2008 movies

Tennessee

2008 | Drama | USA

The story of three people who strive to realize their dreams. Brothers Carter and Ellis set out on a road trip to their childhood home in a desperate search for their estranged father, who may hold the key to their future.

Among Dead Men

2008 | Action | Australia

Life on the wild side sometimes has its own way in regulating or instigating consciousness awakening on its most devoted disciple. Bobby Delgado, undefeated MMA World Champion (of an elusive and clandestine underworld tournament of Mixed Martial Arts) is incarcerated for eight years after accidentally killing his opponent. During this ...

The Crew

2008 | Crime | UK

As a major heist approaches and with betrayal all around him, a respected crime boss has to summon all his street nous and killer instinct as he fights for survival.

Dana Carvey: Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies

2008 | Comedy | USA

Emmy Award-winning comedian and Saturday Night Live legend Dana Carvey takes to the stage for a new outrageous 60 minute stand up special on HBO.

Tru Loved

2008 | Comedy | Drama | Romance | USA

Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her quest is complicated by sexual politics, closed minds, and closeted friends as she seeks to establish her school's first Gay-Straight Alliance.

Adventures of Power

2008 | Comedy | Music | USA

ADVENTURES OF POWER is an epic comedy about a mine-worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill has turned him into the ridiculed "air drummer" of his small town. But when Power's union-leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of ...

The Hide

2008 | Thriller | UK

On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable plover - he will have 'twitched' the entire British List. Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra ...

Pretty Ugly People

2008 | Comedy | USA

Longtime friendships are put to the ultimate test when a dying woman summons her best friends from college into the wilderness for a four-day camping trip, and everyone quickly discovers that they haven't exactly been told the whole truth about her current condition.

Death in Love

2008 | Drama | USA

During World War II, a Jewish woman (Bisset) saves her life thanks to a love affair with a doctor in charge of human experiments in a Nazi concentration camp. The woman then marries and moves to New York, where she raises two emotionally stunted sons. The eldest son (Lucas) battles ...

Trucker

2008 | Drama | USA

A trucker, leading a life free of depth and on the way to nowhere, is forced to make a decision about her aggressive loner 11-year-old son whom she openly deserted ten years previously.

Inside the Koran

2008 | Documentary | UK

Filmmaker Antony Thomas explores the Muslim faith and its holy book, the Koran, in this thoughtful documentary. Talking one-on-one with practitioners of every walk of life, Thomas examines how more than a billion Muslims living in the world today relate to the holy text of their religion.

The Auteur

2008 | Comedy | USA

THE AUTEUR follows formerly renowned porn director Arturo Domingo (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream) through a bizarre weekend as he receives a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Portland, OR. Encountering crazed fans, former collaborators, bitter enemies, and free-loving hippies, Arturo attempts to put the ...