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Iceland:12 certified movies
| Contact
[1997,
USA]
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| From the Academy Award-winning director of "Forrest Gump" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Contact" take you on a journey to the heart of the universe (3 more taglines...) |
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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go? |
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The formidable, cold-hearted Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his seductive, deadly toxic accomplice, Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), are bent on encasing Gotham City in ice. Only the crime-fighting duo of Batman (George Clooney) and Robin (Chris O'Donnell) can thwart the nefarious scheme of the new abominable villains. Besides, they have a new secret weapon – the strong, agile and plucky Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone). |
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Robert (Ewan McGregor) works (until he gets fired and replaced by a robot) at a huge corporation as a cleaning man, while his dream is something less ordinary. Robert's boss daughter, beautiful and capricious Celine (Cameron Diaz) has everything one can possibly dream about, and she is bored. It seems utterly impossible for these two people to have a conversation, much less fall in love... But up there in the sky two angels O'Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo) have to make their paths cross. In a pretty stange way actually, but who cares if we speak of Destiny. |
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Extraterrestrial beings are here: Earth is the common place for ETs to dwell. Illegal immigrants, intergalactic offenders and various monsters are living in NY being disguised as usual people. Man In Black is a terrestrian top-secret organization which is to control and to confine the variety of aliens. Will Smith's hero pursues a very fast-running offender when this criminal turns out to be a undoubtly extraterrestrian, a cefalopoid! Later the smart and fast cop gets enlisted to MIB, becomes agent J and helps this organization to stop the evil alien Beetle with the help of Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). The beetle is in search for the Galaxy which is hidden directly on the earth. |
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Two African-American buddies, Rushon (Tommy Davidson) and Bunz (Jamie Foxx) go on a double date with Nikki (Tamala Jones) and Lysterine (Vivica Fox). After having a good dinner in a Chinese restaurant and playing a card game, the guys decide to take their relations to the next level. However, the women are concerned about safe sex and Rushon and Bunz have nothing to do but to set out in search of contraceptives. The quest takes the guys on a series of hilarious adventures. |
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far. |
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Lucy Harmon is a 19-year old American girl who is the daughter of poet Sara Harmon. After Sara commits suicide, Lucy travels to Italty and visits her mother's friends, Diana and her husband, Irish artist Ian, where Lucy wants a picture of her painted. Lucy decided to return to Italy to reunite with Nicolo Donati, a Italian boy she once fell in love with four years ago, when she last visited Italy. But reuniting with Nicolo isn't the only reason why Lucy decided to return to Italy, Lucy is on a personal journey, as she sets out to solve a mystery in her Mother's diary and discover who her father is who conceived her 20 years ago. Lucy's journey leads her to befriend Alex, a play-writer who is dying of cancer whom Lucy thinks may be her father or her father could be the artist who makes statutes from trees and sets out to loose her virginity as Diana and her daughter Miranda's boyfriend Richard become intrigued by her. |
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"White Squall" is the true story of a ship school called the "Albatross." The school is run by the captain, Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon (Jeff Bridges) and his wife, Dr. Alice Sheldon (Caroline Goodall). In the of 1960, the couple took aboard eight teeanage boys from around the country for eight months of learning how to sail, be a crew, and respect one another. the crew goes through hardtimes and more laid-back times, but they must come together when a freak storm gets them in trouble in the middle of the ocean. |
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In medieval England, Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a young knight-dragonslayer dedicated to the long lost code of honor, befriends Draco, the last dragon on Earth, who, above having a wise and noble soul, can talk. The Queen's son Einon (David Thewlis), whom Bowen had been teaching swordsmanship and morality, has grown to become a tyrannical king. Now Bowen and Draco both betrayed by the Einon in the past, feel it's time to defeat the evil ruler. The mission, however, is hard and controversial, for years ago Draco chose to give a half of his heart to young Einon as it was the only way to save his life. Thus, if Einon dies, so does Draco... |
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Classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers". |
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The ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors, uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind. |
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Sydney is a veteran gambler in his sixties who still spends his time at the casinos. When he meets John, a loser with no money at all, he sees him as a son and tries to help him. He takes care of him and teaches him all the tricks of his work. He also helps him to make a relationship with Clementine, a young girl who works at the casino as a waitress. John doesn't seem to be bothered by the fact that Clementine is also a hooker, but soon something happens that turns their lives upside down. |
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President James Dale of the United States and his right-hand man, Jerry Ross discover that an army of Martian UFOs are hovering around the Earth, and everyone has a different response. Some, like Texan alcohol dealer Art Land and slimy nesman Jason Black, just want to make a profit out of it. Others, such as TV hostess Nathalie Lake, Land's spiritualist wife Barbara, and the Southern-like Norris family, are excited, and some, like Dale's wife, Marsha, and daughter, Taffy, don't care. Richie Norris is extremely intelligent but is only respected by his insane grandmother, while his older brother Billy is favored for joining the army. General Decker doesn't trust the Martians and insist they fight, but General Casey is more optimistic. The Martians appear to come in peace but suddenly begin to use their super-powerful and technologically advanced weapons to wipe out the population and great structures. Soon, they attack Las Vegas, where the Norrises are living, where former heavyweight champion Byron Williams is visiting, where an obnoxious lawyer is gambling, and where Tom Jones is performing in concerts. |
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler's wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let's hope so! |
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"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of a lot of Afro-American movies, for instance "Boyz N the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. A lot of crazy stuff happens, for example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough. |
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The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past. |
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy. |
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Jumanji is a board game, magic and dangerous, as two teenagers found it out and buried Jumanji in distant 1869. Now the young descendant of the same family Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd, Robin Williams) digs the game out and begins to play it along with his mate Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy, Bonnie Hunt). Then the game makes it clear that it is really perilous as the boy flies away into the distant jungle. Later, other members of the family begin expirience the shock of using the game, they should try to return Alan Parrish from the magic depths of the game keeping in mind that all the monstrous entities which are bred by it will disappear in the only certain case: if the game will be won.
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Lancelot (Richard Gere) saves Lady Guinevere (Julia Ormond) when people of the evil Malagant (Ben Cross) tried to steal her on her way to the wedding with the King (Sean Connery). Lancelot is a vagabond wielding his sword perfectly, and he falls in love with Lady Guinevere but she can't be unfaithful, despite the fact she finds Richard Gere's character fearless, handsome and adorable. Later Lancelot gets dubbed, serves Kamelot faithfully, he is given the place by the Round table and then the love triangle continued the story letting a spectator conjecture what will be the ending of this intrigue. This movie has no age limits and is suitable for the whole family to watch.
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