Top Movies of 2011


The top movies of 2011 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

101. Vito

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Actors: Vito Russo, Charles Russo, Lily Tomlin, Rob Epstein, Armistead Maupin, Jenni Olson
Plot: Vito Russo was one of the pioneering voices in the gay liberation movement and wrote "The Celluloid Closet" - the first book to openly criticize the portrayal of homosexuals iby Hollywood. When the AIDS crisis hit, he continued to sound his voice, becoming an advocate in ACT UP before his death in 1990.

102. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below ( Hoshi o ou kodomo )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino, Leraldo Anzaldua, Hilary Haag, Corey Hartzog

103. Machine Gun Preacher

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker, Barbara Coven
Plot: Sam Childers spent his life as a drug-dealing biker until he found God. He found a way to put his faith and former life to use by taking on the task of coming to the aid of Sudanese children forced to become soldiers.

104. Beautiful Lies ( De vrais mensonges )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye, Sami Bouajila, Stéphanie Lagarde, Judith Chemla, Cécile Boland

105. Colombiana

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Olivier Megaton
Actors: Zoe Saldana, Graham McTavish, Callum Blue, Michael Vartan, Jordi Mollà, Lennie James
Plot: After witnessing her parents murder as a young child, Bogota resident Cataleya Restrepo's life is changed and she grows up to be an assassin. While she takes jobs from her uncle by day, at night she works as a vigilante, with the ultimate goal of tracking down, and killing, the people responsible for her parents' death.

106. The Mechanic

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Simon West
Actors: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase, Christa Campbell, J.D. Evermore
Plot: A seasoned veteran takes an aspiring hit-man under his wing, but things really heat up when someone betrays them.

107. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello
Plot: Werner Herzog captures the earliest known artistic creations of mankind in an unprecedented look into the Chauvet caves in Southern France.

108. Troll Hunter, The ( Trolljegeren )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: André Øvredal
Actors: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Johanna Mørck, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Tomas Alf Larsen, Knut Nærum
Plot: The Troll Hunter is a 2010 Norwegian horror-thriller film, made in the form of a mockumentary about a group of students investigating a series of bear killings only to find a hunter who is after far more dangerous game: a troll.

109. Desert Flower

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sherry Horman
Actors: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Craig Parkinson, Meera Syal, Anthony Mackie, Timothy Spall
Plot: Biography of Waris Dirie, a Somalian nomad who went through the ordeal of female circumcision at age 3 and was sold into marriage at age 13 but fled Africa to become an American supermodel and the UN spokesperson against circumcision.

110. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within ( Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo Agora É Outro )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: José Padilha
Actors: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Seu Jorge
Plot: After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento, now a high-ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into the largest operation against drug traffickers: a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

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