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Australia:M certified movies
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Jennifer Aniston's heroine becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about her family when she discovers that her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) was the inspiration for the "Mrs. Robinson" character in the film "THE GRADUATE". She then puts her wedding plans on hold to figure out exactly who her parents are. Actually, she's finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff (Mark Ruffalo), but isn't at all sure that marriage is what she really wants. But when she meets Internet millionaire Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner), their encounter unexpectedly unlocks some well-kept secrets. |
| Reaping, The
[2007,
USA]
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| Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now. (3 more taglines...) |
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Christian missionary Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) lost her faith on God after her dearly loved husband and daughter were sacrificed by the Sudanese who blamed them for the long drought. Since then Katherine, a college professor, has become a famous expert in refuting superstitions, mysteries and miracles, finding a scientific explanation for a particular event. One day she arrives in a sleepy town of Haven, Louisiana, to examine a series of inexplicable incidents that appear to be the ten biblical plagues. In the course of her investigation Katherine comes to the conclusion that science can't explain all phenomena; and she ultimately regains her faith which grants her the power to withstand the dark forces.
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The riveting adventure story takes place in Santa Rita, Durango, in 1888 when a New York bank, aimed to put a railroad across Mexico, buys up all banks around this small town. Farmers who live on the soon-to-be-built rail line and owe money to the banks are terrorized by a merciless, uncompunctious, gun-wielding enforcer, Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam), who evict them from their lands and kill them for resistance activities. Two charming women from different walks of life - the refined wealthy Spaniard Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek) and the rough Mexican peasant Marнa Бlvarez (Penйlope Cruz) – join forces as bank robbers in order to seek revenge upon their common enemy.
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Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger. |
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In this comedy drama is based on the true story, a group of teenager students stand up for their rights against the Principal Weller (Julie Bowien), who is an ambitious but hard-headed leader of Booker High school. She is going to run for the superintendent's chair, so she needs to project the image of a no-nonsense leader. She begins to turn the screws on: prohibits a girl to recognize National Safe Sex Day distributing condoms, and turns out two boys who are caught kissing in the hallway between classes. Students have an ally teacher helping them to struggle despotism, who soon gets fired for questioning Weller's authority. Together the students organize the student body to take on Weller and make real change at their high-school. |
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down '68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging '72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown. |
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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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This black comedy tells the story of a young yuppie couple who is looking for a perfect home. Alex Rose (Ben Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Drew Barrymore) are over the moon when they finally settle for a grand Brooklyn duplex which comes with an upstairs tenant, Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essell). However, their happiness and their security fly out of the window as soon as they become conscious that Mrs. Connelly isn’t a frail old person she appears to be. The spiteful, sneaky woman turns their dream home into a living nightmare. Desperate by her wild scoffing escapades, the spouses decide to get the old hag out of their lives.
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This psychological erotic thriller classic follows Dr Barr (Richard Gere), a well-known psychiatrist who is interested in his patient's sister. This movie was strongly influenced by Hitchcock's movies. Dr Barr begins to court the beautiful woman (Kim Basinger) but gets into the web of intrigue: her man is a Greek mobster... and one of these characters will die in this tangled story. |
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Xander "XXX" Cage is the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring and avoid going to prison. Betting XXX can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience. |
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Jared Cole and his girlfriend Sam Nicholson are a young couple living in the Caribbean. Jared is an unemployed diver whose dream is to find treasure in the Caribbean Sea and Sam works at a local resort as a shark handler. When Jared's best friend Bryce Dunn, a selfish New York lawyer and his new girlfriend Amanda Collins arrive, the two couples spend a couple of days experiencing paradise. But, they discover an airplane on the sea floor that crashed during a hurricane and they find the cargo on-board the airplane is cocaine. Jared and Sam's lives are in danger, when Bryce and Amanda make a deal with a dangerous drug lord who wants the cocaine. Jared's rival, Treasure Hunter Derek Bates learns what they are doing and tries to negotiate the cocaine to raise money for a expedition where he intends to find a sunken boat with treasure. Jared, Sam, Bryce, and Amanda find themselves racing against time to find the shipwreck before somebody else does. |
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A team of research scientists in the off-shore laboratory Aquatica are running experiments on sharks, trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Unbeknownst to her colleagues, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), whose father suffered from this fatal illness, breaks ethical codes, genetically re-engineering the DNA of mako sharks to increase the brain size and obtain more cancer-battling enzymes. Unfortunately, the experiment also makes the sharks larger, stronger, more intelligent and aggressive. When financial backer Russell Franklin (Samuel L.Jackson), who is skeptical about the tests, threatens to close down the project, the team performs a demonstration experiment removing brain tissue from the largest shark. The test is successful, but then things go wayward: the shark subject unexpectedly awakes and tears Jim Whitlock's (Stellan Skarsgеrd) arm off. The scientists call a rescue helicopter but it crashes into the station during a tropical storm. The newly smart killer-sharks decide to make the most of the situation and sink the station in order to escape into the sea.
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Lancelot (Richard Gere) saves Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) when people of the evil Malagant (Ben Cross) tried to steal her on her way to the wedding with the King (Sean Connery). Lancelot is a vagabond wielding his sword perfectly, and he falls in love with Lady Guinevere but she can't be unfaithful, despite the fact she finds Richard Gere's character fearless, handsome and adorable. Later Lancelot gets dubbed, serves Kamelot faithfully, he is given the place by the Round table and then the love triangle continued the story letting a spectator conjecture what will be the ending of this intrigue. This movie has no age limits and is suitable for the whole family to watch.
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Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) thought his luck had just changed when he start dating Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman). But what he doesn't know is he is going out with New York super-hero G-Girl. When he breaks it of with her for his work partner Hannah (Anna Faris) G-Girl makes his life hell. |
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Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, and her father Saul, a religious studies professor, becomes obsessed with her victories. He sees something transcendent in Eliza's magical gift, and begins to teach her the secrets of Kabbalah. Her brother, a promising musician, is wrapped up in his own adolescent life, her mother Miriam is rather compulsive. Whole family is spreading further and further into four separate directions. Eliza is preparing for the National Spelling Bee, and a new secret of her family's hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells. This story is based on the novel by Myla Goldberg. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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It's been six days since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Panic grips California, supposedly the next target of the Japanese forces. Everywhere in California, people are suffering from war nerves. Chaos erupts all over the state. An Army Air Corps Captain, a civilian with a deranged sense of Nationalism, civilian defenders, and a Motor Pool crew all end up on the trail of a lost Japanese sub that has picked Hollywood as their own target. Will these people be able to defend their homes? Will they be able to preserve the safety in California? Will they be able to get a hold of themselves? |
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Pierce plays a vulcanologist who arrives at a country side (fictitious) named Dante's Peak after his boss instructs him to investigate the possibility of a dormant volcano (the Dante's Peak) getting active again in that region. As story progresses, we see that Dalton (Brosnan) getting increasingly convinced that the volcano might blow up but his boss is reluctant to declare an emergency in the city yet (because of possibility that if the volcano finally does never erupt, the real estate prices will plummet anyway and the city might loose a huge financial investment deal). Unfortunately, the common residents of the area know nothing about it until very late. Finally, when Dante's peak does erupt, the city panics, some does not survive the catastrophe, including Dalton's boss and for Dalton and the mayor of the city (who falls in love with Dalton) and her children, it becomes a race against the pyroclastic cloud to save their own lives. |
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TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie's special world include: Sidney, Dickie's longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie's real mother; George, Dickie's adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure. |
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In the future, the Greenhouse Effect has taken place on a now ravaged Earth covered in water, and a mysterious drifter aids a mother and daughter in seeking Dryland, a mythical place that a group of savage bandits seek out as well. |
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