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Australia:M certified movies
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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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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Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings' find out more than Hickley wants them to know. |
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When returning to Earth, a NASA space shuttle explodes under mysterious circumstances and the fragments bring alien spores that begin spreading by leaps and bounds and infecting human beings, turning them into emotionless pod people. Along with her love interest, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the mind-altering extraterrestrial virus is attempting to take over mankind and that her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) is immune to the disease because of chicken pox he had as a baby and may hold the key to creating an effective vaccine. However, Ollie is abducted by his father, Carol's infected ex-husband Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). Thus, Carol and Ben begin prowling zombie-infested streets in search of her son who is the last hope for saving the human race... |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
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| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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In this superb, action-packed movie retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) believes that his son Frank (Todd Allen), listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War, is still alive and held in prison camp in Laos. He brings together Frank's five fellow soldiers, Wilkes (Fred Ward), "Blaster" (Reb Brown), "Sailor" (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Charts (Tim Thomerson) and Johnson (Harold Sylvester), and convinces them to embark on a dangerous trip to the Laotian jungles to find his son. Young guy Kevin Scott (Patrick Swayze), whose father has been languishing in captivity for years, also decides to accompany the rescue group. |
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Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) whose wife Lisa (Laura Regan) has recently died under mysterious circumstances becomes the prime suspect. While Detective Jim Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) starts a routine investigation, Jamie, who is quite certain of not having done away with his own wife, goes out on his own to unravel a web of mysteries surrounding the untimely decease of his beloved. He takes as a starting point an old ventriloquist dummy which Lisa received shortly before her death. The further search leads him to his hometown of Raven’s Fair where he meets his seriously ill father, Edward Ashen (Bob Gunton), and the vindictive ghost of Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts), a notorious ventriloquist killed by townspeople for her frauds. |
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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college? |
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In this world you have to pay for everything. Sometimes you have to pay for some things with your life. U.S. census worker Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) learnt this to his cost. Sent to the small town of Rockwell Falls, he started taking the census only to find a population anomaly. Steve noticed that the town's population had remained unchanged for the century. Whenever the census was taken, there were always 436 citizens. Extremely intrigued, Steve tried to find the causes of uncommon stability, without knowing how shocking and lethally dangerous the truth could be... |
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Based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, this thrilling war drama follows fearless Maj. Keith Mallory (Robert Shaw) and SSgt. Dusty Miller (Edward Fox) who are sent to the Balkans, Yugoslavia where they must team up with local partisans and the Force 10 squad, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Barnsby (Harrison Ford). Their perilous mission is to raid and blow up a huge bridge vital to German strategy. However, the team's plan goes wrong as there is a traitor among them... |
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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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A man is murdered. Two men witness it. A blind man who hears the killer, and a deaf man who sees her. The police don't think they're credible witnesses, but the killers don't want to take any chances. The two men must now work together to save themselves and bring the killers to justice. |
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City. |
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The story is set in 1933, ten years after Richard O'Connell and Evelyn's fearless fight against High Priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Now the courageous adventurer Rick (Brendan Fraser) and the beautiful Egyptologist Evie (Rachel Weisz) are very happily married and have an 8-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath). However, they are fated not to enjoy a restful life. The scientists find the mummified corpse of Imhotep and ship it to the British Museum. The cursed villain arises from the dead again! In the meantime, Mathayus the Scorpion King (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), a legendary warrior who has been slept in the desert of Ahm Shere for many centuries, resurrects as well. When these two powerful forces clash, the destiny of the human race is in the balance. The O'Connells have only 7 days to save the world and rescue their son. |
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One absurd misunderstanding can turn your life upside down. The easygoing and timid Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet products company, is mistaken for an aggressively inclined neurotic. All his attempts to clear himself yield no results, and he is sentenced to attend anger management therapy headed by the eccentric Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who is able to turn a phlegmatic person into a schizophrenic. Alas, poor Dave has to go through hell. The enthusiastic, overenergetic doctor is determined to help Dave struggle with his inner demons, making his life a real nightmare. However, if a patient wants to stay alive, medicine is virtually powerless! |
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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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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime. |
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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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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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