alec-guimness-films's - Rented List

Two sets of connected murders puts Thorne and his team, including a fiery but troubled new recruit, Sarah Chen (Sandra Oh), on the back foot. Could Thorne be up against a pair of brutal serial killers, working together?

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Twins Jeanne and Simon are left two envelopes in their mother's will, asking them to find a brother they never knew existed, and father they believed to be dead.

Journeying from Canada to Lebanon to unravel this mystery, they begin to uncover the terrifying secrets of their mother's tumultuous and brutal past, their discoveries moving them ever closer to a gut-wrenching and inevitable truth that will define their very existence.

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In Shogun-era Japan, the powerful and sadistic Lord Naritsugu threatens to shatter the country's fragile peace and plunge it once more into war. Determined to stop him at all costs, an elite group of renegade samurai - each with their own deadly skill - plot his downfall.

Massively outnumbered, the thirteen fearless warriors must face Naritsugu's lethal army in a monumental and bloodily violent showdown.

With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, his mother gathers the family together for a getaway in their holiday home on the idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly. However, it's not long until deep fractures within the family begin to surface.

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When a lethal airborne virus with the power to wipe out humanity is unleashed, the worldwide medical community races to find a vaccine and stop the panic from spreading. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the deadly path of a virus that is beyond containment.

Researchers for disease control, the military, the World Health Organisation and ordinary civilians mobilise to try and find a cure and the cause before it's too late.

Ironclad is an ultra-violent action thriller that tells the true story of a money crew of tough, battle hardened warriors, who withstood several brutal and bloody months under siege, in a desperate bid to defend their country's freedom...

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Oranges and Sunshine tells the real-life story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia.

Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

One boy must fight to save his mother from the advances of a mystic and simultaneously lure his pyromaniac girlfriend into the bedroom, armed with only a wide vocabulary and near-total self-belief. His name is Oliver Tate.

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The Waiting Room is the beautiful feature debut of Academy-Award nominated writer/director, Roger Goldby. The sterling cast portray two strangers - Anna (Anne-Marie Duff) and Stephen (Ralf Little) - who are brought together by chance as they sit together in a deserted waiting room.

Here they make a brief but powerful connection, forgetting their individual lives for an isolated moment in time. As Stephen and Anna's lives move onwards, they find themselves thinking more and more of the stranger they met in the waiting room - and what would happen should they meet again. This highly acclaimed and deeply moving film presents a fresh, edgy and totally romantic view of contemporary life and love in London.

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Thirty-year-old Antoine leaves Paris and reluctantly returns to the south of France to look after the family mobile grocery van while his father recovers from a heart attack. He gradually warms to his experience in the hills and his encounters with the villagers and love for the countryside.

Evocatively capturing the bucolic beauty of provincial France, this gentle feel-good charmer sparkles with quirky humour and joie de vivre and guarantees to warm hearts with its classic story of a man finally coming of age.

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A gripping tale of secrets and lies amongst a tight-knit group of friends holidaying on the Caspian Sea.

With an expertly paced narrative and an impressive ensemble cast, including Golshifteh Farahani, "About Elly" is a cinematic masterclass that works as both a thriller and a convicting character study. Intelligent, shrewd and meticulously crafted, "About Elly" confirms Asghar Farhadi's status as one of World Cinema's finest talents.

London River tells the story of a friendship which develops between two seemingly unconnected people: Elizabeth (Brenda Bleythn) and Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyate). Both have come to London to search for their children who are missing in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings.

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Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and physically challenged son (RJ Mitte). Everything changes when Walter receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer.

With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walter uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students (Aaron Paul). As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at nothing to make sure his family is taken care of after he's gone, even if it means putting all their lives on the line.

I Love You Phillip Morris is the critically acclaimed oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit, and undying love collide.

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The Road is a thrilling and deeply moving tale of survival as a father and his young son journey across a barren, post apocalyptic America.

Respectfully adapted from Cormac McCarthy's hallowed novel, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.