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Iceland:12 certified movies
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"Starsky & Hutch" takes place in the 70s. Two guys played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stripped of their badges, done by a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn) and totally ripped off in a disco contest. Vaughn's character is a maniacal drug lord with an absurd moustache who is prone to dramatic outbursts. So, yeah, they got some scores to settle. Driving a red and white Ford Torino and solving cases with the assistance of their informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), they investigate their latest case, and soon realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the criminal involved in their first bust. |
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Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?" |
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Former killer Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) and shy dentist Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry) return to the screen: Jimmy is still calm and sarcastic and Nicholas's is still all nerves. Nicholas's wife is kidnapped by Hungarian mobsters and he craves for Jimmy's assistance. When Jimmy gets to know that the kidnapper of Oz's wife is none other than his former classmate and rival (and also the well-known hitman), he agrees to help Nicholas leaving his usual cooking and housekeeping practice. |
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What if one day you were told that everything you knew, everything you loved, everything you remembered never really happened? The film starts out several days after a plane crash with a grieving mother, played by Moore, trying to get over the death of her son. When she finally seems to be doing better, strange forces seem to be trying to cause the children to be forgotten, and therefore giving the mother no other choice but to find out why. |
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Oppositionist Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine") defiantly criticizes the Bush administration in this documentary analysis of what happened at the day the World Trade Center was attacked and what followed. The documentary uncovers the probable relationships between President George W. Bush and the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden, and casts some light on the both-ways dependence binding the American power structures and the Saudi terrorists together. You have a rare opportunity to know the Bush Administration's ways of using the tragic event to push its own plans and to serve financial and political ambitions of the backers. |
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Legendary assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is charged with the slaughter of a Chinese vice-premiere as his calling card is found at the scene of the crime. However, the CIA is sure that he is in fact innocent of the crime. Thus, Jason Bourne is assigned to track down the killer who has assumed his own identity. His mission leads him to Russia where he faces many surprises that are typical of the country but seem strange to a foreigner. |
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Despite the fact Van Helsing was commonly a supporting hero in more than forty vampire films, now he becomes a central character. He is to assist beautiful, sword-wielding Anna who is the last descendant of vampire-fighting clan, to slay the ominous count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) having dispatched his monsters, namely the Wolf Man (Will Kemp), and Frankenstein's Monster (Shuler Hensley). Having convinced the distrustful peasants of his utility as the deliverer from the evil ones, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) comes into the fierce confrontation with three Dracula's brides, powerful and dissolute viragos who embellish the movie bringing in a spirit of the perishable lust. Considering an almost immense budget, special-effects in this movie are quite impressive along with admirable Kate Beckinsale's cute character and the handsome long-haired Hugh Jackman in his heydays. |
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Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a Baltimore firefighter who was trapped in an inferno, in a blazing high rise. His life starts flashing before his eyes as he remembers fighting his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, falling in love with a beautiful local girl (Jacinda Barrett), getting married, and having children. He also looks back on forming a close relationship with the first mentor (John Travolta), the man, who helped him realize what it takes to be firefighter. This man, the fire chief Mike Kennedy, now is to lead his rescue. |
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It's the year 2035, and the community now has the help of robots. These robots have three laws integrated into their system. One, they cannot harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, they must do whatever they're told by a human being as long as such orders don't conflict with law one. Three, they have to defend themselves as long as such defense doesn't conflict with laws one or two. One day, the writer of the three laws, Alfred Lanning, apparently jumps out of the tenth-floor window of U.S. Robotics. The majority of the Chicago Police Department believe that he committed suicide, but Detective Del Spooner (Smith), who hates robots, thinks he was murdered, and the number one suspect is a Nestor Class-5 robot who calls himself Sonny. However, if it was Sonny, then that means he would've had to have broken the three laws. With the help of Dr. Susan Calvin, Spooner must now discover the truth before it's too late. |
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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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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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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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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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Patience Philips (Halle Berry) inadvertently discoveres a sinister secret of a mammoth cosmetics company she has the misfortune to work for as a graphic designer. She learns that a new beauty product has deadly side effects. Afraid of the disclosure, George Hedare (Lambert Wilson), the mean CEO, and his cold-blooded wife Laurel (Sharon Stone), the longtime "face" of the company, decide to get rid of the unwanted employee. But she was mystically resurrected and granted superhuman powers by an Egyptian cat. With incredible feline agility, strength, speed, heightened reflexes and senses, Patience becomes Catwoman who sets out to wreak vengeance on those who murdered her. |
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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother's death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, "Large" hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he's been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he's had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life. |
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Four generations who haven't seen each other in years are brought together by the chance to face some unpleasant truths in this drama. It's a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises – some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal. Jason's wife left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach while she paints somewhere abroad, and his ailing grandfather Henry, a former archaeologist who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral being close to death. So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner, whose doubtful past includes varies from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life anymore. A little bit ponderous saga of fathers and sons from first-time writer/director Jordan Roberts. |
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In the sequel to ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), a bewitching aristocrat, archaeologist and venturesome explorer, sets out on her journey to a submerged temple called the Cradle of Life in search of the notorious Pandora's Box, a unique artifact which was considered to be the root of all evil in ancient times. Lara’s mission is finding the powerful Box before it falls into the wrong hands, namely, into the hands of Chen Lo (Simon Yam), a Chinese crime kingpin. Lo teams up with Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an ominous scientist whose malicious intent is to use the Box as weapons of mass distruction. Lara’s associate to help with the abnormally dangerous and arduous task is Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), her ex-boyfriend. While travelling around the world they visit such exotic places as Greece, Hong Kong, Kenya and Tanzania to save humanity. |
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