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Iceland:14 certified movies
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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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Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a father and a husband, suddenly finds out that he does not want to live his quiet and correct life any longer. He finds himself falling deeper and deeper into the hopeless depression, struggling against a mid-life crisis that affects his relations with the family. Burnham's rebelling daughter Jane (Thora Birch) hates him. His bitchy wife (Annette Bening) can't bear his new manner of living at his own taste. Eventually, he becomes to be obsessed by a viciously innocent and cute school-mate (Mena Suvari) of his daughter. Meanwhile, Jane meets a strange boy next door, whose warlike military father is obsessed by homophobic spirits. The movie is really touching, dramatic and poetically aesthetic, focusing attention at the social life disharmony and the delicate beauty surrounding us. |
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Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) calls three insomniac volunteers, Eleanor Vance (Lili Taylor), Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Luke Sanderson (Owen Wilson), to participate in a sleep disorder study which is supposed to take place in a huge sinister deserted mansion with a terrifying past. It was built 130 years ago by a textile tycoon, Hugh Crain (Charles Gunning), for his beautiful wife Carolyn (Hadley Eure) and his kids who died aborning and now haunt their house. The research subjects soon are shocked to discover that they are actually selected for an experiment on human fear.
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Young ambitious guy Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, knew that he would manage to climb the social ladder some day. And that day dawned when Tom happened to meet Mr. Greenleaf (James Rebhorn), a shipping tycoon, who mistook him for a Princeton student and a fellow of his son Dickie (Jude Law). Herbert Greenleaf paid Ripley $1,000 plus expenses so that he could travel to Italy to persuade his spoiled, shallow and wayward son living a carefree life with his father's money to return to America. Tom was undoubtedly talented: he was well-read and smart, was good at playing the piano, forging handwriting, and impersonating voices and manners of other people. On arrival in Italy, Tom, a real chameleon, ingratiated himself with Dickie and his fascinating girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), and was soon accepted into their inner circle. He was attracted to the impetuous handsome Dicki and charmed by the privileged lifestyle. But Ripley's deep-seated dissatisfaction with his own background, life of poverty and his being a real nobody began gnawing at him and his growing desire to maintain the new wealthy lifestyle was an overpoise to his judgement. So Ripley came up with a perfidious, cruel plan to kill Greenleaf and assume his identity.
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A team of research scientists in the off-shore laboratory Aquatica are running experiments on sharks, trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Unbeknownst to her colleagues, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), whose father suffered from this fatal illness, breaks ethical codes, genetically re-engineering the DNA of mako sharks to increase the brain size and obtain more cancer-battling enzymes. Unfortunately, the experiment also makes the sharks larger, stronger, more intelligent and aggressive. When financial backer Russell Franklin (Samuel L.Jackson), who is skeptical about the tests, threatens to close down the project, the team performs a demonstration experiment removing brain tissue from the largest shark. The test is successful, but then things go wayward: the shark subject unexpectedly awakes and tears Jim Whitlock's (Stellan Skarsgеrd) arm off. The scientists call a rescue helicopter but it crashes into the station during a tropical storm. The newly smart killer-sharks decide to make the most of the situation and sink the station in order to escape into the sea.
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U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer. |
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Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life working as a hitman for his crime boss Paris (Avery Brooks) and maintaining two relationships, one with his unsuspecting Jewish fiancee Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate), and another with a gold-digging, hypocritical mistress Chantel (Lela Rochon). Unbeknownst to their boss, Mel and his teammates, Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), Vince (Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Gump (Robin Dunne), decide to take an independent job for extra money and kidnap Keiko Nishi (China Chow), the daughter of a Japanese tycoon. In an ironic twist of fate, Jiro Nishi (Sab Shimono), whose business has recently gone burst, can’t pay a ransom of $1,000,000 for the release of his teenage daughter. Furthermore, Keiko proves to be the godkid of their powerful boss Paris, who orders his huge cohort to discover and send the captors to kingdom come. On top of it all, Mel falls for his kidnaping victim.
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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old. |
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Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), also known as The Dude, is an unemployed middle-aged Los Angeles ex-hippie with a consuming passion for drinking, bowling and drugs. A carefree slacker, he devotes all his time to preparing for bowling competitions against his quirky, faithful buddies, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and Theodore Donald Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi). His happy life runs smoothly in its ordinary grooves until one day two fierce thugs break into his house and mistake him for his namesake, an old crippled millionaire (David Huddleston) whose wife Bunny (Tara Reid) owes money to their boss, Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara). The simple case of mistaken identity draws the Dude into a hopelessly complex kidnaping plot.
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. |
| Postman, The
[1997,
USA]
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| It is 2013. War has crippled the Earth. Technology has been erased. Our only hope is an unlikely hero. |
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This anti-utopia tells about the war-ravaged world where the violence and banditism hold few remaining people at bay. Kevin Costner's hero becomes a postman of the new incipient world, trying to join people of the former US against the tyranny of general Betlehem (Patton). The final showdown depicts the battle between the forces of General and the troops of the new-born Freedom army.
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A pair of comic book painters named Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee), who live in New Jersey, are best friends for about 20 years. They spend their time working in their studio, and in the evenings they are going out. But their friendship is about to be disputed for the first time in their life, when a beautiful young lesbian woman named Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams) enter their life and Holden fall in love with her. Now Holden has to deal with Banky's jealous, and with his new girlfriend's very rich pass. |
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After an AWAC crew has been held hostage by the North Koreans for six months, the U.S. President Jack Neil is about to give the order to attack the communistic country. Meantime, the nude corpse of a young female staffer is found in a White House restroom. Homicide detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to investigate the murder. When he shows up in the White House, he meets the wall of silence as the Secret Service, headed by Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), are unwelcoming of the interloper into what they consider a local matter. They conceal all the evidence to avoid a political scandal because the list of suspects includes the President himself and his son Kyle (Tate Donovan). However, Regis enlists the aid of Secret Service Agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane) to unlock the dark secrets of the crime scene. |
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American Special Forces arrest Russian General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow) who has taken over Kazakhstan and set up a dictatorship that has resulted in the death of thousands of people. James Marshall (Harrison Ford), the President of the USA, visits Moscow and makes a speech on the USA's get-tough policy with regard to the dictatorial regime and terrorism. On the flight back to Washington, a group of Russian nationalists disguised as newspaper reporters and led by the Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) seize the plane and take the passengers hostage. They want the President to release General Radek from prison and threaten to kill the hostages unless their demands are met. Everybody is sure that the President manages to escape from the plane in an emergency capsule. However, Marshall, a combat hero in the Vietnam War, considers it to be his duty to stay on board to rescue the hostages and regain control of the plane. |
| Amistad
[1997,
USA]
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| Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. |
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Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling towards the New World in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been captured, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing the Atlantic, Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release. |
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Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a 44-year old flight attendant, used to augment her modest income by smuggling - until the day she was caught right at the airport. Under the threat of being sent to jail she agrees to help the agents to trap the gun dealer Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson). Eventually, the witty lady comes up with an almost impeccable plan to play off the struggling forces - the cops and the criminals - against each other and misappropriate a half million dollar. So will Jackie be able to outfox everybody? |
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When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O'Niel is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong. |
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