The Hangover (2009)
Director: Todd Phillips
Plot: Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.7 / 10
Comedy
Brothers (2009)
Director: Jim Sheridan
Plot: A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Drama, Thriller, War
The Lazarus Project (2008)
Director: John Glenn
Plot: A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6 / 10
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Director: Tony Scott
Plot: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.4 / 10
Action, Crime, Thriller
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Director: Justin Chadwick
Plot: Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Battle for Terra (2007)
Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Plot: A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.5 / 10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Matchstick Men (2003)
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.3 / 10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Body of Lies (2008)
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7 / 10
Action, Drama, Thriller
Gladiator (2000)
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.5 / 10
Action, Drama
Coco avant Chanel (2009)
Director: Anne Fontaine
Plot: The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Biography, Drama
Güneşi Gördüm (2009)
Director: Mahsun Kırmızıgül
Plot: In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war that makes their daily lives a hellish struggle. As the war intensifies, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.6 / 10
Drama
Avatar (2009)
Director: James Cameron
Plot: 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.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.9 / 10
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Director: Guy Ritchie
Plot: 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.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.6 / 10
Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ejder Kapanı (2010)
Director: Uğur Yücel
Plot: When a serial killer goes after former convicted pedophiles, it is up to Police Commissioner Abbas and his Chief Celal to stop the killings.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.5 / 10
Action, Crime, Thriller
District 9 (2009)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Plot: 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.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.9 / 10
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Equilibrium (2002)
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Plot: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.3 / 10
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
District 13: Ultimatum (2009)
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Plot: Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.5 / 10
Action, Crime, Thriller
District B13 (2004)
Director: Pierre Morel
Plot: Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Action, Crime, Thriller
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Director: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth
Plot: 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.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 8.3 / 10
Adventure, Drama, War
Moon (2009)
Director: Duncan Jones
Plot: 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.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10
Drama, Sci-Fi
Hunting and Gathering (2007)
Director: Claude Berri
Plot: When Camille (Audrey Tautou) falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck (Guillaume Canet). A moving trio story.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Drama, Romance
Easy Virtue (2008)
Director: Stephan Elliott
Plot: A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.6 / 10
Comedy, Romance
Forrest Gump (1994)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Plot: Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.
My rating: 10 / 10
Movie rating: 8.8 / 10
Drama, Romance
The Green Mile (1999)
Director: Frank Darabont
Plot: The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.6 / 10
Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Plot: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.1 / 10
Biography, Crime, Drama
The Terminal (2004)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Plot: An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.4 / 10
Comedy, Drama
120 (2008)
Director: Özhan Eren, Murat Saraçoglu
Plot: During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Van for help...
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.2 / 10
Drama, History, War
Mustafa (2008)
Director: Can Dündar, Haci Mehmet Duranoglu
Plot: The biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who not only grew himself up from a poor lonely child to a country's most loved person...
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Director: Marc Webb
Plot: An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.7 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Up (2009)
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Plot: Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 8.3 / 10
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family