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Sweden:15 certified movies
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The action-packed, explosive movie tells the tragic story of rock musician Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his sweetheart Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas) who never get married because they are viciously assaulted and murdered by a gang of street thugs for no reason at all. One year later, the guy's restless soul is brought back to life by a mysterious crow and Eric goes on a mission to exact vengeance on his killers, Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), the leader of the gang, and his violent henchmen. |
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The year is 2022, prison systems from all over the world are now run by private corporations and have become business. After being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his commanding officer who ordered him to wipe out innocent people. Convicted soldier John Robbins is dumped on the prison island Absolom (after he refused to execute his cell-mate and assaulted the Warden). On Absolom, convicts are put there to either survive or die. Robbins finds the prison island is inhabited by two camps, The Outsiders, tribes of savage prisoners led by the evil Walter Merrick and The Insiders, a community of prisoners living in a fortified village "The Compound" led by The Father. Robbins finds escape from Absolom is impossible, surveillance satellites monitor Absolom and gunships prevent all convicts from escaping from the prison island and The Warden has secretly put a spy on Absolom. Caught up in a feud between the two camps, Robbins is determined to escape from the prison island and finds it is his ultimate challenge as nobody has ever escaped and he agrees to help The Insiders defend "The Compound" from The Outsiders. |
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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond. |
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Delivery boy Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) falls in love with customer Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis). He soon helps her kill her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and enabling mother (Edie McClurg), beginning their macabre journey down Route 666. Their M.O.: every few miles, they attack everyone within their site, invariably leaving only one person alive to tell the tale. The two are made famous by unscrupulous reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downy jr.), as they run across the countryside, pursued by the equally sadistic Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Just before the trial, a ratings-whoring interview by the same reporter who made them famous leads to pandemonium, not just within the prison itself, but nationwide. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence. |
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Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy's) is back in Beverly Hills. And it's a call of personal duty again... One night in Detroit, being on assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd (Gilbert R. Hill) gets killed. Closing his eyes forever, Inspector Todd urges Axel to get the shooter, and he promises to do that. Axel carries some investigation, and some tracks lead to an amusement park in Los Angeles called "Wonderworld". Axel's old friend, Billy Rosewood, is helping him.
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Based on the comic books by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden, this riveting science fiction thriller is set in the future (actually 2004) where scientists create a time travel device., The government forms the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to prevent criminals from exploiting the new technology for their villainous purposes. One day timecop Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) discovers that the power-hungry Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) concocts a nefarious plan to use the device to manipulate history. He must travel back in time to stop the corrupt politician. |
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Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hitmen on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a few unexpected detours along the road. Marsellus is out of town, and he's gotten Vincent to take care of his wife, Mia. That is, take her out for a night on the town. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who's been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (not their real names) are two lovebirds/thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they're currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn't turn out to be as easy as the other places they've robbed. |
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Twenty years ago, 8-year-old Emma Brody's abusive mother smashed Emma's face into a bathroom mirror just for pilfering in the mother's makeup drawer. Today, Emma is an independent, self-assured woman who plays violin in a popular Celtic folk band in Chicago. Emma lives life on her own terms, only without sight -- the result of the traumatic injuries to her eyes at the hands of her mother. Luckily for Emma, medical science has vaulted a quantum leap in the past two decades. Now, thanks to corneal implants installed by her kindly eye surgeon, Dr. Ryan Pierce, Emma can see again. Emma's sight is at first cloudy, and she suffers from "retroactive hallucinations," a clinically documented syndrome in which the newly sighted sometimes "see" things hours, or even days, after they actually happen. This becomes a big problem when Emma sees a suspicious man leaving her neighbor's apartment at 4AM, but his features appear to her only in flashback later that morning. After failing to get a response at the neighbor's door, Emma tries to convince detective John Hallstrom and his partner Tom Ridgely to check things out. At first, Hallstrom dismisses Emma as a nutcase, but when the cops finally arrive on the scene, they find the guy murdered, using the same MO as a series of killings that Hallstrom and Ridgely are already investigating. Emma herself is in danger, because she's the only person who can identify the killer. Hallstrom's colleagues remain doubtful because Emma's vision flawed. When the killer begins to stalk Emma, Hallstrom has her placed under police protection, and the two soon become lovers while Hallstrom tries to figure out who the killer is. |
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Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she's seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive. |
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Two policemen, Chris (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill (Emilio Estevez), are entrusted to carry out an important mission: to find the crucial witness who is into hiding being hunted down by mafia. They are ready for the action, but suddenly the reinforcement comes - in the person of Gina (Rosie O'Donnell) and her big, very big dog. Both of these two are self reliant and arrogant creatures who represent even the more difficulties then the mission itself. |
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Caren McCoy (Kim Basinger) is released after serving the long term in a prison. She decides to get rid of her criminal past and to begin a new life which should be devoted to her son, but she is forced to make a new robbery, as her child is kidnapped. Being compelled to filfull the criminal plan, she makes several minor modifications to the plot... |
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Bernie (Terry Kiser) is dead, but he took one secret into his post-mortem being. This secret is about where the hidden money is, and they are buried in the check-room somewhere on the Virgin islands. Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) try to find the cash, they have the electronic key which can give them access to the money (guys were fired from the insurance company they worked). Unexpectedly, some voodoo sorcerers decide to return Bernie back to life: they also want to know where the money are. |
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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style. |
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This parody is a sequel to the "Hot Shots" comedy starring Charlie Sheen. In this hilarious movie his superhero heads to the Near East to fight Saddam, to imitate Rambo and to make you laugh as loud as possible. Many films are ridiculed in this comedy flick, from Starwars to Rambo and Apocalypse Now. The hero, Topper Harley, is to leave the Buddhist temple (where he found the inner Harmony being isolated from the world and from women) to save the hostages in Iraq. |
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The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God. |
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USA, 1871. The Civil war is just finished, and the various scum - robbers, murderers, thieves - along with farmers and gold-diggers are in search for easy money. This legend is about sheriff Erby who had quitted his job to live with his family. His friend Dock Holiday, a gambler, has made the same decision and to live normal civil life. They decided to settle in Tombstone, a town where the silver field was found. At the same time, a ragtag band operates there and an all-out war begins between the heroes and the bandits. |
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Marine sergeant named Thomas Beckett (Berenger) and the civil shooting champion known as Richard Miller (Zane) conjoin to liquidate the rebels' leader somewhere in the Panama, in the heart of the wild jungle. When being instructed by their mastermind, Zane's sniper obtains an order to kill his colleague (Berenger) if this man will fail the mission. This intense and extremely brutal film tells about the archetypical "father-son" conflict and the struggle between the fear and the call of duty. |
| Bronx Tale, A
[1993,
USA]
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| One man lives in the neighborhood, another man owns it. A devoted father battles the local crime boss for the life of his son. |
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Calogero Anello is a 9-year old child living in the Bronx - notorious for gangster bars, racist people and aggressive nature. Calogero witnesses a shooting in the street involving local big shot gangster, Sonny (Chazz Palimentri), but refuses to grass him to the police. Sonny grows fond of the child and begins to teach him how things are conducted on streets. Calogero's father (Robert DeNiro) is a working man who wants his child to grow up and make his money honestly, and does not want him to mix with Sonny. Despite his father's disapproval, for eight years he continues to see Sonny, and receives a 'street' education from him. Despite being a gangster, Sonny loves Calogero and teaches him that being a gangster is too risky and dangerous. However Calogero misinterprets Sonny's message, and still gets involved with racist fights with his friends. Things get worse when he falls in love with a black girl. This story of the Bronx, as a child grows up with two educations, one from school and one from the street. As the child grows closer to a gangster, he begins to grow away from his family. |
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived. |
| Point of No Return
[1993,
USA]
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| The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back. |
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If you like Luc Besson's "Nikita", you will maybe found this movie at least noteworthy, if not - perhaps you will enjoy it anyway because it's just another look at the same story of the young girl played by Bridget Fonda who became an offender and was sentenced then (the story is almost the same except an ending, it differs from "Nikita"). She killed the police officer during the armed robbery in which she took a part. Then she was enlisted by government to execute some covert and dangerous missions which involve dynamic and brutal action and style. |
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