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Singapore:NC-16 certified full length DVD movies
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Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is a famous spy from 60's who is cryonically frozen and then brought back to life in the middle of 1990's. The world has changed dramatically, his mission still being the same: to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Having got back his wonderful belongings, such as "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump", a receipt for a "Swedish-made penis-enlarger pump" and a book written by Austin entitled "Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby)", Austin teams up with lovely Miss Vanessa Kensington (Elizabeth Hurley), his ex-partner's daughter and they go to Vegas to face the dangerous adventure there. Unfortunately, the secret agent's free love credo taken from the 1960s doesn't seem to really work out with Vanessa...
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The 1860s, the end of the American Civil War. Gideon (Pierce Brosnan), deft and experienced with a knife, is hiding in the American Rockies. Eventually, several mountain men, hired to hunt for Gideon, shoot and wound him. It appears that the hunt was organized by Colonel Morsman Carver (Liam Neeson), a Confederate officer who has been long craving for getting even with Gideon... But what is his sin? |
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The action takes place in the year 2131 – in a war-deserted future the city of Utopia, populated by humans and bioroids, where a very high-powered computer called GIA is a kind of "Big Brother", supporting the city council in controlling every side of life. Deunan Knute, a survivor of numerous global wars, appears in this ideally organized society, and she is destined to carry a heritage that will be crucial for the future of humanity. |
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Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a young intelligent woman who would have followed in the footsteps of her father Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant mathematician, if he hadn’t begun to suffer from dementia. Catherine gave up a seemingly promising future and devoted herself to caring for her ailing father. Now, after his death, Catherine comes face to face with her fears of inheriting her father’s madness which eventually lead her to the verge of a mental breakdown. The situation becomes aggravated with the unexpected arrival of her overbearing elder sister Claire (Hope Davis) who wants to help Catherine settle their father’s estate. Moreover, Robert’s former student and now teacher Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal) turns up at her door. He worshipped Robert and now wants to search through his mentor’s notebooks in the hope of finding valuable work.
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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who's believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army. |
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Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s. They fall in love, but she's married with children. |
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After her divorce, Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an old-fashioned house with one very modern addition: a "panic room" which is virtually impossible to break into, designed for refuge during a home invasion. In their first night in the house a trio of thieves do break in and Meg and Sarah rush into the panic room. However, the intruders are looking for something inside the panic room, and given the recent move the room's hotline to the police hasn't been hooked up yet. Worse, Sarah is diabetic and the room doesn't contain any sugar... |
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In 2010, the riskiest districts of Paris are walled off and turned into ghettos controlled by ruthless street gangs. After a weapon of mass destruction is stolen by Taha Bemamud's (Bibi Naceri) powerful gang and may take lives of millions of dwellers, Damien Tomaso, an elite police officer with expertise in martial arts and weaponry, is assigned to find and deactivate the bomb. He specializes in navigating the treacherous sections; however, he needs a guide to District B13. Thus Damien teams up with ex-thug Leito (David Belle) who is determined to rescue his kidnapped sister Lola, (Dany Verissimo), from the clutches of Taha's gang. |
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In the second chapter of the trilogy, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar consisting of Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) go to Zion, the last human city on the planet Earth. On their arrival the heroes discover that the Machine Army is digging towards the city in order to destroy it and wipe out its population. While the inhabitants of Zion take measures for the defence, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity leave to make an attempt to destroy the Matrix from the inside. But they must first find the Keymaker who keeps the keys to all the "back doors" of the Matrix. To reach the Source is no easy matter as Neo and his crew confront new upgraded Agents, a mob of Agent Smith clones and other evil programs. |
| Amistad
[1997,
USA]
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| Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. |
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Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling towards the New World in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been captured, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing the Atlantic, Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release. |
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The suspenseful crime drama revolves around Erica Bain (Jodie Foster), a successful NYC radio personality who hosts a night show called "Street Walk" where she relates the sentimental stories of her beloved city. One day while walking their dog in a nearby park, Erica and her fiancé David Kirmani (Naveen Andrews) get assaulted and beaten with pipes by a gang of violent thugs. The brutal attack leaves David dead and Erica in a three-week coma. Unable to cope with fear for her own life and driven by revenge, Erica illegally purchases a handgun and begins stalking the night streets to track down the perpetrators responsible for the murder of her beloved. |
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another 'city-slicker' in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a 'rogue' crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death. |
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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives. |
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The Scandinavian mighty warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) has got orders from King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) to protect his realm from a marauding ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover). Beowulf leads his brave crew of soldiers into a fierce battle with the monstrous troll. After defeating the evil creature, Beowulf incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie) who slays his men in revenge. The courageous warrior sets out to kill the monster's mother who takes the form of a beautiful, extremely sexy woman and promises him wealth and power if he makes love with her. Beowulf succumbs to temptation and sleeps with her but in doing so he procreates a new curse, a dragon that is far fiercer, far more powerful than Grendel... |
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war. |
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This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house in the early 1930s. Here, she goes through the training to become a geisha, and the life she leads as one. She learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri. She can play with the hearts of the mightiest men, but the only one she adores is beyond her reach. Sayuri must confront the possibility that history will leave all that she has worked for behind as World War II approaches, and as Japan stands at the brink of a new era. |
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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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Once again Jigsaw is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. Jigsaw is eager to be put behind bars in order to throw the authorities off his trail as he once again punishes people who in his eyes have transgressed the boundaries of acceptable moral behavior. Eight people have been locked away by Jigsaw, and they must torture their bodies and minds to achieve the terrible justice Jigsaw seeks. |
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Ma Jun, a cop known for dispensing justice during arrests, teams with Hua Sheng, who's undercover, to try to bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before the mainland's takeover of Hong Kong. The eldest, Xian Wei Cha (called Zah), is arrested in an operation that exposes Sheng and almost gets him killed. His girlfriend, Qiu Di, who's been unaware of Sheng's profession, wants to see him quit. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. Zah's trial approaches, witnesses are in danger, and a showdown is inevitable. |
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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