2008 Romantic Drama Movies

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

Slumdog Millionaire(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 4,758 votes)

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

Directed by Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan - With Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar, ...

The Reader(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 1,312 votes)

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.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, ...

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Step Up 2: The Streets(2008)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 38min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 1,043 votes)

When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore s underground dance battle The Streets.

Directed by Jon M. Chu - With Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Channing Tatum, ...

Australia(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 1,021 votes)

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.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann - With Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bruce Spence, Jack Thompson, ...

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The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love, History

3.3/5 (with 899 votes)

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Directed by Justin Chadwick - With Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mark Rylance, ...

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The Duchess(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 50min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 756 votes)

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Directed by Saul Dibb - With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Georgia King, ...

I Can't Think Straight(2008)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 135 votes)

I CAN'T THINK STRAIGHT is a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another woman, Leyla, a British Indian.

Directed by Shamim Sarif - With Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Dalip Tahil, Darwin Shaw, Amber Rose Revah

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Personal Effects(2009)

1h 50min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 51 votes)

Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a beautiful mature woman gives him solace to the situation. Will this unlikely pairing bloom into a romance and heal a wound the world cannot see or will the loss of his sister push him over the edge?

Directed by David Hollander - With Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates, Mary Black, Jay Brazeau, Sarah Strange, ...

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Two Lovers(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 365 votes)

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

Directed by James Gray - With Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas, Moni Moshonov, ...

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Last Chance Harvey(2008)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 115 votes)

In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.

Directed by Joel Hopkins - With Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker, James Brolin, Eileen Atkins, Richard Schiff, ...

The Edge of Love(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 50min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 162 votes)

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.

Directed by John Maybury - With Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Lisa Stansfield, Camilla Rutherford, ...

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Elegy(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 113 votes)

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Directed by Isabel Coixet - With Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaardd, Patricia Clarkson, Debbie Harry, ...

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Dream Boy(2008)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 50 votes)

The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.

Directed by James Bolton - With Stephan Bender, Diana Scarwid, Rickie Lee Jones, Rooney Mara, Thomas Jay Ryan

Nights in Rodanthe(2008)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 267 votes)

Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn where she is staying.

Directed by George C. Wolfe - With Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Viola Davis, Christopher Meloni, Mae Whitman, Charlie Tahan, ...

The Other Man(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 30min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 97 votes)

The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

Directed by Richard Eyre - With Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas, Liam Neeson, Romola Garai, Richard Graham, Sophie Wu, ...

Jodhaa Akbar(2008)

3h 33min | Romance / Love, History, Drama

3.7/5 (with 105 votes)

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker - With Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ila Arun, Suhasini Mulay, ...

Tear This Heart Out(2008)

1h 47min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.9/5 (with 35 votes)

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.

Directed by Roberto Sneider - With Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira, Mariana Peñalva, Irene Azuela

The Yellow Handkerchief(2009)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 62 votes)

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Directed by Udayan Prasad - With William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne

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My Dear Enemy(2008)

2h 3min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Jobless and single in her thirties, Hee-soo is miserable. On one fine day, she sets out to find Byoung-woon, her ex-boyfriend. It is not love that brings them together but $3,500 Hee-soo had lent to Byoung-woon a year ago. Byoung-woon is also penniless but surprisingly happy for he knows the girls who are willing to give him money. Afraid Byoung-woon may run off before clearing his debt, Hee-soo follows him as he visits many girls to borrow money, so the two ex-love birds set out on a one day journey to collect money, and memory.

Directed by Lee Yun-ki - With Jeon Do-yeon, Ha Jung-woo

The Black Balloon(2008)

1h 37min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle?

Directed by Elissa Down - With Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward, Firass Dirani, ...

Lovely, Still(2008)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

Directed by Nik Fackler - With Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott, Elizabeth Banks

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Revanche(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

Directed by Götz Spielmann - With Ursula Strauss, Hanno Pöschl, Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Hannes Thanheiser, Andreas Lust, ...

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Mulligans(2008)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 27 votes)

When Tyler Davidson brings his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart.

Directed by Chip Hale - With Thea Gill, Dan Payne, Charlie David

Lovers of 6 Years(2008)

1h 52min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Da-Jin and Jae-Young have been in an all too comfortable relationship for the past six years. Although they don't live together, their apartments reside side by side. But trouble brews for the couple when they begin to fall for their respective co-workers. Can Da-Jin and Jae-Young's relationship survive these outside temptations?

Directed by Park Hyun-jin - With Kim Ha-neul, Jo Hyang-gi, Yoon Kye-sang, Shin Sung-rok, Kim Hye-ok, Cha Hyeon-jeong, ...

Worlds Apart(2008)

1h 56min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev - With Pilou Asbæk, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Hans Henrik Voetmann, Jens Jørn Spottag, Jytte Kvinesdal, Sarah Boberg, ...

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Ploning(2008)

1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In the picturesque island of Cuyo, Palawan, an illegal Taiwanese fishing vessel docks carrying the fisherman named Muo Sei, a man looking for something or someone with the name Ploning. He has from sunrise to sundown to look for this "Ploning".

Directed by Dante Nico Garcia - With Judy Ann Santos, Gina Pareño, Eugene Domingo, Mylene Dizon

Parugu(2008)

2h 53min | Action, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

A group of friends are forcibly transported to a village and kept imprisoned, as the village head, who believes that they have helped in his daughter's elopement with her lover.

Directed by Bhaskar - With Allu Arjun, Sheela Kaur, Poonam Bajwa, Prakash Raj

Once Upon a Time in Rio(2008)

1h 57min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 37 votes)

Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans apartments, works in restaurants, and sells food along the scenic, sun-drenched shores. Young Dé (Thiago Martins) is just such a man. Dé lives with his mother Bernadette (Cyria Coentro) in a cramped Cantagalo apartment, selling hot dogs on the beach in order to make the rent. His brother Beto was killed when Dé was just a young boy, and his adopted brother Carlão (Rocco Pitanga) has been jailed for a robbery that he didn't commit. One day, while working on the beach, Dé meets Nina (Vitória Frate). Nina is the only child of a successful lawyer named Evandro (Paulo César Grande), who's none to happy to discover that his daughter is dating a member of the lower class. How...

Directed by Breno Silveira - With Thiago Martins, Vitória Frate, Rocco Pitanga, Paulo César Grande, Cyria Coentro, Marcos Pitombo, ...

The Man Who Loves(2008)

1h 43min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 22 votes)

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

Directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi - With Pierfrancesco Favino, Kseniya Rappoport, Monica Bellucci, Marisa Paredes, Michele Alhaique, Arnaldo Ninchi, ...

2008 Romantic Drama Movies

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Slumdog Millionaire(2008)

The Reader(2008)

Step Up 2: The Streets(2008)

Australia(2008)

The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)

The Duchess(2008)

I Can't Think Straight(2008)

Personal Effects(2009)

Two Lovers(2008)

Last Chance Harvey(2008)

The Edge of Love(2008)

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Elegy(2008)

Dream Boy(2008)

Nights in Rodanthe(2008)

The Other Man(2008)

Jodhaa Akbar(2008)

Tear This Heart Out(2008)

The Yellow Handkerchief(2009)

My Dear Enemy(2008)

The Black Balloon(2008)

Lovely, Still(2008)

Revanche(2008)

Mulligans(2008)

Lovers of 6 Years(2008)

Worlds Apart(2008)

Ploning(2008)

Parugu(2008)

Once Upon a Time in Rio(2008)

The Man Who Loves(2008)

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