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Australia:M certified movies
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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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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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Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is addicted to alcohol, gambling and scalping tickets. He has been down on his luck recently and various bookies have become increasingly impatient with him. Desperate for cash to pay off his debts, he seeks help from his old friend Jimmy Flemming (Mike McGlone) who agrees to lend money provided that Conor coaches a baseball team of troubled kids from the Cabrini Green housing projects. |
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This quite speculative story tells about two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm who pretends to protect townsfolk from folklore creatures they fabricated. But when their quick-money-getting scheme is disclosed, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse. They enter an enchanted forest where young girls keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The story sometimes balances on a brink of nonsense, but Monica Belucci appearing by the end of film is good as usual. |
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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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After an AWAC crew has been held hostage by the North Koreans for six months, the U.S. President Jack Neil is about to give the order to attack the communistic country. Meantime, the nude corpse of a young female staffer is found in a White House restroom. Homicide detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to investigate the murder. When he shows up in the White House, he meets the wall of silence as the Secret Service, headed by Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), are unwelcoming of the interloper into what they consider a local matter. They conceal all the evidence to avoid a political scandal because the list of suspects includes the President himself and his son Kyle (Tate Donovan). However, Regis enlists the aid of Secret Service Agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane) to unlock the dark secrets of the crime scene. |
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Dick and Jane are a quite happy couple and living the American dream until the one awful day. When the company Dick works for becomes involved in a scandal he gets fired, Dick and Jane begin to sink into poverty. He looks for work, even trying day labor along with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. They are to turn into a sort of Bonny and Clyde in order to exact the hilarious revenge on Dick's boss. |
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Kate Wells (Famke Janssen) is a magazine journalist who is given an impossible assignment to write an article on love and sex by the end of the day. Kate has no choice but to reminisce about her past romances. Kate experienced her first love at school. But it was unhappy love ending in break-up with classmate Bobby Norton. She lost her virginity to her high-school French teacher. With the years, the number of her sexual partners was a bit shocking: Kate had had 13 lovers when she met artist Adam Levy (Jon Favreau). However, the longer people live together, the more they irritate each other. Her miscarriage and regular domestic quarrels made them split up. Depressed and devastated, Kate met charismatic B-movie actor Joey Santino (Josh Hopkins) at a sex-shop while buying a vibration toy for her "female friend". On the same day they became lovers. Their love affair totally based on sex didn't last long. Kate resumed dating other men but, to her surprise, Adam decided to come back into Kate's life. At first Kate resisted but soon agreed to reunite... Love and sex... |
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Seductive, blood-thirsty Count Dracula (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania in England. On a dark and stormy night his ship is wrecked off Whitby and all crew members are dead. The only survivor of the shipwreck is Dracula who is discovered by Dr. Jack Seward (Donald Pleasence) who runs the local asylum. Dr. Seward, his lovely daughter Lucy (Kate Nelligan) and her fiancé Johnathan Harker (Trevor Eve) give the Count a warm welcome, trying to please the charming guest and make him free of their house. Little do they know that the courteous Count poses a grave threat to them... |
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Detroit cop Axel Foley is watching the news on TV when the reporter tells a story that Axel's friend, Beverly Hills police Captain Andrew Bogomil, has been shot by a tall woman. Axel heads out to Beverly Hills to visit Bogomil in the hospital, and this is where Axel is reunited with Bogomil's daughter Jan Bogomil. Axel is also reunited with Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart. Billy and Taggart decide to let Axel help them find the woman who tried to kill Bogomil, even though abusive police chief Harold Lutz has been deliberately trying to find a reason to fire Billy and Taggart. Axel, Billy, and Taggart soon discover that the alphabet robberies, a series of robberies that have been going on in the area, are masterminded by weapons kingpin Maxwell Dent, and Dent had sent his fiancee Karla Fry to try to kill Bogomil because Bogomil had been after Dent. With this information, Axel, Billy, and Taggart try to find Dent and Karla. |
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...The campaign for Texas's independence was inspired by their last stand against the Mexican army during the famous San Antonio siege. Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) were among nearly two hundred Texans who held the Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort in the spring of 1836. Men of all races who believed in the future of Texas were under siege by Mexican forces headed by the dictator of Mexico, General de Santa Anna, for 13 days. Deeds of Alamo soldiers would pass into history as General Sam Houston's war-cry for Texas independence. |
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Four researchers are irradiated by the unknown cosmic rays during the space voyage and get the supernatural abilities. Their DNA is once and for all altered – and so is their future. Reed gains the ability to stretch and contort his body into any shape and, as the group leader, is given the name Mr. Fantastic; Sue now is able to create powerful force fields and to become invisible as Invisible Woman; Johnny becomes known as The Human Torch, as he can now shroud his body in flames and take flight at will; and Ben, whose freakish transmutation is the most shocking, becomes an orange-colored, rock-like, superhumanly strong creature, The Thing. |
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'The Mexican' is a priceless antique pistol belonging to big boss Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman) who is about to get out of jail. A small-time gangster, Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt), who has big problems with the mafia, is instructed to travel to Mexico so as to find this cursed legendary gun. What is worse is that he is at outs with his girl-friend Samantha (Julia Roberts) who demands that he break off with the mob. The problems multiply when the gun turns out to be hunted by many other bandits including two hired assassins. |
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Based on true events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the movie tells the story of New York young clubgoers led by Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin) and James St. James (Seth Green). The over-free group was famous for their outrageous motley costumes, drunk sex orgy and extensive drug. They arranged illegal parties in the most unusual public places including subway, buses, superstores and doughnut shops. A 16-year-old guy, Michael Alig, arrived in New York City to win his way. He worked as a waiter in the nightclub, and then he began organizing parties there. His party themes eventually became more and more twisted. Moreover, Michael’s circle of acquaintance became more depraved: he was on friendly terms with transvestite Christina (Marilyn Manson) and aspiring DJ and drug addict Keoki (Wilmer Valderrama). His vicious life came to the end when he murdered his roommate and drug-dealer, Angel Melende (Wilson Cruz), and was put into prison. |
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When a happily married couple, Elizabeth (Ashley Judd) and Nicholas Parsons (Bruce Greenwood), decide to take a romantic sailing trip, they don’t think they may have any trouble. The end of the trip is, however, dismal. As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. Nick is drowned in the bosom of the sea, Libby is sent to prison on a murder rap, their 4-year-old son Matty (Benjamin Weir) is adopted by Libby’s friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish), who unexpectedly disappears with the kid. Libby seems to have had all the trials and troubles one must have. But this is not the case. While serving prison time, Libby discovers the awful truth that she was faked by her own hubby who is actually safe and sound and lives in clover. Knowing that she won’t be twice imprisoned for the same criminal offense she makes up her mind to take revenge on Nicholas. Therefore, when she is paroled six years later, Libby straightway escapes from a halfway house to find her missing son and her treacherous husband.
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Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana), a brilliant scientist at the Berkeley Nuclear Biotechnical Institute working on a new genetic technolodgy, is accidentally exposed to gamma radiation. After the terrible accident Bruce discovers whenever he gets into a rage he transforms into the Hulk - a giant green-skinned merciless monstrosity unable to control himself and destroying everything in sight. The military, under the command of General Ross (Sam Elliott), are tasked to hold the monster before it can jeopardize the world, and the Hulk has to be on the run. Even the most disgusting monster can love, and Bruce falls in love with his colleague, Dr. Betty Ross, who happens to be the General’s daughter. She may be the only person who understands the link between the scientist and the Hulk and can stop him from being angry. Betty makes great efforts to save both man and creature. |
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Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback. |
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In late 90's, one man defiantly promoted himself to the high society splendour introducing himself as the great director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut. That man was a gay Englishman Alan Conway (John Malkovich) despite the fact that he bore no resemblance to Kubrick, and even knew almost nothing about the director's work. Conway take part on a number of ventures, as he get drinks, sex, money and almost anything from unsuspecting people, who was impressed by Kubrick's works or simply by his famous name and easily became victims of the gay venturer. This story is based on the real events, depicting the scoundrel who made his way through the various gorgeous clubs and restaurants in London. |
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