Critically acclaimed movies of 2009 on amazon prime

My Bloody Valentine(2009)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he's innocent.



The Private Lives of Pippa Lee(2009)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.



Underworld: Rise of the Lycans(2009)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.



Love Happens(2009)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru, falls for the hotel florist where his seminar is given, only to learn that he hasn't yet truly confronted his wife's passing.



White Wedding(2009)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A young groom and his best man lost on a road trip, run into a young English doctor.



Gamer(2009)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 46

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. Or won't he?



Sorority Row(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.



World's Greatest Dad(2009)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 35

When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.



My One and Only(2009)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 31

An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.



Brothers(2009)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.



Weather Girl(2009)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Seattle weather girl freaks out on-air over her cheating boyfriend, the morning show anchor, and moves in with her little brother.



New York(2009)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

It's story about three students studying at the New York State University whose lives are changed by 9/11 and its aftermath.



Land of the Lost(2009)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 16

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.



The Collector(2009)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.



In the Electric Mist(2009)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.



Powder Blue(2009)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four Los Angelenos -- a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper -- are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.



Rampage(2009)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body armor from Kevlar and goes on a killing spree.



Deadline(2009)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.



Darfur(2009)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.



Mutants(2009)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, a resourceful couple hides out in an isolated abandoned building. The woman is pregnant and the man is infected, slowly transforming into the kind of inhuman monster they are trying to escape.




0
1
2