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Netherlands:16 certified movies
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After having served a 6-year sentence for car theft, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is about to go at large. His cellmate and best buddy Nick Cassidy (James Frain) is to be released from prison the same day but he is suddenly killed during a prison mutiny with only three days left to serve. Rudy makes up his mind to assume his dead cellmate's identity to start a relationship with his gorgeous pen pal, Ashley Mercer (Charlize Theron). Rudy, however, is unaware that Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and his gang of thugs plot to rob a gambling casino in Michigan where Nick used to work, thus, Ashley is just tempting bait for Nick to be trapped into an armed heist on Christmas Eve. And now this seemingly funny idea of pretending to be Nick can cost Rudy his life. |
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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on. |
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Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has an uncanny ability to foresee when and where the Grim Reaper's axe will fall next. When Alex and schoolmates take a flight to Paris for a French class trip, he has a deadly premonition of the plane bursting into flames. Scared and anxious about their safety, he begs the passengers to get off the plane. As a result, there are seven students to follow Alex. Before they have time to regret skipping the flight to Paris, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. The survivors try to understand how he has been able to foretell the crash. Some people are attracted by his grant, others are terrified. Alex is soon haunted by dreadful omens, and when his friends start dying one by one, he comes to a conclusion that you can't cheat the Death. |
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While "Stab 3" is in production, somebody in a ghost mask starts to murder the new cast members. This lures Sidney out from hiding deep in the woods where she lives, and she comes to Hollywood to face the killer for the final act. |
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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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A Russian scientist in Australia, Dr. Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija), who has created a skin-corroding virus called "Chimera" and its antidote called "Bellerophon", goes to the CDC in Atlanta. When renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) learns about Dr. Nekhrovich's inventions, he is intent on getting them and infecting the whole world in order to acquire the wealth and power by selling the cure. What he expects is that the price of "Bellerophon" will bump up when the public gets to know about the shocking effect of "Chimera". Ambrose kills the scientist but what he gets is only the antidote. It turns out that the prudent Dr. Nechrovich has injected himself with the deadly virus. Ambrose stops at nothing to steal the virus from Biocyte Pharmaceuticals in Sydney otherwise no one will buy the cure. The Government sends IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a mission to stop the bloodthirsty terrorist before he manages to execute his perfidious destructive plans. Ethan enlists help of his beloved, seductive adventuress Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Australian helicopter pilot Billy Biard (John Polson). Can Hunt destroy the virus and retrieve the cure to save the world from a horrible and hasty death? |
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FBI agent Joel Campbell (James Spader) spent over five years chasing a cunning serial killer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves). Frustrated and all to pieces after many years of a fruitless search, Campbel can hardly comprehend the maniac's perverted logic and goes into retirement. He moves to Chicago in the hope of finding peace of mind and beginning a new life. Nothing seems to prevent him from making a clean break with his terrible past. But some months later, murder wave swamps Campbell's new hometown. This is undoubtedly the handiwork of David Griffin who decides to play a sadistic cat-and-mouse game with Campbell and mails him photos of his soon-to-be victims. Campbell must stop the gruesome killer by all means otherwise he will be Griffin's final victim. |
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Set in the near future after a massive earthquake splits California into a desert island, Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren), a US army captain, Lucky Simcoe (Joe Michael Burke), a marine sergeant, and seductive Sarah McBride (Sherri Alexander), an air force captain, join forces to find food, water, and fellow survivors and start building a new world upon the ruins of the civilization. However, among survivors are not only law-abiding citizens but convicts as well. |
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Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a schizophrenic serial killer who abducts young attractive women and encloses them in a glass cell hidden in the basement of an abandoned facility. Then he turns on a shower and videotapes how the cell is being filled with water for 40 hours and his victims are slowly going mad and drowning. The maniac attaches chains to steel rings that pierce his flesh and views the footage while hanging under the ceiling. It's a tough task for the police to bring the killer to justice. After the most recent abduction the police finally track him down. Unfortunately, Carl suffers a seizure and falls into an irreversible coma. Time is short and the location of his latest victim is unknown. When FBI Agent Peter Novak hears about Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), a psychotherapist experimenting with a unique way of entering the mind of comatose patients, he decides to enlist her help to get the information he needs. Using her incredible skills, Catherine travels into the killer's mind and finds it to be a bizarre, abstract, violent and scary world. It's easy to enter this world but it's almost impossible to get out of it... |
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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy? |
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He is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel). He is a stranger to fear. More than once he has been within hair's breadth of death. This time fortune doesn't smile upon him: the dangerous escaped criminal is being caught, shackled and headed for a new prison in a large cargo spacecraft. After being damaged in a meteor storm, the spaceship crash-lands on a seemingly desolate distant planet. As a matter of fact, there is life on the eerie planet. Nasty carnivorous creatures dwelling in the subterraneans come out onto the surface and start seeking for flesh and blood, as three suns set and the planet plunges into pitch-darkness. The spaceship crash survivors – Riddick's captor William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), a Muslim Imam (Keith David ) with his three sons, Sulieman (Les Chantery), Hassan (Sam Sari) and Ali (Firass Dirani), a young stowaway, Jack (Rhiana Griffith), an antiquary, Paris P. Ogilvie (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), and two Australian settlers, Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery (Claudia Black) and John "Zeke" Ezekiel (John Moore) – have hope for the criminal Riddick who can see in the dark owing to an illegal prison surgery. Riddick get into a terrible fight with the vicious monsters so as to survive and leave the planet from whose bourn no traveller returns... |
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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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In 2050 resources of the Earth are depleted and the human race is threatened with extinction. American astronauts make the first expedition to Mars to investigate it for possible liveable conditions. The next mission is to make the red planet suitable for human colonization with the help of a multitask robot "AMEE". All goes well until the crew faces a tough challenge: the robot is damaged and transforms into a killer machine. The three survivors, Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), Robby Gallagher (Val Kilmer) and Dr. Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore), try desperately to escape from the attacking robot. But there is more to it than that. Though the red planet seems to be desert, in fact, there is life on it... |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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After the yakuza clan is annihilated in a bloody war, the sole survivor, Aniki Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano), flies from Tokyo to Los Angeles so as to find his long lost younger brother, Ken (Kuroudo Maki), a smalltime drug dealer. In America he is confronted with an alien, menacing world where crime lords have engaged in a fierce and merciless battle for domination. Ruled by the yakuza code of honor, Yamamoto takes over the LA underworld. |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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The plot centres on a huge diamond stolen from the Orthodox Jewish diamond district in Antwerp by a gang of armed robberies. The diamond's thief and courier, Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) must deliver the valuable gem to his crime boss, "Cousin Avi" (Dennis Farina) in America. First he travels to England to give smaller stones to Avi's cousin, Doug "The Head" (Mike Reid) and other local Hatton Garden jewelers. But instead, hapless Franky is drawn into the whirlpool of rather undesirable events. In London he can't help placing a bet on an illegal boxing bout by Boris "The Blade" (Rade Serbedzija) who proves to have taken him over - local pawnshop owners Vincent (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James), along with their getaway driver, Tyrone (Ade) waylay and rob him at the bookies. As expected, the diamond goes missing. When bad news reaches Avi's ears, he blows off and rushes with a legendary hit man, 'Bullet Tooth' Tony (Vinnie Jones), to London to find Franky and the missing stone. Moreover, the priceless gem is hunted by cunning Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt), morose Brick Top (Alan Ford) and many other miscreants, each of whom strives to hit the jackpot. |
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On March 5th 1873, two Scandinavian women living on the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. The first woman was hacked by an ax, the second one was beaten and strangled. The third woman, Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), managed to survive by hiding in a sea cave. Later she identified the murderer to the police. It was Louis Wagner (Ciarán Hinds) who was condemned to be hanged for his crimes. A century later, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Thomas Janes (Sean Penn), his wife, Jean (Catherine McCormack), a photojournalist, his stepbrother, Rich Janes (Josh Lucas), and Rich's girlfriend, Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley), travel to the same Isles on a yacht. Jean doesn't spend time only enjoying the sea and the sun but investigating the mysterious double homicide. The storyline shifts between the present and the past as the two different narratives of Maren's life, the eyewitness of the murder, and Jean's seemingly perfect life, interweave in the suspenseful movie. |
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Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a cocaine addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code. |
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Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders. When not playing happy families with his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - and his children, Lynch is busy plotting elaborate heists, thinking as much about the showmanship of it all as he is the loot involved. On his case is Garda Noel Quigley, his determination to convict Lynch slowly turning into an obsession. Inevitably, a showdown looms. |
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