Since the turn of the new Millennium, Hollywood has been doing everything it can to up the ante when it comes to true storytelling – creating dozens of classics in the process.

Whether they be set in the future, billion-dollar franchises, or simply real stories to bring to the silver screen, the film industry has done nothing but thrive with something for everyone to get attached to.

So whether you’re car-obsessed, have a love of history, or are fearful of a tech-filled future, we’ve got you covered.

Here’s some of the best films the 2000s has given us so far – and they’re all available on Sky Cinema and NOW.

Based on a true story, Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a single mother and legal assistant in Hinkley, California. One day she discovers medical records that prove a major industry cover-up over contaminated water which is causing life-changing sickness to Hinkley residents. Determined to fight for justice, Brockovich takes on the legal system on her own terms.

In this sci-fi thriller, set in 2054, Minority Report follows a world where game-changing psychic technology means murders are stopped and the culprits captured before they even occur. However, John Anderton, head of the Precrime unit, finds his world turns upside down when he’s framed for a future murder of a man he’s never even met, and now needs to figure out what went wrong as law enforcement comes after him.

Released in 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively, the three instalments of The Lord of the Rings – titled Fellowship of the King, The Two Towers and The Return of the King – sees Frodo Baggins, a young Hobbit, tasked with taking a magical ring and throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom.

The ring holds untold power and needs to be destroyed to rid the world of it forever. But the ring has been long sought-after, with those who know of it becoming relentless in their hunt for it, and willing to die for possession of it.

All three films are available on Sky Cinema and NOW.

Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) have the perfect relationship – until they don’t. Wrecked by the discovery Clementine has paid to have her memory of him wiped from her brain after their break-up, Joel opts to go through the same procedure. Only, as he goes through the memories, he begins to realise why they fell in love in the first place, and maybe the memory of love is something too precious to be deleted.

Kate Winslet was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Clementine, with the film winning Original Screenplay at the 2005 ceremony.

Tom Cruise stars in this sci-fi epic as Ray Ferrier, a divorced dad of two whose life changes forever when an alien invasion begins on a weekend he’s looking after his kids Rachel and Robbie. Soon, he’s on a mission to find refuge and protect his children during what could be the end of the world as they know it.

In a standalone instalment of the vastly popular Fast and the Furious franchise (which is available as a box set on Sky Cinema and NOW), Tokyo Drift follows Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) who moves to Japan with his father in order to start a new life for himself. Soon, he starts making a name for himself on the drifting scene, which gets complicated when he takes on the current champion – and falls in love with his girlfriend.

In the final film in this iteration of Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, Peter Parker finally seems to be getting somewhere with his love, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). However, peace and quiet doesn’t last very long as a superhero, especially when you kill your best friend’s father, who happened to be a supervillain. Things get even more complex when an alien symbiote attaches itself to his spidersuit, turning it black. Through this, it begins to control Peter’s entire personality for the worse, which is not ideal, when new supervillains begin to rise up to destroy New York and potentially the world as well. Can Peter overcome his dark side in order to save the day?

Directed by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight trilogy brings a new, more realistic look to the Batman story.

Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises follow the rise of multi-millionaire Bruce Wayne, as he turns the tragedy of his parent’s death in childhood and turns it into motivation for life as a vigilante.

Vowing to rid the city of Gotham of the evil that’s befallen it, Bruce finds himself facing numerous sacrifices as he faces villains including Scarecrow, The Joker, Two-Face and Bane, and discovers that he can’t trust everyone around him.

Christian Bale leads the cast, with other stars including Cillian Murphy, Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy and Sir Michael Caine.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, a thief who steals information and secrets from his targets via their dreams.

When he becomes wanted for his wife’s murder, Cobb is offered a chance at redemption when he’s offered the seemingly impossible task of committing the perfect crime – planting an idea in someone’s mind rather than steal from it.

If he succeeds, it could change his life forever, but enemies lurk everywhere, and is well aware of Cobb’s capabilities.

A CIA analyst and her team plays an instrumental role in tracking down Osama Bin Laden and bringing him to justice after the devastating 9/11 Attacks on New York – where World Trade Center towers were hit with planes and collapsed, killing nearly 3,000 people as a result.

In the 10-year worldwide manhunt that follows, Zero Dark Thirty tracks the interrogation tactics and operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the 2011 nighttime strike that killed Bin Laden.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, a hustler and wannabe Wall Street ‘wolf’ who begins to build his name at a brokerage.

Through defrauding wealthy investors out of millions, Belfort makes his own, and uses it to live a hedonistic lifestyle of sex and drugs, seemingly free from consequence.

However, what comes up, must come down, and soon Belfort finds himself at the wrong end of the FBI, the SEC, and his feisty wife.

Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey are among the co-stars.

John Wick is a legendary hitman-for-hire, who trades in his career for peace and quiet with the love of his life, Helen. When she dies, all he has left of her is a puppy she gifted him to help him cope - a dog he treasures as a result. So his whole world comes crashing down when his beloved beagle is murdered by Russian mobsters who also steal his 1969 Boss 429 Mustang.

Soon he’s going back to his old ways and is on a mission for revenge, unwittingly falling into a war with New York City’s Russian mafia as a result.

Spotlight follows the true story of The Boston Globe and a team of investigative journalists that unwittingly uncover a decades-long cover-up of systemic sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

What starts as an investigation into one defrocked priest, who was accused of molesting upwards of 80 children, the team soon discover dozens of priests in the Boston area alone who are likely to be involved.

Reneé Zellweger is back as Bridget Jones – with the mother of all issues and a new love triangle to deal with. After finally getting Daniel Cleaver out of her life, Bridget didn’t get the happily ever after she hoped for with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) either. Deciding to embrace a single and fabulous 40-something lifestyle, her life is upended when she discovers she’s pregnant - and doesn’t know if the father is her on/off love Mark Darcy, or the dashing and charismatic Jack Qwuant (Patrick Dempsey).

Natalie Portman stars as Jackie Kennedy in this three-time Oscar nominated biopic. Based in 1963, the film follows the First Lady in the immediate aftermath of her husband, President John F Kennedy’s, assassination. When a journalist comes to interview her at her Massachusetts home about JFK’s legacy, Jackie reflects on her life in the White House, and the moment that has become cemented in American history.

Zac Efron makes a star turn as twisted serial killer, Ted Bundy, in this semi-fictional story about the murderer’s dual life.

Single mother Liz Kendall (Lily Collins) thinks she’s won the jackpot when she meets Ted, a charming, soon-to-be lawyer who is great with her daughter.

As the pair begin a life together, a string of murders begin to terrify women across the United States - and soon Liz has to grapple with the idea that her perfect man may be hiding a deadly secret.

Cassie Thomas’s life was changed forever when her best friend, Nina, kills herself after being raped while in college. Years later, she’s turned vigilante - taking her anger out on men who fail to understand the meaning of consent. With a mission of vengeance on her mind, Cassie sets out to teach the people who wronged Nina while she was alive a lesson, especially Al Monroe, who assaulted her.

Carey Mulligan leads the cast in this Oscar-winning movie, which also stars Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Chris Lowell, Max Greenfield and Alfred Molina.

Set in a dystopian future where the human race is all but extinct, a group of young men and women are trained in obedience and intelligence before being sent into space to colonise and populate a faraway planet. However, when they stop drinking ‘the blue’ they are requested to drink every day, they begin to give in to their primal instincts, with the ship descending into chaos as they become consumed by the idea of power, control and sex.

A cult favourite, Pearl is the darkly-comedic origin story of the titular character, who we first meet in X (2022). Set in 1918, young Pearl (Mia Goth) is not living the life she wanted. Looking after her sick father under the watchful eye of her pressuring and impossible-to-impress German immigrant mother, she is isolated and alone at her family farm while her husband, Howard, is at war. Desperate to be in a more glamorous world, like the one she sees in the movies, Pearl believes she’s destined to be a star – and when things don’t go her way, she gives in to her barely repressed bloodlust to wreak havoc on the world.

Winner of seven Oscars and over 300 other awards, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), a spectacular physicist who is hired by Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon) during World War II to spearhead the top-secret Manhattan Project - the invention of the atomic bomb. Told over two timelines before and after the detonation of the bomb, the film details Oppenheimer’s involvement in the creation of a weapon that changed the face of war, and potentially the fate of the world, forever.