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Australia:MA certified movies
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This political thriller set in a South-American country follows Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) who had left his law practice for a police detective being to deal with crime and justice more directly. He tracks down the terrorist group which is ready to overturn the current government; these guys practice everything from political pranks to assassinations and bombings. Things get complicated as Agustin begins to suspect his girlfriend of the possible connections with the terrorists. And these suspicions seem to prove to be correct. This taut movie became the directorial first-born of one famous person known well as John Malkovich. |
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Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch's nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch's new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them. |
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Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), an aspiring high school student with big dreams of being a politician, is still inexperienced in matters of love and sex. But everything changes when a fascinating, seemingly innocent 19-year-old girl, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), moves in next door. They fall wildly in love with each other and begin dating. Besotted, Matthew considers her to be the girl of his dreams and gets stunned to find out that Danielle is a former porn star. From that point on, he finds his life turned upside down. Matthew decides to help her cut the strings of her past but he faces a variety of obstacles he is not prepared for. All in all, it is Danielle who helps him deal with the problems and teaches him that he should be willing to risk everything for the sake of love. |
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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The sequel to the House of 1000 Corpses is also filmed by Rob Zombie. A family of violent lunatics turns everything upside down and kills everybody on their way. County Sheriff John Wydell slowly loses his mind wishing hardly to take revenge for his slaughtered brother. He asks for help of two bounty hunters and tracks the band down their way to a frontier town whorehouse. Mad company commits countless murders, which will lead them to the final meat-grinder showdown. |
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This nail-biting thriller tells the story of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) who has lived in the U.S. since he was 14, and is now married to Isabella (Reese Witherspoon). While returning home from a business trip to South Africa, he finds himself apprehended on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act and transported to a secret detention facility in North Africa where he is brutally tortured. Unaware what's happened to him, his pregnant wife enlists her former college boyfriend Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), a senator’s assistant, to help to track Anwar down. |
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Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a high school basketball player. His life centers around the basketball, and his dream is being a basketball star. Once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of New York, and together with his friends they take drugs for which they steal, rob and even kill. As the time pass, Jim's situation becomes worse. It looks like he will never get out from the his drug addiction. |
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Once again Jigsaw is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. Jigsaw is eager to be put behind bars in order to throw the authorities off his trail as he once again punishes people who in his eyes have transgressed the boundaries of acceptable moral behavior. Eight people have been locked away by Jigsaw, and they must torture their bodies and minds to achieve the terrible justice Jigsaw seeks. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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The mind-bending thriller focuses on Ian Stone (Mike Vogel), an average kind of guy who has the bad luck to stumble across a cadaver near the railroad tracks. He shouldn't have investigated his macabre discovery as the dead body turns out a sinister creature that attacks and pushes him into the path of an oncoming train. After the gruesome incident Ian inexplicably finds himself resurrected into a new different life. However, he is forced to die a new death every day and awaken to live a new life. Soon enough, he discovers that he is hunted by the Harvesters, supernatural shape-shifters that can't be killed and feed on human fear. Ian will be thrown into the grips of the gruesome death again and again until he can unlock the secrets of his own life. |
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Desperately short of food and driven by hunger, 17-year-old orphan Henry Young (Kevin Bacon) steals $5 from a post office and gets nabbed by the clerk. His sister is sent to an orphanage and he is sentenced to prison. Some time later, he is transferred to Alcatraz, America's most notorious prison. After a failed attempt to escape, Young is sent to solitary confinement which is supposed to last nineteen days. However, he spends three years alone in a cell with no window, no heating, no toilet and no furniture. After his release from solitary confinement, the mad Young is accused of murdering Rufus McCain (David Michael Sterling), the inmate who squealed on him, and is sentenced to death. With no chance to get acquitted, Young is defended by James Stamphill (Christian Slater), a rookie lawyer... |
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A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress. |
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Labor racketeer Carmine Ricca is acquitted of a multiple murder on a technicality, but after leaving the courthouse amid a sea of reporters and a mob of angry demonstrators, he is driven away - and some time later that day is found shot to death with his driver, lawyer, and a bodyguard. Inspector Harry Callahan and his new partner Earlington "Early" Smith drive by but are asked to leave by Callahan's boss Lt. Neil Briggs, who had Harry and Early transferred out of Homicide to Stakeout because he despises Harry's methods. Another mob figure is gunned down in his pool with a large gathering of guests, but it not until the killing of a known pimp - and after Harry has foiled a plane hijacking and liquor store holdup - that Harry and Early are reassigned to Homicide to head the investigation of these killings. Harry soon clashes with Briggs over the police's primary suspect, Frank Palancio - a clash that becomes hotter when a Palancio associate and a uniformed traffic officer are shot to death, and a subsequent raid on Palancio explodes in a firefight - a raid that Harry finds was a setup by the real killers. |
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Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are dim-witted New Jersey sluggards who sell drugs to make pocket money. One fine day the two bosom friends discover that Miramax is making a movie which is based on their true lives and has an unflattering name "The Bluntman and Chronic". It goes without saying that this news is a floorer to them. The worst thing is that the guys have been neither notified nor feed by the creators for using their alter egos and making a laughingstock of them. Filled with indignation, Jay and Bob head to Hollywood to sabotage the production. |
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There was once a guy named Blade (Wesley Snipes) who had been born of an African-American mother bitten by a vampire during pregnancy. Therefore he was granted vampire’s power and man’s soul, and furthermore, he wasn’t afraid of sunlight. As a 13-year-old boy, he was adopted by Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who helped him to cope with his bloodlust by giving him a special serum and raised him as a vampire hunter. Their nemesis was Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an ambitious vampire leader who saw humans as nothing more than cattle and was bent on summoning the Blood God in order to enslave them. Willing to rid the earth of the undead, Blade and Whistler, armed with an arsenal of garlic-spiked and silver bullets, started a seemingly never ending battle against Frost and La Magra.
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. |
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Jim (Jason Biggs) es virgen y está preocupado por su situación. Luego que sus padres lo descubren tratando de ver un canal pornográfico, el jovencito se une a un grupo de amigos y, juntos, prometen tener su primera experiencia antes de la noche de graduación. |
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David Aames (Tom Cruise) is a man who has the full monty: money, his own publishing company, an expensive car, a luxurious apartment in a respectable New York City neighborhood. He is young, devilishly handsome, charismatic and wealthy. Moreover, he is an object of desire to the most gorgeous young women. In short, David is the lucky man any chap would like to change with. One night, at his birthday party, he meets Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz) the mysterious, bewitching girl with a Spanish accent, and falls in love with her. The next day, his charmed life turns into a real nightmare. His jilted girlfriend Julianna Gianni (Cameron Diaz) takes revenge: when they are in a car, she drives it into a tree. After surviving a car crash and being horribly disfigured, David meets with another mishap. He is charged with his lover's deliberate murder... |
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? |
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