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Iceland:16 certified movies
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"The Believer" explores a Jewish student's private journey to understand the meaning of Judaism in his life. Set in New York City, the Plot follows a morally confused young adult struggling with the conflict between his beliefs and his heritage. "The Believer" examines themes of religion, family, and self-loathing. It is a psychological examination into the forces of intolerance, both on the individual and society as a whole. |
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Orion Boyd (Steven Seagal), an intractable Detroit cop, whose uncompromising approach to domestic terrorism and corruption causes him a lot of trouble, takes efforts to stop a gang rule in the most dangerous district of Detroit. When 50 kilos of heroin are stolen from Piper Tech’s main vault, Boyd teams up with a drug kingpin, Latrell Walker (DMX), to crush a lethal conspiracy.
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The life of Miguel Piñero (Benjamin Bratt), a cult Puerto Rican playwright, poet and actor, is portrayed in the movie. Born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, he grew up in the slums of New York City. Before he reached the age of 20, he had been sunk in vice. He was a drug addict with a long criminal record but his talent gave him a chance to give up a reckless way of life. He achieved fame by writing his first play "Short Eyes" which was nominated for six Tony Awards and won two of them. He co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café, created the spoken-word poetry, wrote five plays and played some small movie roles. However, he continued to be a drug addict and was in love with a woman of pleasure. Bohemian lifestyle was his passion; risk was second nature to him. He was a New York idol who preferred walking on the razor's edge. |
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The future seems bright for Kevin Burke (Ulrich), a security expert for the large multi-national company Jorgensen Financial. He's just been promoted and is about to propose marriage to his girlfriend Rosalind (Catherine Orr). But that all changes when Rosalind is murdered before his eyes by a professional hitman. While tracking down her killers Kevin finds himself chased by mob hit-woman Tessa (Kristy Swanson), his co-workers Junior (Antonie Kamerling) and Mr Ficks (Serge Henri Valcke) and the police (Thom Hoffman). Burke's mentor and employer Karl Jorgensen (Derek de Lint), enigmatic though supportive, seems to hold the key to the mystery. |
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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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In the early 1990s the Civil War raged in Somali. The resulting humanitarian crisis carried away more than 300 thousand innocent civilians. The nation starved to death as the troops of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the leader of the major belligerent faction, were taking the food sent by the United Nations Organization. The U.S. made a decision to send peacekeeping force to the capital city of Mogadishu in order to break down Aidid's resistance and kill him. On October 3, 1993, they planned to capture two top lieutenants of the mutinous warlord. Army Rangers and Delta Force entered the city on a mission that was supposed to take about an hour. However, things got out of kilter from the very beginning of the operation... |
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A rookie cop named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) starts working in the Los Angeles Police Department's undercover narcotics unit. Jake is trained by a corrupt veteran officer Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), who excels the most inveterate criminals in perfidy and brutality. Fighting with the very dregs of the population, Harris keeps neither laws nor morals. He lives by the maxim: "One must howl with the wolves." At the end of his first workday idealistic Jake is confronted with the moral dilemma whether he will obey the rules of his partner or make a stand against them. |
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A self-reliant and attractive woman, Tess (Melissa Crider), meets a handsome guy, Jim Beckett (Tim Abell), the man of her dreams. After a whirlwind romance they get married, and Tess’s happiness unexpectedly flies out of the window. The shocked woman gets to know that her husband is a cruel sadist with the mysterious past. When it turns out that Jim is determined to kill anybody who will stand up for his wife, Tess seeks help from self-defense trainer J.T. Dillon (Mark Dacascos). However, it soon becomes clear that one can stop a murderous maniac only taking extreme measures. |
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Femme fatale Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) knows how to use her beauty and body to twist men round her little finger. One night at a bar called McCool's, bartender Randy (Matt Dillon), Detective Dehling (John Goodman), and lawyer Carl Harding (Paul Reiser) meet the seductive Jewel who turns their heads and ruins each of their lives by making them break the law. |
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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 group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick (Sean Bean), and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy). Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. |
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It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask. From here the story follows a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between bank robber and former cop Parker (James Spader) and small-town police officer Ray DeCarlo (David Keith) determined to catch him. Parker doesn't help himself by holing up with a nurse who happens to be DeCarlo's former wife. Throw in a rookie FBI agent, Indians who want their money back, some former friends of Parker who are not so friendly anymore and his fate seems sealed. |
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Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Mac (Steve Lemme), Farva (Kevin Heffernan) and Foster (Paul Soter) are wild and lazy Vermont state troopers who enjoy playing pranks at stoned speeders to kill time. However, when serious budget cuts threaten their livelihood, the guys are determined to become admirably industrious and hyperactive. To impress their superior officers and save their jobs, the troopers make an attempt to solve a murder or uncover a drug smuggling ring. |
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Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a renowned university research scientist, and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired concert cellist, are a seemingly happily married couple. Their family life runs smoothly until Claire's daughter, Caitlin (Katharine Towne) goes off to college and the Spencers move into a lakeside house in Vermont that once belonged to Norman's father. Their new neighbors, Mary (Miranda Otto) and Warren Feur (James Remar), always make quarrels. One rainy night Claire sees Warren taking a carpet out of the house and putting it in the trunk of his car. When Mary abruptly disappears, Claire realizes that these two events are closely related to each other and begins seeing spectral images and hearing mysterious voices everywhere. At first she thinks it is her neighbor's wraith which is haunting her, but Mary then turns up alive. However, a mysterious woman's ghost keeps haunting Claire, and Norman suspects that his frightened wife experiences hallucinations as a consequence of an accident when Claire's car smashed into a tree a year ago. But the ghost (Amber Valletta) soon tells Claire a dreadful secret which is being carefully kept by her husband. |
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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
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Jim Mitchell (Emilio Estevez) and his younger brother Artie (Charlie Sheen) dream of becoming new "Warner Bros" and producing highly artistic porno movies. Artie acts as a generator of ideas, meanwhile Jim is a producer and a financier. Having purchased and reconditioned an old movie theater in San Fransisco, the brothers transform it into a smut studio. When their movies make a huge success and lead the brothers to fame and wealth, Jim and Artie can no longer suppress their vicious propensities. They start spending more and more money on drugs and tend to engage in reckless orgies. |
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Everyone knows that police detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is the toughest and smartest cop in New York City. He is one of those people who are ready to work themselves to the bone to fight for justice. This time Shaft is out to put away a spoiled preppie, Walter Wade (Christian Bale), who killed a young black student. Shaft arrests the perpetrator but he is soon set free on 200-thousand dollars bail and escapes to Switzerland. Two years later, Wade secretly returns to the United States and gets a bust. When Wade's father (Philip Bosco), a wealthy tycoon, posts a million dollars bail for his son once again, Shaft throws his badge and leaves police to lead his personal vendetta against Wade. Teamed up with his eye-catching fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), Shaft must find barmaid Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), who was an eye witness to the racially-motivated murder. Meanwhile, Wade asks his cellmate Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a Dominican drug lord, to kill the only witness of his crime. Hernandez, in his turn, gives a graft to two corrupt officers to find the girl. |
| Shadow Hours
[2000,
USA]
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| Just when you think you've seen it all you realize you haven't seen a thing |
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Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) leads a cut-and-dried life working as a nightshift attendant in a gas station and trying hard to make a clean break with his past filled with alcohol and drugs. His pregnant wife, Cloe (Rebecca Gayheart), supports him but his boring job and effort to give up his addictions drive him bonkers. But a mysterious stranger who once stops at the station unexpectedly enters Michael's life. Under the pretence of Los Angeles nightlife research for his new novel, the charismatic Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller) seduces the gullible and susceptible Holloway to plunge into sinful pleasures of nightbars, stripclubs, fight clubs and S&M dungeons... However, Michael soon begins to suspect his new buddy to be a psychopath and even a serial killer. |
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This modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells about two rival crime families. These are African-American and Chinese gangs struggling for power over Oakland. When Chinese crime lord's son Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is murdered, bad news reaches his older brother Han Sing (Jet Li), an ex-cop who without a second thought breaks out of a Hong Kong prison to track down Po's killers and avenge his death. In the United States while investigating the murder, Han meets Trish O'Day (Aaliyah), the rival ganglord's daughter who wants nothing to do with her father (Delroy Lindo) or his shady business. Han and Trish fall in love with each other and team up to continue the search for justice. |
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Six friends - Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams), Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) - are being stalked by a serial killer. A serial killer that is after them because of an accident that they caused last Halloween. A serial killer that seems to have come out of every other scary movie. The body count's already started with Drew Decker (Carmen Electra), the local town slut, and it's starting to build up. The friends are going to have to escape from both the killer's clutches and annoying news reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) if they plan on living to the sequel... |
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