Best Of 2009
by TemporaryOne-1 | created - 16 May 2018 | updated - 8 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Short
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
Director: Peter Mettler
Votes: 204
2. General Orders No. 9 (2009)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
One last trip down the rabbit hole before it gets paved over. A deep geography. What is above and what is below. What came before and what will come after. Agrarian fantasies, sacrificial ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Persons | Star: William Davidson
Votes: 203
3. Kosmos (2009)
122 min | Drama, Fantasy
A strange man with otherworldly talents becomes both a friend and a pariah in a small Turkish town in this drama from writer and director Reha Erdem. Yahya is nearly in a panic when his ... See full summary »
Director: Reha Erdem | Stars: Sermet Yesil, Türkü Turan, Serkan Keskin, Hakan Altuntas
Votes: 5,179
4. Applaus (2009)
R | 85 min | Drama
Actress Thea tries to adjust to life after rehab, 1 1/2 years after a divorce in which her ex won custody of their two sons.
Director: Martin Zandvliet | Stars: Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sara-Marie Maltha, Shanti Roney
Votes: 1,125
5. Enter the Void (2009)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Fantasy
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander
Votes: 88,016 | Gross: $0.34M
6. Material (2009)
166 min | Documentary
Story created from fragments in motion of observations from theatre and everyday life.
Director: Thomas Heise
Votes: 63
7. The Luminiferous Æther (2009)
90 min | Drama
Marie, a theoretical physicist, searches in island seclusion for an understanding of the universal "unattainable." The natural world inexorably and wordlessly folds in around her even as she struggles to understand it through formal means.
Director: Chris Kelly Immel | Stars: Christèle Cervelle, Jean-Philippe Longet
8. Tatarak (2009)
85 min | Drama
In small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda, Jan Englert, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak
Votes: 1,493
9. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,472 | Gross: $0.40M
10. Profetia (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
"Profetia" is a metaphysical Multi-plot epic about love, life and death in the harsh North West parts of Copenhagen. A woman stands by a fire, burning the stories about love she has written... See full summary »
Director: Johan Melin | Stars: Adam Brix, Rasmus Elton, Nicolei Faber, Anna Fabricius
Votes: 43
11. Blackstone (2009–2015)
44 min | Drama
Blackstone is an authentic drama that explores the dynamics of family, power and politics on a First Nation reserve.
Stars: Carmen Moore, Eric Schweig, Michelle Thrush, Steven Cree Molison
Votes: 426
12. Sphinx on the Seine (2009)
9 min | Short
Sphinx on the Seine is a film poem: the beginning of a metaphysical journey, musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the... See full summary »
Director: Paul Clipson
Votes: 29
13. May Tomorrow Shine the Brightest of All Your Many Days as It Will Be Your Last (2009)
13 min | Short
Directors: Paul Harnden, Ben Rivers
Votes: 10
14. Redland (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Director: Asiel Norton | Stars: Mark Aaron, Lucy Adden, Sean Thomas, Bernadette Murray
Votes: 101
15. Sobytie (2009)
112 min | Drama
Based on Vladimir Nabokov's work. In the center of a picture - history of the artist Troshcheykin, his wife Liouba, her mother and sister. They live abroad, in the provincial small town ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Eshpay | Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Igor Gordin, Sergey Perelygin, Evgeniya Simonova
Votes: 32
16. Sound Over Water (2009)
6 min | Documentary, Short
An impressionist sea ponders the movements of creatures, seeing them in its dreams like dots swimming on its surface, carried along by the waves that slow the immense motion of its waters.
Director: Mary Helena Clark
Votes: 18
17. Into the Unknown (II) (2009)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The everyday scenes are of both the city and countryside, close-ups of people when they are relaxing, and hard at work, and of big crowds at an official outdoor gathering. The interior ... See full summary »
Director: Deimantas Narkevicius
Votes: 19
20. Personal Baggage (2009)
124 min | Drama, Thriller
The breathtaking opening vistas of Personal Baggage, with a choral score to match, give fair but subliminal warning to the audience: this film will twist you and turn you. A talented but ... See full summary »
Director: Janez Lapajne | Stars: Natasa Barbara Gracner, Branko Zavrsan, Tjasa Zeleznik, Boris Cavazza
Votes: 138
21. Lowlands (2009)
52 min | Documentary, Drama, History
LOWLANDS is a feature cinematic essay that moves between chronological and geographical zones and events including the 1996 trial of a Bosnian Serb for crimes against humanity, the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Thompson
Votes: 24
22. Coal Country (2009)
84 min | Documentary
Director: Phylis Geller | Stars: Judy Bonds, Joe Lovett, Randall Maggard, Chuck Nelson
Votes: 18
23. Blood Relation (2009)
75 min | Documentary
At 14 my grandmother's sister disappeared from her home in Israel. Years later, she started sending my family letters with a desperate plea for contact, from a refugee camp, where she lived... See full summary »
Director: Noa Ben-Hagai | Star: Hiam Abbass
Votes: 29
24. The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow (2009)
89 min | Drama, Mystery
A surreal satire about a philosophy student who takes a job as a gravedigger while suffering an existential crisis.
Director: Marin Malesevic | Stars: Milivoje Obradovic, Aleksandar Djurica, Strahinja Bojovic, Pera Cehov
Votes: 66
25. Paddle to Seattle: Journey Through the Inside Passage (2009)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy
Two best friends build their own kayaks and paddle alone for 97 days in the wilderness over 1,300 miles from Alaska to Seattle and survive to talk about most things.
Directors: J.J. Kelley, Josh Thomas | Stars: J.J. Kelley, Josh Thomas
Votes: 141
26. Tungijuq (2009)
8 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A thought-provoking meditation on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life for the Inuit.
Directors: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël | Star: Tanya Tagaq
Votes: 31
27. Nightsoil (2009)
16 min | Short
A single channel, high-definition video derived from a live performance piece, Nightsoil utilizes found footage that the filmmakers physically reconstituted through hand-processing, scratching, tinting, and other hands-on techniques.
Directors: Alfonso Alvarez, Thad Povey
28. Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment (2009)
29 min | Short
Directors: Cornelia Geiser, Jean-Marie Straub | Star: Cornelia Geiser
Votes: 39
29. Canaries in the Coalmine (2009)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
Canaries in the Coalmine is an investigation into the mystery and symbolism of the American landscape. Canaries in the Coalmine examines details in the American landscape to question the ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Ray
30. Sweetgrass (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey ... See full summary »
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Votes: 1,106 | Gross: $0.21M
31. Over gaden under vandet (2009)
100 min | Drama
3 ex/potentially ex couples in Copenhagen, interconnected by extramarital affairs or work at the theater, are having problems as are their kids.
Director: Charlotte Sieling | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Mohammed Al-Bakier, Anders W. Berthelsen, Nicolas Bro
Votes: 415
32. Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A young boy is torn away from his adoptive parents by his alcoholic, abusive birth parents.
Director: Jon Gunn | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Barry Pepper, Cole Hauser, Kate Levering
Votes: 3,095 | Gross: $0.35M
33. 'Imush Q'uyatl'un (2009 Video)
5 min | Short, Biography, History
A nudibranch (sea snail) dances to the drum beat and rhythm of an aboriginal, Coast Salish Song. It bears an environmental message passed on for thousands of years: If we are to save our ... See full summary »
Director: Karolle Wall | Star: Florence James
34. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,373
35. Pumzi (2009)
21 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A sci-fi film about Africa in the future, 35 years after World War III, the water war.
Director: Wanuri Kahiu | Stars: Kudzani Moswela, Chantelle Burger, Tammy Richards, Nicole Bailey
Votes: 361
36. The Man Who Came with the Snow (2009)
75 min | Drama
Somewhere in the Soviet Union in the winter of 1992, a man walks into a low-end bar and sits silently, observing the people around him, not speaking. The mysterious stranger starts to get the attention of the other customers.
Directors: Marzieh Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Safar Khakdodov, Mahmadulloh Kabirov, Elizaveta Nis, Zulfiya Sadikova
Votes: 68
37. The White Meadows (2009)
92 min | Drama
Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani
Votes: 1,048
38. Cafe Noir (2009)
197 min | Drama, Romance
The story begins with a man left by his girlfriend on Christmas Eve and unfolds across the city of Seoul.
Director: Sung-il Jung | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Jung In-sun, Moon Jeong-Hee, Yu-Mi Jung
Votes: 238
39. Sense of Architecture (2009)
168 min | Documentary
Forty-two architecture projects with Austrian origins.
Director: Heinz Emigholz
Votes: 9
40. Castaway on the Moon (2009)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A failed suicide attempt leads a heartbroken man to live a life in the wilderness.
Director: Lee Hae-jun | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Jung Ryeo-won, Yeong-seo Park, Yang Mi-kyeong
Votes: 19,709
41. Ward's Pond (2009)
9 min | Documentary, Short, History
A year-long study of a pond.
Director: Mariya Nikiforova
42. Melodiya dlya sharmanki (2009)
153 min | Drama
Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Lena Kostyuk, Roma Burlaka, Zhan Daniel, Georgiy Deliev
Votes: 347
43. Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama
The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Russell | Stars: Monie Pansa, Benjen Pansa, Erwin Akobe, Veronique Akoeba
Votes: 85
44. I Come with the Rain (2009)
Not Rated | 114 min | Thriller
Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Lee Byung-hun, Takuya Kimura
Votes: 3,291
45. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,527 | Gross: $0.62M
46. Adventureland (2009)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.
Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr
Votes: 168,711 | Gross: $16.03M
47. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser, Val Kilmer
Votes: 80,882 | Gross: $1.70M
48. The Missing Person (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person. Persuaded by a large reward, ... See full summary »
Director: Noah Buschel | Stars: Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Linda Emond
Votes: 1,706
49. Giallo (2009)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
In Italy, a woman fears her sister has been kidnapped; Inspector Enzo Avolfi fears it's worse. They team up to rescue her from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Adrien Brody, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elsa Pataky, Robert Miano
Votes: 6,063
50. Mammoth (2009)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
When a father has to leave his family in New York, for a business trip to Thailand in the gaming industry, fatal destinies collid.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito, Sophie Nyweide
Votes: 10,493 | Gross: $0.01M
51. The Limits of Control (2009)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada
Votes: 21,251 | Gross: $0.43M
52. White Material (2009)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Votes: 8,419 | Gross: $0.30M
53. The House of the Devil (2009)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery
In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig
Votes: 51,225 | Gross: $0.10M
54. Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)
R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Rinko Kikuchi, Sergi López, Min Tanaka, Takeo Nakahara
Votes: 2,486
55. Saturn Returns (2009)
97 min | Drama
Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a... See full summary »
Director: Lior Shamriz | Stars: Chloe Griffin, Tal Meiri, Joshua Bogle, Julien Binet
Votes: 52
56. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier
Votes: 10,709
57. Attack on Darfur (2009)
R | 98 min | Drama, War
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, David O'Hara, Noah Dalton Danby, Matt Frewer
Votes: 2,763
58. A Prophet (2009)
R | 155 min | Crime, Drama
A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss. But his gradual rise through the mob's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb
Votes: 102,161 | Gross: $2.08M
59. Rage (I) (2009)
98 min | Drama
A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban
Votes: 1,134
60. Stoic (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Edward Furlong, Shaun Sipos, Sam Levinson, Steffen Mennekes
Votes: 2,881
61. You Wont Miss Me (2009)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Director: Ry Russo-Young | Stars: Stella Schnabel, Simon O'Connor, Zachary Tucker, Noah Kimmerling
Votes: 355 | Gross: $0.00M
62. Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Verónica Echegui, Richard Ayoade
Votes: 5,109
63. Rivers Wash Over Me (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
After his mother dies, Sequan, a sensitive teenager from Brooklyn, moves in with relatives living in a small town plagued with secrets hidden deep within its lush, rural Alabama terrain. ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Young | Stars: Julia Carothers Hughes, Elizabeth Dennis, Terrance Epps, Tina Jetter
Votes: 230
64. 3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls. There he... See full summary »
Director: Tomas Masin | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Karolina Gruszka, Martin Huba, Jan Kraus
Votes: 422
65. The Two Horses of Genghis Khan (2009)
90 min | Documentary
A promise, an old, destroyed horse head violin and a song believed lost lead the singer Urna back to Outer Mongolia. Her grandmother was forced to destroy her once loved violin in the ... See full summary »
Director: Byambasuren Davaa | Stars: Urna Chahar-Tugchi, Hicheengui Sambuu, Chimed Dolgor
Votes: 189
66. Altiplano (2009)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A former war photographer and her physician husband are caught up in a riot when locals in an Andean village vent their unhappiness with contamination from a nearby mine.
Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Magaly Solier, Jasmin Tabatabai, Olivier Gourmet, Arturo Anacarino Zarate
Votes: 756 | Gross: $0.00M
67. Georgia O'Keeffe (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, Ed Begley Jr., Kathleen Chalfant
Votes: 965
68. Black Field (2009)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Greece, 1654. A seriously wounded Janissary arrives at a cloister situated on a cliff, and the sisters take him in and care for him. Sister Anthi, one of those who tends him, falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Vardis Marinakis | Stars: Sofia Georgovassili, Christos Passalis, Despoina Bebedeli, Maria Panouria
Votes: 711
69. Son of the Sunshine (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to fade so does his ability to heal the sick and dying.
Director: Ryan Ward | Stars: Ryan Ward, Rebecca McMahon, Shantelle Canzanese, JoAnn Nordstrom
Votes: 293
70. Police, Adjective (2009)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu
Votes: 5,344 | Gross: $0.05M
71. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Musical
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Khin, Frank Garvin
Votes: 1,915 | Gross: $0.04M
72. Bluebeard (2009)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites
Votes: 1,540 | Gross: $0.04M
73. About Elly (2009)
TV-PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,137 | Gross: $0.11M
74. Katalin Varga (2009)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Hilda Péter, Norbert Tankó, László Mátray, Roberto Giacomello
Votes: 3,054
75. River of Renewal (2009)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Carlos Bolado | Star: Jack Kohler
Votes: 10
76. O'er the Land (2009)
52 min | Drama
A meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.
Director: Deborah Stratman
Votes: 96
77. Beeswax (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A pair of identical twin sisters -- one, who has been paraplegic since youth and gets around in a wheelchair, and the other -- 'same face, different bodies.'
Director: Andrew Bujalski | Stars: Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky, Katy O'Connor
Votes: 876 | Gross: $0.05M
78. She, a Chinese (2009)
103 min | Drama
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads... See full summary »
Director: Xiaolu Guo | Stars: Lu Huang, Yibo Wei, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris Ryman
Votes: 640
79. The Plastic Perils of the Pacific (2009)
4 min | Animation, Short
The Plastic Perils of the Pacific tackles the dangers posed by plastic garbage in the open sea with humor. Our hero, a neurotic little red crab, finds his paradise under assault by the ... See full summary »
Directors: Brandon Strathmann, Carlene Strathmann
Votes: 14
80. An Organization of Dreams (2009)
Thriller
A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?
Director: Ken McMullen | Stars: Steven Barber, Justinian Buckley, Jacques Driencourt, Julia Faure
Votes: 39
81. Carmel (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Biography, History
From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Eliran Eyal, Samuel Fuller
Votes: 107
82. Beton (I) (2009)
9 min | Short, Drama
Using solely striking visuals and unsettling music, the film explores the Israeli landscape that is being taken over by raw concrete.
Director: Yuval Yefet
Votes: 9
83. Le streghe, femmes entre elles (2009)
21 min | Short
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Giovanna Daddi, Giovanna Giuliani
Votes: 83
84. Butchered (2009)
TV-MA | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Coco Martin, Maria Isabel Lopez, Julio Diaz, John Regala
Votes: 1,950
85. Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married, Orthodox, Jerusalem butcher and Jewish father of four falls in love with his handsome, 22-year-old male apprentice, triggering the suspicions of his wife and the disapproval of his Orthodox community.
Director: Haim Tabakman | Stars: Zohar Strauss, Ran Khalil Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad
Votes: 6,571 | Gross: $0.02M
86. Amer (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D'Amato
Votes: 6,570
87. A Town Called Panic (2009)
TV-PG | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cowboy and Indian's only wish was to come up with a brilliant idea for Mr Horse's birthday, but when their plan ends up in utter disaster, they'll need to travel the world and back to make things right again.
Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | Stars: Stéphane Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, François De Brigode
Votes: 8,711 | Gross: $0.17M
88. Irène (2009)
83 min | Drama
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Director: Alain Cavalier | Stars: Alain Cavalier, Catherine Deneuve, Vanessa Widhoff
Votes: 220
89. Los viajes del viento (2009)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Music
A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Marciano Martínez, Yull Núñez, Agustin Nieves, Jose Luis Torres
Votes: 2,511
90. Ketamin - Hinter dem Licht (2009)
20 min | Short
Driving through the mountains. The sounds of chords, beauty, art and death echo through the places and elements. The trip ends in the city of Venice which appears exhausted and deserted.
Director: Carsten Aschmann
Votes: 11
91. The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (2009)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A hunter in a remote and idyllic forest stumbles on a make shift tent fashioned from sheets of plastic and containing the mummified remains of a corpse. A detailed journal found on site ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Liechti | Stars: Peter Mettler, Alexander Tschernek, Nikola Weisse
Votes: 581
92. The Middle (2009–2018)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana.
Stars: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher
Votes: 53,682
93. Ward No. 6 (2009)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Aleksandr Gornovskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Aleksey Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Stychkin
Votes: 812
94. A Noiseless Patient Spider (2009)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" ventures to connect images with Walt Whitman's words. Follow the spider whose strong will and tenacious spirit are depicted in black and white paintings along ... See full summary »
Director: Nancy J. Rodwan | Star: Stuffy Shmitt
Votes: 7
95. Impolex (2009)
Not Rated | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Tyrone aimlessly embarks upon an obfuscating journey into nonsensical frustration as he tries to locate German V-2 rockets at the end of World War II, as a soldier in the United States Army's Operation Paperclip.
Director: Alex Ross Perry | Stars: Riley O'Bryan, Kate Lyn Sheil, Bruno Meyrick Jones, Ben Shapiro
Votes: 209
96. Native of Owhyhee (2009)
390 min | Documentary, History
The epic historical documentary "Native Of Owhyhee" tells the story how Hawaii turned from an ancient "pagan" society into one of the most literate Christian nations in the world of the ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Danieli | Stars: Noella Negrillo, Kolina Mokiao, Larry Noa Kawai, Tauarii Nahalea-Marama
97. In the Electric Mist (2009)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen
Votes: 19,859
98. Glamorous Youth (2009)
136 min | Drama
Director: Philip Yung | Stars: Tai-Bo, So-Ying Hui, Hiu-Fai Kwok, Chi-Bok Lam
Votes: 72
99. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton, Stewart Porter
Votes: 63,631 | Gross: $0.02M
100. Kelin (2009)
82 min | Drama, History
A woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is ... See full summary »
Director: Ermek Tursynov | Stars: Gulsharat Zhubyeva, Turakhan Sadykova, Erzhan Nurymbet, Kuandyk Kystykbaev
Votes: 404
Tell Your Friends