Best movies of 2009

Titles indexed: 386

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Rating: 7.6

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders an...

Up

Rating: 8.0

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to ha...

Ninja Assassin

Rating: 6.7

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trai...

The Hangover

Rating: 7.3

When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathro...

2012

Rating: 5.9

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms...

Coraline

Rating: 7.9

Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of he...

Zombieland

Rating: 7.3

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a ...

Precious

Rating: 7.3

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for ...

Jennifer's Body

Rating: 6.0

Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her be...

3 Idiots

Rating: 8.0

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestig...

The Blind Side

Rating: 7.7

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the...

Watchmen

Rating: 7.3

In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one ...

MegaFault

Rating: 5.3

When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking t...

Brothers

Rating: 7.3

When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy st...

Agora

Rating: 7.0

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn b...

Strigoi

Rating: 5.5

When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now, Constantin thinks pickles m...

Tormented

Rating: 5.1

Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, is driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bulli...

The Proposal

Rating: 7.1

When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assi...

Angels & Demons

Rating: 6.7

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground ...

Sherlock Holmes

Rating: 7.2

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that coul...

Solomon Kane

Rating: 6.0

A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are wo...

Imagine That

Rating: 6.0

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems a...

Vincere

Rating: 6.7

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to th...

Star Trek

Rating: 7.4

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock...

The Box

Rating: 5.6

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable conse...

Kerala Cafe

Rating: 6.7

Ten interconnected short stories unfolding around a roadside railway café in Kerala, where travelers from diverse backgrounds pass through, ...

Merry Madagascar

Rating: 6.5

While trapped on the island of Madagascar, the Central Park Zoo escapees receive a visit from Santa--crash landing on their territory and ge...

Surrogates

Rating: 6.1

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the fi...

9

Rating: 6.9

When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a ...

Taking Woodstock

Rating: 6.2

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into...

Hotel Atlântico

Rating: 7.1

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he ...

Virtuality

Rating: 5.1

Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary sy...

Wonderful World

Rating: 5.3

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative ma...

Milk

Rating: 5.9

A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are ...

Merantau

Rating: 6.5

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's...

Orphan

Rating: 7.0

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems....

Damage

Rating: 6.6

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly lo...

Saw VI

Rating: 6.3

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draw...

Post Grad

Rating: 5.0

Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins...

District 9

Rating: 7.5

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a...

Slovenian Girl

Rating: 5.9

Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is head...

Bitch Slap

Rating: 4.8

Three bad girls - a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer, and a corporate powerbroker - arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort...

Mammoth

Rating: 6.1

When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone....

Brüno

Rating: 5.6

Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interv...

Alma

Rating: 6.9

Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy sho...

Detour

Rating: 5.5

For twenty-two years, Leo Huff has been working as a secretary in the same office. Living with the same wife in the same suburban bungalow, ...

Desert Flower

Rating: 7.6

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermode...

The Gruffalo

Rating: 7.3

The magical tale of a mouse who sets foot on a woodland adventure in search of a nut. Encountering predators who all wish to eat him - Fox, ...

Mr. Nobody

Rating: 7.8

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092....

Stripped Naked

Rating: 4.2

When exotic dancer Cassie happens upon a drug deal gone bad, she steals the money and the drugs thinking she now has the funds to make her d...

Drag Me to Hell

Rating: 6.5

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling t...

Elsewhere

Rating: 5.8

A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to...

Case 39

Rating: 6.3

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel pa...

Bronson

Rating: 7.0

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this ...

Sexchange

Rating: 2.5

A zany and ribald farce about a machismo-fueled, philandering president, who strongly detests homosexuals and any other threats to his mascu...

Dead Snow

Rating: 6.0

Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie...

HalloweeNight

Rating: 6.0

A college party is the stage for bloodshed and murder on Halloween Night, as a mistreated student exacts his revenge on those who wronged hi...

The Villain

Rating: 6.4

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, ...

Carriers

Rating: 6.1

A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through th...

Fighting

Rating: 6.0

Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his...

Duplicity

Rating: 5.9

Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to ...

Big Fan

Rating: 6.1

Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One ni...

Tenderness

Rating: 5.2

A hardened cop tries to unravel the past to discover whether a violent teenager was responsible for the murder of his family. A confused fif...

Knowing

Rating: 6.2

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have al...

Transylmania

Rating: 4.2

Spoof horror in which a group of college kids do a semester abroad in Romania and realise that if the partying doesn't kill them, the vampir...

Moon

Rating: 7.6

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with h...

The Protector

Rating: 5.5

A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi ru...

The Crocodiles

Rating: 7.2

Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gang in the area, the Vorstadtkrokodile. Wh...

Wake

Rating: 5.0

When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funer...

Whatever Works

Rating: 7.1

Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Me...

Friday the 13th

Rating: 5.8

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadl...

Weather Girl

Rating: 5.6

Succumbing to the stresses of her personal and professional lives, Sylvia, a Seattle morning show weather forecaster, has a meltdown live on...

Charlie & Boots

Rating: 6.1

Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put t...

Herb & Dorothy

Rating: 6.9

He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art ...

Powder Blue

Rating: 6.1

On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide....

[REC]²

Rating: 6.6

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartmen...

Metropia

Rating: 6.1

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnel...

Creation

Rating: 6.4

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin. Torn between faith and science, he str...

Fanboys

Rating: 6.1

In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phan...

Collapse

Rating: 7.2

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael...

Mother

Rating: 7.7

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's miss...

Progression

Rating: 6.1

Behind every breakthrough in the progression of climbing, there's a true story of doubt and determination, perseverance in the face of failu...

Faintheart

Rating: 6.3

A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife....

All About Steve

Rating: 5.0

After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her...

Gamer

Rating: 5.7

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners ...

Stone Bros.

Rating: 6.7

City based Eddie sets off to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown. But when wild-boy Charlie fo...

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