awwatchedthese's - Rented List

The game of conquest is underway. Anything goes when a predatory, wealthy widow (Glenn Close) challenges a notorious rake (John Malkovich) to seduce a beautiful young newlywed (Michelle Pfeiffer). But this time, a cardinal rule will be broken: two players will fall in love - with tragic results.

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The charismatic Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his alluring younger wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst) are in Athens during a European vacation.

Whilst sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming female tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. But, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands as Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets. When Rydal visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, events take a more sinister turn and he finds himself compromised and unable to pull free...

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In Guest In The House, Anne Baxter stars as the unhinged, psychotic Evelyn Heath, who needs a quiet place to relax and recuperate.

Her doctor, Dan Proctor (Scott McKay) lets her use his house in Maine, where she proceeds to manipulate his happily-married brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy) into falling in love with her. Her cruel campaign to convince everyone in the house that she is the poor innocent party causes a major rift and when she is told to get professional help, she responds by trying to lure poor Dan into marriage and a final showdown results in death and redemption.

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Award-winning actress Lucy Lawless stars in this contemporary Australian mystery series as retired police officer Alexa Crowe.

With her old boss (Bernard Curry) regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst (Ebony Vagulans) eager to be mentored - whether Alexa wants to or not - Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime. Tenacious and unapologetic, Alexa brings her dry wit and brash style as she contends with a suspicious death at a competitive culinary school, a murder in an exclusive cycling club, a woman who fell from the balcony of a male escort's apartment, a locked-room mystery, and more.

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29 Acacia Avenue (1945)

The Robinsons (Gordon Marker and Betty Balfour) are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children (Jimmy Hanley and Carla Lehmann) the free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr and Mrs Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early...

Operation Cupid (1960)
When three bumbling conmen win a dating agency in a rigged card game they think their luck has finally changed. When they take charge of the business though, they discover that the con is on them and that the agency is in debt, the furnishings are all on credit and the staff" haven't been paid! Salvation appears in the form of a millionaires client who is searching for a suitable husband and one of the conmen pretends to also be a millionaire. But who is conning who?

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off M16 and the KGB against each other.

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Detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon), a cunning Major Crimes detective for the St. John's Police Department, teams up with an unusual partner - Rex (Diesel vom Burgimwald), a former-K9 German Shepherd, whose heightened senses keep Charlie hot on the trail of his suspects.

Together, they investigate puzzling crimes, from a kidnapping which reveals a much larger conspiracy at play to an art theft murder which runs deep into the world of high society. With Charlie's deft detective work and Rex's keen canine senses, this crime-fighting pair is unstoppable.

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Since the summer of 1955, the ITV network has entertained the nation with some of the most memorable programming ever created for British television.

This collection celebrates those six decades with an outstanding, specially selected collection of superb dramas, hilarious comedies and thought-provoking documentaries - some of which haven't been seen since their original transmission. With each of them themed to provide an "evening's entertainment", this dip into the archives provides a trip down 'Memory Lane' as well as a timely reminder of some of the best television of the last sixty years. This mixture of both classics and rarities (including some programmes thought lost forever) will appeal to everyone! So spoil yourself settle down for a great night in and join us for a journey through the decades!

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In a southern town in 1954 India, British and Anglo-Indian identities blur in this psychological tale of misplaced trust, envy and power. The troubled Macintosh household deteriorates further when Lily (Greta Scacchi) gives birth to a sickly baby girl.

Cotton Mary (Madhur Jaffrey), an Anglo-Indian hospital worker, seizes the opportunity and takes over the infant's care. She becomes indispensable to the suffering mother and is asked to join the household, where she assumes more and more duties, playing on the mother's fatigue and problems with her husband. How long can Mary sustain her rule before Lily stands on her own feet and regains control?

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Clarke (Dustin Hoffman) and Rogers (Warren Beatty) are two inept songwriters, down on their luck and desperate for money. Taking the advice of their shifty agent, the duo are whisked off on a tour of the mystical republic of Ishtar.

On their arrival, our heroes are separately recruited into spying for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attention of a gorgeous female freedom fighter (Isabelle Adjani). But Clarke and Rogers make worse spies than they do songwriters, and soon they're left stranded in the desert with only a blind camel and several CIA assassins for company...

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Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen) opens her own private detective agency in the picturesque Cotswolds. Armed with her trademark tenacity and fashion flair, along with help from her friend Roy (Mathew Horne) and paramour James (Jamie Glover), Agatha uncovers the killers lurking in her sleepy village.

This series sees Agatha drumming up business for her new detective agency by investigating a legendary haunted house; enrolling in dance lessons after disaster strikes a young woman's engagement party; puts her detective skills to the test when she investigates the death of a woman James is seen arguing with, in an attempt to clear his name; and when a roast pig at the Winter Fayre turns out to be a human corpse Bill (Matt McCooey) leads the investigation under strict instructions to keep Agatha out of it.

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When callous thugs beat Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) senseless and viciously murder the gorgeous blonde he's been trying to help, the hard-boiled detective retaliates the only way he can: by hitting first and asking questions later.

Cutting a brutal swathe through the city's sleazy underside, Hammer uncovers a mysterious black container whose deadly contents not only solve the murder...but trigger an apocalyptic climax as well!

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Arthur (Arthur Askey), Stinker (Richard Murdoch) and Albert (Graham Moffatt) - a trio of reprobate students - are in danger of expulsion from Oxford for conduct unbecoming.

After due consideration they hatch a cunning plan to save their bacon - the only problem is that it entails convincing the Dean (J.H. Roberts) that Arthur is actually Albert's wealthy Aunt Lucy (Jeanne De Casalis)!

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As the glinting steel and mirror-glass skyscrapers of London's financial district edge ever closer, the area surrounding Hoxton Street has been transformed by 'luxury redevelopments' and sky-high property prices.

This East London street, less than a mile from the City of London, has become the last bastion of the area's traditional communities. Following its residents over a four-year period, capturing the impact of gentrification, years of austerity and the eruption of Brexit, Zed Nelson's feature-length debut is a tragicomic portrait of not just a street but a nation on the cusp of change.

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Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases - full of all the sight-gags, puns, and non-sequiturs that made the series famous!

Episodes Comprise:
1. A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)

2. Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)
3. The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)
4. Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)
5. Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
6. Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)