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Sweden:11 certified movies
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) keep on their dangerous way to Mordor being accompanied by treacherous Gollum (voice of Andy Serkis) who is being torn between his evil and good identities. He still craves for the Ring he call his Precious. Meantime, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) are hostages of Uruk-hai while Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are trying to release them. The power of Isengard grows, armies of many thousands orcs are marching on towards the lands of Gondor and Rohan, and the burning baleful Eye stares from the awful tower of Barad-Dur. The Ent nation rises when the orcs begin to cut down the ancient forest of them by Saruman's order. The might of the innumerable Mordor powers headed by Sauron looms over the Middlearth, the land became silent before the great war. |
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"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. |
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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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Alexander Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo" gets a breathtaking screen interpretation in this movie depicting Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) betrayed and imprisoned, losing his reputation and the love of all his life; after 13 years spent in the gloomy casemates he breached of prison and plots the revenge. He managed the escape from a desolate island with the help of the fellow convict who assisted to dig the saving tunnel. Heavy thoughts of vengeance against the betrayers never left Edmond in peace; his loyal friend (Luis Guzman) helps him to penetrate into French royalty and Edmond's plans of revenge on the foes eventually incarnate into life. |
| 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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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. |
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2087. The moon is completely settled by terrestrials, and developed for human needs. This is the place where Pluto Nash, en ex-criminal (Eddy Murphy), achieved success: he runs a business, more particularly, a popular night club, and he has a personal bodyguard robot (Randy Quaid). Pluto's rival, a moon tycoon named Max Crater who wants to buy Nash's club to turn it into a casino, takes no denial and blows up his entertainment, ordering a reward for Pluto's head. Max wants to take control over the whole Earth's satellite and he takes no prisoners. Moon realities in this sci-fi comedy bear strong resemblance to Wild West at some points, and Eddy Murphy is hilariously splendid as always. |
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When seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is sent to North Korea to infiltrate renegade military officer Colonel Moon, the mission is sabotaged but Colonel Moon is killed and his second-in-command Zao is injured, but Bond is captured and is tortured and interrogated. 14 months later, Bond is released and traded for Zao, and Bond's boss M, rescinds his 007 status. 007 sets out to get his revenge on those who set him up. Where he tracks down Zao in Cuba and finds him in a genetic operation to give him a new identity. Bond finds diamonds on Zao which leads him to British billionaire Gustav Graves, who has set-up Icarus, a orbit satellite which will provide light and energy to the Earth. With help from sexy American secret agent Jinx and Grave's publicist, undercover M:I-6 agent Miranda Frost, Bond sets out to stop Graves who is working with Zao and plans on using Icarus as a weapon and unleash destruction. |
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A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. |
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Long before the Pyramids were built, a daring and ruthless conqueror came from the East. He came along with the hordes of his loyal, bloodthirsty warriors and so he subdued ancient lands which fell before the sword of the furious invader. When the world was drowned into the dark waves of chaos, lawlessness and violence, the hero came to ruin the insuperable evil invaders. He was a hireling long ago, and his veins were filled by the scorpions' blood, now he is to defend the world against the evil powers. Let the Biblical city of Gomorrah contemplate the bloody battle!.. This prequel to The Mummy series stars The Rock, a WWE celebrity along with Steven Brand as Memnon (the tyrant), and Kelly Hu as a beautiful sorceress. |
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Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor who almost cannot stand the death of his wife when something weird happens. Dead and dying patients start to speak to him in his wife's voice. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different mystical places. Is he just insane? Is she speaking to him from beyond the grave? Or is she still alive? Ending would be very surprising… |
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
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Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are dim-witted New Jersey sluggards who sell drugs to make pocket money. One fine day the two bosom friends discover that Miramax is making a movie which is based on their true lives and has an unflattering name "The Bluntman and Chronic". It goes without saying that this news is a floorer to them. The worst thing is that the guys have been neither notified nor feed by the creators for using their alter egos and making a laughingstock of them. Filled with indignation, Jay and Bob head to Hollywood to sabotage the production. |
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Meet Joseph 'Joe' Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Lee Collins (Billy Bob Thornton), the most successful bank burglars in the USA. Without firing a shot, with the help of their great charisma and insolence, the irresistible macho Joe and the hypochondriac Terry, always complaining of his imaginary illnesses, have robbed more banks than anybody else. It seemed that these suave, witty bandits would always lucky. But as the fates decree, the two fall in love with hot housewife Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett), who craves adventures and gets involved in their heists. As a result, everything in their lives goes topsy-turvy! |
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Welcome to the Far Future when Man has made a technological breakthrough. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, the human race hopes to cope with the polar cap melting which causes the raise of the ocean waters and coastal flooding. Moreover, Cybertronics Manufacturing has created companion robots to replace friends, lovers or kids. One of these androids is David (Haley Joel Osment), a 12-year-old boy programmed to love and adopted by a Cybertronics employee, Henry Swinton (Sam Robards), and his wife, Monica (Frances O'Connor). David’s appearance and behaviour is not different from other kids. Even his love to the adoptive parents is quite real. One day David realizes that to be a human being is something totally different than to be a robot. David dreams of being a real kid to be loved and journeys out into the forests to find someone who can make his dreams come true. |
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Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) accepts the offer of well-to-do adventurer Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Téa Leoni) to make a sightseeing flight over infamous Isla Sorna. In fact the Kirbys want Alan Grant to find their missing son Eric (Trevor Morgan) who crashed on the island while paragliding. When they land on the island, they encounter fierce flesh-eating prehistoric creatures. As a result, Dr. Grant and his company have to start a terrible race for survival... Will the heroes be able to find the boy and survive? |
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This true story happens at the end of the XVIII century, during the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, in France. Jeanne de la Motte-Valois (Hilary Swank) is a gorgeous elegant young aristocrat whose parents have been dispossessed of status, title and wealth by the king. Deceit is her only means to restore her family name and property. Jeanne invents a cunning and risky plan around a magnificent 647- diamond necklace made for the king’s lover. She wants to get the necklace and inveigles Cardinal Louis de Rohan (Jonathan Pryce), famous for his lust and dissipation, into her treacherous intrigue. On her way Jeanne will stop at nothing... |
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This engaging romantic drama stars Jennifer Lopez as Sharon Pogue, one of the best and most beautiful Chicago police officers. One day while chasing a drive-by suspect she finds herself in a potentially dangerous situation. The ruthless criminal tries to get rid of the tough policewoman by shooting her twice when a mysterious stranger named 'Catch' (James Caviezel) appears from out of the blue and saves Sharon's life. Who is this courageous man who wasn't afraid to give her a helping hand during the shoot-out? How did he happen to walk down the deserted street at the right moment? And why does Sharon feel as though they have met somewhere before? |
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Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette) is a young woman who has a birth defect - excessive body hair. It’s so excessive that even in the medical encyclopaedia the description of the phenomenon is illustrated with her photo. Trying to find herself, Lila goes to live in the forest and writes several books about nature, but at the age of 30 she returns to society to find a significant other. She starts dating Dr. Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), a 35-year-old pedantic bore who teaches table manners to lab mice. One day on a hiking trip, they come upon a feral man (Rhys Ifans) raised as an ape in the wilds. Nathan takes an opportunity to illustrate his theory of animal learning and tries to civilize Puff. |
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