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Let's Talk About The Rain (2008) 
Agathe Villanova (Agnes Jaoui), a feminist with a role on the political scene, returns for ten days to her family home, in the South of France, to help her sister, Florence, to set their deceased mother's affairs in order.
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Of Time And The City (2008) 
Terence Davies looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool.
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Love Letters And Live Wires (2008) 
A collection of shorts from the BFI vaults.
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The Dark Knight (2008) 
Batman (Bale) hopes to hang up his cape and hand over crime-fighting duties to District Attorney Harvey Dent (Eckhart). But the arrival of clown-faced master criminal The Joker (Ledger) forces the masked vigilante to question everything he stands for.
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WALL-E (2008) 
Humans have abandoned Earth, leaving a fleet of robots to clear up their mess. The only one of those robots remaining is WALL•E (Burtt), who has developed a fascination with our rubbish. That fascination finds a new target when shapely super-robot EVE (Burtt) touches down.
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Killer Of Sheep (2008) 
Stan, a normal guy who works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse, must struggle against influences that would dishonour his drab but adoring family.
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Taxi To The Darkside (2008) 
This year’s Oscar-winning documentary from Alex Gibney uses the dubious arrest, incarceration and subsequent murder of an Afghan taxi driver by US soldiers to explore the American administration’s use of torture in penal institutions Bagram, Abu Ghraib and the notorious Guantánamo Bay. Be afraid...
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Jules Et Jim (2008) 
A story spanning a decades-long love triangle between two friends and an impulsive woman.
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La Antena (2008) 
A brilliant drama set in a dystopian society ruled over by a brutal dictator known as Mr TV
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I Served The King Of England (2008) 
A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.
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The 39 Steps (2008) 
A regular joe (Robert Donat) is forced to go on the run after he becomes in a case of high espionage in Hitchcock's magnificent thriller.
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The Conformist (2008) 
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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There Will Be Blood (2008) 
Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is a silver prospector-turned-oil man, working his way from a single-man dig to mini-mogul status. On a tip from Paul Sunday (Dano), he travels to a small town in search of black gold, with his adoptive son H. W. (Freasier) in tow. But there, Eli Sunday (Dano), Paul’s twin, throws roadblocks in his path.
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Cloverfield (2008) 
During a leaving party for Rob (Stahl-David) something attacks New York and stands between him and the woman he loves (Yustman). So begins a race to rescue the girl and avoid getting eaten, all viewed via camcorder.
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No Country For Old Men (2008) 
Texas, 1980. Hunting in the desert, Llewellyn Moss (Brolin) comes across the wreckage of a drug deal gone wrong and takes the cash — without counting on the man sent after him, an implacable killer (Bardem) intent on recovering the loot at any cost.
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