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Norway:15 certified movies
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The cynical Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) becomes the biggest arms dealer in the world. His clients include the world's most notorious dictators he is on close terms with. He can do anything he sets his mind to, and the luck is apparently on his side. It is he who sold off huge stockpiles of Kalashnikovs from Ukrainian ammunition depots. It is he who outsmarted the FBI. It is he who knows holes in laws. He could be named Batman or Iron Man. When his illegal business makes him a millionaire, Orlov suddenly faces an unexpected adversary - his own conscience. Moreover, Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke) is after him. But it is not easy to give up the world full of gratifications, beautiful women and weapons, especially as no one wants him to stop, even his rivals... |
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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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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. |
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For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with 'Lensmaster319', a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference. Hayley appears to flirt with Jeff, and Jeff generally restrains himself, even admitting that he must wait 4-years until he can be with her. But his reservations are apparently not enough to decline when Hayley all but invites herself over to his house. Once at the house, manipulation becomes the name of the game, and the pedophile seems to be on the non-traditional side of it. |
| 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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A remake of the one of the 1970's most celebrated horror movies, which is based on the true story. In 1974, one of NY Police Depts. received a frantic call, which led them to the bloodstained bedroom. There was six dead bodies, Ronald DeFeo confessed to methodically murdering his parents and four siblings, and claimed it was the "voices" that told him to do it. One year later a new family enters the doubtful house negligently shrugging off its reputation. George and Kathy move in with their three kids, only to discover the demonic powers of the house are still there. Will the new family indeed share the awful fate of their predecessors? |
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You never know what might happen in the future. Successful architect Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) had a good and happy marriage with a best-selling writer, Anna (Chandra West), and a young kid, Mike (Nicholas Elia). Little did he expect that his peaceful life would be shattered some day. After his pregnant wife went missing and was later found dead, Jonathan got in touch with a paranormal expert, Raymond Price (Ian McNeice), who claimed to be communicating with Anna via Electronic Voice Phenomenon. Raymond also informed him that voices and faces of the dead could be heard and seen on a detuned radio and TV. Tormented by grief, Jonathan decided to try to come in contact with the spirit realm. |
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In the North American Great Depression, the former successful boxer James Braddock loses all his possessions and savings with the crash of the stock market. His beloved wife Mae Braddock and their three children survive to starvation and lack of heating and the daily difficulties supported by their love. In 1934, when Jim's couch and manager Joe Gould offers to him a chance to return to boxing, he becomes the symbol of hope of hopeless people in a ruined nation. |
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In the sequel to 1998's "The Mask of Zorro" Elena Montero (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) find themselves married with their 10-year-old son Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). Their happy marriage begins collapsing as Alejandro spends too much time and energy fighting various villains. When Alejandro once again breaks his promise to give up his secret identity of Zorro, the frustrated Elena separates from her adventure-seeking husband and soon begins dating her former classmate Armand (Rufus Sewell), an odious French Count. Armand allegedly runs a wine-producing business but he actually plots to prevent California from becoming the 31st state by committing electoral fraud. It's up to Zorro to protect the future of California and its citizens as well as to win back his wife and son.
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Jared Cole and his girlfriend Sam Nicholson are a young couple living in the Caribbean. Jared is an unemployed diver whose dream is to find treasure in the Caribbean Sea and Sam works at a local resort as a shark handler. When Jared's best friend Bryce Dunn, a selfish New York lawyer and his new girlfriend Amanda Collins arrive, the two couples spend a couple of days experiencing paradise. But, they discover an airplane on the sea floor that crashed during a hurricane and they find the cargo on-board the airplane is cocaine. Jared and Sam's lives are in danger, when Bryce and Amanda make a deal with a dangerous drug lord who wants the cocaine. Jared's rival, Treasure Hunter Derek Bates learns what they are doing and tries to negotiate the cocaine to raise money for a expedition where he intends to find a sunken boat with treasure. Jared, Sam, Bryce, and Amanda find themselves racing against time to find the shipwreck before somebody else does. |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stars as a couple who live a boring life - 6 years in marriage, nothing new. But events unexpectedly take a new turn when the couple turns out to be a pair of highly paid assassins, who know nothing about real life of each other and even working for the competing organizations. Truth is disclosed at the moment when they are both assigned by their employers to kill the same person. While the deceived bosses are trying to ruin the couple, the real fun begins. Lots of dizzy stunts and a bit of a sexy humour are presented in this action thriller laced with comedy. |
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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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During full moon nights a werewolf roams the streets of Los Angeles assaulting and killing strangers. Siblings Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) have survived after being bitten by a strange creature but they have altered forever. It takes them a while to notice their physical strength increased, their sensitivity intensified and their bodies changing with the appearance of the full moon. The most startling discovery they make is that they feel a strong attraction to everyone around them. Ellie and Jimmy soon become conscious that they have been cursed and then come to the conclusion that the only means to break the ancient curse is to kill the fierce bloodthirsty creature.
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Karen Davis, an exchange student working in Tokyo, covers for a disappeared nurse and check up Emma, an American immigrant, in her home. She finds her sleeping the whole day. The reason is a mysterious curse, the Grunge, haunting the house and spreading like a virus. Karen must tear up the terrific circle of deaths not to become the victim of the Grunge herself. |
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Mort Rainey's (Johnny Depp) life is getting worse gradually in this adaptation of Stephen King's novella. Mort is a recently divorced writer who decides to take some time off at his cottage. His lack of energy and creativity left him incapable of even stringing a simple sentence together notwithstanding the former success. In addition, Mort finds himself beleaguered by a psychotic stranger (John Turturro) who claims Rainey plagiarized his story idea and demands satisfaction. Though Rainey claims he's done nothing wrong, the stranger isn't pacified, instead growing more and more threatening. As Mort's wife (Maria Bello) pushes him to complete their separation and Shooter methodically destroys his life, he struggles to restore order to an increasingly insane situation. When Shooter's demands turn to murder Rainey involves in a private detective (Timothy Hutton) for help. But the horror spirals out of control on and on, Mort soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything. The ending of this psychological thriller is really shocking and horrifying as the writer of "Panic Room", David Koepp, and Johnny Depp, 2003 Best Actor (Pirates of the Caribbean) do their best. |
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Set in 1890 in America, the breathtaking western adventure tells the story of Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a Pony Express rider and winner of long-distance horse races. His reputation as the greatest rider in the West reaches the ears of a wealthy Arabian sheik (Omar Sharif) who challenges Hopkins to take part in "The Ocean of Fire," a survival horse race across Middle Eastern deserts. Determined to receive $100,000 as prize money and the honor of being the best rider in the world, Hopkins accepts the invitation from the Sheikh to enter the treacherous competition with his endurance mixed-breed mustang, Hidalgo.
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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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The satellite of a company owned by the millionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) locates in Antarctica an unidentified source of heat and a pyramid with indication of three different primitive cultures built six hundred meters below a deactivated whaling station. Weyland hires expertize, including an archeologist and an electronic engineer, and organizes an expedition leaded by Alexa Woods (Sannaa Lathan). When they reach their target, they realize that the place is indeed the stage of an ancient war between two breeds, and humans are only kettle in this game. They pick a side, based on the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian's weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans. |
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The Bride (Uma Thurman) has only three left in her death list after dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in "Kill Bill Vol. 1". She resumes her quest for justice in the series' second installment, "Kill Bill Vol. 2." With those two down, the Bride has two remaining foes to pursue - Budd and Elle Driver - before moving on to her ultimate goal...to confront her former employer, Bill (David Carradine), having dispatched, with much blood and gore, his team of assassins. |
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