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The Best Movies of 2009 - Original Release   (193 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 2009, # 455 Overall A Prophet 2009 Audiard, Jacques France / Italy DBOP
# 2 for 2009, # 558 Overall Avatar 2009 Cameron, James USA DBOPS
# 3 for 2009, # 628 Overall Up in the Air 2009 Reitman, Jason USA DBS
# 4 for 2009, # 648 Overall The White Ribbon 2009 Haneke, Michael Austria / France / Germany DBOP
# 5 for 2009, # 751 Overall Inglourious Basterds 2009 Tarantino, Quentin USA / Germany / France DBOS
# 6 for 2009, # 952 Overall The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Campanella, Juan José Argentina / Spain DBOP
# 7 for 2009, # 1054 Overall An Education 2009 Scherfig, Lone UK DBOPS
# 8 for 2009, # 1098 Overall District 9 2009 Blomkamp, Neill South Africa / New Zealand DBOS
# 9 for 2009, # 1117 Overall A Serious Man 2009 Coen, Ethan / Coen, Joel USA / UK / France DBOS
# 10 for 2009, # 1191 Overall Up 2009 Docter, Pete / Peterson, Bob USA DB
# 11 for 2009, # 1220 Overall The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Oplev, Niels Arden Sweden / Denmark / Germany / Norway DBOP
# 12 for 2009, # 1242 Overall The Hangover 2009 Phillips, Todd USA DBOS
# 13 for 2009, # 1333 Overall I Am Love 2009 Guadagnino, Luca Italy DBOPS
# 14 for 2009, # 1372 Overall Fish Tank 2009 Arnold, Andrea UK DB
# 15 for 2009, # 1391 Overall Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 2009 Herzog, Werner USA DB
# 16 for 2009, # 1462 Overall Invictus 2009 Eastwood, Clint USA DBOS
# 17 for 2009, # 1471 Overall Broken Embraces 2009 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain DBOPS
# 18 for 2009, # 1474 Overall (500) Days of Summer 2009 Webb, Marc USA DBOPS
# 19 for 2009, # 1558 Overall Star Trek 2009 Abrams, J.J. USA / Germany DBOPS
# 20 for 2009, # 1693 Overall In the Loop 2009 Iannucci, Armando UK DBOP
# 21 for 2009, # 1722 Overall The Messenger 2009 Moverman, Oren USA DBOP
# 22 for 2009, # 1742 Overall Capitalism: A Love Story 2009 Moore, Michael USA DBO
# 23 for 2009, # 1754 Overall Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Anderson, Wes USA / UK DBOPS
# 24 for 2009, # 1806 Overall Sin Nombre 2009 Fukunaga, Cary Mexico / USA DOPS
# 25 for 2009, # 1807 Overall Coraline 2009 Selick, Henry USA DBOS
# 26 for 2009, # 1813 Overall The Maid 2009 Silva, Sebastián Chile D
# 27 for 2009, # 1833 Overall Public Enemies 2009 Mann, Michael USA DBOS
# 28 for 2009, # 1867 Overall White Material 2009 Denis, Claire France DB
# 29 for 2009, # 1893 Overall Coco Before Chanel 2009 Fontaine, Anne France DBOS
# 30 for 2009, # 1907 Overall Moon 2009 Jones, Duncan UK DBO
# 31 for 2009, # 1910 Overall Crazy Heart 2009 Cooper, Scott USA DBOPS
# 32 for 2009, # 1916 Overall The Informant! 2009 Soderbergh, Steven USA DBS
# 33 for 2009, # 1934 Overall Mother 2009 Bong, Joon-ho South Korea DBO
# 34 for 2009, # 2036 Overall The Princess and the Frog 2009 Clements, Ron / Musker, John USA DBOPS
# 35 for 2009, # 2038 Overall Lebanon 2009 Maoz, Samuel / Shmulik, Maoz Germany / Israel / France / Lebanon DBO
# 36 for 2009, # 2048 Overall Soul Kitchen 2009 Akin, Fatih Germany D
# 37 for 2009, # 2094 Overall Nine 2009 Marshall, Rob USA / Italy DBOPS
# 38 for 2009, # 2098 Overall The Road 2009 Hillcoat, John USA DBOP
# 39 for 2009, # 2118 Overall A Single Man 2009 Ford, Tom USA DBOP
# 40 for 2009, # 2123 Overall This Is It 2009 Ortega, Kenny USA DBOPS
# 41 for 2009, # 2144 Overall Away We Go 2009 Mendes, Sam USA / UK DBOS
# 42 for 2009, # 2155 Overall Brüno 2009 Charles, Larry USA DBOP
# 43 for 2009, # 2162 Overall Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 Yates, David UK / USA DBOS
# 44 for 2009, # 2194 Overall The Secret of Kells 2009 Moore, Tomm / Twomey, Nora France / Belgium / Ireland DBOP
# 45 for 2009, # 2252 Overall Baarìa 2009 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France DB
# 46 for 2009, # 2256 Overall Knowing 2009 Proyas, Alex Australia / USA DBOPS
# 47 for 2009, # 2262 Overall Where the Wild Things Are 2009 Jonze, Spike USA DBOPS
# 48 for 2009, # 2266 Overall Garbo: The Spy 2009 Roch, Edmon Spain S
# 49 for 2009, # 2269 Overall Watchmen 2009 Snyder, Zack USA DBOS
# 50 for 2009, # 2273 Overall Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 Lord, Phil / Miller, Chris USA DBOS
# 51 for 2009, # 2277 Overall Life During Wartime 2009 Solondz, Todd USA DB
# 52 for 2009, # 2283 Overall The Blind Side 2009 Hancock, John Lee USA DBO
# 53 for 2009, # 2289 Overall City of Life and Death 2009 Lu, Chuan China / Hong Kong DB
# 54 for 2009, # 2292 Overall Passing Strange 2009 Lee, Spike USA DS
# 55 for 2009, # 2294 Overall Micmacs 2009 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France DBOP
# 56 for 2009, # 2295 Overall It's Complicated 2009 Meyers, Nancy USA DBOP
# 57 for 2009, # 2296 Overall The Cove 2009 Psihoyos, Louie USA DB
# 58 for 2009, # 2297 Overall World's Greatest Dad 2009 Goldthwait, Bobcat USA DBOPS
# 59 for 2009, # 2299 Overall Strongman 2009 Levy, Zachary USA
# 60 for 2009, # 2303 Overall Julie & Julia 2009 Ephron, Nora USA DBO
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall I Love You Phillip Morris 2009 Ficarra, Glenn / Requa, John France / USA DBOPS
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall Mother and Child 2009 García, Rodrigo USA / Spain DBOPS
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall Nowhere Boy 2009 Taylor-Wood, Sam UK / Canada DBOS
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall Solitary Man 2009 Koppelman, Brian / Levien, David USA DBO
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall That Evening Sun 2009 Teems, Scott USA DBOP
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall A Town Called Panic 2009 Aubier, Stéphane / Patar, Vincent Belgium / Luxembourg / France DOP
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009 Hahn, Don USA DOP
# 61 for 2009, # 2311 Overall Whip It 2009 Barrymore, Drew USA DBOPS
# 62 for 2009, # 2319 Overall The Damned United 2009 Hooper, Tom UK DBO
# 63 for 2009, # 2320 Overall Funny People 2009 Apatow, Judd USA DBOS
# 64 for 2009, # 2321 Overall I Love You, Man 2009 Hamburg, John USA DBOPS
# 65 for 2009, # 2327 Overall Get Low 2009 Schneider, Aaron USA / Germany / Poland DBOPS
# 66 for 2009, # 2328 Overall He's Just Not That Into You 2009 Kwapis, Ken USA / Germany DBOS
# 67 for 2009, # 2352 Overall Red Riding: 1980 2009 Marsh, James UK DBS
# 68 for 2009, # 2371 Overall Brothers 2009 Sheridan, Jim USA DBOP
# 68 for 2009, # 2371 Overall The Father of My Children 2009 Hansen-Løve, Mia Germany / France D
# 68 for 2009, # 2371 Overall The Girl Who Played with Fire 2009 Alfredson, Daniel Sweden / Denmark / Germany DBO
# 68 for 2009, # 2371 Overall My Sister's Keeper 2009 Cassavetes, Nick USA DBOS
# 69 for 2009, # 2382 Overall Adventureland 2009 Mottola, Greg USA DB
# 70 for 2009, # 2387 Overall Ajami 2009 Copti, Scandar / Shani, Yaron Germany / Israel D
# 70 for 2009, # 2387 Overall Dogtooth 2009 Lanthimos, Giorgos Greece DBOP
# 70 for 2009, # 2387 Overall The Milk of Sorrow 2009 Llosa, Claudia Spain / Peru D
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Between Two Worlds 2009 Jayasundara, Vimukthi Sri Lanka
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Il grande sogno 2009 Placido, Michele Italy / France
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall La doppia ora 2009 Capotondi, Giuseppe Italy
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Lo spazio bianco 2009 Comencini, Francesca Italy
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Lola 2009 Mendoza, Brillante Philippines
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Lourdes 2009 Hausner, Jessica Austria DB
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Mr. Nobody 2009 van Dormael, Jaco Canada / Belgium / France / Germany Y
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 2009 Herzog, Werner USA / Germany DO
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Persécution 2009 Chéreau, Patrice France / Germany Y
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Prince of Tears 2009 Yonfan Hong Kong
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Survival of the Dead 2009 Romero, George A. USA / Canada DBOP
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Tetsuo: The Bullet Man 2009 Tsukamoto, Shinya Japan D
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall 36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup 2009 Rivette, Jacques France / Italy
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall The Traveller 2009 Maher, Ahmed Egypt / Italy
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Women Without Men 2009 Neshat, Shirin Germany / Austria / France D
# 71 for 2009, # 2390 Overall Yi ngoi 2009 Cheang, Pou-Soi Hong Kong DB
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall A Christmas Carol 2009 Zemeckis, Robert USA DBO
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# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall Collapse 2009 Smith, Chris USA D
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall 45365 2009 Ross, Bill IV / Ross, Turner USA
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall The Girlfriend Experience 2009 Soderbergh, Steven USA DBOP
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall Last Train Home 2009 Fan, Lixin Canada / China / UK DOP
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall My Dog Tulip 2009 Fierlinger, Paul / Fierlinger, Sandra USA DBOP
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall Red Riding: 1974 2009 Jarrold, Julian UK DBS
# 72 for 2009, # 2394 Overall Red Riding: 1983 2009 Tucker, Anand UK DBS
# 73 for 2009, # 2395 Overall Mao's Last Dancer 2009 Beresford, Bruce Australia DBO
# 74 for 2009, # 2396 Overall Five Minutes of Heaven 2009 Hirschbiegel, Oliver UK DB
# 74 for 2009, # 2396 Overall The Proposal 2009 Fletcher, Anne USA DBOP
# 75 for 2009, # 2400 Overall The Concert 2009 Mihaileanu, Radu France / Italy / Romania / Belgium / Russia DS
# 76 for 2009, # 2404 Overall Drag Me to Hell 2009 Raimi, Sam USA DBOS
# 76 for 2009, # 2404 Overall Life 2009 various UK DB
# 76 for 2009, # 2404 Overall The National Parks: America's Best Idea 2009 Burns, Ken USA DB
# 76 for 2009, # 2404 Overall State of Play 2009 Macdonald, Kevin USA / UK DBOP
# 77 for 2009, # 2406 Overall The Red Chapel 2009 Brügger, Mads Denmark D
# 78 for 2009, # 2410 Overall Bakjwi 2009 Park, Chan-wook South Korea D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Amreeka 2009 Dabis, Cherien USA / Canada DO
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Antichrist 2009 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Germany / France / Sweden / Italy / Poland DB
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall The Art of the Steal 2009 Argott, Don USA D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Big Fan 2009 Siegel, Robert D. USA DOP
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Bright Star 2009 Campion, Jane UK / Australia / France DOS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Cell 211 2009 Monzón, Daniel Spain / France D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Cheri 2009 Frears, Stephen UK / France / Germany DS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Chloe 2009 Egoyan, Atom USA / Canada / France DBOP
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Cold Souls 2009 Barthes, Sophie USA / France DO
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Farewell 2009 Carion, Christian France DBOPS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Humpday 2009 Shelton, Lynn USA DOP
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 2009 Saldanha, Carlos / Thurmeier, Mike USA DBOPS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Inspector Bellamy 2009 Chabrol, Claude France D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall The Invention of Lying 2009 Gervais, Ricky / Robinson, Matthew USA DBOP
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall The Men Who Stare at Goats 2009 Heslov, Grant USA / UK DBO
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall My One and Only 2009 Loncraine, Richard USA DO
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall 9500 Liberty 2009 Byler, Eric / Park, Annabel USA D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Notorious 2009 Tillman, George Jr. USA DBOPS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Orphan 2009 Collet-Serra, Jaume USA / Canada / Germany / France DBOS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Queen to Play 2009 Bottaro, Caroline France / Germany D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall The Red Machine 2009 Argy, Stephanie / Boehm, Alec USA
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Still Bill 2009 Baker, Damani / Vlack, Alex USA DOP
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall 2012 2009 Emmerich, Roland USA / Canada DBOS
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall (Untitled) 2009 Parker, Jonathan USA DB
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Vengeance 2009 To, Johnnie Hong Kong / France D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall Vincere 2009 Bellocchio, Marco Italy / France D
# 79 for 2009, # 2411 Overall What's the Matter with Kansas? 2009 Winston, Joe USA D
# 80 for 2009, # 2413 Overall Police, Adjective 2009 Porumboiu, Corneliu Romania D
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Answer Man 2009 Hindman, John USA DBOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Art & Copy 2009 Pray, Doug USA D
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story 2009 Sherman, Gregory V. / Sherman, Jeff USA DOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Bran Nue Dae 2009 Perkins, Rachel Australia DS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Cairo Time 2009 Nadda, Ruba Canada DB
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall City Island 2009 De Felitta, Raymond USA DBOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 2009 Kounen, Jan France DBOPS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall David Hockney: A Bigger Picture 2009 Wollheim, Bruno UK D
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Everybody's Fine 2009 Jones, Kirk USA / Italy DS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest 2009 Alfredson, Daniel Sweden / Denmark / Germany DBO
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Hadewijch 2009 Dumont, Bruno France DB
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 2009 Gilliam, Terry UK / Canada / France DBOPS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall In the Electric Mist 2009 Tavernier, Bertrand USA / France DBOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me 2009 Ricker, Bruce USA DS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall La Donation 2009 Émond, Bernard Canada
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall La mission 2009 Bratt, Peter USA DBO
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Man Beyond the Bridge 2009 Shetgaonkar, Laxmikant India
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Mary and Max 2009 Elliot, Adam Australia DBS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression as Seen by the Common Man 2009 unknown USA D
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Pulling John 2009 Khonsari, Vassiliki / Matossian, Sevan USA D
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Surrogates 2009 Mostow, Jonathan USA DB
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Terminator Salvation 2009 McG USA / Germany / UK DBOS
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Winning Season 2009 Strouse, James C. USA DOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg 2009 Kempner, Aviva USA DOP
# 81 for 2009, # 2414 Overall The Young Victoria 2009 Vallée, Jean-Marc UK / USA DBOPS
# 82 for 2009, # 2419 Overall Crude 2009 Berlinger, Joe USA D
# 82 for 2009, # 2419 Overall The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 2009 Scott, Tony USA / UK DBOS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Black Dynamite 2009 Sanders, Scott USA DBOS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Bride Wars 2009 Winick, Gary USA DBOP
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall 44 Inch Chest 2009 Venville, Malcolm UK DBS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall The House of the Devil 2009 West, Ti USA DBOP
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall The Last Station 2009 Hoffman, Michael Germany / Russia / UK DBOPS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall The Lovely Bones 2009 Jackson, Peter USA / UK / New Zealand DB
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Monsters vs Aliens 2009 Letterman, Rob / Vernon, Conrad USA DBS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Oceans 2009 Perrin, Jacques / Cluzaud, Jacques France / Switzerland / Spain DBOPS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Sherlock Holmes 2009 Ritchie, Guy UK / Australia / USA DBOS
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Under the Sea 3D 2009 Hall, Howard USA / Canada DBOP
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Yellowstone: Battle for Life 2009 unknown UK DB
# 83 for 2009, # 2420 Overall Zombieland 2009 Fleischer, Ruben USA DBO
NR Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 2009 Thomas, Betty USA DBOS
NR Angels & Demons 2009 Howard, Ron USA DBOS
NR Bandslam 2009 Graff, Todd USA DOS
NR Fast & Furious 2009 Lin, Justin USA DBOPS
NR G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2009 Sommers, Stephen USA / Czech Republic DBOP
NR Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 2009 Levy, Shawn USA / Canada DBOPS
NR Pirate Radio 2009 Curtis, Richard UK / Germany / USA / France DBOPS
NR Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009 Bay, Michael USA DBOPS
NR The Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009 Weitz, Chris USA DBOPS
NR X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2009 Hood, Gavin USA DBOS
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V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
B   Blu-ray Disc
O   On Demand Video Download
P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
 
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