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Singapore:M18 certified movies
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When a happily married couple, Elizabeth (Ashley Judd) and Nicholas Parsons (Bruce Greenwood), decide to take a romantic sailing trip, they don’t think they may have any trouble. The end of the trip is, however, dismal. As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. Nick is drowned in the bosom of the sea, Libby is sent to prison on a murder rap, their 4-year-old son Matty (Benjamin Weir) is adopted by Libby’s friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish), who unexpectedly disappears with the kid. Libby seems to have had all the trials and troubles one must have. But this is not the case. While serving prison time, Libby discovers the awful truth that she was faked by her own hubby who is actually safe and sound and lives in clover. Knowing that she won’t be twice imprisoned for the same criminal offense she makes up her mind to take revenge on Nicholas. Therefore, when she is paroled six years later, Libby straightway escapes from a halfway house to find her missing son and her treacherous husband.
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Raised in a wealthy and conservative family, young and innocent Harper Sloane (Sarah Polley) has not yet tasted love. The chance meeting with Connie Fitzpatrick (Stephen Rea), an aging bohemian photographer, who is different from all her snobbish and upper-class associates, changes the course of her life. Captivated by the shy, vulnerable and charming girl, Connie wants to show Harper the world of art and beauty and offers to become her mentor. Without hesitation she leaves Harvard Law School, her vain, money-obsessed family and friends to start a new life with her sweetheart.
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The audacious theft of a Claude Monet painting from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is brilliantly executed in broad daylight. The priceless artwork is stolen by Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), an adventurous self-made billionaire who can easily afford to buy anything he desires but there is nothing he enjoys better than walking on the razor's edge and winning. Thomas is a respected businessman therefore he is the last person the police suspect. But there is one person, namely Catherine Banning (Rene Russo), a smart insurance investigator who feels in her bones that Crown is involved in the theft. Hired to assist the police in retrieving the masterpiece, Catherine resorts to various means, from intelligence and cunning to personal charm, to accomplish her mission. |
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The Persian Gulf War comes to an end and the United States triumph over a defeated enemy. Hundreds of Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender themselves cradling leaflets promising food and drink, home and kind treatment. Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) are charged to disarm, strip naked and search the surrendering Iraqi. They are lucky to have found an important document on a resisting Iraqi officer. The document proves to be a map that discloses the location of Saddam Hussein's caches of gold confiscated from Kuwait. Troy and Conrad arrive at a decision not to report their commanding officers, except their pal, Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube). However, the rumors of the secret map reach the ears of Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), and the four soldiers come up with a selfish plan to abstract the treasure from the bunkers.
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| Analyze This
[1999,
USA]
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| New York's most powerful gangster is about to get in touch with his feelings. YOU try telling him his 50 minutes are up. |
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For New York's most powerful and toughest gangster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) killing a man is like having a cup of tea. But the relentless mobster has been having panic attacks recently. He can't sleep at night, feels nervous fairly often and even sheds a tear; every kid evokes tender emotions in him; and killing people is out of the question. He obviously has stress symptoms.
It's so fortunate for him that one day Dr. Ben Sobel's car collides with his car. Realizing he needs professional help, Paul wants the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) to restore his psychological balance and his lost vitality within two weeks, before a major mobster meeting. Ben surely isn't very enthusiastic about helping him as he himself turns to be a spineless and uncertain man. Who would like to have a mob boss patient who is used to solving problems with a gun and has been tailed by all FBI agents for years? |
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An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out. |
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Set in London, 1593, the romantic comedy revolves around a rising young playwright, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes). Writer's block hits him quite unexpectedly and at the most inconvenient time when he is out of cash and the Globe theater owner, Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), who is on the verge of bankruptcy, wants him to finish his new play "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" as soon as possible. What Will needs to overcome the worst hiccup in the writing profession is a muse. And when the hope of finding inspiration seems to go glimmering, compelling love for a bewitching noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), invades his soul. A devoted fan of Shakespeare's plays, Viola disguises herself as a man to join the Globe troupe and win the leading male role in his latest stage production. Viola is also inflamed with love for the passionate Will but there's just one snag: she is betrothed to Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) who is intent to take her to a remote English colony.
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Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life working as a hitman for his crime boss Paris (Avery Brooks) and maintaining two relationships, one with his unsuspecting Jewish fiancee Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate), and another with a gold-digging, hypocritical mistress Chantel (Lela Rochon). Unbeknownst to their boss, Mel and his teammates, Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), Vince (Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Gump (Robin Dunne), decide to take an independent job for extra money and kidnap Keiko Nishi (China Chow), the daughter of a Japanese tycoon. In an ironic twist of fate, Jiro Nishi (Sab Shimono), whose business has recently gone burst, can’t pay a ransom of $1,000,000 for the release of his teenage daughter. Furthermore, Keiko proves to be the godkid of their powerful boss Paris, who orders his huge cohort to discover and send the captors to kingdom come. On top of it all, Mel falls for his kidnaping victim.
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Following the Allied invasion of Normandy, two brothers lay dead in the wake of the onslaught. Meanwhile, in New Guinea, a third brother has been killed fighting the Japanese. After the Army General Staff learns that a fourth brother is missing in the French countryside, a rescue mission is ordered to find the young soldier and return him safely home. The mission is mounted by a veteran Ranger Captain commanding a squad of men who have mixed feelings about risking their lives to "Save Private Ryan". |
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A luxurious cruise liner sets sail on its maiden voyage with many rich passengers. When sailing through the South China Sea, the ship is unexpectedly boarded by a gang of armed bandits, led by Hanover (Wes Studi), to grab jewellery and money. The mercenaries, who have taken the crew hostage, are utterly shocked to find the shattered remnants of the party and no passengers in sight. The fact is that the sea vessel has collided with a gigantic underwater object shortly before the intruders board the liner. The unknown object turns out to be a formidable sea monster which sucks the water from its preys, leaving only their skeletons. Among survivors is a gorgeous pickpocket, Trillian Jamesen (Famke Janssen), who is caught red-handed and locked up in the safe room, and the liner owner, Simon Canton (Anthony Heald). Thus begins a struggle for survival. The pirates were armed to the teeth but there are only three of them. |
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The Butabi Brothers, Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug (Chris Kattan), are not exactly the smartest and the most charismatic, but they sure are energetic and cheerful. Their dearest dream is to set up their own club as hip as The Roxbury, one of Hollywood's best night spots. However, the problem is that they have never been there as it is not easy to get on the Roxbury guest list. One night they arrive at a decision to try to enter the club at all hazards... |
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Jeffrey Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), also known as The Dude, is an unemployed middle-aged Los Angeles ex-hippie with a consuming passion for drinking, bowling and drugs. A carefree slacker, he devotes all his time to preparing for bowling competitions against his quirky, faithful buddies, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and Theodore Donald Kerabatsos (Steve Buscemi). His happy life runs smoothly in its ordinary grooves until one day two fierce thugs break into his house and mistake him for his namesake, an old crippled millionaire (David Huddleston) whose wife Bunny (Tara Reid) owes money to their boss, Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara). The simple case of mistaken identity draws the Dude into a hopelessly complex kidnaping plot.
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There was once a guy named Blade (Wesley Snipes) who had been born of an African-American mother bitten by a vampire during pregnancy. Therefore he was granted vampire’s power and man’s soul, and furthermore, he wasn’t afraid of sunlight. As a 13-year-old boy, he was adopted by Abraham Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who helped him to cope with his bloodlust by giving him a special serum and raised him as a vampire hunter. Their nemesis was Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), an ambitious vampire leader who saw humans as nothing more than cattle and was bent on summoning the Blood God in order to enslave them. Willing to rid the earth of the undead, Blade and Whistler, armed with an arsenal of garlic-spiked and silver bullets, started a seemingly never ending battle against Frost and La Magra.
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After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
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When a man is murdered in Moscow, experimental bionic research brings him back to life. He then sets out to find his murderers and money that was stolen during the crime. |
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After an AWAC crew has been held hostage by the North Koreans for six months, the U.S. President Jack Neil is about to give the order to attack the communistic country. Meantime, the nude corpse of a young female staffer is found in a White House restroom. Homicide detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to investigate the murder. When he shows up in the White House, he meets the wall of silence as the Secret Service, headed by Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), are unwelcoming of the interloper into what they consider a local matter. They conceal all the evidence to avoid a political scandal because the list of suspects includes the President himself and his son Kyle (Tate Donovan). However, Regis enlists the aid of Secret Service Agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane) to unlock the dark secrets of the crime scene. |
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Bud White (Russel Crowe) and Ed Huxley (Guy Pearce) are LA cops in the 50s. These guys are so different that sometimes they even hate each other, but now they are to work together at the murder which should be solved at any cost. Wide LA beaches and the bright sun of California seems to be the perfect crime scene as the mafia bosses compete to occupy an empty place on the top of the criminal hierarchy after the main mafia boss was imprisoned to serve a long term. Kim Basinger appears in the film as a high-paid prostitute-blackmailer.
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The time is the future. Johnny Rico joins the military after graduation to become a citizen and for the love of his high school sweetheart. In the war against the bug aliens of Klendathu, the military is a very dangerous place to be. Johnny works his way through several battles and with the help of his friends and comrades, helps turn the tide of the war, and save the human race. |
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The United States is trying to help the New Russia in the war against organized crime in that country. Presently, they are after Terek Murad, a deadly crime boss. When they raid one of his establishments, Murad's brother is killed. Murad seeks revenge against the ones who killed his brother, FBI agent Carter Preston and Russian Major Valentina Koslova, but most of all, he wants to send a message to the Americans about interfering in matters that don't concern them, so he hires an international assassin to kill the head of the FBI. When the assassin advises Murad to go into hiding until the job is done, he does. Desperate to know what Murad is doing, Preston allows the Russians to abduct Murad's errand boy and torture him to find out, and he utters the word "Jackal" which Preston recognizes as the name of an international assassin. They have to find him but unfortunatly, there is noone who knows who he is except for one person, whom they have to find and the only person who knows where that person is, is Declan Mulqueen, an IRA man, who is in prison, they offer to reduce his sentence is he helps them but refuses because all he wants is to be freed, so they decide to leave but he tells them that he knows who the Jackal is. So they release him and together they try to find the Jackal before he makes his move which won't be easy because he is very wily. |
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