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Germany:16 certified movies
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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. |
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A Russian scientist in Australia, Dr. Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija), who has created a skin-corroding virus called "Chimera" and its antidote called "Bellerophon", goes to the CDC in Atlanta. When renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) learns about Dr. Nekhrovich's inventions, he is intent on getting them and infecting the whole world in order to acquire the wealth and power by selling the cure. What he expects is that the price of "Bellerophon" will bump up when the public gets to know about the shocking effect of "Chimera". Ambrose kills the scientist but what he gets is only the antidote. It turns out that the prudent Dr. Nechrovich has injected himself with the deadly virus. Ambrose stops at nothing to steal the virus from Biocyte Pharmaceuticals in Sydney otherwise no one will buy the cure. The Government sends IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a mission to stop the bloodthirsty terrorist before he manages to execute his perfidious destructive plans. Ethan enlists help of his beloved, seductive adventuress Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Australian helicopter pilot Billy Biard (John Polson). Can Hunt destroy the virus and retrieve the cure to save the world from a horrible and hasty death? |
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While "Stab 3" is in production, somebody in a ghost mask starts to murder the new cast members. This lures Sidney out from hiding deep in the woods where she lives, and she comes to Hollywood to face the killer for the final act. |
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You wouldn't wish this hell on anyone, not even on your worst enemy... Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) suffers from amnesia: he can remember only the last two or three minutes of his life. It complicates his existence very much, especially because Lenny's mission is to revenge for his wife (Jorja Fox) who was raped and murdered by a John J. Lenny remembers it through the tattoo on his body. Every day he writes notes, takes Polaroid photos and makes tattoos, so it takes him only to look at himself in the mirror to rebuild the vital details. Lenny is obsessed with thoughts of vengeance. And there are manipulators who are intent on taking advantage of the disabled and inconsolable man. |
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Everyone knows that police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is the toughest and smartest cop in New York City. He is one of those people who are ready to work themselves to the bone to fight for justice. This time Shaft is out to put away a spoiled preppie, Walter Wade (Christian Bale), who killed a young black student. Shaft arrests the perpetrator but he is soon set free on 200-thousand dollars bail and escapes to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade secretly returns to the United States and gets a bust. When Wade's father (Philip Bosco), a wealthy tycoon, posts a million dollars bail for his son once again, Shaft throws his badge and leaves police to lead his personal vendetta against Wade. Teamed up with his eye-catching fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), Shaft must find barmaid Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), who was an eye witness to the racially-motivated murder. Meanwhile, Wade asks his cellmate Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a Dominican drug lord, to kill the only witness of his crime. Hernandez, in his turn, gives a graft to two corrupt officers to find the girl. |
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Set in the near future after a massive earthquake splits California into a desert island, Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren), a US army captain, Lucky Simcoe (Joe Michael Burke), a marine sergeant, and seductive Sarah McBride (Sherri Alexander), an air force captain, join forces to find food, water, and fellow survivors and start building a new world upon the ruins of the civilization. However, among survivors are not only law-abiding citizens but convicts as well. |
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Il film narra di Adam Gibson, common-man con moglie e figlia, pilota di aerei a noleggio con l'amico Hank. Un bel giorno si trova coinvolto, senza volerlo e senza saperlo, in una esperienza agghiacciante creata da una megaindustria illegale di cloni umani di proprietà del perfido Michael Drucker (alla sua terza morte!), usando le ricerche del dottor Griffin Weir. Ma come è possibile? Adam è stato clonato per sbaglio. Da questo momento comincia l'inferno per il pover'uomo. Killer senza scrupoli (peraltro clonati e clonabili all'infinito) lo cercano: la clonazione umana è illegale e uno dei due Adam deve essere eliminato. Ma, questa volta, Drucker ha clonato l'uomo sbagliato! |
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What can you do in 60 seconds? You can have a smoke or a cup of coffee. But there is a legendary thief named Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) who can steal a car in a few seconds. Tired of playing hide-and-seek with the police and determined to turn over a new leaf, Randall leaves his "job", his home and his girlfriend Sara "Sway" Wayland (Angelina Jolie), and now he teaches carting driving to kids. However, five years later he finds out that his younger brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) who followed in his footsteps breaks a contract with a vicious British crime lord, Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston), to deliver high end cars. Randall has no choice but to return to the criminal world in order to save his brother from the mafia and police. He reassembles his old team to steal 50 cars in one night. |
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Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a cocaine addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code. |
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This modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells about two rival crime families. These are African-American and Chinese gangs struggling for power over Oakland. When Chinese crime lord's son Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is murdered, bad news reaches his older brother Han Sing (Jet Li), an ex-cop who without a second thought breaks out of a Hong Kong prison to track down Po's killers and avenge his death. In the United States while investigating the murder, Han meets Trish O'Day (Aaliyah), the rival ganglord's daughter who wants nothing to do with her father (Delroy Lindo) or his shady business. Han and Trish fall in love with each other and team up to continue the search for justice. |
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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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Sexual jolts disrupt Manhattan physician Bill Harford's equilibrium. At an elegant Christmas party, two "models" hit on him, he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife, he aids a woman sprawled naked in a bathroom after an overdose. The next night, his wife reveals sexual fantasies with a stranger; a dead patient's daughter throws herself at him; as he walks, brooding, six teen boys hurl homophobic insults at him; a streetwalker takes him to her flat; he interrupts men having a sex party with a girl barely in her teens. His odyssey, which next takes him into a world of wealthy sex play at a masked ball of hedonism, threatens his life, his self-respect, and his marriage. |
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A Sunday in the life of Derrick King, an Irish kid raised in South Central L.A. by a Black family. He talks Black, dresses Black, and thinks of himself as Black. It's a day of disasters: his mom kicks him out of the house, his uncle fires him, the woman he loves dismisses him as childish, the LAPD (wearing Confederate-flag shoulder patches) impounds his car and tosses him in the drunk tank, a mean dude is after him for money, he's imprisoned in a store basement by gay sadists, and he's shot at. Along the way, however, he shows kindness to a near-sighted kid, and those random acts may prove to be his salvation. |
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The Persian Gulf War comes to an end and the United States triumph over a defeated enemy. Hundreds of Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender themselves cradling leaflets promising food and drink, home and kind treatment. Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) are charged to disarm, strip naked and search the surrendering Iraqi. They are lucky to have found an important document on a resisting Iraqi officer. The document proves to be a map that discloses the location of Saddam Hussein's caches of gold confiscated from Kuwait. Troy and Conrad arrive at a decision not to report their commanding officers, except their pal, Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube). However, the rumors of the secret map reach the ears of Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), and the four soldiers come up with a selfish plan to abstract the treasure from the bunkers.
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A mysterious African-American warrior nicknamed Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) follows "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai." He lives in solitude, communicating with the outside world via homing pigeon, and faithfully serves a small-time mobster, Louie (John Tormey), who once saved his life. He blindly obeys his master, performing dangerous missions that are generally connected with assassination. When his recent murder is witnessed by the big boss' daughter, Louise Vargo (Tricia Vessey), the mafia group decides to put Ghost Dog away so as to conceal their involvement. The gangsters keep the track of all the lofts in town and kill Ghost Dog's pigeons when they eventually find his hut. Ghost Dog realizes that he is given the toughest assignment to slay the entire mafia or, otherwise, they will kill him and his master, so he starts wiping out his many adversaries.
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Harry (Adrien Brody), a mad guy obsessed with Houdini escape tricks, kidnaps the wife of a tycoon (James Naughton) and buries her alive in a shallow grave somewhere in Manhattan. His ransom demands are outrageous. Besides, Harry refuses to negotiate with anyone but a New York Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) who's trying to harness her own demands. The lives of these two suffering smart people are interlaced in a 24-hour dramatic psychological game, with a suffocating woman's life put at stake.
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Two mischievous angels who were laid off by God and are given the boot. Finding themselves banned to Wisconscin, they set out for New Jersey where they find a loophole that will allow them to re-enter heaven. The only problem is it will destroy humanity. An abortion clinic worker who is a relative of Christ, a wisecracking 13th apostle, a stripper/muse, and mischievous mall rats Jay and Silent Bob band together to stop them. |
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Thorold Stone's family was among those who vanished three months ago, and he is still stung by that fact. Since childhood, he has always been logical and suspicious, and, of course, he's uncertain whether Franco Macalousso is the Messiah he claims he is. Stone works for Len Parker, who runs One Nation Earth, the organization that rounds up the Haters who stand in Macalousso's way. Soon, however, he realises that the Christians have been framed, and he has been set up. To prove Macalusso's true colours, he must band with his own enemies - the Haters themselves, led by Helen Hannah. |
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Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a father and a husband, suddenly finds out that he does not want to live his quiet and correct life any longer. He finds himself falling deeper and deeper into the hopeless depression, struggling against a mid-life crisis that affects his relations with the family. Burnham's rebelling daughter Jane (Thora Birch) hates him. His bitchy wife (Annette Bening) can't bear his new manner of living at his own taste. Eventually, he becomes to be obsessed by a viciously innocent and cute school-mate (Mena Suvari) of his daughter. Meanwhile, Jane meets a strange boy next door, whose warlike military father is obsessed by homophobic spirits. The movie is really touching, dramatic and poetically aesthetic, focusing attention at the social life disharmony and the delicate beauty surrounding us. |
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After losing their payload the ramshackle, sinking, ocean-going salvage tug "Sea Star" takes refuge in the eye of a typhoon in an attempt to make repairs. Whilst trying to find help the tug, captained by Robert Everton ('Donald Sutherland' (qv)), discovers a Russian science vessel adrift in the eye. The crew believes their troubles are over and they are set for life when the captain informs them of the value of salvaging this apparent ghost-ship. However, the navigator Kit Foster ('Jamie Lee Curtis' (qv)) and the chief engineer Steve Baker ('William Baldwin' (qv)) are not convinced that it will be that easy. Once power is restored to the ship strange things start to happen and the crew mysteriously disappear one by one. It isn't until the discovery of the last remaining Russian crew member, the chief science officer Nadia Vinogradiya ('Joanna Pacula' (qv)), that the crew realise the enemy ranged against them isn't the Russians but something far more malevolent... |
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