20 Underrated Movies From 2000 You've Probably Never Seen

4. In The Mood For Love

Released: 29th September 2000 (Hong Kong)

Once declared by the BBC the second greatest film of the entire twenty-first century, Wong Kar-wai's 1960s-set Hong Kong romantic drama certainly isn't "underrated" in terms of its reputation amongst professional film critics, but it remains underseen when it comes to wider movie audiences.

The story of neighbours (Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung) who begin to suspect that their spouses are having an affair with each other and so form a connection of their own, In The Mood For Love is a heartbreaking story of love, yearning, regret and missed opportunity.

Beautifully shot in saturated reds, deep shadows and wisps of noirish cigarette smoke, In The Mood For Love has a classical old school elegance. Like many of the best tragically unfulfilled romances this is a story as much about the things unsaid than what actually occurs with the cheating spouses never seen but casting a huge shadow over everything that happens.

Perhaps if more people saw it then they too would consider In The Mood For Love as one of the defining classics of our current century.