awwatchedthese's - Rented List

Complete final series of the 1970's police drama, about a group of hard, no-nonsense, London cops operating against a gritty, urban background. George Sewell plays Detective Chief Inspector Craven, while Dennis Waterman makes a guest appearance.

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A stellar cast including Jane Seymour, Leo McKern, John McEnery and Leslie Dunlop star in this classic BBC adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. A story about two women, both vainly seeking happiness and fulfilment: Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer.

Lizzie is the subject of intense romantic interest from two ardent suitors, a class conscious triangle which culminates in tragedy - in addition her father is suspected of murder. Meanwhile Bella enters into an arranged marriage with the owner of a refuse recycling firm - a circumstance linked to Lizzie's plight.

In 2006, having toured the world over, Sigur Ros return home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. Heima is a unique record of that tour, filmed in 16 locations across the island, taking in the biggest and smallest shows of the band's career.

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Laura (Penelope Cruz) and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past.

Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.

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The 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or winner from Nuri Bilge Ceylan is set in the hilly landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia. A former actor, Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), owns a small hotel cut into the hillside, which he runs with his younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen).

He has also inherited local properties, but leaves the business of rent collection to his agent. When a local boy, resentful of his father's humiliation by Aydin's agent, throws a stone at a jeep whilst Aydin and his agent are driving in it, Aydin ducks out of any responsibility or involvement. As the film progresses, the cocoon in which this self-satisfied man has wrapped himself is gradually unravelled. In a series of magnificent set-pieces, Aydin is exposed in his encounters with his wife, sister, and the family of the stone-throwing boy. He is finally brought face-to-face with who he truly is.

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Tortured by thoughts that her husband Jake (Peter Finch) may be having an affair Jo Annitage (Anne Bancroft) has a nervous breakdown in Harrods and her life begins to crumble all about her.

But is her husband's infidelity really to blame? Or does Jo have deeper, more complex problems? Why does she have so main children - and is her seemingly perfect life all it appears on the surface?

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Deputy Sheriff 'Coop' (Robert Bedford) is the son of a revered Indian scalper who fought in the Indian wars. But now they are over, 'Coop's' job is to stop any Indians from getting liquored up and causing trouble on the settlements. Having to take orders from Dr.

Elizabeth Arnold (Susan Clark), who is in charge of the Indian's welfare, riles with Coop's masculinity, and their tempestuous relationship descends into sexual frustrations. But when a quarrelsome Indian, Willie Boy (Robert Blake), kills his lover's father and runs away with her, Coop has to gather together a posse to hunt Willie Boy across the desert to a showdown at Ruby Mountain.

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Following the death of his mother, the young 'J' Cody (James Frecheville) goes to live with his estranged gangster relatives. With conflict escalating between his family of criminals and the police's armed robbery division, 'J' finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded vengeance plot.

As he naively navigates his way through the criminal underworld, he is forced to question where his loyalties lie as he tries to decipher who he can trust and who can protect him as he struggles for his own survival.

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.

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Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon (Emily Blunt) has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is Anthony (Jamie Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer.

Stung by his father Tony's (Christopher Walken) plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew (Jon Hamm), Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams in this comedic, moving and wildly romantic tale.

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Unemployed journalist Guy Foster (Peter Barkworth) returns home and is met by his wife Melissa (Moira Redmond) and their friends Paula (Joan Benham) and Felix (Ronald Fraser) Hepburn waiting to go out to a party.

Feeling exhausted Guy refuses to go, instead opting for a quiet night in writing his novel. Later that evening Guy receives a mysterious phone call from his wife imploring him to meet up with her. Reluctantly Guy agrees, however, he has difficulty finding the address that Melissa has given him. He stops at a parked police car to ask directions and is shocked to find out that the police have discovered the body of a woman. Shock turns to horror when the dead woman turns out to be his wife. The more the police investigate the murder the more the finger of suspicion points at Guy.

Wall Street titan Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, little is what it seems in this sleek thriller.

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Poor, lonely and living on the streets, Top Cat is one sad cat, until a chance meeting with Benny, a naive and good-hearted cat looking for adventure. The pair quickly become best buddies and partners in crime - deciding to steal from Mr.

Big, a mysterious diamond-stealing henchman who rules New York's backstreets. Along the way, our heroes meet fellow alley cats Choo Choo, Fancy-Fancy and Brain, and together they're a formidable bunch. However, when Mr. Big catches up with them and captures Top Cat, can his new friends save the day?

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A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays.

Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in "the Yabba" may take him on a path darker than ever expected.

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American businessman Wendell Armbruster (Jack Lemmon) is summoned to Italy after a car accident claims the lives of his father and his father's secret mistress! And when the mistress' daughter also arrives - and the bodies of both of their parents disappear - the two instant foes are brought

together in a baffling mystery...and an affair of the heart!