This is a list of the Best Movies of 2005 according to John Farr. I find his site hard to navigate, so I create summary lists like this one.
English-language movies:
Be With Me
Brick
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Cinderella Man
Duma
Good Night and Good Luck
Hotel Rwanda
Hustle and Flow
Journey from the Fall
Man Push Cart
Pride and Prejudice
The Constant Gardener
The Descent
The Proposition
The Squid and the Whale
The World's Fastest Indian
Transamerica
Vincent and Theo
Walk the Line
Foreign-language movies:
13 Tzameti (French)
Adam’s Apples (Danish)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (French)
Caché (French)
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Portuguese)
Fateless (Hungarian)
Frozen Land (Finnish)
House of Flying Daggers (Mandarin)
Joyeux Noel (French)
L’Enfant (French)
Mother of Mine (Finnish)
Paradise Now (Arabic)
Regular Lovers (French)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Mandarin)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (German)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romanian)
The Italian (Russian)
The Method (Spanish)
The Sun (Japanese)
The Violin (Spanish)
Three Times (Mandarin)
Time to Leave (French)
Tsotsi (Afrikaans)
Water (Hindi)
English-language documentaries:
51 Birch Street
An Unreasonable Man
Aristide and the Endless Revolution
Ballets Russes
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Margot
New York Doll
Sir! No Sir!
TCM Archives: Garbo
The Boys of Baraka
The Heart of the Game
Why We Fight
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Foreign-language documentaries:
Crossing The Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Turkish)
Into Great Silence (French)
My Country, My Country (Kurdish)