2008 Watchlist
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1. Summer Holiday (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of ... See full summary »
Director: Radu Muntean | Stars: Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu, Adrian Vancica
Votes: 2,223
2. Wendy and Lucy (2008)
R | 80 min | Drama
Over the summer, a series of unfortunate happenings triggers a financial crisis for a young woman and she soon finds her life falling apart.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Lucy, David Koppell, Max Clement
Votes: 19,757 | Gross: $0.86M
3. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki
Votes: 11,816 | Gross: $0.28M
4. Love Exposure (2008)
Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu
Votes: 15,914
5. Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Not Rated | 147 min | Music, Romance
Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Andreia Santos
Votes: 1,824
6. Sparrow (2008)
87 min | Drama, Romance
A gang of pickpockets roam the streets of Hong Kong.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Ka-Tung Lam, Hoi-Pang Lo
Votes: 3,096
7. The Class (2008)
PG-13 | 128 min | Drama
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel
Votes: 36,440 | Gross: $3.77M
8. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Elliot Cowan
Votes: 41,063 | Gross: $3.49M
9. Il Divo (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci
Votes: 19,012 | Gross: $0.24M
10. Summer Hours (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Family
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Votes: 8,173 | Gross: $1.64M
11. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Evan Welch
Votes: 268,926 | Gross: $23.22M
12. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,559
13. Three Monkeys (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal
Votes: 23,012 | Gross: $0.04M
14. Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou (2008)
125 min | Drama
To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob
Votes: 2,064
15. Dream (2008)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Lee Na-young, Park Ji-ah, Chang Mi-hee
Votes: 4,088
16. The Song of Sparrows (2008)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Family
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ... See full summary »
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamid Aghazi
Votes: 11,111 | Gross: $0.12M
17. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $0.18M
18. Nanayomachi (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakami, Anthony Donelly
Votes: 657
19. Che: Part One (2008)
Not Rated | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac, Pablo Guevara
Votes: 47,959 | Gross: $1.80M
20. Che: Part Two (2008)
Not Rated | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Votes: 35,055
21. Palermo Shooting (2008)
124 min | Drama
After the wild life-style of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman help him calm himself down?
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch
Votes: 3,195
22. Liverpool (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A merchant sailor returns to his home in Tierra del Fuego after spending most of his life at sea.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal
Votes: 1,200
23. Involuntary (2008)
98 min | Drama
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down - or failing to do so - are explored.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Villmar Björkman, Lola Ewerlund, Maria Lundqvist, Henrik Vikman
Votes: 6,481
24. Milk (I) (2008)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Votes: 179,870 | Gross: $31.84M
25. Leonera (2008)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
An incarcerated woman struggles to raise her son from prison.
Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Martina Gusmán, Guadalupe Rébora, Francisco Marquez, Roberto Maciel
Votes: 3,313 | Gross: $0.01M
26. Lorna's Silence (2008)
R | 105 min | Drama
Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her lover Sokol. In order to do so, she has become involved in a scam conducted by Fabio, a gangster.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj
Votes: 9,172 | Gross: $0.34M
27. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller
Votes: 19,192 | Gross: $7.92M
28. Linha de Passe (2008)
113 min | Drama, Sport
A story about four brothers from a poor family who need to fight to follow their dreams.
Directors: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas | Stars: Sandra Corveloni, João Baldasserini, Vinícius de Oliveira, Geraldo Rodrigues
Votes: 2,908
29. Blindness (2008)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya
Votes: 75,204 | Gross: $3.07M
30. Gomorrah (2008)
Not Rated | 137 min | Crime, Drama
Scampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abbruzzese, Toni Servillo, Simone Sacchettino
Votes: 51,218 | Gross: $1.58M
31. Be Kind Rewind (2008)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow
Votes: 94,279 | Gross: $11.17M
32. Everlasting Moments (2008)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, History
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Callin Öhrvall
Votes: 5,957 | Gross: $0.61M
33. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 51,248 | Gross: $12.80M
34. Of Time and the City (2008)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography
A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon
Votes: 2,257 | Gross: $0.03M
35. Extraordinary Stories (2008)
Not Rated | 245 min | Drama, Mystery
In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries.
Director: Mariano Llinás | Stars: Mariano Llinás, Walter Jakob, Agustín Mendilaharzu, Raúl Agüero
Votes: 1,279
36. The Happening (2008)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez
Votes: 216,541 | Gross: $64.51M
37. Speed Racer (2008)
PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci, Nicholas Elia
Votes: 78,450 | Gross: $43.95M
38. À l'aventure (2008)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A sexually unsatisfied young woman decided to pursue various sexual experiments and scenarios.
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Carole Brana, Arnaud Binard, Nadia Chibani, Lise Bellynck
Votes: 2,329
39. A Erva do Rato (2008)
80 min | Drama
The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Selton Mello, Alessandra Negrini
Votes: 294
40. Un lac (2008)
90 min | Drama
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Dmitriy Kubasov, Natálie Rehorová, Aleksey Solonchev, Simona Huelsemann
Votes: 819
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