20 Most Rewatchable Movies Of The 2000s

17. Pride & Prejudice (2005)

For those who came of age in the nineties, there can be no other Pride and Prejudice than the Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle-led BBC serial, but for most millennials, Joe Wright’s film Pride & Prejudice is the definitive Jane Austen adaptation.

With an undeniable Hollywood glamour, the film gives us Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen as Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, caught in a swirl of manners, rumours, marriage proposals, and confessions. Lizzy is the headstrong second daughter of the Bennet family and in desperate need of a husband to help elevate her social standing and ensure her family doesn’t fall to ruin, and Mr. Darcy is the rich, aloof romantic interest whose apparent disdain is really a mask for deeper feelings. No prizes for guessing where they end up.

The original novel is the archetype for so many beloved romance movies, but this direct adaptation in particular is a stand-out piece of filmmaking. It captures everything that makes the book great while injecting it with genuine humour (Donald Sutherland’s Mr. Bennet is especially entertaining) and wrangling what can sometimes be a yawn-worthy Georgian text into something that can match pace with the likes of Bridget Jones and Love Actually, despite not feeling very noughties at all. And this is precisely what makes it so rewatchable.