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Canada:18A certified movies
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Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan is sent to the barbaric north as an emissary, because he fell in love with the wrong woman. In AD 922, this usually meant goodbye forever. Shortly after the party ran into exploring Vikings and befriended them, a young boy reaches the camp to call the warriors home: The Wendol, creatures of the Mist, have started attacking their homeland, killing and eating everyone in their way. The oracle forces a thirteenth warrior to accompany the Vikings, but this must not be a man from the north. Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who quickly is nicknamed Eban, first does not feel comfortable with the strange men of the north, but when he finds out that the Wendol really exist, he bravely fights alongside the Vikings in a battle that can't be won. |
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In the 15th century, France was entangled in the Hundred Years' War with England. When the country seemed to be threatened with its inevitable downfall, Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich), a 17-year-old illiterate peasant girl, appeared at the court of the French Dauphin, Charles (John Malkovich). She claimed that she had been instructed by the Lord to lead troops into a holy battle and defend their land against the aggressors. Inspired by the charismatic, self-confident, strong and fearless maiden, warriors won a victory over the English at Orleans. A year later, Joan was captured by the Burgundian and sold to their allies, the English, who tried her for heresy and burnt alive at the stake. In 1456, she was pronounced innocent. In 1920, Joan of Arc was declared a national heroine and canonized a saint. |
| Magnolia
[1999,
USA]
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| Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours. |
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness... |
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The thriller tells a tragic story that happens in the US Army. Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is assigned to investigate the murder of Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the daughter of the prominent Lieutenant General Campbell (James Cromwell). The young woman, who is an army captain in psychological operations, is found naked, tied to tent poles and strangled. Seven years ago, when Elisabeth was a cadet at West Point, she was brutally beaten and gang-raped by fellow trainees during a training exercise. Her father forced her to keep mum and thus the assailants escaped punishment. The incident itself and the General's deliberate cover-up changed the girl's attitude towards her dad and psychologically damaged her, causing her to become sexually promiscuous. The investigator and his assistant, Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), find compromising videotapes in a secret room in Elisabeth's house. The grief-stricken General, who is a Vice-Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, finds himself in a political crisis and wants Brenner to close the investigation... |
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The movie is narrated by an ordinary, lonely, spiritually empty office employee (Edward Norton) who suffers from chronic insomnia and tries to escape from his humdrum existence. In an attempt to find comfort, he begins attending different disease support groups where he meets a charming but gloomy young woman, Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), who is a pretender as the narrator is. While traveling on business, he encounters a more intriguing personage – Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charismatic and cunning soap salesman. According to his perverted philosophy, self-perfection is the destiny of the weak and the only thing worth living for is self-destruction. They become fast friends and form an underground club where aggressive young men give vent to their frustrations in violent bare-knuckle fighting. But when Fight Club starts a cross-country expansion, the narrator makes a shocking discovery... |
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Jim (Jason Biggs) es virgen y está preocupado por su situación. Luego que sus padres lo descubren tratando de ver un canal pornográfico, el jovencito se une a un grupo de amigos y, juntos, prometen tener su primera experiencia antes de la noche de graduación. |
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Set in the late 18th century, England, the story revolves around Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), a New York constable who is charged with investigating a series of mysterious decapitations which take place in a godforsaken small village called Sleepy Hollow. The locals are terrified, for they strongly believe in the legend of a monstrous Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken). They claim that the sinister ghost of a Hessian soldier rides out of the night, attacking innocent victims and returning to the Underworld with their heads cut off. Crane, the highly educated man believing only in logic, is certain that it is a ruthless serial murderer who wanders in the nearby woods. But when he launches his investigation, he encounters terrifying, inexplicable phenomena.
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When High School Guidance counselor Sam Lombardo is accused of raping the popular student Kelly Van Ryan, his carefully structured life is ruined. But as the case heads to trial, an outcast school girl Suzie, may have information to free Sam. But the investigating Detective Ray, thinks that a more devious plan is at work that involves Sam, Kelly, and Suzie. As Ray digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a scheme that has very high stakes and where nothing is as it seems. |
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Chinese immigrant John Lee (Yun-Fat Chow) works as a hitman for crime lord Terence Wei (Kenneth Tsang) who wants to revenge the spilth of his son's blood on police detective Stan Zedlov (Michael Rooker). Lee, instructed to kill Zedlov's seven-year-old son, can't pull the trigger when the kid is in his sight. Mafia is a cruel taskmaster and does not excuse mistakes. Wei sends some replacements to Shanghai to kill Lee's family. In order to reach his mother and sister before the thugs get to them, Lee needs a phony passport. So he gets in touch with master forger and gunslinger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino). When Wei's hitmen get on Lee's trail, Meg helps him escape the "Replacement Killers." |
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An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. The surviving team members from the first film team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monster down. |
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Following the Allied invasion of Normandy, two brothers lay dead in the wake of the onslaught. Meanwhile, in New Guinea, a third brother has been killed fighting the Japanese. After the Army General Staff learns that a fourth brother is missing in the French countryside, a rescue mission is ordered to find the young soldier and return him safely home. The mission is mounted by a veteran Ranger Captain commanding a squad of men who have mixed feelings about risking their lives to "Save Private Ryan". |
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There was once a guy named Blade (Wesley Snipes) who had been born of an African-American mother bitten by a vampire during pregnancy. Therefore he was granted vampire’s power and man’s soul, and furthermore, he wasn’t afraid of sunlight. As a 13-year-old boy, he was adopted by Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who helped him to cope with his bloodlust by giving him a special serum and raised him as a vampire hunter. Their nemesis was Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an ambitious vampire leader who saw humans as nothing more than cattle and was bent on summoning the Blood God in order to enslave them. Willing to rid the earth of the undead, Blade and Whistler, armed with an arsenal of garlic-spiked and silver bullets, started a seemingly never ending battle against Frost and La Magra.
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Looking forward to enjoying an unforgettably joyful, wild vacation, two buddies, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), take a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The former is a sportswriter who is assigned to cover a motorcycle race and a convention on drug abuse; the latter is an attorney. In an ironic twist of fate, they both are reckless dope heads who, while having their vacation, consume huge amount of mind-bending drugs and alcohol sinking deeper into a terrifying psychedelic otherworld.
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A Neo Nazi skinhead, named Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to jail for 3 years after committing a murder of 2 black guys. In the meanwhile, his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes in the same way and makes the same mistakes (racism and hatred) his eldest brother did (this is the result of the Neo Nazi environment he grows up into, and the influence Derek left behind). While Derek is in jail he realize that he choose the wrong path. after coming back from jail, Derek try to convince his brother not to go in his own way. |
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When an old Japanese tycoon suspects that he may be murdered, he establishes a huge reward fund for the person who will find his killer. When the old man is killed, out-of-luck con man (Eric Tsang) and struggling "newbie' hitman (Jet Li) band together in hope of a big payday as they try to discover the identity of the "King of the Hitmen." |
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The United States is trying to help the New Russia in the war against organized crime in that country. Presently, they are after Terek Murad, a deadly crime boss. When they raid one of his establishments, Murad's brother is killed. Murad seeks revenge against the ones who killed his brother, FBI agent Carter Preston and Russian Major Valentina Koslova, but most of all, he wants to send a message to the Americans about interfering in matters that don't concern them, so he hires an international assassin to kill the head of the FBI. When the assassin advises Murad to go into hiding until the job is done, he does. Desperate to know what Murad is doing, Preston allows the Russians to abduct Murad's errand boy and torture him to find out, and he utters the word "Jackal" which Preston recognizes as the name of an international assassin. They have to find him but unfortunatly, there is noone who knows who he is except for one person, whom they have to find and the only person who knows where that person is, is Declan Mulqueen, an IRA man, who is in prison, they offer to reduce his sentence is he helps them but refuses because all he wants is to be freed, so they decide to leave but he tells them that he knows who the Jackal is. So they release him and together they try to find the Jackal before he makes his move which won't be easy because he is very wily. |
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A pair of comic book painters named Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee), who live in New Jersey, are best friends for about 20 years. They spend their time working in their studio, and in the evenings they are going out. But their friendship is about to be disputed for the first time in their life, when a beautiful young lesbian woman named Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) enter their life and Holden fall in love with her. Now Holden has to deal with Banky's jealous, and with his new girlfriend's very rich pass. |
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer's son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux's things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster's identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer's face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something. |
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A young Mormon missionary named Joe Young (Trey Parker) finds himself fortuitously on the set of a new porno movie directed by Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) who immediately offers him the part of noble Captain Orgazmo, a superhero who fights against enemies using his ' Orgazmorator'. Both the movie and Joe become an overnight success with audiences. All his dreams seem to have materialized: he has won hordes of fans worldwide, and money flows like water. Maxxx is about to make the movie into a series, but Joe's fiancée, Lisa (Robyn Lynne Raab), tells him to quit his scandalous job. Joe decides to leave the porn industry for the sake of love. But the perfidious film-maker abducts Lisa and thus forces Joe to take part in further filming. |
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Bud White (Russel Crowe) and Ed Huxley (Guy Pearce) are LA cops in the 50s. These guys are so different that sometimes they even hate each other, but now they are to work together at the murder which should be solved at any cost. Wide LA beaches and the bright sun of California seems to be the perfect crime scene as the mafia bosses compete to occupy an empty place on the top of the criminal hierarchy after the main mafia boss was imprisoned to serve a long term. Kim Basinger appears in the film as a high-paid prostitute-blackmailer.
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