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Australia:MA certified movies
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian's weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans. |
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One year past the murder of a local girl, Sheriff Jack Shepard sees a blood-covered boy came out of the darkness of night. Shepard is guilt ridden over the girl's murder, he desperately begins to investigate the boy's true identity and tries to reveal if the mysterious teenager had possible victims any further. Sheriff Sheppard must meet his own demons and face his fears without any uncertainty if he is to finally solve the bloody mystery that has nearly consumed a small town as a stranglehold of a vicious killer and the living will sense the same pain the defuncts have suffered. |
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While being transported in a military ambulance and supposed dead, Eve delivers an offspring and is killed by a half-breed. The baby girl is abducted by Dr. Abbot, and a couple of days later she grows up, reaching adulthood and becoming a gorgeous young woman called Sara. Dr. Abbot expects to develop a perfect DNA using Sara's eggs and win the Nobel Prize, and invites the student Dean to be his assistant and share his research and future awards. But while Sara unsuccessfully chases a perfect mate for her to generate a perfect being, the flawed half-breeds leaded by Amelia try to reproduce with her to survive their species. |
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The movie "Hooligans" also known as "Gobshite" is a dark comedy about a slightly demented English gangster who has upset the underworld pecking order by deciding he wants a bigger piece of the pie. He devises a scheme to get what he wants but must travel to a sleepy, seaside community in Ireland. As a cover for his plan he needs to acquire a local Irish family's pub to promote a new brand of beer. Problems occur when the rightful owners of the pub put up more of a fight for their livelihood, than expected. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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This fantastic thriller bears strong resemblance to the "Cube" and "Pi" movies, and, at some points, lets us feel the paranoid atmosphere of Kafka's books. This ominous and ingenious film is one of the most outstanding indie projects, a "Sundance" and "Fant-Asia" festivals nominee. Simon (Jeremy Sisto), a young programmer, finds an unexpected package in his room, and, when the box is opened, he finds himself surrounded by strange events and obsessed by sudden wishes. Being a test subject in a dangerous experiment testing a new advertising scheme, Simon turns out to be plagued by mysteriously empty brown packages, a sense of paranoia and a craving to drink lots and lots of milk. |
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Based on the 1974 true story, this drama revolves around a paranoid and alienated businessman named Samuel Byck (identified in the film as 'Bicke' and played by Sean Penn) decides to take extreme measures to achieve his version of the American Dream being tired of preying on customers. Rejected for a government loan and spurned by his family, he focuses his resentment on the figurehead of the US capitalist system and obsessively plots his downfall. Just when the nation was feeling safe about boarding airplanes again, a frustrated salesman decided that it was incumbent upon him to rid society of the cancer that infected the seat of power in the United States. That would be Nixon. |
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In this pulse-pounding thriller, photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) find themselves in a deadly predicament when they wake up in a large industrial bathroom, chained by their ankles to rusty pipes at opposite corners. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood with a gun in his hand. Neither man knows how they got there and how to get out of the dank chamber alive. Recalling a recent murder investigation by Detectives David Tapp (Danny Glover) and Steve Sing (Ken Leung), Dr. Gordon realizes that their captor is a serial killer known as "Jigsaw" (Tobin Bell) due to his bizarre calling card. The torturer leaves his victims impaled on the horns of a dilemma: to die or to kill another person. This time, the doctor must kill Adam within 8 hours. Else the psychopathic genius will kill both him and Adam; Lawrence's wife Alison (Monica Potter) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega) will also be killed... |
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In 1863, in Fairhope, Alabama, a group of former Confederate soldiers robbers a commerce bank and kills many clients and employees. While escaping to Mexico, they spend the night in an isolated house that belonged to a dead soldier of their company. When weird events happen in the stormy night, they find that the dwellers are demons. |
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Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) returns to the screen in the action-packed thriller Sniper 3 to become National Security Agency's secret weapon. Beckett is hired to terminate a suspected terrorist and soon discovers the criminal's personality. His former best friend Paul Finnegan, believed to have been killed in action, became a dangerous spy who constantly tries to manipulate the US and whole the world. Meanwhile, Thomas realizes that his employers' motives are not apparently claimed. |
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Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980's in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father's death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected. |
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Kathy is an emotionally unstable and neglectful woman evicted from the house she inherited from her father when she is mistakenly charged for unpaid taxes. After the immediate auction, the house is sold in a very low price to the Iranian Colonel Behrani, a refugee who sees the chance to give some stability to his family and make a profit in the resell of the property to raise money to send his beloved son to the university. Kathy has a relationship with the abusive officer Lester, who tries to force the family leave the place, ending his attempt in a tragic way. |
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It is an ill-fated day for Ronnie (Gary Stretch), a professional hitman. Three years ago he vouched for his pal and fellow contract killer, August (Michael Rapapaport). Unfortunately for Ronnie, August has taken out the wrong guy, and now 'Godmother' Madison is determined to get him murdered. Ronnie agrees to render Madison a service in order to save his fellow's life. However, troubles never come singly. While Ronny bends over backwards to keep his fellow alive, August receives orders... to murder Ronny. |
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In Berkeley, Australia, a meteor shower transforms the locals in zombies. A group of survivals fight against the zombies and try to escape to another town. However, they find that aliens built a wall around the area and are abducting the people. |
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Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is a guy who has built his "career" in a casino in Las Vegas as a kind of anti-talisman, a person who professionally frightens away Luck. Wandering among tables, he cools warming beams of gamblers' lucky stars. The reason why Bernie has been doing this for years is his gambling debt he owes to the slippery Director of Operations, Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), and has to fulfill it this way. A couple of days are now left before Bernie will start his new, debtless life. Who could fo he is destined he meet Natalie (Maria Bello), a new cocktail waitress at the casino, within these days. He is in love, and look what - his bad karma is off and away. |
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An extremely seductive and genuinely alluring French woman named Jayne Ferre (Julie DuPage) is a skilled assassin who works for the mob boss Frank Bianci (Louis Mandylor). When her last hit leaves behind a suitcase containing a million bucks, she decides to quit the business and makes off with the cash. Jayne hitches a ride with a down-and-out single woman, Emily (Erika Eleniak), and her teenaged kid, Kerry (Jeremy Lelliott), who is on the run from a drug dealer. Pursued by both Detective Mark Winston (Adam Baldwin) and Jayne's ruthless mob boss, the unlikely companions are forced to overnight at a small motel after their car breaks down and needs repairs. Things take an unexpected turn when Kerry slinks into Jayne's room, steals the money and flees from the motel during the night. |
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An elite team of Navy SEALS led by Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is given a special assignment to go to the Nigerian jungle. Their mission is to seek and release Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) from captivity. When they find the doctor in a godforsaken small village, Kendricks refuses to leave the dangerous area. She begs Waters to escort the villagers she has been caring for to the nearby border of Cameroon where they will be granted political asylum. The goal of the mission is radically changed as Waters’ group must race against time to reach a border town before the enormous army of rebels can ambush and take prisoner them. |
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Several college students, Cynthia (Sonya Salomaa), Greg (Will Sanderson), Simon (Tyron Leitso), Karma (Enuka Okuma) and Alicia (Ona Grauer), travel to a huge rave party on a savage island. But when they arrive, they find the decorations up but the empty stage and no revelry. However, the friends soon have more than enough fun when they find themselves chased by rotting zombies craving for human flesh and blood. Escaping from scary creatures whose bite turns a human being into a living dead, the trembling friends take shelter in an old house in the heart of the forest. With the help of coast guard cop Jordan Casper (Ellie Cornell), the guys must fight with guileful zombies to survive the most terrible night in the "House of the Dead". |
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The action takes place in the USA in the 1930s. Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beatiful woman on the run from gangsters, arrives in the small Rocky Mountain town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) takes her in and convinces the townsfolk to hide her. In exchange for shelter, Grace has to work for the townspeople all hours: she teaches math to the local kids, takes care of the blind old man, helps the apple farmer (Stellan Skarsgård) and the shopkeeper (Lauren Bacall). Eventually, the townspeople, egoistic and ruthless, begin demanding more and more from poor Grace. Tired of working double shifts, Grace decides to leave the town, but the escape fails, and she has to pass through a black ordeal. As a slave she is forced to toil from dawn to dusk, and raped by every man in Dogville night after night. Finally, Tom calls up Grace’s father (James Caan) to rescue his daughter from her inexorable torturers. |
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