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Germany:12 certified movies
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In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called Violet (Milla Jovovich), who is bent on vengeance and has little left to lose. Provoked beyond reason by powers that will not rest until she and her people are dead, she will become everything her persecutors feared her to be |
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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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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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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. |
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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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Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. His close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the recording company of Tommy and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) and takes patronage over promising young singer (Christina Milian). A wannabe gangster, gay bodyguard and Russian gangsters makes his life more complicated. This film is a sequel to "Get Shorty", Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) co-stars in this movie, which can be of music lovers' interest. |
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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. |
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The "Star Wars" saga concludes with this chapter, written and directed by series' creator George Lucas. After three long years of relentless fighting, the Clone Wars are nearly at an end. The noble Jedi Knights have been leading a massive clone army into a galaxy-wide battle against the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Anakin and his secret wife, Padme Amidala, have been separated for months, and he finally reunites with her to learn that she is pregnant. He is plagued by visions of her dying in childbirth, haunting images of a possible future. His fear to loose her leads Anakin down a dark side of the Force to become the Emperor's new apprentice – Darth Vader. The Jedi are ruined, as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Master Yoda are forced into hiding. Great political intrigue, tremendous drama and superb visuals are intertwined in the ending part of the Lucas's saga. |
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Set against the sweeping vistas of Alberta's Rocky Mountains, this film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. |
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Ridley Scott's saga of a peasant blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who has lost his family and nearly his faith. During the Crusades - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, he wonders in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden queen and rises to knighthood. Balian meets a man revealing himself as his father. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces - while trying to keep a fragile peace. |
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film). |
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to. |
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During the German air raids of WWII, the four Pevensie children - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy - are sent out of London to take shelter at the country home of eccentric Prof. Digory Kirke, who happens to be the owner of a curious wardrobe. Peering into this wardrobe one day, Lucy finds herself in the snowy land of Narnia, which is mired in never-ending winter thanks to the magic of the evil White Witch, who has proclaimed that it will be always winter but never Christmas in the mystical land. Eventually the other Pevensies find themselves in Narnia, and the four children learn that they alone are the key to breaking the Witch's eternal winter. But while three of them trudge through the snow with some helpful Beavers to join forces with Aslan, the mighty Lion, the fourth takes a more treacherous path and falls in league with the Witch... |
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Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business. |
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack. |
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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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Set in Victorian England, the drama chronicles adventures of Oliver Twist (Barney Clark), a 9-year-old lowly orphan born in a workhouse run by the hypocritical, cruel Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift). Fed up with maltreatment and poor conditions in the workhouse, Oliver ventures to escape to the streets of London where he is trapped in a den of young pickpockets and petty thieves led by the sinister old Fagin (Ben Kingsley). He tries perfidiously to draw the innocent boy into a life of crime. When Oliver is caught and mistaken for a thief who has participated in the robbery of the wealthy Mr. Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke), the kindly old gentleman decides to take the miserable boy home and give him a proper upbringing. |
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NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons (Jackson), fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent (Ice Cube) must track a dangerous military splinter group, led by Willem Dafoe, that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government in the nation's capital. |
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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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