2010: Movies Must See/Short Films
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1. Mandrake (2010 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition led by adventurer DARREN McCALL and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But ... See full summary »
Director: Tripp Reed | Stars: Max Martini, Betsy Russell, Benito Martinez, Jon Mack
Votes: 930
2. Katt Williams: 9 Lives (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Comedy
Featuring rare never before released stand-up from early in Katt's phenomenal career, go behind the scenes to witness the king of comedy's meteoric rise to fame.
Director: Phillip Andrew Morton | Stars: Wayne Brady, Da Brat, Nick Cannon, Melanie Comarcho
Votes: 94
3. Triassic Attack (2010 TV Movie)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
Director: Colin Ferguson | Stars: Steven Brand, Kirsty Mitchell, Raoul Max Trujillo, Gabriel Womack
Votes: 1,455
4. Red: Werewolf Hunter (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror
The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Felicia Day, Kavan Smith, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk
Votes: 2,153
5. Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Sci-Fi
When a group of archaeologists dig up a human skeleton near Stonehenge, an ancient piece of machinery is discovered. The workers accidentally trigger the mechanism and start a chain of events that may very well end the world.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Misha Collins, Torri Higginson, Peter Wingfield, David James Lewis
Votes: 2,782
6. Consinsual (2010)
R | 93 min | Drama
A couple who seems to have it all pushes their sex life to the edge. The story gets intertwined when an old flame, betrayal, lust and deceit enter the picture.
Director: Paul D. Hannah | Stars: Keena Ferguson, Siaka Massaquoi, Kathryn Taylor Smith, Leonard L. Thomas
Votes: 150
7. Wrecked (2010)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A man wakes in a car wreck at the bottom of a ravine and must overcome incredible odds to survive.
Director: Michael Greenspan | Stars: Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins, Adrian G. Griffiths
Votes: 16,937 | Gross: $0.00M
8. Red Hill (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A young police officer must survive his first day's duty in a small country town.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom
Votes: 9,079 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Burning Palms (2010)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Thriller
A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.
Director: Christopher Landon | Stars: Jamie Chung, Rosamund Pike, Dylan McDermott, Shannen Doherty
Votes: 3,078
10. Don't Fade Away (2011)
89 min | Drama
A troubled music manager on the edge returns from Los Angeles to North Carolina to care for his sick father.
Director: Luke Kasdan | Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Mischa Barton, Beau Bridges, Fran Kranz
Votes: 416
11. Breakdance Academy (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
It's 1983 and Brad Roberts is the best high school quarterback in the country. He dates the sexiest girl in town and is extremely popular, but Brad is not satisfied. He wants to prove that ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Artigo | Stars: Michael Copon, Ryan Pinkston, Robert Hoffman, Ming-Na Wen
Votes: 106
12. The Fighter (I) (2010)
R | 116 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Votes: 388,570 | Gross: $93.62M
13. The Front (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A detective in a Boston suburb is assigned by his female district attorney to reopen an old murder case, which throws his life into grave peril.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Daniel Sunjata, Ashley Williams, Joe Grifasi
Votes: 562
14. At Risk (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Mystery
A district attorney wants to further her political dreams by solving an old murder.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Andie MacDowell, Daniel Sunjata, Annabeth Gish, Barclay Hope
Votes: 567
15. Matadors (2010 TV Movie)
Drama
Two wealthy families in Chicago find themselves in an on-going struggle of pride and power.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: David Strathairn, Michael Rooker, Zach Gilford, Stephen Lang
Votes: 35
16. Love & Distrust (2010 Video)
R | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Tale of the passions and perils of love in all its forms. Five unique short films that focus on the lives of a group of beautiful yet troubled twenty-somethings, this compilation explores ... See full summary »
Directors: Lorraine Bracco, Daisy Gili, Eric Kmetz, Warner Loughlin, Diana Valentine, Darcy Yuille | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Talulah Riley, David Burke, Anna Calder-Marshall
Votes: 1,694
17. Worried About the Boy (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of Boy George, the famous androgynous lead singer of the band, Culture Club.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Douglas Booth, Jonny Burt, Mathew Horne, Dean Fagan
Votes: 1,538
18. Never Let Me Go (2010)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
Director: Mark Romanek | Stars: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small
Votes: 153,088 | Gross: $2.43M
19. Dancing Ninja (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An orphaned boy who dreams of being a ninja arrives in Hollywood to try and find his birth parents, where he gets mixed up in a crime.
Directors: Mitchell Klebanoff, Kelly Sandefur | Stars: Lucas Grabeel, David Hasselhoff, Judy Jung-hwa Kang, Bree Turner
Votes: 285
20. Skyline (2010)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
Directors: Colin Strause, Greg Strause | Stars: Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel
Votes: 92,134 | Gross: $21.37M
21. Forged (2010)
77 min | Action, Drama
An ex-thug and his son attempt to find a way to move past impossible circumstances to forge a bond that has been forever broken by the murder of the child's mother.
Director: William Wedig | Stars: Manny Perez, David Castro, Margo Martindale, Jamie Tirelli
Votes: 236
22. Extraordinary Measures (2010)
PG | 106 min | Drama
A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.
Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford, Meredith Droeger
Votes: 17,795 | Gross: $11.85M
23. Elevator Girl (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Modern Cinderella-romance where a young successful lawyer panics when he finds that he has fallen for a working-class girl.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Ryan Merriman, Hedy Burress, Jonathan Bennett
Votes: 1,950
24. Amigo (2010)
R | 124 min | Drama, War
A fictional account of events during the Philippine-American War.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Joel Torre, Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt, Arthur Acuña
Votes: 665 | Gross: $0.18M
25. Let the Game Begin (2010)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Tripp is an average frustrated chump, who comes up with a golden idea. He partners with Gary, a Wall Street wheeler and dealer, and brings his cousin, Rowan, on-board to help with his ... See full summary »
Director: Amit Gupta | Stars: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Adam Rodriguez, Lisa Ray, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 654
26. The King of Fighters (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Live-action feature based on the video game "King of Fighters".
Director: Gordon Chan | Stars: Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Will Yun Lee, Ray Park
Votes: 4,561
27. The LXD: The Uprising Begins (2010)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Music
Join seemingly ordinary people who discover they have extraordinary powers in a groundbreaking mythology about hope, greed, love and the force that moves us all.
Directors: Jon M. Chu, Ryan Landels, Charles Oliver | Stars: Luis Rosado, Wilbur Urbina, Alize Albuquerque, Daniel 'Cloud' Campos
Votes: 155
28. Legendary (2010)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Sport
A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago.
Director: Mel Damski | Stars: John Cena, Patricia Clarkson, Danny Glover, Devon Graye
Votes: 5,381 | Gross: $0.19M
29. True Grit (2010)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western
A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin
Votes: 357,239 | Gross: $171.24M
30. Betwixt (2010 TV Movie)
Drama
Changelings try to save human beings from evil.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Austin Butler, Tessa Thompson, Jessy Schram, Josh Bowman
Votes: 37
31. The Man from Nowhere (2010)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.
Director: Lee Jeong-beom | Stars: Won Bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Hee-won
Votes: 74,776 | Gross: $0.01M
32. Black Death (2010)
R | 102 min | Action, Drama, History
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Kimberley Nixon
Votes: 51,199 | Gross: $0.02M
33. Stone (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy
Votes: 42,878 | Gross: $1.80M
34. Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
R | 110 min | Drama
On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
Director: Jake Scott | Stars: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, David Jensen
Votes: 25,260 | Gross: $0.15M
35. Winter's Bone (2010)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
Votes: 150,438 | Gross: $6.53M
36. Repeaters (2010)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three twenty-somethings find themselves in an impossible time loop, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.
Director: Carl Bessai | Stars: Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Richard de Klerk, Alexia Fast
Votes: 7,051
37. Stake Land (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
In a world of vampires, an expert vampire hunter and his young protégé travel toward sanctuary.
Director: Jim Mickle | Stars: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis, Gregory Jones
Votes: 44,122 | Gross: $0.02M
38. Rabbit Hole (2010)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller
Votes: 51,101 | Gross: $2.23M
39. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 97,575 | Gross: $0.24M
40. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
PG | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve
Votes: 22,621
41. Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
R | 111 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Sci-fi thriller from Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly); Nick Brady receives messages from space and joins conspiracy to overthrow authoritarian U. S. regime.
Director: John Alan Simon | Stars: Shea Whigham, Jonathan Scarfe, Michael Rothhaar, Katheryn Winnick
Votes: 1,893 | Gross: $0.01M
42. Four Lovers (2010)
Unrated | 103 min | Romance
What are adult love affairs ? Two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through.
Director: Antony Cordier | Stars: Marina Foïs, Élodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 2,014
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