In the Valley of Elah

Műfaj: Crime/Drama/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 7.6/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, Josh Brolin, Frances Fisher, Barry Corbin, James Franco, Jonathan Tucker

In Monroe, Texas, Hank Deerfield, an aging warrior, gets a call that his son, just back from 18 months fighting in Iraq, is missing from his base. Hank drives to Fort Rudd, New Mexico, to search. Within a day, the charred and dismembered body of his son is found on the outskirts of town. Deerfield pushes himself into the investigation, marked by jurisdictional antagonism between the Army and local police. Working mostly with a new detective, Emily Sanders, Hank seems to close in on what happened. Major smuggling? A drug deal gone awry? Credit card slips, some photographs, and video clips from Iraq may hold the key. If Hank gets to the truth, what will it tell him?

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My Brother is an Only Child

Genre: Crime/Drama/Comedy
ImdB Rating: 7.2/10
Director: Daniele Luchetti
Cast: Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Massimo Popolizio, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Zingaretti, Anna Bonaiuto, Diane Fleri, Ascanio Celestini, Antonino Bruschetta

Set in a small Italian town in the 60's and 70's, the film tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world -- but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio,) is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio (Elio Germano,) the younger, more rebellious brother, finds his own contrarian voice by joining the reactionary Fascists. What starts as a typical tale of sibling rivalry becomes the story of the polarizing and paralyzing politics of those turbulent times, and the rift between the brothers is further intensified when Accio realizes that he loves his brother's girlfriend, Francesca (Diane Fleri) who, like everyone else, is blind to Manrico's increasingly dangerous ideas.


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Roman de Gare

Genre: Drama
ImdB Rating: 7.1/10
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Michèle Bernier, Myriam Boyer, Zinedine Soualem, Boris Ventura, Marc Rioufol,

In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross: a woman abandoned (Audrey Dana, Cesar nominee for Best Female Newcomer) a stranger awaiting his chance (Dominique Pinon,) and a best-selling author (Fanny Ardant,) who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, in a game with high stakes - and deadly consequences.

Street Kings

Genre: Action/Drama/Crime
Release Date: 11 April 2008 (USA)
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans, Terry Crews, Naomie Harris, Amaury Nolasco, Jay Mohr, Martha Higareda


In STREET KINGS, a police thriller directed by David Ayer, Keanu Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD Vice Detective. Ludlow sets out on a quest to discover the killers of his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews). Academy® Award winner Forest Whitaker plays Captain Wander, Ludlow's supervisor, whose duties include keeping him within the confines of the law and out of the clutches of Internal Affairs Captain Biggs (Hugh Laurie). Ludlow teams up with a young Robbery Homicide Detective (Chris Evans) to track Washington's killers through the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Their determination pays off when the two Detectives track down Washington's murderers and confront them in an attempt to bring them to justice.

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Love Songs

Genre: Musical/Drama
ImdB Rating: 7.0/10
Director: Christophe Honoré
Cast: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier, Chiara Mastroianni, Clotilde Hesme, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Yannick Renier,

Ismael (Louis Garrel, the Gallic version of the adorable young Hugh Grant), lives with Julie (Ludivine Sagnier). Alice (Clotilde Hesme), who works with Ismael, shares their bed and Alice's affections. On a night of tragedy, Jeanne, unawares, hooks up with Gwendal (Yannick Renier), whose teen-aged brother Erwann (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) is the only one who can bring a shattered Ismael back to life, in the most romantic man-on-man love scene since Rupert Grave's Alec Scudder climbed through Maurice's bedroom window 20 years ago. With rain-slicked streets, coffee and cigarettes, references to a dozen French classics, a haunting score and the best balcony scene since "Romeo and Juliet," this low-budget charmer, which has become a cult favorite in France with the under-25 set, is an "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" for the 21st Century.

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We Own the Night

Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller
ImdB Rating: 7.2/10
Director: James Gray
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes, Alex Veadov, Dominic Colon, Danny Hoch, Craig Walker

Brooklyn, 1988. Crime is rife, especially drugs and drug violence. A Russian thug is building his heroin trade, while everyone laughs at the cops. Brothers have chosen different paths: Joe has followed his father Bert into New York's Finest; he's a rising star. Bobby, who uses his mother's maiden name, manages a club. Bobby too is on the rise: he has a new girlfriend and a green-light to develop a Manhattan club. Joe and Bert ask him to help with intelligence gathering; he declines. Then, Joe raids Bobby's club to arrest the Russian. From there, things spiral out of control: the Russian puts out a hit on Joe, personal losses mount, and Bobby's loyalties face the test.

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Superhero Movie

Műfaj: Comedy/Comics
ImdB Rating: 4.5/10
Director: Craig Mazin
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Sara Paxton, Drake Bell, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Ryan Hansen, Marion Ross, Jeffrey Tambor, Brent Spiner

Super is as super does: Finally, the guys behind the outrageously silly "Scary Movie" franchise have used their own 'special powers' to spoof superhero movies. After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker develop superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as "The Dragonfly." However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers. After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person's life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, "The Hourglass." With unimaginable strength, unbelievable speed and deeply uncomfortable tights, will the Dragonfly be able to stop the sands of The Hourglass and save the world? More importantly, will we stop laughing long enough to notice?

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Nim's Island

Genre: Family/Adventure
Release Date: 4 April 2008 (USA).
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Cast: Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin, Gerard Butler, Morgan Griffin, Christopher Baker, Maddison Joyce, Alphonso McAuley, Sean Keenan


Nim's Island tells the story of a young girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin). She lives on a deserted island with her scientist father (Gerard Butler). She spends her days having wild adventures in the woods along with her animal friends and her wild imagination. Nim has a huge passion for books, especially the Alex Rover books. One night when her father gets lost at sea, Nim sends a letter to her literary hero pleading for help. Little does Nim know, that Alex Rover is a woman (Jodie Foster). Alexandra is agoraphobic and never leaves the house. She rarely even opens her front door. Alex also has a wild immagination, whereas her fictional character Alex Rover (also Gerard Butler) talks to her, mocks her, and gives her pep talks. When they find Nim's Letter, fictional Alex badgers alexandra until he finally convinces her to leave the confines of her townhouse to go and help Nim. After a long and terrifying journey, both of the Alex's make it to Nim's Island and try to help. Will they find Nim's father? find out by going to see Nim's Island.

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War, Inc.

Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy
Release Date: 23 May 2008 (USA) limited
Director: Joshua Seftel
Cast: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross, Doug Dearth, George Zlatarev,

Brand Hauser (formally known as War Inc.) is set in the future, when the desert country of Turagistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, owned by the former US president, has taken over the whole state. John Cusack plays the role of a hit man, who suppresses his emotions by gobbling down on hot sauce and is hired by the corporation's head to kill the CEO of their competitors.Everything changes when the ruthless killer finds himself head-over-heels in love with a sexy reporter.

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Dark Matter

Genre: Drama
Imdb Rating: 6.7
director: Shi-Zheng Chen
Cast: Meryl Streep, Ye Liu, Aidan Quinn, Rob Campbell, Joe Grifasi, Boris McGiver, Jodi Russell, Taylor Schilling, Blair Brown

Based on actual events - "Dark Matter" revolves around the true story of a Chinese physics student from the University of Iowa who shot and killed six people on the campus. The student had dreams of winning the Nobel Prize and felt campus politics were shattering his chances. Dark Matter was the Alfred P. Sloan prize winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

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My Mom's New Boyfriend

Genre: Romance/Comedy/Action
Release Date: 1 April 2008 (USA)
Director: George Gallo
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Selma Blair, Colin Hanks, Thomas Joseph Adams, Tom Adams, Trevor Morgan, Keith Pratt

Antonio Banderas comes back. When an uptight federal agent's (Hanks) sexually liberated mother (Ryan) enters into an affair with a man (Banderas) suspected of being involved in an international art-theft ring, it's up to the fresh-faced agent to keep an observant eye on the couple in question in writer/director George Gallo's lighthearted romantic comedy.

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Then She Found Me

Genre: Romantic/Drama/comedy
Release Date: 1 May 2008 (Israel)
Rendező: Helen Hunt
Szereplők: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman, John Benjamin Hickey, Stacie Linardos, David Callegati

Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with "Then She Found Me," a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth month (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Műfaj: Comedy
ImdB Rating: 7.0/10
Director: Jake Kasdan
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Raymond J. Barry, Margo Martindale, Kristen Wiig, Matt Besser


The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man; but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman - longtime backup singer Darlene.

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