Top 10 Films of 2010
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1. The Way Back (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Dragos Bucur
Votes: 121,950 | Gross: $2.70M
2. 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: 150,469 | Gross: $6.53M
3. Of Gods and Men (2010)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, History
Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 16,081 | Gross: $3.95M
4. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Votes: 757,797 | Gross: $96.96M
5. Beginners (2010)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer and that he has a young male lover.
Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic
Votes: 94,785 | Gross: $5.79M
6. The Way (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the "El camino de Santiago," and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.
Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorick van Wageningen
Votes: 35,313 | Gross: $4.43M
7. The King's Speech (2010)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 707,526 | Gross: $138.80M
8. Pure (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
With her troubled past, Katarina's life seems to be already set in stone until she discovers music. But the path she has to follow proves a treacherous one filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam.
Director: Lisa Langseth | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Samuel Fröler, Josephine Bauer, Martin Wallström
Votes: 4,949
9. Beautiful Boy (2010)
R | 100 min | Drama
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Director: Shawn Ku | Stars: Michael Sheen, Maria Bello, Kyle Gallner, Logan South
Votes: 6,946 | Gross: $0.08M
10. Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
A drama based on a true story, in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman, who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher, and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
Director: Jeb Stuart | Stars: Michael Rooker, Emily Alyn Lind, Natalie Alyn Lind, Ricky Schroder
Votes: 644 | Gross: $0.08M
11. 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: 87,965 | Gross: $0.34M
12. Ashes (I) (2010)
77 min | Crime, Drama
Ashes is the story of a young Indo-American man who struggles in the inner city of New York to support himself and his mentally ill older brother. When a group of small time Indian ... See full summary »
Director: Ajay Naidu | Stars: Firdous Bamji, Heather Burns, Maurice Carr, Samrat Chakrabarti
Votes: 128
13. The Space Between (I) (2010)
90 min | Drama
A cynical, alcoholic flight attendant and a Pakistani-American child prodigy find themselves both thrown together in the aftermath of the World Trade Center Attacks.
Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Melissa Leo, Anthony Keyvan, Brad William Henke, AnnaSophia Robb
Votes: 726
14. The Ghost Writer (2010)
PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 170,753 | Gross: $15.54M
15. Submarino (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Gustav Fischer Kjærulff, Sebastian Bull, Mads Broe Andersen, Jakob Cedergren
Votes: 11,576
16. A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ulrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregnant fiancée.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jorunn Kjellsby, Gard B. Eidsvold
Votes: 7,324 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Comme les cinq doigts de la main (2010)
116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
5 very different brothers are raised by their early widowed mother. One of them reappears after a long disappearance, trying to hide from a gang of drug dealers and shares a secret with his... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Vincent Elbaz, Pascal Elbé, Éric Caravaca
Votes: 568
18. In a Better World (2010)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Markus Rygaard, Wil Johnson
Votes: 41,659 | Gross: $1.01M
19. The Yellow Sea (2010)
R | 136 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.
Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Lee Yoo-mi, Ha Jung-woo, Lee Hee-joon, Kim Yoon-seok
Votes: 22,939
20. Easy Money (2010)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni
Votes: 19,703 | Gross: $0.19M
21. A Marine Story (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ex-marine returns to her hometown after Iraq and helps a 20 year old woman, who is otherwise facing prison, prepare for military boot camp.
Director: Ned Farr | Stars: Dreya Weber, Paris P. Pickard, Anthony Michael Jones, Christine Mourad
Votes: 2,433
22. Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Votes: 66,361 | Gross: $27.15M
23. Obselidia (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.
Director: Diane Bell | Stars: Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Chris Byrne
Votes: 308
24. The Abandoned (2010)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
The story of a boy from a home for abandoned children, who tries to find out the truth about his origins.
Director: Adis Bakrac | Stars: Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mira Furlan, Mirela Lambic
Votes: 349 | Gross: $12.44M
25. Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
A drama based on a true story, in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman, who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher, and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
Director: Jeb Stuart | Stars: Michael Rooker, Emily Alyn Lind, Natalie Alyn Lind, Ricky Schroder
Votes: 644 | Gross: $0.08M
26. Trigger (II) (2010)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Tracy Wright, Molly Parker, Daniel MacIvor, Bob Martin
Votes: 538
27. Mr. Nobody (2009)
R | 141 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham
Votes: 245,688 | Gross: $0.00M
28. The Penitent Man (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A young analyst talks with an old man claiming to be from the future - a dystopian future.
Director: Nicholas Gyeney | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Lathrop Walker, Andrew Keegan, Melissa Roberts
Votes: 5,526
29. Morning (II) (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama
Leland Orser, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Laura Linney star in this vivid portrait of a couple's powerful recovery after a shocking accident.
Director: Leland Orser | Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser, Laura Linney, Julie White
Votes: 210 | Gross: $0.00M
30. Shit Year (2010)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama
An actress finds herself adrift after she quits performing.
Director: Cam Archer | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Luke Grimes, Bob Einstein, Theresa Randle
Votes: 362
31. White Irish Drinkers (2010)
R | 109 min | Drama
Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.
Director: John Gray | Stars: Nick Thurston, Geoffrey Wigdor, Stephen Lang, Karen Allen
Votes: 1,944
32. The Edge (2010)
Not Rated | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.
Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 3,233
33. Zenith (2010)
93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A retro-futuristic steam-punk thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.
Director: Vladan Nikolic | Stars: Peter Scanavino, Jason Robards III, Ana Asensio, Didier Flamand
Votes: 1,323
34. Tirza (2010)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
A laid-off book editor sets out to find his teenage daughter when she and her boyfriend go missing on holiday in Namibia.
Director: Rudolf van den Berg | Stars: Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Sylvia Hoeks, Johanna ter Steege, Keitumetse Matlabo
Votes: 1,736
35. Unthinkable (2010)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Follows a black-ops interrogator and an F.B.I. agent who try to press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.
Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen, Stephen Root
Votes: 93,795
36. Another Harvest Moon (2010)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama
An elderly dementia patient must decide whether to leave this world under his own conditions, before he loses his dignity, or give in to his loving family and nursing home roommates' appeals to fight on and risk losing it.
Director: Greg Swartz | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Piper Laurie, Anne Meara, Doris Roberts
Votes: 231
37. Raspberry Magic (2010)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A little girl attempts an innovative experiment on raspberry plants for her school science fair, alongside the troubles of her dysfunctional home life and her depressed mother.
Director: Leena Pendharkar | Stars: Lily Javaherpour, Meera Simhan, Ravi Kapoor, Keya Shah
Votes: 200
38. The Tested (2010)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
A life shattering tragedy sends three people on vastly different paths to a similar goal of redemption and understanding.
Director: Russell Costanzo | Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Armando Riesco, Michael Morris Jr., Frank Vincent
Votes: 66
39. A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
There's no place like home. Thank god. A Night for Dying Tigers is a dark, heartfelt and ultimately revealing portrait of a family on the edge of disintegration.
Director: Terry Miles | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Gil Bellows, John Pyper-Ferguson, Leah Gibson
Votes: 446
40. Woodshop (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
In this tough-as-nails, coming-of-age comedy, high school valedictorian Chris Johnson's plans for an Ivy League future are suddenly derailed by an unfortunate chem lab explosion. In order ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Coggan | Stars: Jesse Ventura, Mitch Pileggi, Don S. Davis, Scott Cooper Ryan
Votes: 82
41. Refuge (IV) (2010)
TV-14 | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Amelia is on the run in the family RV, with husband Jack's body in the back and hostage Darryl at the wheel. Romance blossoms as Jack decomposes.
Director: Mark Medoff | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Chris Payne Gilbert, Lena Georgas, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 164
42. Redemption Road (2010)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
Two men embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South.
Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Taryn Manning, Michael Clarke Duncan, Luke Perry, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 588 | Gross: $0.03M
43. Skinning (2010)
102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Life is sometimes rude game: one mistake can buy you ticket to hell.
Director: Stevan Filipovic | Stars: Nikola Rakocevic, Viktor Savic, Bojana Novakovic, Natasa Tapuskovic
Votes: 5,436
44. Armless (2010)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
In this off-kilter comedy, a woman comes to terms with her husband's strange secret: a compulsive desire to cut off his arms.
Director: Habib Azar | Stars: Daniel London, Janel Moloney, Matt Walton, Zoe Lister-Jones
Votes: 201
45. Wasted on the Young (I) (2010)
R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
Director: Ben C. Lucas | Stars: Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell, Patrick Cullen
Votes: 2,585
46. The Final Girl (2010)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama
Three Parisian women discover that their lives are delicately interconnected to a mysterious fourth woman, who remains tantalizingly out of reach.
Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Wendy Delorme, Brenda Velez, Judy Minx, Émilie Jouvet
Votes: 360
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