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Hong Kong:IIB certified movies
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American diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) and his young wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) wait expectantly for the birth of their first kid. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room: Katherine loses a baby, and worst of all, she will not have another pregnancy due to womb damage. In order to avoid traumatizing his wife, Robert takes a baby boy whose mother died in childbirth and presents him as his own. The local priest who encouraged Robert to make a substitution convinces him that it is a pious fraud and so the lord will forgive him for his sin. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions: Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) might be the little Antichrist who grows older and stronger under the ideal nanny’s supervision...
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent's skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames. |
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do? |
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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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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph. |
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In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn't stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them. |
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have. |
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Seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue is taking place in Michael Caton-Jones' sequel to a classic erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven. The story begins when Catherine Tramell, a brilliant and ageless Sharon Stone's character, falls in the river having sex with the famous sport star. Dr Michael Glass is involved to perform a psychiatric check of seductive Tramell who became the suspect again as the soccer star had died in the accident. Having moved from San Francisco to London, Catherine did not lose even a bit of her success as a famous best-selling writer and as a pernicious temptress, so Dr Glass soon felt the power of her bewitching sexuality and her grasp being slowly drawn into a labyrinth of Tramell's intrigue. |
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When an informer, his family and two FBI agents are killed by an international gang of drug dealers, Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs are assigned to work undercover for the FBI in a joint operation to disclose which agency leaked the information to the criminals. They plot a scheme to approach with their team of agents to the manager José Yero and later to the druglord Arcángel de Jesús Montoya. Along the mission, Sonny meets the accountant, investor and mistress of Montoya, Isabella, and after a romantic affair, they fall in love for each other, blurring his professional commitment with his personal feelings. |
| Inside Man
[2006,
USA]
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| It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover. |
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A Denzel Washington's tough cop struggles against a perfectionist bank robber Dalton (Clive Owen). Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a well-planned siege, and the people inside become unwitting pawns in an airtight robbery. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) is having something to protect so he has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster) who turns the situation to be even more unstable. |
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Anna Faris returns as the caring yet dumb witted Cindy Campbell in the latest installment of the Scary Movie Franchise. Cindy has taken up a job as a house caretaker for a nice old lady that is said to be cursed. Cindy moves right in and the house is located right next to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan, a down on his luck father. Cindy soon discovers a dreaded secret about the house and she is comforted by Tom who is watching his children for the weekend. As soon as the two become more then just friends, a huge storm rolls on in and hits the town. Tom discovers a giant hole in the ground and an alien TrIpod emerges from it's depth's. Meanwhile, Cindy finds the soul of a tortured boy living inside the house who tells her he knows the secret on how to defeat the aliens. But before he gives it too her, he vanishes. The only way to figure out the mystery is to find the boy's father. Cindy and Tom split away from each other and Tom, with his children, seek refuge in a torn up basement owned by shotgun wielding man named Oliver. Cindy, while trying to figure out her own mystery, bumps into her old friend Brenda Meeks. Teogether, they decide to defeat the aliens. Brenda then discovers a hidden village outside of town and Cindy figure's out the boys father is somewhere inside. Now it's up to Cindy and Brenda to find the boys father and unfold the mystery on how to defeat the aliens, who in fact have their own plans on how to torture such people like Shaq and Dr. Phil. |
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Will Fransis (Jude Law), a successful landscape architect, discovers his office repeatedly burgled. He leaves his safe and familiar world to launch his own investigation which leads him to a young Muslim thief, Mirza Simic (Rafi Gavron). A Bosnian refugee, he lives in the shabby neighborhood of King's Cross with his widowed mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), who works as a seamstress. Will decides not to report his discovery to the police as he realizes that the family can hardly make both ends. Moreover, he immediately gets drawn to Amira... |
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Ethan Hunt, a superspy known from preceding movies MI and MI-II, has retired from active duty to train freshman IMF agents; he is having a peaceful life along with his girl Julia. But one night, its time to get into action again for Ethan (Tom Cruise, as it should be) and he is to struggle against Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no conscience and no remorse. Hunt assembles his team again, he and his and new acquisitions like Zhen and Declan, will chase Owen all over the world, using high-tech and all sort of gadgets. |
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"The Ring Two" foregoes the ominous phone calls warning of impending death. Instead, Samara's aim in this film is to possess little Aidan and claim Rachel (Naomi Watts) as her mother. This new angle leads to less suspense – and less pure frightening moments – than in the first movie. When Rachel learns of an unexplained murder, which occurred after a teenager watched a strange videotape with his girlfriend, she suspects her past is following her and she begins looking into the case. Rachel believes that the otherworldly Samara has come back. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death. |
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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches. |
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Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an ex-LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved to a smaller town with his family due to dramatic hostage situation he was unable to solve properly: a young mother and her child were killed. Now he is a police officer in a quiet town of Bristo Camino, where he serves as a chief of a police. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending to steal their car, they involuntarily pick the wrong house on the wrong day. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. He is about to take situation off his hands, but a house belongs to a corrupt accountant, cops are in over their heads, so Talley should take the situation under his control again in order to save his own family. The point is that the compound has digital information inside, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to the enterprise the accountant is connected with. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them, and Talley finds himself being between a rock and a hard place. |
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Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters. |
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During full moon nights a werewolf roams the streets of Los Angeles assaulting and killing strangers. Siblings Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) have survived after being bitten by a strange creature but they have altered forever. It takes them a while to notice their physical strength increased, their sensitivity intensified and their bodies changing with the appearance of the full moon. The most startling discovery they make is that they feel a strong attraction to everyone around them. Ellie and Jimmy soon become conscious that they have been cursed and then come to the conclusion that the only means to break the ancient curse is to kill the fierce bloodthirsty creature.
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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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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead. |
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