This Top 50 Best Movies of 2005 List is a tough mix of cinematic offers earning their ranks as the best of 2005. And the ranking is based on many factors including storytelling quality, thematic and technical achievements, critics ratings, awards, popularity, and box office and DVD statistics.

It's not all about the big budget and bankable stars. These things actually count in the overall charm of a film, but they aren't the only reasons why people love movies.

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                     Part 1: Rank 50 to 41
                     Part 2: Rank 40 to 31
                     Part 3: Rank 30 to 21
                     Part 4: Rank 20 to 11

10. North Country
This Niki Caro drama starred by the talented Charlize Theron is a powerful and compelling story about a 1989 American mining community where chauvinistic values are too common in the workplace.

9. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
The legendary six-film saga by George Lucas comes full circle with a Vader and Kenobi (played by Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor) face off. And its iconic power lives on.

8. Corpse Bride
Tim Burton presents a morbid and romantic trip in between the cold dwelling of the living and the colorful underground world of the dead in this stop-motion animation classic. It's a darkly enchanting tale about the celebration of love told in a quirky, gothic and ironic style.

7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
This fourth film of the franchise has enough sights and sounds to stir the audience's enchanted imaginations. Mike Newell gives this realm of fantasy adventure a dark, more human look with due respect to what has already been established by its predecessors.

6. Sin City
Based on three of Frank Miller's graphic novels, Robert Rodriguez collaborates with Miller's genius to come up with this stylized, sexually charged and blood-soaked film treat especially meant for the fanboys.

5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Tim Burton breathes new life to Roald Dahl's 1964 tale and transforms it into a new celluloid confectionery. His interpretation is a gothic and yet colorful fantasy filled with the eccentricity only he gets to achieve as an auteur.

4. Walk the Line
This James Mangold film is one of the most nominated in the Oscars during its time. And Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix give their finest performances as June Carter and Johnny Cash here.

3. Crash
It's the Academy Award Winner for Best Motion Picture in 2005. And Paul Haggis really keeps up with the high expectations for this masterpiece as he weaves no fewer than nine sets of characters into a suffocating tangle of ham-fisted ironies and acceptable coincidences.

2. Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable gay film Brokeback Mountain hits a bull's eye. This landmark film for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal is such a defiantly erotic love story.

1. Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan effectively explores the origins of Bruce Wayne's emergence as Batman. And this story successfully goes back to the roots of the character, portraying a confused and angry Wayne who rises to redeem himself and defend Gotham.