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Netherlands:16 certified movies
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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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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches. |
| 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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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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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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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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Set in the Cold War era, the geopolitical thriller movie focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, financial, legal, and social effects are experienced by covert CIA agent Bob Barnes (George Clooney), energy analyst Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright), and laid-off worker Wasim Kahn (Mazhar Munir).
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The story and screenplay of this successful movie was written by famed singer-songwriter Nick Cave. In the press notes he says that he set out to write "a cohesive but mythical story that moved forward and was simple and affecting, as well as highly emotionally charged". This fine-tuned allegory relates to the cyclical bloodshed and is brutally violent, but its message is also brutally honest and meditative. The renegade Murphy brothers are in conflict with the controversial law enforcer (Ray Winstone). When two of the brothers are captured by authorities, the older (Guy Pearce) is given by a no-win choice: hunt and kill the lunatic Murphy Gang mastermind, his eldest brother Arthur (Danny Huston), otherwise the youngest (Richard Wilson) gets a hemp-tie on the gallows. This western reeks of the dry desert, with flies buzzing, temperatures soaring, and emotions spiraling out of control in the dusty, desolate and virtually lawless air of 1880s of the rural Australia. |
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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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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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Raccoon City became a deadly trap for the young and beautiful girl survived after the zombification virus outbreak from the "Hive" underground research station. "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" begins where the first film left off, we find Alice (Mila Jovovich) in the middle of the zombie-ravaged deadly city. With the help of a few survivors, Alice must escape the deadly location being hunted by the awesome biological weapon known as Nemesis and having some secret agenda. It will be difficult to escape before the Umbrella Corporation will erase the terrific consequences of its abortive experiment from the face of the Earth. |
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Young artist Alan Parker's (Jonathan Jackson) obsession with death adversely affects his life. After losing his sweetheart, Jessica (Erika Christensen), the distraught student is about to lay violent hands on himself. But his friends manage to stave off the tragedy. Alan recovers and soon discovers that he has inadvertently opened the door for the Grim Reaper to enter his life. When he receives the distressing news that his mother Jean (Barbara Hersey) has had a stroke and taken to hospital, Alan instantly decides to hitchhike home to visit his dying mom. On Halloween night, when it is dark and scary, he takes the road, only to come face to face with Death Incarnate (David Arquette) offering to drive him in his high-speeding car. Alan is impaled on the horns of a harrowing dilemma: whether to stop his nightmarish ride and thus heap up trouble for his only relative or continue riding the Bullet. |
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While inspecting the sewage system of London, two workers are attacked by a weird creature. Later, Kate decides to leave a party trying to meet the actor 'George Clooney' (qv) who is in London. She waits for the last underground train, but after drinking many alcoholic beverages, she falls asleep accidentally on the platform bench, missing the last train and being trapped in the closed underground station. Later, a train going to the depot stops at the platform. She boards the train and she meets her acquaintance Guy, who tries to sexually assault her in the underground car. Guy is attacked by the creature, dragged off, and Kate leaves the train through the tunnel. This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the Underground of London. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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The story of A. R. Chikatilo, one of the bloodiest Russian serial killers, gets a free interpretation in this movie as a narration about A. R. Evilenko (Malcolm McDowell), who has brutally murdered about a fifty children in the expanses of former USSR. Marton Csokas stars as a detective of Russian criminal Militia who was to track down the heartless "Rostov monster" in this psychological thriller. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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The Passion of the Christ concerns the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth (Jim Caviezel). The dialogue is spoken in the ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and Hebrew. His prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas's betrayal, Pontius Pilate's interrogation, the death on the cross of Golgotha and subsequent resurrection are depicted in this, sometimes brutal, Mel Gibson's screen version of Biblical legend. The faint-hearted should be prepared for the brutal, barbaric beatings that Christ endures. Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, and Hristo Jivkov are engaged as Magdalene, Maria, and John respectively, who are distressed by Jesus' fate yet aware that they can do nothing to change it. |
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In Hollywood, the young teacher Nell (Angela Bettis) and her husband, the resident Steven Barrows (Brent Roam), move to an old building called Lusman Arms. Some sixty years ago, the place was glamorous, but presently is completely decadent, inclusive many dwellers have disappeared along the years. While her husband is working in the hospital, the lonely Nell hears some weird noises and becomes afraid of the place. While jogging, she is introduced and becomes close to her neighbor Julia Cunningham (Juliet Landau) and they schedule a hike together on the next day. Julia never shows up, and Nell looks for her in the building, finding a hiding block behind the wall, where an evil being, which was born from death, lives with many dead bodies. |
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What if one day you were told that everything you knew, everything you loved, everything you remembered never really happened? The film starts out several days after a plane crash with a grieving mother, played by Moore, trying to get over the death of her son. When she finally seems to be doing better, strange forces seem to be trying to cause the children to be forgotten, and therefore giving the mother no other choice but to find out why. |
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