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Singapore:NC-16 certified movies
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This political thriller set in a South-American country follows Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) who had left his law practice for a police detective being to deal with crime and justice more directly. He tracks down the terrorist group which is ready to overturn the current government; these guys practice everything from political pranks to assassinations and bombings. Things get complicated as Agustin begins to suspect his girlfriend of the possible connections with the terrorists. And these suspicions seem to prove to be correct. This taut movie became the directorial first-born of one famous person known well as John Malkovich. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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A little girl named Rachel Newman (Mila Kunis) managed to escape the infamous American psycho Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) by stabbing him in the back. Fifteen years later, the girl, who has developed an unhealthy interest in serial killers and their psyches, becomes a student at the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, under the expert leadership of former FBI agent Robert Starkman (William Shatner). Willing to follow in Starkman's steps, she decides to get a job as his teaching assistant that will guarantee employment at the FBI. Despite numerous obstacles on the way to her goal, Rachel is determined to become the professor's assistant at any cost... |
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An anti-utopia/action by Kurt Wimmer presents the "perfect" world where any free-thinking as well as all the arts, books, emotions and everything related is forbidden being considered as a capital crime. This world is built as a conflict-free society after the devastating Third World War, the monocratic Father and the Tetragrammaton have established the dictatorship over the Libria, a futuristic city-state. Human emotions are suppressed by voluntary injections of the "prosium", a preparation which helps the System to control its citizens. John Preston (Christian Bale), a government special agent is also under the influence of this drug, but when he forget to take a doze, he accidentally hear the fragment of the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony seeing the sunrise and discover himself unable to be a pawn of the System anymore as his emotions awake. |
| Adaptation.
[2002,
USA]
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| Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end. |
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Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line (it is essentially a book about orchids). At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, a less talented but more joyous person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. The movie also shows Susan Orlean as she does her research for the book, and John Laroche, a colorful orchid hunter whom Susan interviews and, later, falls in love with. These stories eventually intertwine, with unpredictable results. |
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Xander "XXX" Cage is the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring and avoid going to prison. Betting XXX can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience. |
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Three Toronto women - a housewife/painter at leisure, a photojournalist and a famous cellist find themselves crisis-ridden. Olivia (Sophia Loren) decides that it is time to reveal her secret sketching, Natalia (Mira Sorvino) a well-known photographer, wants to know something about the destiny of an Angolan child who was a subject of her photography. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), as skillful cello player, leaves home to find her father who is responsible for interrupting her mother's life. She seeks revenge notwithstanding her father had mentally changed through the years. Three women are perfect strangers, but their destinies are intertwined by common visions, thoughts and their inward life. Gérard Depardieu, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Malcolm McDowell are also starring in this movie directed by Edoardo Ponti, who happens to be Loren's son. |
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Bill "The Butcher" Cutting's (Daniel Day-Lewis) band is fighting the Irish immigrants in 1860's NY to gain control over the underprivileged areas of the city. Bill has killed the father (Liam Nison) of DiCaprio's character called Amsterdam Vallon, several years later the young man returns to NYC and becomes an ally of The Butcher who has no idea about the past of his new crony. Vallon slowly falls under his spell which causes an inner conflict in his life because his primal aim was the ruthless revenge. Concurrently, Leo's character meets the charming pickpocket named Jenny (Cameron Diaz) who turns out to have a close relationship with The Butcher. At the same time, the Civil War rages on... |
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Even a telephone kiosk can become a deadly trap when you have something to hide in connection with your dubious reputation, if you have such. A New-Yorker, journalist Steven Shepard (Colin Farrell) who used to lie to everybody from his boss to his wife and lover, picks up a receiver at a phone booth and becomes the hostage of a maniac sniper who targets him with a laser sight. This guy draws Steve out demanding a forced confession in all his lies, a confession which can cost him his job and relations with his wife. In other hand, denial will cost him his life as well as if he'd hang up the phone. Meanwhile, police forces which gathered around the booth as a passing pedestrian is injured by a maniacal shooter, consider Steve himself as a maniac, being unaware of sniper existence. For liars to notice: one should never pick up a phone ringing in a telephone booth... |
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Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand—two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft—identical twins Albert and Bertram. |
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On her way to meet her lover Russell (Martin Cummins), Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), a gun company owner, receives a creepy cell phone call saying that she is held at gunpoint. A gunman who calls himself Joe (Wesley Snipes) tells Liberty to handcuff herself to a nearby hot dog stand. The frightened woman follows the terrorist's order, only to find that the stand is rigged with a bomb which will go off if she refuses to fulfil his demands. Meanwhile, Russell, who is tied up and also attached to a bomb, sits still in his dressing room just before the performance in a local theatre. Liberty is forced to play a life-and-death game with the desperate man. |
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Jimmy and Marvin work for the insurance company which is a bogus group when the act of God casts the avalanche of claims onto their heads. Marvin flees for Cambodia trying to regain his cash, Jimmy attempts to come to terms with the chaotic events then gets off to Asia in search of the companion, against his will. Jimmy offers a new venture, to raise a large casino in Cambodia, but Asian reality differs much from the usual environment the guys get accustomed to. The violence is a common method to solve the problems here and it becomes clear that this world lives by its own rules... |
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Barry Egan is a wreck, driven to breakdown by the henpecking of his seven sisters. He steals his heart and manhood away from the curbside. Slowly he learns how to direct them toward love, for the sake of and with the help of another troubled soul. |
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Four bodies are found in New York City. Why, why, why? The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named feardotcom.com. Tough detective Mike Reilly collaborates with Department of Health associate Terry Huston to research these mysterious deaths. The only way to find out though what really happened is to enter the site itself... |
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a "panic room" which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room's hotline to the police hasn't been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn't contain any sugar... |
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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick's wife is unhappy he's back on the street, Henry's protective of the dead cop's wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak's heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know? |
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Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Not that it's been easy - every day Ben juggles countless hours in the pool (training for a critical swim meet), with a job at the local hospital, and finding quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance with Amy are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the "new girl in town," quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more - much more. Seducing Ben is only beginning; she becomes his biggest "fan" and most unexpected nightmare, as her obsessions quickly spiral out of control into betrayal, madness and, ultimately, murder. |
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Two bored high school students, Justin Pendleton ('Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) and Richard Haywood ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv)), decide to murder a random girl just for the challenge. They have planned everything ahead, and yet, a stiff homicide detective follows them much tighter then they have expected. |
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Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Stuart Townsend), weary of his reclusive immortal life, decides to become the leader of an unknown rock and roll band. The group achieves overnight fame and popularity due to his efforts and Lestat becomes a worldwide idol. He defies the unspoken rule that vampires must keep aloof from people and writes songs containing specific words of the secret life of bloodsuckers. As might be expected in such a set-up, his lyrics enchain both his fellow vampires who are bent on taking revenge on him for his betrayal and scholars who study bloodthirsty creatures. Among them is Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau), a young London student who goes off her head about the charismatic Lestat. Furthermore, Lestat's delightful gloomy music awakens the evil Queen of the Dammed, Akasha (Aaliyah), from her century-long slumber and kindles the flame of love in her heart. None of vampires can confront the mighty Akasha... |
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FBI agent Jake Malloy just can't nail a serial killer who's been targeting cops. The killer has already killed nine cops. Not only does the killer despise policemen, but he also has a grudge against Malloy for pursuing him during a string of prostitute murders four years ago. The killer finally decides to hit Malloy where it hurts, killing one of Malloy's friends on the force, and brutally killing Malloy's fiancé Mary. The grief sends Malloy off the deep end and causes him to become alcoholic, forcing Malloy's colleague, Detective Hendricks, to sign Malloy up at a remote detox clinic in a snow-covered part of Wyoming. The clinic specializes in rehabilitating alcoholic cops. But the killer murders another patient and assumes the patient's identity at the clinic. While Malloy participates in group therapy sessions, the killer starts killing the patients. Among the endangered patients are Jaworski, Slater, Noah, Conner, and a dozen others, one of whom must be the killer. One by one, the patients start falling prey to the killer and, starting with the facility's director, Doc, the killer starts targeting the staff as well. |
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