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Argentina:16 certified movies
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Tom Beckett (Tom Berenger) is a living legend not because he had accomplished the most difficult and dangerous missions, but since he had returned from these assignments safe and sound. Now he is to stand the most complicated strength test without making any mistake, now his aim is to reach one of the East-European countries to assassinate the local dictator. Tom is teamed up with a death row convict B.J. Cole (Bokeem Woodbine) who will win freedom if the operation will end with success. But when they get there, they turn from the hunters to the prey, it turns out to be that they simply are pawns in a larger game, as the circumstances get dramatically change. |
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A group of British college students who are close friends embark on a night of intense partying including alcohol and drugs, and while under the influence, intent on a bit of fun, try to establish a link with the spirit world using a homemade Ouija board. However, fun is the last thing on their minds when the Ouija board spells out the words "All Die", and they give up on the board before closing the link to the spirit world and, unknown to them, unleash something evil into their world, and it isn't long before one of them is murdered by an unseen force. Soon they all find themselves terrified for their lives, as the spirit they have let out begins to kill them off, one by one. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
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Ben (Seann William Scott) has some major debts and intends to rob a bank, under cover of the big rave party he is going to host. The whole point is that the club is located next to the bank where the valuable statue adorns the hall. The rave show will last for seven hours, it should be enough to disguise all attempts break the wall, penetrate into the bank and to still the statue. But there are more obstacles on their way then a simple wall: they should struggle with a cranky club owner, Chinese mafia, Irish thugs, crazed transvestites and a horny teen girl. |
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This political thriller set in a South-American country follows Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) who had left his law practice for a police detective being to deal with crime and justice more directly. He tracks down the terrorist group which is ready to overturn the current government; these guys practice everything from political pranks to assassinations and bombings. Things get complicated as Agustin begins to suspect his girlfriend of the possible connections with the terrorists. And these suspicions seem to prove to be correct. This taut movie became the directorial first-born of one famous person known well as John Malkovich. |
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Two bored high school students, Justin Pendleton ('Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) and Richard Haywood ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv)), decide to murder a random girl just for the challenge. They have planned everything ahead, and yet, a stiff homicide detective follows them much tighter then they have expected. |
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. |
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On her way to meet her lover Russell (Martin Cummins), Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), a gun company owner, receives a creepy cell phone call saying that she is held at gunpoint. A gunman who calls himself Joe (Wesley Snipes) tells Liberty to handcuff herself to a nearby hot dog stand. The frightened woman follows the terrorist's order, only to find that the stand is rigged with a bomb which will go off if she refuses to fulfil his demands. Meanwhile, Russell, who is tied up and also attached to a bomb, sits still in his dressing room just before the performance in a local theatre. Liberty is forced to play a life-and-death game with the desperate man. |
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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Reapers, a new breed of vampire that feed off humans and vampires, emerge with plans for world domination and Blade must team with the Bloodpack, an elite team of vampire warriors specifically trained to hunt him, in order to defeat this new menace. |
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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another. |
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After being released from a mental institution, a young attractive but socially awkward woman named Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) returns home to live with her dysfunctional parents, Joan (Lesley Ann Warren) and Burt (Stephen McHattie). Determined to change her life for the better, she takes a typing class and eventually lands a job as a secretary for an eccentric, perfectionist attorney, E. Edward Grey (James Spader). It soon becomes apparent that Mr. Grey is not your average chief, and Lee tentatively develops a BDSM relationship with him...
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This is a screen version of the most terrific book of the same name (The Red Dragon) by Thomas Harris. The famous trilogy of an evil Gannibal Lecter finds the brilliant, dreadful ending in this suspense series, taking place before events with Clarissa Starling and before the Silence of the Lambs episode. The man who smoked out the mysterious maniac, Gannibal Lecter, now is to pursue the bloodier criminal, who is known as The Tooth Fairy. This ruthless scum carries out massacres of the whole families, and the FBI agent Will Graham (Edward Norton) will face many complications catching the bastard. Will has a mysterious gift which allows him to penetrate into the minds of the criminals, he got retired after catching Lecter, but the massacres having place compel him to return to his dangerous duties. The fate is cynical: Graham is to ask imprisoned Gannibal Lecter for help to succeed, because the monstrous man-eater is a former forensic psychiatrist... and he is in some way connected with the Tooth Fairy. |
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A group of radical animal rights activists break into a British laboratory where scientists conduct secret experiments on monkeys and chimpanzees. They release some chimps that turn out to be infected by the virus of murderous rage. Thus the activists inadvertently unleash the contagious virus that twenty eight days later rages throughout the country, turning the population into bloodthirsty, zombie-like creatures. A handful of survivors struggle to take shelter in the fortified part of the British Isles. But they are unaware that their troubles are just beginning. |
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One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
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Matt (Josh Hartnett) is dumped by his girlfriend, she instantly found another guy leaving her former boyfriend to bite the dust and to long for her. Dispirited and disappointed, Matt vows to have no sexual and related contacts in a period of forty days... and, more particularly, nights. But suddenly he meets the seductive girl of his dreams (Shannyn Sossamon) and his vow becomes the serious obstacle for their upcoming relations. Concurrently, as you may have guessed, his ex-girlfriend tries to get him back. It's rather hilarious sight when embarrassed Matt tries hilariously to come unscrew! |
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role. |
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A quartet of young rush-seeking master thieves, made up of Slim (Stephen Dorff), Otis (Clé Bennett), Frank (Steven McCarthy) and Alex (Karen Cliché), commit dozens of audacious bank robberies, using their skills in various extreme sports like rollerblading, scuba diving, parachuting, and rock climbing to make their getaway. Slim and his crew plan to pull off the ultimate heist before resting on their laurels and fabulous wealth. But this time, the police mobilize forces to bring them down. Things get even more complicated when the mafia throws obstacles in their way. |
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The movie follows the interwoven romantic fates of three men and three women who come together and break apart on the Sidewalks of New York. TV producer Thomas Reilly (Edward Burns), who has split with his longtime girlfriend, becomes infatuated with the flighty Maria Tedesko (Rosario Dawson), a teacher at a private school who has separated from her husband, Benjamin Bazler (David Krumholtz). Meanwhile, Tommy has a relationship with Annie Matthews (Heather Graham), a married real-estate agent, who helps him to choose a new apartment. Annie's hubby, 39-year-old Griffin Ritso (Stanley Tucci), is chronically unfaithful to her. He is cheating with 19-year-old waitress Ashley (Brittany Murphy), who finds herself attracted to Ben, a doorkeeper and a musician. After divorce with Maria, Ben hopes to regain confidence by romancing Ashley... |
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