2009 - BEST MOVIES

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.)

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. (87 mins.)

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.)

13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny? (108 mins.)

A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin. (155 mins.)

It's a story about three Iranian families who are traveling to North of Iran in order that they can... (119 mins.)

A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. (135 mins.)

With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him. (109 mins.)

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. (123 mins.)

A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. (105 mins.)

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. (97 mins.)

An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets. (100 mins.)

The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. (108 mins.)

Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S...

A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time. (98 mins.)

1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde... (93 mins.)

A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before. (101 mins.)

With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father... (74 mins.)

Three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars that quickly spins beyond their control. (86 mins.)

An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her. (95 mins.)

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty... (99 mins.)

A troubled assassin, who works by orchestrating "accidents", suspects that an accident that happens to his team is not an accident at all. (89 mins.)

A mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder. (128 mins.)

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya. (101 mins.)

A trio of police officers conduct surveillance on a listed company. (100 mins.)

A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite British boarding school. (104 mins.)

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 real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie. (127 mins.)

A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony. (8 mins.)

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist. (77 mins.)

I Am Yours is a love story rooted in dignity. A meaningless affair creates a rift in Martha and Jack's fragile marriage when she falls pregnant...

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia. (108 mins.)

A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again. (97 mins.)

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. (120 mins.)

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan. (105 mins.)

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. (135 mins.)

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.)

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Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond. (127 mins.)

A father returns to his old hometown with his young family. Events force him to face the small town's xenophobia. (100 mins.)

Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before... (115 mins.)

Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy... (100 mins.)

Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a "Memory of the Nation" medal, however... (100 mins.)

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund... (117 mins.)

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 help of a caring woman and her family. (129 mins.)

A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest and outwits a succession of predators. (27 mins.)

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 shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter. (6 mins.)