Best Movies of 2003
Most watched in 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 · ★ 8.5 · 3h 21m
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003 · ★ 7.8 · 2h 23m
Finding Nemo2003 · ★ 7.8 · 1h 40m
Kill Bill: Vol. 12003 · ★ 8.0 · 1h 51m
The Matrix Reloaded2003 · ★ 7.1 · 2h 18m
Bruce Almighty2003 · ★ 6.7 · 1h 41m
#1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) · ★ 8.5 · 27,480 votes · 3h 21m · action, fantasy, adventureAs armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellows…
#2 Oldboy (2003) · ★ 8.2 · 10,241 votes · 2h 0m · action, thriller, dramaWith no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.…
#3 Memories of Murder (2003) · ★ 8.1 · 4,846 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, crimeA sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with confl…
#4 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) · ★ 8.0 · 19,442 votes · 1h 51m · action, crimeAn assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.…
#5 The Best of Youth (2003) · ★ 8.0 · 620 votes · 6h 7m · romance, drama, historyAfter a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of po…
#6 Tokyo Godfathers (2003) · ★ 7.9 · 1,575 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, drama, animationOn Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.…
#7 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 22,852 votes · 2h 23m · action, fantasy, adventureWhen wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly team…
#8 Finding Nemo (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 20,919 votes · 1h 40m · adventure, animation, familyNemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly b…
#9 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 1,249 votes · 1h 43m · dramaAn isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.…
#10 Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 545 votes · 1h 8m · adventure, science-fiction, animationFour talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogram…
#11 Big Fish (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 7,968 votes · 2h 5m · fantasy, adventure, dramaThroughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, t…
#12 Mystic River (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 7,693 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, crimeThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.…
#13 Dogville (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 2,791 votes · 2h 58m · thriller, drama, crimeA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a…
#14 Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 735 votes · 1h 40m · comedy, romance, dramaA high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.…
#15 The Last Samurai (2003) · ★ 7.6 · 7,793 votes · 2h 34m · action, drama, warNathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that ru…
#16 Carandiru (2003) · ★ 7.6 · 632 votes · 2h 25m · dramaWhen a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of o…
#17 Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) · ★ 7.5 · 2,709 votes · 2h 1m · comedy, dramaAlex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avo…
#18 Lost in Translation (2003) · ★ 7.4 · 8,341 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, romance, dramaTwo lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be rea…
#19 The Life of David Gale (2003) · ★ 7.4 · 2,206 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, drama, crimeA man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.…
#20 The Triplets of Belleville (2003) · ★ 7.4 · 1,067 votes · 1h 20m · comedy, adventure, dramaWhen her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of…
#21 Brother Bear (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 5,870 votes · 1h 25m · adventure, animation, familyWhen an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and…
#22 21 Grams (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 3,501 votes · 2h 4m · thriller, drama, crimePaul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a b…
#23 Radio (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 857 votes · 1h 49m · dramaIn the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice…
#24 The Station Agent (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 841 votes · 1h 28m · comedy, dramaWhen his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own pers…
#25 The Return (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 731 votes · 1h 51m · drama, mysteryTwo young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctan…
#26 Identity (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 4,540 votes · 1h 30m · thriller, mysteryComplete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to…
#27 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 3,626 votes · 2h 18m · adventure, drama, warAfter an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or d…
#28 The Dreamers (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 3,174 votes · 1h 55m · romance, dramaWhen Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and…
#29 Monster (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 2,635 votes · 1h 49m · drama, crimeIn 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her b…
#30 Ong-Bak (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 1,964 votes · 1h 45m · action, adventure, thrillerWhen the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.…
#31 Love Me If You Dare (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 1,884 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, romance, dramaAs adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While the…
#32 The Animatrix (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 1,852 votes · 1h 42m · science-fiction, animationStraight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japane…
#33 Open Range (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 1,264 votes · 2h 19m · action, adventure, romanceA former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.…
#34 Zatoichi (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 997 votes · 1h 56m · action, adventure, dramaBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to pro…
#35 Secondhand Lions (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 863 votes · 1h 51m · comedy, drama, familyThe comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the…
#36 The Matrix Reloaded (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 12,325 votes · 2h 18m · action, adventure, thrillerThe Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside th…
#37 Love Actually (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 7,469 votes · 2h 15m · comedy, romance, dramaEight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.…
#38 The School of Rock (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 6,410 votes · 1h 50m · comedy, family, musicFired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly b…
#39 Peter Pan (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 2,817 votes · 1h 53m · fantasy, adventure, familyIn stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children becom…
#40 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 2,294 votes · 1h 26m · action, comedy, fantasyThe sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his…