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Iceland:16 certified movies
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There's a serial bomber loose in Boston, and he has killed Blanket, a member of Boston's bomb squad and the best friend of explosives expert Jimmy Dove. Dove has just retired from the bomb squad to marry a violinist named Kate, who has an 11-year-old daughter named Elizabeth. Haunted by grisly flashbacks, Dove soon figures out the identity of the bomber -- Irish explosives expert Ryan Gaerity, a man who is so radical in his views that even the IRA wants nothing to do with him. Gaerity has escaped from the maximum security Castle Gleigh prison in Ireland, using a bomb made from ingredients that include blood, wool, and a porcelain toilet. Gaerity has fled to Boston, where he saw Dove, who had just disarmed a bomb planted in the Harvard computer lab, painted as a reluctant hero on TV. Gaerity was furious: it's because of Dove that he's spent years in prison. Dove was born Liam McGivney, and he used to be a naive Irish patriot. Gaerity recruited him and taught him to build bombs, and Gaerity conceived a terrorist plan that went terribly wrong. Liam helped Gaerity build a bomb, then he realized that Gaerity intended to detonate it on a crowded street. Liam tried to stop Gaerity from detonating the bomb, but bomb device went off, killing a lot of people, including Gaerity's sister. Liam escaped from Ireland and made his way to America, where he changed his name to Jimmy Dove. Gaerity was arrested, tried, and imprisoned until his escape. Gaerity, who has now taken up residence in an abandoned gambling ship called the Dolphin, has decided to get revenge on Dove, and Gaerity started terrorizing the bomb squad by killing Blanket. Now, Dove is the only one who can stop Gaerity. |
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This tough action is set among the beautiful and dangerous Rocky mountains. One scumbag played by John Lithgow had stolen millions of dollars, but during the action on the board of the plane the suitcase full of money falls down onto the rocky, forest-covered slopes. There, in the land of ice and snow, Gabe Walker (Stallone), an alpinist, searches for the 5 men who had lost after the huge avalanche. When the paths of Stallone's tough guy and the offenders cross, the action begins! Bandits are armed to the teeth, but Walker has an ice-axe, bravery and good alpine skills. |
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The devil in disguise comes to a quiet, peaceful town and opens a store called Needful Things. The store has an item for everyone in town. All the devil asks for in return is a few dirty pranks. Little do they know, that they've sold their souls, and the pranks escalate to murder... |
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Marine sergeant named Thomas Beckett (Berenger) and the civil shooting champion known as Richard Miller (Zane) conjoin to liquidate the rebels' leader somewhere in the Panama, in the heart of the wild jungle. When being instructed by their mastermind, Zane's sniper obtains an order to kill his colleague (Berenger) if this man will fail the mission. This intense and extremely brutal film tells about the archetypical "father-son" conflict and the struggle between the fear and the call of duty. |
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When blood is shed like water and there is nothing cheaper than human life, you have to be able to speak the language of violence in order to survive. Three cousins, Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego), learnt this law of life when kids. The guys grew up together in East Los Angeles but chose different paths to walk upon. Miklo was convicted of murder and sent to prison where he joined the Chicano Mafia. Cruz, who showed great promise as an artist, became a heroin addict. Paco chose a career in law enforcement. Their paths seemed to have diverged forever. But one day mean streets lead to one place where former friends meet again as bitter enemies. |
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God. |
| Bronx Tale, A
[1993,
USA]
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| One man lives in the neighborhood, another man owns it. A devoted father battles the local crime boss for the life of his son. |
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Calogero Anello is a 9-year old child living in the Bronx - notorious for gangster bars, racist people and aggressive nature. Calogero witnesses a shooting in the street involving local big shot gangster, Sonny (Chazz Palimentri), but refuses to grass him to the police. Sonny grows fond of the child and begins to teach him how things are conducted on streets. Calogero's father (Robert DeNiro) is a working man who wants his child to grow up and make his money honestly, and does not want him to mix with Sonny. Despite his father's disapproval, for eight years he continues to see Sonny, and receives a 'street' education from him. Despite being a gangster, Sonny loves Calogero and teaches him that being a gangster is too risky and dangerous. However Calogero misinterprets Sonny's message, and still gets involved with racist fights with his friends. Things get worse when he falls in love with a black girl. This story of the Bronx, as a child grows up with two educations, one from school and one from the street. As the child grows closer to a gangster, he begins to grow away from his family. |
| Point of No Return
[1993,
USA]
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| The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back. |
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If you like Luc Besson's "Nikita", you will maybe found this movie at least noteworthy, if not - perhaps you will enjoy it anyway because it's just another look at the same story of the young girl played by Bridget Fonda who became an offender and was sentenced then (the story is almost the same except an ending, it differs from "Nikita"). She killed the police officer during the armed robbery in which she took a part. Then she was enlisted by government to execute some covert and dangerous missions which involve dynamic and brutal action and style. |
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The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can unfathom the secret of the tommyknockers. |
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived. |
| Fugitive, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. |
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This double-Oscar-nominated movie is a detective story where a woman, Helen Kimble (Sela Ward), is killed, she was the wife of a well-known surgeon named Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford). The doctor gets arrested being accused of murder, but he escapes from the judgment and tries to find the real murderer being persecuted by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a detective. |
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USA, 1871. The Civil war is just finished, and the various scum - robbers, murderers, thieves - along with farmers and gold-diggers are in search for easy money. This legend is about sheriff Erby who had quitted his job to live with his family. His friend Dock Holiday, a gambler, has made the same decision and to live normal civil life. They decided to settle in Tombstone, a town where the silver field was found. At the same time, a ragtag band operates there and an all-out war begins between the heroes and the bandits. |
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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style. |
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This movie became the real classic superhit between the other action-style films. John Spartan (Stallone) has the deadly foe: his name is Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), and Spartan hunts him down for two years. When Simon takes 30 persons hostage, the building gets blown up during the all-out battle between the cop and the offender. Due to the fact that his efforts was taken for carelessness and the people were killed, Spartan gets accused and sentenced to serve 70 long years in a cryogenic camera. After the penitentiary period (already in the future) Spartan should acquire some peaceful skills such as knitting and cooking, but accidentally he gets to know that Simon is still alive and dangerous. More, Spartan is the only man who can stop this recidivist because all serious crimes and criminals are eradicated in the described future and there is no cop who can struggle against the offender. |
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito's associates cannot seem to leave him in peace...his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for "favours" which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss. |
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Frank Horrigan (Klint Eastwood) heads the Secret Service in this police detective when a dangerous maniac (John Malkovich) intends to kill the President of the USA. When this movie was filmed, Eastwood was 63, but his maniac-catching efforts display his vigourosity very evidently along with his interest in a beautiful police woman - Secret Service agent Lilly Raines (Rene Russo). John Malkovich is playing the maniac perfectly, embodying the evil mind of an ex-CIA agent. |
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The crime drama chronicles the coming of age of four boyhood friends, Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins), in the violent, mafia-controlled streets of Harlem. The teens flitter away their time skipping school, playing pranks and doing mischief to their neighbors, getting in fights and shoplifting. Things seem to be going 'well' but their lives take an unexpected turn after they get involved in a grocery store robbery which goes horribly wrong. |
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In the third film of "The Evil Dead" series, our gun-toting, chainsaw-handed hero, Ash (Bruce Campbell), has been transported to the 13th century where he has been prophesied as the one who will find the Necronomicon, the Book of the Dead, and deliver the people from the terrors of the Deadites, who quest for the book, too. But he is mistaken as a spy from a rival kingdom and forced to fight two Deadites before the people find out what he is here for. He also falls for a woman named Sheila (Embeth Davidtz) before he searches for the book. But after finding it, he says the wrong words that will allow the wisemen to use the book to send him back and stop the Deadites and accidentally awakens the Army of the Dead, led by his clone, Evil Ash. Now, Ash must use his 20th century wits and skills to beat Evil Ash and his army of skeletons. |
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A rock group arrives onboard of the Missouri battleship which is soon to be decommissioned, and the party is to be held to celebrate the occassion. But several nuclear missiles still are on the ship; it turns out to be that the rockers are none other than disguised terrorists, and these guys do their best to take control over Missouri. Captain is killed, Government turns upside-down as the mercenaries begin to threaten with the nuclear attack. But onboard is Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal). He is a cook, but his military skills are not forgotten, moreover, his tactics and strategy can destroy every one of his foes. Captain was his good friend, so the terrorists are doomed all to a man. Somewhere onboard hides a Playboy's supermodel, which was to perform a strip-dance during the celebration; she is also to be rescued and taught how to make an explosive using a common cocoa butter and other (at first site harmless) components. This action thriller became a classic of the genre. |
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In 1757 England fight a bitter war with France for domination of the North American colonies. Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and Alice (Jodhi May), two daughters of Colonel Edmund Munro (Maurice Roëves), try to penetrate a British fort besieged by the French troops. A valorous young white frontiersman named Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) comes to their rescue. And soon a torrid romance between Hawkeye, the adopted son of the Mohican Chingachgook (Russell Means), and the refined Cora begins. When Cora and her sister are taken captive by allies of France, jugular Huron warriors, only Hawkeye and his faithful Indian friends can save them... |
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