Australia:M certified movies

The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

Police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) gets a letter from his ex-fiancée Willow (Kate Beahan), who left him ten years ago, on the eve of the wedding, without any explanation. In the letter she implores Edward to find her missing daughter, Rowan (Erika-Shaye Gair). Without hesitation, he travels to a remote island inhabited by members of a pagan community ruled by an elderly woman, Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), and discovers that they are going to sacrifice the young girl during a festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth" to improve their harvest. The events take a decidedly sinister turn when Edward sets out on his investigation to find the abducted girl and save her life.

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?

A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them.

To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.

Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) is a pubescent man in the prime of his life. But he is an infantile dependant and slacker to the backbone who prefers living with his parents. One day Tripp declares that he will leave the nest after meeting the girl of his dreams. Fed up with their overgrown son, Al (Terry Bradshaw) and Sue (Kathy Bates) hire a gorgeous woman, Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker), who is supposed to disembarrass them of the albatross around their necks. But things don't go as planned...

Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne), a happily married 40-something Irishman in the Australian town of Jindabyne, goes on a fishing trip with his pals, Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone). While out on the river, they discover the naked body of a murdered aboriginal girl (Tatea Reilly). Instead of returning to the town immediately, the men decide to stay on at the river and spend two days fishing. When the buddies finally return home and notify their macabre discovery to the police, they face their families' sharp condemnation of their actions. Stewart's wife Claire (Laura Linney) is so disturbed by her husband's callousness that she begins to question their marriage.

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!

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...

Some years after U.S. President George W. Bush has been assassinated following an economic speech and massive demonstration of antiwar protesters in Chicago, an investigative documentary recounts the events of the fateful day, presenting interviews with all the people somehow involved in the case. They include various government officials, journalists, witnesses and suspects who comment on their association with the tragic event and the disturbing implications of what occurred.

"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later. Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other.

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.

Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack's compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.

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.

Since childhood ambitious Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) has been mad about auto racing, dreaming of following his father's (Gary Cole) steps and becoming a pro. He makes the first step to his dream and starts working on a pit crew as a jackman for a race team. One day he is lucky to replace Terry Cheveaux (Adam McKay) who is only an apology for a driver and ends up finishing third despite starting mid-race in last place. Ricky soon becomes the best NASCAR driver, around whom reporters and girl fans always swarm. He and his stalwart childhood friend, racing partner Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) always finish races in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions; he has his trophy wife Carley (Leslie Bibb), two kids and fat cat accounts in the bank. It goes on like this, until a pretentious Formula One driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) challenges Ricky and outperforms him on the track. The ex-champion finds himself in a hospital bed instead of a pedestal. Doctors prohibit him from dreaming of his comeback on track but despite everything Ricky gets back into racing and makes it hot for Jean Girard.

This explosive, action-packed thriller introduces James Bond (Daniel Craig), a British intelligence agent, before he receives his license to kill. He sets out on his first 007 mission to Madagascar in pursuit of international terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). However, things don't go exactly according to plan and Bond makes an independent decision to track down the rest of the terrorist gang. The trail leads him to the Bahamas where he crosses the path of criminal Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian). Bond seduces his entrancing wife, Solange (Caterina Murino), only to find out that Dimitrios goes in cahoots with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the international terrorist organizations. After losing their funds, he makes up his mind to organize a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro, to recoup the investors' money. With the help of the entrancing British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd ((Eva Green) supplying his betting funds, James Bond sets out to defeat the corrupt banker and force him to seek protection with the MI-6, revealing the names of the terrorists.

After a U.S. doctor in Morgue (Scott Wilson) orders a South Korean soldier to discharge toxic chemicals into the drain near the Han River in Seoul, a small tadpole grows into a monstrous creature. One day the horrifying mutant (voiced by Dal-su Oh) emerges from the depths of the river onto its bank for a feast of flesh. Among the monster's victims is a teenage girl named Hyun-seo (Ah-sung Ko) whose father Gang-du (Kang-ho Song) fails to rescue her from the clutches of the beast. Fearing that the mutant spreads a deadly virus, the government decides to seal off the river and quarantine people who have come in contact with the monster. Meanwhile, the grief-stricken father receives a late-night phone call from Hyun-seo telling that she is still alive in a sewer nearby the river.

Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice.

Satirical movie 'For Your Consideration' follows the independent movie makers producing a film about the reunion of a Jewish family. When rumors about Oscar prospects reach the cast, the no-name actors and director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest) begin to act like real stars and their low budget period drama is going to be changed into a blockbuster.

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?