Here is the list of TIME’s Top 10 Movies of 2009 and The Princess and the Frog of the Walt Disney Animated Classsics is the no. 1 in the list.
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The Princess and the Frog –is an American
animated family film loosely based on E.D. Baker's novel
The Frog Princess, which was in turn inspired by the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "The Frog Prince".
2.
Up – is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and is the first animated film to open the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2009.
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Fantastic Mr. Fox – is a children's novel written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1970 by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US, with illustrations by Donald Chaffin. The book was later published with new illustrations by Jill Bennett, Tony Ross and Quentin Blake. The story is about Mr Fox and how he outwits his farmer neighbours to steal their food from right under their noses.
4.
The Hurt Locker – is a 2009 American war thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film follows a United States Army
EOD team during the Iraq War. The story was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded with a bomb squad. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty as members of a U.S. Army
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq and follows their tour together as they contend with defusing bombs, the threat of insurgency, and the tension that develops between them.
5.
Up in the Air – is a 2001 novel by American author Walter Kirn. It was later adapted into the 2009 feature film
Up in the Air, starring George Clooney.
6. The White Ribbon – is a 2009 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke. The screenplay focuses on the children in a village in northern Germany just before World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about "the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature.
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A Single Man – is a 2009 American drama film directed by Tom Ford. The film is based on the Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name and stars Colin Firth as the protagonist George Falconer, a gay British college professor living in Southern California in the 1960s. The rest of the cast includes Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult. The film is Ford's directorial debut, coming off a career and experience with fashion design.
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Of Time and the City – is a 2008 documentary film directed by Terence Davies.The film has Davies recalling his life growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, using newsreel and documentary footage supplemented by his own commentary voiceover and contemporaneous and classical music soundtracks.
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District 9 – is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and Robert Hobbs. Copley plays the role of Wikus van de Merwe,a South African bureaucrat assigned to relocate a race of extraterrestrial creatures, derogatorily referred to as "prawns", from a refugee camp in Johannesburg to a new one outside the city.
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Thirst – is a 2009 horror/drama film, written and directed by Park Chan-wook. It is loosely based on the novel
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola.The film tells the story of a priest—who is in love with his friend’s wife—turning into a vampire through a failed medical experiment.
Park has stated, "This film was originally called "The Bat" to convey a sense of horror.
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