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Australia:M certified movies
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
This is the special 2007 "final cut" edition of the famous 1982 movie. |
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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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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it's entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department? |
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From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society's machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful 'Splashdown' crew. Follow Kenny as he tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a pilgrimage to that Mecca of waste management, the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, "Poo HQ". With fly-on-the-wall honesty and wit, 'KENNY' lifts the lid on one of Australia's roughest diamonds as he juggles family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm, humour and unflinching dignity. "It takes a certain kind of person to do what I do... No-one's ever impressed; no-one's ever fascinated... If you're a fireman, all the kids will want to jump on the back of the truck and follow you to a fire. There's going to be no kids willing to do that with me. So, I don't do it to impress people - it's a job, it's my trade, and I actually think I'm pretty good at it." - Kenny Smyth Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, KENNY is living proof that in sewage, like life, the best will always rise to the top. |
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A single woman in her mid-thirties, Jennifer Aniston's heroine Olivia quits teaching for a maid work and to think her life over. She feels she's reached a turning point in her life. She wants to feel the support of her married friends – Christine, Jane and Franny. Their material and matrimonial basis seems to be so solid and stable, but some of them find collaborating with own husband boring, another one became unconcerned to one another with her man as lovers and friends, and the other couple got emotionally exhausted as well. And nothing more? This comedy drama was created by Nicole Holofcener (director, writer), who previously made the welcomed independent films Walking and Talking and Lovely & Amazing. |
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Senior high school student Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) is a fun loving, carefree loafer who gets his bitters: he is rejected by all eight colleges he has applied for. His overly expectant parents will surely feel chagrined at hearing the news. But B is not alone to meet with a reverse – several of his outcast buddies are in the same boat. It is as clear as noonday that crying will not mend matters. At first he has no idea how to get away with it, and then he has a brainstorm - he can create his own fake college! B's fellows unanimously welcome the idea and open the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) to outsmart their parents and peers.
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. |
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The L.A. of a not-too-distant future suffers a surge of drug abuse involving a new ultra-addictive and eventually brain-damaging substance simply named "D". Bob Arctor is an undercover narc leading a double life, dutifully reporting to his superiors while effectively having abandoned whatever normal existence he had for a "D" user/dealer career. But this schizophrenic situation and the drug-induced memory and concentration lapses put Bob under mounting stress. |
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A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time. |
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Young American woman Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) falls victim to the same mysterious and relentless supernatural curse known as "The Grudge" that once afflicted her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who still managed to escape the ghost of the abandoned house in Tokyo. But now many people will be infected by the grudge and die a dreadful death. How long will the chain of victims be? Is there a force that can thwart the vengeful ghost? |
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten? |
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A heavy ion collider experiment in the Midwestern Quantum Research Lab in St. Louis results in the formation of a massive black hole on Earth and death of the chief scientist William Hauser (Kevin Beyer). Shannon Muir (Kristy Swanson) calls in her former colleague and old flame, Eric Bryce (Judd Nelson), to work on the problem. They search through Dr. Hauser's notebooks in the hope of finding a solution how to destroy the black hole. But they don't know that the creation of the black hole causes the appearance of a mysterious creature which leaves the laboratory and roams the streets of St. Louis, absorbing energy from overhead high-voltage lines and wreaking havoc. |
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An adaptation of Richard Price's novel "Freedomland" portrays a single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) who thinks her son is dead after he is disappeared. She tells police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a terrible story of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides two towns. She claims that her child was kidnapped by an African-American. This reveals the long-existing racial animosity between two towns... |
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The Royal Navy is preparing to carry out a large-scale operation against pirates. But Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (Angus Macfadyen), a legendary pirate terrorizing seafarers in the Caribbean Sea, doesn't intend to capitulate. He yearns to find and get hold of the infamous Captain Kidd's treasure, lost twenty years before... |
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Anna Faris returns as the caring yet dumb witted Cindy Campbell in the latest installment of the Scary Movie Franchise. Cindy has taken up a job as a house caretaker for a nice old lady that is said to be cursed. Cindy moves right in and the house is located right next to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan, a down on his luck father. Cindy soon discovers a dreaded secret about the house and she is comforted by Tom who is watching his children for the weekend. As soon as the two become more then just friends, a huge storm rolls on in and hits the town. Tom discovers a giant hole in the ground and an alien TrIpod emerges from it's depth's. Meanwhile, Cindy finds the soul of a tortured boy living inside the house who tells her he knows the secret on how to defeat the aliens. But before he gives it too her, he vanishes. The only way to figure out the mystery is to find the boy's father. Cindy and Tom split away from each other and Tom, with his children, seek refuge in a torn up basement owned by shotgun wielding man named Oliver. Cindy, while trying to figure out her own mystery, bumps into her old friend Brenda Meeks. Teogether, they decide to defeat the aliens. Brenda then discovers a hidden village outside of town and Cindy figure's out the boys father is somewhere inside. Now it's up to Cindy and Brenda to find the boys father and unfold the mystery on how to defeat the aliens, who in fact have their own plans on how to torture such people like Shaq and Dr. Phil. |
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When the grandmother of the publicist Karin (Gina Phillips) dies, she inherits her property in the fields. She travels with her boyfriend Jeff (Randall Batinkoff) for the weekend, but she decides to stay along the week cleaning up the place and packing the stuffs. Karin has horrible nightmares and visions of ghosts of her past, while she stays in the house with the creepy housekeeper Pierce (Tom Sizemore) and her younger sister Wendy (Jenny Mollen). |
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A sumptuous mansion in a beautiful place seems to be a Garden of Eden. Dr. and Mrs. Mandrakis (Derek de Lint and Kate Jennings Grant) go away, leaving their two young kids in care of a babysitter, young high school student Jill Johnson (Camilla Belle). She whiles away the hours snooping around the house and trying on jewelry. What seems like an uneventful evening unexpectedly becomes her worst nightmare. At first, Jill gets a phone call from a menacing stranger (Tommy Flanagan) who asks if everything is okay. She goes upstairs to check the kids and finds them safe and asleep in bed. But the stranger keeps on calling and spooking the teenage girl. Her fear eventually escalates into panic attack. Jill desperately phones the police, only to find that the man who terrorizes her by making eerie phone calls is inside the house with her! |
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For twelve years, the methodic IRF agent Harold Crick has had a routine lonely life guided by his wristwatch. However, one day he hears the narration of his life in off, telling that he is going to die pretty soon. Meanwhile, he audits Ana Pascal, the owner of a bakery that is in debt with the IRF, and falls in love for her. Harold is advised by Professor Jules Hilbert to change his monotonous lifestyle while he tries to find Karen Eiffel, the author of the story of his life, who is researching means of killing the character, and convince her to change the ending of the story. |
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Four voluptuous females, Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), Christie Allen (Holly Valance), Helena Douglas (Sarah Carter) and Kasumi (Devon Aoki), receive an enticing invitation to travel to an exotic island. They are not invited to lie on the sand, basking in the sunshine, drinking cocktails and admiring tanned muscular bodies of naked men. They are to partake in the "Dead or Alive" martial arts tournament. The world’s toughest fighters face each other for a ten-million-dollar top prize. But for many combatants money is not the sole reason for their participation in the contest; it’s also a matter of prestige, honor, and the search for truth.
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