When it opened in November 2010, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1" broke all sorts of box office records and ultimately landed a spot among the Top 15 highest-grossing movies of all time. The new records it set for the movie franchise were broken again less than a year later by the second installment of the movie based on J.K Rowling's book of the same title and the final film of the entire series. The seventh installment of the Harry Potter film series, directed by David Yates, starts up where "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" left off. It chronicles Harry (Daniel Radcliffe and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) as they try to discover and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality. Though it stands on its own as a film, Part 1 is clearly a setup for the end of the series. It is one of the darkest and most emotional films in the franchise as the main characters deal with deaths of friends, tests of friendship, torture, kidnapping, Death Eaters and other gruesome creatures. Like all the films in the franchise, this one contains slick special effects and plenty of action scenes. Mostly, the movie sets the stage for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2."