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Hong Kong:IIB certified movies
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Widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to do his best for his traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to get over the loss of her mother (Amy Irving). However, the little girl needs far more care and attention than her loving and solicitous father can lavish on her. And Emily finds comfort in her imaginary friend Charlie with whom she enjoys playing hide-and-seek. At first, David sees this make-believe friendship as a good way for his kid to experience positive emotions. But when 'Charlie' begins making Emily commit weird, and sometimes mad, acts, David calls his colleague Katherine (Famke Janssen) for assistance.
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| Munich
[2005,
USA]
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| The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. |
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A powerful and thoughtful chronicle drama by Steven Spielberg rises up the questions of the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the games took a sinister turn when eight masked Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic village, killing two Israeli athletes and abducting nine others. The story follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack. Eric Bana stars as a Mossad agent tracking the Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" which were ultimately responsible for the deaths of Israelis during the tragedy. |
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A local criminal authority, cop-killing mobster Marion Bishop is being transferred to soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13 at the New Year's Eve. Few cops and several cons are closed there by a snowstorm, which has stopped the prison bus on its way to a more secure destination. Despite everything, cops are going to celebrate the holiday, but their plans will fail not even due to Bishop's colleagues intending his release. Sudden assault of the men in white upsets his hopes to set himself free and even to survive. |
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Young energetic woman Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job as a live-in caretaker for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), an elderly stroke victim who is speechless and wheelchair bound. To make maneuvering throughout the mansion an easier task, Ben’s wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) gives the nurse a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house. One day, while exploring the rambling old house, Caroline discovers a secret room at the back of the attic. Curiosity prevails and she opens the room containing an intriguing mix of mystical items, hair, bones, blood, and spells, to name a few. Caroline soon realizes that odd, and sometimes inexplicable, things start occurring around her. The more time she spends in the hidden room, the more convinced she is that something ominous may be lurking in the mansion...
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This quite speculative story tells about two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm who pretends to protect townsfolk from folklore creatures they fabricated. But when their quick-money-getting scheme is disclosed, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse. They enter an enchanted forest where young girls keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The story sometimes balances on a brink of nonsense, but Monica Belucci appearing by the end of film is good as usual. |
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In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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This martial-arts comedy presents a pair of teenagers who help their ex-special agent father, also a kung fu expert to fight his past. The teens find it difficult to believe that their tranquil father was once a 007-like spy until one day when a vengeful enemy appears to get even with their father. The movie is featuring the fight choreographer from The Matrix action, Woo Ping Yuen. |
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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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When Tim was eight, some unknown entity has sucked his dad away into the closet. For a constant time, he was obsessed by the nightmares and the phobia of dark corners. If the terrifying "It" has been able to take his father and dozens of other people, it can take Tim himself as well. Life has returned back to normal, Tim is a twenty-something guy having a good job and a nice girl. Everything seems to be alright, but suddenly his mother dies and he is to return to the house of his nightmares, the house his father disappeared. Run-down Victorian gothic building seems to draw all mysterious and terrific. Once again Tim is being experienced how difficult is to fight with something you don't know is real or imagined. |
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The story and screenplay of this successful movie was written by famed singer-songwriter Nick Cave. In the press notes he says that he set out to write "a cohesive but mythical story that moved forward and was simple and affecting, as well as highly emotionally charged". This fine-tuned allegory relates to the cyclical bloodshed and is brutally violent, but its message is also brutally honest and meditative. The renegade Murphy brothers are in conflict with the controversial law enforcer (Ray Winstone). When two of the brothers are captured by authorities, the older (Guy Pearce) is given by a no-win choice: hunt and kill the lunatic Murphy Gang mastermind, his eldest brother Arthur (Danny Huston), otherwise the youngest (Richard Wilson) gets a hemp-tie on the gallows. This western reeks of the dry desert, with flies buzzing, temperatures soaring, and emotions spiraling out of control in the dusty, desolate and virtually lawless air of 1880s of the rural Australia. |
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Based on a true story, the horror drama revolves around Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), a 19-year-old ordinary college freshman who begins to feel as though someone else has inhabited her body. The student becomes tormented by terrifying visions and ghostly voices. She can't separate the reality from the nightmare. Doctors give her a diagnosis of a strange mental disease but are unable to cure her. So Emily desperately seeks help from her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). It's obvious to him that the hapless girl is possessed by demons. He believes that the only hope to save Emily's soul is to perform the forbidden and extremely dangerous ritual of exorcism on her... |
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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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Life is a minefield. One false step and there you are. How does it happen? Take, for example, Charles Schine (Clive Owen), a grand family man and commercial executive. He falls into company with charming financial analyst Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) in a commuter train. When he realizes that he doesn’t have enough money to pay for his ticket, Lucinda helps him avoid conflict with a ticket collector by paying his way. Then Charles invites her to lunch in return for her favor. They eventually develop a passionate connection and decide to go to a hotel. But no sooner have the amorous twosome torn each others’ clothes off than a violent thug, LaRoche (Vincent Cassel), storms into their room and robs them at gunpoint. He can’t seem to get enough — he beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda. Some days later, LaRoche demands lots of money, threatening to reveal their dirty secret to their families. But it appears that it’s too high a price to pay for an abortive liaison, and Charlie soon realizes that he will lose everything at one stroke unless he finds a way to outsmart the insidious LaRoche in his own game...
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In this obscure and Gothic tale, adapted from David Lloyd's graphic novel, one attractive girl, Evey gets involved accidentally in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a masked and megalomaniac character, V. V is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes, a sort of terrorist of the XVII century, who wanted to blow up the English Parlament in London. However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings. Evey will be chased by the secret police, thinking that she's the accomplice of V, who will accomplish Fawkes' mission of destroying the Parlament on the 5th of November, in this mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, George Orwell's 1984 and Batman. |
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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Danny is an underground fighter having no education and treated by his owner like a dog. The only one thing he knows is how to fight in an illegal fight-clubs to earn money for his wicked boss. Accidentally his master gets into the car crash and Danny breaks loose. His path crosses with an old piano tuner who had lost his sight; he turns out to be the only human who treats Danny not like an animal. His kindness and his music teach Danny to be human, meanwhile the sinister boss is in search for his former slave. |
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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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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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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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