamri, Sanaa USA D
# 66 for 2006, # 2287 Overall Rescue Dawn 2006 Herzog, Werner USA BD
# 67 for 2006, # 2291 Overall Inside Man 2006 Lee, Spike USA BD
# 67 for 2006, # 2291 Overall Wordplay 2006 Creadon, Patrick USA D
# 68 for 2006, # 2292 Overall Friends with Money 2006 Holofcener, Nicole USA D
# 68 for 2006, # 2292 Overall The Good German 2006 Soderbergh, Steven USA D
# 69 for 2006, # 2337 Overall Black Snake Moan 2006 Brewer, Craig USA BD
# 70 for 2006, # 2351 Overall Flandres 2006 Dumont, Bruno France D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall The Black Dahlia 2006 De Palma, Brian Germany / USA BD
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Daratt 2006 Haroun, Mahamat-Saleh Chad / France / Belgium / Austria D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Ejforija 2006 Vyrypaev, Ivan Russia
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Fallen 2006 Albert, Barbara Austria
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall The Golden Door 2006 Crialese, Emanuele France / Italy D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 2006 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / Austria / France D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall La Stella che non c'è 2006 Amelio, Gianni Italy
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Mushi-Shi 2006 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Paprika 2006 Kon, Satoshi Japan BD
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Quei loro incontri 2006 Huillet, Danièle / Straub, Jean-Marie Italy / France / Germany
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall Syndromes and a Century 2006 Weerasethakul, Apichatpong Thailand D
# 71 for 2006, # 2352 Overall The Untouchable 2006 Jacquot, Benoît France D
# 72 for 2006, # 2354 Overall Curse of the Golden Flower 2006 Zhang, Yimou Hong Kong / China BD
# 73 for 2006, # 2356 Overall Rang De Basanti 2006 Mehra, Rakesh Omprakash India D
# 74 for 2006, # 2358 Overall The Bridge 2006 Steel, Eric / Wood, Raymond UK / USA D
# 74 for 2006, # 2358 Overall Old Joy 2006 Reichardt, Kelly USA D
# 74 for 2006, # 2358 Overall Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2006 Tykwer, Tom Germany / France / Spain D
# 74 for 2006, # 2358 Overall Vanaja 2006 Domalpalli, Rajnesh India / USA D
# 75 for 2006, # 2360 Overall Bella 2006 Monteverde, Alejandro Gomez USA D
# 75 for 2006, # 2360 Overall My Best Friend 2006 Leconte, Patrice France D
# 76 for 2006, # 2371 Overall A Scanner Darkly 2006 Linklater, Richard USA BD
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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 77 for 2006, # 2372 Overall Adama Meshuga'at 2006 Shaul, Dror Israel / Germany / Japan Y
# 77 for 2006, # 2372 Overall Enemies of Happiness 2006 Mulvad, Eva Denmark / Norway / Finland
# 77 for 2006, # 2372 Overall In the Pit 2006 Rulfo, Juan Carlos Mexico D
# 78 for 2006, # 2376 Overall Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams 2006 Zbanic, Jasmila Austria / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany / Croatia D
# 78 for 2006, # 2376 Overall The Road to Guantanamo 2006 Winterbottom, Michael / Whitecross, Mat UK BD
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Americanese 2006 Byler, Eric USA
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Blame it on Fidel 2006 Gavras, Julie Italy / France D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Brand Upon the Brain! 2006 Maddin, Guy USA / Canada D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Bug 2006 Friedkin, William USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Climates 2006 Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Turkey / France D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Delirious 2006 DiCillo, Tom USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall The Illusionist 2006 Burger, Neil Czech Republic / USA BD
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Lights in the Dusk 2006 Kaurismäki, Aki Finland / Germany / France D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Memories of Tomorrow 2006 Tsutsumi, Yukihiko Japan
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Millions: A Lottery Story 2006 La Blanc, Paul USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Saving Shiloh 2006 Tung, Craig Sandy / Tung, Sandy USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Shortbus 2006 Mitchell, John Cameron USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Stephanie Daley 2006 Brougher, Hilary USA D
# 79 for 2006, # 2378 Overall Talladega Nights:
The Ballad of Ricky Bobby		 2006 McKay, Adam USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall American Dreamz 2006 Weitz, Paul USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Art School Confidential 2006 Zwigoff, Terry USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Astronaut Farmer 2006 Polish, Michael USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Been Rich All My Life 2006 MacDonald, Heather USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Billy Wilder Speaks 2006 Grischow, Gisela / Schlöndorff, Volker USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Breaking and Entering 2006 Minghella, Anthony UK / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Catch a Fire 2006 Noyce, Phillip France / UK / South Africa / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Curious George 2006 O'Callaghan, Matthew USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Death of a President 2006 Range, Gabriel UK D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Dreamland 2006 Matzner, Jason USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Driving Lessons 2006 Brock, Jeremy UK D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Fast Food Nation 2006 Linklater, Richard UK / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Fay Grim 2006 Hartley, Hal USA / Germany D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Find Me Guilty 2006 Lumet, Sidney USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall First Flight 2006 Jefferson, Kyle / Hood, Cameron USA
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Flicka 2006 Mayer, Michael USA / UK BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Flushed Away 2006 Bowers, David / Fell, Sam UK / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Flyboys 2006 Bill, Tony France / USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Guardian 2006 Davis, Andrew USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Housewife, 49 2006 Millar, Gavin UK D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Idiocracy 2006 Judge, Mike USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Industrial Strength Keaton 2006 various USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Infamous 2006 McGrath, Douglas USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Invincible 2006 Core, Ericson USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Keeping Up with the Steins 2006 Marshall, Scott USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Last Holiday 2006 Wang, Wayne USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Manufactured Landscapes 2006 Baichwal, Jennifer Canada BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Miss Potter 2006 Noonan, Chris UK / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Mission: Impossible III 2006 Abrams, J.J. USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Monkey Warfare 2006 Harkema, Reginald Canada Y
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Night at the Museum 2006 Levy, Shawn USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The OH in Ohio 2006 Kent, Billy USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Omen 2006 Moore, John USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Open Season 2006 Allers, Roger / Culton, Jill / Stacchi, Anthony USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Over the Hedge 2006 Johnson, Tim / Kirkpatrick, Karey USA DS
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Penelope 2006 Palansky, Mark UK / USA DS
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Poet Laureate of Radio 2006 Kacey, Michael James USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Priceless 2006 Salvadori, Pierre France BDS
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair 2006 Tucker, Michael / Epperlein, Petra Germany / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Puccini for Beginners 2006 Maggenti, Maria USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 Muccino, Gabriele USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Reprise 2006 Trier, Joachim Norway D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall RV 2006 Sonnenfeld, Barry UK / Germany / USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Scoop 2006 Allen, Woody UK / USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall 16 Blocks 2006 Donner, Richard USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall South Pacific: In Concert from Carnegie Hall 2006 Bobbie, Walter / Bruni, Marc / Horn, David / McLaughlin, Karen USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Stardust: The Bette Davis Story 2006 Jones, Peter USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut 2006 Donner, Richard UK / USA BD
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Svend Asmussen: The Extraordinary Life and Music of a Jazz Legend 2006 unknown unknown D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall 10 Items or Less 2006 Silberling, Brad USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Toots 2006 Jacobson, Kristi USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006 Leaf, David / Scheinfeld, John USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall Venus 2006 Michell, Roger UK D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall The World of Nat King Cole 2006 Hunt, Ian A. USA D
# 80 for 2006, # 2382 Overall You, Me and Dupree 2006 Russo, Anthony / Russo, Joe USA D
# 81 for 2006, # 2388 Overall The Hoax 2006 Hallström, Lasse USA D
# 81 for 2006, # 2388 Overall Lady Chatterley 2006 Ferran, Pascale Belgium / France / UK D
# 81 for 2006, # 2388 Overall Miami Vice 2006 Mann, Michael USA BD
# 81 for 2006, # 2388 Overall The Prestige 2006 Nolan, Christopher USA / UK BD
# 81 for 2006, # 2388 Overall This Film Is Not Yet Rated 2006 Dick, Kirby USA D
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall The Boss of It All 2006 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / Iceland / Italy / France / Norway / Finland / Germany D
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall Dans Paris 2006 Honoré, Christophe France D
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall The Dead Girl 2006 Moncrieff, Karen USA D
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall The Holiday 2006 Meyers, Nancy USA BD
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall The Last Winter 2006 Fessenden, Larry USA / Iceland D
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall Monster House 2006 Kenan, Gil USA BD
# 82 for 2006, # 2389 Overall Snakes on a Plane 2006 Ellis, David R. USA BD
# 83 for 2006, # 2390 Overall Roving Mars 2006 Butler, George USA BD
# 84 for 2006, # 2397 Overall Deep Water 2006 Osmond, Louise / Rothwell, Jerry UK D
# 84 for 2006, # 2397 Overall Deliver Us from Evil 2006 Berg, Amy USA D
# 84 for 2006, # 2397 Overall Renaissance 2006 Volckman, Christian France / UK / Luxembourg D
# 84 for 2006, # 2397 Overall Time 2006 Kim, Ki-duk Japan / South Korea D
NR Broken Trail 2006 Hill, Walter Canada BD
NR Click 2006 Coraci, Frank USA BD
NR The Da Vinci Code 2006 Howard, Ron USA BDS
NR Happy Feet 2006 Miller, George Australia / USA BD
NR Ice Age: The Meltdown 2006 Saldanha, Carlos USA BDS
NR The Pink Panther 2006 Levy, Shawn USA BD
NR Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 Verbinski, Gore USA BDS
NR Seraphim Falls 2006 Von Ancken, David USA BD
NR X-Men: The Last Stand 2006 Ratner, Brett USA / UK BDS
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B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack
 
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