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Australia:M certified movies
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9 years after infiltrating a chemical weapons facility in Russia, where friend and fellow M:I-6 agent Alec Trevelyan 006 was killed by corrupt Russian military officer General Ourumov. Seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is assigned by his new boss, a female 'M' to recover "GoldenEye" the access key to a top secret space weapon orbiting the Earth which fires a electromagnetic pulse which shuts down all electronic equipment. The "GoldenEye" has been stolen from the Severnya space research station by General Ourumov and the lethal and deadly Xenia Onatopp and slaughtered everyone at Servernya. Helped by Russian computer programmer Natalya Siminova, who was the sole survivor of the Servernya massacre and witnessed Ourumov and Xenia steal the "GoldenEye", Bond learns Ourumov and Xenia are working for Alec Trevelyan, now a renegade M:I-6, and 006 plans on using GoldenEye to wipe out London. 007 and Natalya set out to Cuba where Bond faces Trevelyan in a thrilling showdown as 007 sets out to save London from destruction. |
| Long Riders, The
[1980,
USA]
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| "All the world likes an outlaw. For some damn reason they remember 'em." - Jesse James |
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The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of of revenge. |
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This historical drama presents us one of the greatest romantic stories of doomed love. After the fall of the Roman Empire, King of Ireland (David O'Hara) has in fact taken control over England. While Tristan dreams of banishing Ireland's presence in England, he harbours a secret he's been hiding from his patron Marke - after suffering serious wounds, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. Still seeking to throw the English tribes back into chaos, King Donnchadh gives away his daughter as the prize in a tournament between all the champions of England. Tristan wins the princess' hand for Lord Marke, whose vision of a united England may finally be realized. Tristan is horrified to see that the woman he has won for his Lord, the woman whom Marke will marry, is his Irish savior Isolde. |
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In 1967, after burning most of his henchmen, Dr. Evil sets a trap for Austin Powers, but freezes himself so Austin won't catch him. Austin then volunteers to be frozen in case Dr. Evil shows up again. 30 years later, Dr. Evil wakes up in Nevada and steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world hostage for 1 million dollars. Sorry, 100 billion dollars. Austin is woken up to stop Dr. Evil but gets Vanessa Kensington, his ex-partner's daughter and goes to Vegas to look for Evil, but finds out there is no longer any free love in the 90's, or Swinging. |
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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important. |
| Bobby
[2006,
USA]
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| He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it. |
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) and a group of renegade commandos get hold of a stockpile of deadly nerve gas rockets and take tourists of the former Alcatraz prison as hostages. They demand one million dollars to each family of war veterans who were killed during covert military operations. They threat to wipe San Francisco off the face of the earth unless their demands are fulfilled. FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) and an elite SEAL team await the government's command. But the only one who can penetrate into the island fortress is John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), a former British intelligence agent who also happens to be the only inmate to have ever escaped from the Rock. |
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Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath's mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.
To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham's family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.
With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror. |
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The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend. |
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When a massive underwater craft abducts U.S. and Russian submarines, global tensions are heightened to the brink of war. In order to find the true culprit, James Bond joins forces with beautiful Russian secret agent Anya Amasaova. Together they follow a trail that leads to Karl Stromberg, a powerful shipping magnate who is implementing a horrific scheme for world domination. Bond struggles to foil the plot, but Stromberg has provided him with the most lethal adversary: Jaws, a seemingly indestructible steel-toothed giant. Agent 007's adventure takes him to the Egyptian pyramids, under the sea and to a mountaintop ski chase that builds to one of the most amazing stunts ever filmed. |
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit. |
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Young ambitious guy Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, knew that he would manage to climb the social ladder some day. And that day dawned when Tom happened to meet Mr. Greenleaf (James Rebhorn), a shipping tycoon, who mistook him for a Princeton student and a fellow of his son Dickie (Jude Law). Herbert Greenleaf paid Ripley $1,000 plus expenses so that he could travel to Italy to persuade his spoiled, shallow and wayward son living a carefree life with his father's money to return to America. Tom was undoubtedly talented: he was well-read and smart, was good at playing the piano, forging handwriting, and impersonating voices and manners of other people. On arrival in Italy, Tom, a real chameleon, ingratiated himself with Dickie and his fascinating girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), and was soon accepted into their inner circle. He was attracted to the impetuous handsome Dicki and charmed by the privileged lifestyle. But Ripley's deep-seated dissatisfaction with his own background, life of poverty and his being a real nobody began gnawing at him and his growing desire to maintain the new wealthy lifestyle was an overpoise to his judgement. So Ripley came up with a perfidious, cruel plan to kill Greenleaf and assume his identity.
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Harry Tasker is a secret agent in the Bond style. But his wife Helen and family think he is a computer salesman. When Helen seeks out a life of excitement in the arms of another man, Harry sets out to give her the excitement she craves while simultaneously battling Arab terrorists in possession of an atomic bomb and causing his rival in love to change his trousers. |
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
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Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne), a happily married 40-something Irishman in the Australian town of Jindabyne, goes on a fishing trip with his pals, Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone). While out on the river, they discover the naked body of a murdered aboriginal girl (Tatea Reilly). Instead of returning to the town immediately, the men decide to stay on at the river and spend two days fishing. When the buddies finally return home and notify their macabre discovery to the police, they face their families' sharp condemnation of their actions. Stewart's wife Claire (Laura Linney) is so disturbed by her husband's callousness that she begins to question their marriage. |
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They finally meet - the tough cop John Mc Clein played by Bruce Willis and the dangerous terrorist, who is an ace of explosion technique. Simon (Jeremy Irons), the terrorist, wants to wreak vengeance on John involving him into the dangerous game when body count rapidly increases and McClein should save New York: Simon's cat-and-mouse game compels the cop to make difficult decisions, but nevertheless he should act really fast. Police is searching for terrorists when the genuine aim of the gang emerges... It will be a very, very hard day for our hero, because John McTiernan is the director known well by the tough action movies and their high budget.
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent's skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames. |
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In the contemporary world you don't need to be a wizard to change someone's destiny. It takes you only to sit down at the computer. When attorney Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) becomes the target of corrupt National Security Agency official Thomas Brian Reynolds (Jon Voight), his brilliant career and happy marriage is utterly ruined. Reynolds, who uses the latest high-tech surveillance gadgets and other vast resources of his department, turns him from a law-abiding citizen into a 'serious offender' within a few days. Accused of murder he hasn't committed, Dean finds himself deprived of his prestigious well-paid job, with his family spied on, and his personal information deleted from all electronic databases. It is clear that he is framed. But how can he prove his innocence if he has such a formidable foe? He gets the only chance to clear his name and reclaim his life when he comes into contact with a former intelligence operative and surveillance expert, Brill (Gene Hackman), and learns to turn Reynolds' batteries against himself. |
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'Rent' tells the story based on Puccini's 'La Boheme' and on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical. It's about of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. They struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. Will this year change their lives or all the things will stay the same? Former and actual junkies, gays, computer and music geniuses are the modern day's bohemia, but did the human changed novadays? |
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This touching comedy follows the story of a bashful, chain-smoking, successful playwright having a midlife crisis. Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) runs out of inspiration; his new play is set to open, but he can't find a child to act the part of a 10-year-old character; his neighbors' dog barks all night; he is unnerved by his wife who insists on having a child. Fortunately, things take a turn for the better when a recently separated woman, Trina Walsh (Lucinda Jenney), and her 8-year-old cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter) move next door. Peter befriends the girl who helps him to see the world through other eyes... |
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