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Netherlands:16 certified movies
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The paranoid thriller centers on Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), an average man who has dearly loved wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) and teenage son Robin (Logan Lerman) and works as a dog-catcher. His perfectly ordered life starts to unravel when he gets a red-covered detective book, The Number 23, for his birthday. Walter becomes absorbed in reading the novel, and the deeper he gets into the plot, the more convinced he is that the book bears similarities to his own life. The only difference between the book and Walter’s life is that the story doesn’t have a happy ending. Walter suspects the murder to take place in reality and becomes obsessed with the idea of uncovering a mystery that drives him mad.
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The suspense thriller focuses on Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg), a top Marine Corps scout sniper who has retired from the service after a routine mission ended in failure. Three years later, he is coerced back into service in order to thwart an assassination attempt against the President of the United States. While carrying out his mission, Swagger is shot twice by a police officer, but manages to escape and take refuge with Sarah Fenn (Kate Mara), the widow of his former partner. Realizing that he has been framed and is now the subject of a national manhunt, Swagger sets out both to find the real shooter and take revenge on corrupt CIA agents who have twice betrayed him. |
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Based on Ron Hansen's novel, this action-packed western drama tells the story of Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly insecure and quiet young man who has grown up worshiping America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Brad Pitt). In 1881, he finds James and his older brother Frank (Sam Shepard) in Missouri and joins their gang for a final train robbery. One day the ambitious yet cowardly cowboy wants the fame that Jesse James gets and ventures to murder his idol. |
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The action-adventure movie tells the heroic story of the times when Vikings tried to conquer North America by destroying local tribes before Christopher Columbus reached its shores. Wrecked during the storm, a ship became the grave of Vikings and their captives. There was only one survivor, a Viking boy whose unconscious body was washed up on the shore by the powerful waves. Fortunately, the People of the Dawn tribe used various healing remedies to fix the kid up and raised him as their own. Many years later, he grows up into a warrior named Ghost (Karl Urban) and bravely defends his abode against an invasion of ferocious Vikings who, after having plundered great cities of Europe, land on the shores of North America. Despite a mighty legion of his foes, Ghost is unwilling to sheathe the sword and attempts to defeat the usurpers.
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At the U.S. military base in Texas there was an experimental bio-nerve gas leak that caused harm to townspeople by turning them into ravenous zombies. As a number of deadly infected people is growing, threatening to wipe out all of humankind, a gun-legged woman named Cherry (Rose McGowan) and her martial arts-wielding ex-boyfriend Wray (Freddy Rodriguez) lead a motley crew of characters who try to survive an onslaught of the flesh-eating monsters. |
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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Inspired by true events, the tense horror movie tells the story of an average American family, made up of Tom Newman (Peter Weller), his new, young wife Amy (Bridget Monyahan), and their two kids, Jessica (Carly Schroeder) and David (Conner Dowds). When Tom is engaged in his new important project, he sends his family off to spend their vacation in nature's lap, in hopes that the trip will knit his kids and their stepmother close together. While in Africa, they go on a safari but wind up lost in a game reserve and fallen into the clutches of lions, deadly and dangerous beasts of prey. When Tom receives the crushing news, he kicks himself for having let them go to the wilds of Africa alone. He hires a local tracker to find his beloved wife and kids before savage lions eat them ravenously. |
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In 2057 people are extremely anxious that the Sun is dying, and thus Mankind faces the threat of extinction. In this situation their only plank is the Icarus II spacecraft, the crew of which includes eight valiant male and female astronauts, led by Captain Kaneda (Hiroyuki Sanada). Their mission is to deliver a nuclear device and reignite the dimming star. Deep into the voyage, the crew members receive a muted distress signal from Icarus I that went missing en route toward the Sun seven years earlier. They decide to change course for the lost spaceship, but navigator Trey (Benny Wong) makes a miscalculation that leads to a terrible disaster. From that point on, the crew must fight not only for their lives and sanity but the future of humanity. |
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When successful stand up comedian Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is determined to turn state's evidence and testify against mob boss Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin), the latter gives his orders, Aces' mouth is to be shut, and sets a price of a million dollars upon his head. Hoping to bring the big-time mobster to trial, the FBI places the sharpen-tongued witness into protective custody, under the supervision of two agents Richard Messner (Ryan Reynolds) and Donald Carruthers (Ray Liotta), and not without reason, for a gang of money-hungry villainous thugs is close on Buddy's tail, waiting for an opportunity to hit the jackpot. And they get a chance when the indiscreet Aces decides to go to a casino to try his luck. It must be said that luck is just what he needs!
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While sitting at a bus stop, Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) unwittingly witnesses a pregnant woman pursued by a gunman. Feeling it his duty to help the woman in trouble, he kills the goon and assists the woman with the baby's delivery. However, she is killed by additional thugs, led by the intuitive and ruthless Hertz (Paul Giamatti) who wants the baby dead. There is nothing for Smith to do but to take the newborn kid to his old friend, Donna Quintano (Monica Belluci), a prostitute who specializes in fulfilling lactation fantasies. He hopes that she will agree to feed and take care of the orphan baby. But the sultry woman wants nothing to do with the kid, especially when Hertz shows up at the bordello. Smith and Donna are forced to go on the run. Amid escalating gunfights with Hertz' endless army of aggressive thugs, Smith figures out that the kid is the target of a United States Senator who is near death and needs a bone marrow transplant to treat cancer. |
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The suspenseful crime drama revolves around Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a successful NYC radio personality who hosts a night show called "Street Walk" where she relates the sentimental stories of her beloved city. One day while walking their dog in a nearby park, Erica and her fiancé David Kirmani (Naveen Andrews) get assaulted and beaten with pipes by a gang of violent thugs. The brutal attack leaves David dead and Erica in a three-week coma. Unable to cope with fear for her own life and driven by revenge, Erica illegally purchases a handgun and begins stalking the night streets to track down the perpetrators responsible for the murder of her beloved. |
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When jealous superior officers transfer London's successful constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) to the remote sleepy town of Sandford, he tries to accommodate himself to a seemingly crime-free life in the village as well as to his oafish partner, Danny Butterman(Nick Frost). However, a series of ghastly crimes that rocks the town make Nicholas realize that Sandford is not what it seems at first glance. Angel and the overzealous Butterman set out to solve the murder cases. |
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This nail-biting thriller is set in Barrow, an isolated small Alaskan town that is plunged into almost total darkness for a month each winter. The residents consider thirty days of night as a natural phenomenon. But this winter the entire town is thrown into chaos and panic by the unexpected arrival of a gang of bloodthirsty vampires. The only hope is in the hands of Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George). |
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Simon Ballester (Steven Seagal), a former government agent, is bent on revenge after his son Max (Cory Hart), an honest police officer, becomes the victim of a senseless homicide. When Ballester learns that the police is about to close the books on the murder case failing a suspect, he decides to take the law into his own hands. Soon enough, the intrepid man moves into the neighborhood where his son was gunned down and goes on a deadly mission to track down the shooter. |
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield's original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon's character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge. |
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After a U.S. doctor in Morgue (Scott Wilson) orders a South Korean soldier to discharge toxic chemicals into the drain near the Han River in Seoul, a small tadpole grows into a monstrous creature. One day the horrifying mutant (voiced by Dal-su Oh) emerges from the depths of the river onto its bank for a feast of flesh. Among the monster's victims is a teenage girl named Hyun-seo (Ah-sung Ko) whose father Gang-du (Kang-ho Song) fails to rescue her from the clutches of the beast. Fearing that the mutant spreads a deadly virus, the government decides to seal off the river and quarantine people who have come in contact with the monster. Meanwhile, the grief-stricken father receives a late-night phone call from Hyun-seo telling that she is still alive in a sewer nearby the river. |
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Young American woman Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn) falls victim to the same mysterious and relentless supernatural curse known as "The Grudge" that once afflicted her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who still managed to escape the ghost of the abandoned house in Tokyo. But now many people will be infected by the grudge and die a dreadful death. How long will the chain of victims be? Is there a force that can thwart the vengeful ghost? |
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Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth anniversary of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While in the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future. |
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty...or so they thought? When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they're stranded...or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren't pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre. |
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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who's now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them... |
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