Top Movies of 2008


The top movies of 2008 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

131. Baghead

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Actors: Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Elise Muller, Jett Garner, Greta Gerwig, Anthony Cristo
Plot: Four struggling actors take a working vacation at a cabin in the woods. They plan to shoot a movie. The screenplay starts to come true and they find they are in the middle of a horror movie.

132. Baby Mama

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael McCullers
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Curt Carlson
Plot: Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) is a successful business woman who finds she is infertile but desperately wants a baby. She hires Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) to be her unlikely surrogate.

133. Mamma Mia!

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Actors: Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Julie Walters, Stellan Skarsgård
Plot: Based on the musical of the same name, a young bride is told she has a real father who is alive. The problem is that her mother does not know who it may be, but that it is between three men. The daughter sings songs and elaborate choreography to tell her story while the wedding takes place in a warm, beach type atmosphere.

134. Einstein and Eddington

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Philip Martin
Actors: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Ben Uttley, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis
Plot: The film shows the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and how British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington experiment worked to prove Einstein's theory.

135. Nerdcore Rising

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Negin Farsad, Kim Gatewood
Actors: Damian Hess, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Brian Posehn, Beefy, Brandon Patton, Prince Paul

136. Hancock

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Berg
Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Daeg Faerch, Lauren Hill, Darrell Foster
Plot: A cocky, looser like super hero who has been living under a rock lately finally brings himself back to reality when he starts dating the wife of his publicists. Much like like super man, he has super strength, super flying ability, and super intelligence. What he does not use is his heart. He has no motivation to continue to help the world until a special event happens.

137. Dakota Skye

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Humber
Actors: Eileen April Boylan, Ian Nelson, J.B. Ghuman Jr., Bay Dariz, Dominique Generaux, Carol Woodburn

138. The Lazarus Project

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Glenn
Actors: Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Brooklynn Proulx, Bob Gunton, Lambert Wilson, Linda Cardellini
Plot: A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.

139. No Regret ( Huhwihaji anha )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hee-il Leesong
Actors: Nam-gil Kim, Young-hoon Lee, Hyeon-cheol Jo, Dong-wook Kim, Seung-kil Jeong, Hwa-yeong Kim

140. Standard Operating Procedure

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Christopher Bradley, Joshua Feinman, Merry Grissom, Zhubin Rahbar, Sarah Denning, Jeff L. Green
Plot: Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

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