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Mataharis
Mataharis (2007) on 7 august 2008

Directed by Icíar Bollaín
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Najwa Nimri, Antonio de la Torre, María Isabel Rivera Torres, Nuria González
Rating64% 3.2398553.2398553.2398553.2398553.239855
Inés, Eva and Carmen, three women of different generations, work as private detectives for an investigation agency run by Valbuena, their male chauvinist boss. Inés, the youngest and more ambitious of the three is assigned to work undercover as a factory employee to spy on the activities of its union leaders. However, her investigation brings her face to face with a difficult emotional and ethical decision. Initially she wants to get higher up in the agency with this, the agency’s most important case. However, in the process, she empathises with the cause of Manuel, one of the key members she is investigating, as he is defending the workers' rights against the company, and develops feelings towards him. Her ethics and feelings, mixed with the fear of losing her job and career, turn her life into a turmoil.
Garfield's Fun Fest
Garfield's Fun Fest (2008) on 5 august 2008
, 1h20
Directed by Mark Dippé
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Tim Conway, Greg Eagles, Wally Wingert, Jason Marsden
Rating44% 2.233822.233822.233822.233822.23382
Garfield and his friends enter a talent contest and, after various exertions and adventures, win it.
Elegy
Elegy (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h48
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Penélope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Debbie Harry
Rating66% 3.3475653.3475653.3475653.3475653.347565
David Kepesh is a cultural critic and professor, in a state of 'emancipated manhood': His relationships with women are usually casual, brief and sexual in nature. Previously married, he has a son who has never forgiven him for leaving his mother. His friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George O'Hearn, suggests that he "bifurcate" his life: have conversations and enjoy art with a wife, and "keep the sex just for sex". David is also in a casual 20-year relationship with Caroline, another former student.
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet, 1h27
Directed by Tim Matheson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors JoJo, Valerie Bertinelli, Lynda Boyd, Ian Nelson, Justin Louis, Shenae Grimes-Beech
Rating54% 2.7497752.7497752.7497752.7497752.749775
Teen actress Morgan Carter (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque) is a Hollywood princess, until the day that her hard-partying ways get the best of her. After she collapses outside of a Hollywood nightclub, Morgan's mother (Lynda Boyd) sends her to live in the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her Aunt Trudy (Valerie Bertinelli). Morgan is camouflaged into Claudia Miller and given a new hairstyle, and suddenly, Morgan, albeit unwillingly, blends in with her peers who don't own televisions or read magazines.
What We Do Is Secret
What We Do Is Secret (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, Noah Segan, Leslie Grossman, Ashton Holmes
Rating62% 3.1465053.1465053.1465053.1465053.146505
Jan Paul Beahm (Shane West) grows up in Los Angeles through a troubled childhood; he does not know his biological father, his mother is an alcoholic, and his older brother dies from a heroin overdose. He is an avid reader and develops into a "frighteningly intelligent" student at University High School, where his antisocial behavior leads the administration to give him straight A's if he agrees not to return. In December 1975, at age 17, he proposes to his friend Georg Ruthenberg (Rick Gonzalez) that they start a band, showing him potential lyrics and claiming to have a "five-year plan" inspired by the David Bowie song "Five Years". They recruit Terri Ryan (Bijou Phillips), Belinda Carlisle (Lauren German), and Becky Barton (Amy Halloran) for the group and con money for instruments. Jan Paul comes up with the name Germs, representing the germination of an idea. He sings while Georg plays guitar, Terri plays bass guitar, and Becky plays drums.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 2h
Directed by Sanaa Hamri
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Adventure
Themes Feminist films, Le thème des vacances, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively Reynolds, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Lucy Hale
Rating62% 3.1004053.1004053.1004053.1004053.100405
In the summer following their first year of college, we revisit four friends who have been apart all year and plan to spend their summer apart until a magical old pair of pants reunites them. Bridget (Blake Lively) visits her grandmother Greta (Blythe Danner) in Alabama to ask about her mother's suicidal depression. Lena (Alexis Bledel) finds her former flame Kostas (Michael Rady) married in Greece. Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) goes through a pregnancy scare and alienates Carmen. Carmen (America Ferrara) auditions for Perdita in a Vermont acting workshop. When Lena's sister Effie (Lucy Hale) steals and loses the Pants in Greece, the Sisterhood follows.
Autumn
Autumn (2008) on 7 august 2008
, 1h35
Directed by Özcan Alper
Genres Drama
Rating76% 3.8460553.8460553.8460553.8460553.846055
Yusuf, tout juste sorti de la geôle dans laquelle il vient de passer dix ans suite à son combat pour la démocratie en Turquie. Gravement malade, il retourne dans son petit village natal sur les hauteurs de la mer Noire. Là, il ne retrouve que sa vieille mère souffrante, car son père est mort durant son incarcération. Sa sœur, elle, s’est mariée avec un citadin. La représentation de l’hostilité du milieu dans lequel erre Yusuf nous fait vite comprendre que son retour dans le nord de la Turquie ne s’avère être qu’une autre forme d’emprisonnement.
Baby Blues
Baby Blues (2008) on 5 august 2008
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Ridge Canipe
Rating58% 2.9011252.9011252.9011252.9011252.901125
Based on Andrea Yates and her family, the five children being drowned in the family bathroom by their mother.
La Lingerie
La Lingerie (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h58
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Stephy Tang, Kathy Yuen, Andy On, Clifton Ko, Wong You-nam, Gigi Leung
Rating53% 2.668012.668012.668012.668012.66801
Aspiring designer Miu Ho is hired as a "Lingerie Researcher", and is given the task of finding out how lingerie makes the woman, or in some cases, the other way around. After her aunt Lara unexpectedly passes away, Miu and her cousin Donut inherit a spacious, fully furnished apartment filled with designer lingerie. The two girls live upstairs from Celine, a gold digging flight attendant who has had items of underwear stolen by a mysterious thief, and after reporting the incident to the authorities becomes involved with part-time police officer James Shum. Donut works in a lingerie shop, and is involved with a much older married man, Henry, who buys her a pink bra as his first gift. Bargirl CC is a customer at Donut's shop, and after meeting Harvard student Eugene believes that she may have found true love.
Haber
Haber (2008) on 5 august 2008

Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christian Berkel, Juliane Köhler, Mark Margolis, Wolf Kähler, Carmen LoPorto
Rating66% 3.32043.32043.32043.32043.3204
Fritz Shimon Haber was a German-born scientist and professor of Jewish origin with one of the most extraordinary dual legacies in history. On the one hand, his revolutionary process for creating synthetic fertilizers averted the greatest overpopulation crisis the world has ever known, won him the Nobel Prize in 1918, and now feeds over 2 billion people.
The Sound of a Dirt Road
The Sound of a Dirt Road (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h59
Origin USA
Themes Films about religion

John Crowe (Ross Renfroe) is a rancher whose family has owned and managed the Crowe Ranch for over 150 years. John meets Ellen Sower, and his life slowly begins to change. Jeremiah Stillwell, the soon-to-be pastor of the local church, also becomes interested in Ellen. Intellectual warfare ensues as John rescues Ellen, then learns she is deathly ill. Jeremiah desires power, and once he gets it, he goes after John.
Beer for My Horses
Beer for My Horses (2008) on 8 august 2008

Directed by Michael Salomon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Willie Nelson, Brit Morgan, Barry Corbin, Tracy Morgan
Rating48% 2.408322.408322.408322.408322.40832
Best friends Joe Bill "Rack" Racklin (Toby Keith) and Lonnie Freeman (Rodney Carrington) are deputy sheriffs in the small town of Mangum, Oklahoma that enjoy pig hunting and drinking at the local bar the Thirsty Monkey. After his girlfriend Cammie (Gina Gershon) leaves him, Rack finds out that his old flame Annie Streets (Claire Forlani) has returned home from Chicago to care for her sick mother. Rack, Lonnie, and their friend and fellow deputy Skunk Tarver (Ted Nugent) arrest three local criminals and a Mexican drug lord Tito Garza (Greg Serano) for stealing fertilizer that is intended to make methamphetamine. Garza is scheduled to be turned over to the FBI for federal charges when Annie mysteriously disappears, after a date and one night stand with Rack, who discovers that Annie has been kidnapped by Tito's older brother Manuel Garza (Carlos Sanz), who runs a large Mexican drug cartel. Manuel demands his brother be returned to him in Santa Luna, Mexico or he will kill Annie. Despite being taken off the case Rack, Lonnie, and Skunk take Tito to Mexico. Along the way they are helped by a group of circus entertainers led by Charlie (Willie Nelson), who gives them a jug of homemade whiskey known as "circus jolly". Once in Mexico they engage in a gunfight with Garza's men and it's revealed that Annie's rich and powerful stepfather Buck Baker (Barry Corbin) is Garza's partner and his United Farm Enterprises is the base for the largest methamphetamine operation in Oklahoma. Baker reveals that the local district attorney is corrupt and that he has been giving Annie's mother "goofy juice" to make her appear to have Alzheimer's disease. Rack, with the help of an undercover FBI agent, kills Buck and rescues Annie. Rack, Lonnie, and Skunk turn Manuel and Tito over to the FBI in Oklahoma City and return to Mangum where they are cheered by the local crows at the Thirsty Monkey and berated by Sheriff Landry for disobeying orders but does not arrest them and everyone toasts "whiskey for my men, beer for my horses".
Hole in the Paper Sky
Hole in the Paper Sky (2008) on 7 august 2008
, 34minutes
Genres Drama
Actors Jason Clarke, Garry Marshall, Jessica Biel, Stephen Collins, Jeffrey Nordling
Rating68% 3.4269653.4269653.4269653.4269653.426965
Howard Ferp (Clarke), is a brilliant but misanthropic, math genius who inexplicably becomes drawn to a friendship with a doomed laboratory dog.
Dorothy Mills
Dorothy Mills (2008) on 6 august 2008
, 1h42
Directed by Agnès Merlet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, Gary Lewis, Rynagh O'Grady, Gavin O'Connor, Charlene McKenna
Rating60% 3.001893.001893.001893.001893.00189
Jane van Dopp (Carice van Houten), a psychiatrist in mourning after the accidental death of her son, is assigned the case of Dorothy Mills (Jenn Murray), a 15-year-old girl from a small Irish island, accused of attempting to murder a baby while babysitting.
Pretty Bird
Pretty Bird (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 2h
Directed by Paul Schneider
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Kristen Wiig, David Hornsby, Garret Dillahunt, Denis O'Hare
Rating50% 2.507462.507462.507462.507462.50746
A sweet-natured guy enlists his pals to help him create and market his idea for a rocket-powered belt. But can their friendship withstand unexpected success? The movie is a fictionalized version of true events leading to the development and disappearance of the RB2000 Rocket Belt in 1995.
Dead Fury
Dead Fury (2008) on 5 august 2008
, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Rating43% 2.1572052.1572052.1572052.1572052.157205
Max, Pop, Jen and Jake are deer hunting out of season. Earlier, a hiker had found an ancient book of spells and after reading a few lines had turned into a demon. Hearing noise in the brush, the group thinks they have found a deer, only to discover it is the transformed hiker. Fearful, the groups shoots at the demon and takes refuge in a nearby cabin. As more and more zombie-fied creatures attack the group, they use every implement available to defend themselves.
I Sell the Dead
I Sell the Dead (2008) on 7 august 2008
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Dominic Monaghan, Angus Scrimm, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Daniel Manche
Rating60% 3.0000653.0000653.0000653.0000653.000065
While awaiting his execution for murder and grave robbery, Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) is visited by Father Duffy (Ron Perlman), who wishes to obtain a statement from the condemned to be used as a cautionary tale. Arthur denies that he is a murderer, a crime for which his former partner, Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden), has already been executed by guillotine. However, Blake freely admits to being a grave robber, and begins to recount his career with Willie.
Pineapple Express
Pineapple Express (2008) on 6 august 2008
, 1h51
Directed by Judd Apatow, David Gordon Green, Shauna Robertson, Evan Goldberg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson
Rating68% 3.4486153.4486153.4486153.4486153.448615
Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) is a 25-year-old process server and habitual pot smoker. He makes a visit to the home of his drug dealer, Saul Silver (James Franco), to buy weed. Saul tells him that he may already know the identity of Dale's next service, Ted Jones (Gary Cole). Dale drives to Ted's house and witnesses Ted and a cop, Officer Carol Brazier (Rosie Perez), shoot an Asian man to death. Dale panics and flees the area, but leaves his roach at the scene which contains a rare strain of marijuana called Pineapple Express. Ted is able to identify the strain and sends his two henchmen, Budlofsky and Matheson (Kevin Corrigan and Craig Robinson) to dealer Red (Danny McBride), who tells them that he has only sold the pot to Saul.
Descendants
Descendants (2008) on 9 august 2008

Genres Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Actors Whoopi Goldberg
Rating69% 3.4726153.4726153.4726153.4726153.472615
Descendants nous conte l'histoire de deux fleurs voisines l'une de l'autre et qui s'épanouissent à l'orée d'une clairière. La première, animée par la voix de Whoopi Goldberg, est vieille et épuisée par un passé mystérieux. La seconde, empruntant la voix de Christy Scott-Cashman, est encore jeune, vivace et curieuse. Le destin a conduit ces deux-là à vivre ainsi sans qu'il ne paraisse y avoir de perspective de changement possible. Jusqu'au jour où un visiteur inhabituel de la clairière apporte avec lui quelque chose d'inattendu dans leurs vies
Embodiment of Evil
Embodiment of Evil (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h33
Directed by José Mojica Marins
Origin Bresil
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Milhem Cortaz, José Mojica Marins, José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Luís Melo
Rating63% 3.160853.160853.160853.160853.16085
After being released from the prison mental ward, Coffin Joe is greeted at the gate by his old and loyal servant Bruno (Rui Rezende), who takes him to a secluded basement below a favela in São Paulo. As well as Bruno, the hideout is populated by four fanatics who are obsessed with Coffin Joe's history and ideas, and have been waiting and preparing for his arrival in order that they may faithfully serve him. After questioning their motives and testing their loyalty, Coffin Joe immediately orders the followers to begin kidnapping women so he can renew his murderous quest for "the continuation of the blood", his lifelong obsession to find who he determines to be a perfect woman who will bear him a son. His first victim is Dr. Hilda (Cléo De Páris), a controversial eugenicist who Bruno kidnaps. Coffin Joe tests her will by injecting her with drugs and she has hallucinations of Coffin Joe cutting off her buttock and presenting it to her after which she willingly eats it. Meanwhile, Coronel Claudiomiro Pontes (Jece Valadão), a fervidly Roman Catholic police captain who holds an old grudge against Coffin Joe for blinding his eye, and Father Eugênio (Milhem Cortaz), a mentally unstable priest (the son of one of Coffin Joe's past victims, Dr. Rudolfo in At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul) learn about Coffin Joe's release, and decide to join forces to seek Coffin Joe and kill him once and for all.
The Midnight Meat Train
The Midnight Meat Train (2008) on 7 august 2008
, 1h38
Directed by Ryūhei Kitamura
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Serial killer films
Actors Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Roger Bart, Ted Raimi, Vinnie Jones
Rating60% 3.0008453.0008453.0008453.0008453.000845
A well-dressed, barrel-chested man enters the New York City subway at midnight and stalks the late-night passengers of a subway train. He assaults and kills several people with a meat hammer and a butcher's hook. He dispatches his prey wordlessly, and with an unnatural strength. He wears a ring on his finger, adorned with an eight pointed star.
Vampire Party
Vampire Party (2008) on 6 august 2008
, 1h25
Directed by Vincent Lobelle
Origin Luxembourg
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Patrick Mille, Frédérique Bel, Julie Fournier, Vincent Desagnat, Sam Karmann, Hélène de Fougerolles
Rating52% 2.603922.603922.603922.603922.60392
Trois amis obtiennent des invitations pour une mystérieuse soirée privée : la Nuit Médicis, qui se déroule dans un immense château. Très vite, ils découvrent que leurs hôtes sont des vampires bien décidés à régner en maîtres sur la Terre. Ils tentent de s'enfuir pendant que les autres invités se font tuer les uns après les autres.
Alarm
Alarm (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h45
Directed by Gerry Stembridge
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ruth Bradley, Aidan Turner, Tom Hickey
Rating55% 2.7558652.7558652.7558652.7558652.755865
After witnessing the murder of her father by burglars, Molly is living with friends and seeing a psychiatrist (Emmet Bergin) to deal with her panic attacks. She dreams of finding a house where she can live alone. Upon buying her dream house in a Dublin suburb, she gives a house-warming party and one of her friends brings along an old classmate of Molly's, Mal. Molly had fancied Mal during school, and now they become a couple. With a new house and a new boyfriend, things seem perfect.
iMurders
iMurders (2008) on 9 august 2008

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about computing
Actors Gabrielle Anwar, William Forsythe, Tony Todd, Frank Grillo, Terri Conn, Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Rating36% 1.8154651.8154651.8154651.8154651.815465
When the participants of an internet chat room are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the gruesome mystery.
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) on 5 august 2008
, 1h45
Directed by Edward Neumeier
Origin South africa
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films set in the future, Films about insects, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Amanda Donohoe, Marnette Patterson, Boris Kodjoe, Stelio Stavante
Rating43% 2.1558552.1558552.1558552.1558552.155855
In the past eleven years of "The Second Bug War", the Mobile Infantry has improved their weapons and tactics. However, as they adapt, so do the Bugs, and many new Arachnid variants have developed. The United Citizen Federation now finds itself engaged in trench warfare on the frontier planets. The Federation puts a positive spin on this in the media while using its judicial and military authority to suppress peace protesters and religious fanatics as seditionists.
I Dreamt Under the Water
I Dreamt Under the Water (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 1h34
Directed by Hormoz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Caroline Ducey, Christine Boisson, Jean-Michel Fête, Franck Victor, Hicham Nazzal, HPG
Rating50% 2.5177952.5177952.5177952.5177952.517795
Le film retrace la quête d'Antonin, vingt ans, à la recherche d'une émotion qui le fera basculer dans l'âge adulte.
The Response
The Response (2008) on 8 august 2008
, 30minutes
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Riegert, Kate Mulgrew, Aasif Mandvi
Rating74% 3.721193.721193.721193.721193.72119
Goodbye Solo
Goodbye Solo (2009) on 9 august 2008
, 1h31
Directed by Ramin Bahrani
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West
Rating72% 3.6460453.6460453.6460453.6460453.646045
Solo, a Senegalese cab driver, is working to provide a better life for his young family in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. William, an old man with a lifetime of regrets, hires Solo to take him to Blowing Rock, a peak in which updrafts cause objects that are dropped from it to fly upwards. William does not ask for a ride back from the rock and is obviously depressed, so Solo assumes that the old man intends to commit suicide there. Solo befriends William, in hopes of talking him out of ending his life. He introduces William to his wife and his stepdaughter Alex, hoping to inspire the old man with the joys of life.
Mutant Chronicles
Mutant Chronicles (2008) on 7 august 2008
, 1h51
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Anticipation, Disaster films
Actors Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, John Malkovich, Devon Aoki, Sean Pertwee, Benno Fürmann
Rating52% 2.6003152.6003152.6003152.6003152.600315
The story is set in the year 2707. The world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, where many technologies are steam powered and mankind has exhausted Earth’s natural resources. The protagonists must battle against mutated humans that were accidentally unleashed.
Hell Ride
Hell Ride (2010) on 8 august 2008
, 1h24
Directed by Larry Bishop
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Motocyclette, Road movies
Actors Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop, David Carradine, Dennis Hopper, Eric Balfour, Vinnie Jones
Rating50% 2.5019152.5019152.5019152.5019152.501915
Biker Pistolero (Larry Bishop) is the leader, or "Prez," of the Victors, a Southern California motorcycle gang. He has two faithful lieutenants, The Gent (Michael Madsen) and Comanche (Eric Balfour).