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Canada:14A certified movies
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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One absurd misunderstanding can turn your life upside down. The easygoing and timid Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet products company, is mistaken for an aggressively inclined neurotic. All his attempts to clear himself yield no results, and he is sentenced to attend anger management therapy headed by the eccentric Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who is able to turn a phlegmatic person into a schizophrenic. Alas, poor Dave has to go through hell. The enthusiastic, overenergetic doctor is determined to help Dave struggle with his inner demons, making his life a real nightmare. However, if a patient wants to stay alive, medicine is virtually powerless! |
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Jim proposes to Michelle and she accepts. Now their families are looking forward to it as is Jim's friends, Kevin and Finch. They do their best to keep Stifler from knowing but he does and all he sees is the bachelor party that goes with it. However Jim is more concerned about whether or not Michelle's parents will like him and he is also worried that he can learn how to dance before the wedding. |
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In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis. |
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It’s a lovely fall day. We become observers of the events that happen throughout the day at an Oregon high school. On the way to school photographer Elias (Elias McConnell) takes some pictures of a punk-rock couple. After football practice Nathan (Nathan Tyson) leaves gym class and meets up with girlfriend Carrie (Carrie Finklea) for lunch. John leaves his dad’s car keys in the school office for his brother to collect. In the cafeteria, Brittany (Brittany Mountain), Jordan (Jordan Taylor) and Nicole (Nicole George) gossip and complain about their mothers’ snooping. Michelle (Kristen Hicks) dashes to the school library for her volunteer work. John (John Robinson) walks out onto the lawn, crossing paths with outsiders Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen)... It seems to be an ordinary high school day. Except that it’s not. |
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Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor at a small New England college town, is fired after accusations of racism. His wife Iris (Phyllis Newman) takes it to heart and passes away. Coleman, broken-hearted and depressed, tries to redeem his honour but he soon finds consolation in a love affair with a local janitor, Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman), a tempting woman half his age. The relations get strained when it turns out that both Coleman and Faunia have the dark secrets they have kept for many years. It’s high time they revealed all the secrets. |
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Cooper (Dennis Quaid) and Leah Tilson (Sharon Stone), a New York City couple, have dreamt of living in a country-house. Finally their dream comes true, and the family moves into a tumbledown old mansion in picturesque upstate New York. They consider a gigantic Cold Creek Manor with rustic quiet and fresh air to be a perfect place for providing them and their kids (Kristen Stewart and Ryan Wilson) with a safe life. All is well until their paradisial life soon turns into a living nightmare when Dale Massie (Stephen Dorff), the previous house-owner, is released from prison. The vile man returns to reclaim his birthright place - a place that hides deep secrets from a murky dreadful past. What is worse is that he looks to do it by any means... |
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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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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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As Neo (Keanu Reeves) somehow becomes trapped in a train station between The Matrix and the real world, Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph set out to rescue him by means of the Merovingian. As this is going on, the Machines are approaching Zion with the intent of laying waste to every human there, but they do not realize that something is taking over The Matrix, with the intent of destroying everything: Smith. After Neo is freed, he and Trinity take the Logos and make a beeline for the Machine City. The Machines have reached Zion and the battle of a lifetime rages on. However, there is one way to save Zion and put an end to the war, and that is Neo. He must venture into the Matrix and put an end to Smith's evil plans once and for all, and if he succeeds, Zion will live to see another day. It's like the Oracle says, "Everything that has a beginning has an end." |
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Based on true events of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the movie tells the story of New York young clubgoers led by Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin) and James St. James (Seth Green). The over-free group was famous for their outrageous motley costumes, drunk sex orgy and extensive drug. They arranged illegal parties in the most unusual public places including subway, buses, superstores and doughnut shops. A 16-year-old guy, Michael Alig, arrived in New York City to win his way. He worked as a waiter in the nightclub, and then he began organizing parties there. His party themes eventually became more and more twisted. Moreover, Michael’s circle of acquaintance became more depraved: he was on friendly terms with transvestite Christina (Marilyn Manson) and aspiring DJ and drug addict Keoki (Wilmer Valderrama). His vicious life came to the end when he murdered his roommate and drug-dealer, Angel Melende (Wilson Cruz), and was put into prison. |
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The movie brings us back in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars, British Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) receives a battle-order to sink or capture a French frigate known as the Acheron in the cold waters off the South American coast. However, the Acheron is the first to attack the Surprise, Aubrey’s Man of War. Despite serious crippling and losses in dead, the tenacious and courageous Aubrey decides to pursue the enemy’s ship that is larger and better-equipped and sets sail across two oceans. Lucky Jack’s reputation, lives of his crew and his own are at stake. |
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The comedy of situations follows the incredible adventures of an indomitable Hong Kong cop, Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan). After catching kidnappers Eddie happens to get a mysterious medallion which grants him superhuman powers. Teamed up with his British Interpol partner Arthur Watson (Lee Evans) and bewitching British agent Nicole James (Claire Forlani), the immortal detective tries to discover the secret of the medallion and put up resistance against the Highbinders intent on taking the powerful relic away. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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If you are enamoured of your boss’s luscious daughter and want to get a job promotion, get ready for the worse. Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) proved to be unready. When his despotic boss Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp) asked him to house-sit, Tom only hoped to spend a quiet evening with his daughter Lisa (Tara Reid) and win her heart. However, it turned out quite different. And now he wishes the earth could swallow him up. How can Tom get out of a scrape if the house is full of havoc? He surely can’t pay off either the antique Persian carpets or the boss’s pet owl... |
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This psychological thriller relates the story of Frank Kavanaugh (Val Kilmer) who is found in the desert with a severe head wound and no memory. However, he claims to know that someone is planning to assassinate the President of the United States. He is also convinced that the woman claiming to be his fiancee, Chloe (Neve Campbell), is some sort of imposter. Having heard of the President and his campaign team coming to the small New Mexico town, Frank warns Sheriff Kolb (Sam Shepard) of the impending assault, but Kolb is engaged in an approaching election campaign. Struggling to retrace himself through his past life, Frank starts a race against time to convince the authorities of the verity of his claims, before it's too late. |
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The action takes place in Japan in the 1870s. Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer and Civil War veteran, accepts an offer to travel to the Land of the Rising Sun to train the country's regular army in the art of modern warfare. Preparing for more Westernized policy, the Emperor of Japan wants to extirpate the hereditary class system of the samurai warriors who rule the provinces. All of a sudden Algren takes part in the sanguinary civil war between the radical samurais and the new westernized troops. The gallant officer will have to choose which side to fight on and to learn about the code of honor. |
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The seductive love story set in the mid 1930s revolves around a young British officer, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), dispatched to the remote island of Borneo to civilize the native Iban tribe, and a gorgeous, beguiling native maiden Selima (Jessica Alba), a so-called sleeping dictionary. She is the kind of girl to fast-teach colonial officers the language and the local habits – in bed. Forbidden love flourishes between the officer and his concubine but unfortunately, their unexpected romance makes variance between the colonizers and the colonized. Thus Selima and John are ruthlessly separated by war. A year later, the officer returns to the island with his wife but suddenly his past intrudes on his present to cardinally change all his plans... |
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Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) and Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist (played by Jeff Bridges) investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned. |
| Missing, The
[2003,
USA]
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| How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? |
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back. |
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