Best movies of 2009 - page 2

Titles indexed: 386 | Page 2 of 4

Hellhounds

Rating: 3.6

A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades....

Lucky Bastard

Rating: 4.2

Rusty is a successful architect with the life of his dreams. However, when his boyfriend leaves town, Rusty meets a mysterious drifter names...

Corrado

Rating: 3.5

A ruthless mafia hit man is transformed when he rescues a woman who takes the fall for one of his hits....

A Single Man

Rating: 7.3

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past an...

Lo

Rating: 6.6

Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April......

Summer Wars

Rating: 7.5

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her f...

The Carter

Rating: 6.6

An in-depth look at the artist Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter Jr, proclaimed by many as the "greatest rapper alive" With comprehensive and person...

Exam

Rating: 6.7

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a w...

Nowhere Boy

Rating: 7.2

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband sudd...

Cracks

Rating: 6.6

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student....

An Education

Rating: 6.9

Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford Univers...

Valhalla Rising

Rating: 6.1

Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aid...

The Tournament

Rating: 5.9

Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The ...

Little Nicholas

Rating: 6.1

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing c...

Dare

Rating: 5.7

When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny....

Tidal Wave

Rating: 6.9

On Haeundae Beach, a guilt-ridden fisherman takes care of a woman whose father accidentally got killed. A scientist reunites with his ex-wif...

The Messenger

Rating: 6.8

Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgo...

Thawing Out

Rating: 5.6

Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for...

So Different

Rating: 4.5

Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are a...

Contact High

Rating: 6.5

Gangster boss Carlos orders the dodgy Viennese junkyard owner Harry to bring him a bag from Poland. Harry passes the order on to his "best m...

Run! Bitch Run!

Rating: 4.4

Things go horribly wrong when Catherine and Rebecca, two Catholic School girls, knock on the wrong door while selling Religious paraphernali...

Crazy Heart

Rating: 6.9

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living croon...

The New Daughter

Rating: 5.3

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Ca...

Cell 211

Rating: 7.4

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who ...

Bright Star

Rating: 6.6

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next doo...

Cold Souls

Rating: 6.0

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article abou...

The Last Station

Rating: 6.4

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of...

Mother and Child

Rating: 6.6

The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daught...

Solitary Man

Rating: 5.9

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions....

City Island

Rating: 6.9

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by...

Thick as Thieves

Rating: 6.0

A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one ...

Hardwired

Rating: 5.1

After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corp...

Drool

Rating: 5.1

An abused wife's plan to escape her husband goes awry when she accidentally kills him, causing her to split on a cross-country drive with he...

High Life

Rating: 5.9

It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug re...

Cargo

Rating: 5.9

The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on b...

About Elly

Rating: 7.5

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her...

Fame

Rating: 5.7

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancer...

The Last Flight

Rating: 5.0

Aviator Marie Vallières de Beaumont goes on a journey to find her lover Bill Lancaster after his plane disappears in the Sahara. After her p...

Into the Storm

Rating: 6.3

This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucibl...

Turtles Forever

Rating: 7.2

Whoa, dude! Worlds collide when the Turtles from one dimension meet the Turtles from another dimension! What the shell is going on? The two ...

Beautiful Kate

Rating: 5.6

Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also bri...

Offspring

Rating: 5.0

The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago -- a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic sa...

The Informant!

Rating: 6.2

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his compan...

The Eclipse

Rating: 6.0

Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of ...

Logorama

Rating: 7.1

Two cops portrayed by Michelin Men chase an armed Ronald McDonald through the streets of a fictionalized, stylized city....

Tresor

Rating: 4.5

Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his g...

Phobia 2

Rating: 6.2

An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car sale...

Oppai Volleyball

Rating: 6.2

Terajima Mikako became a boys volleyball team coach at a junior high school she has been assigned to. As an incentive for the team members w...

Broken Embraces

Rating: 7.1

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his r...

Farewell

Rating: 6.5

An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet inva...

Frozen Kiss

Rating: 4.1

Based on true events, Shelley and Ryan are two young lovers who get stranded during a raging blizzard. With the authorities unable to locate...

Empire of Silver

Rating: 5.5

In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking empire. When circumstances dictate that h...

Possession

Rating: 5.6

A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the bro...

Amelia

Rating: 5.7

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to ...

The Soloist

Rating: 6.7

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper....

Spanish Movie

Rating: 5.0

Large doses of humor, ingenious nods to Spain's most recent national cinema, an artistic cast highly linked to comedy and a high reserve of ...

ExTerminators

Rating: 5.5

Alex is a lonely accountant whose one act of rage results in her being sentenced to court-ordered therapy. There she meets Stella, the owner...

Sasori

Rating: 5.2

A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining...

Envy

Rating: 5.7

Seniha lives with her brother Halit and his wife Mükerrem. When Nüzhet, the handsome son of the richest family in town, sets his eyes on the...

Princess of Mars

Rating: 4.0

Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a US soldier finds himself inexplicably transported to Mars in the midst of a war between two al...

The Skeptic

Rating: 5.4

After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. ...

Dark Moon Rising

Rating: 4.6

Small-town girl meets mysterious drifter boy, they fall in love. Only in this case, the boy brings with him a family curse and unimaginable ...

Democracy Is ...

Rating: 10.0

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democra...

Penance

Rating: 3.6

A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin...

The Storm

Rating: 6.6

A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When th...

Stingray Sam

Rating: 6.7

A dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their ...

RoboGeisha

Rating: 5.4

Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins....

The Countess

Rating: 5.9

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels f...

Accidents Happen

Rating: 5.9

There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto...

Hannah Free

Rating: 3.8

Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their ...

Falling Up

Rating: 5.2

A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York Cit...

Wild Grass

Rating: 6.1

Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the ph...

Open Graves

Rating: 4.9

One day, Jason finds an unusual board game called Mamba. When his surfer friends start to play, the games unleashes its deadly curse, killin...

Arundhati

Rating: 6.7

Arundhati belongs to Gadwal samsthanam in 1920’s. She is known for her bravery in saving the Samstanam by killing Pasupathi an evildoer. Bu...

Amreeka

Rating: 6.7

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illi...

Teenage Dirtbag

Rating: 6.4

A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, ...

2012: Supernova

Rating: 4.2

Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Ear...

High Noon

Rating: 5.9

Baltimore's top hostage negotiator embarks on a relationship with a man who could be her soulmate while racing to resolve a case that threat...