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Iceland:16 certified movies
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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. |
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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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| 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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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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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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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead. |
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This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy claiming to be his son from a long-ago liaison. He is a small-time drug user and street hustler (servicing both male and female clients) who is now in jail in New York. Toby's mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his abusive stepfather, whom he does not get along with. So he wants to meet his biological father. Bree wants nothing to do with the troubled teenager but her psychiatrist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) won't approve the surgery until she faces up to her past. Thus, Bree is forced to travel to New York in order to bail her son out of jail. |
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The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney's character begins dating her younger son's tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels' character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing. |
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Journalist Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) switches her professional attention from the crack junkies to the strange cenobites who practice murder-and-resurrection ceremonies possessing some unknown mystic power; resurrected humans evidently become zombies. Soon Amy gets involved in the malevolent experiments with the afterlife, when she found Marla (Georgina Rylance), a member of the mystic society, dead with a puzzle cube grasped in her hands. Amy’s journey to hell begins when she takes the cube to her hotel room and opens it. |
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This movie is based on the TV Series "Firefly". "SERENITY" takes place 500 years in the future when the crew of a small transport ship takes on odd and sometimes criminal assignments. A small, eclectic crew of the ship is squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal to its captain, Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion). When he takes two new passengers onboard - a young doctor and his unstable, telepathic sister, he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, who will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew must defend the entrance to a galaxy-wide broadcasting station while the captain, Mal, tries to tell the worlds the truth behind the mysterious deaths on planet Miranda. |
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In this obscure and Gothic tale, adapted from David Lloyd's graphic novel, one attractive girl, Evey gets involved accidentally in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a masked and megalomaniac character, V. V is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes, a sort of terrorist of the XVII century, who wanted to blow up the English Parlament in London. However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings. Evey will be chased by the secret police, thinking that she's the accomplice of V, who will accomplish Fawkes' mission of destroying the Parlament on the 5th of November, in this mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, George Orwell's 1984 and Batman. |
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After the young woman found murdered, several senior school students start to spread the online rumors about the serial killer Cry_Wolf is on the loose. Pulling everybody's leg, guys start to describe the next victims, the game is to see how many people they can convince - and if anyone will uncover the lie. To their horror, the new murders are soon to be, and slaughtered are just the very people they described. |
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Widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to do his best for his traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to get over the loss of her mother (Amy Irving). However, the little girl needs far more care and attention than her loving and solicitous father can lavish on her. And Emily finds comfort in her imaginary friend Charlie with whom she enjoys playing hide-and-seek. At first, David sees this make-believe friendship as a good way for his kid to experience positive emotions. But when 'Charlie' begins making Emily commit weird, and sometimes mad, acts, David calls his colleague Katherine (Famke Janssen) for assistance.
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