This is a list of the Best Movies of 2003 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.
English-language movies:
American Splendor
Angels in America
Concert for George
Dogville
Elephant
Finding Nemo
In America
Intermission
Lost In Translation
Master and Commander
Mystic River
Off the Map
Owning Mahowny
Peter Pan
Pieces of April
Shattered Glass
Something’s Gotta Give
The Station Agent
Whale Rider
Foreign-language movies:
A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)
A Talking Picture (Portuguese)
Blind Shaft (Chinese)
Cautiva (Spanish)
Crimson Gold (Persian)
Good Morning, Night (Italian)
I’m Not Scared (Italian)
Last Life in the Universe (Japanese)
Memories of Murder (Korean)
Oldboy (Korean)
Osama (Dari)
Saraband (Swedish)
Since Otar Left (Georgian)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Korean)
The Barbarian Invasions (French)
The Best of Youth (Italian)
The City of No Limits (Spanish)
The Inheritance (Danish)
The Memory of a Killer (Dutch)
The Return (Russian)
Together (Mandarin)
Tokyo Godfathers (Japanese)
Travellers and Magicians (Dzongkha)
English-language documentaries:
A Certain Kind of Death
A Decade Under the Influence
Capturing the Friedmans
Churchill
Festival Express
James Dean: Forever Young
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Lost Boys of Sudan
My Architect
Power Trip
Seabiscuit: American Experience
Step Into Liquid
Sunset Story
The Corporation
The Fog of War
The Nazi Officer’s Wife
This So-Called Disaster
Touching the Void
Foreign-language documentaries:
Bus 174 (Portuguese)
The Five Obstructions (Danish)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolian)