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Australia:MA certified movies
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1928, Kentucky: over 63,000 passed away at the hands of the infectious terrible disease known as "White Plague." So a large sanatorium was built to quarantine the infected and was also used for odd experiments to discover a cure for the disease. Unable to cope with lots of corpses, authorities built a 500-foot underground tunnel to dispose of bodies and keep the public in the dark. It was called "Death Tunnel." 30 years later, a cure was found and the hospital was closed. This massive structure, the monument of Pain and Sorrow, had been abandoned and mute for decades till five college girls attending an initiation party dared spend five hours in the most horrible place on Earth.
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Thirty-something Tracey Heart (Cate Blanchett) is a former drug-addict trying to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother and to recover from the vicious habit. Tracy makes a vow to set up her own business and turn back to normal life before it's too late and life has passed her by. Tracy's plan turns out to be more difficult, when three men from her past reappear: her criminal-minded brother Ray (Martin Henderson) seems having an idée fixe on making for himself a name in the underworld, her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), and the emotional interests of an ex-football star and also a troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving). Shaken and confused, emotionally vulnerable Tracy finds herself became tangled with the criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill). How she can learn to love again when the pain of the past ain't letting her go? |
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In this pulse-pounding adventure movie, Chechen terrorists take over an abandoned nuclear power plant to detonate it. Unbeknownst to them, the Pentagon makes a decision to interfere secretly in their affairs in order to avert a global calamity. A highly experienced special agent nicknamed Painter (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to put a target inside the plant for an American missile strike. He and his elite team know that the plant must be destroyed before the terrorists can reach it. But events take an unexpected turn, and Painter will have to face a formidable challenge in his fight against the horde of thugs. |
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The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line. |
| Venom
[2005,
USA]
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| He Never Hurt A Soul Until The Day He Died. |
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No good deed goes unpunished. When Ray (Rick Cramer) rescues an aged Creole woman, trapped in a car after an accident on the bridge, he gets bitten by venomous snakes from her suitcase. He loses consciousness and the car falls from the bridge with him. The woman turns out to be a voodoo witch who sucked up all the evil spirits from various villains with the help of the serpents. Now, thirteen wicked souls inhabit his body, making him a bloodthirsty zombie-like creature stalking his prey in the swamps of Louisiana. |
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The harrowing noir thriller follows Rose (Helen Mirren) and Mikey (Cuba Gooding Jr.), cold-blooded hired assassins and ardent lovers. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Rose decides to fulfill one final contract, according to which they are obliged to kill the wife of their psychotic crime boss, Clayton Mayfield (Stephen Dorff). When the killers find Vicky (Vanessa Ferlito) in her ninth month of pregnancy, their sense of humanity arouse. Along with the mother-to-be, Rose and Mikey go on the run, wanting to make a clean break from their bloody past. |
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Danny is an underground fighter having no education and treated by his owner like a dog. The only one thing he knows is how to fight in an illegal fight-clubs to earn money for his wicked boss. Accidentally his master gets into the car crash and Danny breaks loose. His path crosses with an old piano tuner who had lost his sight; he turns out to be the only human who treats Danny not like an animal. His kindness and his music teach Danny to be human, meanwhile the sinister boss is in search for his former slave. |
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In 2210 humanity has traveled into space and discovered the Galaxy swarming with various breeds of bloodthirsty vampires. Without question, battling with hordes of sophisticated vampires is no easy matter. The mission of intergalactic Vampire Sanitation teams is more complicated by the fact that there are traitors among earthmen who use starry-eyed words about good and justice as a cover.
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong? |
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In the 60´s, the Puerto Rican Carlito Brigante, the Afro-American Earl and the Italian Rocco become best friends while in prison. When they are released, Rocco intermediates a heroin business with a family of the Italian Mafia leaded by Artie Bottolota Sr. Carlito negotiates with the lord Leroy "Hollywood Nicky" Barnes the area where the trio could operate in his neighborhood and sooner the three friends become powerful. Later, Carlito dates and has an affair with the beautiful Leticia. When Earl decides to move to Barbados with his girlfriend and leave the heroin business, his stupid younger brother causes a situation with the Italian mobsters, and Carlito and Rocco have to resolve the mess to save their lives. |
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The movie is the sequel to the original Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) story. This time the awkward fish tank cleaner and former gigolo Deuce Bigalow goes to Amsterdam to meet up his pimp friend T.J. Hicks (Edie Griffin). Having arrived in Europe, pathetically acoompanied by the leg of his recently eaten by a shark bride, Deuce learns that a mysterious murderer is maniacally eliminating the city's man-whores. What's more - T.J. Hicks is generally mistaken for a male prostitute slayer. Bigalow has to reveal the real serial killer and rebuild his friend's good name. |
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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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The dramedy focuses on David Spritz (Nicholas Cage), one of those lucky men whom you can envy. A popular weatherman on a Chicago news program, he prepares for an audition for New York morning show "Hello America". While Dave's professional dreams and ambitions come true, his personal life is really a mess. He is cut up about his father's lethal disease; he feels distressed and devastated after his painful divorce with his wife Noreen (Hope Davis); he desperately tries to get along with his estranged kids, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena) and Mike (Nicholas Hoult). Will he manage to cope with all his problems or will he swim with the tide? His afterlife will depend on this choice. |
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Two mid-aged divorcees Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces, continuously crashing weddings to meet girls. They can get into any wedding and into the heart of every bridesmaid, for one night, of course. Suddenly one of them falls for Claire, also a bridesmaid, who is a daughter of an influential and eccentric politician, and soon guys get into spending a wild weekend at the family's palatial waterside estate and find themselves quickly over their heads. |
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The hair-raising horror movie revolves around an average college student, Jake Cummings (Jensen Ackles), and his friends who begin playing a seemingly harmless interactive video game called 'The Pathway' which immediately turns Jake's life into a living nightmare. He becomes haunted by the grisly visions of the game, while his close friends start dying a slow and painful death one by one. |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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When the Tokyo's governor is assassinated and his wife's sister is kidnapped, only the ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Seagal), vows to find the men responsible for murdering his brother-in-law and rescue the girl before it's too late. Seagal's Hunter had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza, he has former ties, allowing him to determine that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa). Hunter and his ally Mac discover a plan by Kuroda, the rising leader of a new Yakuza outfit, to build a colossal drug-dealing network and a deadly plot to detonate a nuclear device on U.S. soil. The fate of a nation in the hands of the lethal crime fighter, meanwhile Hunter finds himself drawn into the treacherous world of the yakuza in order to protect his family. |
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The movie is based on real events in the life of the world's wealthiest rapper Curtis James Jackson, better known by his stage name 50 Cent. He achieved great success, following the motto "Through hardship to the stars." His life was no honeymoon. At the age of eight Curtis was left an orphan when his drug-dealing mother was murdered. He had to adjust to the streets, and at the age of twelve he began dealing narcotics. Having served out six months in prison and been shot nine times, Curtis decided to cut the strings of his criminal past and pursue his dream of becoming a rap artist. |
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This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy claiming to be his son from a long-ago liaison. He is a small-time drug user and street hustler (servicing both male and female clients) who is now in jail in New York. Toby's mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his abusive stepfather, whom he does not get along with. So he wants to meet his biological father. Bree wants nothing to do with the troubled teenager but her psychiatrist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) won't approve the surgery until she faces up to her past. Thus, Bree is forced to travel to New York in order to bail her son out of jail. |
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Two men, encountered by chance in a hotel bar, got to see their lives altered forever: their subsequent evening together intertwines their fates in an unexpected, but lasting bond. What can a hard-drinking, womanizing hitman have in common with a traveling salesman? |
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