My Top Film Festival movies for 2010 (in list order)

Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.

A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.

A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.

As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.

Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.

A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

From Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.

Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

A Berlin-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man.

The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity.

What are adult love affairs ? Two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through.

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era.

A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

Claudio works in the suburbs of Rome. He is in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. A dramatic event upsets his life. Claudio fights against an injustice. Love and support from his friends will help him to get by.