2008

The Colour of Magic 2008

A cowardly wizard is roped into a life of adventure. A tale from the first two books of Terry Pratchett's fantasy series "Discworld".

Category: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Stars: David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, Jeremy Irons

7.1 IMDB Rating 6,322 Views
The Dark Knight 2008

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine

9.0 IMDB Rating 10,293 Views
Franklyn 2008

A portrait of the broken lives of four people (a vigilante detective, a worried parent, an awkward man looking for love and a suicidal artist) as they all struggle to cope in their religiously-dystopian city.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Stars: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,987 Views
Speed Racer 2008

Young driver Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.

Category: Action, Family, Kids, Sci-Fi

Stars: Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci

6.0 IMDB Rating 7,482 Views
Righteous Kill 2008

Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.

Category: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,144 Views
Wanted 2008

A frustrated office worker discovers that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.

Category: Action, Crime, Fantasy

Stars: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman

6.7 IMDB Rating 12,894 Views
Never Back Down 2008

A frustrated and conflicted teenager arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club and meet a classmate who begins to coerce him into fighting.

Category: Action, Drama, Sport

Stars: Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, Evan Peters

6.6 IMDB Rating 13,070 Views
Revolutionary Road 2008

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,789 Views
The Oxford Murders 2008

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Category: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Stars: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,279 Views
Be Kind Rewind 2008

In Passaic, NJ, Elroy Fletcher runs a video store in a condemned building he claims was the birthplace of Fats Waller. Fletcher goes on a Waller centennial trip, leaving his foster son Mike in charge of the store. Mike's peculiar friend Jerry tries to sabotage a power station and nearly electrocutes himself, getting magnetized in the process. He inadvertently erases every tape in the store. Mike and Jerry hatch an plan to hide the disaster by making a homemade "Ghostbusters" to rent to a woman whom Fletcher will be phoning to check on them. Soon, with help, their homemade versions of films develop a cult following. Will this new business save the store and the building? What about Fats?

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,896 Views
Felon 2008

A family man Wade Porter is living the American Dream with his girlfriend Laura and their son Michael: they have a nice house, he has just raised a loan to make his company grow and they are going to get married. However their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar that had broken into their house in the middle of the night on his lawn. He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. During the transportation, there is an incident in the bus and Wade is framed and sent to the maximum security wing under the command of the corrupt Lieutenant Jackson. His cell-mate John Smith that was sentenced to life revenging the death of his family befriends Wade and gives helpful advices and hope to Wade to return to his family.

Category: Crime, Drama

Stars: Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller, Anne Archer

7.4 IMDB Rating 7,235 Views
Elegy 2008

David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married, who advises David to grow up and grow old. She invites him to meet her family. His own son, from a long-ended marriage, confronts him. Is the elegy for lost relationships, lost possibilities, beauty and time passing, or failure of nerve?

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,123 Views
Transporter 3 2008

Frank Martin is forced to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe deliver

Category: Action, Adventure, Crime

Stars: Jason Statham, Robert Knepper, Natalya Rudakova

6.1 IMDB Rating 10,984 Views
Prom Night 2008

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Category: Horror

Stars: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup

3.9 IMDB Rating 5,248 Views
Punisher: War Zone 2008

Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, ruthlessly demolishes organized crime, but it starts an even bigger war.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama

Stars: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz

5.9 IMDB Rating 7,376 Views
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008

Centuries ago, the evil Emperor Han was cursed by the sorceress Zi Yuan who transformed him and his army into mummies. In 1946, the explorer Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn O'Connell are invited by the British government to take a relic, the diamond "The Eye of Shangri-La" to China. The ancient stone is capable of resurrecting the Emperor Han and of pointing the way to Shangri-La and the eternal pool of life. When the couple reaches China, they meet their son Alex O'Connell, who has discovered the tomb of Han, and Evelyn's brother Jonathan Carnahan. The O'Connells are betrayed by their friend Prof. Roger Wilson, who is associated with General Yang. Yang wants to serve Emperor Han, so he resurrects the mummy and they head for Shangri-La. The guardian of Han's tomb (and Zi's daughter) Lin tells them that the only ways to destroy Han are to prevent him from reaching Shangri-La or by stabbing his heart with a cursed dagger.

Category: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah

5.2 IMDB Rating 9,412 Views
10,000 BC 2008

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-toothed cats and terror birds in the Levant.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama

Stars: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel

5.1 IMDB Rating 7,718 Views
$5 a Day 2008

The son of a thrifty conman begrudgingly joins his father on the road.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Sharon Stone, Dean Cain

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,549 Views
Nim’s Island 2008

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Category: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Stars: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,116 Views
Bedtime Stories 2008

In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he has grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the handyman of his hotel. The general manager is the arrogant Kendall, who is engaged with the shallow Barry's daughter Violet Nottingham. When the Webster Elementary School where Wendy is the principal will be closed to be demolished, she needs to travel to Arizona for a job interview. Wendy asks her friend Jill, who is teacher in the same school, to watch her son Patrick and her daughter Bobbi during the day and Skeeter to watch them during the night. Skeeter meets the estranged kids with his best friend Mickey and makes up bedtime stories to help them to sleep but the kids add details to the stories, changing their endings. Soon Skeeter realizes that the plot of the stories are coming true and affecting his life. Meanwhile Barry Nottingham decides to give a change to Skeeter to dispute the manager position in his new hotel with Kendall like in one of his stories. But Skeeter has told to his nephew and his niece that stories do not have happy endings.

Category: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand

6.0 IMDB Rating 8,018 Views