Top Favorite Films of 2005

Directed by Peter Jackson

Starring Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Thomas Kretschmann, Naomi Watts, Andy Serkis, Colin Hanks, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell, Frank Darabont, Peter Jackson, Katie Jackson, Lobo Chan, John Sumner, Kyle Chandler, Geraldine Brophy, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Craig Hall, William Johnson, and Rick Baker

Directed by Judd Apatow

Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen, Shelly Mailli, Kat Dennings, Elisabeth Banks, Jane Lynch, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Gary Bednob, Jonah Hill, Loundon Wainwright III, Leslie Mann, Nancy Carell, Mindy Kaling, Marika Domincyzk, Charlie Hartsock, Cedric Yarbrough, Jeff Kahn, David Koechner, Michael Bierman, Kevin Hart, and Phyliss Smith

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Starring Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, Mark Boone Junior, Linus Roache, Larry Holden, Gerald Murphy, Colin McFarlane, Sara Stewart, Gus Lewis, Richard Blake, Rade Serbedjiza, Emma Lockhart, Jonathan D. Ellis, Vincent Wong, Martin McDougall, Shane Rimmer, Jack Gleeson, Tim Booth, and Rick Avery

Directed by Robert Rodriquez, Quentin Tarantino, and Frank Miller

Starring Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Alexis Bledel, Powers Booths, Jude Ciccolella, Carla Gugino, Benicio Del Toro, Makenzie Vega, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tommy Flanagan, Rick Gomez, Christina Frankenfield, Nick Stahl, Nicky Katt, Josh Hartnett, Rutger Hauer, Frank Miller, Jaimie King, Michael Madsen, Ethan Maniquis, Nick Offerman, Robert Rodriquez, Kathleen Willis, Clive Owen, and Marly Shelton

Directed by Jason Reitman

Starring Aaron Eckhart, Todd Louiso, Joan Lunden, J.K. Simmons, Cameron Bright, Jordan Del Spina, Maria Bello, William H. Macy, David Koechner, Kim Dickens, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, Dennis Miller, Robert Duvall, Melora Hardin, Adam Brody, Nancy O'Dell, Catherine Reitman, and featuring voice of Aloma Wright

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee

Starring Michel Cote, Marc-Andre Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Emile Vallee, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Maxime Tremblay, Alex Gravel, Natasha Thompson, Mariloup Wolfe, Francis Ducharme, Helene Gregoire, Michel Laperriere, and Jean-Marc Vallee

Directed by Jean-Francois Richet

Starring Ethan Hawke, Titus Welliver, Laurence Fishburne, Hugh Dillon, Maria Bello, Dorian Harewood, Kim Coates, Ja Rule, Brian Dennehy, Matt Craven, Aisha Hinds, Currie Graham, Gabriel Byrne, Drea de Matteo, and John Leguizamo

Directed by Richard Linklater

Starring Billy Bob Thorton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Hardin, Sammi Kane Kraft, Ridge Canpipe, Scott Adsit, Gary Rodriquez, Cody Ray Thompson, Kevin R. Kelly, Jeffrey Davies, and Troy Gentile

Directed by Rian Johnson

Starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lucas Haas, Richard Roundtree, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Emilie de Ravin, Noah Segan, Meagan Good, Brian J. White, Reedy Gibbs, Lucas Babin, and Tracy Wilcoxen

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Channing Tatum, Miranda Otto, Rick Gonzalez, Yul Vazquez, Justin Chatwin, Lisa Ann Walter, Ann Robinson, Roz Abrams, Gene Barry, David Alan Basche, Lenny Venito, and featuring voices of Tom Kenny and Morgan Freeman

Directed by Bennett Miller

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Craig Archibald, Mark Pelligrino, Bronwen Coleman, Kate Shindle, David Wilson Barnes, Michael J. Burg, Chris Cooper, Kwsei Ameyad, R.D. Reid, Amy Ryan, Kerr Hewitt, Bruce Greenwood, Cliff Collins Jr., John Maclaren, Bob Balaban, David Rakoff, Marshall Bell, C. Ernst Harth, Bess Mayer, Michelle Harrison, and Tiffany Lyndall Knight

Directed by Tim Burton

Starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Deep Roy, David Kelly, Missi Pyle, Noah Taylor, Helena Bonham Taylor, Christopher Lee, James Fox, Adam Godley, AnnaSophia Robb, Franziska Troegner, Julia Winter, Jordan Fry, Philip Wiegratz, Blair Dunlop, Liz Smith, Eileen Essell, David Morris, Nitin Ganatra, Phillip Philmar, Shelly Conn, Ray Donn, Francesca Hunt, Harry Taylor, and featuring voices of Danny Elfman and Geoffrey Holder

Directed by Andrew Adamson

Starring Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, William Moseley, Morris Lupton, Kiran Shah, Anna Popplewell, James Cosmos, Judy McIntosh, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Rachael Henley, Mark Wells, Noah Huntley, Sophie Winkleman, and featuring voices of Liam Neeson, Ray Winstone, Dawn French, Michael Madsen, Douglas Gresham, and Rupert Everett

Directed by Ron Howard

Starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellwager, Craig Bierko, Nicholas Campbell, Rance Howard, Paul Giamatti, Ariel Waller, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill, David Huband, Connor Price, Patrick Louis, Rob Canada, Roseanne DuWitt, Chuck Shamata, Clint Howard, Daniel Kash, Peter McNeill, and Beau Starr

Directed by Rob Zombie

Starring Sid Haig, Dallas Page, Ken Foree, Bill Moseley, Leslie Easterbrook, Sheri Moon Zombie, Matthew McGrory, Geoffrey Lewis, Dave Sheridan, Priscilla Barnes, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, William Forsythe, Kate Norby, Brian Posehn, Elizabeth Daily, P.J. Soles, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Michael Berryman, Tom Towles, Ginger Lynn Allen, Jossara Jinro, Chris Ellis, Mary Woronov, Duane Whitaker, Jordan del Spina, Tyler Mane, Kane Hodder, Steven Railsback, Robert Trebor, John H. Tobin, and featuring voice of Richard Epcar

Directed by Robert Schwentke

Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarssgard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Eriks Christensen, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Shane Edelman, Haley Ramm, Mary Gallagher, Kurt B.R. Woller, Brent Saxton, Marlene Lawston, Judith Scott, John Benjamin Hinkley, Matthew Bomer, Christopher Gartin, Stephanie Faracy, Christian Berkel, Bess Wohl, Amanda Brooks, and Greta Scachi

Directed by James McTeigue

Starring Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, Tim Pigott Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allams, Ben Miles, Sinead Cusack, Natasha Wightman, John Standing, Eddie Marsan, Clive Ashborn, Guy Henry, Cosima Shaw, Megan Gay, Chad Stahefski, Selina Giles, Imogene Poots, and Martin Savage

Directed by Frances Lawrence

Starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Dijmon Hounson, Max Baker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Stormare, Jesse Ramirez, Jose Zuniga, Larry Cedar, April Grace, Frances Guinan, Eileen Dietz, Domino Harvey, Michelle Monaghan, and Matthew McGrory

Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson

Featuring voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel, Danny Elfman, Michael Gough, and Lisa Kay

Directed by Neil Marshall

Starring Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nora Jane Noone, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayall, Craig Conway, Leslie Simpson, and Mark Cronfield

Directed by Tim Story

Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba, Stan Lee, Julian McMahon, Hamish Linklatter, Kerry Washington, Laurie Holden, Ben Mulroney, Gina Holden, Maria Menounos, Kevin McNulty, Andrew Airlie, and featuring voice of Lyneanne Zagar

Directed by John Gulgaher

Starring Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Back Rawatt, Judah Friedlander, Krista Allen, Jason Mewes, Clu Gulgaher, Jenny Wade, Anthony "Treach" Criss, Eric Dean, Diane Ayala Goldner, Taylor Patrick Jones, Mike J. Regan, Gary J. Tunnicliff, Duane Whitaker, and Eileen Ryan

Directed by Dean Parisot

Starring Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Stacey Travis, P.J. Byrne, Adam Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Angie Harmon, Stephanie Weir, Rob Nagel, Laurie Metcalf, Brian Tee, Rick Overton, Clint Howard, Jack Conley, Mary Ellis, John Michael Higgins, Ralph Nader, Walter Addison, and featuring voice of David Herman

Directed by George Clooney

Starring George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr, Alex Borstein, Grant Heslov, Jeff Daniels, Simon Helberg, Tate Donavan, Reed Diamond, Ray Wise, Robert John Burke, Robert Knepper, Frank Langella, Thomas McCarthy, David Strathairn, Matt Ross, Rose Abdoo, Glenn Morshower, and Patrica Clarkson

Directed by Mark Waters

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Jon Heder, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shankman, Ivana Milicevic, Caroline Aaron, Rosalind Chao, Ron Canada, Willie Garson, Shulie Cowen, Billy Beck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Victor Yerrid, Raymond O'Connor, Robert Benjamin, Lucille Soong, Kerris Dorsey, and Alyssa Shafer

Directed by Mike Newell

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, David Tennant, James Phelps, Timothy Spall, Mark Williams, Jeff Rawle, Robert Pattinson, Bonnie Wright, Stanislav Ianevski, Jason Issacs, Robert Hardy, Roger Lloyd Pack, Katie Leung, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Warwick Davis, David Bradley, Jamie Waylatt, Brendan Gleeson, Alfie Enoch, Miranda Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Geraldine Somerville, Adrian Rawlins, Phil Delay, Jarvis Cocker,
Clemence Poesy, Jonny Greenwood, and Ralph Fiennes

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Stephen McHattie, Ashton Holmes, Greg Bryk, Kyle Schmid, Heidi Hayes, R.D. Reid, Morgan Kelly, Aidan Devine, Gerry Quigley, Ian Matthews, and Deborah Drakeford

Directed by John Polson

Starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving, Dylan Baker, Melissa Leo, Robert John Burke, Molly Grant Kallins, David Chandler, James McCaffrey, and Brendan Sexton III

Directed by Garth Jennings

Starring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Anna Chancellor, John Malkovich, Jason Schwartzman, Simon Jones, Edgar Wright, Peter Burroughs, Albie Woodington, Su Elliot, Kelly Macdonald, Warwick Davis, Bill Nigby, Dominique Jackson, Sam Rockwell, Mark Longhurst, and featuring voices of Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Mark Gatiss, Alan Rickman, Ian McNiece, Steve Pemberton, Garth Jennings, Mak Wilson, Thomas Lennon, Reece Shearsmith, Helen Mirren, and Richard Griffiths

Directed by Eli Roth

Starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljokva, Jan Vlasek, Jana Kaderabkova, Jennifer Lim, Keiko Seiko, Lubomir Bukovy, Jana Havlickova, Rick Hoffman, Petr Janis, Takashi Miike, Patric Zigo, Miroslav Taborsky, Paula Wild, Christopher Allan Nelson, and Eli Roth

Directed by Florent Emilio Siri

Starring Bruce Willis, Kathryn Joosten, Kevin Pollack, Jimmy Bennett, Sven Ole Thorsen, Michelle Horn, Serena Scott Thomas, Jill Talley, Rumer Willis, Jonathan Tucker, Art LeFleur, Johnny Mesmer, Glenn Morshower, Robert Kneppner, Jamie McShane, Tina Lifford, and Michael D. Roberts

Directed by Todd Edwards, Cory Edwards, and Tony Leech

Featuring voices of Anne Hathaway, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, Glenn Close, Benjy Gaither, Kevin Michael Richardson, Tara Strong, Cory Edwards, Jim Belushi, Tony Leech, Chazz Palimentri, Tom Kenny, Joshua J. Greene, Xzibit, Anthony Anderson, Kelly Stables, David Ogden Stiers, and Todd Edwards

Directed by Harold Ramis

Starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thorton, Connie Neilsen, Lara Phillips, Brad Smith, Ned Bellamy, Mike Starr, Frank Gallo. T.J. Jagodowski, Oliver Platt, David Pasquesi, Rick Tuohy, Justine Bentley, Jenny Wade, and Randy Quaid

Directed by Ol Parker

Starring Piper Perabo, Lena Headley, Matthew Goode, Kellie Bright, Anthony Head, Celia Imrie, Darren Boyd, Sue Johnson, Boo Jackson, Sharon Horgan, Eva Birthistle, Vinette Robinson, Ben Miles, John Thompson, Mona Hammond, Rick Warden, Ruth Sheen, Gerald Horan, Angel Coulby, Bill Hillbond, Sharon Duncan Brewster, and Tom McKay

Directed by Michael Bay

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Brian Stepanek, Matt McColm, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ewan McGregor, Siobhan Flynn, J.P. Manoux, Yvette Nicole Brown, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi, Sean Bean, Ethan Phillips, Noa Tishby, Troy Blendell, Jamie McBride, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Phil Abrams, Mary Pat Gleeson, Ben Tolpin, Don Creech, Kim Coates, Glenn Morshower, Kevin McCorkle, Max Baker, Shawnee Smith, Kevin Daniels, Tom Everett, and Eric Stonestreet

Directed by Sam Mendes

Starring Jamie Foxx, Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Skarsgard, Ming Lo, Lucas Black, Kevin Foster, Brian Geraghty, Katherine Randolph, Damion Poitier, John Krasinski, James Morrison, Honorine Bell, Brianne Davis, Jacob Vargas, Laz Alonso, Jocko Sims, Dennis Haysbert, Evan Jones, and Chris Cooper

Directed by Ridley Scott

Starring Bloom, Edward Norton, Jeremy Irons, Jon Finch, Eva Green, Brendan Gleeson, Alexander Siddig, Ghassad Massoud, Marton Csokas, Steven Robertson, Nikolas Coster Waldau, Liam Neeson, Bronson Webb, Kevin McKidd, Philip Glenister, David Thewlis, Iain Glen, Bill Paterson, Juoko Ahola, Eriq Ebouaney, Michael Sheen, Nathalie Cox, and Martin Hancock

Directed by Shane Black

Starring Robert Downey, Jr, Corbin Henson, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Richard Greico, Dash Mihok, Indio Faloner Downey, Rockmond Dunbar, Shannyn Sossamon, Angela Lindvall, Nancy Fish, Wliey M. Pickett, Ariel Winter, Larry Miller, Jake McKinnon, Judie Aronson, Kathy Lamkin, Vincent Laresca, Ben Bray, and featuring voice of Laurence Fishburne

Directed by Chan wook Park

Starring Yeong ae Lee, Min sik Choi, Shi hoo Kim, Yea young Kwon, Tony Barry, Anne Cordiner, Su hee Go, Hye jeong Kang, Bu seon Kim. Byeong ok Kim, Dae yeon Lee, Seung Shin Lee, Dai su Oh,Mi ran Ra, and Ji tae Yue

Directed by George A. Romero

Starring Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Greg Nicetero, Tom Savani, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Heidi von Palleske, Robert Joy, Peter Outerbridge, Jennifer Baxter, Tony Nappo, Boyd Banks, Maxwell McCabe Lokos, Tony Munch, Shawn Roberts, Pedro Miguel Arce, Sasha Roiz, Krista Bridges, Devon Bostick, Alan Van Sprang, Phil Fondacaro, Bruce McFee, Jonathan Walker, Matt Birman, Christopher Russell, and featuring voice of George A. Romero

Directed by Andrew Niccol

Starring Nicholas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Shake Tukhmanyan, Jasper Lenz, Jeremy Crutchley, Stephen Gregor, Ian Holm, Tony Caprari, Weston Cage, Liya Kebede, Ethan Hawke, Evgeniy Lazarev, Eamonn Walker, Sammi Rotibi, Tony Kgoroge, and featuring voices of Donald Sutherland, David Aranovich, and Jean-Michel Richaud

Directed by Tom McGrath and Eric Darnell

Featuring voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Schwimmer, Andy Richter, Bob Saget, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jada Pickett Smith, Cedric the Entertainer, Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, Chris Miller, Eric Garnell, Elisa Gabrielli, David Cowgill, and Cody Cameron

 

Directed by Luc Jacquet

Morgan Freeman, Charles Berling, Romane Bohringer, Jules Sitruk, Amitabh Bachchan, Gosta Ekman, Sofia Grabol, Hikira Ishida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Marek Kondrat, and Takao Ohsawa

Directed by Doug Liman

Starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David, Simon Kinberg, Chris Weitz, Rachael Huntley, Michelle Monaghan, Stephanie March, Perry Reeves, Jennifer Morrison, Patrika Darbo, Megan Gallagher, Amy Hathaway, Jeff Yagher, and featuring voices of Angela Bassett and William Fichtner

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Eric Bana, Lynn Cohen, Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric, Moritz Bleibtreu, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marie-Josee Croze, Meret Becker, Yvan Attal, Ami Weinberg, Moshe Ivgy, Amos Lavi, and Hiam Abbass

Directed by Terrance Malick

Starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Colin Farrell, August Schellenberg, Christopher Plummer, David Thewliss, Wes Studi, Yorick van Wageningen, Raoul Max Trujillo, Michael Greyeyes, Ben Mendelsohn, Noah Taylor, Brían F. O'Byrne, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Harris, Jonathan Pryce, Eddie Marsan, Joe Inscoe, Jake Curran, Alexandra W.B. Malick, Irene Bedard, John Savage,and Kirk Acevedo

Directed by Mary Harron

Starring Gretchen Mol, Anna Kendrick, Benjamin Walker, Sarah Paulson, Jared Harris, David Strathairn, Lilli Taylor, John Cullum, Matt NcGrath, Norman Reedus, Dallas Roberts, Austin Pendleton, Ann Dowd, Tara Subkoff, Jack Gilpin, and Benjamin Walker

Directed by Adam Shankman

Starring Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Scott Thompson, Anne Fletcher, Bo Vink, Luke Vink, Adam Shankman, Vanessa Cobham, Chris Potter, Denis Akiyama, Mung-Ling Tsui, Tate Donovan, Brittnay Snow, Kegan Hoover, Logan Hoover, Morgan York, Brad Garrett, Max Thieriot, and Faith Ford

Directed by Wes Craven

Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Angela Paton, Max Kasch, Suzie Plakston, Jayma Mays, Robert Pine, Jack Scalia, Wes Craven, Mary Kathleen Gordon, Loren Lester, Carl Gilliard, Dey Young, Philip Pavel, Kyle Kellner, Dane Farwell, Beth Toussiant, and Marc Macualey

Directed by Chris Columbus

Starring Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Silverman, Adam Pascal, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Tracie Thorns, Taye Diggs, Darryl Chan, Mackenzie Firgens, Jason Foster, Daniel London, Aaron Lohr, Wayne Wilcox, and Eleanor Columbus