Canada:14A certified movies

Rush Hour (1998)

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Rolston | Elizabeth Peña | Ken Leung | Jackie Chan | Tom Wilkinson | Tzi Ma | Robert Littman | Michael Chow | Julia Hsu | Chris Tucker | Chris Penn | Kai Lennox | Larry Sullivan | Yang Lin | Roger Fan | George Cheung | Lucy Lin
Directors: Brett Ratner
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Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own way.

Spy Game (2001)

Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Robert Redford | Brad Pitt | Catherine McCormack | Stephen Dillane | Larry Bryggman | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Matthew Marsh | Todd Boyce | Michael Paul Chan | Garrick Hagon | Andrew Grainger | Bill Buell | Colin Stinton | Ted Maynard | Tom Hodgkins
Directors: Tony Scott
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CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA’s top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

BASEketball (1998)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Trey Parker | Matt Stone | Dian Bachar | Yasmine Bleeth | Jenny McCarthy | Ernest Borgnine | Robert Vaughn | Trevor Einhorn | Bob Costas | Al Michaels | Robert Stack | Reggie Jackson | Dan Patrick | Kenny Mayne | Tim McCarver
Directors: David Zucker
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Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop & Remer (Parker & Stone), invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball rules. When the game becomes a huge success, they, along with a billionaire’s help, form the Professional Baseketball League where everyone gets the same pay and no team can change cities. Coop & Remer’s team, the Milwaukee Beers is the only team standing in the way of major rule changes that the owner of the Dallas Felons (Vaughn) wants to institute.

Empire Records (1995)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony LaPaglia | Maxwell Caulfield | Debi Mazar | Rory Cochrane | Johnny Whitworth | Robin Tunney | Renée Zellweger | Ethan Embry | Coyote Shivers | Brendan Sexton III | Liv Tyler | James 'Kimo' Wills | Ben Bode | Gary Bolen | Kimber Sissons
Directors: Allan Moyle
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Empire Records is going to be turned into a Music Town. It is up to the wacky employees to figure out a way to raise enough money to help their boss Joe keep the store from changing hands. They also deal with problems amongst themselves, love, and a has-been spoiled rock star named Rex Manning.

April Fool’s Day (1986)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dave Blamy | Samuel Child | Joe Egender | R. Keith Harris | Mark D. Headen | Josh Henderson | Eric Hollenbeck | David Lowe | Joseph McKelheer | George Peroulas | Robert Pineiro | Edd Robinson | Mark Alton Rose | Mark Scarboro | David Schifter
Directors: Mitchell Altieri
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A group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool’s jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what’s going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing?

Insomnia (2002)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Martin Donovan | Robin Williams | Oliver 'Ole' Zemen | Hilary Swank | Paul Dooley | Nicky Katt | Larry Holden | Jay Brazeau | Lorne Cardinal | James Hutson | Andrew Campbell | Paula Shaw | Crystal Lowe | Tasha Simms
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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Sent from the city to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, a police detective (Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner while trying to apprehend a suspect. Instead of admitting his guilt, the detective is given an unexpected alibi, but this “solution” only multiplies the emotional complexity and guilt over his partner’s death. He’s also still got a murder to solve, in addition to the blackmail and framing of an innocent bystander being orchestrated by the man they were chasing. There’s also a local detective (Swank) who is conducting her own personal investigation… of his partner’s death. Will it all come crashing down on him?

Get Carter (2000)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Miranda Richardson | Rachael Leigh Cook | Rhona Mitra | Johnny Strong | John C. McGinley | Alan Cumming | Michael Caine | John Cassini | Mickey Rourke | Mark Boone Junior | Garwin Sanford | Darryl Scheelar | Crystal Lowe | Lauren Lee Smith
Directors: Stephen T. Kay
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Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

The River King (2005)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Edward Burns | Jennifer Ehle | Thomas Gibson | John Kapelos | Jamie Thomas King | Rachelle Lefevre | Bruce Murphy | David Gibson McLean | Julian Rhind-Tutt | Ross Petty | David Christoffel | Richard Fitzpatrick | Karl Pruner | Jonathan Malen | Jeff A. Wright
Directors: Nick Willing
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In the city of Hadin, when two children find the body of the student Gus Pierce underneath the frozen water of the River King, the policeman Abel Grey is assigned for the investigation. The dean of the powerful and conservative local Haddan School where Gus studied, afraid of a possible scandal, tells the police that the outcast boy committed suicide. But Abel, after interviewing his best girlfriend, Carlin Leander, suspects that Gus was victim of a hazing of the Order of the Elect, a secret society of the Chalk House. Along his investigation, Abel, who has a trauma with the loss of his brother Frank years ago, finds corruption in his department and love with the teacher Betsy Chase. In the end, he discloses the truth about the death of Gus, and resolves his innermost issues with the ghost of Frank.

The Elephant Man (1980)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Cold Mountain (2003)

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jude Law | Nicole Kidman | Renée Zellweger | Eileen Atkins | Brendan Gleeson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Natalie Portman | Giovanni Ribisi | Donald Sutherland | Ray Winstone | Kathy Baker | James Gammon | Charlie Hunnam | Jack White | Ethan Suplee
Directors: Anthony Minghella
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Jude Law plays a leading role as Inman, a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his prewar sweetheart, Ada, played by Nicole Kidman.

Children of Dune (2003)

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Alec Newman | Julie Cox | Edward Atterton | Ian McNeice | Barbora Kodetová | Steven Berkoff | Daniela Amavia | P.H. Moriarty | James McAvoy | Jessica Brooks | Jonathan Bruun | Rick Young | Martin McDougall | Gee Williams | Alice Krige
Directors: Greg Yaitanes
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The twins of Paul “Muad’dib” Atreides become embroiled in the political landscape of Arrakis (”Dune”) and the rest of the universe.

Snake Eyes (1998)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Gary Sinise | John Heard | Carla Gugino | Stan Shaw | Kevin Dunn | Michael Rispoli | Joel Fabiani | Luis Guzmán | David Anthony Higgins | Mike Starr | Tamara Tunie | Chip Zien | Michaella Bassey | Paul Joseph Bernardo
Directors: Brian De Palma
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder.

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Tom Sizemore | Jennifer Beals | Don Cheadle | Maury Chaykin | Terry Kinney | Mel Winkler | Albert Hall | Lisa Nicole Carson | Jernard Burks | David Wolos-Fonteno | John Roselius | Beau Starr | Steven Randazzo | Scott Lincoln
Directors: Carl Franklin
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend’s bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA’s Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy “blue blood,” Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city’s mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright’s offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque “who-done-it” with an African-American theme.

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Cameron Diaz | Ned Bellamy | Eric Weinstein | Madison Lanc | Octavia Spencer | Mary Kay Place | Orson Bean | Catherine Keener | K.K. Dodds | Reginald C. Hayes | Byrne Piven | Judith Wetzell | John Malkovich | Kevin Carroll
Directors: Spike Jonze
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A puppeteer discovers a hidden doorway in his office, which turns out to be a portal into John Malkovitch (the famous actor)’s mind. Upon entering the portal, one gets to be inside Malkovitch’s mind for 15 odd minutes. As with any great discovery of this century, the ultimate question immediately arises : ‘How can we make money out of this?’ He and his co-worker promptly set out to exploit this discovery. It doesn’t take long for things to go haywire