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South Korea:15 certified movies
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Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda) promises a teenaged stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze (Matt Long) one wish in exchange for his immortal soul. Johnny recklessly agrees, hoping to save his beloved father Barton (Brett Cullen) from dying of cancer. As expected, the perfidious Devil plays Johnny a snide trick. He helps to cure Barton's disease but doesn't save him from a motorcycle accident. The years pass, and the Devil transforms Johnny (Nicolas Cage) into the "Ghost Rider," a supernatural agent with raging superpowers. At night he rides his hellish Harley and tussles with injustice and evil. And though the contract is indefinite-term, and Johnny is forever destined to gather evil souls, the Devil gives him the chance to be released from the contract if Johnny defeats his renegade son, Blackheart (Wey Bentley). |
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During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan... |
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Holly Kennedy (Hillary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life— a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother (Kathy Bates) and best friends (Gina Gershon) and Denise (Lisa Kudrow), begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a touching, exciting and often hilarious journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life. |
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Jamie Ashen (Ryan Kwanten) whose wife Lisa (Laura Regan) has recently died under mysterious circumstances becomes the prime suspect. While Detective Jim Lipton (Donnie Wahlberg) starts a routine investigation, Jamie, who is quite certain of not having done away with his own wife, goes out on his own to unravel a web of mysteries surrounding the untimely decease of his beloved. He takes as a starting point an old ventriloquist dummy which Lisa received shortly before her death. The further search leads him to his hometown of Raven’s Fair where he meets his seriously ill father, Edward Ashen (Bob Gunton), and the vindictive ghost of Mary Shaw (Judith Roberts), a notorious ventriloquist killed by townspeople for her frauds. |
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Kim (Dominique Swain) and her best school friends travel to a lakeside cottage for an alumni reunion weekend to reminisce about their good old college days. But when they start playing an innocent game called "Dead Mary," they invoke Mary's name and inadvertently unleash a wandering spirit of a vengeful witch. Thus the party turns into a bloody feast. The corrupt, diabolical woman forces each of them to make a horrific choice. You always hurt those you love... Are you ready to hack your close friend into pieces in order to save your own skin? So, are you ready? |
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Based on Ian McEwan's popular novel, the romantic drama follows Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen from an upper-class English family and fledgling writer with a great power of imagination. She knows about the mutual love between her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robby Turner (James McEvoy) and feels hurt as she has a fancy for Robbie too. So, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) becomes the victim of a rape, a string of misinterpretations, fueled by her vivid imagination and her jealousy, drives her to finger Robby as a rapist. He is arrested and sent to jail but Cecillia strongly refuses to believe her sister and becomes hostile towards her. Many years later, Briony (Romola Garai) writes a novel to expiate her guilt for her childish misdeed that irreversibly changed the course of all their lives. |
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When returning to Earth, a NASA space shuttle explodes under mysterious circumstances and the fragments bring alien spores that begin spreading by leaps and bounds and infecting human beings, turning them into emotionless pod people. Along with her love interest, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the mind-altering extraterrestrial virus is attempting to take over mankind and that her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) is immune to the disease because of chicken pox he had as a baby and may hold the key to creating an effective vaccine. However, Ollie is abducted by his father, Carol's infected ex-husband Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). Thus, Carol and Ben begin prowling zombie-infested streets in search of her son who is the last hope for saving the human race... |
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The suspenseful crime drama revolves around Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a successful NYC radio personality who hosts a night show called "Street Walk" where she relates the sentimental stories of her beloved city. One day while walking their dog in a nearby park, Erica and her fiancé David Kirmani (Naveen Andrews) get assaulted and beaten with pipes by a gang of violent thugs. The brutal attack leaves David dead and Erica in a three-week coma. Unable to cope with fear for her own life and driven by revenge, Erica illegally purchases a handgun and begins stalking the night streets to track down the perpetrators responsible for the murder of her beloved. |
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Kitty Fane is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process. |
| Inside Man
[2006,
USA]
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| It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover. |
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A Denzel Washington's tough cop struggles against a perfectionist bank robber Dalton (Clive Owen). Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a well-planned siege, and the people inside become unwitting pawns in an airtight robbery. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) is having something to protect so he has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster) who turns the situation to be even more unstable. |
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Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever. |
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph. |
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Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas), a special agent, suggests there is a neo-Nazi plot in the White House. Suddenly he finds himself framed, blackmailed and relieved of his duties. He goes on the run, and in spite of chased by the own colleagues from secret service, he conducts his own investigation trying to find the responsible. Garrison keeps trying to prove his innocence and to protect President's life from mortal danger. Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Kim Basinger are starring. |
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This pulse-pounding thriller is about former covert agent and widower Jack Foster (Steven Seagal) who takes his 8-year-old daughter (Eva Pope) on a trip to the birthplace of her mother. Little does he know what fate has in store for him. When they arrive in Bucharest, Romania, he is shocked to discover that his beloved little girl is kidnapped from under his nose. Meantime, his father-in-law, who still works for the CIA, plants some sort of lethal virus on Foster, who is totally unaware of becoming a courier for the package. Foster scours the city streets, trying to retrieve his daughter and take down her captors, while the American Embassy, Romanian cops, and Russian officials all pursue him so as to get a virus formula. |
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Ethan Hunt, a superspy known from preceding movies MI and MI-II, has retired from active duty to train freshman IMF agents; he is having a peaceful life along with his girl Julia. But one night, its time to get into action again for Ethan (Tom Cruise, as it should be) and he is to struggle against Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no conscience and no remorse. Hunt assembles his team again, he and his and new acquisitions like Zhen and Declan, will chase Owen all over the world, using high-tech and all sort of gadgets. |
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This explosive, action-packed thriller introduces James Bond (Daniel Craig), a British intelligence agent, before he receives his license to kill. He sets out on his first 007 mission to Madagascar in pursuit of international terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). However, things don't go exactly according to plan and Bond makes an independent decision to track down the rest of the terrorist gang. The trail leads him to the Bahamas where he crosses the path of criminal Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian). Bond seduces his entrancing wife, Solange (Caterina Murino), only to find out that Dimitrios goes in cahoots with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the international terrorist organizations. After losing their funds, he makes up his mind to organize a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro, to recoup the investors' money. With the help of the entrancing British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd ((Eva Green) supplying his betting funds, James Bond sets out to defeat the corrupt banker and force him to seek protection with the MI-6, revealing the names of the terrorists. |
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Police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) gets a letter from his ex-fiancée Willow (Kate Beahan), who left him ten years ago, on the eve of the wedding, without any explanation. In the letter she implores Edward to find her missing daughter, Rowan (Erika-Shaye Gair). Without hesitation, he travels to a remote island inhabited by members of a pagan community ruled by an elderly woman, Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), and discovers that they are going to sacrifice the young girl during a festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth" to improve their harvest. The events take a decidedly sinister turn when Edward sets out on his investigation to find the abducted girl and save her life. |
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume. |
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This breathtaking war drama depicts the true story of love, brotherhood, courage and fortitude. It centers on the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, thirty-eight young inexperienced American pilots who made history by volunteering to fight in the French Air Service before the United States entered World War I. They fearlessly combated the enemy and downed 57 German planes in 20 months.
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In this urban action thriller New York police dept. detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis), is a hard-drinking cop, assigned to deliver a small-time convict to the court sixteen blocks far from the jail in less than 2 hours. The task seems to be simple, but there are some powerful people who don't want this prisoner to be delivered to the court house. Bruce Willis's Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... |
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