Iceland:12 certified movies
21 (Twenty One, The Movie)
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 02 Jun 2008
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.
MirrorMask
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2005, UK, USA , added: 03 Jun 2008
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
007 Die Another Day
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 2002, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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When seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is sent to North Korea to infiltrate renegade military officer Colonel Moon, the mission is sabotaged but Colonel Moon is killed and his second-in-command Zao is injured, but Bond is captured and is tortured and interrogated. 14 months later, Bond is released and traded for Zao, and Bond's boss M, rescinds his 007 status. 007 sets out to get his revenge on those who set him up. Where he tracks down Zao in Cuba and finds him in a genetic operation to give him a new identity. Bond finds diamonds on Zao which leads him to British billionaire Gustav Graves, who has set-up Icarus, a orbit satellite which will provide light and energy to the Earth. With help from sexy American secret agent Jinx and Grave's publicist, undercover M:I-6 agent Miranda Frost, Bond sets out to stop Graves who is working with Zao and plans on using Icarus as a weapon and unleash destruction.
2 Fast 2 Furious
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2003, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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In the sequel Officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), stripped of his badge due to his kindness and close interaction with a remorseful criminal, is given one last chance to redeem his honour. Brian and his ex-con pal Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) are recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Miami street racing circuit and collar an international drug lord, Carter Verone (Cole Hauser). Unbeknownst to the smuggling ring, O'Conner and Pearce work with gorgeous undercover agent Monica Clemente (Eva Mendes) to bring Verone to justice.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Action / Adventure / Fantasy , produced in 2003, Germany, New Zealand, USA , added: 05 Mar 2005
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In the final chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker) assigns his infinite hosts to besiege Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor. He anticipates winning the war; however, he is outsmarted by Gandalf the Wizard (Ian McKellen) who diverts the Dark Lord’s attention to allow two tiny hobbits, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin), to reach Mount Doom with a plan to destroy the ring of power. The warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the rightful heir to the throne of Gondor, leads the army of undead soldiers and the remaining members of the fellowship to free the ancient city from Sauron's grasp. The result of the death battle against Sauron's army will decide fate of humanity.
007 Licence to Kill
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1989, UK, USA , added: 03 Mar 2005
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When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond's friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal. Bond won't be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated, and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez's sexy girldfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond, relegated to outlaw status, must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey's resources. In order to bring Sanchez down, Bond must survive a ferocious boat chase, a midair brawl over the controls of an out-of-control airplane, and an action-packed confrontation in the Mexico desert.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2001, New Zealand, USA , added: 16 Mar 2005
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The first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy narrates that in ancient times the perfidious Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker) forged a Ring of Power to rule over the lands of Middle Earth. But the Ring was stolen, and Sauron thought it to be lost for ever.
Many ages later, the Ruling Ring fell into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm), and then was inherited by his nephew Frodo (Elijah Wood). Now Frodo assembles his three friends, Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin), Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd), and Meriadoc Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan), the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), the heir to the throne of Gondor, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Prince of the Stewards of Gondor, Boromir (Sean Bean), Prince of the Elves' Woodland Realm, Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and the dwarf Gimili (John Rhys-Davies), to form the so-called Fellowship of the Ring. They take a long and perilous journey across the treacherous landscape of Middle-earth so as to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, where it was made.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Action / Adventure / Fantasy , produced in 2002, Germany, New Zealand, USA , added: 16 Mar 2005
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Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) keep on their dangerous way to Mordor being accompanied by treacherous Gollum (voice of Andy Serkis) who is being torn between his evil and good identities. He still craves for the Ring he call his Precious. Meantime, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) are hostages of Uruk-hai while Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are trying to release them. The power of Isengard grows, armies of many thousands orcs are marching on towards the lands of Gondor and Rohan, and the burning baleful Eye stares from the awful tower of Barad-Dur. The Ent nation rises when the orcs begin to cut down the ancient forest of them by Saruman's order. The might of the innumerable Mordor powers headed by Sauron looms over the Middlearth, the land became silent before the great war.
Mission: Impossible
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 1996, USA , added: 21 Mar 2005
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy.
Almost Famous
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Music , produced in 2000, USA , added: 25 May 2005
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Code 46
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2003, UK , added: 31 May 2005
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Welcome to a near future world where cloning has run amok, free relationship between a man and a woman is forbidden by genetics laws, and travel from city to city is severely restricted. A Seattle insurance fraud investigator named William Geld (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shanghai to figure out who is forging and smuggling 'papelles', identity documents that allow people to travel. But when he gets on the trail of Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), a charming woman who is supposedly responsible for the forgeries, he becomes deeply infatuated with her. He conceals her crime and enters into an illicit affair with her. Back home, William can't help thinking about Maria. He returns to Shanghai only to find that she will be severely punished for a Code 46 violation. Desperate, William is determined to leave no stone unturned to save his flame.
The Aviator
Biography / Drama , produced in 2004, Germany, Japan, USA , added: 31 May 2005
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The early years of the famous magnate, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), are charted in this biographical chronicle where Leo DiCaprio stars. His eclectic career came through everything from oil, for which he cared little, to casinos, film, and aviation - as he turned millions of dollars into billions. His relationships with Hollywood's divas, including the elegant screen star Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett) and the sensual screen beauty Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) were also volatile. He was the incarnated mid-century icon of American wealth. Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves of the one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century and also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical phobias and disabilities, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that forces him to isolate himself from the world.
Elektra
Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 30 Jun 2005
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This movie presents Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a deadly and gracious female ninja. She is forced to make a responsible decision when she is sent to kill Mark Miller and his 13-year old daughter Abby. She rejects her mission and begins to fight against the hand, a powerful ninja syndicate whose members practice the dark martial art of ninjiutsu. Her fantastic abilities help her to struggle: she has a gift to see the future and her fighting skills also is not a trifle!
Any Given Sunday
Drama / Sport , produced in 1999, USA , added: 25 Jul 2006
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An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out.
Firewall
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 31 Aug 2006
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A bank's security specialist Jack Stanfield is responsible for the security of the computer system of a small bank. His family includes the architect Beth, a young son and teen daughter. One day, after being introduced to a man named Bill Cox who is interested in working with Jack on a security project, Jack finds himself attacked and staring down a gun barrel. Now he should hack his own-built computer system to transfer a big sum of money to the thug's account in Caimans. Failure to comply means the murder of Jack's family. However, even after Cox has the money, it becomes obvious that he ain't gonna let anyone live...
Ultraviolet
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 23 Oct 2006
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In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called Violet (Milla Jovovich), who is bent on vengeance and has little left to lose. Provoked beyond reason by powers that will not rest until she and her people are dead, she will become everything her persecutors feared her to be
The 007 World Is Not Enough
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 1999, UK, USA , added: 19 Dec 2006
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The 19th installment follows MI-6 Commander James Bond to a swiss bank in Bilbao, Spain where upon retrieval of three million pounds (British dollars) a siege takes place. James barely escapes the local police, leaving them questioning the mysterious shooting that occurred minutes ago. The next day, at the MI-6 Headquarters in London, Bond first greet Miss Moneypenny and gives her a nice souvenir: a cigar. Q then calls him in first to meet Sir Robert King then to report on the mission. It was then that the three million pounds was in fact, a bomb which destroys the Headquarters and kills King. Bond's only suspect, who happens to be the woman from the swiss bank blows herself up form a hot-air balloon. He then meets Sir King's daughter, Electra, who now own her father's oil company. But Bond's real mission has a new enemy named Renard a man who feels no pain whatsoever after a bullet was put into his head, who along with Electra and their henchmen plan to nuke Europe and everything in it's path. Now with the help of Christmas Jones, a research scientist, James must foil the terrorists plan before the entire Easternmost countries are wiped out forever. The world is not enough for disasters. And the world is not enough for terrorists. The world is only enough for one man- one hero: James Bond 007!
X-Men: The Last Stand
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2006, UK, USA , added: 20 Dec 2006
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When a private laboratory supported by the government finds the cure for the mutants, using the DNA of a powerful boy, the mutants have the option of giving up their powers and become human, but their society split. Magneto opposes and decides to join a force to fight against the government and kill the mutant boy. Meanwhile, Jean Grey resurrects uncontrolled by Xavier and with the personality of the powerful Dark Phoenix. She destroys Cyclops and Professor Charles Xavier, and allies to the evil forces of Magneto, making them almost invincible.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Nov 2007
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To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Time Bandits
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1981, UK , added: 08 Jul 2008
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A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.
Iron Man
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 08 Sep 2008
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.
American Pie
Comedy , produced in 1999, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to "score." And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1980, USA , added: 21 Feb 2005
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The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and the others didn't end with the destruction of the Death Star - it continues in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world Hoth. But even on such an icy, backwater world, they cannot escape the wicked Darth Vader's eye for long, and he devastates the Rebel base in an assault with the horrible AT-AT walkers. Luke flees to Dagobah to begin Jedi Knight training with Yoda, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and C-3PO run the blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers in the Millenium Falcon. The Imperials pursue them across the galaxy and eventually catch up with them at Bespin. Now Darth Vader plans to use them as bait to lure Luke Skywalker to him, and turns Han Solo over to Boba Fett as a prize to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke learns a terrible family secret after losing a swordfight with Vader. Will he - and the others - escape the Empire's clutches?
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2002, Germany, UK, USA , added: 24 Feb 2005
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
007 From Russia with Love
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 1963, UK , added: 03 Mar 2005
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Evil crime cartel SPECTRE seeks revenge for the death of its operative Dr No and sets a trap to lure British agent James Bond to his death. The bait is a Soviet encryption machine called a Lektor, which the British Secret Service are desperate to get hold of.
Timeline
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2003, USA , added: 27 May 2005
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Archaeology students, Andre Marek (Gerard Butler), Chris Johnston (Paul Walker), and Kate Ericson (Frances O'Connor), working on the ruins of a 14th-century castle in France, find amazing historical artifacts - an old bifocal lens and an appeal for help dated 1357 and written by ... their history professor Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly)! The perplexed students make for International Technology Corporation headquarters to inform about the mysterious discoveries. ITC president Robert Doniger (David Thewlis) explains to them that he has created the time machine to travel into the past, and Professor Johnston, who wanted to be the first to experience it, is now trapped in world history. The students are certain that their knowledge of medieval Europe will be enough for them to get him back safe and sound, and they fearlessly travel back in time to find themselves in the midst of the Hundred Years' War. Will they manage to rescue the professor and return home if they have only six hours?
Blue Streak
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller , produced in 1999, Germany, USA , added: 12 Jul 2006
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Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he's stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years' later, he's out of prison and he heads for the site: it's L.A.'s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he's partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal.
Edward Scissorhands
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance , produced in 1990, USA , added: 19 Oct 2006
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A kind inventor is almost finished piecing together his latest creation when fate prevents him from completing his most important project. Edward may seem dangerous, with scissors instead of hands, but when a compassionate Avon lady comes calling, it's clear that things are going to be changing for Edward who has been alone in the large empty mansion. What they both don't realize is that the most important change of all won't be found in Edward but in the residents of the sleep suburbs he will be calling home, and a young teenage girl who's eyes will be opened.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi , produced in 1985, Australia, USA , added: 12 Feb 2008
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This is the third film in the popular series about a deserted and cruel post-apocalyptic world inhabited by fierce barbarians and criminals. Max (Mel Gibson) finds himself in the city of Bartertown trying to get back some of his stolen goods. He eventually becomes involved by Aunt Entity, the head of this weird city, in a death struggle with a huge creature known as "The Blaster." And that's only the beginning of his incredible and dangerous adventures! Max will be later betrayed and seeking shelter in the wild desert, rescued by a tribe of orphans and... See the continuation of the wonderful Mad Max saga!
Vertical Limit
Action / Adventure / Thriller , produced in 2000, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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The movie depicts the story of Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), once an alpinist and now a wildlife photographer, who cannot obliterate from his memory a tragic event in his life. The Garrets enjoyed climbing mountains. One day while climbing in Utah, Peter, his father, Royce (Stuart Wilson), and his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), were eyewitnesses to the death of two amatures falling down the mountain. This caused the Garrets to move quickly and slide off the side of the mountain. As the rope could hardly hold that much weight, the father made Peter cut it to save his and his sister's lives. The father died and Annie condemned her brother for making a fateful decision. Three years later, Annie, determined to continue her father's dream of climbing the world's toughest peaks, makes a risky attempt to ascend the perilous K-2. Having heard about Annie being trapped in an icy grave, Peter assembles a rescue team to save the three survivors of the expedition, his sister, Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton).
