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Australia:MA certified movies
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Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) who are detective lieutenants of the Tactical Narcotics Team of the Miami Police Department head up a task force assigned to investigate the flow of record amounts of ecstasy into the city. Their search leads to a giant criminal conspiracy involving a ruthless Cuban drug kingpin, Hector Juan Carlos "Johnny" Tapia (Jordi Mollà). Tapia is determined to take control of the entire ecstasy trade in the USA killing anyone who stands in his way. To make matters worse, Marcus’ beautiful sister Syd (Gabrielle Union) who also happens to be an undercover DEA agent gets caught in the crossfire, forcing our heroes to the edge of the law. The assignment takes on further complications because of a relationship between Mike and Syd, provoking her overprotective brother’s rage. But Marcus and Mike must resolve the conflict to bring down Tapia. And when Syd’s cover is jeopardized, it’s up to the Bad Boys to rescue her. |
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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Once upon a time in Mexico, there lived a legendary gun-toting guitar player, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), whose name resounded throughout the country. Now the Avenger in Black no longer wishes to fight and leads a quiet solitary life in an obscure country village. But there comes a day when he is recruited by a corrupt CIA agent, Sands (Johnny Depp), to thwart drug lord Armando Barillo (Willem Dafoe) and General Marquez (Gerardo Vigil) to assassinate the Mexican President. Mariachi agrees to come out of retirement for the reason that he wants to wreak vengeance upon his archenemy Marquez who killed his wife, Carolina (Salma Hayek), and his beloved daughter. With a guitar in his hand and blood revenge in his heart, El Mariachi sets out on a warpath for the last time... |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case. |
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Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a schizophrenic serial killer who abducts young attractive women and encloses them in a glass cell hidden in the basement of an abandoned facility. Then he turns on a shower and videotapes how the cell is being filled with water for 40 hours and his victims are slowly going mad and drowning. The maniac attaches chains to steel rings that pierce his flesh and views the footage while hanging under the ceiling. It's a tough task for the police to bring the killer to justice. After the most recent abduction the police finally track him down. Unfortunately, Carl suffers a seizure and falls into an irreversible coma. Time is short and the location of his latest victim is unknown. When FBI Agent Peter Novak hears about Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), a psychotherapist experimenting with a unique way of entering the mind of comatose patients, he decides to enlist her help to get the information he needs. Using her incredible skills, Catherine travels into the killer's mind and finds it to be a bizarre, abstract, violent and scary world. It's easy to enter this world but it's almost impossible to get out of it... |
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A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. |
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After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully. |
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Femme fatale Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) knows how to use her beauty and body to twist men round her little finger. One night at a bar called McCool's, bartender Randy (Matt Dillon), Detective Dehling (John Goodman), and lawyer Carl Harding (Paul Reiser) meet the seductive Jewel who turns their heads and ruins each of their lives by making them break the law. |
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The story of A. R. Chikatilo, one of the bloodiest Russian serial killers, gets a free interpretation in this movie as a narration about A. R. Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell), who has brutally murdered about a fifty children in the expanses of former USSR. Marton Csokas stars as a detective of Russian criminal Militia who was to track down the heartless "Rostov monster" in this psychological thriller. |
| Four Rooms
[1995,
USA]
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| Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life. |
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This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager. |
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Drug chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) has invented a new powerful drug that takes you to ‘the 51st state’. Hoping to score big, McElroy leaves for Liverpool. However, Elmo’s former employer, The Lizard (Meat Loaf), assigns his assistant Dakota Parker (Emily Mortimer) to kill McElroy for his drug formula. Dakota knows Liverpool well because it is a hometown of her ex-boyfriend Felix De Souza (Robert Carlyle), McElroy’s reluctant partner. To make matters worse, a nightclub owner and mobster named Iki (Rhys Ifans), Detective Virgil Kane (Sean Pertwee), small-time gangsters and skinheads want to line their pockets with Elmo’s money. Meanwhile, McElroy and De Souza try hard to find a buyer willing to pay $ 20 million. But there is only one question: will Felix remain true to Elmo or betray him? |
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After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it. |
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Eddie Flemming (Robert DeNiro) used to be an ordinary NYC homicide detective. But his purposefulness, persistence and tenacious mind while investigating the most sophisticated crimes allowed Eddie to attain celebrity status among the citizenry. Therefore his face appears on the most famous magazine covers from time to time. Meanwhile, two fellow criminals - Emil Slovak (Karel Roden) from Czechoslovakia and Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) from Russia – come to New York to make it big at any cost. When they happen on People magazine with Eddy on the cover, they come up with the brilliant idea of murdering him and filming the crime. They hope to evade crime penalty due to pretended insanity (videotaping their murders is incontestable proof of their irresponsibility). Then they plan to become famous and rich by selling the movie to the popular tabloid TV show "Top Story". |
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
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Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter. |
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Based on true events, the movie follows the ghastly story of a group of friends, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boy-friend Kemper (Eric Balfour), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), who decide to have a good time and take a journey before they are recruited to serve in Vietnam. On their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas, the ill-starred youths pick up a shocked girl who has been pursued by a stranger. Under stress, the girl commits suicide in their van. Looking for the local authorities, they find themselves in a gloomy house with an atrocious clan of Texas cannibals. The youths’ lives are threatened by a chainsaw-wielding madman, Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski), known as Leatherface. Is there hope that they will find a way to stay alive? |
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This psychologically thrilling movie that leaves you gasping in the end revolves around Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga), an upscale couple living a happy family life in their plush Manhattan apartment with their precocious, gifted 9-year-old son, Joshua (Jacob Kogan). Their well-ordered life is suddenly upended when their second kid Lily arrives. Joshua seems to be far from happy about the new addition to the family and begins to display evil tendencies. After a string of bizarre, sometimes tragic, events happens, the Cairns start questioning whether they are doings of their jealous, sociopathic son or merely strange and eerie coincidences. |
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This tough action is set among the beautiful and dangerous Rocky mountains. One scumbag played by John Lithgow had stolen millions of dollars, but during the action on the board of the plane the suitcase full of money falls down onto the rocky, forest-covered slopes. There, in the land of ice and snow, Gabe Walker (Stallone), an alpinist, searches for the 5 men who had lost after the huge avalanche. When the paths of Stallone's tough guy and the offenders cross, the action begins! Bandits are armed to the teeth, but Walker has an ice-axe, bravery and good alpine skills. |
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