In Pictures: Films of the year 2010

(***)The Social Network(***) tells the story of the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook

(***)Four Lions(***) tells the story of a group of British jihadists and their abstract dreams of glory

(***)The Road(***) is the post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means

(***)Green Zone(***) looks at the US-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003

(***)The Hurt Locker(***) tells the story of an elite US army bomb squad unit during the Iraq war

(***)Another Year(***) is the story of one happy couple surrounded by unhappy people desperately trying to make sense of their lives

The grimy, offbeat little French comedy (***)Mammuth(***) centers around a retiree who battles to obtain his rightfully due pension

(***)Wasteland(***), a documentary about the transformative power of art, is viewed as one of the most inspiring films this year

(***)The Arbor(***) is the powerful true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and her troubled relationship with her daughter Lorraine

(***)The Cove(***) is a brutally honest and fascinating film about one specific cove in Taiji, Japan, in which approximately 23,000 dolphins are killed every year

(***)Catfish(***) is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue

(***)I(***)m Still Here(***) is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix

(***)Restrepo(***) is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan(***)s Korengal valley

(***)True Grit(***) follows a teenage girl that enlists a bounty hunter to help track her father(***)s killer

(***)Waiting for Superman(***) explores the current state of public education in the US and how it is affecting the children

The animated comedy (***)Shrek Forever After(***) follows the green ogre as he loses his roar and tries to save his friends, restore his world and reclaim his one true love

(***)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(***) follows Harry Potter on a quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort(***)s secret to immortality

(***)Inception(***) looks into a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion

(***)Kick Ass(***) follows one high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero

(***)Monsters(***) is a sci-fi movie about aliens in Mexico

(***)Mugabe and the White African(***) charts one family(***)s extraordinary courage in the face of a relentless campaign of state-sanctioned terror

(***)Rabbit Hole(***) follows one couple as they struggle to overcome the death of their son

(***)Tron Legacy(***) - the son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed

(***)Biutiful(***) tells the story of a father of two who, sensing the danger of death, tries to reconcile with love and save his children, as he tries to save himself

(***)Blue Valentine(***) centers on a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods

(***)Gnomeo and Juliet(***) is an upcoming animated film following two garden gnomes that have to overcome as many obstacles as their Shakespearean namesakes

The upcoming computer animated film (***)Rio(***) follows a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro