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USA:PG-13 certified movies
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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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Set in the summer of 1963, the sensual movie tells the story of Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey), an innocent, advantaged seventeen-year-old girl who spends the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskill Mountains. She meets Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), a handsome dance instructor experienced in matters of love and sex. Influenced by Rhythm and Blues and the seductive movements of Johnny's dirty dancing, she instantly falls for him and takes wonderful lessons in dance and love. |
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After robbing three prosperous Las Vegas casinos of one hundred sixty million dollars, Daniel Ocean (George Clooney) and his gang decided to lay low and enjoy the money. But Terry Benedict (Garcia), the owner of the three casinos, is not the person to forgive and forget. The revenge-seeking entrepreneur has finally tracked them down and gives the gang two weeks to return his money, with interest over three years, or else they will be killed. Out of job and short of ninety-seven million dollars, Ocean, Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) and other crew members come together again to pull off three audacious large-scale heists in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam. |
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"Sahara" stars Matthew McConaughey as adventurer Dirk Pitt, who must try to prevent a deadly microbe from causing an epidemic in the oceans after he discovered that thousands of people in Africa are being driven mad by something polluting the water. Along the way Matthew make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. Based on the one of Clive Cusslers' best-selling novels. |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
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| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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One absurd misunderstanding can turn your life upside down. The easygoing and timid Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet products company, is mistaken for an aggressively inclined neurotic. All his attempts to clear himself yield no results, and he is sentenced to attend anger management therapy headed by the eccentric Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who is able to turn a phlegmatic person into a schizophrenic. Alas, poor Dave has to go through hell. The enthusiastic, overenergetic doctor is determined to help Dave struggle with his inner demons, making his life a real nightmare. However, if a patient wants to stay alive, medicine is virtually powerless! |
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Millionaire businessman Thornton Melon is upset when his son Jason announces that he is not sure about going to college. Thornton insists that college is the best thing he never had for himself, and to prove his point, he agrees to enroll in school along with his son. Thornton is a big hit on campus: always throwing the biggest parties, knowing all the right people, but is this the way to pass college? |
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The story is set in 1933, ten years after Richard O'Connell and Evelyn's fearless fight against High Priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Now the courageous adventurer Rick (Brendan Fraser) and the beautiful Egyptologist Evie (Rachel Weisz) are very happily married and have an 8-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath). However, they are fated not to enjoy a restful life. The scientists find the mummified corpse of Imhotep and ship it to the British Museum. The cursed villain arises from the dead again! In the meantime, Mathayus the Scorpion King (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), a legendary warrior who has been slept in the desert of Ahm Shere for many centuries, resurrects as well. When these two powerful forces clash, the destiny of the human race is in the balance. The O'Connells have only 7 days to save the world and rescue their son. |
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The flight over Mongolian desert ended with a crash landing, and the crew is to survive on the waterless planes with almost no chance of rescue. Few men and one woman are under threat of the imminent and slow thirsty death in the midst of the most brutal deserts of the world. Being exhausted by the raging winds, desert smugglers and constant quarrels and diminishing in number, crash survivors realize, that the only way out is to build the new plane using the debris of the crashed one. This movie is a remake of Robert Aldrich classic based on the novel by Elleston Trevor. |
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Conjoined twins Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are living legends in their small hometown. They take full advantage of their four hands to fling off their baseball and boxing competitors, to play hockey as goalkeepers, to quickly cook hamburgers at their own fast-food restaurant. Despite a seeming inconvenience, Walt has no problems with women, while his shy, hesitant brother is only experienced in communicating with girls on the Internet. Walt is determined to bring Bob and his longtime cyber-pal together as well as to achieve his dream of becoming a star of the silver screen, and persuades his brother to move to Los Angeles. Having weighed the pros and cons, the colourful brothers leave their hometown for Hollywood, without knowing what they will have to start their star career from. |
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In the branches of Axis, a tree rising 100 miles into the clouds, there is a village inhabited by human-like dwellers. One of them is Kaena (voiced by Kirsten Dunst), a young girl who dreams of the world with blue clear sky and plentiful fresh water. When Axis’s sap almost runs dry and it grows weak, it seems to Kaena that Axis is calling her for help. In defiance of her tribe's taboos the adventurous and rebellious Kaena starts on her journey beyond the confines of the village to seek help. She finds herself in the weird and wonderful world inhabited by mysterious creatures! At the end of her courageous quest Kaena will unravel a terrible secret...
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Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a Soviet ballet dancer, defects to the West in the hope of gaining freedom. But when he travels to Japan for a performance, his plane unexpectedly malfunctions and makes an emergency landing on a Soviet military airfield. Nikolai is caught by the KGB that tries to brainwash him into returning to the motherland of his own free will. But he wants to get out of the country and manages to make a daring escape once again. |
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After graduating from Stanford, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe), a young computer programming genius, is offered a dream job at NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision), a multi-billion dollar software corporation, run by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins). Milo expects to make a brilliant career when he suddenly sees Winston and his flourishing company in their true colors. The company is an evil, all-devouring monster that will stop at nothing to win. Milo realizes too late that he is merely a small cog in a cruel machine, a pawn in the game of the cunning billionaire. Will the pawn venture to challenge the Player who can easily flick the piece off the board with his little finger?
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| Robin Hood: Men in Tights
[1993,
France, USA]
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| The legend had it coming... Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John, what made Will Scarlet, and what did Friar Tuck into his tights that Maid Marion all of a quiver? |
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Mel Brooks is the well-known master of parody, so the film of this famous director is desperately hilarious. Now his aim is to interpretate the legend of Robin Hood in the funniest way: jokes, pranks and different allusions to the various films and stories adjoin many foolishness and follies. Without regales and, sometimes, without trouses, "men in tights" try to win over the heart (and not the only heart) of the beautiful Maid Marion. |
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An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows. |
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When returning to Earth, a NASA space shuttle explodes under mysterious circumstances and the fragments bring alien spores that begin spreading by leaps and bounds and infecting human beings, turning them into emotionless pod people. Along with her love interest, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the mind-altering extraterrestrial virus is attempting to take over mankind and that her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) is immune to the disease because of chicken pox he had as a baby and may hold the key to creating an effective vaccine. However, Ollie is abducted by his father, Carol's infected ex-husband Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). Thus, Carol and Ben begin prowling zombie-infested streets in search of her son who is the last hope for saving the human race... |
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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Chris Vaughn (The Rock) is recently retired from the military service, he finds his hometown turned into the place invaded by crime, violence and drugs. Since local Sheriff Bufford Pusser had lost his beloved wife, he is mentally crashed and, in fact, almost inept. Chris finds out, that the man who is guilty of causing such dilapidation of the town is none other than his former school rival keeping the doubtful casino, where an ex of Chris works as a dancer. Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), a casino owner, has also closed the lumber mill which caused severe unemployment. Taking on sheriff's duties, Chris, a tough guy with strong military skills, have to try to fight his sweet hometown back. |
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Morris Buttermaker (Thornton), an alcoholic pest removal worker and former professional baseball player (for a very short time), is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team of 12 year olds which is about to be thrown out of the league. Although the team does not win the first place in the next championship, it does achieve a great comeback. |
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In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end. |
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