10 Best International Movies of the 2000s, Ranked

From the Japanese films of the 1950s to the rise of French New Wave cinema in the 1960s, there has been no shortage of defining decades in the context of international pictures throughout the history of the medium. However, the 2000s might just be the absolute best of them all, with all corners of the globe producing impressionable masterpieces that have aged far more gracefully than some of their Hollywood counterparts and appear set to endure as quintessential classics for many years to come.