Defiance
Movie / 2008-12-31 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Howard Shore, James Newton Howard
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Valkyrie
Movie / 2008-12-25 / United States / Releases: 5 / Recordings: 2
Composed by John Ottman
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
The Spirit
Movie / 2008-12-25 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Newman
A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Movie / 2008-12-25 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Marley & Me
Movie / 2008-12-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Theodore Shapiro
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.
Buddenbrooks
Movie / 2008-12-25 / Germany / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Hans-Peter Ströer
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Revolutionary Road
Movie / 2008-12-19 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Thomas Newman
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.
Max Manus
Movie / 2008-12-18 / Norway / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Trond Bjerknes
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
The Tale of Despereaux
Movie / 2008-12-18 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by William Ross
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
Seven Pounds
Movie / 2008-12-18 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Angelo Milli
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Largo Winch
Movie / 2008-12-17 / France / Releases: 4 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Alexandre Desplat
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Doubt
Movie / 2008-12-12 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Howard Shore
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Inkheart
Movie / 2008-12-11 / Germany / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Javier Navarrete
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
The Reader
Movie / 2008-12-10 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Nico Muhly
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.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Movie / 2008-12-10 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Tyler Bates
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.
Pour elle
Movie / 2008-12-03 / France / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Afghan Star
Movie / 2008-12-03 / United Kingdom / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 0
Composer tba
This documentary on the effect the talent competition "Afghan Star" has on the incredibly diverse inhabitants of Afghanistan affords a glimpse into a country rarely seen. Contestants risk their lives to appear on the television show that is a raging success with the public and also monitored closely by the government.
24: Redemption
Movie / 2008-11-28 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Sean Callery
Jack Bauer confronts African general/aspiring dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Merlin and the War of the Dragons
Movie / 2008-11-25 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Chris Ridenhour
In 5th Century Britian, a young Merlin struggles for his place in his known land under the tutelage of The Mage, a local wizard whom sees the young man's potential for magic, as well as face off against his evil former friend, Vendiger, whom plots with a feudal warlord king to conquer all of Britian using an army of flying dragons, and only Merlin with the alliance of the local Prince Uther and Ingraine and a pair of mystical goddesses, can have the power to stop the evil from taking over the land.
Merlin
Movie / 2008-11-25 / United Kingdom / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Robert Lane, Rohan Stevenson
In 5th Century Britian, a young Merlin struggles for his place in his known land under the tutelage of The Mage, a local wizard whom sees the young man's potential for magic, as well as face off against his evil former friend, Vendiger, whom plots with a feudal warlord king to conquer all of Britian using an army of flying dragons, and only Merlin with the alliance of the local Prince Uther and Ingraine and a pair of mystical goddesses, can have the power to stop the evil from taking over the land.
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
Movie / 2008-11-21 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Howard Shore
Co-directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras and subject Thavisouk Phrasavath, this haunting documentary chronicles a refugee family’s epic journey from Laos in the aftermath of the secret war waged by the United States there to New York, where they find themselves fighting a different kind of war on the streets of Brooklyn. Filmed over the course of 23 years, THE BETRAYAL is a visually and emotionally stunning look at the complex ways in which the political shapes the personal.
Bolt
Movie / 2008-11-21 / United States / Releases: 2 / Recordings: 1
Composed by John Powell
Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt must harness all his "super powers" to find a way home.
Twilight
Movie / 2008-11-20 / United States / Releases: 3 / Recordings: 2
Composed by Carter Burwell
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.
Australia
Movie / 2008-11-18 / Australia / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by David Hirschfelder
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Television / 2008-11-14 / United States / Releases: 1 / Recordings: 1
Composed by Andy Sturmer
The Caped Crusader is teamed up with Blue Beetle, Green Arrow, Aquaman and countless others in his quest to uphold justice.