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These 21 Movies Turn 10 This Year And We Are Feeling Old

Some of these movies are considered as modern-day classics.

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1. Bridesmaids

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Synopsis: Competition between the maid of honour and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Release Date:
13 May 2011

Genre: Romance, comedy

Main Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, and Rose Byrne

2. Captain America: The First Avenger

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Synopsis: Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier, transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a "Super-Soldier serum". But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a warmonger and a terrorist organisation.

Release Date:
22 July 2011

Genre: Action, adventure

Main Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, and Samuel L. Jackson

3. Contagion

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Synopsis: Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Release Date:
9 September 2011

Genre: Drama, thriller

Main Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, and Jude Law

4. Crazy, Stupid, Love

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Synopsis: A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.

Release Date: 29 July 2011

Genre: Comedy, drama, romance

Main Cast: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone

5. Fast Five

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Synopsis: Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.

Release Date:
29 April 2011

Genre: Action, adventure

Main Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Gal Gadot

6. Friends With Benefits

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Synopsis: A young man and woman decide to take their friendship to the next level without becoming a couple but soon discover that adding sex only leads to complications.

Release Date:
22 July 2011

Genre: Comedy, romance

Main Cast: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, and Woody Harrelson

7. Green Lantern

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Synopsis: Reckless test pilot Hal Jordan is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers that inducts him into an intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps.

Release Date:
17 June 2011

Genre: Action, adventure

Main Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, and Peter Sarsgaard

8. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2

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Synopsis: Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.

Release Date:
15 July 2011

Genre: Adventure, drama, fantasy

Main Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint

9. Hugo

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Synopsis: In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

Release Date: 23 November 2011

Genre: Drama, family, fantasy

Main Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Ben Kingsley

10. Midnight In Paris

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Synopsis: While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Release Date:
10 June 2011

Genre: Comedy, fantasy, romance

Main Cast: Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, and Marion Cotillard

11. Real Steel

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Synopsis: In the near future, robot boxing is a top sport. A struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.

Release Date:
7 October 2011

Genre: Action, drama, sci-fi

Main Cast: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, and Dakota Goyo

12. Rio

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Synopsis: When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.

Release Date:
15 April 2011

Genre: Animation, adventure, comedy

Main Cast:
Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, and George Lopez

13. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

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Synopsis: A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.

Release Date:
5 August 2011

Genre: Action, drama, sci-fi

Main Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis, and Frieda Pinto

14. Sucker Punch

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Synopsis: A young girl institutionalised by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.

Release Date:
 25 March 2011

Genre: Action, adventure, fantasy

Main Cast: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jena Malone

15. Super 8

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Synopsis: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Release Date:
 10 June 2011

Genre: Mystery, sci-fi, thriller

Main Cast: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, and Kyle Chandler

16. The Adventures Of Tintin

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Synopsis: Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.

Release Date:
21 December 2011

Genre: Animation, action, adventure

Main Cast:
Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, and Daniel Craig

17. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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Synopsis: Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.

Release Date:
21 December 2011

Genre: Crime, drama, mystery

Main Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, and Christopher Plummer

18. The Smurfs

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Synopsis: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.

Release Date:
29 July 2011

Genre: Animation, adventure, comedy

Main Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Katy Perry, and Hank Azaria

19. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

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Synopsis: The Quileutes close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses a threat to the Wolf Pack and the townspeople of Forks.

Release Date:
18 November 2011

Genre: Adventure, drama, fantasy

Main Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner

20. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

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Synopsis: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

Release Date:
29 June 2011

Genre: Action, adventure

Main Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Tyrese Gibson

21. We Bought A Zoo

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Synopsis: Set in Southern California, a father moves his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

Release Date:
23 December 2011

Genre: Comedy, drama, family

Main Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, and Elle Fanning

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