Movies produced in 2008
Bangkok Dangerous
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 06 Nov 2008
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A professional hit man, who picks someone of the street to do his errands, and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok, and as usual, he finds a street kid named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who he is, asks him to train him and he does. He also meets a local girl who is deaf and spends time with her. However, has a hard keeping his other life from her, and it also appears, the person who hired him, breaks his rule of complete anonymity and tries to find him.
007 Quantum of Solace
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 2008, UK, USA , added: 10 Nov 2008
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QUANTUM OF SOLACE continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) in CASINO ROYALE. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (JUDI DENCH) interrogate Mr White (JESPER CHRISTENSEN) who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Forensic intelligence links an Mi6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (OLGA KURYLENKO), a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (MATHIEU AMALRIC), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organization. On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world's most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (JOAQUIN COSIO). Using his associates in the organization, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land. In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene's sinister plan and stop his organization.
Burn After Reading
Comedy / Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 11 Nov 2008
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A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Pineapple Express
Comedy / Crime / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 11 Nov 2008
Description:
Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
House
Drama / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 11 Nov 2008
Description:
Two couples finding their way to different location both find their cars to be wrecked and ran from the wreckage. Both couples find their way to this House in which a few back woods inhabitants live... none are taken for more then they appear... until... a can is sent down the chimney in to the house. It is sent by and evil sadistic "Tin Man" the house rules... "Welcome to my house. House rules: 1. God came into my house and i killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who comes into my house as i killed God. 3. Give me one dead body and i might let rule two slide. GAME OVER AT DAWN." The couples are sent into a raging search to find a way out or find who should be killed. They meet up with a little girl along the way. Susan. Is she the one... but she will help them out... by digging into their hearts... or will she?
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Documentary , produced in 2008, USA , added: 11 Nov 2008
Description:
Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom ... What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth ... that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance. To which Ben Says: Enough! And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Adventure / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2008, UK, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
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A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan's magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile. Now the children must find Caspian and help him depose Miraz...but how will they get home after it's done?
Tropic Thunder
Action / Comedy / War , produced in 2008, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
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Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Action / Adventure / Animation / Sci-Fi , produced in 2008, Singapore, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
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As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. More and more systems are falling prey to the forces of the dark side as the Galactic Republic slips further and further under the sway of the Separatists and their never-ending droid army. Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano find themselves on a mission with far-reaching consequences, one that brings them face-to-face with crime lord Jabba the Hutt. But Count Dooku and his sinister agents, including the nefarious Asajj Ventress, will stop at nothing to ensure that Anakin and Ahsoka fail at their quest. Meanwhile, on the front lines of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda lead the massive clone army in a valiant effort to resist the forces of the dark side ...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance , produced in 2008, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
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In "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," based on Ann Brashares' best-selling series of novels, four young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have-with honesty and humor. Discovering their individual strengths, fears, talents and capacity for love through the choices they make, they come to value more than ever the bond they share and the immeasurable power of their friendship.
Traitor
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
Description:
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.
Make It Happen
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 17 Nov 2008
Description:
Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
Step Brothers
Comedy , produced in 2008, USA , added: 18 Nov 2008
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Two spoiled guys become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Comedy , produced in 2008, UK , added: 19 Nov 2008
Description:
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
Space Chimps
Adventure / Animation / Comedy , produced in 2008, USA , added: 19 Nov 2008
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Two NASA chimps that are sent to a galaxy far, far away. One chimp has "The Right Stuff," and the other, a good natured goofball, has "The Wrong Stuff." The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2008, USA , added: 24 Nov 2008
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A science professor whose radical theories have completely tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two explorers find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. And so they go on a quest to find out what has happened to the scientist's missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discovers a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There they discover a bizarre landscape filled with terrifying creatures.
Saw V
Action / Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 01 Dec 2008
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Detective Hoffman and Agent Strahm clash as they each investigate the apparent continuation of the Jigsaw murders.
Elegy
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 01 Dec 2008
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Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
The House Bunny
Comedy , produced in 2008, , added: 01 Dec 2008
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When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority - who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their house. They need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide... but they will each learn on their own to stop pretending to be what others want them to be and start being themselves.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Action / Comedy , produced in 2008, USA , added: 01 Dec 2008
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Zohan Dvir works as a Special Agent and lives with his orthodox parents in Israel. He wants to give up this life, which is full of dangerous encounters with Palestinians. While in the process of apprehending a Palestinian activist, known simply as the Phantom, he fakes his death, hides in a dog-kennel on a plane bound for New York, and decides to try his hand as a hair-stylist. He is refused employment initially, but when he offers to work for free, Dahlia hires him as a cleaner. When an hair-stylist, Debbie, quits, Zohan replaces her, wins over elderly female clientèle, and falls in love with Dahlia herself. Before Zohan could propose to her, Dahlia's landlord, Walbridge, who has been raising rents regularly, hires skinhead goons to terrorize the neighborhood, create misunderstandings between Jews, Muslim, Arabs, and Palestinians, and drive them out, so as to enable him to construct a new building which is topped by a roller coaster. When Zohan decides to confront these skinheads, he does not realize that he is in for quite a few surprises himself.
Twilight
Action / Horror / Romance / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 03 Dec 2008
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A teenage girl - Bella - moves to Forks Washington to live with her father when her mother gets remarried. Upon arriving in Forks, Bella learns about a mysterious family of very beautiful people. When she meets one of the 5 children - Edward - she finds herself spinning into a mind boggling tale of one of the deepest and scariest loves. even when she finds out what Edward truly is, she still takes risk after risk so that she can stay with her vampire sweetheart.
Beer for My Horses
Comedy , produced in 2008, USA , added: 08 Dec 2008
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Bill Racklin is a deputy sheriff in Greer County Oklahoma, the crystal meth capital of the region. His girlfriend leaves him because he's inattentive to her, but things look up when his high-school sweetheart, Annie Streets, returns home to care for her ailing mother. Annie's step-father, Buck Baker, is the local heartless rich guy, buying up farmland. On a stakeout, Rack and two other deputies arrest four men stealing fertilizer to make crystal meth; one of the four is the brother of a notorious Mexican drug dealer. The drug lord arranges Annie's kidnapping and holds her to ransom his brother. Rack and the deputies, prisoner in tow, head for Mexico to rescue her.
What Happens in Vegas
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2008, USA , added: 09 Dec 2008
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They have never met each other before one night when a vegas hotel inadvertantly puts them in one room. Joy McNally (Cameron Diaz) is suffering the engagement break up, Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) has just been fired by his own father. Sharing each other's desperation, they decide to drink their problems away. Waking on the next morning, they realize that they got married! Moreover, Jack wins a huge jackpot. Now it's a dilemma for each of the newlyweds - how to get a divorce and how to keep all of the money to themselves, and it all becomes even harder when they finally do fall in love. Is there a solution?
Open Season 2
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2008, USA , added: 10 Dec 2008
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After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners.
JCVD
Comedy / Crime / Drama , produced in 2008, Belgium, France, Luxembourg , added: 10 Dec 2008
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Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! In JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.
Man on Wire
Crime / Documentary , produced in 2008, UK, USA , added: 12 Dec 2008
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A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
Transporter 3
Action , produced in 2008, France , added: 15 Dec 2008
Description:
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian 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 delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2008, USA , added: 15 Dec 2008
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In the sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", New York Zoo animals, Alex the performing lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), wisecracking Marty the Zebra (voiced by Chris Rock), hypochondriac Melman the Giraffe (voced by David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith), find themselves stranded on the remote shores of Madagascar. Contrary to all expectations, the picturesque island doesn't seem to be a quiet and safe place: perils lay in wait for the zoo-raised friends at every turn. Accustomed to the comfort of the Central Park zoo, they decide to leave the island. However, the plane crash-lands in the vast grassy plains of Africa, where Alex encounters his long-lost relatives. He is happy to reunite with his family but he soon discovers that he has little in common with his pride.
Surveillance
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2008, Germany, USA , added: 16 Dec 2008
Description:
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
The Duchess
Drama / History , produced in 2008, France, Italy, UK , added: 17 Dec 2008
Description:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
