Drama Movies 2008 List

With America Ferrera

The bilingual thriller is from writer-director Antonio Negret and focuses on the final 90 minutes in the life of a kidnapped Colombian. His family, a ransom delivery man, and a special ops team attempt to save him.

With Carey Mulligan • Colin Firth • Jim Broadbent • Juliet Stevenson • Gina McKee • Tucker • David Nicholls

Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children.

With Channing Tatum • Sergei Bodrov • Anton Melnik • Odnyam Odsuren • Bulat Galimgereyev • Philip Lee • Arif Aliyev • Tadanobu Asano • Khulan Chuluun • Amadu Mamadakov • Sergei Selyanov

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.

With Zooey Deschanel • Jena Malone • William Lee Scott

The story of a teenage boy who steals a car in order to go on a road trip to find his long-lost brother and tell him that their mother has died.

With Edward Norton • Tim Roth • Louis Leterrier • David Maisel • Stan Lee • Ari Arad • Zak Penn • Michael Helfant • William Hurt • Liv Tyler • Christina Cabot

Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows--cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross--Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk's creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination, whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk's own. To stop it, one scientist must make an agonizing final choice: accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in the creature he holds inside--The Incredible Hulk.

With Tessa Ross • Tannishta Chatterjee • Satish Kaushik • Debjani Deb • Kusimika Neager • Christopher Simpson • Sarah Gavron • Paula Jalfon • Duncan Reid

The story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her own lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided--and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.

With Angelina Jolie • Morgan Freeman • James McAvoy • Marc Platt • Timur Bekmambetov • Jason Netter • Terence Stamp • Jim Lemley • Derek Haas • Marc Silvestri • Kristen Hager

25-year-old Wes was the most disaffected, cube-dwelling drone the planet had ever known. His boss chewed him out hourly, his girlfriend ignored him routinely and his life plodded on interminably. Everyone was certain this disengaged slacker would amount to nothing. There was little else for Wes to do but wile away the days and die in his slow, clock-punching rut. Until he met a woman named Fox. After his estranged father is murdered, the deadly sexy Fox recruits Wes into the Fraternity, a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death by unlocking his dormant powers. As she teaches him how to develop lightning-quick reflexes and phenomenal agility, Wes discovers this team lives by an ancient, unbreakable code: carry out the death orders given by fate itself. With wickedly brilliant tutors--including the Fraternity's enigmatic leader, Sloan--Wes grows to enjoy all the strength he ever wanted. But, slowly, he begins to realize there is more to his dangerous associates than meets the eye. And as he wavers between newfound heroism and vengeance, Wes will come to learn what no one could ever teach him: he alone controls his destiny.

With Brittany Snow • Matthew Broderick • Bill Fagerbakke • Mark Benton Johnson • Peter Facinelli • Maura Tierney • Peter Tolan • Wayne Rice

The film revolves around a strung-out TV producer (Matthew Broderick) who is sent by his wife on a mission to save their niece Amanda (Brittany Snow), who's a hooker and stripper living in Las Vegas