Best Movies of the Last 15 Years by Rank
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2016
Roland Emmerich
Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2010
Jon Favreau
Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Rockwell
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
NR
2017
Andy Muschietti
Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs
Drama | Horror | Thriller
USA / Canada
English
NR
2013
Bryan Singer
Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy
Adventure / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2012
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Vanessa Hudgens, Luis Guzmán
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2017
Jake Kasdan
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Rhys Darby, Bobby Cannavale
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
NR
2015
Colin Trevorrow
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Irrfan Khan
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA / China
English
NR
2018
J.A. Bayona
Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2017
Matthew Vaughn
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry
Action | Adventure | Comedy / Thriller / Spy / Comic / Crime / Detective
UK / USA
English
NR
2014
Matthew Vaughn
Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Spy / Comic
UK
English
NR
2010
M. Night Shyamalan
Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Nicola Peltz, Aasif Mandvi
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
NR
2016
David Yates
Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
NR
2012
Abbas Kiarostami
Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
NR
2019
Jon Favreau
Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, James Earl Jones, John Kani, Alfre Woodard
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Family / Musical / Action / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2010
Paul Weitz
Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand
Comedy
USA
English
NR
2013
Gore Verbinski
Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson
Action / Adventure / Western / Comic
USA
English
NR
2011
Julia Loktev
Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
Thriller / Drama / Romance
USA / Germany
English
NR
2012
Cate Shortland
Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina
Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure
Germany / Australia / UK
German
NR
2014
Luc Besson
Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
France
English
NR
2012
Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
2014
Robert Stromberg
Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA / UK
English
NR
2018
Ol Parker
Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Andy Garcia
Comedy / Musical / Romance
UK / USA
English
NR
2013
Zack Snyder
Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA / Canada / UK
English
NR
2014
Wes Ball
Dylan O'Brien, Aml Ameen, Ki Hong Lee, Blake Cooper, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure
USA / Canada / UK
English
NR
2015
Wes Ball
Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
NR
2018
Jon Turteltaub
Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
China / USA
English
NR
2010
Tom McGrath
Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross, Justin Theroux
Animation / Action / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2016
Stephen Chow
Chao Deng, Yun Lin, Show Luo, Yuqi Zhang, Pierre Bourdaud
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy
China
Mandarin
NR
2015
Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin
Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan
Animation / Comedy / Family / Adventure
USA
English
NR
2011
Gerardo Naranjo
Stephanie Sigman, Juan Carlos Galván, Noé Hernández
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
Mexico
Spanish
NR
2015
Raman Hui
Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Wu Jiang, Elaine Jin, Wallace Chung, Eric Tsang
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Adventure
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
NR
2018
Raman Hui
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Yuchun Li, Tony Yo-ning Yang
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
China
Mandarin
NR
2017
Alex Kurtzman
Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2017
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA / UK / Malta / Canada
English
NR
2019
Yu Yang
Yanting Lü, Joseph, Mo Han, Hao Chen, Qi Lü, Jiaming Zhang
Animation / Fantasy / Thriller
China
Mandarin
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2012
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
NR
2013
Louis Leterrier
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Isla Fisher
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
France / USA
English
NR
2016
Jon M. Chu
Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
2018
Corin Hardy
Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Ingrid Bisu
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2013
Antoine Fuqua
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster
Action / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2012
Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
Damon Herriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan, Oliver Ackland, Jamie Kristian
Comedy / Horror
Australia
English
NR
2018
Dante Lam
Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du, Luxia Jiang, Sanâa Alaoui
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure / Spy
China / Morocco
Mandarin
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2012
Susanna White
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
NR
2016
Morten Tyldum
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
NR
2014
Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
2018
Will Gluck
James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Australia / USA
English
NR
2017
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
NR
2011
Rob Marshall
Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
NR
2019
Rob Letterman
Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
USA / Japan / Canada
English
NR
2010
Mike Newell
Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
NR
2018
Phil Johnston, Rich Moore
John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Gal Gadot, Taraji P. Henson, Jack McBrayer
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Action
USA
English
NR
2018
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2018
Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Family / Fantasy / Tech-Noir
USA
English
NR
2016
Paul W.S. Anderson
Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
France / USA / Germany / Canada / Australia / Japan / South Africa / UK
English
NR
2014
Carlos Saldanha
Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
2011
Rupert Wyatt
James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2015
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi
Action / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / Australia
English
NR
2016
Yarrow Cheney, Chris Renaud
Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper
Animation / Comedy / Family
Japan / USA
English
NR
2019
Chris Renaud, Jonathan del Val
Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
France / Japan / USA
English
NR
2010
Mike Mitchell
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2012
Ben Wheatley
Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Steve Oram, Roger Michael, Tony Way, Seamus O'Neill
Comedy / Thriller
UK
English
NR
2010
Baran bo Odar
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany
German
NR
2016
Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings
Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA / UK / Japan
English
NR
2018
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Moller, Noah Taylor
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2011
Raja Gosnell
Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Tim Gunn
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2013
Raja Gosnell
Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Katy Perry, Hank Azaria, Brendan Gleeson
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2015
Paul Tibbitt
Antonio Banderas, Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
2016
Justin Lin
Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
2012
Thymaya Payne
Documentary / Adventure / Crime
Estonia / Philippines / Denmark / USA / Somalia / Canada
English
NR
2016
David Ayer
Will Smith, Jaime FitzSimons, Ike Barinholtz, Margot Robbie, Christopher Dyson
Action / Adventure / Crime / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2012
Olivier Megaton
Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney
Action / Crime / Thriller
France
English
NR
2014
Olivier Megaton
Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott
Action / Thriller
France
English
NR
2014
Jonathan Liebesman
Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
NR
2015
Alan Taylor
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
2011
Kenneth Branagh
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
2013
Alan Taylor, James Gunn
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
2014
Noam Murro
Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey
Action / Drama / Fantasy / War / Epic / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
2012
Frank V. Ross
Anthony J. Baker, Allison Latta, Megan Mercier, Frank V. Ross, Rebecca Spence
Drama
USA
English
NR
2014
Michael Bay
Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2011
Michael Bay
Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
2017
Michael Bay
Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
2016
Walt Dohrn, Mike Mitchell
Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
NR
2010
Joseph Kosinski
Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, James Frain
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA
English
NR
2014
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Peter Stormare, Wyatt Russell, Amber Stevens
Action / Comedy / Crime / Detective
USA
English
NR
2011
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
2012
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
2010
David Slade
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
2012
Juan Solanas
Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Jayne Heitmeyer, Neil Napier
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi
Canada / France
English
NR
2018
Ruben Fleischer
Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
China / USA
English
NR
2019
Frant Gwo
Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li, Man-Tat Ng, Jin Mai Jaho, Mike Kai Sui
Sci-Fi
China
Mandarin
NR
2016
Duncan Jones
Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
China / Canada / USA
English
NR
2012
Michel Gondry
Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz
Drama / Comedy
UK / USA / France
English
NR
2017
Jing Wu
Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Qian Yu, Nan Yu
Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Thriller
China
Mandarin
NR
2013
James Mangold
Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
Australia / USA
English
NR
2017
D.J. Caruso
Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
