Top 50 films of 2009

By: Ibetoli​s

I’m playing catch up with years gone by and here are my top 50 of 2009. Note that I only count films released at the UK Cinemas in year 2009, this helps to keep my lists consistent.

• 01
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 02
  35 Shots of Rum
  Claire Denis
• 03
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 04
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 05
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 06
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 07
  The Beaches of Agnès
  Agnès Varda
• 08
  Love Exposure
  Sion Sono
• 09
  A Christmas Tale
  Arnaud Desplechin
• 10
  Tony Manero
  Pablo Larraín
• 11
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 12
  The Class
  Laurent Cantet
• 13
  Wendy and Lucy
  Kelly Reichardt
• 14
  Il divo
  Paolo Sorrentino
• 15
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 16
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 17
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 18
  Three Monkeys
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 19
  Che
  Steven Soderbergh
• 20
  In the City of Sylvia
  José Luis Guerín
• 21
  Sugar
  Anna Boden
• 22
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 23
  Avatar
  James Cameron
• 24
  Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  Sacha Gervasi
• 25
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 26
  Looking for Eric
  Ken Loach
• 27
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky
• 28
  Rachel Getting Married
  Jonathan Demme
• 29
  Wonderful Town
  Aditya Assarat
• 30
  Everlasting Moments
  Jan Troell
• 31
  Katyń
  Andrzej Wajda
• 32
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 33
  Tokyo Sonata
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• 34
  Encounters at the End of the World
  Werner Herzog
• 35
  Sleep Furiously
  Gideon Koppel
• 36
  Mid-August Lunch
  Gianni Di Gregorio
• 37
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 38
  Timecrimes
  Nacho Vigalondo
• 39
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 40
  Shirin
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 41
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 42
  Star Trek
  J.J. Abrams
• 43
  Sin nombre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 44
  Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
  Jean-François Richet
• 45
  Red Cliff
  John Woo
• 46
  Johnny Mad Dog
  Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
• 47
  Two Lovers
  James Gray
• 48
  Home
  Ursula Meier
• 49
  Frozen River
  Courtney Hunt
• 50
  Public Enemies
  Michael Mann