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Australia:MA certified movies
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Wanting to have fun, Stephen H. Price (Geoffrey Rush), an eccentric amusement park owner, invites six strangers to his hated wife’s birthday party which is held in an abandoned mental institute on a sinister hill. The guests arriving, Stephen offers them one million dollars if they can stay alive in the haunted building till dawn. It sounds funny to be true, but when creepy things start happening, it takes the smile off their faces...
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Young artist Alan Parker's (Jonathan Jackson) obsession with death adversely affects his life. After losing his sweetheart, Jessica (Erika Christensen), the distraught student is about to lay violent hands on himself. But his friends manage to stave off the tragedy. Alan recovers and soon discovers that he has inadvertently opened the door for the Grim Reaper to enter his life. When he receives the distressing news that his mother Jean (Barbara Hersey) has had a stroke and taken to hospital, Alan instantly decides to hitchhike home to visit his dying mom. On Halloween night, when it is dark and scary, he takes the road, only to come face to face with Death Incarnate (David Arquette) offering to drive him in his high-speeding car. Alan is impaled on the horns of a harrowing dilemma: whether to stop his nightmarish ride and thus heap up trouble for his only relative or continue riding the Bullet. |
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During the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, a group of terrorists led by a former government employee, Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), take the Vice President of the United States Daniel Binder (Raymond J. Barry) hostage and demand to transfer $1 billion to their account electronically by the end of the game, threatening to blow up a gigantic stadium packed with fans. Among spectators is a former firefighter named Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) attending the hockey game with his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) and his son Tyler (Ross Malinger). When the girl is suddenly kidnapped, the infuriated father sets out to foil Foss's nefarious plan and save the hostages. |
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It was imprudent of Martin Raikes (Michael Keaton), a New York workaholic banker, to display adherence to his principles while investigating some questionable transactions in Monaco. Besides, it was unwise of him to refuse to take hush money. As a result, Martin is accused of a political assassination and is forced into escape and into hiding. Meanwhile, his family is held hostage. Martin is wanted by the police, the FBI and the international mafia. However, there's still plenty of life left in the modest yet quick bank clerk. If necessary, he is ready to fight with the whole world. |
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It's a contemporary interpretation of Shakespeare's play which is transported from medieval Scotland to modern-day Australia. Macbeth (Sam Worthington) is a cold-blooded assassin working for a powerful Melbourne crime lord, Duncan (Gary Sweet). A fateful encounter with three teenage witches (Chloe Armstrong, Kate Bell and Miranda Nation), who prophesy that he will soon assume power, stirs his ambition and arouses in him the determination to try to take total control over Duncan's gang. Encouraged by his heartless wife (Victoria Hill), Macbeth kills his boss, only to find that murder is not merely a step towards power but also leads to his own downfall and death. |
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Two foster brothers, black John (Wesley Snipes) and white Charlie (Woody Harrelson), who have dreamt since their childhood of someday becoming rich, hatch an audacious scheme to rob the money train that carries the New York Subway's daily revenue. Only two things can keep them from doing it: they are transit cops; and the train belongs to their boss, Donald Patterson (Robert Blake), the chief of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. However, the temptation seems too strong for them to resist. Charlie needs the money to repay his gambling debts to the mob. Furthermore, he is desperate to wreak vengeance upon his fierce boss, who has discharged him lately. On New Year's Eve, the brothers venture to make their plan a reality... |
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Set in 1920's rural Thailand, this pulse-pounding supernatural thriller centers on a grief-stricken young man named Jone Bang Fai (Dan Chupong) who seeks revenge for his parents' tragic deaths. The only clue to the murderer's identity is a tattoo on his chest. When Jone finds out that the callous culprit is a member of a band of cattle raiders terrorizing the farmers, he becomes a Robin Hood-like warrior to prevent their illegal activities and return oxen to the poor farmers. |
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A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved. |
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An adaptation of Richard Price's novel "Freedomland" portrays a single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) who thinks her son is dead after he is disappeared. She tells police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a terrible story of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides two towns. She claims that her child was kidnapped by an African-American. This reveals the long-existing racial animosity between two towns... |
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In ancient Persia, an evil creature called the Djinn wreaks havoc on a local kingdom before being sealed inside a stone - a fire opal. Centuries later, the stone, encased in a statue, is discovered when the statue is broken apart in a loading accident. A young gemologist, Alexandra Amberson, examines the jewel to appraise it. But she unwittingly awakes the horrible Djinn inside. Soon the Djinn is loose on the streets, twisting people's wishes and and killing them so he can steal their souls. Eventually the Djinn disguises himself as an elegant man-about-town, Nathaniel Demarest. In both human & Djinn form, he pursues Alexandra to trick her into making three wishes, to enable his unholy legions to conquer the Earth... |
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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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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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Drug enthusiast and chemical master Silas and his friend Jamal lose their best friend Ivory to a disturbing pot related dread-lock fire, growing a pot plant in his ashes they use his heavenly connections to hook them up with all the knowledge they need to make it to Harvard... where they change the lives of the up-tight ivy league in the way only good stoner's can |
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role. |
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Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima, a high powered businesswoman--and now a lesbian--offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex, Jack is persuaded by the chance to make easy money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a try. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for security fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated. |
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This brutal, action-packed drama tells the story of John Eastland (Robert Ginty), a war veteran who is determined to take the law into his own hands after his best buddy, Michael Jefferson (Steve James), is attacked and left permanently paralyzed by a gang of street thugs. Jefferson saved John's life while they were serving in Vietnam, so Eastland considers it to be his duty to take revenge for his brother-in-arms. |
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Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred, is flying from Miami to help a New York politician negotiate a plea bargain with the Justice Department. Years before, this financier was a fresh-faced cabaña boy at a Miami Beach resort who fell in love with a young woman on holiday with her husband. The husband is now the pol, and he thinks he dispatched the cabaña boy long ago. What are Esquema's plans: revenge, mercy, or a complicated plan to seek again the woman's love? |
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Two African-American buddies, Rushon (Tommy Davidson) and Bunz (Jamie Foxx) go on a double date with Nikki (Tamala Jones) and Lysterine (Vivica Fox). After having a good dinner in a Chinese restaurant and playing a card game, the guys decide to take their relations to the next level. However, the women are concerned about safe sex and Rushon and Bunz have nothing to do but to set out in search of contraceptives. The quest takes the guys on a series of hilarious adventures. |
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After the death of his eccentric Uncle Cyrus (Murray Abraham), Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) inherits his strange mansion. The bizarre glass house is filled with different mysterious artifacts as well as Latin inscriptions carved on the walls and floors. The doors in the house open and close strangely by themselves. Little does Arthur know that when he enters this creepy mansion, he will reluctantly fulfil Cyrus's evil will and unleash twelve vengeful ghosts that are imprisoned in the basement. Then the energy of the gruesome ghosts will fuel an evil giant machine to open a portal to the Eye of Hell. But it requires a thirteen spirit to join the Black Zodiac... |
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[2001,
USA]
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| He's closing in on the truth. The killers are closing in on him. |
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William Conroy (Rob Lowe) used to be a college professor but now he is an Ohio prisoner who serves his six year sentence for chance-medley. One day he learns that fourteen convicts have taken their own lives over the past two years. The suicides have been actually organized by a victim rights group of Jim Corcoran (James Coburn) seeking revenge on criminals who escape the death penalty. William thinks he is the next target on Jim Corcoran's hit list and crashes out of the prison to escape the common lot. And now he is wanted by the federal police. William tries to make an appeal to journalists and prove that a criminal organization, teamed up with the corrupt prison warden, operates on the inside and the outside. |
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