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Mongol

Mongol

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaHistory
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Honglei Sun, Amadu Mamadakov, Ying Bai, Aliya, Tegen Ao, Khulan Chuluun, Amarbold Tuvshinbayar
📖 Synopsis: Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, "Mongol" delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temu...
Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone

📅 Release: October 19, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaMystery
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Robert Wahlberg, Amy Madigan, Amy Ryan
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama "Gone Baby Gone," directed by [c=Ben Affleck], a young private investigator named Patrick Kenzie, portrayed by [c=Casey Affleck], is drawn into a harrowing case when a four-year...
Superhero Movie

Superhero Movie

📅 Release: March 28, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner, Jeffrey Tambor, Robert Joy, Regina Hall, Pamela Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Tracy Morgan, Marion Ross, Ryan Hansen
📖 Synopsis: How many superheroes does it take to save the world? The creators of "The Naked Gun" and "Scary Movie" answer this question in hysterical "David Zucker" fashion with the uproarious comedy "Superhero M...
Prom Night

Prom Night

📅 Release: April 11, 2008
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Brianne Davis, Dana Davis, Jessica Troup, Scott Porter, Collins Pennie, Kelly Blatz,Idris Elba, Jessalyn Gilsig
📖 Synopsis: For three friends, the most magical night of high school becomes a terrifying fight for survival in this chilling horror-thriller. Donna Keppel, played by [c=Brittany Snow], is still haunted by the b...
Go-Getter, The

Go-Getter, The

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone, Maura Tierney, Bill Duke, Giuseppe Andrews, Kathleen M. Darcy
📖 Synopsis: "The Go-Getter" is a vivid road movie, fun and full of surprising twists (with an instantly-classic rock'n'roll score by M. Ward). It's the story of Mercer White, an endearingly straight-arrow 19-year...
When Did You Last See Your Father?

When Did You Last See Your Father?

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew Beard, Tom Clear, Gina McKee, Carey Mulligan, Sarah Lancashire, Elaine Cassidy
📖 Synopsis: Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), and his wife Kim (Juliet Stevenson), are GPs in the same medical practice in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. They have two children, Gillian (Claire Skinner), and he...
Miss Conception

Miss Conception

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner, Tom Ellis, Laurence Doherty, Nathan Hughes, Debbie Javor
📖 Synopsis: Georgina Scott (Heather Graham) is a broody 33 year-old who sends her partner packing when it becomes obvious that he doesn't share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak (Tom Ellis) was going away on a ...
Promotion, The

Promotion, The

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Rick Gonzalez, Masi Oka, Fred Armisen, Gil Bellows, Lili Taylor, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Conrad
📖 Synopsis: Oscar-nominated actor, John C. Reilly ("Chicago," "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby") and Seann William Scott ("American Pie") lend their deft comedic touch to the story of two mid-level Ch...
Mother Of Tears

Mother Of Tears

📅 Release: June 6, 2008
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Asia Argento, Cristian Solimeno, Adam James, Moran Atias, Valeria Cavalli, Philippe Leroy, Daria Nicolodi
📖 Synopsis: An ancient urn chained to a coffin is unhearted by chance by some men at work along the road bordering the Viterbo's cemetery. The urn contains an age-old tunic and some objects belonging to Mater Lac...
Fall, The

Fall, The

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: AdventureDramaFantasy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Sean Gilder, Ronald France, Andrew Roussouw, Daniel Caltagirone, Julian Bleach
📖 Synopsis: Languishing in a hospital, Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is a broken man in more ways than one: Unable to walk after a fall from a horse in a movie stunt gone wrong, his heart is also broken after his girlfri...
Foot Fist Way, The

Foot Fist Way, The

📅 Release: May 30, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Danny McBride, Ben Best, Mary Jane Bostic, Ken Aguilar, Tyler Baum, Sean Baxter, Bruce Cameron
📖 Synopsis: "The Foot Fist Way," an uproarious, full-contact comedy featuring one of this year's least likely heroes, is the first project from Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions. "The Foot Fi...
Stuck

Stuck

📅 Release: May 30, 2008
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, John Dartt, John Dunsworth, Mauricio Hoyos, Wally MacKinnon, Patrick McKenna
📖 Synopsis: Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator," "Edmond") creates a provocative, over-the-top experience in "Stuck," a tabloid-tinged thriller inspired by true events. Brandi (Mena Suvari) is a compassionate young reti...
Savage Grace

Savage Grace

📅 Release: May 30, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaCrime
🎬 Starring: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya, Barney Clark, Simon Andreu, Belen Rueda, Anne Reid, Abel Folk, Unax Ugalde
📖 Synopsis: In the opulent, jet-setting world of the 1970s international elite, a beautiful and volatile socialite's desperate search for love and legacy spirals into a shocking true crime. [c=Tom Kalin]'s chill...
Sex And The City

Sex And The City

📅 Release: May 30, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Lewis, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Willie Garson
📖 Synopsis: "Sex and the City" is coming to the big screen in a feature film adaptation of the hit HBO television series. The film will follow the continuing adventures of the series four main characters - Carrie...
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

📅 Release: May 22, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent
📖 Synopsis: This newest adventure begins in the desert Southwest in 1957 -- the height of the Cold War. Indy and his sidekick Mac (Ray Winstone) have barely escaped a close scrape with nefarious Soviet agents on...
Children Of Huang Shi, The

Children Of Huang Shi, The

📅 Release: May 23, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaHistoryWar
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Radha Mitchell, David Wenham, Guang Li, Matt Walker, Ping Su, Anastasia Kolpakova
📖 Synopsis: In war-torn 1937 China, a young British journalist named George Hogg, portrayed by [c=Jonathan Rhys-Meyers], stumbles into a harrowing mission that will redefine his life. After documenting the bruta...
War, Inc.

War, Inc.

📅 Release: May 23, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyActionDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross, Ned Bellamy, Shirly Brener, Doug Dearth, Stanimir Stamatov, Joost Scholt
📖 Synopsis: Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in "War, Inc.", a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U...
Postal

Postal

📅 Release: May 23, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionComedyThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Seymour Cassel, David Huddleston, Larry Thomas, Jackie Tohn, Erick Avari
📖 Synopsis: "Postal" is crude, raw, grossly funny and based on the popular videogame of the same name. The film also pushes the boundaries of good taste and all that is politically, morally and socially correct a...
Charlie Bartlett

Charlie Bartlett

📅 Release: February 22, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Robert Downey Jr., Tyler Hilton, Jake Epstein, Lauren Collins, Dylan Taylor, Mark Rendall, Derek McGrath
📖 Synopsis: Among the classic high-school rebels of American movies, there have been truants, delinquents, pranksters and con artists - but there has never been anyone quite like Charlie Bartlett. An optimist, a...
Reprise

Reprise

📅 Release: May 16, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Hoiner, Viktoria Winge, Henrik Elvestad, Christian Rubeck, Odd Magnus Williamson, Rebekka Karijord, Henrik Mestad
📖 Synopsis: The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and the breathtaking form of Joachim Trier's lean and kinetic journey through friendship, love, madness and ...
Vice

Vice

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark Boone Junior, Nicholas Lea, Martin Cummins, Aaron Pearl, Emy Aneke, John Cassini, Kurupt
📖 Synopsis: Detective Max Walker (Madsen) was once a highly respected cop until he lost his wife and his life unraveled. Haunted by her memory and harboring his rage, Walker has nothing left to lose. He is a loos...
Frontier(s)

Frontier(s)

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: NC-17
🎬 Starring: Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, David Saracino, Maud Forget, Samuel Le Bihan
📖 Synopsis: Alone in a Paris plagued by deadly race riots, the young and beautiful Yasmine is looking for a way out. In her desperation, she turns to her shady ex-boyfriend. Together with his two thug friends, th...
Meet Bill

Meet Bill

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Banks, Timothy Olyphant, Logan Lerman, Marisa Coughlan, Kristen Wiig, Craig Bierko, Todd Louiso
📖 Synopsis: Meet Bill (Aaron Eckhart) - a doormat if ever there was one. A man reduced to a mere accessory to his family by working a dead end job at his father-in law's bank and arguing about his overindulgent l...
Speed Racer

Speed Racer

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventureFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Kick Gurry, Paulie Litt, Rain, Roger Allam, Richard Roundtree, Melvil Poupaud, Christian Oliver
📖 Synopsis: Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of ...
What Happens In Vegas...

What Happens In Vegas...

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Lake Bell, Rob Corddry, Zach Galifianakis, Michelle Krusiec, Jason Sudeikis, Queen Latifah, Matthew Martini
📖 Synopsis: In the uproarious romantic comedy "What Happens in Vegas...", a wild night in Las Vegas leads to an unexpected twist for two strangers. Starring [c=Cameron Diaz] as the driven and work-focused Joy an...
Doomsday

Doomsday

📅 Release: March 14, 2008
🎭 Genre: ThrillerSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Malcolm McDowell, Alexander Siddig, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Lee-Anne Liebenberg, Darren Morfitt, Chris Robson, Nora-Jane Noone
📖 Synopsis: In the action-packed new thriller DOOMSDAY, from writer/director Neil Marshall ("The Descent", "Dog Soldiers"), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus ...
Babysitters, The

Babysitters, The

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: John Leguizamo, Katherine Waterston, Cynthia Nixon, Andy Comeau, Spencer Treat Clark, Ethan Phillips, Lauren Birkell, Louisa Krause, Denis O'Hare
📖 Synopsis: Shirley Lyner (Katherine Waterston) is a typical high school teen--she worries about her grades and the SAT's; she wonders if her best friend's step-brother likes her, she baby-sits a few nights to ma...
Noise

Noise

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Baldwin, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan, Maria Ballesteros, Keir O'Donnell, Michael J. Burg
📖 Synopsis: When David Owen moves to New York, he likes everything about the city except the noise. Indeed, at first, even noise seems to him the throb of urban vitality which makes New York so exciting. Yet grad...
Turn The River

Turn The River

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Famke Janssen, Rip Torn, Matt Ross, Terry Kinney, Lois Smith, Jordan Bridges, Marin Hinkle, Ari Graynor, Tony Robles, Chris Eigeman
📖 Synopsis: In the gritty, high-stakes world of underground pool halls, [c=Famke Janssen] delivers a riveting performance as Kailey, a fiercely independent woman whose skill with a cue is her only means of survi...
Tracey Fragments, The

Tracey Fragments, The

📅 Release: May 9, 2008
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ellen Page, Libby Adams, Shawn Ahmed, Zie Souwand, Stephen Amell, Jackie Brown, Ari Cohen, Ryan Cooley, Julian Richings, Kate Todd
📖 Synopsis: 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) is naked under a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.Tracey's journey leads us into the ...