9.7 Vertige2009

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: Abel Ferry

Actors: Abel Ferry

The teenagers Fred, his girlfriend Karine and their friends Chloe, William and Luke travel to Croatia to climb and hike. They find the starting point closed with rocks but the experienced climber Fred convinces the others, including Luke, has a crush on Chloe and wants to be close to her, to cross the track. As their journey progresses, they realize that the trail is more dangerous than they had first thought: the rope bridge collapses after their crossing. Fred climbs with Karine to help their ...

9.7 The Blind Side 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director: John Lee Hancock

Actors: John Lee Hancock

Based on the true story of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American, Michael "Big Mike" Oher. Michael has no idea who is father is and his mother is a crack head. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne soon takes charge however, as is her nature, ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he expresses an interest in football, she goes all out to help him, including giving the coach a few ideas ...

9.7 Julie & Julia2009

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nora Ephron

Actors: Nora Ephron

In 2002, Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is a young writer trapped in a rather unpleasant job at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's call center, where she answers telephone calls from victims of the September 11 attacks, as well as members of the general public calling to complain about the LMDC's controversial plans for rebuilding the World Trade Center. To enliven her dreary life, she attempts to cook every recipe in Julia Child's cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which was p ...

9.7 Jennifer's Body 2009

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Comedy

Director: Karyn Kusama

Actors: Karyn Kusama

The violent inmate Needy tells why she is interned in a mental institution. In Devil's Kettle, Needy is a shy teenage student that idolizes her friend Jennifer, who is very arrogant. They decide to go the concert of the rock 'n' roll band Low Shoulder in the greasy spoon bar Melody Lane and the band leader overhears that Jennifer is virgin. When the place is set on fire, Jennifer is abducted by the band in their van. Later she appears at Needy's home covered in blood, throwing up a dark liquid ...

9.7 Daybreakers2009

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

Actors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

n a world 10 years into the future, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires' food supply - human blood - is dwindling and rationing is now the norm. There is growing evidence that vampires deprived of an adequate blood supply are themselves evolving into wild, vile creatures that attack anyone and anything in order to survive. Dr. Edward Dalton, a vampire and hematologist who works for a p ...

9.7 Agora2009

Genres: Romance, History, Drama, Adventure

Director: Alejandro Amenábar

Actors: Alejandro Amenábar

In the 4th century city of Alexandria, under the rule of the pagan Roman Empire, Greek philosopher Hypatia (Rachel Weisz), is a female teacher at the Platonic school, where future leaders are educated. Hypatia is the daughter of Theon (Michael Lonsdale), the director of the Musaeum of Alexandria. Hypatia, her slave Davus (Max Minghella), and her pupils, Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and Synesius (Rupert Evans), are immersed in the changing political and social landscape. She rejects her student Orestes ...

6.6 Veronika Decides To Die2009

Genres: Drama

Director: Emily Young

Actors: Emily Young

Veronika is a young, beautiful woman from Ljubljana, Slovenia who appears to have the perfect life, but nevertheless decides to commit suicide by ingesting too many sleeping pills. While she waits to die, she decides to read a magazine. After seeing an article in the magazine which wittily asks "Where is Slovenia?," she decides to write a letter to the press justifying her suicide, the idea being to make the press believe that she has killed herself because people don't even know where Sloveni ...

Vengeance2009

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Action

Director: Johnnie To

Actors: Johnnie To

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

7 The Way We Get By2009

Genres: Documentary

Director: Aron Gaudet

Actors: Aron Gaudet

The SXSW Special Jury Award winning "The Way We Get By" is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. When its three subjects aren't at the airport, they wrestle with their own pr ...

3.5 The Scratch2009

Genres: Action

Director: Jorge Suarez

Actors: Jorge Suarez

Jake, a rookie private eye, spends each day minding a small private investigation office and filing papers. Dying for more action Jake jumps at the chance to be in on a big score. His boss outlines the heist that will make the whole team rich and tells them about a kidnapped computer hacker who downloaded something he shouldn't have. Therein lies the caper; rescue the hacker and retrieve the downloaded booty for themselves. But things don't always go as planned. The heist turns deadly when a hi ...

6.5 The Rebound2009

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Bart Freundlich

Actors: Bart Freundlich

Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram's family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time s ...

9.7 Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009

Genres: Romance, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Chris Weitz

Actors: Chris Weitz

Last time we see saw Bella Swan she was narrowly escaping the clutches of the evil vampire James while finding love with ''vegetarian'' vampire Edward Cullen. Bella and Edward's lives have been full of nothing but love and bliss however, it all changes one fateful day. On Bella's birthday, her new found friend and sister of Edward, Alice, decides to throw her lavish party, complete with balloons, ribbons and cake that could feed an army. All is well until Bella accidentally cuts her finger whil ...