18 Great Noughties Movies You May Have Missed

Lesser spotted, but equally deserving...

By Mark PowellDec 11th 2009
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Hidden (2005)

In A Nutshell: Michael Haneke’s caustrophobic mind game thriller in which an artsy, well-to-do French couple keep finding video tapes left on their doorstep.

Someone is filming their daily routines, but rather than containing any direct threat, the implication of the creepy tapes - whether imagined or real - is that there are secrets here to be spilled...

Why You May Have Missed It: Actually, it was probably one of the best-attended films on this list the first time around - we’re including it merely for those that didn't notice or were put off by the subtitles, and may by now have forgotten about it. It’s still bloody great, in case you're wondering.

Why Missing It Is Mad: Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche give resoundingly solid performances as the central middle-class couple, lacing their fraught victim portrayals with just enough snobbish arrogance to make them more easily identifiable with, rather than less.

The core conceit is intriguing enough, and the tension kept high enough, that Haneke’s brazen directorial dawdling feels more a blessing than a curse.

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    • Hadouken76

      Dec 11th 2009, 15:39

      id like to add that zatoichi, twilight samurai, dirty pretty things, in search of a midnight kiss, dead mans shoes to that list and even though it came out in 1998 i still think legend of 1900 is an underated gem

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    • sjsmith88

      Dec 11th 2009, 18:28

      I didn't miss You and Me and Everyone We Know, I caught it. Wish I hadn't. Following your 4-star review I had it in my head that I was in for a pleasant little indie. Instead it was your run-of-the-mill pretentious art-house rubbish. Dreadful.

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    • skinjob

      Dec 12th 2009, 8:38

      I'd like to add taxidermy - not a pleasant film to watch by any stretch of a twisted imagination but worth watching for the second and third acts on its own and the climactic scene is one that will stay wih me for a long time! if swallowed - do not induce vomiting!!

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    • namedropper

      Dec 13th 2009, 14:24

      We call them Neds and not Chavs up our way and I thought Sweet Sixteen was mainly set in Greenock and not the Port! Anyway I'd like to add Dear Frankie as a movie also set in the same area. Cracking performances from all concerned but especially the child playing Frankie. Will bring a tear to your eyes! Still hoping that Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer will get together at some point!

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    • domduck

      Dec 14th 2009, 11:21

      The Year of the Dog should be in here - and Waitress. The perfect hangover double-bill.

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