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Australia:M certified movies
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs... |
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. |
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Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
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Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country. |
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Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back. |
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Former pro golf player Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner), surnamed Tin Cup for his talent, lives in the tiny West Texas town of Salome and ruins himself by drinking. Everything goes wrong in his life. Financial problems force him to work as a driving range instructor. One day beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) arrives at his driving range wanting to take golf lessons. She turns out to be the girlfriend of Roy's nemesis, calculating and low-down golfer David Simms (Don Johnson), who is said to hate 'people, kids and dogs.' Roy becomes immediately attracted to Molly. Inspired by her psychotherapy sessions, Roy decides to qualify for and play in the U.S. Open. Roy is determined to compete with Simms, win the most difficult tournament and thus win the heart of Molly. |
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U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer. |
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Three Toronto women - a housewife/painter at leisure, a photojournalist and a famous cellist find themselves crisis-ridden. Olivia (Sophia Loren) decides that it is time to reveal her secret sketching, Natalia (Mira Sorvino) a well-known photographer, wants to know something about the destiny of an Angolan child who was a subject of her photography. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), as skillful cello player, leaves home to find her father who is responsible for interrupting her mother's life. She seeks revenge notwithstanding her father had mentally changed through the years. Three women are perfect strangers, but their destinies are intertwined by common visions, thoughts and their inward life. Gérard Depardieu, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Malcolm McDowell are also starring in this movie directed by Edoardo Ponti, who happens to be Loren's son. |
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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Twenty years ago, 8-year-old Emma Brody's abusive mother smashed Emma's face into a bathroom mirror just for pilfering in the mother's makeup drawer. Today, Emma is an independent, self-assured woman who plays violin in a popular Celtic folk band in Chicago. Emma lives life on her own terms, only without sight -- the result of the traumatic injuries to her eyes at the hands of her mother. Luckily for Emma, medical science has vaulted a quantum leap in the past two decades. Now, thanks to corneal implants installed by her kindly eye surgeon, Dr. Ryan Pierce, Emma can see again. Emma's sight is at first cloudy, and she suffers from "retroactive hallucinations," a clinically documented syndrome in which the newly sighted sometimes "see" things hours, or even days, after they actually happen. This becomes a big problem when Emma sees a suspicious man leaving her neighbor's apartment at 4AM, but his features appear to her only in flashback later that morning. After failing to get a response at the neighbor's door, Emma tries to convince detective John Hallstrom and his partner Tom Ridgely to check things out. At first, Hallstrom dismisses Emma as a nutcase, but when the cops finally arrive on the scene, they find the guy murdered, using the same MO as a series of killings that Hallstrom and Ridgely are already investigating. Emma herself is in danger, because she's the only person who can identify the killer. Hallstrom's colleagues remain doubtful because Emma's vision flawed. When the killer begins to stalk Emma, Hallstrom has her placed under police protection, and the two soon become lovers while Hallstrom tries to figure out who the killer is. |
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Bewitching intrigante Maxine Conners (Sigourney Weaver) and her bright student, Paige (Jennifer Love Hewitt), are a mother and daughter con team. They know that God wants us to share with others. And there is no disgrace in fleecing a new wealthy hubby! Therefore they start a family business: Max seeks rich men to fall into her web and marry her, and then Page seduces them so that Max can win a great deal of money in divorce settlements. The main thing is to know when to stop because not only millionaires can take an interest in the gorgeous girls but cool-headed cops can do as well. Moreover, Max and Paige should be careful not to fall victim to the arrows of Eros... |
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Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a Soviet ballet dancer, defects to the West in the hope of gaining freedom. But when he travels to Japan for a performance, his plane unexpectedly malfunctions and makes an emergency landing on a Soviet military airfield. Nikolai is caught by the KGB that tries to brainwash him into returning to the motherland of his own free will. But he wants to get out of the country and manages to make a daring escape once again. |
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Based on Mary Shelly's novel, the hair-raising movie tells the sad story of Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh), a promising young scientist. The doctor was so devastated by his mother's death during childbirth that he became obsessed with the idea of bringing the deceased back to life, unaware of the consequences of his actions. The result of his experiment with the remains of the corpse and electricity was a simple, seemingly harmless creature (Robert De Niro) which, however, turned into a wrathful and vindictive monster after his ''father'' abandoned him. Dr. Frankenstein wished he had never created him! |
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"Sahara" stars Matthew McConaughey as adventurer Dirk Pitt, who must try to prevent a deadly microbe from causing an epidemic in the oceans after he discovered that thousands of people in Africa are being driven mad by something polluting the water. Along the way Matthew make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. Based on the one of Clive Cusslers' best-selling novels. |
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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he's in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they're each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge. |
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The flight over Mongolian desert ended with a crash landing, and the crew is to survive on the waterless planes with almost no chance of rescue. Few men and one woman are under threat of the imminent and slow thirsty death in the midst of the most brutal deserts of the world. Being exhausted by the raging winds, desert smugglers and constant quarrels and diminishing in number, crash survivors realize, that the only way out is to build the new plane using the debris of the crashed one. This movie is a remake of Robert Aldrich classic based on the novel by Elleston Trevor. |
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Rachel Carlson (Demi Moore) is a successful mystery novelist whose life falls apart when her 5-year-old son drowns at her country home. A year later, a sympathetic friend rents Rachel a secluded cottage in hopes that a little peace and quiet will help the grieving mother recover from her loss. Suddenly the quiet retreat is violently shattered by a series of bizarre and unexplained murders. Rachel meets the lighthouse keeper Angus McCullouch who seems to be a very nice person, but something happens soon so she'd better ask her psychiatrist for help... |
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Conjoined twins Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are living legends in their small hometown. They take full advantage of their four hands to fling off their baseball and boxing competitors, to play hockey as goalkeepers, to quickly cook hamburgers at their own fast-food restaurant. Despite a seeming inconvenience, Walt has no problems with women, while his shy, hesitant brother is only experienced in communicating with girls on the Internet. Walt is determined to bring Bob and his longtime cyber-pal together as well as to achieve his dream of becoming a star of the silver screen, and persuades his brother to move to Los Angeles. Having weighed the pros and cons, the colourful brothers leave their hometown for Hollywood, without knowing what they will have to start their star career from. |
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An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows. |
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