Best movies of 2008

Titles indexed: 286

The Dark Knight

Rating: 8.5

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantl...

Iron Man

Rating: 7.7

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil....

Twilight

Rating: 6.3

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals him...

WALL·E

Rating: 8.1

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he ...

Kung Fu Panda

Rating: 7.3

Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy th...

Taken

Rating: 7.4

Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wif...

Tropic Thunder

Rating: 6.7

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movi...

Suspect X

Rating: 7.6

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Dete...

Bolt

Rating: 6.5

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York Cit...

Knight Rider

Rating: 6.3

When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to ...

Deadgirl

Rating: 5.3

When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospi...

Tears of April

Rating: 6.0

There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be execu...

Wanted

Rating: 6.5

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recentl...

Punishment

Rating: 3.8

Jonah is a hitman by trade and a man on a mission of revenge. But things go horribly wrong whilst trying to escape the police....

Ponyo

Rating: 7.8

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bar...

Beauty

Rating: 0.0

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio,...

Milk

Rating: 7.2

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becom...

Love

Rating: 4.7

Love is a 2008 Indonesian anthology romance film directed by Kabir Bhatia as a remake of the 2006 film Cinta . In Jakarta, five couples of ...

Mamma Mia!

Rating: 7.0

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in h...

The Duchess

Rating: 7.0

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and perso...

College

Rating: 4.6

A wild weekend is in store for three high school seniors who visit a local college campus as prospective freshmen....

Cloverfield

Rating: 6.7

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told ...

Rambo

Rating: 6.7

In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of ...

Hancock

Rating: 6.4

Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damag...

Sex and the City

Rating: 6.6

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of th...

Blindness

Rating: 6.5

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific cond...

Eagle Eye

Rating: 6.5

Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Thr...

Sauna

Rating: 6.2

It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats ...

27 Dresses

Rating: 6.4

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores....

Loft

Rating: 6.9

Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Sin...

Krabat

Rating: 5.9

A 14-year-old orphan named Krabat flees the horrors of the 30 Years War by becoming an apprentice to an ominous master of a mysterious mill....

Leatherheads

Rating: 5.9

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted int...

UPCAT

Rating: 0.0

A story of two high school senior students who believes passing the UPCAT will help make their dreams of becoming successful come true....

Barbie Mariposa

Rating: 6.8

Elina, heroine of the Fairytopia films tells her friend Bibble the story of Flutterfield, a faraway kingdom populated by fairies with butter...

Never Back Down

Rating: 6.8

Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan, head...

Before the Fall

Rating: 5.7

A meteorite is about to collide with Earth and the planet is gripped by despair and chaos. The inhabitants of the little town of Laguna list...

The Reader

Rating: 7.5

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappea...

Smart People

Rating: 5.8

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to ...

10,000 BC

Rating: 5.5

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe....

Australia

Rating: 6.6

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in or...

Death Race

Rating: 6.3

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monoli...

Traitor

Rating: 6.7

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back ...

Jumper

Rating: 6.2

David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he dis...

Inkheart

Rating: 6.3

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative....

Get Smart

Rating: 6.2

When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents are compromised, t...

Igor

Rating: 5.9

A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil scien...

Cass

Rating: 5.9

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London...

Tokyo!

Rating: 6.9

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing ped...

In Bruges

Rating: 7.5

Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss t...

Jump

Rating: 5.0

JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, ...

21

Rating: 6.7

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of...

Trucker

Rating: 5.9

Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, ...

The Express

Rating: 7.1

Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy....

Good

Rating: 6.1

When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social stan...

Cadillac Records

Rating: 7.1

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legen...

Bride Flight

Rating: 6.7

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war b...

The Happening

Rating: 5.4

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contamin...

Dark Floors

Rating: 4.9

A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish ...

Gran Torino

Rating: 8.0

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prize...

The Hurt Locker

Rating: 7.3

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 handl...

Elegy

Rating: 6.3

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Cons...

Smother

Rating: 4.9

After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with...

Home Movie

Rating: 4.9

Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old tw...

RocknRolla

Rating: 6.9

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue ...

The Bank Job

Rating: 6.8

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old nei...

Eden Lake

Rating: 6.8

When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local ki...

Take Out

Rating: 6.8

An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up ...

Goth

Rating: 6.2

Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the stre...

Step Brothers

Rating: 6.6

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbr...

Martyrs

Rating: 7.3

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim ...

Wijster

Rating: 6.0

On 2 December 1975, a journalist is one of many passengers on the slow train that is kidnapped near Wijster by young South Moluccans. After ...

Death in Love

Rating: 4.8

Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi ...

Teenage Angst

Rating: 5.0

At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escap...

Wild Child

Rating: 6.7

Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, ...

Afterwards

Rating: 5.5

Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die...

Marley & Me

Rating: 7.2

A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Mar...

Breathe

Rating: 5.0

A group of divers set out on a journey to film and explore the beauty of the ocean. However, during their latest dive, their oxygen runs low...

The Torturer

Rating: 3.4

Rick (Andrew W. Walker) is a man raised with solid American values, who was trained as a "special interrogator" in Iraq. He does and experie...

Boy A

Rating: 7.1

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins datin...

Saw V

Rating: 6.2

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's p...

Ghost Town

Rating: 6.5

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. E...

Vantage Point

Rating: 6.4

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight stran...

Solo

Rating: 5.5

Michôd and Peedom's hour-long documentary recounts the tale of Andrew McAuley, an Australian adventurer who, in 2006, launched a quest to be...

The Tender Hook

Rating: 5.2

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest yo...

Speed Racer

Rating: 6.3

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up wit...

Red Cliff

Rating: 7.1

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of Ch...

Xenobites

Rating: 6.0

After the fifth war, the crime rate rises over five hundred percent. Law enforcement is replaced by xenobites: psychotic demons that execute...

Departures

Rating: 7.8

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he...

U Me Aur Hum

Rating: 6.2

The movie starts with Ajay (Ajay Devgan) telling a boy that he should make his move on a girl he likes. The boy (who is his son) tells him t...

Love Exposure

Rating: 8.0

The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the...

Meet Dave

Rating: 5.3

A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem,...

Sisterhood

Rating: 4.5

Catherine St.John-Burke is an independent, uptight, status obsessed, sophisticated, British woman, living alone in London's Chelsea, and doi...

Defiance

Rating: 6.8

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the ...

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