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Best Movies of 2010

The highest-rated films released in 2010, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 247 titlesavg ★ 6.52 avg 104 min Drama Comedy Action Thriller

Most watched in 2010

Inception2010 · ★ 8.4 · 2h 28m

Shutter Island2010 · ★ 8.2 · 2h 18m

Iron Man 22010 · ★ 6.9 · 2h 4m

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 12010 · ★ 7.7 · 2h 26m

Despicable Me2010 · ★ 7.3 · 1h 35m

Toy Story 32010 · ★ 7.8 · 1h 43m

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#1 Inception (2010) · ★ 8.4 · 40,256 votes · 2h 28m · action, adventure, science-fiction
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to…
#2 Shutter Island (2010) · ★ 8.2 · 26,482 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, mystery
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro…
#3 Incendies (2010) · ★ 8.1 · 3,473 votes · 2h 11m · drama, war, mystery
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the po…
#4 Senna (2010) · ★ 8.1 · 1,242 votes · 1h 46m · history, documentary
The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical stat…
#5 Flipped (2010) · ★ 8.0 · 3,417 votes · 1h 29m · romance, drama
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsi…
#6 My Name Is Khan (2010) · ★ 8.0 · 1,507 votes · 2h 45m · romance, drama
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by a…
#7 El Infierno (2010) · ★ 8.0 · 819 votes · 2h 28m · action, comedy, drama
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.…
#8 How to Train Your Dragon (2010) · ★ 7.9 · 14,762 votes · 1h 38m · fantasy, adventure, animation
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downin…
#9 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) · ★ 7.9 · 2,107 votes · 1h 55m · action, drama, crime
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the…
#10 Temple Grandin (2010) · ★ 7.9 · 590 votes · 1h 48m · drama, history
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling.…
#11 Toy Story 3 (2010) · ★ 7.8 · 16,266 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, animation, family
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care cen…
#12 I Saw the Devil (2010) · ★ 7.8 · 3,171 votes · 2h 24m · thriller, horror
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everythi…
#13 Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) · ★ 7.8 · 1,762 votes · 1h 15m · action, science-fiction, animation
One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.…
#14 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 20,849 votes · 2h 26m · fantasy, adventure
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's…
#15 Black Swan (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 15,931 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, drama, horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."…
#16 The King's Speech (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 9,536 votes · 1h 58m · drama, history
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the thr…
#17 Three Steps Above Heaven (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 3,270 votes · 2h 2m · romance, drama
Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.…
#18 The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 3,200 votes · 1h 34m · fantasy, animation, family
14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life…
#19 The Man from Nowhere (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 1,568 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, crime
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.…
#20 Inside Job (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 1,080 votes · 1h 49m · crime, documentary
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing thei…
#21 Day & Night (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 980 votes · 0h 6m · comedy, fantasy, animation
When Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get o…
#22 Tangled (2010) · ★ 7.6 · 12,737 votes · 1h 40m · adventure, animation, family
Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She s…
#23 Undisputed III: Redemption (2010) · ★ 7.6 · 1,067 votes · 1h 36m · action, thriller, drama
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now…
#24 Confessions (2010) · ★ 7.6 · 1,029 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, mystery
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.…
#25 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) · ★ 7.5 · 8,730 votes · 1h 53m · action, comedy, romance
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into…
#26 Ip Man 2 (2010) · ★ 7.5 · 2,572 votes · 1h 48m · action, drama, history
Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling to make a living, Master Ip ope…
#27 The Round Up (2010) · ★ 7.5 · 1,052 votes · 1h 55m · drama, history, war
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.…
#28 Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) · ★ 7.5 · 998 votes · 1h 26m · documentary
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercel…
#29 The Social Network (2010) · ★ 7.4 · 13,569 votes · 2h 1m · drama
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years la…
#30 The Fighter (2010) · ★ 7.4 · 4,862 votes · 1h 56m · drama
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in li…
#31 Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010) · ★ 7.4 · 3,323 votes · 1h 29m · comedy, horror
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confu…
#32 Secretariat (2010) · ★ 7.4 · 652 votes · 2h 3m · drama
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - wi…
#33 The Yellow Sea (2010) · ★ 7.4 · 615 votes · 2h 36m · thriller, drama, crime
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police…
#34 Despicable Me (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 16,431 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, science-fiction, animation
Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—…
#35 True Grit (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 5,944 votes · 1h 50m · adventure, drama, western
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with…
#36 Enter the Void (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 2,057 votes · 2h 41m · fantasy, drama
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Lind…
#37 13 Assassins (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 1,323 votes · 2h 21m · action, adventure, drama
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending t…
#38 Loose Cannons (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 819 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, romance, drama
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he stud…
#39 Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 817 votes · 1h 15m · fantasy, animation, family
Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfer who learns a shocking secret: she's a mermaid! She and her dolphin friend set out for an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oce…
#40 Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale (2010) · ★ 7.3 · 806 votes · 1h 19m · animation, family
Barbie, a popular actress on a sabbatical, learns that her fashion designer aunt Millicent has sold her business to a rival. With the help of a few magical beings, Barbie steps in…