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Best Movies of 2009, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
105 films from 2009 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Inglourious Basterds ('2009), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Law Abiding Citizen, 7.4 on IMDb against 34 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inglourious Basterds '2009 | Drama / Thriller / War | 8.4 | 89% | 69 | 8.2 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2 | Up '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 98% | 88 | 8.0 | Pete Docter |
| 3 | 3 Idiots '2009 | Drama / Comedy | 8.4 | 94% | 67 | 8.0 | Rajkumar Hirani |
| 4 | Avatar '2009 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.9 | 81% | 83 | 7.6 | James Cameron |
| 5 | District 9 '2009 | Sci-Fi | 7.9 | 90% | 81 | 7.5 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 6 | Star Trek '2009 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.9 | 94% | 82 | 7.4 | J.J. Abrams |
| 7 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale '2009 | Drama | 8.1 | 64% | - | 8.0 | Lasse Hallström |
| 8 | The Secret in Their Eyes '2009 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 89% | 80 | 8.0 | Juan José Campanella |
| 9 | The Hangover '2009 | Comedy | 7.7 | 79% | 73 | 7.3 | Todd Phillips |
| 10 | Moon '2009 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 67 | 7.6 | Duncan Jones |
| 11 | Fantastic Mr. Fox '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | 93% | 83 | 7.8 | Wes Anderson |
| 12 | Mary and Max '2009 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 96% | 72 | 7.9 | Adam Elliot |
| 13 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince '2009 | Fantasy | 7.6 | 83% | 78 | 7.7 | David Yates |
| 14 | (500) Days of Summer '2009 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 86% | 76 | 7.3 | Marc Webb |
| 15 | Watchmen '2009 | Mystery / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 64% | 56 | 7.4 | Zack Snyder |
| 16 | Coraline '2009 | Animation / Fantasy / Horror | 7.8 | 91% | 80 | 7.9 | Henry Selick |
| 17 | Sherlock Holmes '2009 | Action / Mystery | 7.5 | 69% | 57 | 7.2 | Guy Ritchie |
| 18 | Zombieland '2009 | Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | 89% | 73 | 7.3 | Ruben Fleischer |
| 19 | The Blind Side '2009 | Drama | 7.6 | 65% | 53 | 7.7 | John Lee Hancock |
| 20 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2009 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 85% | 76 | 7.5 | Niels Arden Oplev |
| 21 | Mr. Nobody '2009 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 64% | 63 | 7.8 | Jaco Van Dormael |
| 22 | Up in the Air '2009 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 90% | 83 | 6.9 | Jason Reitman |
| 23 | Law Abiding Citizen '2009 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.4 | 26% | 34 | 7.4 | F. Gary Gray |
| 24 | The Road '2009 | Drama | 7.2 | 74% | 64 | 7.0 | John Hillcoat |
| 25 | Invictus '2009 | Drama | 7.3 | 76% | 74 | 7.2 | Clint Eastwood |
| 26 | The Princess and the Frog '2009 | Animation / Romance / Fantasy | 7.2 | 86% | 73 | 7.2 | Ron Clements |
| 27 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire '2009 | Drama | 7.3 | 92% | 78 | 7.3 | Lee Daniels |
| 28 | The Boat That Rocked '2009 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 59% | 58 | 7.2 | Richard Curtis |
| 29 | My Sister's Keeper '2009 | Drama | 7.3 | 47% | 51 | 7.4 | Nick Cassavetes |
| 30 | Brothers '2009 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.1 | 63% | 58 | 7.3 | Jim Sheridan |
| 31 | Orphan '2009 | Horror / Thriller | 7.0 | 59% | 42 | 7.0 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 32 | The Time Traveler's Wife '2009 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.1 | 38% | 47 | 7.0 | Robert Schwentke |
| 33 | State of Play '2009 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 84% | 64 | 6.8 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 34 | I Love You, Man '2009 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 82% | 70 | 6.6 | John Hamburg |
| 35 | Dogtooth '2009 | Drama | 7.1 | 94% | 72 | 7.0 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 36 | Public Enemies '2009 | Crime / Drama | 6.9 | 68% | 70 | 6.7 | Michael Mann |
| 37 | A Serious Man '2009 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 88 | 6.7 | Joel Coen |
| 38 | 9 '2009 | Action / Animation / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 57% | 60 | 7.0 | Shane Acker |
| 39 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | 85% | 66 | 6.7 | Phil Lord |
| 40 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | 46% | 50 | 6.8 | Carlos Saldanha |
| 41 | Bronson '2009 | Drama / Action / Crime | 7.0 | 75% | 71 | 6.9 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 42 | The Girl Who Played with Fire '2009 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 69% | 66 | 7.0 | Daniel Alfredson |
| 43 | Julie & Julia '2009 | Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 76% | 66 | 6.7 | Nora Ephron |
| 44 | Whatever Works '2009 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 50% | 45 | 7.1 | Woody Allen |
| 45 | Triangle '2009 | Horror | 6.9 | 78% | - | 6.9 | Christopher Smith |
| 46 | The Proposal '2009 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.8 | 45% | 48 | 7.2 | Anne Fletcher |
| 47 | Adventureland '2009 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 89% | 76 | 6.4 | Greg Mottola |
| 48 | A Christmas Carol '2009 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 52% | 55 | 6.9 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 49 | Angels & Demons '2009 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.7 | 36% | 48 | 6.7 | Ron Howard |
| 50 | Pandorum '2009 | Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.7 | 26% | 28 | 6.6 | Christian Alvart |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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