May 2010 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Mar. 27, 2022

Best Movies Released May 2010

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New York

Biopic of Ian Dury who was crippled by polio at age 10 and told he would amount to nothing, but went on to become one of the founders of the British punk movement in the 1970s.

Ray Winstone, Olivia Williams, Toby Jones, Andy Serkis, Mat Whitecross, Paul Viragh, Naomie Harris, Mackenzie Crook

Drama

56%

  • 2.8
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More adventures from billionaire Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) who leads a double life as an iron-plated crime fighter. Mickey Rourke will play Whiplash, a character that includes elements from that comic book villain and Crimson Dynamo, another Russian baddie. Sam Rockwell will play Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist Stark.

Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Feige, Kate Mara, Robert Downey Jr., Clark Gregg

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Superhero 2 hrs, 5 mins

87%

  • 4.3
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A probing investigation into the lies, greed and corruption surrounding D.C. super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

Alex Gibney

R Documentary 2 hrs, 0 mins

28%

  • 4.3
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The ensemble drama, follows the intersecting lives of a 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago and a black woman looking to adopt a baby.

Samuel L. Jackson, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Naomi Watts, Guillermo del Toro, Rodrigo Garcia, Julie Lynn, Alfonso Cuarón, Annette Bening

R Drama 2 hrs, 5 mins

52%

  • 3.3
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New York

A young man attempts to save himself and his mother from a polygamous cult.

Mark L. Young, Adam Sherman, Stephen Israel, Hanna Hall, Jesse Plemons

Drama 1 hr, 28 mins

62%

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Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all: successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, and a devoted young daughter. Yet, it slowly dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing.

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

36%

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A look at one year in the life of five babies living in five different continents.

Thomas Balmes, Alain Chabat

PG Documentary 1 hr, 13 mins

61%

  • 3.6
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A group of four friends living in Bombay in the 1990s decide to import the luxuries from the West.

Parmeet Sethi

Thriller Crime

87%

  • 3.7
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Tilda Swinton narrates this documentary focusing on the efforts of everyday people all over the world who are making a difference in the fight against global warming.

Tilda Swinton, Simon Armitage, Brian Hill, Katie Bailiff

Documentary

0%

  • 3
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When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.

Gael García Bernal, Amanda Seyfried, Eric Feig, Gary Winick, Patrick Wachsberger, Ellen Barkin, Caroline Kaplan, Vanessa Redgrave

PG Drama Romance 1 hr, 53 mins

90%

  • 4.1
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A less virtuous Robin Hood and a nobler Sheriff of Nottingham clash as a love triangle develops between Robin Hood, the sheriff and Maid Marian.

Ridley Scott, Brian Grazer, Russell Crowe, Eileen Atkins, Oscar Isaac, Mark Strong, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Romance 2 hrs, 20 mins

79%

  • 4
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The story follows Janice Wright, a physical therapist (Queen Latifah) who is hired by an NBA basketball player to help him rehab from an injury. As time goes on, the player begins falling in love with her.

Common, Paula Patton, Pam Grier, Sanaa Hamri, Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Mike Elliot, Michael Landes

PG Comedy Romance Sports 1 hr, 41 mins

78%

  • 3.3
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New York

Lenny juggles his kids and everything else all within a midtown studio apartment in New York City. He must choose between being their father or their friend all with the idea that their two weeks together must last 6 months.

Joshua Safdie, Ben Safdie

NR Drama Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

50%

  • 3.7
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New York

TiMER implanted on a person's wrist countdown the time until he or she finds true love. Oona becomes a rare exception when she discovers her TiMER is blank.

Jac Schaeffer, Emma Caulfield

R Comedy Fantasy Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

57%

  • 2.7
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New York

Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Steve Evets, Eric Cantona

Drama Comedy Sports

41%

  • 3
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A Hawaiian princess attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.

Marc Forby, Barry Pepper, Q'Orianka Kilcher

Drama

71%

  • 2.7
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Shrek (Mike Myers) has become a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is tricked into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all of Rumpelstiltskin’s mischief in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one "True Love" and family.

Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Antonio Banderas, Jon Hamm, Julie Andrews, Gina Shay, Amy Poehler, Cheri Oteri

PG Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids Animation 1 hr, 33 mins

89%

  • 4
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MacGruber, a laid back secret agent who prefers non-violent conflict resolution, always becomes consumed with some sort of personal issue, to the detriment of himself and his assistants. MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. His mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber's bride.

Val Kilmer, Kristen Wiig, Powers Boothe, Jorma Taccone, Ryan Kavanaugh, Lorne Michaels, Erin David, John Solomon

R Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

69%

  • 3.4
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A love story between an Indian hustler and a Mexican immigrant.

Hrithik Roshan, Anurag Basu, Rakesh Roshan, Barbara Mori

NR Action Thriller Romance 2 hrs, 10 mins

79%

  • 3.6
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A documentary on three young racers who compete in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series.

Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Marshall Curry

PG Sports Documentary

54%

  • 5
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Jeff Johnson recounts the journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia in 1968.

Chris Malloy

Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

67%

  • 4
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New York

A french language film in which a movie producer suffers from crippling depression.

Michael Abiteboul, Mia Hansen-Løve, Chiara Caselli

Drama

33%

  • 4.7
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New York / Los Angeles

An impressionable youth from an Orthodox Brooklyn community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by a friend with ties to an Israeli drug cartel.

Kevin Asch, Cary Jones, Rob Profusek, Ryan Silbert, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny Abeckaser, Julio Caro

R Comedy Crime 1 hr, 29 mins

46%

  • 3.1
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New York

In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnins success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potential bridge between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

Documentary

67%

  • 1
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New York

The project, billed as a comedy thriller set in contemporary Dublin, revolves around three unlikely fugitives on the run from a gangster kingpin.

Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Cillian Murphy, Ian Fitzgibbon, Mark O'Rowe

R Comedy Thriller Gangster 1 hr, 28 mins

30%

  • 3
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New York / Los Angeles

A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.

Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas, Brian Koppelman, Heidi Jo Markel, Paul Schiff, David Levien, Jesse Eisenberg, Jenna Fischer

R Drama 1 hr, 30 mins

46%

  • 2.7
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New York

The movie is based on the true story about a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Steve Buscemi, Anne Consigny, Florian Gallenberger, Daniel Bruehl, Lu Huang, Zhang Jingchu, Teruyuki Kagawa, Akira Emoto

NR Drama 2 hrs, 14 mins

23%

  • 2.3
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Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda take another bite out of the Big Apple in the sequel to the 2008 summer blockbuster.

Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall, Michael Patrick King, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Melfi, Darren Star, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth

R Drama Comedy Sequel Romance Provocative 2 hrs, 20 mins

69%

  • 3.1
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Set in medieval Persia, the original presents a story about the prince who is tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, the prince then teams up with a rival princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time

Jake Gyllenhaal, Richard Coyle, Reece Ritchie, Mike Newell, Mike Stenson, Eric McLeod, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jeffrey Nachmanoff

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Adaptation Based on Game 2 hrs, 0 mins

95%

  • 4.1
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On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear.

Julian Richings, Joris Jarsky, George A. Romero, Paula Devonshire

R Sequel Thriller Horror 1 hr, 30 mins

80%

  • 3
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A videostore clerk with a bullet lodged in his brain and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant, Dany Boon, Andre Dussollier, Nicolas Marie

R Comedy Crime

31%

  • 2
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A French car thief kills a policeman and then travels to Italy with his American girlfriend.

Jean-Luc Godard

NR Drama Thriller Romance Crime 1 hr, 27 mins

33%

  • 1
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A shorter version of Kites, edited by Brett Ratner into a faster-paced romantic action movie.

Brett Ratner, Anurag Basu

Drama Action Romance 1 hr, 30 mins

79%

  • 4.6
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A slave in Roman Egypt turns to the rising tide of Christianity while also falling in love with the famous teacher, mathematician and philosopher Hypatia.

Rachel Weisz, Oscar Isaac, Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil, Max Minghella, Rupert Evans

R Drama Romance 2 hrs, 6 mins

73%

  • 4.1
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Los Angeles

In Israel, soccer is king, and Bnei Sakhnin has become the first team from an Arab town to win the prestigious Israeli Cup and represent Israel in European competition. Fielding Arab, Jewish and foreign-born players, owned by an Arab, and coached by a Jew, Bnei Sakhnins success has begun to represent a symbol of coexistence, a potential bridge between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

Alexander H. Browne, Christopher Browne

Documentary

67%

  • 1
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Top May 2010 Movie Trailers

Sex and the City 2 Theatrical Teaser
Letters to Juliet Theatrical Trailer
Badmaash Company Theatrical Trailer
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