Synopsis: A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Director: Eran Kolirin
Writers: Eran Kolirin
Stars: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz and Saleh Bakri
Changeling
Synopsis: A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: J. Michael Straczynski
Stars: Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich
Cloverfield
Synopsis: Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Goddard
Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas and Lizzy Caplan
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
Synopsis: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Eric Roth
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton
Synopsis: When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart
Doubt
Synopsis: In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a popular priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled 12-year-old student is questioned by the school's strict principal.
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Writer: John Patrick Shanley
Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams
Duchess, The
Synopsis: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb
Writers: Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Dominic Cooper
Fall, The
Synopsis: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.
Synopsis: A ballet dancer wins the lead in “Swan Lake” and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan – Princess Odette – but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Mark Heyman (screenplay), Andres Heinz (screenplay), John J. McLaughlin (screenplay), Andres Heinz (story)
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel
Buried
Synopsis: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Writer: Chris Sparling
Stars: Ryan Reynolds
Despicable Me
Synopsis: When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.
Director: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud
Writers: Cinco Paul (screenplay), Ken Daurio (screenplay), Sergio Pablos (story)
Stars: Steve Carell and Jason Segel
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Synopsis: The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy.
Director: Banksy
Stars: Banksy
Fighter, The
Synopsis: A look at the early years of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
Director: David O. Russell
Writers: Scott Silver (screenplay) and Paul Tamasy (screenplay) & Eric Johnson (screenplay); Paul Tamasy (story) & Eric Johnson (story) & Keith Dorrington (story)
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Amy Adams
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Synopsis: As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.
Director: David Yates
Writers: Steve Kloves (screenplay), J.K. Rowling (novel)
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint
How to Train Your Dragon
Synopsis: A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Director: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders
Writers: William Davies (screenplay), Dean DeBlois (screenplay) & Chris Sanders (screenplay), Cressida Cowell (book)
Stars: Jay Baruchel and Gerard Butler
Inception
Synopsis: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Michael Caine
Inside Job
Synopsis: Takes a closer look at what brought about the financial meltdown.
Director: Charles Ferguson
Kick-Ass
Synopsis: Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writers: Jane Goldman (screenplay), Matthew Vaughn (screenplay), and Mark Millar (comic book) & John Romita Jr. (comic book)
Stars: Aaron Johnson, Nicolas Cage and Chloë Grace Moretz
King’s Speech, The
Synopsis: The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: David Seidler (screenplay)
Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter
127 Hours
Synopsis: A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Director: Danny Boyle
Writers: Danny Boyle (screenplay), Simon Beaufoy (screenplay), Aron Ralston (book “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”)
Stars: James Franco
Prophet, A
Synopsis: A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Writers: Thomas Bidegain (screenplay) andJacques Audiard (screenplay), Abdel Raouf Dafri (original screenplay), and Nicolas Peufaillit (original screenplay)
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup and Adel Bencherif
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Synopsis: Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend’s seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Director: Edgar Wright
Writers: Michael Bacall (screenplay), Edgar Wright (screenplay), and Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press graphic novels)
Stars: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kieran Culkin
Secret in their Eyes, The
Synopsis: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior – both of which still haunt him decades later.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writers: Eduardo Sacheri, Juan José Campanella, and Eduardo Sacheri (novel “La pregunta de sus ojos”)
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil and Pablo Rago
Shutter Island
Synopsis: Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (novel)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer and Mark Ruffalo
Social Network, The
Synopsis: Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Aaron Sorkin (screenplay), Ben Mezrich (book)
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake
Tangled
Synopsis: The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Director: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard
Writers: Dan Fogelman (screenplay), Jacob Grimm (fairy tale) & Wilhelm Grimm (fairy tale) and Dean Wellins (additional story)
Stars: Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi
Toy Story 3
Synopsis: The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it’s up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren’t abandoned and to return home.
Director: Lee Unkrich
Writers: John Lasseter (story), Andrew Stanton (story), and Lee Unkrich (story) and Michael Arndt (screenplay)
Stars: Tom Hanks and Tim Allen
True Grit
Synopsis: A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn young woman track down her father’s murderer.
Directors: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Writers: Joel Coen (screenplay), Ethan Coen (screenplay), and Charles Portis (novel)
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and Hailee Steinfeld
Winter’s Bone
Synopsis: An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik
Writers: Debra Granik (screenplay), Anne Rosellini (screenplay), and Daniel Woodrell (novel)
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes and Garret Dillahunt