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Iceland:16 certified movies
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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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Two used car salesmen, Sid French (Joe Carnahan) and Bob Melba (Dan Leis), desperately need a large amount of money to pay off their debts. The guys can see no way out of the pickle they are in but they are unexpectedly offered an extraordinary deal. If they keep a cherry Pontiac Le Mans on their lot for two days, they will get $250,000. The buddies are fully aware that they get involved in a shady affair but, broken and driven to the wall, they see this as their only chance to get out of a financial hole and agree to keep the car. But when they smell trouble, it's too late to back up... |
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A luxurious cruise liner sets sail on its maiden voyage with many rich passengers. When sailing through the South China Sea, the ship is unexpectedly boarded by a gang of armed bandits, led by Hanover (Wes Studi), to grab jewellery and money. The mercenaries, who have taken the crew hostage, are utterly shocked to find the shattered remnants of the party and no passengers in sight. The fact is that the sea vessel has collided with a gigantic underwater object shortly before the intruders board the liner. The unknown object turns out to be a formidable sea monster which sucks the water from its preys, leaving only their skeletons. Among survivors is a gorgeous pickpocket, Trillian Jamesen (Famke Janssen), who is caught red-handed and locked up in the safe room, and the liner owner, Simon Canton (Anthony Heald). Thus begins a struggle for survival. The pirates were armed to the teeth but there are only three of them. |
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An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. The surviving team members from the first film team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monster down. |
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There was once a guy named Blade (Wesley Snipes) who had been born of an African-American mother bitten by a vampire during pregnancy. Therefore he was granted vampire’s power and man’s soul, and furthermore, he wasn’t afraid of sunlight. As a 13-year-old boy, he was adopted by Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who helped him to cope with his bloodlust by giving him a special serum and raised him as a vampire hunter. Their nemesis was Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an ambitious vampire leader who saw humans as nothing more than cattle and was bent on summoning the Blood God in order to enslave them. Willing to rid the earth of the undead, Blade and Whistler, armed with an arsenal of garlic-spiked and silver bullets, started a seemingly never ending battle against Frost and La Magra.
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Since his parents had been killed by vampires in front of his eyes, Jack Crow lives for revenge. As a grown-up, he is a fanatic vampire-hunter who works with a good team in a professional manner. One night, after the successful deletion of a nest, the master vampire Valek successfully deletes his team and the party hookers. As Valek knew Jack's name, Jack knows that the vampires are up to something big. Together with his only living colleague Tony Montoya, Katrina, a hooker who will turn into a vampire soon, and newly assigned unexperienced greenhorn priest Father Adam Guiteau he sets out to find the black cross first. If they fail, vampires can walk in the sun from then on. |
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Looking forward to enjoying an unforgettably joyful, wild vacation, two buddies, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), take a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. The former is a sportswriter who is assigned to cover a motorcycle race and a convention on drug abuse; the latter is an attorney. In an ironic twist of fate, they both are reckless dope heads who, while having their vacation, consume huge amount of mind-bending drugs and alcohol sinking deeper into a terrifying psychedelic otherworld.
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Kevin Lomax is a hotshot southern lawyer who knows how to play the game. He gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is offered a job with a law firm that promises many opportunities. He takes his wife to the Big Apple in hopes of a better life and a good job. He only finds himself on the receiving end of trouble when his boss is the Devil himself and has some treacherous plans up his sleeve for Kevin. |
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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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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. |
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Harmony Korine presents the viewer with a barrage of random vignettes depicting the lives of definitely odd yet vivid characters which make the movie unique and memorable. The main characters are Solomon (Jacob Reynolds) and Tummler (Nick Sutton), two bored teenagers living in the small shattered town of Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a devastating tornado swept through the town, dealing death and destruction along its path. Since then the teenage boys have been involved in antisocial behaviour in order to kill time. Their outrageous adventures include killing cats and selling their carcasses, sniffing glue, having sex with mentally handicapped girls, riding bikes through the mud, playing practical jokes, and meeting various queer, disturbing and depraved people. Among them is a troubled drunk man (Harmony Korine) flirting with a black midget (Bryant L. Crenshaw); a man pimping his mentally retarded sister; two boy-crazy sisters, Dot (Chloe Sevigny) and Helen (Carisa Bara), who dream of becoming strippers; Bunny Boy (Jacob Sewell), a pre-adolescent skateboarder wearing a pair of long pink ears. |
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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. |
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Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. |
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Set in 2057, the science fiction horror movie follows the flight of a rescue spaceship sent to reach the outer limits of the solar system and investigate what happened to an experimental ship called Event Horizon seven years before. The ship was designed by Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) for faster than light travel and mysteriously went missing on its maiden voyage. With its unexpected reappearance in Neptune's orbit comes even more mystery. When the astronauts board the ship, they are perplexed to find that the entire crew has vanished. They start exploring Event Horizon only to discover the terrifying truth. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
| 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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Scott Roper is a wisecracking hostage negotiator. When his friend and fellow police officer is assassinated by a dangerous jewel thief, he is prepared to do just about anything to bring the killer to justice. But as his quiet investigation progresses, he must also train an ultra smart SWAT sniper to become a negotiator just like him. |
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This political thriller tells about how the train which was to transport the russian nuclear missils was blown up by terrorists to steal the arms from aboard. When the information about what was happen reached the White House of US, now is to nuclear physics specialist (Nicole Kidman) and the US Army colonel (George Clooney) to take control over the situation. The missils are in hands of the terrorists, and these guys should be stopped at any cost.
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Mel Gibson is a New York taxi driver, who has a strange habit. He makes complicated scenarios of conspiracies and publishes them in a newsletter sent out to five recipients. He keeps doing that, until something unbelievable happens: One of his "conspiracy theories" turns out to be real, and so he finds himself chased by the man hiding behind the whole thing. |
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Eddie is an aspiring actor who gets discovered by Jack Horner, a porn director who considers his job an art form. Eddie then changes his name to Dirk Diggler and gets sucked in the lifestyle and relationships of the pornography industry of the late-1970s. |
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