Iceland:12 certified movies

Misérables, Les (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Geoffrey Rush | Uma Thurman | Claire Danes | Hans Matheson | Reine Brynolfsson | Peter Vaughan | Christopher Adamson | Tim Barlow | Timothy Bateson | David Birkin | Václav Chalupa | Ian Cregg | Ben Crompton | Zdenek David
Directors: Bille August
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Hidalgo (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Viggo Mortensen | Zuleikha Robinson | Omar Sharif | Louise Lombard | Adam Alexi-Malle | Saïd Taghmaoui | Silas Carson | Harsh Nayyar | J.K. Simmons | Adoni Maropis | Victor Talmadge | Peter Mensah | Joshua Wolf Coleman | Franky Mwangi | Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Directors: Joe Johnston
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Frank Hopkins was a rider for the Army, who was at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which would haunt him for life and he copes by turning to the bottle. He joins Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and is billed as the greatest horseman and his horse, Hidalgo is billed as the greatest horse in the world because of the countless races he has won. But an Arab questions that claim because they have not competed in a race like the Oceans of Fire which is very grueling. Hopkins decides to join it. So he travels to the Middle East to enter and has several rivals and there are those who don’t want him to win. And Frank gets to face some of the demons that plague him.

Catwoman (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Halle Berry | Benjamin Bratt | Sharon Stone | Lambert Wilson | Frances Conroy | Alex Borstein | Michael Massee | Byron Mann | Kim Smith | Christopher Heyerdahl | Peter Wingfield | Berend McKenzie | Chase Nelson-Murray | Manny Petruzzelli | Harley Reiner
Directors: Pitof
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Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Booty Call (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Foxx | Tommy Davidson | Amy Monique Waddell | Wiley Moore | Vivica A. Fox | Tamala Jones | Kam Ray Chan | Ric Young | Ammie Sin | Scott LaRose | Bernie Mac | Olivia Yap | Bill MacDonald | John Moraitis | Karen Robinson
Directors: Jeff Pollack
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Bunz and Rushon are two best buddies who are looking forward to dating two ladies, Lysterine and Nikki. When the two boys get their lives altogether, they all fall in love. But will their lives stay peaceful?

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Powell | David Warner | Eric Porter | Karen Dotrice | John Mills | George Baker | Ronald Pickup | Donald Pickering | Timothy West | Miles Anderson | Andrew Keir | Robert Flemyng | William Squire | Paul McDowell | David Collings
Directors: Don Sharp
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ’sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ’sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…

Force 10 from Navarone (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Shaw | Harrison Ford | Barbara Bach | Edward Fox | Franco Nero | Carl Weathers | Richard Kiel | Alan Badel | Michael Byrne | Philip Latham | Angus MacInnes | Michael Sheard | Petar Buntic | Leslie Schofield | Anthony Langdon
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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In the darkest days of World War II, Hitler’s armies are storming through Europe, annihilating all opposition in their path. But U.S. Colonel Barnsby (Ford) plots to strike a crippling blow to the brutal Nazi forces. To succeed, he’ll need the help of the most skilled and lethal soldiers in the world: the Force 10 squad, fresh from its triumphant mission at Navarone. But when the team’s plan goes awry in a firestorm of blistering battles, Barnsby and the squad’s hard-driving Major Mallory (Shaw) are forced to devise a new and even more dangerous scheme to attack the Nazi war machine . . . or risk losing the rest of Europe to its awesome, destructive power.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Alec Baldwin | Geena Davis | Annie McEnroe | Maurice Page | Hugo Stanger | Michael Keaton | Rachel Mittelman | Catherine O'Hara | J. Jay Saunders | Mark Ettlinger | Jeffrey Jones | Winona Ryder | Glenn Shadix | Patrice Martinez | Cindy Daly
Directors: Tim Burton
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Crimson Tide (1995)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Gene Hackman | Matt Craven | George Dzundza | Viggo Mortensen | James Gandolfini | Rocky Carroll | Jaime Gomez | Michael Milhoan | Scott Burkholder | Danny Nucci | Lillo Brancato | Eric Bruskotter | Rick Schroder | Steve Zahn
Directors: Tony Scott
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In the near future, Russian rebels have taken over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed by the prospect of a rebel strike, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a nuclear ballistic submarine, to watch over the base and retaliate in case they launch. While on patrol, the submarine is attacked and the radio systems are knocked out. An emergency message received during the battle is only partially recovered. Captain Ramsey believes it to be the order to launch on the rebels, while XO Hunter wants to wait for a confirmation message. The conflict escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama’s nuclear missiles.

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Timothy Hutton | Sean Penn | Pat Hingle | Joyce Van Patten | Rob Reed | Rob Newell | Karen West | Art Camacho | Annie Kozuch | Richard Dysart | Priscilla Pointer | Chris Makepeace | Dorian Harewood | Mady Kaplan | Macon McCalman
Directors: John Schlesinger
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The true story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for sensitive documents shatters his faith in his country and leads him to a sometimes comic, sometimes chilling sideline as a spy for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can’t last, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.

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”.