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UK:15 certified movies
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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A friendship between two twenty-something men—both named Gerry—is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in an impossibly large desert and forget to bring any water or food with them |
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Xander "XXX" Cage is the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring and avoid going to prison. Betting XXX can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience. |
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn't who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there's only one way out of the marriage: kill him. 'Fred Ward (I)' (qv) has a guest-starring role. |
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Tom Beckett (Tom Berenger) is a living legend not because he had accomplished the most difficult and dangerous missions, but since he had returned from these assignments safe and sound. Now he is to stand the most complicated strength test without making any mistake, now his aim is to reach one of the East-European countries to assassinate the local dictator. Tom is teamed up with a death row convict B.J. Cole (Bokeem Woodbine) who will win freedom if the operation will end with success. But when they get there, they turn from the hunters to the prey, it turns out to be that they simply are pawns in a larger game, as the circumstances get dramatically change. |
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Jennifer Barret (Madeline Stowe) is a successful woman who suddenly discovers that she is the heiress of the recently killed powerful mafia boss known as Angelo Aligieri. His colleagues were unaware that he has the daughter and now she is to deal with lots of grim guys and with the fearless bodyguard Frankie (Silvester Stallone) who defends her from the cutthroats. Meantime, she clandestinely plots revenge against the people who arranged her father's murder. |
| 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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Vincent Sforza works for a research company, and he has been put in charge of locating several people who were part of an old experiment from the 1970s, in which a group of college students were given a dose of a chemical called LOT-6. Apparently, the victims of the experiment have won a class action lawsuit and need to be found so that a check can be issued. Included on the list is teenager Charlene "Charlie" McGee, the child of two of the dead participants in the experiment. When Charlie was a kid, Charlie's mother Vicky was murdered by thugs who worked for the Shop, the corrupt government department that wanted to do experiments on Charlie. Charlie's father Andy was killed by John Rainbird, a killer who had been hired by the shop. Ever since then, Charlie has been in hiding to protect herself. When Vincent finally locates Charlie, he sets into motion a deadly series of events. It turns out that there really isn't a class action lawsuit settlement. It seems that John Rainbird, who was thought to be burned to death, is still alive, scarred from the burns, and nutty as ever — and he's looking for Charlie, because he's still obsessed with her. Rainbird has been using the lie about a class action lawsuit to lure the original LOT-6 experiment's victims out of hiding so these victims can be killed one by one. Charlie gets help from James Richardson, one of the victims of the LOT-6 experiment. The experiment has given James the ability to tell the future. When Vincent discovers that he's been duped into luring Charlie back to Rainbird, Vincent also decides to help Charlie. John's been working on perfecting the LOT experiments, and has created 6 young boys with powerful abilities. One has the power of suggestion, another can sense truth and deception, two can move things with their mind, one has the destructive voice from hell, and the most dangerous is a boy who can suck the life and energy from anybody or anything. And they're after Charlie. Rainbird is also using these children to rob a bank as a test of warfare in the new decade. Now with Vince and James on her side, Charlie must decide whether to keep running, or fight Rainbird to the end. |
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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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The family of Gordy Brewer perished when the US consulate was blown by a terrorist bomb thrown at the command of Claudio "The Wolf" Perrini (Cliff Curtis), a Colombian rebel. These deaths are simply a collateral damage for an international criminal who is unattainable for the police and justice, and Brewer, an ordinary LA fireman, decides to take revenge in his own hands. He goes to Columbia and tries to find Perrini along with criminal's ex Selena (Francesca Neri). Brewer will do anything to settle accounts with the terrorists. |
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Based on a true story, this twisting psychological thriller focuses on a serial arsonist whose terrifying six-year crime spree is juxtaposed with the increasingly desperate efforts of investigators to bring him to justice. Charged with investigating many of these fires is Captain John Orr (Ray Liotta), a legendary figure in the Glendale Fire Department, possessed with an uncanny ability to pinpoint the origins of a fire, as well as the devices by which an arsonist may have carried out the crime. Through a fingerprint left at the scene of one crime and a series of surprise revelations focusing on arsons set in several towns, the task force is able to close in on an unlikely suspect. . . and ultimately crack the case. |
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her... |
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Two bored high school students, Justin Pendleton ('Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) and Richard Haywood ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv)), decide to murder a random girl just for the challenge. They have planned everything ahead, and yet, a stiff homicide detective follows them much tighter then they have expected. |
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Set in the early 1970's, this is the tale of a young man whose fiancee has been killed, but who finds himself falling for another woman even while he is still living with his fiancee's grieving parents and being drawn into the legal battle to bring her killer to justice. |
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He is an aging photographic laboratory technician who has nothing pleasant in his lonely life, only the wearisome everyday work. Seymour "SY" Parrish is an incarnation of Robin Williams's dark side, which is rarely exposed to a public, his shady SY works on family photoes of Yorkins, who appear to be an embodiment of an American dream. The man who has no private life gets unhealthily interested in the existence of the others. He begins to spy on Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her relatives, finding imperfections which could tear this family, he is becoming an impending dark figure which looms over their happiness. |
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Frank Martin is a former soldier now living a solitary existence in France, Frank runs a private business as a "Transporter" a hired criminal whose job is to transport cargo, packages and passengers without question. Playing by the rules, Frank is the best in the business and he has never broken the rules. Until, Frank is hired by an American criminal known as "Wall Street" to deliver a package. Frank's curiosity leads him to break the rules, and he discovers the package he is delivering to Wall Street is a Chinese woman named Lai. Learning that Frank broke the rules and learn about Lai, Wall Street sends his mercenaries to assassinate him. With his own life in danger, Frank takes it upon himself to protect not only himself, but Lai, as he agrees to help Lai rescue enslaved people from China, who are being smuggled into France by Wall Street helped by Lai's father. |
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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One world... and two best secret agents who rival for the vengeance that should be wrecked upon their common lifelong enemy. John Ecks is the best operator who ever worked for FBI, and Sever is the most dangerous woman on the planet. In the constant battle of the world's special agencies they are bitter rivals, who play the perilous cat-and-mouse games. But suddenly they should join to struggle against the powerful enemy who wields some devastating weapon. Prodigious stunts and destructive action breaks out from the screen as the action goes on in this super-dynamic movie from the well-known clipmaker. |
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Matt (Patrick Muldoon) is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an axe comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods. |
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