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Finland:K-16 certified full length DVD movies
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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past. |
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The subject of a classical fantastic thriller takes place fifty years later after the dramatic events of the preceding film, "Alien". Officer Ellen Ripley should return again to the planet where the monstrous alien has made an awful carnage. What is even more awful, the suspicious planet is already colonized by humans, as Ripley gets to know, and the Corporation for which Ellen had worked, hardly wants to cover up its past failures. Ripley is to turn back to the monsters' lair; it is clear that the colonized planet has all transmissions interrupted, and the severe officer conjectures, why the distant human colony keeps silence. She realizes that she is to face the extraterrestrial repent horror again. |
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Set in Middlesex, Virginia, the story follows Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), a 16-year-old dreamer and Christina Applegate fan who suffers from pyromania. On October 2nd, 1988, Donnie is visited by a man-sized large-toothed bunny named Frank (James Duval) and invited to go for a walk. While Donnie sleepwalks outside, a jet engine falls from the sky into his bedroom. At parting the rabbit prophesies that the "end of the world" will occur in "28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds." Before the apocalypse Frank calls on Donnie several times and draws him into a chain of vandal actions. |
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak. |
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William's father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city's and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace's death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland's freedom. |
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
This is the special 2007 "final cut" edition of the famous 1982 movie. |
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Bud Baxter (Jack Lemmon), an insurance clerk working in a big New York company thinks out the way to increase his career by lending his Manhattan apartment to his superiors for their intrigues. One day his boss Jeff Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) asks Baxter to do him a good turn, but Sheldrake's lover turns out to be Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), a nice elevator operator whom Baxter adores as much as his boss does. |
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Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, this gory spine-chiller revolves around the peaceful small community of Amity Island who are terrorized by sudden attacks from a gigantic white shark with a hunger for human fresh. First, the hideous creature takes the life of a young woman named Chrissie Watkins (Susan Backlinie). Then it mercilessly attacks and eats a young boy named Alex Kintner (Jeffrey Voorhees). Filled with utter despair and unspeakable horror, the summer vacationers can no longer enjoy the sea and the sun as the shark threatens their lives. So new police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), young oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) team up to hunt down and kill the man eater. |
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don't know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther's and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money. |
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Will Kane is a town marshall. It's his wedding day and his last day as a lawman. He was about to leave town with his new bride to start a new life when some men come to town who tell him that a man he sent to prison some years ago has just been released and is arriving on the noon train. Kane and any of the townsfolk who remember him, know that he's coming to town for one thing; to get Will. Will's friends tell him to leave town which he does but Will feeling that running away is not a solution returns and intends to face him. Will tries to find support from his friends but all of them don't want to help him or are too afraid and all that they tell him is to leave, even his wife feels the same way. And as the train comes closer, Will is all alone. |
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Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as 'replicants'. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired. |
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A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers. |
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In ancient times, the Roman Empire had no commander more powerful than general Maximus (Russell Crowe). The invincible Legions of the Empire led by the noble warrior worshiped him reverently and could follow him even to the hell. But it happened that the courageous Maximus, determined to have a fair fight with enemy troops, turned out powerless against treacherous court intrigues. The general was betrayed and condemned to death. Having escaped an execution and been sold into slavery, Maximus was forced to train as a gladiator in the arena, where his fame grew. Once in the Coliseum, he was locked in mortal combat with his sworn enemy, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix)... |
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle's torment and Joker's unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker's psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer. |
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Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman who has big financial problems, hires two thugs, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), to kidnap his wife, Jean (Kristin Rudrüd). He desperately hopes to get the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law, Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell), and pay off his debts. But the kidnapping plan goes horribly awry because of Jerry's extreme stupidity, greed and the complete haplessness of the kidnappers. The seemingly non-violent affair entails a series of gory incidents. |
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The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth. |
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Few months ago an experienced child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) has been wounded by an ex-patient of him who committed suicide after the assault. Doctor starts to study a new interesting case: young boy Cole contacting with ghosts, asking for help. The boy sees people who don't know they are dead. Cole (Heily Joe Osment) is afraid of the haunting shadows, Dr Crowe finds out that the boy is sane and phantoms really exist. Moreover, the doctor discovers his own part in the whole breathtaking story… Picture is nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. (M. Night Shyamalan) |
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Based on Truman Capote's novel, the powerful crime drama relates a true story of the gruesome murder of an entire family in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas. Ex-cons and homeless drifters, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Richard Hickock (Scott Wilson) learn from their inmate that the Clutters keep $10,000 in a safe in their farmhouse. After breaking in the house and finding no money, the criminals torture and brutally kill Mr. (John McLiam) and Ms. Clutter (Ruth Storey) and their two teenage kids. Perry and Dick leave the crime scene with only $43 and flee to Mexico, but they eventually return to the United States. The murderers make the mistake of cashing bad checks and end up arrested and sentenced to death. |
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This biblical parody focuses on Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman) who, due to a chain of ridiculous and comic circumstances that parallel the life of Jesus, is mistaken for a prophet and willy-nilly becomes a sort of Messiah. Eventually, having fallen in love with a rebel Judith, Brian joins up with an anti-Roman political organization - Peoples' Front of Judea. The Romans finally catch the reluctant Messiah and he is doomed to be crucified... Ultimately, the movie is a total mockery ranging from from Pontius Pilate to mad prophets, Roman centurions, and crucifixion. |
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In England, the Italian English hairdresser Milo Tindle is invited by the successful writer of detective stories Andrew Wyke to visit his isolated house. The lower class Milo is the lover of Andrew's wife, who is used to have a comfortable life, and he intends to marry her. Andrew proposes Milo to steal his jewelry simulating a burglary. Milo would make a fortune selling the jewels to an intermediary; and Andrew would be reimbursed by the insurance company and would not pay alimony. However, the whole situation was part of an evil game. When Milo vanishes, a detective visits Andrew to investigate what really happened that night, when deadly games are disclosed. |
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