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Iceland:12 certified movies
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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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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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The dramedy focuses on David Spritz (Nicholas Cage), one of those lucky men whom you can envy. A popular weatherman on a Chicago news program, he prepares for an audition for New York morning show "Hello America". While Dave's professional dreams and ambitions come true, his personal life is really a mess. He is cut up about his father's lethal disease; he feels distressed and devastated after his painful divorce with his wife Noreen (Hope Davis); he desperately tries to get along with his estranged kids, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena) and Mike (Nicholas Hoult). Will he manage to cope with all his problems or will he swim with the tide? His afterlife will depend on this choice. |
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The story follows Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young tennis instructor who becomes involved with a wealthy family after he is hired to coach one of the members. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy, Tom's sister Chloe instantly falls in love with Chris but he, in his turn, has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the sweet Nola. The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. This dark, disturbing drama is written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films almost without any humor. |
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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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At his fourth summer at the Hogwarts Harry has grown into a strapping teen, his legendary scar aches more and more. Everybody in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry gets ready for the soon to be held Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire judges who will participate in the Tournament and who will not, three competitors should be selected. Suddenly the Goblet points at the fourth contestant – Harry Potter. Four magicians should stand three trials: the battle with the dragon, rescue a friend from the lake depths, and, finally, find the Goblet of fire hidden inside the labyrinth to win it. Meanwhile, Voldemort’s followers are preparing the reappear of the dark lord. |
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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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Hours after a ruinous product debut, suicidal industrial designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) learns of his father's sudden death. As the only son, Drew must travel to their small hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend to his father's memorial. On the flight to Kentucky, Drew meets Claire (Kristen Dunst), a quick-witted flight attendant, who helps him navigate the rough waters ahead and proves that amazing things happen when you least expect them. |
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Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback. |
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'Rent' tells the story based on Puccini's 'La Boheme' and on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical. It's about of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. They struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. Will this year change their lives or all the things will stay the same? Former and actual junkies, gays, computer and music geniuses are the modern day's bohemia, but did the human changed novadays? |
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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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One of the greatest Hollywood adventure stories gets the Peter Jackson's newest interpretation in this high-budget block-buster. A group of documentary filmmakers headed by Carl Denham (Jack Black) explores mysterious relict jungle somewhere upon the lost island near Sumatra in 1930s to examine how truthful the legends of the great ape Kong are. Soon they found themselves in this forest surrounded by dangerous and huge prehistoric fauna which was hidden there for millions of years. Explorers had found that King Kong is really exists in form of the 25 feet tall gorilla which can outfight any creature on Earth, even the dinosaurs inhabiting the mysterious Skull Island. Meanwhile, an actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. Adventurers manage creature capture, and bringing him to New York City for display, where Kong escapes and runs amok, finally climbing the Empire State Building. Andy Sirkis (Gollum in the Lord of The Rings) was brought in to provide the body movements and mimic for King Kong digital animation. |
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Loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the fantasy movie revolves around George (James Purefoy), a valorous English knight who returns home from the Crusades, wishing to retire from soldering and settle down to a peaceful life to enjoy marital bliss. But when he arrives at King Edgar's (Simon Callow) palace, he finds him in a state of deep grief as his adorable daughter Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo) has recently been kidnapped by a dragon. The king offers George a glut of wealth if he finds the missing girl. The knight, who wants nothing more than a small acre of land and two cows, agrees to embark on a quest to save the princess. Little does he know that an unlimited number of incredible adventures await him. |
| Sideways
[2004,
USA]
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| In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves. |
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In this comedy drama movie, failed writer Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) decides to take his longtime friend and unsuccessful TV actor (Thomas Haden Church) on a week-long tour of California's vineyards before the latter's upcoming wedding. A wine connoisseur, Miles intends to turn on his buddy to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is determined to appease his insatiable sexual thirst. However, the two hapless buddies can't foresee what awaits them and how much the trip will change their lives... |
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This is a comedy involving a group of the American filmmakers who decided to make a movie about Winston Churchille's life but missed with the casting. They find out that an actor to play the key role is a robust, unattractive cigar smoker they draw in an American G.I. as he seemed to be a better-looking actor to play the part of Churchill. A new interpretation the makers developed depicts a handsome Churchill falling in love with Princess Elizabeth, who is herself involved in the war as an undercover agent. |
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After their last big score, two master jewel thieves, Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), decide to give up their criminal careers and settle down on a paradisiacal island, hoping to relax and enjoy the fruits of their ‘labor’. However, Burdett’s nemesis, federal agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) who has spent seven years in dogged but abortive pursuit of the crafty thief, wants to make sure that the retired criminal keeps his promise. Upon arrival in the Bahamas, the suspicious agent begins to shadow Max because the Diamond Cruise ship moored to the island where they are staying happens to have the third Napoleon diamond aboard. The cat-and-mouse game begins again! Will Max steal the unique diamond? Will Stan finally catch him red-handed?
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The comedy drama tells the story of Alfie Elkins (Jude Law), a charming British limousine driver living in New York and having an extraordinary genius for seducing any beautiful woman. One day he sleeps with a well-to-do widow who yearns for touching, hugging, snuggling, caressing, etc, the next day he goes to bed with an enchanting single-mother who dotes on the philanderer. His carefree existence is threatened to come to an end when one of his mistresses, Lonette (Nia Long), becomes pregnant. Will the inveterate womanizer and convinced bachelor be able to change his lifestyle and shift his focus from women to the paternity? |
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent. |
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The early years of the famous magnate, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), are charted in this biographical chronicle where Leo DiCaprio stars. His eclectic career came through everything from oil, for which he cared little, to casinos, film, and aviation - as he turned millions of dollars into billions. His relationships with Hollywood's divas, including the elegant screen star Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett) and the sensual screen beauty Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) were also volatile. He was the incarnated mid-century icon of American wealth. Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves of the one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century and also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical phobias and disabilities, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that forces him to isolate himself from the world. |
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