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The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria (2009) is a historical drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written by Julian Fellowes, starring Emily Blunt as the young Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend as Prince Albert; produced by Scorsese, Graham King, and Sarah Ferguson, it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood (2007) is Paul Thomas Anderson's epic period drama, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview opposite Paul Dano's preacher Eli Sunday; it won Day-Lewis the Best Actor Oscar and ranks third on the NYT 2025 best-films list.
Thirteen (2003 film)
Thirteen (2003) is Catherine Hardwicke's directorial debut drama, co-written in six days by Hardwicke and teenage Nikki Reed from Reed's life, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, and Reed; Sundance Directing Award, Oscar-nominated, $2 million budget.
Three Times (最好的时光)
Three Times (最好的時光) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2005 Taiwanese anthology romance in three segments set in 1966, 1911, and 2005, starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen in triple roles; it competed at Cannes and won Golden Horse Best Actress and Best Taiwanese Film.
Throw Down (柔道龙虎榜)
Throw Down (柔道龙虎榜) is Johnnie To's 2004 Hong Kong judo drama starring Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, and Cherrie Ying, a homage to Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata that won the Golden Horse Best Original Screenplay award.
Time (시간) (2006 film)
Time (시간, Shi-gan) is a 2006 South Korean drama written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, his 13th film, starring Sung Hyun-ah and Ha Jung-woo. A woman secretly has plastic surgery to win back her fading lover; released August 24, 2006, Metascore 73.
Time of the Wolf
Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup, Wolfzeit) is Michael Haneke's 2003 French-Austrian-German post-apocalyptic drama starring Isabelle Huppert, about a family left to survive after an unspecified catastrophe, titled after the Edda's wolf-age.
Time to Leave
Time to Leave (Le Temps qui reste) is François Ozon's 2005 French drama, in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, about Romain, a 30-year-old photographer with terminal cancer, starring Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Together (2000 film)
Together (Tillsammans) is Lukas Moodysson's 2000 Swedish comedy-drama about a 1975 Stockholm commune, starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, and Gustav Hammarsten; a critically acclaimed New Swedish Cinema landmark with a 2023 sequel, Together 99.
Together (和你在一起) (2002 film)
Together (和你在一起) is a 2002 Chinese drama directed by Chen Kaige about violin prodigy Liu Xiaochun and his father in Beijing; Silver Shell winner at San Sebastián and Golden Rooster Best Director.
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ), 2008 drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa about a salaryman hiding his unemployment from his family; won Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and 2009 Asian Film Awards Best Film.
Tokyo!
Tokyo! (2008) is a France-Japan-South Korea-Germany anthology film with three Tokyo-set segments, Interior Design, Merde, and Shaking Tokyo, by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Touching the Void (film)
Touching the Void (2003) is a Kevin Macdonald docudrama, based on Joe Simpson's book, recounting Simpson and Simon Yates's disastrous 1985 Siula Grande descent; it won the 2004 BAFTA for Best British Film.
Tropical Malady (สัตว์ประหลาด)
Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad, สัตว์ประหลาด) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2004 Thai diptych film: a gay romance between soldier Keng and villager Tong, then a jungle hunt for a tiger spirit. It won the 2004 Cannes Jury Prize.
Turning Gate
Turning Gate (생활의 발견, Saenghwal-ui balgyeon), also On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, is Hong Sang-soo's 2002 South Korean drama about an actor's two mirrored love affairs in Chuncheon and Gyeongju, his fourth feature and Korean commercial peak.
Tuya's Marriage (图雅的婚事)
Tuya's Marriage (图雅的婚事) is Wang Quan'an's 2006 Chinese drama starring Yu Nan, about an Inner Mongolian shepherdess who divorces her paralyzed husband Bater to remarry on condition the new husband also care for him; it won the 2007 Berlin Golden Bear.
Under the Same Moon
Under the Same Moon (La misma luna) is a 2007 Mexican-American drama about a boy crossing the border to find his mother in Los Angeles.
Under the Sand
Under the Sand (Sous le sable) is a 2000 French drama by François Ozon starring Charlotte Rampling as Marie, whose husband vanishes while swimming; her denial becomes delusional. César and European Film Award nominee, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Undisputed (film)
Undisputed is a 2002 American prison boxing drama directed by Walter Hill and starring Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, and Peter Falk, inspired by Mike Tyson's imprisonment.
Unknown Pleasures (2002 film)
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) is Jia Zhangke's 2002 drama, his third feature and first digital film, following unemployed youths Xiao Ji and Bin Bin in Datong, Shanxi; third in the trilogy with Xiao Wu and Platform.
Untold Scandal (스캔들: 조선남녀상열지사)
Untold Scandal (스캔들: 조선남녀상열지사) is a 2003 South Korean period drama directed by E J-yong, adapting Les Liaisons dangereuses to Joseon Korea and starring Bae Yong-joon, Lee Mi-sook, and Jeon Do-yeon.
Vera Drake
Vera Drake is Mike Leigh's 2004 drama starring Imelda Staunton as a 1950 London charwoman secretly performing illegal abortions; it won the Venice Golden Lion, six British Independent Film Awards, and three Oscar nominations.
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (오! 수정)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (오! 수정, Oh! Soo-jung) is Hong Sang-soo's 2000 black-and-white Korean romantic comedy, his third feature, told in five chapters from contradictory viewpoints of a love triangle, screened at Cannes Un Certain Regard 2000.
Visage (ヴィサージュ) (2009 film)
Visage (臉, ヴィザージュ) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2009 Louvre-commissioned film about a Taiwanese director shooting a Salomé film in Paris, in Cannes competition, the first film in the Louvre's permanent collection; distinct from Kagawa Takayuki's 2009 Japanese action film ヴィサージュ.
Vitus
Vitus (2006) is a Swiss drama directed by Fredi M. Murer about a child prodigy, played by pianist Teo Gheorghiu with Bruno Ganz, who rebels against his parents' ambitions. Berlinale Bronze Bear, Swiss Film Prize winner, Oscar shortlist.
Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.
Whale Rider
Whale Rider (2002), Niki Caro's drama based on Witi Ihimaera's novel, stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Pai, a Māori girl proving her leadership to her grandfather Koro in Whangara; Oscar-nominated, Toronto People's Choice winner.
What Time Is It There? (你那边几点)
What Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2001 Taiwan-France drama, Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, about a Taipei watch seller who resets clocks to Paris time after selling his dual-time watch to a woman leaving for France.
Where the Heart Is (2000 film)
Where the Heart Is (2000) is a Matt Williams comedy-drama starring Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teen abandoned at an Oklahoma Walmart; based on Billie Letts's novel, it grossed $40.9 million worldwide and earned a 34% Tomatometer. Not the unrelated 1990 John Boorman film of the same title.