100 English films of 2009 ranked by box office. #1: Avatar ($2.9 billion).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar | James Cameron | $237 million | $2.9 billion | 12.34x | |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | David Yates | $250 million | $941.1 million | 3.76x | |
| 3 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Carlos Saldanha | $90 million | $886.7 million | 9.85x | |
| 4 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay | $200 million | $836.5 million | 4.18x | |
| 5 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Chris Weitz | $50 million | $712 million | 14.24x | |
| 6 | Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | $90 million | $524 million | 5.82x | |
| 7 | Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | $150 million | $485.9 million | 3.24x | |
| 8 | The Hangover | Todd Phillips | $35 million | $469.3 million | 13.41x | |
| 9 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Betty Thomas | $70 million | $443.5 million | 6.34x | |
| 10 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Shawn Levy | $150 million | $413.1 million | 2.75x | |
| 11 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams | $150 million | $385 million | 2.57x | |
| 12 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Gavin Hood | $150 million | $373 million | 2.49x | |
| 13 | Terminator Salvation | McG | $200 million | $371.4 million | 1.86x | |
| 14 | Fast & Furious | Justin Lin | $85 million | $360 million | 4.24x | |
| 15 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | $70 million | $321.5 million | 4.59x | |
| 16 | The Proposal | Anne Fletcher | $40 million | $317 million | 7.93x | |
| 17 | The Blind Side | John Lee Hancock | $29 million | $309 million | 10.66x | |
| 18 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Stephen Sommers | $175 million | $302.5 million | 1.73x | |
| 19 | Michael Jackson's This Is It | Kenny Ortega | $60 million | $268 million | 4.47x | |
| 20 | It's Complicated | Nancy Meyers | $75 million | $219.1 million | 2.92x | |
| 21 | Public Enemies | Michael Mann | $80 million | $214.1 million | 2.68x | |
| 22 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp | $30 million | $210.8 million | 7.03x | |
| 23 | The Ugly Truth | Robert Luketic | $38 million | $205 million | 5.39x | |
| 24 | The Final Destination | David R. Ellis | $40 million | $187.4 million | 4.69x | |
| 25 | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | $130 million | $187 million | 1.44x | |
| 26 | Knowing | Alex Proyas | $50 million | $186.5 million | 3.73x | |
| 27 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | Steve Carr | $26 million | $186 million | 7.15x | |
| 28 | He's Just Not That Into You | Ken Kwapis | $40 million | $181 million | 4.53x | |
| 29 | Couples Retreat | Peter Billingsley | $60 million | $172 million | 2.87x | |
| 30 | Hannah Montana: The Movie | Peter Chelsom | $30 million | $169.2 million | 5.64x | |
| 31 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | $25 million | $166.8 million | 6.67x | |
| 32 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Tony Scott | $100 million | $150.2 million | 1.50x | |
| 33 | 17 Again | Burr Steers | $40 million | $139.5 million | 3.49x | |
| 34 | Brüno | Larry Charles | $42 million | $139 million | 3.31x | |
| 35 | Julie & Julia | Nora Ephron | $40 million | $129.5 million | 3.24x | |
| 36 | Law Abiding Citizen | F. Gary Gray | $53 million | $127.9 million | 2.41x | |
| 37 | Surrogates | Jonathan Mostow | $80 million | $122.4 million | 1.53x | |
| 38 | Invictus | Clint Eastwood | $50 million | $122.2 million | 2.44x | |
| 39 | Hotel for Dogs | Thor Freudenthal | $35 million | $117.3 million | 3.35x | |
| 40 | Bride Wars | Gary Winick | $30 million | $115.8 million | 3.86x | |
| 41 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | P. J. Hogan | $44 million | $108.3 million | 2.46x | |
| 42 | Race to Witch Mountain | Andy Fickman | $50 million | $106.4 million | 2.13x | |
| 43 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | $13 million | $104 million | 8.00x | |
| 44 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Mark Waters | $37.5 million | $102.4 million | 2.73x | |
| 44 | Zombieland | Ruben Fleischer | $23.6 million | $102.4 million | 4.34x | |
| 46 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Robert Schwentke | $39 million | $101.3 million | 2.60x | |
| 47 | My Bloody Valentine 3D | Patrick Lussier | $14 million | $100.7 million | 7.19x | |
| 48 | Where the Wild Things Are | Spike Jonze | $100 million | $100.1 million | 1.00x | |
| 49 | Old Dogs | Walt Becker | $35 million | $96.8 million | 2.77x | |
| 50 | The Lovely Bones | Peter Jackson | $65 million | $93.6 million | 1.44x | |
| 51 | Friday the 13th | Marcus Nispel | $19 million | $92.7 million | 4.88x | |
| 51 | My Sister's Keeper | Nick Cassavetes | $30 million | $92.7 million | 3.09x | |
| 53 | I Love You, Man | John Hamburg | $40 million | $92 million | 2.30x | |
| 54 | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans | Patrick Tatopoulos | $35 million | $91.4 million | 2.61x | |
| 55 | Drag Me to Hell | Sam Raimi | $30 million | $90.8 million | 3.03x | |
| 56 | Madea Goes to Jail | Tyler Perry | $17.5 million | $90.5 million | 5.17x | |
| 57 | State of Play | Kevin Macdonald | $60 million | $88.8 million | 1.48x | |
| 58 | Did You Hear About the Morgans? | Marc Lawrence | $58 million | $85.3 million | 1.47x | |
| 59 | The Haunting in Connecticut | Peter Cornwell | $10 million | $78.8 million | 7.88x | |
| 59 | Orphan | Jaume Collet-Serra | $20 million | $78.8 million | 3.94x | |
| 61 | Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard | Luc Besson | €65 million | $78.5 million | ||
| 62 | Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | $60 million | $78.1 million | 1.30x | |
| 63 | Fame | Alan Parker | $18 million | $77.2 million | 4.29x | |
| 64 | The Unborn | David S. Goyer | $16 million | $76.5 million | 4.78x | |
| 65 | The Pink Panther 2 | Harald Zwart | $70 million | $76 million | 1.09x | |
| 66 | Obsessed | Steve Shill | $20 million | $73.8 million | 3.69x | |
| 67 | Funny People | Judd Apatow | $75 million | $71 million | 0.95x | |
| 68 | Saw VI | Kevin Greutert | $11 million | $69.8 million | 6.35x | |
| 69 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Grant Heslov | $24 million | $69.1 million | 2.88x | |
| 70 | Land of the Lost | Brad Silberling | $100 million | $69 million | 0.69x | |
| 71 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | $30 million | $64.4 million | 2.15x | |
| 72 | Precious | Lee Daniels | $10 million | $63.3 million | 6.33x | |
| 73 | Year One | Harold Ramis | $75 million | $62.4 million | 0.83x | |
| 74 | Ninja Assassin | James McTeigue | $30 million | $61.6 million | 2.05x | |
| 75 | The International | Tom Tykwer | $50 million | $60.2 million | 1.20x | |
| 76 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb | $7.5 million | $60 million | 8.00x | |
| 77 | Aliens in the Attic | John Schultz | $45 million | $59.6 million | 1.32x | |
| 78 | Dragonball Evolution | James Wong | $30 million | $56.5 million | 1.88x | |
| 79 | Nine | Rob Marshall | $80 million | $54 million | 0.68x | |
| 80 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Tyler Perry | $19 million | $51.7 million | 2.72x | |
| 81 | Daybreakers | Michael Spierig | $20 million | $51.4 million | 2.57x | |
| 82 | The Fourth Kind | Olatunde Osunsanmi | $10 million | $49.5 million | 4.95x | |
| 83 | Push | Paul McGuigan | $38 million | $48.9 million | 1.29x | |
| 84 | Crazy Heart | Scott Cooper | $7 million | $47.4 million | 6.77x | |
| 85 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | Lasse Hallström | $16 million | $46.7 million | 2.92x | |
| 86 | The Last House on the Left | Dennis Iliadis | $15 million | $46 million | 3.07x | |
| 87 | Notorious | George Tillman, Jr. | $20 million | $44.4 million | 2.22x | |
| 88 | Brothers | Jim Sheridan | $26 million | $43.5 million | 1.67x | |
| 89 | The Uninvited | Charles Guard | $42.7 million | |||
| 90 | Gamer | Brian Taylor | $50 million | $42 million | 0.84x | |
| 91 | The Informant! | Steven Soderbergh | $22 million | $41.8 million | 1.90x | |
| 92 | All About Steve | Phil Traill | $15 million | $40.1 million | 2.67x | |
| 93 | Halloween II | Rob Zombie | $15 million | $39.4 million | 2.63x | |
| 94 | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Paul Weitz | $40 million | $39.2 million | 0.98x | |
| 95 | Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | €50 million | $39 million | ||
| 96 | A Simple Noodle Story | Zhang Yimou | $12 million | $38.6 million | 3.22x | |
| 97 | The Soloist | Joe Wright | $60 million | $38.3 million | 0.64x | |
| 98 | Broken Embraces | Pedro Almodóvar | $18 million | $37.4 million | 2.08x | |
| 99 | Brooklyn's Finest | Antoine Fuqua | $17 million | $36.4 million | 2.14x | |
| 100 | Pirate Radio | Richard Curtis | $50 million | $36.3 million | 0.73x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.