I have no official list of top ten films, so I'll just rail off the titles I can think of that affected me in a postive way from 2001: À Ma Soeur! [Fat Girl] (Catherine Breillat), The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly), Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain [Amélie] (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Hatuna Meuheret [Late Marriage] (Dover Kosashvili), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell), Hell House (George Ratliff), Human Nature (Michel Gondry), In the Bedroom (Todd Field), Joy Ride (John Dahl), Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool), Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher), Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair), Mulholland Drive (David Lynch), No Such Thing (Hal Hartley), The Others (Alejandro Amenábar), La Pianiste [The Piano Teacher] (Michael Haneke), Rain (Christine Jeffs), The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson), Scratch (Doug Pray), Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan), Tape (Richard Linklater), Waking Life (Linklater), Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain), Xingfu Shiguang [Happy Times] (Zhang Yimou), Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón).

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.