Best films of year 2009
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1.
Up in the Air
(2009)
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.)
Director: Jason Reitman
2.
Solomon Kane
(2009)
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil. (104 mins.)
Director: Michael J. Bassett
3.
Sherlock Holmes
(2009)
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. (128 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
4.
The Hangover
(2009)
A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him. (100 mins.)
Director: Todd Phillips
5.
Defendor
(2009)
A comedy centered around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he's a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager he befriends. (101 mins.)
Director: Peter Stebbings
6.
Zombieland
(2009)
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, and a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the Last Twinkie and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. (88 mins.)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
7.
District 9
(2009)
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. (112 mins.)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
8.
Harry Brown
(2009)
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice. (103 mins.)
Director: Daniel Barber
9.
Avatar
(2009)
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. (162 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
10.
Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. (153 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
11.
Moon
(2009)
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.)
Director: Duncan Jones
12.
Daybreakers
(2009)
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. (98 mins.)
Director: The Spierig Brothers, The Spierig Brothers
13.
Ninja Assassin
(2009)
A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan. (99 mins.)
Director: James McTeigue
14.
Pandorum
(2009)
A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities. (108 mins.)
Director: Christian Alvart
15.
Crank: High Voltage
(2009)
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working. (96 mins.)
16.
The Proposal
(2009)
A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her Visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada. (108 mins.)
Director: Anne Fletcher
17.
Dead Snow
(2009)
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies. (90 mins.)
Director: Tommy Wirkola
18.
The Soloist
(2009)
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. (117 mins.)
Director: Joe Wright
19.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
(2009)
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. (92 mins.)
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos
20.
Pirate Radio
(2009)
A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. (135 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
21.
Leaves of Grass
(2009)
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord. (105 mins.)
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
22.
Star Trek
(2009)
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. (127 mins.)
Director: J.J. Abrams
23.
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
(2009)
When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux... (97 mins.)
Director: John Hyams
24.
I Love You, Man
(2009)
Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily ever after? (105 mins.)
Director: John Hamburg
25.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(2009)
A look at Wolverine's early life, in particular his time with the government squad Weapon and the impact it will have on his later years. (107 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
26.
Crazy Heart
(2009)
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. (112 mins.)
Director: Scott Cooper
27.
The Road
(2009)
A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible. (111 mins.)
Director: John Hillcoat
28.
Gamer
(2009)
In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive 30 sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he? (95 mins.)
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