Top Rated 2008 Movies

It is nearly one year after Batman’s last mission on eliminating city streets’ gangs. Now the Gotham City is again full of criminal organizations and scared citizens. Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter-ego the Batman takes the case in his own hands. Teamed with the Lieutenant James Gordon and the new District Attorney Harvey Dent, the Batman declares war to the Joker, the most violent mafia leader in Gotham. Taking control over the City, the Joker issues an ultimatum to Gotham: people will die each day until Batman reveals his identity. What should Batman do in this way: sacrifice him to the ungrateful public or struggle up to the end?

In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large mega corporation, an army of trash compactor robots called "WALL-E" were left behind to clean up the planet. In 2805, only one WALL-E remains active, having survived by using parts for himself from other defunct WALL-E units. Captivated with knick-knacks of Earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a brisk pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a dangerous reconnoitring robot, is sent to Earth to carry out her directive of searching for signs of plant life. WALL-E falls in love with Eve. During a dust storm WALL-E rescues Eve, takes her to his home and shows her a living plant he found amongst the trash which causes her automated systems to store the plant inside her body, activate a homing beacon for her ship, and shut down.WALL-E, doesn't understand what has happened to his new friend, but true to his love and in spite of her unresponsiveness, he takes care of her. One day a massive ship returns to collect Eve, WALL-E, out of love or loneliness, clings to the hull of the ship to rescue Eve. The ship arrives back at a fully automated luxury starliner, which is carrying all of the humans who evacuated Earth 700 years earlier. It becomes apparent that after centuries of living in such conditions and relying on the ship's automated systems, the human passengers suffer from obesity. When the auto-pilot computer, functioning on hastily given instructions sent many centuries before, tries to prevent the people of Earth from returning, by stealing the plant, WALL-E, Eve, the stout captain, and a band of broken robots organize a revolt.

Jamal Malik is an 18-year-old boy who was born in the slums of Mumbai and was orphaned when he was a very small boy. He wasn’t able to finish the school, he is not a genius and it seems like there is no way for him to win a big prize in a show like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” But he comes to an Indian version of this show and he finds himself one step away from the victory. Millions of people in India are watching this show on air and they all wish him good luck. But how could he possibly know the answers to 14 questions? Did he cheat or is he such a unique lucky man? The story of his life gives the answers to these questions. There is a girl of his dreams – Latika. She is the one who is inspiring him. But can she escape from the trap she has got to? Who can possibly help her? And what is the answer to the main question: what helped Jamal to succeed in the show?

When Tom Kowalski’s wife leaves this world, he understands that everybody and everything that surrounds him is so annoying that he can hardly get along with it. Tom is a veteran of Korean War and the only his friend is his dog. He has got children and grandchildren but it seems like everything they care about is his house. Tom also hates his Hmong neighbors next door and the other people who live in the neighborhood. He use to get along with neighbors but most of them have moved away or died and right now most people he can see around are immigrants from Asia and Africa. For these reasons Tom is always having his gun around and he is able to fight everyone if somebody would try to intervene into his life. He has also got one thing that brings a real pleasure for him. This is his pride – a mint condition 1972 Gran Torino. One day some teenage gang decides to steal Tom’s pride and that is the day when Tom will use his gun to protect his past, present and future.

This story is about fading professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson whose prime is nearly to be forgotten. Used to wrestle on the weekends for various independent promotions, he is once proposed to rematch with his most notable opponent, the Ayatollah. Having agreed on rematch, Randy faces the new problem – heart attack – that makes him change his plans. The ex-wrestler decides to lead the new life but it is not an easy thing, especially when you can’t imagine your life without wrestling ring.

Two killers by the names of Ken and Ray were sent to the small town of Bruges in Belgium to temporize after their job went wrong. So they think themselves. But in fact it is not what it seems. During their life in Bruges the killers Ken and Ray meet different people such as a girl – a pretty creature selling drugs and sometimes robbing tourists, an American dwarf actor who deals with Belgian whores and heroine. No, this story has a positive character - a pregnant innkeeper. This movie is a mixture of drama, comedy, thriller and action and it drives us the Belgian town Bruges, which seems to be like an actor itself, along with its inhabitants.

Being a genius inventor and engineer Tony Stark goes to Afghanistan to demonstrate his new missile. During the demonstration some criminal forces are capturing him. They are planning to use Tony’s skills for invention of weapons of mass destruction. When Tony figures out their plans he agrees to cooperate, but meanwhile he is designing an armored super suit, which helps him to escape and to survive during the chase. When Tony returns back to America, he is working on improvements of the suit, but one of his partners starts misusing this research. To prevent this, Tony Stark needs to return to Afghanistan.

Can you imagine the desperation of a single mother who loses her only child? One day she comes home from work and can't find her little son. He is only 9 years old and who knows what can happen to her boy in a large city of contrasts - Los Angeles of 1928th… The search is useless and it seems like he has dissolved in a big city. But the hope appears in five months when police department of Illinois finds a boy who fits the descriptions and who is ready to return to his mother, as he says. When the mother gets her kid back she tells that he looks alike her son but that isn't him. Instead of support and help, the mother gets… a pass to a mental institution… As they say, the trouble doesn't come alone…

On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, an elderly woman Daisy Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin is born with the appearance of a very elderly man. His mother dies shortly after giving birth. His father abandons the newborn infant on the porch of a nursing home. Benjamin soon realizes that he is growing younger, not older. Early on, he meets the love of his life, Daisy, a beautiful red-haired, green-eyed child who grows into a beautiful woman while Benjamin grows into a handsome young man. However, their relations are time limited.

The soldiers of an elite troop who are specializing in disarming bombs are sent to one of the Iraqi towns where practically each object constitutes a mortal danger. A new sergeant James who commands a team of experienced warriors behaves quite strange: he plunges his subordinates into a serious conflict with the urban combat. He seems to be afraid of death. But when real problems occur, an affair is settled and true heroes are shown.