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1.
Little Fockers
(2010)
Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker have what it takes? (98 mins.)
Director: Paul Weitz
2.
Black Swan
(2010)
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. (108 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
3.
Adaptation.
(2002)
A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere. (114 mins.)
Director: Spike Jonze
4.
Blue Valentine
(2010)
The film centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods. (112 mins.)
Director: Derek Cianfrance
5.
Machete
(2010)
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss. (105 mins.)
Director: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez
6.
The Town
(2010)
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down. (125 mins.)
Director: Ben Affleck
7.
All Good Things
(2010)
Mr. David Marks was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Katie who disappeared in 1982, but the truth is eventually revealed. (101 mins.)
Director: Andrew Jarecki
8.
Abel
(2010)
About a peculiar young boy who, as he blurs reality and fantasy, takes over the responsibilities of a family man in his father's absence. (82 mins.)
Director: Diego Luna
9.
Exit Through the Gift Shop
(2010 Documentary)
The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy... (87 mins.)
Director: Banksy
10.
The Puzzle
(2009)
An older housewife discovers she has a knack for solving puzzles. (87 mins.)
Director: Natalia Smirnoff
11.
127 Hours
(2010)
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. (94 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
12.
The Green Hornet
(2011)
Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team. (119 mins.)
Director: Michel Gondry
13.
The Hairdresser's Husband
(1990)
Twelve-year-old Antoine falls profoundly in love with a voluptuous but suicidal hairdresser, a formative experience he never forgets... (82 mins.)
Director: Patrice Leconte
14.
The Kids Are All Right
(2010)
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life. (106 mins.)
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
15.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007)
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed. (112 mins.)
Director: Julian Schnabel
16.
Big Fish
(2003)
A son tries to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths he told about his life. (125 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
18.
Kick-Ass
(2010)
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. (117 mins.)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
19.
Inception
(2010)
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception. (148 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
20.
The King's Speech
(2010)
The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. (118 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
21.
Mary and Max
(2009)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. (92 mins.)
Director: Adam Elliot
22.
Paul
(2011)
Two British comic-book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51. (104 mins.)
Director: Greg Mottola
23.
Sanctum
(2011)
An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. (108 mins.)
Director: Alister Grierson
24.
Biutiful
(2010)
This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move. (148 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
25.
True Grit
(2010)
A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer. (110 mins.)
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
26.
Drive Angry
(2011)
A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. (104 mins.)
Director: Patrick Lussier
27.
The Adjustment Bureau
(2011)
The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart. (106 mins.)
Director: George Nolfi
28.
Talk to Her
(2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. (112 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
29.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
(2009)
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. (90 mins.)
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
30.
Limitless
(2011)
A writer discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities. (105 mins.)
Director: Neil Burger
31.
How to Train Your Dragon
(2010)
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed. (98 mins.)
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
32.
The Life of Fish
(2010)
At a house party, a handsome man wanders around catching up with friends he has not seen for some years... (84 mins.)
Director: Matías Bize
33.
The Silent House
(2010)
The plot is based on a true story that happened in the late 40's in a small village in Uruguay. The film focuses on Laura... (86 mins.)
Director: Gustavo Hernández
34.
Paranormal Activity 2
(2010)
After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem. (91 mins.)
Director: Tod Williams
35.
Un Chien Andalou
(1929 Short Film)
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring... (16 mins.)
Director: Louis Bunuel
36.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
(2005)
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl. (119 mins.)
Director: Scott Derrickson
37.
The Brothers Bloom
(2008)
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world. (114 mins.)
Director: Rian Johnson
38.
Fast Five
(2011)
Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent. (130 mins.)
Director: Justin Lin
39.
The Piano Teacher
(2001)
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher. (131 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
40.
Cube
(1997)
7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps. (90 mins.)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
41.
The Spectator
(2004)
Valeria is a 26-yr-old inhibited and solitary girl. She lives in Turin, Italy, where she works as a simultaneous translator... (98 mins.)
Director: Paolo Franchi
42.
Thor
(2011)
The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. (115 mins.)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
43.
X-Men: First Class
(2011)
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III. (132 mins.)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
44.
Leap Year
(2010)
Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo, and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover. (94 mins.)
Director: Michael Rowe
45.
El Narco
(2010)
Benjamin Garcia, Benny, is deported from the United States. Back home and against a bleak picture, Benny gets involved in the narco business... (145 mins.)
Director: Luis Estrada
47.
Hereafter
(2010)
A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways. (129 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
48.
Eat Pray Love
(2010)
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself". (133 mins.)
Director: Ryan Murphy
49.
Get Him to the Greek
(2010)
A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater. (109 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Stoller
50.
I Love You Phillip Morris
(2009)
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life... (98 mins.)
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
51.
Home Movie
(2008)
Documents one family's descent into darkness, using a compilation of found home-made footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York... (77 mins.)
Director: Christopher Denham
52.
Trash Humpers
(2009)
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee. (78 mins.)
Director: Harmony Korine
53.
Due Date
(2010)
High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child's birth on time. (95 mins.)
Director: Todd Phillips
54.
Bridesmaids
(2011)
Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef. (125 mins.)
Director: Paul Feig
55.
No Strings Attached
(2011)
A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more. (108 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
56.
Life as We Know It
(2010)
Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident. (114 mins.)
Director: Greg Berlanti
57.
Love and Other Drugs
(2010)
A woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer against 1990s Pittsburgh backdrop. (112 mins.)
Director: Edward Zwick
58.
Rabbit Hole
(2010)
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident. Based on a play by David Lindsay-Abaire. (91 mins.)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
59.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
(2011)
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets. (154 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
60.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(2009)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing -- or dead -- for forty years by a young female hacker. (152 mins.)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
61.
This Is It
(2009 Documentary)
A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London. (111 mins.)
Director: Kenny Ortega
62.
Iron Man 2
(2010)
Because of his superhero alter ego, Tony Stark must contend with deadly issues involving the government, his own friends and new enemies. (124 mins.)
Director: Jon Favreau
63.
Herod's Law
(1999)
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him. (120 mins.)
Director: Luis Estrada
64.
Almost Famous
(2000)
A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour. (122 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
65.
Just Go with It
(2011)
On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend. (117 mins.)
Director: Dennis Dugan
66.
Wedding Trough
(1975)
A mad farmer falls in love with his pig and has mutant piglets with it. When the "piglets" prefer their mother over him, he hangs them all and the sow kills herself. (80 mins.)
Director: Thierry Zéno
Stars: Dominique Garny
67.
Cars 2
(2011)
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. (106 mins.)
Director: John Lasseter, Brad Lewis
68.
Perras
(2011)
Ten girls are suspected of committing a horrible crime, and until they confess, they won't be able to leave their school. (100 mins.)
Director: Guillermo Ríos
69.
The Maid
(2009)
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years. (95 mins.)
Director: Sebastián Silva
70.
Inside Job
(2010 Documentary)
Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown. (120 mins.)
Director: Charles Ferguson
71.
Presumed Guilty
(2008 Documentary)
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent. (87 mins.)
Director: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
72.
Elsa & Fred
(2005)
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid... (108 mins.)
Director: Marcos Carnevale
73.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
(2011)
Harry, Ron and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord. (130 mins.)
Director: David Yates
74.
Confessions of a Shopaholic
(2009)
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. (104 mins.)
Director: P.J. Hogan
75.
The Limits of Control
(2009)
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job. (116 mins.)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
76.
Submarine
(2010)
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life. (97 mins.)
Director: Richard Ayoade
77.
Bowling for Columbine
(2002 Documentary)
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence. (120 mins.)
Director: Michael Moore
78.
Trust
(2010)
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator. (106 mins.)
Director: David Schwimmer
79.
The Beaver
(2011)
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating. (91 mins.)
Director: Jodie Foster
80.
I'm Still Here
(2010)
Documenting Joaquin Phoenix's transition from the acting world to a career as an aspiring rapper. (108 mins.)
Director: Casey Affleck
81.
The September Issue
(2009 Documentary)
A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue. (90 mins.)
Director: R.J. Cutler
82.
Hall Pass
(2011)
Rick and Fred, two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages, are given a Hall Pass by their wives: for one week, they can do whatever they want. (105 mins.)
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
83.
The Lives of Others
(2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. (137 mins.)
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
84.
Slumdog Millionaire
(2008)
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers. (120 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
85.
Religulous
(2008 Documentary)
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion. (101 mins.)
Director: Larry Charles
86.
Spanglish
(2004)
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. (131 mins.)
Director: James L. Brooks
88.
The Lincoln Lawyer
(2011)
A sleazy defense attorney has a crisis of conscience when he represents a wealthy client who has a foolproof plan to beat the system. (118 mins.)
Director: Brad Furman
89.
Catfish
(2010 Documentary)
Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries. (87 mins.)
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
90.
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. (153 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
91.
Babies
(2010 Documentary)
A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo. (79 mins.)
Director: Thomas Balmès
92.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010)
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart. (112 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
93.
Never Let Me Go
(2010)
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy, spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school... (103 mins.)
Director: Mark Romanek
94.
Bad Teacher
(2011)
A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague -- a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher. (92 mins.)
Director: Jake Kasdan
95.
The Crazies
(2010)
About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. (101 mins.)
Director: Breck Eisner
96.
The Expendables
(2010)
A team of mercenaries is given the assignment to take out a corrupt military leader and a rogue CIA operative on a Latin American island. (103 mins.)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
97.
The Killer Inside Me
(2010)
A West Texas deputy sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. (109 mins.)
Director: Michael Winterbottom
98.
Battle Los Angeles
(2011)
A Marine Staff Sergeant who has just had his retirement approved goes back into the line of duty in order to assist a 2nd Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders. (116 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
99.
Sex and the City 2
(2010)
While wrestling with the pressures of life, love, and work in Manhattan, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte join Samantha for a trip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), where Samantha's ex is filming a new movie. (146 mins.)
Director: Michael Patrick King
100.
Hot Fuzz
(2007)
Jealous colleagues conspire to get a top London cop transferred to a small town and paired with a witless new partner. On the beat, the pair stumble upon a series of suspicious accidents and events. (121 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
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