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Hong Kong:IIB certified movies
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A remake of the one of the 1970's most celebrated horror movies, which is based on the true story. In 1974, one of NY Police Depts. received a frantic call, which led them to the bloodstained bedroom. There was six dead bodies, Ronald DeFeo confessed to methodically murdering his parents and four siblings, and claimed it was the "voices" that told him to do it. One year later a new family enters the doubtful house negligently shrugging off its reputation. George and Kathy move in with their three kids, only to discover the demonic powers of the house are still there. Will the new family indeed share the awful fate of their predecessors? |
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Constantine, a supernatural detective, teams up with Angela, a skeptical policewoman to disclose the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, during her investigation Angela figures out that contemporary Los Angeles is inhabited by the world of angels and demons. Constantine was born with an ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons in human appearance, and tried to get rid of this gift committing suicide. Back from the hell against his will, sending the devil's warriors back to the depths, he hopes to earn his way to salvation. |
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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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In the years following World War II Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is haunted by memories of brutality of his war. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God since he was occasionally forced to participate in a Nazi crime. He tries to escape his memories travelling through far countries. In Cairo he meets a collector of rare antiquities who have unearthed a Christian church in the remote region of Kenya. The church seemed to be buried at the same day it was built. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find some ancient artefact hidden within the church before the British discover it. But while investigating, they find out that the church was built to protect the area against an evil force, which has been buried long ago and eventually released along the excavations. The horror has only just begun. |
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In this sequel to "Meet The Parents" Greg Focker faces a difficult task: he must now introduce the straight-laced Byrnes family to his wholly unconventional and totally eccentric parents. Ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Florida to take a look at the people who had called their son Gaylord M. Focker. As the critics soundly state, the cast of the movie is brilliant (as well as in the previous one), but the movie itself is more contrived and predictable, and a lot less fun than the original. "The casting is grand, but one wishes more thought was put into the script". |
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Mort Rainey's (Johnny Depp) life is getting worse gradually in this adaptation of Stephen King's novella. Mort is a recently divorced writer who decides to take some time off at his cottage. His lack of energy and creativity left him incapable of even stringing a simple sentence together notwithstanding the former success. In addition, Mort finds himself beleaguered by a psychotic stranger (John Turturro) who claims Rainey plagiarized his story idea and demands satisfaction. Though Rainey claims he's done nothing wrong, the stranger isn't pacified, instead growing more and more threatening. As Mort's wife (Maria Bello) pushes him to complete their separation and Shooter methodically destroys his life, he struggles to restore order to an increasingly insane situation. When Shooter's demands turn to murder Rainey involves in a private detective (Timothy Hutton) for help. But the horror spirals out of control on and on, Mort soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything. The ending of this psychological thriller is really shocking and horrifying as the writer of "Panic Room", David Koepp, and Johnny Depp, 2003 Best Actor (Pirates of the Caribbean) do their best. |
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The satellite of a company owned by the millionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) locates in Antarctica an unidentified source of heat and a pyramid with indication of three different primitive cultures built six hundred meters below a deactivated whaling station. Weyland hires expertize, including an archeologist and an electronic engineer, and organizes an expedition leaded by Alexa Woods (Sannaa Lathan). When they reach their target, they realize that the place is indeed the stage of an ancient war between two breeds, and humans are only kettle in this game. They pick a side, based on the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
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A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements. |
| Million Dollar Baby
[2004,
USA]
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| Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love. |
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Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it. His daughter is estranged from him, and he spends the twilight years of his life running a small, ramshackle gym in downtown Los Angeles. When Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym, things get changed. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie made herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. They form a sport tandem of great tutelage, and a talent. "Million Dollar Baby" also stars Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, and Mike Colter. The movie is adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole, a former corner man with years of experience in the fight game. |
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A ruthless contract killer Tom Cruise is soon to dispose off five people. He recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through the darkness of nightly Los Angeles, to help him to execute these five in different locations during a ten-hour stretch. Max is to become the unwilling collateral of Tom Cruise's severe and sociopath assassin. Both of them hardly crave for survival as they became dependent on each other when L.A. police depts. try to intercept them on their way from one given destination to another. Cruise is leaving his sweet image for this breathtaking and straight-out movie, Jada Pinkett-Smith breaks the boundaries of the minor role, and L.A. city itself turns into a major character. |
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The historical drama follows the adventures of poet, courtier and debauchee John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), also known as the Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. We observe him leading a dissolute life, having an ardent romance with aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), enjoying the company of his favorite prostitute Jane (Kelly Reilly), drinking heavily, and writing ribald satirical poems and an outrageous play ridiculing King Charles II (John Malkovich). His defiant behavior ultimately begins to irritate his surroundings, from his wife Elizabeth Malet (Rosamund Pike) to the very monarch...
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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This is the story of a guy, Joel, who discovers that his long-time girlfriend, Clementine, has undergone a psychiatrist's experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed, after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working fluidly. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together, Joel agrees to undergo the procedure as well, to erase his memories of Clementine. The film, which takes place mostly within Joel's mind, follows his memories of Clementine backwards in time as each recent memory is replaced, and the procedure then goes on to the previous one, which is likewise seen, and then erased. Once the process starts, however, Joel realizes he doesn't really want to forget Clementine, so he starts smuggling her away into parts of his memory where she doesn't belong which alters other things about his memories as well... |
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A young man struggles with the effects of suppressed childhood memories and while struggling, he discovers some method for traveling back in time to occupy his own body in the days of boyhood. From an early age, crucial moments of Evan Treborn's (Ashton Kutcher) life have sunk into oblivion, his childhood was darkened by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. He discovers that with every trip back in time, he gently changes the present, which leads him to travel back in time over and over again to undo the oppressive events of his past. |
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Sam, a shy schoolboy, suffers from a bully school troublemaker George in a small Oregon town. Sam tells his protective elder brother about the pummeling he suffers from that guy. Two brothers think out the revenge plan together and invite George to the river boat trip to put a stop to humiliation. During the trip Sam unexpectedly finds out that George is simply a child who can not find friends. But the boat is already on its way… |
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The Bride (Uma Thurman) has only three left in her death list after dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in "Kill Bill Vol. 1". She resumes her quest for justice in the series' second installment, "Kill Bill Vol. 2." With those two down, the Bride has two remaining foes to pursue - Budd and Elle Driver - before moving on to her ultimate goal...to confront her former employer, Bill (David Carradine), having dispatched, with much blood and gore, his team of assassins. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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