awwatchedthese's - Rented List

Show moreShow less

When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class.

Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

Show moreShow less

In the docks of Jimmy McGovern's BAFTA Award winning second series of Accused stands a sensational ensemble of British acting talent. They are the innocent, the guilty and the somewhere in between.

Starring Olivia Colman, Sean Bean, Sheridan Smith, Anne Marie Duff, Anna Maxwell Martin and Stephen Graham, 'Accused Series 2' is directed by David Blair and Ashley Pearce. These modern-day morality plays are fraught with emotion as they delve into the tangled issues of gender stereotypes, a mother's unconditional love, familial grief and paranoia, as well as challenging the justice system itself. With cases of gang violence, murder, sexual assault and crimes of passion, are these everyday defendants the guilty or the victims?

Show moreShow less

??? with touch of the macabre, 'Tales of the Unexpected' holds, at its heart, a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising, with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

This complete sixth series, first transmitted to great critical acclaim in 1983, features fourteen outstanding episodes showcasing powerful performances from a glittering international cast including Colin Blakely, Judy Geeson, Hayley Mills, Stuart Wilson, David Cassidy, Darren McGavin, Sheila Gish, Peter Cushing, Gayle Hunnicutt and Sharon Gless.

Show moreShow less

Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) have been married for 29 years and live in a small seaside town called Hope Gap. During a visit from their son Jamie (Josh O'Connor) Edward informs them both that he plans to leave Grace and walks out the door that very same day.

With the whole family knocked into disarray, Grace has to find a way through this new life which she least expected and, with the help of her son, achieve hope once again. 'Hope Gap' tracks the emotional unravelling of a tight knit family going through divorce and walking the thin line between love and hate.

Show moreShow less

Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy! When he's accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback, all Harry suffers is a slight concussion.

All, that is, until Whiplash Willie (Walter Matthau) — a legal scoundrel of the first order — arrives on the scene! For if Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury, the two charlatans can split a cool million in phoney insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel those ominous words that lie within the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: You can't fool all of the people all of the time?

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.

Show moreShow less

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.

Show moreShow less

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.

Show moreShow less

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.

Show moreShow less

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?

Show moreShow less

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.

Show moreShow less

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.

Show moreShow less

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.