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Best Movies of 2005

The highest-rated films released in 2005, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 184 titlesavg ★ 6.48 avg 106 min Drama Comedy Thriller Romance

Most watched in 2005

Batman Begins2005 · ★ 7.7 · 2h 20m

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005 · ★ 7.8 · 2h 37m

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory2005 · ★ 7.0 · 1h 55m

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith2005 · ★ 7.5 · 2h 20m

Madagascar2005 · ★ 6.9 · 1h 26m

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe2005 · ★ 7.1 · 2h 23m

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#1 Innocent Voices (2005) · ★ 8.2 · 523 votes · 2h 0m · drama, war
A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all…
#2 Pride & Prejudice (2005) · ★ 8.1 · 8,957 votes · 2h 8m · romance, drama
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, bu…
#3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) · ★ 7.8 · 22,662 votes · 2h 37m · fantasy, adventure
When his name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools. Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as…
#4 Brokeback Mountain (2005) · ★ 7.8 · 7,690 votes · 2h 14m · romance, drama
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families o…
#5 Batman Begins (2005) · ★ 7.7 · 23,268 votes · 2h 20m · action, drama, crime
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he i…
#6 Mysterious Skin (2005) · ★ 7.7 · 1,378 votes · 1h 45m · drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.…
#7 The World's Fastest Indian (2005) · ★ 7.7 · 926 votes · 2h 7m · adventure, drama, history
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flat…
#8 Corpse Bride (2005) · ★ 7.6 · 10,438 votes · 1h 17m · fantasy, romance, animation
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the…
#9 Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) · ★ 7.6 · 3,470 votes · 2h 26m · romance, drama, history
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.…
#10 Coach Carter (2005) · ★ 7.6 · 3,353 votes · 2h 16m · drama, history
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.…
#11 Cinderella Man (2005) · ★ 7.6 · 2,494 votes · 2h 24m · romance, drama, history
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.…
#12 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 15,347 votes · 2h 20m · action, adventure, science-fiction
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must…
#13 Sin City (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 9,081 votes · 2h 4m · action, thriller, crime
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dame…
#14 Walk the Line (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 3,225 votes · 2h 16m · romance, drama, music
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside…
#15 Lady Vengeance (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 2,043 votes · 1h 55m · thriller, drama
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.…
#16 Grizzly Man (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 993 votes · 1h 43m · documentary
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is f…
#17 Adam's Apples (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 817 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, drama, crime
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.…
#18 C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 525 votes · 2h 6m · comedy, drama
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.…
#19 Match Point (2005) · ★ 7.4 · 4,476 votes · 2h 4m · thriller, romance, drama
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister,…
#20 Serenity (2005) · ★ 7.4 · 4,007 votes · 1h 59m · action, adventure, thriller
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours…
#21 A Bittersweet Life (2005) · ★ 7.4 · 1,042 votes · 1h 59m · action, drama, crime
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shad…
#22 Joyeux Noel (2005) · ★ 7.4 · 955 votes · 1h 56m · romance, drama, history
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans……
#23 Lord of War (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 5,571 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, crime
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and…
#24 Green Street Hooligans (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 2,650 votes · 1h 49m · drama, crime
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous bro…
#25 Jack-Jack Attack (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 1,023 votes · 0h 5m · adventure, animation, family
The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true po…
#26 Everything Is Illuminated (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 843 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, drama
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was…
#27 North Country (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 757 votes · 2h 6m · drama
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while worki…
#28 One Man Band (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 623 votes · 0h 5m · comedy, animation, family
With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little gi…
#29 The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) · ★ 7.3 · 559 votes · 2h 0m · drama
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.…
#30 Constantine (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 8,590 votes · 2h 1m · action, fantasy, horror
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through…
#31 Crash (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 4,023 votes · 1h 52m · drama
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Kore…
#32 A History of Violence (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 3,894 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, drama, crime
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.…
#33 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 3,127 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, thriller, crime
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl…
#34 Thank You for Smoking (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 2,493 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, drama
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-y…
#35 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 1,260 votes · 1h 41m · action, fantasy, adventure
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the roa…
#36 Little Manhattan (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 785 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, romance
Ten-year-old Gabe Burton is just an average kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she reve…
#37 Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 784 votes · 1h 25m · romance, animation, family
Princess Annika escapes the clutches of the evil wizard, explores the wonders of Cloud Kingdom, and teams up with a magnificent winged horse - who turns out to be her sister, Princ…
#38 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) · ★ 7.1 · 11,800 votes · 2h 23m · fantasy, adventure, family
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.…
#39 Kingdom of Heaven (2005) · ★ 7.1 · 5,261 votes · 2h 24m · action, adventure, drama
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.…
#40 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) · ★ 7.1 · 3,183 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, adventure, animation
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway…