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Australia:M certified full length DVD movies
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Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine), a famous British writer, lives in a hi-tech equipped house alone after his wife has left him for Milo Tindle (Jude Law), a brilliant actor. Andrew invites his wife's lover to discuss the divorce, but little by little their meeting changes into a keen intellectual duel with an unexpected ending. |
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A 32-year-old British woman named Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger) indulges in bad habits, especially smoking, drinking and overeating, and has no scruple in saying what crosses her mind. The worst thing is that she is single and can't find the right man. Her caring parents (Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent) try to bring her into contact with their neighbors' modest son, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), but Bridget is attracted to her handsome boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). She eventually arrives at a decision to turn over a new leaf, to work off her excess weight and to keep a diary in which she will record her achievements. However, making dreams come true and finding true love turns out to be much more difficult than expected... |
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After mastermind Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and his crew of expert thieves and adventurers pull off a massive gold bullion heist from a Venetian palazzo, they are shocked to discover that one of them is a traitor. It is inside man Steve (Edward Norton) who kills his companion, veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland), and makes off with the bullions. One year later, the surviving gang members decide to exact their revenge on the double-crosser. They track down Steve in Los Angeles, California, and plot to break into his palatial estate, steal back the gold and make their escape by hacking into the traffic control system and creating the biggest traffic jam in the city's history. |
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American rock star Nick Rivers (Kilmer) teams up with the lovely Hillary Flammond (Gutteridge) to escape capture by the East German High Command. They don't have long, as Rivers and Flammond must try to find her father, in order to stop him from creating the ultimate super weapon, known as 'the Polaris Mine'. A host of characters join them, including Déjà Vu (Carter) and Chocolate Mousse (Tagoe) |
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Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous. Romantic turmoil continues in Vera's life. She marries her devoted admirer William Killick, but she can't deny the chemistry between herself and Dylan, nor does she want to - even if this means betraying Caitlin. When William is posted abroad, and a pregnant Vera returns to Wales with her married friends, the battle between her heart and head becomes more intense. William returns a changed man, but neither is Vera the carefree cabaret girl he married. Neighbourhood gossip fuels her husband's jealousy towards his rival. Enraged, William stages a violent attack on Dylan - an attack that forces Vera to choose between the men in her life and the friend that she loves. Desire and guilt are complicated by love and friendship in this real-life tale set in beautiful London and the majestic Welsh countryside. |
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Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus. |
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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh and his partner, Sergeant Martin Riggs, are working on yet another drug related case. Soon after finding 1 million dollars worth of South African krugerrand in a crashed red BMW after a chase, Riggs and Murtaugh are assigned to keep an eye on Leo Getz, who is scheduled to testify in a case. There are people who don't want Leo to testify, and they are a group of drug smugglers led by Arjen Rudd, the minister of diplomatic affairs for the South African consulate. Rudd turns out to be the man that Riggs and Murtaugh are after in the drug case they were working on before Leo was placed in their protective custody, which doesn't look very protective when Leo is kidnapped by Rudd's right hand man Pieter Vorstedt. Riggs ends up falling for Rudd's secretary Rika Van Den Haas, who doesn't like Rudd. In a confrontation with Vorstedt, Riggs is told the true circumstances behind the death of his wife Vicky, who died in a car crash in 1984 the car crash was caused by Vorstedt, who was supposed to have killed Riggs. Minutes after Vorstedt tries to kill Riggs, Riggs finds Rika dead, and this sends Riggs over the edge. |
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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise. |
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M. Night Shyamalan presents another paranormal-themed thriller where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a priest loses his wife (Patricia Kalember) in a car accident, denying God then and remaining an ordinary farmer who devotes himself to rural work and to raise his son Morgan and daughter Bo (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) along with his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix). The faith is lost, the job is quitted, and one day Hess family encounters the unknown, namely the 500-foot circles shaped with mathematical exactness. Hess is astonished and enraged thinking these circles simple are somebody's prank. But this explanation soon proves its groundlessness: Graham is confronted with the new uncommon, inexplicable events as he began to see and hear strange things. Uncovering the truth, Hess runs the more risk as his family is under the threat... |
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After a long period in the space, looking for the remains of planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth. He misses Lois Lane, who lives with Richard White and has a son. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor plots an evil plan, using crystals he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, to create a new land and submerge the USA. |
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A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them. |
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In this hilarious comedy, Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, the most popular TV news anchor in San Diego in the 1970s. As a chauvinist and sexist he thinks that men are inherently superior to women. Therefore he believes that a female who dreams of a television career must settle for being eye candy telling about fashion or sharing the latest recipes with the viewer. When an intelligent and ambitious feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), arrives at Ferrell's TV station pretending to his crown, a fierce battle breaks out between two bright anchorpersons. |
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Starting a new school is always full of anxiety. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is doubly unlucky. The fact is that she moves to the United States from Africa where she has been home schooled her whole life. And now the 15-year-old girl has to enter public high school for the first time! Cady soon comes to realize that school life can be more dangerous than the jungle. Trying to 'survive' in her new surroundings, she infiltrates the school's most popular and fashionable clique that includes the meanest girls of all - Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), and Karen (Amanda Seyfriend). When Cady has a crush on Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), Regina flies into a rage and becomes bent on seeking revenge by sabotaging their potential romance. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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Mike (Nicholas Cage), who is in search for work, is mistakenly considered to be a hitman and given 5 thousand bucks as a payment to kill the wife of the cafee's owner. The customer is a local sherrif as well: he thought that the killer will be a Texan (Mike's car had tags of the same state). Mike faces several problems: he is consent to kill the woman, but she offers him double money. Then the real assassin (Dennis Hopper) arrives to the place... |
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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. |
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Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever. |
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Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?" |
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Nick Wells (Robert De Niro), an aging professional thief, is determined to retire from crime after he nearly gets caught on his last job. He intends to focus on running his jazz club and romancing his charming and sexy girlfriend Diane (Angela Bassett). But Nick is soon pressured to pull one last heist by his longtime friend, financial partner and fence named Max (Marlon Brando). To make matters worse, he has to break his most important rule – always work alone - and teams up with a hotheaded young thief, Jack Teller (Edward Norton), who works as a janitor at Montreal's Customs House. He is plotting the heist of a unique 17th century French scepter worth $30 million stored in the heavily guarded Customs House. Nick agrees to play this risky game once again, unaware that it may be extremely dangerous and complicated... |
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Welcome to the Far Future when Man has made a technological breakthrough. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, the human race hopes to cope with the polar cap melting which causes the raise of the ocean waters and coastal flooding. Moreover, Cybertronics Manufacturing has created companion robots to replace friends, lovers or kids. One of these androids is David (Haley Joel Osment), a 12-year-old boy programmed to love and adopted by a Cybertronics employee, Henry Swinton (Sam Robards), and his wife, Monica (Frances O'Connor). David’s appearance and behaviour is not different from other kids. Even his love to the adoptive parents is quite real. One day David realizes that to be a human being is something totally different than to be a robot. David dreams of being a real kid to be loved and journeys out into the forests to find someone who can make his dreams come true. |
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