First extract characters from left bracket '(' using strchr() function.
char *name="The Matrix(1999)"; char *ps; ps=strchr(name,'(');
Then add each character within brackets () to an char array
char y[5]=""; int p; for (p=1;p<strlen(ps+1);p++) { y[p-1]=ps[p]; } y[4]='\0';
Lastly convert resultant string to integer using atoi() function
year=atoi(y); printf("year=%d",year);
You can now apply required filters ti create array of strings of all movies prior to 2008