Movies about fall-from-height

	Horton Hears a Who! [2008, USA] Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, One Elephant One World One Story (3 more taglines...)

Director: Jimmy Hayward,   Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Will Arnett, Dane Cook, Josh Flitter, Dan Fogler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Shelby Adamowsky, Carol Burnett, Samantha Droke, Isla Fisher, Selena Gomez, Joey King, Story: One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his nei... >> Certificates: Singapore:G, Ireland:G, Denmark:A, South Africa:PG, Argentina:Atp, Germany:o.Al., Hong Kong:I, Finland:K-3, Switzerland:0, Netherlands:AL, South Korea:All, Australia:G, UK:U, Canada:G, Sweden:Btl, USA:G, Philippines:G, Malaysia:U, Switzerland:0, Norway:7,

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	Forbidden Kingdom, The [2008, USA] Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable. (1 more taglines...)

Director: Rob Minkoff,   Actors: Jet Li, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan, Yifei Liu, Yifei Liu, Collin Chou, Juana Collignon, Morgan Benoit, Bingbing Li, Jack Posobiec, Thomas McDonell, Zhi Ma Gui, Shen Shou He, Story: An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from... >> Certificates: UK:12A, Singapore:PG, Portugal:M/12, Hong Kong:IIA, USA:PG-13, Philippines:G, Ireland:12A, Malaysia:U, South Korea:12,

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	In Bruges [2008, UK, Belgium] Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Shoot first. Sightsee later.

Director: Martin McDonagh,   Actors: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Jérémie Renier, Thekla Reuten, Jordan Prentice, Zeljko Ivanek, Elizabeth Berrington, Rudy Blomme, Olivier Bonjour, Mark Donovan, Ann Elsley, Jean-Marc Favorin, Eric Godon, Story: Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry to go and cool their heels in the stor... >> Certificates: Germany:16, Netherlands:16, UK:18, Ireland:16, Canada:18A, USA:R,

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	Shutter [2008, USA] Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,

Director: Actors: Joshua Jackson, David Denman, John Hensley, James Kyson Lee, Kei Yamamoto, Pascal Morineau, Masaki Ota, Heideru Tatsuo, Tomotaka Kanzaki, Jun Yakushiji, Masakazu Nagakura, Shinji Furukawa, Akihido Ando, Takao Toji, Yutaka Mishima, Story: A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. A bit distraught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin the... >> Certificates: New Zealand:R16, Canada:13+, Ireland:16, Canada:14A, Sweden:15, Australia:MA, Philippines:PG-13, Singapore:PG, Germany:16, South Korea:18, USA:PG-13, Argentina:16, Malaysia:U, UK:15,

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	Superhero Movie [2008, USA] Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, The greatest Superhero movie of all time! (not counting all the others)

Director: Actors: Drake Bell, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Ryan Hansen, Keith David, Brent Spiner, Robert Joy, Jeffrey Tambor, Robert Hays, Sam Cohen, Tracy Morgan, Craig Bierko, Richard Tillman, Simon Rex, Story: Orphaned high school student Rick Riker is bitten by a radioactive dragonfly, develops super powers (except for the ability to fly), and becomes a hero. >> Certificates: Canada:PG, Canada:14A, Finland:K-13, Philippines:PG-13, USA:PG-13, Singapore:PG, Australia:M, Canada:13+, Ireland:15A,

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	Ruins, The [2008, Australia, USA] Genres: Horror, Thriller, Terror has evolved.

Director: Actors: Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Joe Anderson, Sergio Calderón, Jesse Ramirez, Balder Moreno, Dimitri Baveas, Patricio Almeida Rodriguez, Mario Jurado, Luis Antonio Ramos, Walter Quispe, Nathan Vega, Tanisha Marquez-Munduate, Chris Argirousis, Alexander Gregory, Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins. >> Certificates: UK:18, Finland:K-13, Ireland:16, Canada:18A, Singapore:M18, Canada:14A, Canada:13+, Netherlands:16, USA:R, Australia:MA, Sweden:15, South Africa:16LV,

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	Nim's Island [2008, USA] Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Be the hero of your own story.

Director: Actors: Gerard Butler, Michael Carman, Mark Brady, Anthony Simcoe, Christopher Baker, Maddison Joyce, Peter Callan, Russell Butler, Colin Gibson, Bryan Probets, Andrew Nason, Tony Bellette, Jeff Dornan, Jay Laga'aia, John Walton, Story: A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Ni... >> Certificates: Switzerland:7, Philippines:PG-13, Malaysia:U, Canada:PG, Switzerland:7, Australia:PG, USA:PG, Ireland:PG, Netherlands:6, Singapore:PG, Canada:G,

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	Happening, The [2008, USA, India] Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening.

Director: Actors: Mark Wahlberg, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Robert Bailey Jr., Michael Biscardi, Robert Bizik, Michael Edward Brooks, Anthony C. Brown, Don Castro, Lyman Chen, Rich Chew, Frank Collison, Joel de la Fuente, Stéphane Debac, Tony Devon, Story: A paranoid thriller about a family on the run from a natural crisis that presents a large-scale threat to humanity. >> Certificates: South Korea:18, USA:R, UK:15,

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	Doomsday [2008, UK, USA, South Africa] Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, The End Is Nigh. (1 more taglines...)

Director: Actors: Vernon Willemse, Paul Hyett, Daniel Read, Karl Thaning, Stephen Hughes, Jason Cope, Ryan Kruger, Nathan Wheatley, Cecil Carter, Jeremy Crutchley, Tom Fairfoot, Az Abrahams, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara, Story: Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the vic... >> Certificates: Hong Kong:III, UK:18, Netherlands:16, Ireland:18, Norway:18, Philippines:R-13, Norway:18, Singapore:M18, Finland:K-18, USA:R, Singapore:NC-16,

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	Speed Racer [2008, USA] Genres: Action, Family, Sport, Go (2 more taglines...)

Director: Andy Wachowski,   Actors: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Melissa Holroyd, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Ariel Winter, Scott Porter, Benno Fürmann, Gian Ganziano, Peter Fernandez, Harvey Friedman, Richard Roundtree, Sadao Ueda, Story: Hurtling down the track, careening around, over and through the competition, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized-the legendary Rex Racer - whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Sp... >> Certificates: Singapore:PG, Venezuela:PG-13, Germany:12, Argentina:13, UK:PG, Philippines:PG-13, Netherlands:6, USA:PG, Malaysia:U, Finland:K-11, Ireland:PG, South Korea:12,

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	Iron Man [2008, USA] Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mark 1. Mark 2. Mark 3. (5 more taglines...)

Director: Jon Favreau,   Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, Shaun Toub, Faran Tahir, Sayed Badreya, Bill Smitrovich, Clark Gregg, Tim Guinee, Will Lyman, Marco Khan, Kevin Foster, Garret Noel, Story: Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the arm... >> Certificates: Netherlands:12, Sweden:11, Italy:T, New Zealand:M, Switzerland:12, Brazil:12, France:U, Philippines:G, Ireland:12A, South Korea:12, Iceland:12, Canada:PG, Germany:12, Canada:14A, Australia:M, Canada:G, Hong Kong:IIA, UK:12A, Malaysia:U, USA:PG-13, Finland:K-13, Argentina:13, Switzerland:12, Portugal:M/12, Norway:11, Singapore:PG,

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	10,000 BC [2008, USA, New Zealand] Genres: Adventure, It takes a hero to change the world. (1 more taglines...)

Director: Roland Emmerich,   Actors: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring, Mona Hammond, Marco Khan, Reece Ritchie, Joel Fry, Omar Sharif, Kristian Beazley, Junior Oliphant, Louise Tu'u, Story: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter named D'Leh's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. When a band of mysterious horse-riding warlords raid the Yaghal camp and kidnaps his heart's desire - the beautiful Evolet along with many others, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters south to pu... >> Certificates: Ireland:12A, South Africa:13V, Australia:M, Germany:12, Philippines:G, Switzerland:10, Argentina:13, UK:12A, USA:PG-13, Netherlands:12, Czech Republic:12, South Korea:15, Singapore:PG, Finland:K-13, Norway:11, Switzerland:10, Canada:G, New Zealand:M, Sweden:11, Canada:PG, Hong Kong:IIA, Malaysia:U, Portugal:M/12, Canada:14A,

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	Red Baron, The [2008, Germany, UK] Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War,

Director: Nikolai Müllerschön,   Actors: Matthias Schweighöfer, Til Schweiger, Lena Headey, Joseph Fiennes, Volker Bruch, Maxim Mehmet, Steffen Schroeder, Hanno Koffler, Tino Mewes, Ralph Misske, Axel Prahl, Gitta Schweighöfer, Jan Vlasák, Radek Bruna, Brian Caspe, Story: Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Headey), Manfred realizes h... >> Certificates: Germany:12,

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	Quarantine [2008, USA] Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, On March 11 2008, the government sealed off an apartment complex in Los Angeles. The residents we...

Director: John Erick Dowdle,   Actors: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez, Johnathon Schaech, Columbus Short, Andrew Fiscella, Rade Serbedzija, Greg Germann, Bernard White, Dania Ramirez, Elaine Kagan, Marin Hinkle, Joey King, Jermaine Jackson, Sharon Ferguson, Story: Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her cameraman (Harris) are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon le... >> Certificates: USA:R, UK:18, Australia:MA,

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	Epic Movie [2007, USA] Genres: Adventure, Comedy, We Know It's Big. We Measured.

Director: Jason Friedberg,   Actors: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers, Crispin Glover, Tony Cox, Héctor Jiménez, Darrell Hammond, Carmen Electra, Fred Willard, David Carradine, David Lehre, Kevin McDonald, George Alvarez, Story: The twisted minds of two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in "Epic Movie." The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, ... >> Certificates: Ireland:15A, Malaysia:U, Philippines:R-13, Germany:12, Argentina:13, Spain:18, Hong Kong:IIB, Norway:11, Finland:K-13, Singapore:PG, USA:PG-13, Canada:PG, Canada:14A, Canada:13+, Australia:M, Netherlands:12,

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	Pathfinder [2007, Canada, USA] Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War, Two Worlds, One War. The Ultimate Battle Begins. (1 more taglines...)

Director: Marcus Nispel,   Actors: Karl Urban, Russell Means, Moon Bloodgood, Jay Tavare, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Kevin Loring, Wayne Charles Baker, Burkely Duffield, Ray G. Thunderchild, Duane Howard, Brandon Oakes, Alain Hudon, Cyler Point, Story: A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen. >> Certificates: Ireland:16, Argentina:13, USA:R, New Zealand:R16, France:-12, Canada:18A, Canada:13+, Germany:18, Philippines:R-13, Malaysia:18SG, Netherlands:16, Singapore:NC-16, UK:15,

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	Blades of Glory [2007, USA] Genres: Comedy, Sport, Kick Some Ice

Director: Josh Gordon,   Actors: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Jenna Fischer, William Fichtner, Craig T. Nelson, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Scott Hamilton, Andy Richter, Greg Lindsay, Rob Corddry, Nick Jameson, Tom Virtue, Story: When rivalry between the world's best men's figure skaters - sex addicted, improvisational Chazz Michael Michaels and germophobic, precise Jimmy MacElroy - breaks into a fight on the awards platform, they're banned from the event for life. Three years later, desire for a gold medal and a careful reading of the rules lead them to compete as skati... >> Certificates: Ireland:15A, New Zealand:M, UK:12A, Singapore:PG, Switzerland:10, Switzerland:10, Netherlands:12, USA:PG-13, Germany:6, Canada:PG, Canada:14A, Canada:13+,

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