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Germany:16 certified movies
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What would you do if your peaceful existence was shattered by a merciless alien from a parallel universe? Wishing to become a superman, Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li), a corrupt agent from the Multiverse Bureau of Intelligence, makes a breathtaking journey from one parallel universe to another and kills other versions of himself. He gets strength and energy by killing his new victim. Nobody knows what will happen to the delicate balance of universes if Yulaw manages to annihilate all his nemesis. His nefarious dream nearly becomes a reality when there is only one counterpart left. But Gabriel Law (Jet Li), a Los Angeles police officer, has the courage to confront the unstoppably powerful Yulaw... |
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One of the most dangerous and perfidious spies in the world, charismatic Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), once a CIA agent and now a criminal genius, has the intention of stealing $9 billion in illegal government funds. To steal dirty money, however, he needs a superhacker able to break into the most complicated computer system. It is Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) who can pull off the impossible. After having done time for hacking into the FBI's cyber surveillance systems, Stanley, penniless, computerless and solitary, leads a miserable life. Gabriel, along with his charming henchman Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry), entices him into breaking the law once again in exchange for custody of his daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes) he lost in a divorce. |
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Three story lines are interwoven in the movie. A sensual brunet beauty (Laura Harring) survives after a terrible car accident but suffers amnesia. An ambitious young blonde ingénue, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), dreaming of movie stardom goes to Los Angeles for an audition and finds a woman named Rita at her aunt's apartment. Betty really feels for the lost woman and is willing to help her to investigate the mysterious accident. Meanwhile, a severe serious young director, Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) disagrees with a producer and bankers about the female lead in his new movie. |
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He is Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker). He is keen on muscle cars. His burning ambition is to be a member of the street racing gang led by legendary Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), an unbeaten racer. The other side of truth is that Brian is a FBI agent assigned to gain confidence of Toretto who is suspected of complicity in bold truck hijacking and equipment stealing. But the more the charismatic Dom trusts a sassy new guy, the more Brian becomes imbued with the Road Angels’ ideals. And the less he wants to carry out his mission... |
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After breaking up with his girlfriend, Priscilla (Pressly), a popular jock, Jake Wyler (Evans) makes a bet with his friends, that he can't make 'ugly girl' Janey Briggs (Leigh) into prom queen. After spending more and more time with Janey, Jake really starts to think whether he wants to keep the bet on or not. |
| Proximity
[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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Set at the end of the XIX century in Cuba, the thriller depicts the story of dangerous, and sometimes deadly, love. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas), a wealthy coffee exporter, arranges to marry Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), an American mail-order bride who he thinks is a virgin modest woman. But when he arrives at the port to meet her, Luis discovers that she is unlike the woman whose picture she sent and gets struck by her dazzling beauty, charm and seductiveness. Happy as a king, Luis enjoys his new life. Until his love story takes an unexpected fateful turn into a labyrinth of deception, betrayal and murder...
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Set in Middlesex, Virginia, the story follows Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a 16-year-old dreamer and Christina Applegate fan who suffers from pyromania. On October 2nd, 1988, Donnie is visited by a man-sized large-toothed bunny named Frank (James Duval) and invited to go for a walk. While Donnie sleepwalks outside, a jet engine falls from the sky into his bedroom. At parting the rabbit prophesies that the "end of the world" will occur in "28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds." Before the apocalypse Frank calls on Donnie several times and draws him into a chain of vandal actions. |
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In the early 1990s the Civil War raged in Somali. The resulting humanitarian crisis carried away more than 300 thousand innocent civilians. The nation starved to death as the troops of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the leader of the major belligerent faction, were taking the food sent by the United Nations Organization. The U.S. made a decision to send peacekeeping force to the capital city of Mogadishu in order to break down Aidid's resistance and kill him. On October 3, 1993, they planned to capture two top lieutenants of the mutinous warlord. Army Rangers and Delta Force entered the city on a mission that was supposed to take about an hour. However, things got out of kilter from the very beginning of the operation... |
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Drug chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) has invented a new powerful drug that takes you to ‘the 51st state’. Hoping to score big, McElroy leaves for Liverpool. However, Elmo’s former employer, The Lizard (Meat Loaf), assigns his assistant Dakota Parker (Emily Mortimer) to kill McElroy for his drug formula. Dakota knows Liverpool well because it is a hometown of her ex-boyfriend Felix De Souza (Robert Carlyle), McElroy’s reluctant partner. To make matters worse, a nightclub owner and mobster named Iki (Rhys Ifans), Detective Virgil Kane (Sean Pertwee), small-time gangsters and skinheads want to line their pockets with Elmo’s money. Meanwhile, McElroy and De Souza try hard to find a buyer willing to pay $ 20 million. But there is only one question: will Felix remain true to Elmo or betray him? |
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Megan Voorhees (Natasha Lyonne), is possessed and two priests, Father McFeely (James Woods) and Father Harris (Andy Richter), must drive the demon out, but the exorcism doesn't go as planned. A year later, survivors Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Shorty (Marlon Wayans) and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), are at college, trying to forget the incidents that occurred last Halloween. Cindy is falling for Buddy (Christopher Kennedy Masterson), who loves to give wedgies, and Ray is still confused about his sexuality. Professor Oldman (Tim Curry) and his paralyzed assistant, Dwight (David Cross), have decided to do a research study at Hell House, the house where the bad exorcism took place, and disguise it as a sleep disorder study. Chaos starts as soon as Cindy arrives and meets the creepy caretaker (Chris Elliot) with the funny hand. But the house has some deep dark secrets that the group has to solve, even if they are scary or disgusting. |
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Attractive but lonely Cat Storm (Dominique Swain) is a private school student in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She tries to make friends among her wealthy classmates and is in love with handsome and bumptious William Sellers (Brad Renfro), who is in the school's elite social group. However, Cat is surprised to discover that William reciprocates her feelings. Blinded by the romance with the boy of her dreams and her new popular status, Cat takes a while to realize that she is drawn into a web of nightclubs, drugs, sex and deception. |
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Femme fatale Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) knows how to use her beauty and body to twist men round her little finger. One night at a bar called McCool's, bartender Randy (Matt Dillon), Detective Dehling (John Goodman), and lawyer Carl Harding (Paul Reiser) meet the seductive Jewel who turns their heads and ruins each of their lives by making them break the law. |
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Based on the novel by Robin Hunter, the thriller tells of Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons), a British magazine editor living with his wife Maria (Briony Glassco) and three kids named Joanne (Anna Maguire), Julia (Holly Boyd), and Andrew (Joel Pitts). One day, determined to make a surprise for his family, Elgin buys tickets for the trip to India. Things, however, don’t go as planned: their plane is hijacked by terrorists. Then Elgin’s wife and both daughters are brutally gunned down in a terrorist attack. Back in London, Jack gets to know that the hijackers are arrested but soon released from incarceration. Jack tries to use all his journalist and political contacts but he is powerless to attain justice for his family. Desperate, Jack launches his own investigation to bring the killers to justice. FBI agent Jules Bernard (Forest Whitaker) who is cooperating with the International Police, suspects that Jack has a thirst for bloody revenge. When he puts all the pieces together, Bernard realizes that the terrorists must pay the full penalty for the deaths of people and he is intent on helping Elgin. |
| Ablaze
[2001,
USA]
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| "A firestorm of fiery action and scorching suspense!" |
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Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire city, and stretches the abilities of the fire department and the local hospital to their breaking points. |
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A rookie cop named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) starts working in the Los Angeles Police Department's undercover narcotics unit. Jake is trained by a corrupt veteran officer Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), who excels the most inveterate criminals in perfidy and brutality. Fighting with the very dregs of the population, Harris keeps neither laws nor morals. He lives by the maxim: "One must howl with the wolves." At the end of his first workday idealistic Jake is confronted with the moral dilemma whether he will obey the rules of his partner or make a stand against them. |
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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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The world's first fully automated jetliner - the most reliable and safest one - is prepared for its maiden voyage. However, its inventors haven’t taken into account the human element: chief engineer Gabriel Wingfield (John Pyper-Ferguson) intends taking revenge on the airline owners who have dismissed him. Wingfield hacks into the flight's computer system and seizes control of the demonstration flight. He forces the airplane to circle over Seattle and terrorizes the passengers using the intercom connected to his concealment. The pilot, Reece Robbins (Rachel Hayward), desperately tries to find a way to release from ‘the electronic loop’. But the terrorist seems to foreknow all her possible moves. If Reece’s ex-boyfriend, Pete "Birddog" Dumont (Craig Sheffer) isn’t able to find and neutralize the terrorist, the plane will run out of fuel and inevitably crash into the city... |
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David Aames (Tom Cruise) is a man who has the full monty: money, his own publishing company, an expensive car, a luxurious apartment in a respectable New York City neighborhood. He is young, devilishly handsome, charismatic and wealthy. Moreover, he is an object of desire to the most gorgeous young women. In short, David is the lucky man any chap would like to change with. One night, at his birthday party, he meets Sofia Serrano (Penélope Cruz) the mysterious, bewitching girl with a Spanish accent, and falls in love with her. The next day, his charmed life turns into a real nightmare. His jilted girlfriend Julianna Gianni (Cameron Diaz) takes revenge: when they are in a car, she drives it into a tree. After surviving a car crash and being horribly disfigured, David meets with another mishap. He is charged with his lover's deliberate murder... |
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When some commercial airliners crash under mysterious circumstances, the FAA has to find if there is any connection or if this is just a big coincidence. Neil, an FAA systems analyst, discovers that all aircrafts were outfitted with the same software. While his boss thinks that he is way off base, Neil thinks he knows which plane is the next target. He barely arrives at the airport, before the plane leaves and instructs that the plane wait until he does a system check. But all of a sudden the plane starts to take off on its own. Neil barely manages to get onboard. He is then contacted by the man behind all this, a computer guy who feels that he was taken advantage of by the aviation industry and wants some payback. He plans to crash this plane too. Neil tries to do what he can to help but unfortunately the guy is watching him. |
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