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Vaaranam Aayiram (2008)
Plot Summary:
A son deals with the death of his father and examines how their relationship influences him through growing up, romance, tragedy and adventure
Duration: 169 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: tragic love, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, couples, coming of age, youth, love and romance, father son relationship, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage, loss of father, loss of loved one, drug addiction, dual role, in love, fight club, fictional biography, drug abuse, kidnapping, death, son, flashback, real life father and son playing father and son
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating
Duration: 120 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 869000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Plot tags: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition, true love, journey, child, quiz, street kid, love story, brutality, hopes, friendship, life changing, children, slum, coming of age
Love Exposure (2008)
Plot Summary:
After Yu's mother dies his father, a priest, only seems to take solace in the confessions of his sons sins causing Yu to partake in various 'sinful' activities to appease him. This is a teen love story as only the Japanese could bring us, complete with up-skirt photography, cross dressing, and bloody gore
Duration: 237 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: sin, religion, brainwashing, coming of age, group of friends, japanese schoolgirl, family values, teenage love, youth, parents and children, teenage life, society, rebelliousness, prank, religions or cults, family relations, rebellion, porn, women, loneliness, surrealism, voyeurism, priest, lesbian relationship, virginity
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences
Duration: 166 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 684000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age, impossible love, fall in love, child as adult, magic realism, elderly, love, hopes, death, adult as child, storytelling, wisdom of life, selflessness, diary
Let the Right One In (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building
Duration: 114 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 225000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden
Plot tags: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child, new neighbor, gore, child vampire, youth, creepy child, bully, hidden identity, deadly creature, vampire human love, fall in love, school, gory, macabre
The Reader (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality, sex, mature woman, unlikely couple, sex scene, love story, lust, lawyer, teenage boy, prison, sexual relations, older woman teenage boy relationship, student, war crime
Revanche (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable
Duration: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Austria
Plot tags: obsession, redemption, culture clash, storytelling, robbery, love and romance, couple relations, prostitution, unfulfillment, family problems, criminal heroes, revenge, crime gone awry, vengeance, love, bank robbery, hotel, adultery, guilt, caper, sex scene, vigilante, outsider, sensuality, european
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal Emperor, Akbar and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa
Duration: 213 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Plot tags: emperor, true love, royal family, culture clash, dishonesty, love and romance, ruler, royal court, politics, arranged marriage, historical character, sword fight, win over, indian history, princess, betrayal, romantic rivalry, royalty, heroes, happy ending, love story, initially antagonists, indians, wedding, ancient
Keith (2008)
Plot Summary:
Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide. As the free-spirited Keith shows Natalie how to embrace what life offers, they grow closer -- until a secret tests the bounds of their relationship
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life, adolescence, fall in love, love affair, coming of age, high school life, couples, college, nothing to lose, relationships, passion, friendship, depression
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love
Duration: 155 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: friendship, true love, best friend, college graduate, womanizer, looking for love, love triangle, family relations, love and romance, young lovers, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, couple relations, jealousy, brother sister relationship, breakup, ex boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wedding planning, indians, tragic love, mother son relationship, high school, urban, youth
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates
Duration: 119 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 222000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis, existentialism, deadend life, female nudity, office, sex in car, passion, psychology, loneliness, destiny, sex scene, unfulfillment, character study, couple relations
Loft (2008)
Plot Summary:
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Plot tags: twists and turns, investigation, mistress, surveillance, adultery, betrayal, infidelity, uncover truth, murder, architect, friendship, multiple suspects, revenge, dishonesty, secret place, friends, sexual relations, sex, blackmail, who done it, manipulation, male nudity, husband wife relationship, secret, nudity
Ghajini (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sanjay a rich tycoon suffering from short term memory loss due to being hit by a metal pole when trying to intervene on his girlfriend's murder. Because of this his memory can only last for 15 minutes and he doesn't remember events or incidents that have happened before in his life
Duration: 186 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: memory loss, diary, loss of loved one, revenge, rage, murder, fall in love, vengeance, uncover truth, love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, danger, disorder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, police officer, villain, brutality, love at first sight, medical student, indians, genius, amnesia, tragic love
Flame & Citron (2008)
Plot Summary:
During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid ("Flame") and Jørgen Haagen Schmith ("Citron"), assassins in the Danish resistance, take orders from Winther, who's in direct contact with Allied leaders. One shoots, the other drives. Until 1944, they kill only Danes; then Winther gives orders to kill Germans. When a target tells Bent that Winther's using them to settle private scores, doubt sets in, complicated by Bent's relationship with the mysterious Kitty Selmer, who may be a double agent. Also, someone in their circle is a traitor. Can Bent and Jørgen kill an über-target, evade capture, and survive the war? And is this heroism, naiveté, or mere hatred?
Duration: 130 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark, Germany, Norway, France, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic
Plot tags: war, world war two, gestapo, wartime, betrayal, spy, nazi, dishonesty, nazism, world war, double agent, resistance, organized crime, greed, ethnic conflict, partner, political unrest, wartime life, chaos, assassination attempt, danger, mistrust, state affairs, plan gone awry, espionage
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman
Duration: 167 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: couples, couple relations, ambition, disorder, dancer's life, love and romance, dancer, shyness, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, hindu, love, lady, tragic love, love story, wandering, heartwarming, fall in love, goodhearted, makeover, a vision, contests and competitions, punjabi, age difference, dancing
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of "Bender's Big Score," the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. Beyond the tear, though, lurks a being of inconceivable...tentacularity. What will become of Earth, and indeed, our universe, when faced with the Beast with a Billion Backs?
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: space and aliens, alien, beast, save the world, scientist, robot, parallel universe, monster, cyclops, danger, dating, technology, evil alien, machine, distopia, alien invasion, stoner, mature, extraterrestrial, machinery, intergalactic, criticism of religion, wedding, mind control, police brutality
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture
Duration: 96 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 266000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Plot tags: artist, polyamory, love triangle, women, art, love and romance, love, summer, bohemian life, love story, open relationship, fall in love, sexuality, lifestyle, seduction, sex, painter, lesbian, group sex, vacation, lust, female protagonist, couples, love affair, relationships
Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
Plot Summary:
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Plot tags: village life, friendship, fish out of water, culture clash, postman, prejudice, post office, small town, foe turned friend, life philosophy, happy ending, social satire, provincial life, mining town, unlikely friendships, travel, hunter, ghost hunter, marriage proposal, lie, mama's boy, relocation, cultural difference, hospitality, unhappy marriage
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous Snow in Hawaii, but also Sarah Marshall
Duration: 111 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 299000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, nudity, surfing, friendship, female nudity, sex, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, betrayal, infidelity, loneliness, nothing goes right, crumbling relationship, party, one night stand, male nudity, beach, orgasm, hotel, sex scene, love, summer, bromance
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Plot tags: father daughter relationship, single father, love story, male female friendship, storytelling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, daughter, divorce, best friends in love, love, father, fall in love, relationships, loneliness, life philosophy, girl, writers, dating, life, destiny, coming of age, college, friendship, teenage girl
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Plot Summary:
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Plot tags: friendship, teacher, optimism, homeless, looking for love, character study, elementary school, working class, social worker, roommate, love and romance, goodhearted, stranger, selflessness, hopes, depression, mentor, bullying, school, strong female lead, bookstore, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, 30 year old, women
Two Lovers (2008)
Plot Summary:
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women
Duration: 110 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Plot tags: couples, suicide attempt, love, melancholy, lust, love triangle, neighbor, character study, fall in love, young lovers, life turned upside down, love of one's life, desire, living with parents, women, loneliness, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family business, passion, love hurts, adultery, mental illness, infidelity, stalker
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse
Duration: 92 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: love affair, couples, love and romance, social differences, friendship, actress, high society, farce, lifestyle, actor's life, love triangle, artists and showbiz, fashion, love, destiny, happy ending, heartwarming, fish out of water, manic pixie dream girl, fall in love, female friendship, singer, lady, girl power, jazz club
The Lucky Ones (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S
Duration: 115 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Plot tags: road trip, soldier, friendship, homecoming, life is a bitch, wartime life, loss of friend, on the road, war on terror, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, army, business, nature, 9/11, terrorism, aftermath, sociology, women in the military, storm, friends, society, gulf war, financial problem, sergeant
The Wackness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, teenager, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner, drug abuse, loneliness, summer, doctors and patients, love affair, social misfits, lifestyle, buddies, midlife crisis, virginity, love, subculture
Patrik, Age 1.5 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Plot tags: gay, adoption, gay couple, gay parent, gay slur, gay lead character, gender, teenage boy, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay adoption, orphan, lgbt, lgbtq, gay sex, couples, love and romance, disorder, eccentric family, alcoholic, skateboarder, gardener, swedish, gay father
The Duchess (2008)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life
Duration: 110 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Plot tags: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility, marital rape, destiny, marital infidelity, mother daughter relationship, heir, family problems, love, women, life philosophy, lovers, estate, mistress, love and romance
Fashion (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fashion begins in, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) expresses her wish to go to Mumbai and pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel. Through her eyes we see that behind the glitz and glamour of the world of fashion not everything is as it seems
Duration: 167 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: fashion, model, ambition, rivalry, drug abuse, rise to the top, follow your dream, lifestyle, abortion, friendship, desire for fame, life is a bitch, showbiz, infidelity, workplace intrigue, rise and fall, workplace, downfall, women, lgbt, feminist, fashion industry, fashion show, fashion model, erotica
Lymelife (2008)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: dysfunctional family, coming of age, american dream, infidelity, marital problem, first love, violence, marriage, teenage love, family life, family problems, love and romance, teenage life, fighting illness, relationships, divorce, family drama, suburbs, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, teenager, epidemic, illness, mother son relationship
Alone (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alper is in his mid 30s and a good chef at his own restaurant. He loves luxury and spends his life with one-night stands and paid love. One day, his life changes utterly as he walks into a second-hand shop where he first encounters Ada who is in her late 20s and has a shop where she designs costumes for kids. She leads a modest life and one day while looking for a book, her and Alper's paths cross
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Plot tags: couple relations, couples, chef, bittersweet, cooking and food, love and romance, turk, singleness, casual sex, estrangement, free spirited, love, sex, prostitute, loneliness, cat, wedding, girlfriend, beach, restaurant, family relations, cinema, lie, nightclub, store