Ireland:12A certified movies
P.S. I Love You
Comedy / Drama , produced in 2007, USA , added: 22 Apr 2008
Description:
Holly Kennedy (Hillary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life— a passionate, funny, and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother (Kathy Bates) and best friends (Gina Gershon) and Denise (Lisa Kudrow), begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a touching, exciting and often hilarious journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life.
The Forbidden Kingdom
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance , produced in 2008, USA , added: 15 May 2008
Description:
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
21 (Twenty One, The Movie)
Drama , produced in 2008, USA , added: 02 Jun 2008
Description:
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.
Be Kind Rewind
Comedy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2008, USA , added: 20 Jun 2008
Description:
A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.
Son of Rambow
Comedy / Drama , produced in 2007, France, Germany, UK , added: 05 Aug 2008
Description:
SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80's, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God's 'chosen ones' and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will's imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point.
Baby Mama
Comedy , produced in 2008, USA , added: 25 Aug 2008
Description:
Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough ... After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they'll discover two kinds of family: the one you're born to and the one you make.
Deja Vu
Action / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 28 Aug 2008
Description:
After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent's skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames.
Flight of the Phoenix
Action / Adventure , produced in 2004, USA , added: 31 May 2005
Description:
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.
Meet the Fockers
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2004, USA , added: 28 Jun 2005
Description:
In this sequel to "Meet The Parents" Greg Focker faces a difficult task: he must now introduce the straight-laced Byrnes family to his wholly unconventional and totally eccentric parents. Ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Florida to take a look at the people who had called their son Gaylord M. Focker. As the critics soundly state, the cast of the movie is brilliant (as well as in the previous one), but the movie itself is more contrived and predictable, and a lot less fun than the original. "The casting is grand, but one wishes more thought was put into the script".
Hitch
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2005, USA , added: 30 Jun 2005
Description:
Alex Hitchens (Will Smith) is a clandestine specialist of an unusual and delicate profession. He helps shy men to date their dream's women, and now he works to help clumsy Albert, who is exactly a very shy person craving for the attention of wealthy and smooth Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). Ambitious and charismatic Hitch is pretty sure that only three dates should be always enough to win over the every girl's heart. Suddenly Hitch falls for the gossip journalist Sara (Eva Mendes), who was recently assigned to write a story about Allegra. Sara is close to uncover the date machinations and to back the mysterious pander against the wall. This luminous romantic comedy will help you to take a new look at the sexes' relationships.
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!
War of the Worlds
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 12 Jul 2005
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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come en masse to destroy Earth. As they plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must come to the defense of his children. As the world must fend for itself by a new and very advanced enemy not of this world, its inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it.
Batman Begins
Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 12 Jul 2005
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Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, a young boy received the trauma which led him into obsession to revenge. He travels Asia, where he is trained by a ninja fighter Ra's al Ghul. When Bruce returns home, he finds his native Gotham-city overran with crime and the Wayne Enterprises, his parents' corporation, slipped from his control. The hero is determined to bring peace and safety back to the city. Wayne and his allies develop a secret identity as Batman, a masked fighter for justice. But to defeat the mafia villains will not be so easy.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Action / Comedy / Romance / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 12 Jul 2005
Description:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stars as a couple who live a boring life - 6 years in marriage, nothing new. But events unexpectedly take a new turn when the couple turns out to be a pair of highly paid assassins, who know nothing about real life of each other and even working for the competing organizations. Truth is disclosed at the moment when they are both assigned by their employers to kill the same person. While the deceived bosses are trying to ruin the couple, the real fun begins. Lots of dizzy stunts and a bit of a sexy humour are presented in this action thriller laced with comedy.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2005, UK, USA , added: 12 Jul 2005
Description:
Arthur Dent is a British everyman. When he finally meets his perfect woman he balks at her request to go some place and she is then stolen away from him by a man claiming to have his own spaceship arrives at the party. Arthur next finds that his home is to be demolished for a bypass. He thinks it is only his house, but later realizes, with the help of Ford Prefect, that his galactic home, Earth, is going to be destroyed as well. Ford and Arthur then catch a ride on a spaceship and are Arthur finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime. He also finds the woman stolen away from him and the man who pilfered her. If Earth can be restored will Arthur want to ease back into his boring life?
The Interpreter
Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2005, France, UK, USA , added: 04 Aug 2005
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film).
Just Friends
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2005, Canada, USA , added: 13 Sep 2006
Description:
Chris (Ryan Reynolds) and Jamie (Amy Smart) were the best friends at the high school: he was the clumsy source of mockery for cruel classmates, she was a popular and beautiful cheerleader. Surely, he harbored a secret that he is hopelessly in love with Jamie. One day Chris finally works up his courage and makes his feelings known for her. Surprised, Jamie proceeds with "let us stay just friends" talk, that fateful moment Chris decides to change himself. Decade after, we can see reinvented Chris as a smooth talking womanizer, living large in Los Angeles. He was given a challenging job assignment from his boss, KC, concerning the turning spoiled socialite, diva and magazine pin-up girl Samantha James into a pop-star. The snag is in the fact that Chris and Sam used to date, and that she still carries a torch for him, which makes it all the more hellish. On their way to Paris, they make an unexpected stop in New Jersey – for Chris it's the first time back in 10 years. Chris isn't going to stay there for a long, but he runs into Jamie working at the local bar... You should see yourself what will come further in this slapstick comedy!
Click
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Nov 2006
Description:
Michael Newman (Adam Sandler), an architect, is a father of two. He's a workaholic, and being frustrated in his job and an ungrateful boss. Suddenly Michael discovers a universal remote allowing him to control not only his home electronics but entirely his life. In this high-concept fantasy comedy Sandler's hero travels back and forth through the different points of his life. The wonderful device lets him to mute a neighbour's barking dog and to zoom back the details of a past quarrel with wife. Suddenly Michael realizes the huge amount of important things he missed in his life paying to much attention to his work.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Drama / History / Romance , produced in 2005, USA , added: 01 Dec 2006
Description:
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.
X-Men: The Last Stand
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2006, UK, USA , added: 20 Dec 2006
Description:
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.
Into the Blue
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2005, USA , added: 15 Aug 2007
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Jared Cole and his girlfriend Sam Nicholson are a young couple living in the Caribbean. Jared is an unemployed diver whose dream is to find treasure in the Caribbean Sea and Sam works at a local resort as a shark handler. When Jared's best friend Bryce Dunn, a selfish New York lawyer and his new girlfriend Amanda Collins arrive, the two couples spend a couple of days experiencing paradise. But, they discover an airplane on the sea floor that crashed during a hurricane and they find the cargo on-board the airplane is cocaine. Jared and Sam's lives are in danger, when Bryce and Amanda make a deal with a dangerous drug lord who wants the cocaine. Jared's rival, Treasure Hunter Derek Bates learns what they are doing and tries to negotiate the cocaine to raise money for a expedition where he intends to find a sunken boat with treasure. Jared, Sam, Bryce, and Amanda find themselves racing against time to find the shipwreck before somebody else does.
Next
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2007, USA , added: 20 Aug 2007
Description:
Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) was born with a special gift to see two minutes into the future and change it to suit himself. Unwilling to attract attention to his ability, he works as a magician with the stage name of Frank Cadillac, performing third-rate shows in Las Vegas and living off "winnings" on slot machines. Unfortunately for Cris, both casino security and the FBI somehow learn of his power and want to take advantage of it. The casino bosses want him to rob the house. FBI agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) wants him to thwart the detonation of a nuclear device in Los Angeles. Cris, however, wants nothing to do with the former and the latter. The reason is that his love interest is Liz Cooper (Jessica Biel), a seductive schoolteacher, who is inexplicably linked to this bomb scheme, and he is not about to jeopardize a promising affair with the girl of his dreams.
Accepted
Comedy , produced in 2006, USA , added: 21 Aug 2007
Description:
Senior high school student Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) is a fun loving, carefree loafer who gets his bitters: he is rejected by all eight colleges he has applied for. His overly expectant parents will surely feel chagrined at hearing the news. But B is not alone to meet with a reverse – several of his outcast buddies are in the same boat. It is as clear as noonday that crying will not mend matters. At first he has no idea how to get away with it, and then he has a brainstorm - he can create his own fake college! B's fellows unanimously welcome the idea and open the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) to outsmart their parents and peers.
World Trade Center
Drama / History , produced in 2006, USA , added: 31 Aug 2007
Description:
Based on the events of September 11, 2001, the drama tells the true-life story of courageous police officers John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (Michael Pena) who rushed into the sprawling twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by planes piloted by terrorists. John and Will tried desperately to rescue civilians, but became entombed under the rubble when the skyscrapers collapsed. Fortunately, these two were the eighteenth and nineteenth men of twenty to be pulled out alive.
Spider-Man 3
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2007, USA , added: 11 Sep 2007
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
The Painted Veil
Drama / Romance , produced in 2006, China, USA , added: 12 Sep 2007
Description:
Kitty Fane is a frivolous young English woman who longs for romance and excitement, trapped in a loveless marriage to a staid Shanghai researcher. When her husband learns she has had an affair, he volunteers to fight a cholera epidemic in China's war-torn interior. Dr. Fane forces his wife to accompany him on the difficult and hazardous journey, endangering her life in the process.
The Pursuit of Happyness
Biography / Comedy / Drama , produced in 2006, USA , added: 12 Sep 2007
Description:
The moving drama is based on the real-life story of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a purposeful, strong-willed, fortitudinous person who never let despair hold him captive. You know, life is difficult enough as it is. And you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth as Chris did. Jobless, homeless and stony-broke, he took things on the chin and bent over backwards to earn a reasonable living and make his infant son Christopher (Jaden Smith) happy. There was a period of tough sledding before he succeeded in beating the odds. But for his capability of endurance, his talent and the overwhelming desire for a better life, he wouldn’t have become a millionaire.
Flyboys
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / War , produced in 2006, UK, USA , added: 10 Oct 2007
Description:
This breathtaking war drama depicts the true story of love, brotherhood, courage and fortitude. It centers on the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, thirty-eight young inexperienced American pilots who made history by volunteering to fight in the French Air Service before the United States entered World War I. They fearlessly combated the enemy and downed 57 German planes in 20 months.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy , produced in 2007, USA , added: 08 Nov 2007
Description:
This is the final chapter of Gore Verbinski's swashbuckling action-adventure trilogy. In the second part the bold Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) was killed during the battle against the formidable Kracken. This time he is hopelessly stuck in the purgatory of Davy Jones' (Bill Nighy) Locker, the evil spirits of the deep. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley) form an unlikely alliance with the evil Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and set sail on a perilous journey to the end of the world, namely to Singapore, where they will have to fight with the insidious Captain Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), enlist support of the mighty Brethren Court, get the Black Pearl from the depths of the ocean and rescue Jack Sparrow from the land of the dead.
Catch and Release
Comedy / Drama / Romance , produced in 2006, USA , added: 17 Dec 2007
Description:
Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) has the rug jerked out from under her when her fiancé, Brady Douglas, unexpectedly dies just a few days before their wedding. She feels emotionally devastated and seeks consolation in the company of his buddies, Dennis (Sam Jaeger), Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), and Sam (Kevin Smith). As time passes, Gray discovers that her seemingly perfect fiancé had a few skeletons in the closet.
