Ireland:18 certified movies

Papillon (1973)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Hoffman, Dustin | Jory, Victor | Gordon, Don | Zerbe, Anthony | Deman, Robert | Parfrey, Woodrow | Mumy, Bill | Coulouris, George | Assan, Ratna | Smithers, William | Avery, Val | Sierra, Gregory | Tayback, Vic | Watson, Mills
Directors: Schaffner, Franklin J.
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

Fargo (1996)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Buscemi, Steve | Stormare, Peter | Rudrüd, Kristin | Presnell, Harve | Denman, Tony | Houston, Gary | Wingert, Sally | Schweickhardt, Kurt | Kokernot, Larissa | Peterman, Melissa | Reevis, Steve | Keith, Warren | Edelman, Steve | Anderson, Sharon
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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Fargo is based on true events that occurred in Minnesota in 1987 with the names changed to protect the victims. Jerry works in his father-in-law’s car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn’t seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the blood shed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pressly, Jaime | Cody McMains | Ron Lester | Jungmann, Eric | Richmond, Deon | Kirshner, Mia | Chyler Leigh | Evans, Chris | Olsen, Eric Christian | Huntington, Sam
Directors: Joel Gallen
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At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake (Chris Evans), takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy (Eric Christian Olsen), that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl (Chyler Leigh), into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest girl in school (Mia Kirshner), and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader (Jaime Pressly). And all of their friends are the same as any other teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student (Cerina Vincent), Les, the beautiful weirdo (Riley Smith), Malik, the token black guy (Deon Richmond), the desperate virgins (Cody McMains, Samm Levine, and Sam Huntington), Amanda Becker, the perfect girl (Lacey Chabert), Ricky, Janey’s obsessed best friend (Eric Jungmann), and Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter (Beverly Polcyn).

Firm, The (1993)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Tripplehorn, Jeanne | Hackman, Gene | Holbrook, Hal | Kinney, Terry | Brimley, Wilford | Harris, Ed | Hunter, Holly | Strathairn, David | Busey, Gary | Hill, Steven | Bell, Tobin | Garrick, Barbara | Hardin, Jerry | Calderon, Paul
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by ‘The Firm’ and made an offer he doesn’t refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan…

Gothika (2003)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dutton, Charles S. | Berry, Halle | Downey Jr., Robert | Lynch, John Carroll | Hill, Bernard | Cruz, Penélope | Harewood, Dorian | Mantel, Bronwen | Mackey, Kathleen | Taylor, Matthew G. | Perron, Michel | Sheldon, Andrea | Rydvald, Anana | Mitchell, Laura | Sloan, Amy
Directors: Kassovitz, Mathieu | Oliphant, Thom
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A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she’s accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Girl Next Door, The (2004)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hirsch, Emile | Cuthbert, Elisha | Olyphant, Timothy | Remar, James | Marquette, Chris | Dano, Paul | Bottoms, Timothy | Bullock, Donna | Young, Jacob | Kolodziej, Brian | Irons, Brandon | Swisten, Amanda | Lee, Sung Hi | Lee, Ulysses | Laskaway, Harris
Directors: Greenfield, Luke
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A straight-arrow high-school senior falls in love with the perfect ‘girl-next-door’, only to discover she is a former porn star. He comes to realize that if he wants this very special woman, he better be willing to risk it all and experience a journey for which he never could have prepared.

Old School (2003)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Vaughn, Vince | Piven, Jeremy | Lewis, Juliette | Ferrell, Will | Pompeo, Ellen
Directors: Phillips, Todd
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Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch’s nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch’s new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Keitel, Harvey | Roth, Tim | Madsen, Michael | Buscemi, Steve | Penn, Chris | Tierney, Lawrence | Brooks, Randy | Baltz, Kirk | Tarantino, Quentin | Bunker, Edward | Wright, Steven | Turner, Rich | Steen, David | Cosmo, Tony | Polyi, Stevo
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Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won’t get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

Severance (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Stephens, Toby | Blakley, Claudie | Nyman, Andy | Ceesay, Babou | McInnerny, Tim | Harris, Laura | Dyer, Danny | Gilliam, David | Drajkó, Juli | Viktor, Judit | Boros, Sándor | Törköly, Levente | Oláh, János | Ferencz, Attila | Kasi, Bela
Directors: Smith, Christopher
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When a weapons multi-national Palisade Defence reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge.

This Is England (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Turgoose, Thomas | Graham, Stephen | Hartley, Jo | Shim, Andrew | McClure, Vicky | Gilgun, Joseph | Hanson, Rosamund | Ellis, Andrew | Benson, Perry | Newton, George | Harper, Frank | O'Connell, Jack | Dosanjh, Kriss | Hardcastle, Kieran | Cresswell, Chanel
Directors: Meadows, Shane
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Roland Rat, Margaret Thatcher; Rubik’s Cubes, the Royal Wedding; aerobics, skinheads… It’s 1983, and the schools are breaking up for summer. Shaun is 12 and a bit of a loner, growing up with his mum in a grim coastal town, his dad killed fighting in the Falklands War. On his way home from school where he’s been tormented all day for wearing flares, he runs into a group of skinheads, who against expectations turn out to be friendly and take him under their wing. Soon Shaun discovers parties, girls and snappy dressing, and finds some role models in Woody, Milky and the rest of the gang. But when an older, overtly racist skinhead returns home from prison, the easy camaraderie of the group is broken, and Shaun is drawn into much more uncomfortable territory. Based largely on his own experience as a youngster, this is Shane Meadows’ most mature and fully realised film. Handling the complexities of masculinity, violence and race with sensitivity and a lightness of touch, it’s hard to imagine a film that would better capture the mood of the time, or that could have any greater an understanding of the allure of being part of a gang.