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Sweden:15 certified movies
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This fantasy mystical thriller tells about the war for supremacy between vampires and werewolves. Beautiful Selene (Kate Beckinsale), a vampire heroine, and Michael (Scott Speedman), a lycan hybrid, deal with their forbidden romance keeping discovering their bloody legacy up and unveiling the history of the strife of their clans. |
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Six adventure-seeking students decide to travel to Brazil for a vacation. Exotic landscapes, beautiful animals, and exciting meetings – nothing indicated that danger was in store for them. The nightmare begins when they barely struggle out of a crashed bus just before it plunges off a cliff. The young travelers find themselves marooned in the middle of nowhere. Unwilling to wait for another rickety bus, they follow a track through the jungle and find a bar located on a white-sand beach. They make a reckless decision to stay in the place, drinking and dancing with the locals. The next morning the hapless tourists wake up with a dreadful hangover and all their possessions stolen. Trying to find police, they walk to a small village through the dense Brazilian jungle that is too difficult for the average traveler to traverse and conceals chilling secrets. The tourists don’t know that they will soon fall victims to a bloody agenda of a deranged doctor (Miguel Lunardi).
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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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An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm. |
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Seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue is taking place in Michael Caton-Jones' sequel to a classic erotic thriller by Paul Verhoeven. The story begins when Catherine Tramell, a brilliant and ageless Sharon Stone's character, falls in the river having sex with the famous sport star. Dr Michael Glass is involved to perform a psychiatric check of seductive Tramell who became the suspect again as the soccer star had died in the accident. Having moved from San Francisco to London, Catherine did not lose even a bit of her success as a famous best-selling writer and as a pernicious temptress, so Dr Glass soon felt the power of her bewitching sexuality and her grasp being slowly drawn into a labyrinth of Tramell's intrigue. |
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Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an ex-LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved to a smaller town with his family due to dramatic hostage situation he was unable to solve properly: a young mother and her child were killed. Now he is a police officer in a quiet town of Bristo Camino, where he serves as a chief of a police. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending to steal their car, they involuntarily pick the wrong house on the wrong day. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. He is about to take situation off his hands, but a house belongs to a corrupt accountant, cops are in over their heads, so Talley should take the situation under his control again in order to save his own family. The point is that the compound has digital information inside, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to the enterprise the accountant is connected with. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them, and Talley finds himself being between a rock and a hard place. |
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Thirty years ago, in the Carpathians Mountains of Romania, a group of explorers blows an entrance to a cave hidden under a church, but the explosion causes a landslide and they become trapped inside. In the present days, the expedition leaded by Dr. Nicolai and his assistant, Dr. Kathryn are exploring the place and they find the access through an underwater river, requesting the experienced cave divers team leaded by Jack. Dr. Nicolai discovers that, in accordance with the local legend, the church was built to seal the cave as a display of God's protective power, and that Templar Knights entered the cave to fight winged demons. When the group reaches a cave though a tunnel one mile below and three miles in, a creature attacks one of the members and his breathing apparatus explodes, collapsing the tunnel and trapping the group in the cave. Sooner they realize that they are the rescue team and they have to find an exit to survive from the attack of the monsters. |
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Eli Roth's horror movie goes straight for the jugular in this unrelenting scare-fest about a pair of libidinous American fellows seeking for cheap pleasures in the European countryside. Their carefree college days close behind and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson) strap on their backpacks and prepare for get some booze, babes, and drugs, on their way across the globe. In Amsterdam they meet up with an Icelandic backpacker Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson). Backpacking across Europe guys are lured to a Slovakian hostel, where they uncover grisly and sinister acts taking place. The point is that the Slovakian city they stopped at has its male population dwindled as a result of a civil strife - leaving the ladies ready and willing to accept any male companionship that might turn up at the local hostel. Everything seems fine until the fellows find themselves caught up in a sick murder-for-profit business where businessman pay to kill innocent victims. |
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When Tim was eight, some unknown entity has sucked his dad away into the closet. For a constant time, he was obsessed by the nightmares and the phobia of dark corners. If the terrifying "It" has been able to take his father and dozens of other people, it can take Tim himself as well. Life has returned back to normal, Tim is a twenty-something guy having a good job and a nice girl. Everything seems to be alright, but suddenly his mother dies and he is to return to the house of his nightmares, the house his father disappeared. Run-down Victorian gothic building seems to draw all mysterious and terrific. Once again Tim is being experienced how difficult is to fight with something you don't know is real or imagined. |
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The sportswoman Sarah loses her husband and daughter in a car crash, but she survives. One year later, her friends Beth, Rebecca, Sam and Holly, leaded by Juno, invite her to explore a deep cave in the mountains. When the expedition is about three kilometers underground, a rock collapses and blocks the access tunnel, trapping the group inside the cave. With limited supplies, they try to find a way out, but sooner they face a hunger and savage breed of predators. |
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Chechen terrorists threaten to wipe Los Angeles off the map. The lives of thousands of people are now at stake. It suddenly becomes apparent that criminals are assisted by ex-CIA agent Jonathan Cold (Steven Seagal) who is considered to be dead. The outcome of the immensely dangerous confrontation between the terrorists and Secret Intelligence Service depends on who John sides with.
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When the Tokyo's governor is assassinated and his wife's sister is kidnapped, only the ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Seagal), vows to find the men responsible for murdering his brother-in-law and rescue the girl before it's too late. Seagal's Hunter had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza, he has former ties, allowing him to determine that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa). Hunter and his ally Mac discover a plan by Kuroda, the rising leader of a new Yakuza outfit, to build a colossal drug-dealing network and a deadly plot to detonate a nuclear device on U.S. soil. The fate of a nation in the hands of the lethal crime fighter, meanwhile Hunter finds himself drawn into the treacherous world of the yakuza in order to protect his family. |
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film). |
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The story follows Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young tennis instructor who becomes involved with a wealthy family after he is hired to coach one of the members. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy, Tom's sister Chloe instantly falls in love with Chris but he, in his turn, has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the sweet Nola. The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. This dark, disturbing drama is written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films almost without any humor. |
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Life is a minefield. One false step and there you are. How does it happen? Take, for example, Charles Schine (Clive Owen), a grand family man and commercial executive. He falls into company with charming financial analyst Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) in a commuter train. When he realizes that he doesn’t have enough money to pay for his ticket, Lucinda helps him avoid conflict with a ticket collector by paying his way. Then Charles invites her to lunch in return for her favor. They eventually develop a passionate connection and decide to go to a hotel. But no sooner have the amorous twosome torn each others’ clothes off than a violent thug, LaRoche (Vincent Cassel), storms into their room and robs them at gunpoint. He can’t seem to get enough — he beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda. Some days later, LaRoche demands lots of money, threatening to reveal their dirty secret to their families. But it appears that it’s too high a price to pay for an abortive liaison, and Charlie soon realizes that he will lose everything at one stroke unless he finds a way to outsmart the insidious LaRoche in his own game...
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Ridley Scott's saga of a peasant blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who has lost his family and nearly his faith. During the Crusades - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, he wonders in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden queen and rises to knighthood. Balian meets a man revealing himself as his father. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces - while trying to keep a fragile peace. |
| Munich
[2005,
USA]
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| The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. |
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A powerful and thoughtful chronicle drama by Steven Spielberg rises up the questions of the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the games took a sinister turn when eight masked Palestinian terrorists invaded the Olympic village, killing two Israeli athletes and abducting nine others. The story follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack. Eric Bana stars as a Mossad agent tracking the Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" which were ultimately responsible for the deaths of Israelis during the tragedy. |
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"The Ring Two" foregoes the ominous phone calls warning of impending death. Instead, Samara's aim in this film is to possess little Aidan and claim Rachel (Naomi Watts) as her mother. This new angle leads to less suspense – and less pure frightening moments – than in the first movie. When Rachel learns of an unexplained murder, which occurred after a teenager watched a strange videotape with his girlfriend, she suspects her past is following her and she begins looking into the case. Rachel believes that the otherworldly Samara has come back. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death. |
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The cynical Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) becomes the biggest arms dealer in the world. His clients include the world's most notorious dictators he is on close terms with. He can do anything he sets his mind to, and the luck is apparently on his side. It is he who sold off huge stockpiles of Kalashnikovs from Ukrainian ammunition depots. It is he who outsmarted the FBI. It is he who knows holes in laws. He could be named Batman or Iron Man. When his illegal business makes him a millionaire, Orlov suddenly faces an unexpected adversary - his own conscience. Moreover, Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke) is after him. But it is not easy to give up the world full of gratifications, beautiful women and weapons, especially as no one wants him to stop, even his rivals... |
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During full moon nights a werewolf roams the streets of Los Angeles assaulting and killing strangers. Siblings Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) have survived after being bitten by a strange creature but they have altered forever. It takes them a while to notice their physical strength increased, their sensitivity intensified and their bodies changing with the appearance of the full moon. The most startling discovery they make is that they feel a strong attraction to everyone around them. Ellie and Jimmy soon become conscious that they have been cursed and then come to the conclusion that the only means to break the ancient curse is to kill the fierce bloodthirsty creature.
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