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UK:18 certified movies
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In this ironic comedy, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins), an inventor of corn flakes and health fanatic, runs a sanitarium for the wealthy in Welville, at Battle Creek. The health farm attracts Eleanor Lightbody (Bridget Fonda), a keen follower of Dr. Kellogg, and her irresolute but devoted husband, Will (Matthew Broderick), who hope to improve their health and save their marriage. However, the young couple get more than they bargain for when they are forced to undergo a series of unconventional medical treatments, such as extreme vegetarianism, abstinence from sex, vicious diet, strenuous physical exercises, and electrical stimulus. |
| Specialist, The
[1994,
Peru, USA]
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| The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld. |
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Ray Quick is an ex-CIA bomb expert now living as an high-tech outsider somewhere in Miami, Florida. May Munro has heard of his skills and tries over and over to convince Ray to bomb the guys who killed her parents once. Ray begins to overshadow May. He is interested in May's case, but still is of the opinion to never use his skills again. The situation changes dramatically when a former CIA comrade of Ray appears on the scene. |
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito's associates cannot seem to leave him in peace...his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for "favours" which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss. |
| 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. |
| 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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In 1536, a talented alchemist named Umberto Fulcanelli (Mario Iván Martínez) fleeing the Inquisition arrived in Veracruz, Mexico and invented an insidious device that granted its owner eternal life, as well as an agonizing thirst for human blood. The alchemist lived four hundred years until he was buried to death under debris of the collapsed wall. Many years later, the golden scarab-like device called Cronos falls in the hands of antiques dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) but it soon becomes apparent that there is more than one person wanting to become immortal. |
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When blood is shed like water and there is nothing cheaper than human life, you have to be able to speak the language of violence in order to survive. Three cousins, Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego), learnt this law of life when kids. The guys grew up together in East Los Angeles but chose different paths to walk upon. Miklo was convicted of murder and sent to prison where he joined the Chicano Mafia. Cruz, who showed great promise as an artist, became a heroin addict. Paco chose a career in law enforcement. Their paths seemed to have diverged forever. But one day mean streets lead to one place where former friends meet again as bitter enemies. |
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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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A usual ad in a newspaper can become the beginning of the true nightmare. Elli Jones (Bridget Fonda), a modeler, had found not only a shy lodger, but a woman, who began to imitate her style, manners and even the life. This suspense drama tells that still waters run deep: who seemed a shy, timid person, in reality is... you'd better watch yourself, who she is.
Jennifer Jason Lee plays Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson here. |
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A rock group arrives onboard of the Missouri battleship which is soon to be decommissioned, and the party is to be held to celebrate the occassion. But several nuclear missiles still are on the ship; it turns out to be that the rockers are none other than disguised terrorists, and these guys do their best to take control over Missouri. Captain is killed, Government turns upside-down as the mercenaries begin to threaten with the nuclear attack. But onboard is Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal). He is a cook, but his military skills are not forgotten, moreover, his tactics and strategy can destroy every one of his foes. Captain was his good friend, so the terrorists are doomed all to a man. Somewhere onboard hides a Playboy's supermodel, which was to perform a strip-dance during the celebration; she is also to be rescued and taught how to make an explosive using a common cocoa butter and other (at first site harmless) components. This action thriller became a classic of the genre. |
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This screen interpretation of vampire literature classic is the most well-known and, more to say, brilliant one. Set in London, this spectacular picture closely follows the book, but is even more dramatic. This eye-catching movie tells about Johnathan (Keanu Reeves) and Mina (Wynona Ryder), young pair which soon will face the ancient vampire - count Dracula (Gary Oldmen). When John heads to Transylvania for the business travel, he has to communicate with the famous Count and the monster accidentally sees John's medallion with the picture of Mina. This film is not simply an eye-candy due to its exquisite visual aesthetics, but it is also a profound story, which tells what it takes to be an immortal monster... and to love forever, hopelessly. |
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Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is a student and a biker, who accidentally becomes a witness of the brutal murder. The murder is mafia's doing, and the head of Brandon Lee's character instantly grows in price. False FBI agents and the hordes of scumbags try to do off the steadfast biker in this stunning action movie which is the star debut of Brandon Lee. The only one person who Jake can trust, is Powers Boothe's hero named Ryan Mace who addicted his life to drug mafia eliminating. |
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Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? |
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Detective Nick Curren (Michael Douglas), conducting the criminal investigation of a rock star murder, is to interrogate the suspect - Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), the woman writer who is a famous authoress of her shocking novels. She is blonde, bisexual, seductive, suspective and obviously dangerous - as well as invulnerable to all attempts to accuse her of the murder. But one of her novels contains the description of the same murder. Besides, Tramell was a lover of the killed guy, and what is more, his breathless body was found on the bed which was evidently a place of a hot sexual battle. Curren finds himself slowly involved into the web of Catherine's intrigue; he can only guess at her guilt. Is he doomed to be the hero of her next novel?
The soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith completes the striking thriller. |
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This chocking and revealing movie tells the story of passion, jealousy and love. Stefan (Julian Sands) understands that he can no longer live with unfaithful wife and at the same time she understands that she cannot bear her lover's brutality... |
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Small-time crime boss Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a gang of professional criminals, who are strangers to each other, to commit an armed robbery of a jewelry store. It is supposed to be the perfect crime. But the plan collapses when the police suddenly arrive at the time and the scene of the crime. Thus the routine heist turns bloody. Two of the crew members are killed, one of them is seriously wounded. When the remaining criminals gather at the premeditated rendezvous point, at an abandoned warehouse, they come to realize that one of them is an undercover police officer and try to figure out the betrayer. |
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. |
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They were killed in Vietnam, then shipped back home and transmutated into cold-blooded, electronic-crammed and stimulator-injected zombies. Then they were to perform different combat missions but suddenly they began to remember who they are. Then one of them turned out to be a war criminal and the other proved to be the man who tried to stop him. Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme are playing the roles of the living dead in this spectacular action by Roland Emmerich. |
| Alien³
[1992,
USA]
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| In 1979, we discovered in space no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, EVERYONE can hear you scream. (5 more taglines...) |
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After she escaped the Aliens' planet, Riply (Sigourney Weaver) gets out of the frying pan into the fire: her spaceship wrecks nearby the so-called Prison planet where different social scum (violators, murderers and other recidivists) serves their long terms. Along with our brave Lt, the Alien embryo gets there, and then the hell begins again. The monstrous giant creature with its large-toothed telescopic jaws begins to judge unarmed prisoners. Who can stop the biological killing machine? |
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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else? |
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