2009 movies

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009 | Australia | Drama

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. ...

Phantom Racer

2009 | Action | Canada | USA

A demonic racecar driver returns from the dead to seek revenge against his former rival. Seventeen years ago, Cutter McCullough and JJ Sawyer were burning rubber on the tracks when McCullough perished in a fiery crash. In the aftermath of that accident, Sawyer was riddled with survivor's guilt, and vowed ...

Alice

2009 | Canada | Fantasy | Popular | UK

Director Nick Willing puts a new twist on Lewis Carroll's classic tale in this fantasy mini-series depicting Alice as a 21 year old women who ventures into Wonderland in search of a lost love. Almost immediately after presenting Alice (Catarina Scorsone) with an ornate family ring, handsome Jack Chase (Philip ...

One Hot Summer

2009 | Comedy | USA

Based on the novel by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, One Hot Summer sizzles with the ups and downs of three Cuban-American women who always support each other in good times and in bad. Margarita Silva Santos (Vanessa Marcil), Viviana Suarez (Jacqueline Pinol), and Anabel Aguilera (Tessie Santiago) have been best friends for ...

Best: His Mother’s Son

2009 | Drama | UK

A 2009 drama television film that chronicles the life of the late footballer George Best's mother, Ann, and her battles against alcoholism that would ultimately lead to her death at the age of 54.

Asylum Seekers

2009 | Comedy | Fantasy | USA

A freewheeling, demented, dark comedy about the modern world, in which six men and women, fed up with the abuse they suffer in their "normal" lives, seek "asylum" as inmates of a mental institution. They've all heard about a place up on the hill with an exclusive treatment program; now ...

Universal Soldier: Regeneration

2009 | Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | USA

When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation "UniSol".

The Butch Factor

2009 | Documentary | USA

From the Castro culture of the 1970s to today s Bears and gym rats, this fascinating investigation of gay men and sexuality blows the lid off old stereotypes and showcases a battalion of interviewees including muscle men, rodeo riders, rugby players and cops. The men speak candidly on topics from ...

Streetballers

2009 | Drama | Sport | USA

Streetballers is for basketball, what Field of Dreams was for baseball. Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving goals. A story capturing the poetic nature of street basketball, highlighting the struggles endured on and off the court by the ...

The Spell

2009 | Drama | UK

THE SPELL tells the story of Jenny, a young girl who finds herself unwanted by either of her separated parents during the formative years of her life and leaves home at the earliest opportunity. However, live-in boyfriend Rick's associations with witchcraft and black magic soon take her down a path ...

Possession

2009 | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | USA

Jess, a woman whose life turns surreal after an automobile accident leaves both her husband Ryan and her brother-in-law Roman in a coma. Things take an even darker turn when Roman wakes believing that he is Ryan. As Jess tries to deal with these increasingly disturbing events, she also struggles ...

Hellhounds

2009 | Adventure | Canada | Fantasy | Horror

A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.