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Greatest, The

Greatest, The

📅 Release: April 2, 2010
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Aaron Johnson, Johnny Simmons, Jennifer Ehle, Maya Ri Sanchez
📖 Synopsis: Written and directed by Shana Feste, in her feature directorial debut, and starring Carey Mulligan in her first role since her Academy Award nominated performance in "An Education," THE GREATEST tells...
Warlords, The

Warlords, The

📅 Release: April 2, 2010
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaHistory
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei
📖 Synopsis: Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, "Warlords" stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playi...
Don McKay

Don McKay

📅 Release: April 2, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaComedyThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, M. Emmet Walsh, Keith David
📖 Synopsis: After twenty-five years of self-imposed exile, a small-town high school janitor named Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) receives a desperate letter from his long-lost high school sweetheart, Sonny (Eli...
Last Song, The

Last Song, The

📅 Release: March 31, 2010
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Kelly Preston, Bobby Coleman, Nick Lashaway, Carly Chaikin, Hallock Beals, Nick Searcy, Stephanie Leigh Schlund
📖 Synopsis: In the heartwarming drama, "The Last Song," a rebellious teenager named Ronnie Miller, portrayed by [c=Miley Cyrus], is sent to spend the summer with her estranged father, Steve, played by [c=Greg Ki...
Eclipse, The

Eclipse, The

📅 Release: March 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: HorrorDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn, Jim Norton
📖 Synopsis: "The Eclipse" tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciaran Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier. Lately he has been seeing and hearing strange things late at n...
Chloe

Chloe

📅 Release: March 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, Nina Dobrev, Max Thieriot, R.H. Thomson, Meghan Heffern
📖 Synopsis: When David (Liam Neeson) misses his flight home from New York and, as a result, the surprise party his wife Catherine (Julianne Moore) has planned for him, Catherine is forced to swallow her disappoin...
Hot Tub Time Machine

Hot Tub Time Machine

📅 Release: March 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Lizzy Caplan, Chevy Chase, Craig Robinson, Sebastian Stan, Crispin Glover, Clark Duke, Lyndsy Fonseca
📖 Synopsis: "Hot Tub Time Machine" follows a group of best friends who've become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who can't find...
How To Train Your Dragon

How To Train Your Dragon

📅 Release: March 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: AnimationAdventureFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, Ashley Jensen, T.J. Miller, Robin Atkin Downes
📖 Synopsis: In a world where fierce dragons and their human adversaries have been locked in a bitter feud, young Viking Hiccup, voiced by [c=Jay Baruchel], dares to challenge the norms of his clan on the island ...
Killing Jar, The

Killing Jar, The

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: ThrillerDrama
🎬 Starring: Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau, Amber Benson, Danny Trejo, Kevin Gage, Lew Temple, Lindsey Axelsson
📖 Synopsis: Seven people are passing time one late evening at a small roadside diner in the middle of nowhere. Among them are Noreen (Amber Benson), a waitress trapped in a loveless marriage; John (Harold Perrine...
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson, Ingvar Hirdwall, Marika Lagercrantz
📖 Synopsis: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder an...
City Island

City Island

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Andy Garcia, Steven Strait, Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin, Ezra Miller, Paul Diomede, Carrie Baker Reynolds
📖 Synopsis: Set in a quaint fishing community on the outskirts of New York City, "City Island" is a hilarious and touching tale about a family whose comfortable co-existence is upended by surprising revelations o...
Greenberg

Greenberg

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brie Larson, Juno Temple, Mark Duplass, Chris Messina, Dave Franco
📖 Synopsis: Florence Marr (Greta Gerwig), an aspiring singer, is struggling to find her place in the world. She works as a personal assistant to the Greenberg family, beginning and ending each day tending to othe...
Runaways, The

Runaways, The

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: BiographyDramaMusic
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Scout Taylor-Compton, Alia Shawkat, Tatum O'Neal, Brett Cullen, Stella Maeve, Hannah Marks
📖 Synopsis: Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Cu...
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: ComedyFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Zachary Gordon, Steve Zahn, Rachel Harris, Chloe Moretz, Rob LaBelle, Alex Ferris, Robert Capron, Laine MacNeil, Karan Brar, Devon Bostick
📖 Synopsis: In the heartwarming and hilarious family comedy, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," viewers dive into the chaotic life of middle schooler Greg Heffley, portrayed by [c=Zachary Gordon]. Greg navigates the treach...
Repo Men

Repo Men

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: Sci-FiThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten, Liev Schreiber, Joe Pingue, Liza Lapira, Chandler Canterbury
📖 Synopsis: In the futuristic action-thriller "Repo Men", humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark s...
Bounty Hunter, The

Bounty Hunter, The

📅 Release: March 19, 2010
🎭 Genre: ComedyAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Jason Sudeikis, Christine Baranski, Dorian Missick, Joel Marsh Garland
📖 Synopsis: Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that...
Mother

Mother

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kim Hye-ja, Won Bin
📖 Synopsis: Hye-ja is a single mom to 27-year-old Do-joon. Her son is her raison d'etre. Though an adult in years, Do-joon is naive and dependent on his mother, and a constant source of anxiety, often behaving in...
Stolen

Stolen

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jon Hamm, Josh Lucas, Rhona Mitra, James Van Der Beek, Jimmy Bennett, Michael Cudlitz, Jessica Chastain, Beth Grant, Rick Gomez, Morena Baccarin, Joanna Cassidy
📖 Synopsis: Work has become an obsession for Detective Tom Adkins (Jon Hamm) since the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy Jr. When an early morning phone call leads him to the mangled remains of a youn...
Our Family Wedding

Our Family Wedding

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Regina King, Lance Gross, Charles Q. Murphy, Taye Diggs, Diana-Maria Riva, Anjelah N. Johnson, Lupe Ontiveros
📖 Synopsis: "Our marriage, their wedding." It's lesson number one for any newly engaged couple, and Lucia (America Ferrera) and Marcus (Lance Gross) are no exception. In Fox Searchlight Pictures' "Our Family Wedd...
She's Out Of My League

She's Out Of My League

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, Mike Vogel, Krysten Ritter, T.J. Miller, Lindsay Sloane, Nate Torrence, Andrew Daly, Geoff Stults, Kyle Bornheimer
📖 Synopsis: In the romantic comedy "She's Out of My League," an average guy finds himself in over his head when he unexpectedly attracts the attention of a stunningly beautiful woman. Played by [c=Jay Baruchel],...
Remember Me

Remember Me

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: RomanceDrama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Lena Olin, Ruby Jerins, Tate Ellington, Peyton List (II)
📖 Synopsis: In the romantic drama "Remember Me", Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated...
Green Zone

Green Zone

📅 Release: March 12, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaThrillerWar
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs, Antoni Corone, Sean Huze, Nicoye Banks, Bijan Daneshmand
📖 Synopsis: Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy," "The Bourne Ultimatum," "United 93") re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in "Green Zone," a film set in the chaotic early da...
Secret Of Kells, The

Secret Of Kells, The

📅 Release: March 5, 2010
🎭 Genre: AnimationAdventure
🎬 Starring: Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, Christen Mooney, Liam Hourican, Michael McGrath
📖 Synopsis: Do not miss the highly anticipated new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Triplets of Belleville! Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of c...
Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest

📅 Release: March 5, 2010
🎭 Genre: CrimeDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, Jesse Williams, Stella Maeve, Sarah Thompson, Robert John Burke, Shannon Kane, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tawny Cypress
📖 Synopsis: In the course of one chaotic week, the lives of three conflicted New York City police officers are dramatically transformed by their involvement in a massive drug operation in "Brooklyn's Finest," a s...
Alice In Wonderland

Alice In Wonderland

📅 Release: March 5, 2010
🎭 Genre: AdventureFantasy
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Matt Lucas, Michael Sheen, Crispin Glover, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Timothy Spall, Paul Whitehouse, Marton Csokas
📖 Synopsis: From Walt Disney Pictures and visionary director Tim Burton comes an epic 3D fantasy adventure "Alice in Wonderland," a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. J...
Prophet, A

Prophet, A

📅 Release: February 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaCrime
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Gilles Cohen, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
📖 Synopsis: In the brutal world of a French prison, a young man's education becomes a matter of survival in this gripping drama from acclaimed director [c=Jacques Audiard]. [c=Tahar Rahim] stars as Malik El Djeb...
Yellow Handkerchief, The

Yellow Handkerchief, The

📅 Release: February 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne, Emmanuel Cohn, Veronica Russell, Nurith Cohn
📖 Synopsis: A love story at its core, "The Yellow Handkerchief" is about three strangers of two generations bound by loneliness who reach out to one another. After embarking on a road trip through post Katrina Lo...
Defendor

Defendor

📅 Release: February 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: SuperheroDramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings, Elias Koteas, Sandra Oh, Lisa Ray, Kristin Booth, Michael Kelly, Charlotte Sullivan
📖 Synopsis: Reality intersects with delusion in the mind of Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a regular man who adopts a superhero persona known as Defendor, and combs the city streets at night in search of hi...
Cop Out

Cop Out

📅 Release: February 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: ActionComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Ana de la Reguera, Michelle Trachtenberg, Rashida Jones, Adam Brody, Jason Lee, Kevin Pollak
📖 Synopsis: In the action-comedy "Cop Out," directed by [c=Kevin Smith], two mismatched New York City detectives find themselves embroiled in a wild chase that tests their partnership and their patience. Veteran...
Crazies, The

Crazies, The

📅 Release: February 26, 2010
🎭 Genre: ThrillerActionSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Joe Reegan, Preston Bailey, Christie Lynn Smith
📖 Synopsis: Imagine living in a small town where everything is safe and happy ... until suddenly it isn't. Imagine your friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane. In a terrifying tale of the "Am...