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Iceland:14 certified movies
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Even a telephone kiosk can become a deadly trap when you have something to hide in connection with your dubious reputation, if you have such. A New-Yorker, journalist Steven Shepard (Colin Farrell) who used to lie to everybody from his boss to his wife and lover, picks up a receiver at a phone booth and becomes the hostage of a maniac sniper who targets him with a laser sight. This guy draws Steve out demanding a forced confession in all his lies, a confession which can cost him his job and relations with his wife. In other hand, denial will cost him his life as well as if he'd hang up the phone. Meanwhile, police forces which gathered around the booth as a passing pedestrian is injured by a maniacal shooter, consider Steve himself as a maniac, being unaware of sniper existence. For liars to notice: one should never pick up a phone ringing in a telephone booth... |
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down." |
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea, he is bullet-wounded and remember nothing. The only key to uncover his identity is a mysterious capsule which is implanted directly in his body. The digits etched on the capsule lead him to the safe deposit box where he found some documents, cash, and a weapon. Soon he meets several people, who recognize him, but some of them are aggressive and Bourne realizes he is hunted by an assassins. His combat and language skills soon emerge, as he tries to survive attempting to uncover the past with the help of Marie (Franka Potente). |
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Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more. |
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) has been at his college for seven years and can't get his diploma. He is not at all the most stupid student at college. The fact is that Van enjoys carefree collegiate life and devotes all his time and energy to throwing hilarious parties. To his dismay he discovers that his father, Vance Wilder Sr. (Tim Matheson), doesn't propose to pay his offspring's tuition. Now, Van is confronted with a dilemma: either he will pay for another year of fun by himself or he will eventually become a graduate. |
| Adaptation.
[2002,
USA]
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| Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end. |
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Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line (it is essentially a book about orchids). At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, a less talented but more joyous person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. The movie also shows Susan Orlean as she does her research for the book, and John Laroche, a colorful orchid hunter whom Susan interviews and, later, falls in love with. These stories eventually intertwine, with unpredictable results. |
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Some people are born to be heroes... The startling movie follows one of the Russian national heroes, the most famous sniper during the Second World War. It is 1942, the Stalingrad Battle: the German Army sends its master sniper, Major Koenig (Ed Harris) to the front line. This highly proficient and patient sharpshooter is the only soldier who may try to find and kill a Russian angel of death - an elusive sniper named Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law). Zaitsev is a legend and icon for defenders of Stalingrad because he kills a record number of Nazi aggressors every day. The two extraordinary skilled snipers are locked in mortal combat of wills and marksmanship. |
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What would you do if your peaceful existence was shattered by a merciless alien from a parallel universe? Wishing to become a superman, Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li), a corrupt agent from the Multiverse Bureau of Intelligence, makes a breathtaking journey from one parallel universe to another and kills other versions of himself. He gets strength and energy by killing his new victim. Nobody knows what will happen to the delicate balance of universes if Yulaw manages to annihilate all his nemesis. His nefarious dream nearly becomes a reality when there is only one counterpart left. But Gabriel Law (Jet Li), a Los Angeles police officer, has the courage to confront the unstoppably powerful Yulaw... |
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Set at the end of the XIX century in Cuba, the thriller depicts the story of dangerous, and sometimes deadly, love. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas), a wealthy coffee exporter, arranges to marry Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), an American mail-order bride who he thinks is a virgin modest woman. But when he arrives at the port to meet her, Luis discovers that she is unlike the woman whose picture she sent and gets struck by her dazzling beauty, charm and seductiveness. Happy as a king, Luis enjoys his new life. Until his love story takes an unexpected fateful turn into a labyrinth of deception, betrayal and murder...
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Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are dim-witted New Jersey sluggards who sell drugs to make pocket money. One fine day the two bosom friends discover that Miramax is making a movie which is based on their true lives and has an unflattering name "The Bluntman and Chronic". It goes without saying that this news is a floorer to them. The worst thing is that the guys have been neither notified nor feed by the creators for using their alter egos and making a laughingstock of them. Filled with indignation, Jay and Bob head to Hollywood to sabotage the production. |
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'The Mexican' is a priceless antique pistol belonging to big boss Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman) who is about to get out of jail. A small-time gangster, Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt), who has big problems with the mafia, is instructed to travel to Mexico so as to find this cursed legendary gun. What is worse is that he is at outs with his girl-friend Samantha (Julia Roberts) who demands that he break off with the mob. The problems multiply when the gun turns out to be hunted by many other bandits including two hired assassins. |
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After breaking up with his girlfriend, Priscilla (Pressly), a popular jock, Jake Wyler (Evans) makes a bet with his friends, that he can't make 'ugly girl' Janey Briggs (Leigh) into prom queen. After spending more and more time with Janey, Jake really starts to think whether he wants to keep the bet on or not. |
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A Russian scientist in Australia, Dr. Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija), who has created a skin-corroding virus called "Chimera" and its antidote called "Bellerophon", goes to the CDC in Atlanta. When renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) learns about Dr. Nekhrovich's inventions, he is intent on getting them and infecting the whole world in order to acquire the wealth and power by selling the cure. What he expects is that the price of "Bellerophon" will bump up when the public gets to know about the shocking effect of "Chimera". Ambrose kills the scientist but what he gets is only the antidote. It turns out that the prudent Dr. Nechrovich has injected himself with the deadly virus. Ambrose stops at nothing to steal the virus from Biocyte Pharmaceuticals in Sydney otherwise no one will buy the cure. The Government sends IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a mission to stop the bloodthirsty terrorist before he manages to execute his perfidious destructive plans. Ethan enlists help of his beloved, seductive adventuress Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Australian helicopter pilot Billy Biard (John Polson). Can Hunt destroy the virus and retrieve the cure to save the world from a horrible and hasty death? |
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Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is a street-smart all right. Raised in the ghetto in South Central Los Angeles, he faces up to any difficulties in life. Last Friday Craig confronted a neighborhood bully, Debo (Tommy 'Tiny' Lister), and beat him to a pulp. There are rumors that Debo is bent on escaping from prison to wreak vengeance upon Craig. So Craig's father decides to send his offspring to the suburbs to live with his cousin Day-Day (Mike Epps) and unemployed Uncle Elroy (Don "DC" Curry) who has won the lottery and lost his sense of reality. While a Latin American bombshell, Karla Joker (Lisa Rodríguez), who lives across the street, gets attracted to Craig and is desperate to capture his attention, her bloodthirsty, armed gangster brothers, Joker (Jacob Vargas), Little Joker (Lobo Sebastian) and Baby Joker (Rolando Molina), seethe with wrath. In short, there is never a dull moment for him. The main thing is to smoke dope and not to take it too seriously. |
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Il film narra di Adam Gibson, common-man con moglie e figlia, pilota di aerei a noleggio con l'amico Hank. Un bel giorno si trova coinvolto, senza volerlo e senza saperlo, in una esperienza agghiacciante creata da una megaindustria illegale di cloni umani di proprietà del perfido Michael Drucker (alla sua terza morte!), usando le ricerche del dottor Griffin Weir. Ma come è possibile? Adam è stato clonato per sbaglio. Da questo momento comincia l'inferno per il pover'uomo. Killer senza scrupoli (peraltro clonati e clonabili all'infinito) lo cercano: la clonazione umana è illegale e uno dei due Adam deve essere eliminato. Ma, questa volta, Drucker ha clonato l'uomo sbagliato! |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms. |
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