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Singapore:NC-16 certified movies
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Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa's daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface's men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire. |
| Johnny Handsome
[1989,
USA]
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| They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past. |
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A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him to prison. |
| War of the Roses, The
[1989,
USA]
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| Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie. |
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The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.. |
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A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. |
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. |
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Heathers are the three most beautiful and popular high school girls and their popularity never leaves Veronica (Winona Ryder) in peace. She'd like to take up the Heathers' social position but she doesn't want to bear with their arrogance. Veronica's new boyfriend Jason Dean (Christian Slater) turns out to be much more decided than she is. Soon, one of the Heathers was found dead with a suicide note near her. |
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Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) first meets Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) when they share a car ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. They repeatedly lose touch with each other but fate keeps bringing them together time and again. Their relationship blossoms into an abiding friendship which they value very much. They come to each other's assistance in emergencies and help each other in finding true love. But who would have thought that Harry and Sally would face the challenge threatening to ruin their close friendship? |
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Charley is a hustler. He's been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He's left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn't even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond's existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other. |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
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The movie follows Frank W. Dux (Jean Claude Van Damme), a soldier in the U.S. Military who is preparing for an underground, deadly dangerous martial arts tournament called Kumite. As a kid, he was adopted and trained by Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao), a Japanese master of art. Due to the unwearied training Frank went from a below average fighter to invincibility. Dux goes AWOL to participate in the Kumite that takes place in Hong Kong. Two army officers, Helmer (Norman Burton) and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker) are assigned to hunt down and arrest him. Despite various obstacles he comes across along the way, Dux becomes the first person from the Western Hemisphere to win the tournament and joins the Brotherhood of the Black Dragon... |
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Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's popular manga, this animated sci-fi feature opens in New-Tokyo in 2019, thirty years after the planet has been ravaged by a nuclear war. The highways are ruled by motorcycle gangs; corrupt politicians try to hold the whip hand over the population; unscrupulous scientists run experiments on kids with the hope of expanding human psychic powers. During the conflict between two rival gangs of bikers, Tetsuo loses control of the bike and nearly runs down a child-like blue-skinned stranger. The military unexpectedly shows up at the scene of the accident and takes him to a top-secret facility. There, Tetsuo becomes a test subject to awaken Akira, a source of incredible psychic and physical powers and the cause of the nuclear explosion in Tokyo thirty years ago. However, the tests trigger the growth of Tetsuo's innate psychokinetic ability. He breaks out and begins to go on a rampage, wreaking havoc on Neo Tokyo. |
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After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian & Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian's Cocktail Bar is to be called 'Cocktails & Dreams', and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing... Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together??? |
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After Harry's arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry's car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan's crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn't long before other people on the list turn up dead...and someone starts making attempts on Harry's life... |
| Last Emperor, The
[1987,
China, UK, France, Italy]
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| He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. |
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959. |
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Detroit cop Axel Foley is watching the news on TV when the reporter tells a story that Axel's friend, Beverly Hills police Captain Andrew Bogomil, has been shot by a tall woman. Axel heads out to Beverly Hills to visit Bogomil in the hospital, and this is where Axel is reunited with Bogomil's daughter Jan Bogomil. Axel is also reunited with Detective Billy Rosewood and Sergeant John Taggart. Billy and Taggart decide to let Axel help them find the woman who tried to kill Bogomil, even though abusive police chief Harold Lutz has been deliberately trying to find a reason to fire Billy and Taggart. Axel, Billy, and Taggart soon discover that the alphabet robberies, a series of robberies that have been going on in the area, are masterminded by weapons kingpin Maxwell Dent, and Dent had sent his fiancee Karla Fry to try to kill Bogomil because Bogomil had been after Dent. With this information, Axel, Billy, and Taggart try to find Dent and Karla. |
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A group of kids is very fond of monsters. They even form a fan club but no one expects their hobby will serve them in saving the world. Frankenstein (Tom Noonan), The Wolf Man, The Mummy and The Gill Man led by Dracula (Regehr Duncan) come to their small town to find a magic amulet giving an unlimited power to its owner. The kids struggle against the mysterious danger. |
| Outrageous Fortune
[1987,
USA]
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| The CIA is trailing them. The KGB is tracking them. The phone company is tracing them. The police are chasing them. The cowboys are herding them. And the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that? |
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Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover. When he disappears under mysterious circumstances they refuse to believe that he is dead and are the only ones who are searching for him across several states. Ending up in the western US., they discover he had other interests as they find their lives in danger. |
| Lethal Weapon
[1987,
USA]
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| Two Cops. Glover carries a weapon..... Gibson is one. He's the only L.A cop registered as a Lethal Weapo |
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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn't seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria "Vicky" Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation of Amanda's death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda's murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company's leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost. |
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In this comedy-horror movie a newly-divorced mother, Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest), and her two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to the sleepy California town of Santa Carla to live with her dad (Barnard Hughes). Little do they know that half of the population is comprised of vampires. Lucy soon begins dating video store owner Max (Edward Herrmann), unaware that he is the leader of the vampire gang. Meanwhile, her oldest son becomes enamoured of a beautiful vampire, Star (Jami Gertz). Lucy's younger son, his buddies and his brave grandpa are the only ones who manage to recognize the classic signs of vampirism and set out to destroy the treacherous bloodsuckers. |
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A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers. |
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