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2011 Movies

Total Film: 50 Best Movies of 2011

16 December 2011

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Total Film: 50 Best Movies of 2011 [based on UK release date]

  1. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
  2. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  3. Black Swan
    Darren Aronofsky
  4. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
  5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson
  6. Kill List
    Ben Wheatley
  7. Animal Kingdom
    David Michôd
  8. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
  9. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
  10. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
  11. The Guard
    John Michael McDonagh
  12. Source Code
    Duncan Jones
  13. True Grit
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  14. Neds
    Peter Mullan
  15. The Fighter
    David O. Russell
  16. The King’s Speech
    Tom Hooper
  17. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
  18. Tyrannosaur
    Paddy Considine
  19. Super 8
    JJ Abrams
  20. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
  21. Senna
    Asif Kapadia
  22. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
  23. Hugo
    Martin Scorsese
  24. Submarine
    Richard Ayoade
  25. Snowtown
    Justin Kurzel
  26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    David Yates
  27. 127 Hours
    Danny Boyle
  28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
  29. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Rupert Wyatt
  30. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
  31. Moneyball
    Bennett Miller
  32. The Adventures of Tintin
    Steven Spielberg
  33. Thor
    Kenneth Branagh
  34. Arrietty
    Hiromasa Yonebayashi & Gary Rydstrom
  35. The Interrupters
    Steve James
  36. X-Men: First Class
    Matthew Vaughn
  37. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
  38. Contagion
    Steven Soderbergh
  39. Warrior
    Gavin O’Connor
  40. How I Ended This Summer
    Aleksey Popogrebskiy
  41. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
  42. 13 Assassins
    Takashi Miike
  43. The Ides of March
    George Clooney
  44. The Help
    Tate Taylor
  45. 50/50
    Jonathan Levine
  46. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
  47. Project Nim
    James Marsh
  48. Essential Killing
    Jerzy Skolimowski
  49. The Lincoln Lawyer
    Brad Furman
  50. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    David Fincher

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