2008

The Wrestler 2008

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.

Category: Drama, Sport

Stars: Mickey Rourke,Marisa Tomei,Evan Rachel Wood,Mark Margolis

7.9 IMDB Rating 5,099 Views
The Eye 2008

The violinist Sydney Wells has been blind since she was five years old due to an accident. She submits to a surgery of cornea transplantation to recover her vision, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she's having strange visions. With the support of Dr. Paul Faulkner, Sidney finds who the donor of her eyes and begins a journey to find out the truth behind her visions.

Category: Mystery

Stars: Jessica Alba,Alessandro Nivola,Parker Posey,Rade Serbedzija

5.4 IMDB Rating 5,636 Views
Quarantine 2008

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Category: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Columbus Short

5.9 IMDB Rating 6,252 Views
Slumdog Millionaire 2008

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000) (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?) But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Dev Patel,Saurabh Shukla,Anil Kapoor,Raj Zutshi

8.0 IMDB Rating 12,055 Views
College Road Trip 2008

Melanie Porter (Raven-Symone)is a talented high school graduate who has selected a University 800 miles from home. Her over protective father, James (Martin Lawrence) doesn't want her to be so far away, so he cooks up a plot to try to convince her to go to a local University. On the guise of going to her selected university, he forces a visit to his preferred (close to home) school. This is a typical road trip movie with lost cars, bumming rides on buses and planes, covering that difficult time of life when a father loses control of his daughter.

Category: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Martin Lawrence,Raven-Symoné,Kym Whitley,Adam LeFevre

4.2 IMDB Rating 6,681 Views
The Other Boleyn Girl 2008

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Natalie Portman,Scarlett Johansson,Eric Bana,Jim Sturgess

6.7 IMDB Rating 6,925 Views
New York, I Love You 2008

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper

6.2 IMDB Rating 4,334 Views
Hancock 2008

The powerful superhero John Hancock has become a joke because of his alcoholism and clumsiness. He has also become the most hated man in Los Angeles. Though he has saved many lives, he also destroyed a lot of property, costing the city millions every time he goes into action. When he saves the life of PR expert Ray Embrey from an oncoming train, the executive is thankful and believes he can restore Hancock's image as a true superhero. He brings the anti-hero home for dinner and introduces him to his son Aaron, a big fan, and to his wife, Mary. But for some mysterious reason Mary doesn't want Hancock anywhere near her or her family.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Will Smith,Charlize Theron,Jason Bateman,Jae Head

6.4 IMDB Rating 11,007 Views
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 2008

Carmen Lowell is working on the backstage of a play at Yale. When the lead actress, her friend Julia, invites her to Vermont with her to work on a play with a professional cast, she decides to stay with her friends and her pregnant mother. However, she changes her mind after she finds that her friends will all leave for the summer: Lena Kaligaris will travel to a drawing course, Bridget Vreeland, who is in an existential crisis, missing her mother, will travel to an archaeological dig in Turkey, and Tibby Tomko-Rollins is working in a rental and still editing her documentary. Carmen grows a crush on the lead actor Ian, who convinces her to participate in an audition, and she is then invited by the director Bill Kerr to perform the lead female role. Later she finds the truth about the friendship of Julia. The broken-hearted Lena finds that Kostas has just married, and she dates the model of her drawing class. Bridget finds letters addressed to her from her grandmother that her father has hidden, and decides to visit her, discovering information about her mother. Tibby makes love with her boyfriend Brian McBrian and gets scared of a possible pregnancy. In the end, the girlfriends discover that their friendship is real and amounts to more than just a pair of jeans.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Family

Stars: Amber Tamblyn,Alexis Bledel,America Ferrera,Blake Lively

6.2 IMDB Rating 9,021 Views
Generation Kill 2008

A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.

Category: Uncategorised

Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen

8.5 IMDB Rating 23,107 Views
Lakeview Terrace 2008

In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson,Patrick Wilson,Kerry Washington,Ron Glass

6.1 IMDB Rating 6,644 Views
The Bank Job 2008

Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off?

Category: Crime, Thriller

Stars: Jason Statham,Saffron Burrows,Stephen Campbell Moore,Daniel Mays

7.3 IMDB Rating 8,477 Views
Ip Man 2008

In 1935 in Foshan, south China, there are martial arts schools on every street corner. Ip Man is the undisputed martial arts champion, yet he has not devoted himself to teaching. Despite this, it seems that all the kung fu masters of the city are eager to fight him to improve their reputation.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Donnie Yen,Simon Yam,Lynn Hung,Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

8.1 IMDB Rating 9,677 Views
The Hurt Locker 2008

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Category: Drama, Thriller, War

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty

7.5 IMDB Rating 10,095 Views
Taken 2008

A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Category: Action, Thriller

Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries

7.8 IMDB Rating 10,795 Views
Nothing But the Truth 2008

In Washington, D.C., a reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,229 Views
Day of the Dead 2008

In Leadville, Colorado, Captain Rhodes and his army seals off the town to contain an influenza-type epidemic. The locals are not allowed to leave the town and the Pine Valley Medical Center is crowded with sick people. Corporal Sarah Bowman was born and raised in Leadville and goes to her home with Private Bud Crain to visit her mother. Sarah finds that her mother is ill and takes her to the local hospital. However, the sick people suddenly transform in flesh eating, fast moving zombies which attack the non-infected humans. Sarah, Bud and Private Salazar get a jeep and head to the town exit to escape from the dead. But Sarah hears the voice of her brother, Trevor, on the radio and is compelled to go to the radio station where Trevor is hidden with his girlfriend Nina. The group of survivors drives to the isolated Nike missile site seeking shelter, where they discover an underground army base.

Category: Action, Horror, Thriller

Stars: Mena Suvari,Nick Cannon,Michael Welch,AnnaLynne McCord,Stark Sands,Matt Rippy,Pat Kilbane,Taylor Hoover,Christa Campbell,Ian McNeice,Ving Rhames,Robert Rais,Michael McCoy,Laura Giosh,Vanessa Johansson

4.5 IMDB Rating 8,218 Views
In Bruges 2008

London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lie low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander. Harry will be in touch with further instructions. While they wait for Harry's call, Ken, following Harry's advice, takes in the sights of the medieval city with great appreciation. But the charms of Bruges are lost on the simpler Ray, who is already despondent over the innocent death, especially as it was his first job. Things change for Ray when he meets Chloe, part of a film crew shooting a movie starring an American dwarf named Jimmy. When Harry's instructions arrive, Ken, for whom the job is directed, isn't sure if he can carry out the new job, especially as he has gained a new appreciation of life from his stay in the fairytale Bruges. While Ken waits for the inevitable arrival into Bruges of an angry Harry, who feels he must clean up matters on his own, Ray is dealing with his own problems, not only with Harry, but with a Canadian couple and a half-blind thief named Eirik. Ray hopes he can count on both Chloe and Ken to help him carve out a new life for himself. In the end, Harry, involved in an incident with Jimmy, may have to keep to his own principles.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stars: Elizabeth Berrington,Rudy Blomme,Olivier Bonjour,Mark Donovan

8.0 IMDB Rating 8,270 Views
Appaloosa 2008

1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole and Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy?

Category: Crime, Drama, Western

Stars: Robert Jauregui,Jeremy Irons,Timothy V. Murphy,Luce Rains

6.8 IMDB Rating 7,697 Views
The Black Balloon 2008

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson

7.3 IMDB Rating 8,305 Views