Brazil:16 certified movies

Sudden Death (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Powers Boothe | Raymond J. Barry | Whittni Wright | Ross Malinger | Dorian Harewood | Kate McNeil | Michael Gaston | Audra Lindley | Brian Delate | Steve Aronson | Michael R. Aubele | Karen Elise Baldwin | Jennifer D. Bowser | Pat Brisson
Directors: Peter Hyams
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The Vice-President is being held at gunpoint. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena is wired with enough explosives to blow up the whole city. And if $1 billion isn’t delivered soon, thousands will die… …Darren McCord is in the arena. An arson investigator, he’s seen what explosives can do to people. And he won’t let it happen again. Because this time, one wrong move and his daughter dies, too…

Alfie (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jude Law | Renée Taylor | Jane Krakowski | Jeff Harding | Marisa Tomei | Kevin Rahm | Max Morris | Omar Epps | Nia Long | Gedde Watanabe | Jo Yang | Tara Summers | Sam Vincenti | Katherine LaNasa | Claudette Mink
Directors: Charles Shyer
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Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend’s (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves “players”.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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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.

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Gina Philips | Justin Long | Jonathan Breck | Patricia Belcher | Eileen Brennan | Brandon Smith | Peggy Sheffield | Jeffrey William Evans | Patrick Cherry | Jon Beshara | Avis-Marie Barnes | Steve Raulerson | Tom Tarantini | William Haze | Kim Kahana
Directors: Victor Salva
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Brother and sister, Trish and Darry are taking the long country road home on a break from college when along the way, they encounter a reckless driver trying to ram them off the road - the driver being a strange looking man donning shabby clothing, who seems to have sinister intentions. The siblings soon find themselves investigating the basement of an old decrepit chapel in the middle of nowhere, where there lies horrors that they least expect.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Frémont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Minéo | Jean Chatel | Stéphane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.

Four Brothers (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tyrese Gibson | André Benjamin | Garrett Hedlund | Terrence Howard | Josh Charles | Sofía Vergara | Fionnula Flanagan | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Taraji P. Henson | Barry Shabaka Henley | Jernard Burks | Kenneth Welsh | Tony Nappo | Shawn Singleton
Directors: John Singleton
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Little Children (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Patrick Wilson | Jennifer Connelly | Gregg Edelman | Sadie Goldstein | Ty Simpkins | Noah Emmerich | Jackie Earle Haley | Phyllis Somerville | Helen Carey | Catherine Wolf | Mary B. McCann | Trini Alvarado | Marsha Dietlein | Jane Adams
Directors: Todd Field
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen | Ken Davitian | Luenell | Bob Barr | Spirea Ciorobea | Alan Keyes | Michael Psenicksa | Bobby Rowe | Jim Sell | Larry Walker | Ilham Äliyev | Pamela Anderson | Mariam Behar | Linda Stein
Directors: Larry Charles
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

The Business (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Danny Dyer | Tamer Hassan | Geoff Bell | Georgina Chapman | Paul Burns | James Hagger | Roland Manookian | Martin Marquez | Michael Maxwell | Dan Mead | Andy Parfitt | David Spratt | Arturo Venegas | Eddie Webber | Camille Coduri
Directors: Nick Love
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Frankie, a young lad on the run from the grimy ghetto of South London, plans his escape and the beginnings of a new life in sunny Spain - the Costa Del Sol to be more precise. Armed with nothing but a bundle of cash stashed in his luggage he heads off, yet Frankie has no idea that this sum of money will catapult him into the seductive world of ex-gangster Charlie. Before he knows it Frankie’s got more then he bargained for - he’s one of Charlie’s gang and slap bang in the middle of the heady world of organized crime.

300 (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gerard Butler | Lena Headey | Dominic West | David Wenham | Vincent Regan | Michael Fassbender | Tom Wisdom | Andrew Pleavin | Andrew Tiernan | Rodrigo Santoro | Giovani Cimmino | Stephen McHattie | Greg Kramer | Alex Ivanovici | Craig Kelly
Directors: Zack Snyder
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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries’ request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes’ way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents’ complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied “molon lave,” which means “Come and get them.” The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn’t been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) “In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions).” For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) “Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws,” meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians’ morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.