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Iceland:16 certified movies
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Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business. |
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film). |
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Constantine, a supernatural detective, teams up with Angela, a skeptical policewoman to disclose the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, during her investigation Angela figures out that contemporary Los Angeles is inhabited by the world of angels and demons. Constantine was born with an ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons in human appearance, and tried to get rid of this gift committing suicide. Back from the hell against his will, sending the devil's warriors back to the depths, he hopes to earn his way to salvation. |
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is an easygoing diner owner and respectable family man who lives happily with his wife Edie (Maria Bello) and two kids, Jack (Ashton Holmes) and Sarah (Heidi Hayes), in a small Indiana town. But one night his idyll is shattered when two gun-armed robbers show up at his diner. Tom acts surprisingly bravely and smartly in this dangerous situation. Defending himself and his customers, he gives short shrift to the intruders and immediately becomes a local hero. He is interviewed and showed on TV many times, though he seems to shun reporters. Some time later, a scarred faced mobster, Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), and his two henchmen drop into Tom’s restaurant and begin addressing him as Joey Cusack, asking him questions about the old days in Philadelphia. Tom turns out to have a dark past and he is not what he pretends to be...
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Two men, encountered by chance in a hotel bar, got to see their lives altered forever: their subsequent evening together intertwines their fates in an unexpected, but lasting bond. What can a hard-drinking, womanizing hitman have in common with a traveling salesman? |
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Chechen terrorists threaten to wipe Los Angeles off the map. The lives of thousands of people are now at stake. It suddenly becomes apparent that criminals are assisted by ex-CIA agent Jonathan Cold (Steven Seagal) who is considered to be dead. The outcome of the immensely dangerous confrontation between the terrorists and Secret Intelligence Service depends on who John sides with.
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In Budapest, the ambitious diplomat and aspirant congressman of poor origin David Huxley and his fiancée of wealthy and traditional family Tish Harrington travel to a hotel in Alhambra to spend a weekend together before their marriage. In the hotel, they fantasize and have a threesome with the delicious model Risa as part of his bachelor party. When they return to their normal life, they are blackmailed with a porn video of their sexual encounter with Risa. David and Tish go to the pornographic underworld of Budapest trying to retrieve the tapes and avoid a scandal and damage in Tish's father and David's career. |
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Young energetic woman Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job as a live-in caretaker for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), an elderly stroke victim who is speechless and wheelchair bound. To make maneuvering throughout the mansion an easier task, Ben’s wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) gives the nurse a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house. One day, while exploring the rambling old house, Caroline discovers a secret room at the back of the attic. Curiosity prevails and she opens the room containing an intriguing mix of mystical items, hair, bones, blood, and spells, to name a few. Caroline soon realizes that odd, and sometimes inexplicable, things start occurring around her. The more time she spends in the hidden room, the more convinced she is that something ominous may be lurking in the mansion...
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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come en masse to destroy Earth. As they plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must come to the defense of his children. As the world must fend for itself by a new and very advanced enemy not of this world, its inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it. |
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One hundred years past since the moment of a tragedy: a ship was burned to the ground when nobody has survived. Nowadays, Nick Castle (Tom Welling), a captain in the small coastal town of Antonio Bay, finds the salvage – a bag filled with treasures. As it happens, there's a terrible secret behind the disaster, and now that Castle and Davis have unintentionally awakened the watery grave, the spirits of the ship's crew and passengers have come back to claim their revenge in the form of a thick and impenetrable fog. |
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When the Tokyo's governor is assassinated and his wife's sister is kidnapped, only the ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Seagal), vows to find the men responsible for murdering his brother-in-law and rescue the girl before it's too late. Seagal's Hunter had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza, he has former ties, allowing him to determine that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa). Hunter and his ally Mac discover a plan by Kuroda, the rising leader of a new Yakuza outfit, to build a colossal drug-dealing network and a deadly plot to detonate a nuclear device on U.S. soil. The fate of a nation in the hands of the lethal crime fighter, meanwhile Hunter finds himself drawn into the treacherous world of the yakuza in order to protect his family. |
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1928, Kentucky: over 63,000 passed away at the hands of the infectious terrible disease known as "White Plague." So a large sanatorium was built to quarantine the infected and was also used for odd experiments to discover a cure for the disease. Unable to cope with lots of corpses, authorities built a 500-foot underground tunnel to dispose of bodies and keep the public in the dark. It was called "Death Tunnel." 30 years later, a cure was found and the hospital was closed. This massive structure, the monument of Pain and Sorrow, had been abandoned and mute for decades till five college girls attending an initiation party dared spend five hours in the most horrible place on Earth.
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A young Romanian woman named Alison (Kari Wuhrer) unexpectedly finds herself charged to protect The Prophet Lexicon, an ancient religious manuscript with great supernatural powers, from a group of fallen angels called Thrones. The Thrones, led by the evil Stark (Tony Todd), are hell-bent on preventing Armageddon from occurring, and the information they seek is the identity of the Antichrist. The dark angels will stop at nothing to get hold of the book that writes itself and foretells the coming of the Antichrist, but the problem is that they can't kill a human being without God's consent. Therefore Stark hires a hitman named Dylan (Jason Scott Lee) who after an epiphany decides to help Allison. |
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Danny is an underground fighter having no education and treated by his owner like a dog. The only one thing he knows is how to fight in an illegal fight-clubs to earn money for his wicked boss. Accidentally his master gets into the car crash and Danny breaks loose. His path crosses with an old piano tuner who had lost his sight; he turns out to be the only human who treats Danny not like an animal. His kindness and his music teach Danny to be human, meanwhile the sinister boss is in search for his former slave. |
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The sportswoman Sarah loses her husband and daughter in a car crash, but she survives. One year later, her friends Beth, Rebecca, Sam and Holly, leaded by Juno, invite her to explore a deep cave in the mountains. When the expedition is about three kilometers underground, a rock collapses and blocks the access tunnel, trapping the group inside the cave. With limited supplies, they try to find a way out, but sooner they face a hunger and savage breed of predators. |
| Munich
[2005,
USA]
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| The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. |
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A powerful and thoughtful chronicle drama by Steven Spielberg rises up the questions of the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the games took a sinister turn when eight masked Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic village, killing two Israeli athletes and abducting nine others. The story follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack. Eric Bana stars as a Mossad agent tracking the Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" which were ultimately responsible for the deaths of Israelis during the tragedy. |
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While escaping from the cops after a failed toyshop robbery attempt for a Christmas present for his niece, likable small-time crook Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) finds himself fortuitously in an audition for a Hollywood detective movie. Impressed by his energy and forcefulness, the producer sends Harry to Los Angeles for a screen test where the latter meets private-eye and movie consultant Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer), also known as Gay Perry, who teaches him all the tips on how to act. At a Hollywood party Harry crosses the path with his unrequited old flame, Harmony Faith Lane (Michelle Monaghan), an aspirant actress. Harmony mistakes Harry for an actual detective and implores him to investigate her younger sister’s death. Teamed up with Gay Perry, Harry is out to solve an intricate murder case.
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Life is a minefield. One false step and there you are. How does it happen? Take, for example, Charles Schine (Clive Owen), a grand family man and commercial executive. He falls into company with charming financial analyst Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) in a commuter train. When he realizes that he doesn’t have enough money to pay for his ticket, Lucinda helps him avoid conflict with a ticket collector by paying his way. Then Charles invites her to lunch in return for her favor. They eventually develop a passionate connection and decide to go to a hotel. But no sooner have the amorous twosome torn each others’ clothes off than a violent thug, LaRoche (Vincent Cassel), storms into their room and robs them at gunpoint. He can’t seem to get enough — he beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda. Some days later, LaRoche demands lots of money, threatening to reveal their dirty secret to their families. But it appears that it’s too high a price to pay for an abortive liaison, and Charlie soon realizes that he will lose everything at one stroke unless he finds a way to outsmart the insidious LaRoche in his own game...
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In this pulse-pounding adventure movie, Chechen terrorists take over an abandoned nuclear power plant to detonate it. Unbeknownst to them, the Pentagon makes a decision to interfere secretly in their affairs in order to avert a global calamity. A highly experienced special agent nicknamed Painter (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to put a target inside the plant for an American missile strike. He and his elite team know that the plant must be destroyed before the terrorists can reach it. But events take an unexpected turn, and Painter will have to face a formidable challenge in his fight against the horde of thugs. |
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The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line. |
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