October 2010 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Mar. 2, 2019

Best Movies Released October 2010

Secretariat Movie Poster
Drama

84%

  • 4.3
Stone Movie Poster
Drama

88%

  • 4.3
Buried Movie Poster
Drama

83%

  • 3.8
Hereafter Movie Poster
Suspense

91%

  • 3.8
Case 39 Movie Poster
Horror

84%

  • 3.9
Ip Man Movie Poster
Action

84%

  • 4.1
Hatchet II Movie Poster
Horror

77%

  • 3.1
Red Movie Poster
Action

90%

  • 4.2
Chain Letter Movie Poster
Horror

69%

  • 3.1
The Kids Grow Up Movie Poster
Documentary

42%

  • 1
Waste Land Movie Poster
Documentary

17%

  • 3.8
Conviction Movie Poster
Biography

89%

  • 4.7
Saw 3D Movie Poster
3D

62%

  • 4.1
Rising Stars Movie Poster
Drama

58%

  • 3.6
Inside Job Movie Poster
Documentary

75%

  • 4.3

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On the Harvard campus in 2004, sophmore Mark Zuckerberg starts the social networking site, Facebook.

Kevin Spacey, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, Caleb Landry Jones, Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield

PG-13 Drama Adventure 2 hrs, 0 mins

69%

  • 4
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"Case 39" is a horror film starring Renée Zellweger as family services social worker Emily Jenkins. Emily thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case, troubled 10-year old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland). Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to kill Lilith, their only daughter. Emily saves her and decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.

Ian McShane, Steve Golin, Renée Zellweger, Bradley Cooper, Callum Keith Rennie, Lisa Bruce, Hagen Bogdanski, Christian Alvart

R Thriller Suspense Horror Sci-Fi 1 hr, 49 mins

84%

  • 3.9
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A 12-year-old boy, who is bullied in school, befriends a young female neighbor who moves to town and turns out to be a vampire.

Cara Buono, Matt Reeves, Simon Oakes, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins, Alex Brunner, Tobin Armbrust, Guy East

R Suspense Horror Remake 1 hr, 55 mins

75%

  • 3.9
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The story of Yip Man, the first master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

Wilson Yip, Simon Yam

R Action Foreign Martial Arts 1 hr, 46 mins

84%

  • 4.1
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After Marybeth escapes from the clutches of Victor Crowley, she learns the truth about his curse, and heads back into the haunted New Orleans swamp to seek revenge for her family.

Adam Green, Will Barratt, Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, R. A. Mihailoff

R Sequel Suspense Horror 1 hr, 29 mins

77%

  • 3.1
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A serial killer targets teens that refuse to forward chain letters.

Deon Taylor, Michael J. Pagan, Diana Erwin, Nikki Reed, Keith David, Brad Dourif, Ling Bai, Betsy Russell

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 26 mins

69%

  • 3.1
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Three bachelors set up a speed dating scheme to attract women and money. The plan runs into problems when they are denied a liquor license and an ex-girlfriend attempts to expose the scam.

Joseph A. Elmore

R Comedy Romance 1 hr, 38 mins

78%

  • 3.7
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Based on the bestseller Freakonomics, where economist Steven D. Levitt uses statistics and theory to analyze pop culture.

Rachel Grady, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock, Heidi Ewing, Chad Troutwine, Jeremy Chilnick

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

50%

  • 2.1
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Los Angeles

The story concerns a womanizer who wakes up sans his "family jewels" after an irate father attacks him with a trumpet. Things go from bad to worse for the title character when he learns that he's being sued for paternity by a woman he can't even remember having sex with.

Colin Hanks, Matthew Weaver, Chris D'Arienzo, Rosanne Korenberg, Carl Levin, Marcos Siega, Judy Greer, Patrick Wilson

R Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

68%

  • 4
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Somewhere in the world, a woman dies of breast cancer every sixty-eight seconds.

Namrata Singh Gujral

Drama

76%

  • 2
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Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."

Scott Glenn, Mike Rich, Dylan Walsh, A.J. Michalka, James Cromwell, Otto Thorwarth, Nestor Serrano, Carissa Capobianco

PG Drama Historical 1 hr, 56 mins

84%

  • 4.3
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A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Viola Davis, Lauren Graham, Zoe Kravitz, Aasif Mandavi, Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts

PG-13 Drama Teen 1 hr, 41 mins

89%

  • 4.3
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The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.

Henry Lee Hopper, Anthony Katagas, Emily Meade, Wes Craven, Iya Labunka, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Raul Esparza

R Thriller Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D 1 hr, 28 mins

85%

  • 3.3
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Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

Katherine Heigl, Christina Hendricks, Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson, Josh Lucas, Jean Smart, Greg Berlanti, Paul Brooks

PG-13 Drama Comedy Romance 1 hr, 52 mins

85%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.

Milla Jovovich, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, John Curran, Angus MacLachlan, Frances Conroy

R Drama Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 45 mins

88%

  • 4.3
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Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin, Ryan Reynolds, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis

R Drama War 1 hr, 40 mins

83%

  • 3.8
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A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

Rodney Eastman, Steven R. Monroe, Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese, Chad Lindberg

R Thriller Horror Remake 1 hr, 48 mins

84%

  • 4.2
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New York / Los Angeles

A biopic of a young John Lennon.

Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Douglas Rae, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Taylor Wood, Kevin Loader, Matt Greenhalgh

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

64%

  • 3.7
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New York

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

75%

  • 4.3
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New York

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

Cary Elwes, Brian Cox, Matt Dallas, Jonathan Mossek, Andie MacDowell, Frank Whaley

R Thriller

29%

  • 3.2
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The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Stephen Frears, Bill Camp, Luke Evans, Alison Owen, Tracey Seaward, Moira Buffini, Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper

R Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins

61%

  • 3.3
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As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

Alex Garland, Keira Knightley, Sally Hawkins, Mark Romanek, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 44 mins

71%

  • 3.2
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A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.

Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

Comedy Horror 1 hr, 40 mins

27%

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New York / Los Angeles

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.

Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

25%

  • 4
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The 12th-century Benedictine nun who was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.

Barbara Sukowa, Margarethe von Trotta

Drama 1 hr, 51 mins

41%

  • 3.5
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A former black-ops CIA agent's quiet life in retirement is disrupted when a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox, Mark Vahradian, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss, Geoff Shaevitz, Robert Schwentke

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 1 hr, 51 mins

90%

  • 4.2
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The third segment of the Jackass series that will be shot in 3D.

Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Preston Lacy, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn

R Comedy 3D Shot-In-3D Hijinks Based on TV 1 hr, 33 mins

89%

  • 4.1
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Being described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense".

Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Jay Mohr, Frank Marshall, Robert Lorenz

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 9 mins

91%

  • 3.8
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Terkel is a miserable, unhappy sixth grader who is constantly picked on by two merciless bullies. One day Terkel finds a way to be cool, but it involves making fun of his best friends’ sister and his girlfriend.

David Alan Grier, Anders Matteson, Craig Ferguson, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen, Thorbjørn Christoffersen, Stefan Fjeldmark, Randolph Kret, Bill Baily

R Adventure Comedy Animation 1 hr, 28 mins

50%

  • 2.8
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About a single mother who worked her way through law school in order to free her brother, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Hilary Swank will play the title role in the true story of a high school dropout who would not give up her belief that her brother, Kenneth, had been framed. In between raising kids and waiting tables, she worked her way through college and law school so she could represent her brother after he’d used up his attempts to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

Juliette Lewis, Sam Rockwell, Tony Goldwyn, Andrew Karsch, Pamela Gray, Richard LaGravenese, Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver

R Drama Biography 1 hr, 48 mins

89%

  • 4.7
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A political documentary that examines two philosophies for the roles of the federal government as examplified by Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.

Ray Griggs

Documentary

83%

  • 2.9
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The downfall of a successful man that leads to a series of troubled romantic relationships, betrayal and murder.

David M. Matthews

R Drama

79%

  • 3.8
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New York

A smuggler trying to sell out cheap goods in Brazil is assaulted by two bandits, but is saved by a beautiful local girl.

Murilo Pasta

Drama Adventure Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

40%

  • 5
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When a white lion is miraculously born into a remote African valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs.

Michael Swan, Janet van Eeden

PG Drama

92%

  • 3.3
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Samson and Delilah live in an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival.

Warwick Thornton

Drama

33%

  • 3.3
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New York

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization.

Olivier Assayas, Edgar Ramirez

Drama Thriller

67%

  • 3.7
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In 1930's Austria, Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp asks the convent for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, they give Maria the job.

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Musical

80%

  • 4.9
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Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill explore the history and cultural implications of one of the referenced sites on the Internet, Wikipedia.org.

Scott Glosserman, Nic Hill

NR Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

0%

  • 5
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Focused on Billy Joel's final concert at Shea Stadium before it was demolished, with the ballpark and the New York Mets' history intertwined into the storyline.

Paul Crowder, Nigel Sinclair, Steve Cohen, Mark Monroe, Alec Baldwin

NR Documentary Music 1 hr, 30 mins

57%

  • 3.8
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Being described as in the vein of "The Sixth Sense".

Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Cecile de France, Jay Mohr, Frank Marshall, Robert Lorenz

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 2 hrs, 9 mins

91%

  • 3.8
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A sequel the low-budget camcorder-filmed horror movie, "Paranormal Activity 2" will look to repeat the original's surprise box office success. No plot details are available.

Tod Williams, Steven Schneider, Akiva Goldsman, Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Michael R. Perry, Katie Featherston

R Sequel Suspense Horror 1 hr, 29 mins

62%

  • 3.8
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About a group of teenagers on the verge of making it big in music and film.

Barry Corbin, Daniel Millican, Fisher Stevens, Catherine Mary Stewart, Graham Patrick Martin, Kyle Riabk, Leon Thomas III, Jessie Payo

PG Drama Musical Family 1 hr, 30 mins

58%

  • 3.6
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New York

A documentary about Lord's Gym, an Austin Texas gym founded by a former professional boxer, and the training discipline to reach one's personal best.

Frederick Wiseman

Documentary 1 hr, 31 mins

New York / Los Angeles

A district attorney uncovers nefarious activities while on a desperate search for a doctor to save his young daughter.

Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, John Claflin, Jordi Molla, Baltasar Kormakur, Nathalie Marciano, Jennifer Kelly, Michelle Chydzik Sowa

R Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

54%

  • 3.6
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The film centers on a fight promoter (Mark Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Paul "Big Show" Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans.

Paul Wight, Saul Rubinek, Michael Watkins, Mike Pavone, David Calloway, Melora Hardin, Mark Feuerstein, Wendie Malick

PG-13 Action Adventure Comedy

85%

  • 4.1
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In 1930's Austria, Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp asks the convent for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, they give Maria the job.

Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Musical

80%

  • 4.9
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Nationwide

The seventh installment of the highly successful horror franchise.

Cary Elwes, Tobin Bell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Gina Holden, Kevin Greutert, Gregg Hoffman, Oren Koules, Mark Burg

R Sequel Suspense Horror 3D Post-3D 1 hr, 31 mins

62%

  • 4.1
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Follows artist Vik Muniz to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" - or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley

Documentary

17%

  • 3.8
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New York

A look at father-daughter relationships, modern-day parenting, marriage and the looming empty nest.

Doug Block, Lori Cheatle

Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

42%

  • 1
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In the final part of the Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is hospitalized after meeting with her father. Mikael Blomqvist continues to uncover the reasons why Lisbeth has been treated harshly by the Swedish authorities.

Daniel Alfredson, Jonas Frykberg, Ulf Ryberg, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber

R Drama Sequel Thriller Mystery Foreign 2 hrs, 28 mins

63%

  • 3.6
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A troubled young woman unites a grieving couple who have drifted apart after the death of their daughter.

Kristen Stewart, Guy Collins, Jake Scott, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Costigan, Stephen Margolis, Ken Hixon

R Drama 1 hr, 50 mins

91%

  • 3.8
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New York / Los Angeles

A hitman tries to retire but a beautiful thief may change his plans.

Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Jonathan Lynn, Eileen Atkins, Martin Pope, Lucinda Coxon, Rupert Everett

PG-13 Action Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

76%

  • 3.4
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A US journalist agrees to escourt an American tourist through Mexico, which has been designated an "infected zone" after a NASA probe carrying an alien life sample crashed in the country.

Gareth Edwards, Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able

R Drama Thriller Horror Sci-Fi 1 hr, 32 mins

55%

  • 3.3
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Four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony in an attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and modern New York life.

Shailja Gupta

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

73%

  • 4.3
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General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the Rwandan Genocide.

Roger Spottiswoode

R Drama War 1 hr, 52 mins

55%

  • 4
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Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution.

Robert Young, Snoo Wilson, Thomas Krestchmann

Drama 1 hr, 40 mins

83%

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Top October 2010 Movie Trailers

N-Secure Theatrical Trailer
Paranormal Activity 2 Theatrical Teaser
Let Me In Original Movie Trailer
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