Iceland:16 certified movies
Bugsy (1991)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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New York gangster Ben ‘Bugsy’ Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper, Siegel doesn’t hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea. Search keywords |
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a family housewife with four children discovers that she’s pregnant and decides she can’t handle another child to raise. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn’t realize the means to go through to get one. |
Broken Arrow (1950)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise’s Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use this chance to make himself an ambassador. Against all odds, his solitary mission into Cochise’s stronghold opens a dialogue. Opportunely, the president sends General Howard with orders to conclude peace. But even with Jeffords’ luck, the deep grievance and hatred on both sides make tragic failure all too likely… |
The Principal (1987)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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Rick Latimer is a teacher who gets a job as the principal of a school with a very bad reputation. In fact, his transfer there is a kind of punishment because he beat his wife’s boyfriend. So, Rick finds himself in a school where drugs, knives and guns are very usual things… |
Highlander: Endgame (2000)Thursday, March 18th, 2010 |
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When Connor Macleod sees his old friend Rachel die in an explosion, he’s had it with his immortal life and the endless pain it brings him and those he loves. He locks himself inside the Sanctuary, a Watcher-organized retreat stationed on holy ground, where immortals who are tired of the game can go to forever escape it, as well as to ensure that The Prize never falls into the wrong hands. But when an old enemy, Jacob Kell, and his posse of assassins attack the Sanctuary and kill everyone there but Connor, he is forced out into the open and into battle. Kell and Connor were friends once, and knew each other back when Connor was cast from Glenfinnan; he returned when news came that his mother was to be burned at the stake, and in the attempt to free her, Kell was killed by none other than Connor himself, and became an immortal, bitter with hate, and devoted to making Connor’s life a living hell. In the present day, Connor’s kinsman Duncan Macleod is attacked by Kell’s posse, including Kate, an old love of Duncan’s who seeks revenge for her unwillingly being made an immortal centuries ago. This attack had something to do with Connor, and Duncan goes in search of him to find out why. In the process, he learns that in the 450 years since Connor and Kell’s encounter in Glenfinnan, Kell has taken more than 600 heads and gained enough power to be called nothing less than the most powerful immortal alive. To make things worse, neither Connor nor Duncan are strong enough to face Kell alone. |
Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes (1994)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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Detective Sam Dietz yet again must find and stop another serial killer who kills a number of women in ritualistic executions. Detective work for Dietz is tough having to juggle two gorgeous women: his new female partner Jessica, and psychiatrist Sara Lee Jaffee who holds the key to the case. |
Relentless 3 (1993)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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Sam Dietz, divorced Los Angeles detective, is now back (from “up North”) agrees to consult on a serial killer case. Not wanting to be anymore involved than that changes when the killer forces him to become actively involved in the investigation. The killer is someone he’s arrested before… |
Relentless (1989)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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Buck Taylor is a reject from the LAPD Academy who takes out his rage and frustration on society by randomly selecting and killing various people out of a local phone directory and covering his tracks by using his police training skills. Meanwhile, two mismatched police detectives; the cynical veteran Bill Malloy and the brash newcomer Sam Dietz whom recently transfered from New York to L.A., try to track down the vicious killer before he kills again, only to both become targets by Buck’s need to kill. |
Jerry and Tom (1998)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl. |
Excessive Force (1993)Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 |
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A group of Chicago cops are involved in a raid from which $3,000,000 disappears. The local mob go after them and the body count starts to rise. The new Chief of Police makes it clear to the last remaining officer that he will look the other way if he takes the law into his own hands. When the policeman finds he can’t follow through on this someone else does and he finds himself and his girl are being hunted by more or less everyone for their own reasons. |
Never Too Young to Die (1986)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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007 star George Lazenby plays secret agent Drew Stargrove who is brutally murdered by the ruthless Van Ragnar (Gene Simmons). Fast-paced, action-filled entertainment, with lots of explosions, battles, chases and romance. In this action-packed Bond-style thriller, the murdered secret agent’s son, Lance Stargrove (John Stamos) is thrust into the dangerous and intriguing world of secret agents and espionage when he seeks revenge against Van Ragnar. Danja Deerling (Vanity) teams up with Lance as his sidekick and love interest. Search keywords |
No Contest (1994)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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Andrew Dice Clay takes over a hotel during a beauty pagent taking several pagent contestants hostage since one of them is a rich senator’s daughter. Shannon Tweed plays the Bruce Willis part. Search keywords |
Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she’s hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Search keywords |
Blue Tiger (1994)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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Gena is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, whilst shopping with him for a halloween mask, her son is accidently shot through the chest by a Japanese Gunman, trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gena notices that the gunman has a picture of a blue tiger on his chest. She is turned into an obsessed person and has an identical red tiger etched into her skin. She then tracks down the killer and plots his death. This leads her into the world of the Japanese Mafia…. Search keywords |
Moontrap (1989)Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 |
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During a routine flight, two veteran space shuttle pilots discover an alien artifact and bring it back to earth. It soon turns out to be an extraterristial war robot, which is able to recycle any biological or technical material for its own deadly use. The two astronauts are sent to the moon where Nasa expects to uncover the mystery of the alien robot’s origin. They discover an ancient humanoid culture and battle the ultimate threat of the war machines heading earth. Search keywords |
Brain Smasher… A Love Story (1993)Thursday, March 4th, 2010 |
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Sam Crain, a professional model, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is battling Chinese Shaolin Monks (not ninjas!). Fleeing the monks, Sam unwittingly involves Ed “Brainsmasher” Molloy, a nightclub bouncer. Search keywords |
Vigilante (1983)Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 |
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Nick is lading a group of factory workers to clean up the streets by brutallly beating or killing criminals. Eddie doesn’t really approve of this behaviour until a gang’s actions affect him personally. Eddie is then on a personal mission to end the gang’s actions…permanently. Search keywords |
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 |
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1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It’s a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law’s shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. |
Def by Temptation (1990)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural. Search keywords |
F.I.S.T (1978)Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
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Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob. Search keywords |
