A list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 2000s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin | Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar | ||||
| Kimono | Hal Hartley | Miho Nikaido | ||||
| Little Otik | Jan Švankmajer | Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilkova | Surrealist film | |||
| Mysterious Object at Noon | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | |||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring | ||||
| Southlander | Steven Hanft | Rory Cochrane, Rossie Harris, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs | ||||
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater | Wiley Wiggins, Lorelei Linklater, Trevor Jack Brooks | ||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| 11'09"01 September 11 | Various | |||||
| Blissfully Yours | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter | ||||
| Claire | Milford Thomas | Toniet Gallego, Mish P. DeLight, James Ferguson | ||||
| The Cloud of Unknowing | Richard Sylvarnes | Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter | ||||
| *Corpus Callosum | Michael Snow | Kim Plate, Greg Hermanovic, John Massey | ||||
| Decasia | Bill Morrison | |||||
| Gerry | Gus Van Sant | Casey Affleck, Matt Damon | ||||
| Naqoyqatsi | Godfrey Reggio | |||||
| Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurov | Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy | ||||
| Ten | Abbas Kiarostami | Mania Akbari, Amin Maher | ||||
| The Tracker | Rolf de Heer | David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau | ||||
| The Decay of Fiction | Pat O'Neill | Various | ||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Anatomy of Hell | Catherine Breillat | Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat | ||||
| Bodysong | Simon Pummell | |||||
| Cowards Bend the Knee | Guy Maddin | Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart | ||||
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany | ||||
| The Missing | Lee Kang-Sheng | Lu Yi-ching, Chang Chea, Miao Tien | ||||
| The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin | Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros | ||||
| Tarnation | Jonathan Caouette | |||||
| Woodenhead | Florian Habicht | Nicholas Butler, Theresa Peters, Tony Bishop | ||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany | ||||
| Innocence | Lucile Hadžihalilović | Zoe Auclair, Berangere Haubruge, Lea Bridarolli | ||||
| Notre Musique | Jean-Luc Godard | Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu | ||||
| Palindromes | Todd Solondz | Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh | ||||
| Planet Earth: Dreams | D.J. Mendel | Tim Donovan Jr., Denise Greber | ||||
| Proteus | David Lebrun | Marian Seldes, Corey Burton, Richard Dysart | ||||
| The Raspberry Reich | Bruce LaBruce | Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Batscher | ||||
| Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee | ||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| Drawing Restraint 9 | Matthew Barney | Matthew Barney, Björk | ||||
| Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine | Peter Tscherkassky | |||||
| Johanna | Kornél Mundruczó | Orsolya Toth, Zsolt Trill, Eszter Wierdl | ||||
| Last Days | Gus Van Sant | Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento | ||||
| Lunacy | Jan Švankmajer | Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová | ||||
| Manderlay | Lars von Trier | Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover | ||||
| Rubber Johnny | Chris Cunningham | |||||
| The Wayward Cloud | Tsai Ming-Liang | Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching | ||||
| What is it? | Crispin Glover | Michael Blevins, Rikky Wittman, John Insinna | ||||
| The Wild Blue Yonder | Werner Herzog | Brad Dourif | ||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Brand Upon the Brain! | Guy Maddin | Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Lee Krich, Sullivan Brown | ||||
| Container | Lukas Moodysson | Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Aberg, Jena Malone | ||||
| Daft Punk's Electroma | Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo | Peter Hurteau, Michael Reich | ||||
| Glass Lips | Lech Majewski | Patryk Czajka, Joanna Litwin, Grzegorz Przybyl | ||||
| Inland Empire | David Lynch | Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton | ||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine | Crispin Glover | Steven C. Stewart, Margit Carstensen, Carrie Szlasa | ||||
| Japan Japan | Lior Shamriz | Imri Kahn | ||||
| Manuelle Labor | Marie Losier | Marie Losier | ||||
| Mister Lonely | Harmony Korine | Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant | ||||
| My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | Ann Savage | ||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| Waltz With Bashir | Ari Folman | |||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Enter the Void | Gaspar Noé | Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown | ||||
| Trash Humpers | Harmony Korine | Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson | ||||
| Wild Grass | Alain Resnais | Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Anne Consigny | ||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| Film Socialisme | Jean-Luc Godard | Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehle | ||||
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee | ||||
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