awwatchedthese's - Rented List
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Funny Face (1957)La cenicienta de París
In the Academy Award-nominated classic, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire join forces, lending their song and dance talents to the timeless musical. When a fashion magazine mogul (Kay Thompson) and her head photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) scout out a bookstore for their next photo shoot, Dick discovers the unique face of bookseller and amateur philosopher Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn). Whisked off to Paris, Jo is soon transformed into a global supermodel...and finds herself falling for the photographer who first noticed her sunny, funny face. - Director:
- Stanley Donen
- Cast:
- Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
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Mel Smith is best known for 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' and 'Alas Smith and Jones'. In this much loved 1980s BBC sitcom, the late comedian plays an aspiring writer stuck in a soul destroying day job. Depressed Colin Watkins (Mel Smith) works for the British Rail Passenger Relations Office, otherwise known as the complaints department. He doesn't like his job much and has dreams of becoming a full-time writer, toiling late into the night trying to realise his ambitions. Distracting him are his girlfriend Jenny, best friend Des, and the obnoxiously happy couple Richard and Sarah. He takes a step towards achieving his ambition when one of his short stories is accepted for publication in "The Langley Book of Horror". In Series 2, a famous film producer offers Colin the chance of adapting his short story for a film. Colin jumps at the chance but disruptions in various guises continue to derail him, and keep him tied to the desk job. - Director:
- John Kilby
- Cast:
- Mel Smith, Louisa Rix, Tony Haase
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Set in 1920's Toronto, 'Frankie Drake Mysteries' follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on the cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Drake Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties of the city's elite. Frankie (Lauren Lee Smith) and Trudy's (Chantel Riley) fearless sense of adventure gets them into all kinds of trouble, but they always manage to find a way out. They are new detectives for a new world - but is the world ready for them? - Director:
- Leslie Hope
- Cast:
- Lauren Lee Smith, Chantel Riley, Rebecca Liddiard
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A Man Called Ove (2015)En man som heter Ove
Based on the international bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman and nominated for 2 Oscars (including Best Foreign Language Film), 'A Man Called Ove' is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared. An ageing retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the quintessential angry old man next door. Having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his wife Sonja's gravesite. But when a boisterous young family moves into the neighbourhood, immediately incurring his wrath, things take an unexpected turn. Pregnant Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered Ove thinks he needs -and yet, from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and Ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light. - Director:
- Hannes Holm
- Cast:
- Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
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Known for his unique rasping voice and his elaborate way of expressing his hostility towards children and all mankind, W.C. Fields had the special gift of making anything seem funny, and at the same time, had audiences believe that underneath all his humour he was not really kidding and that the grumpiness was genuine.
Shorts Comprise:
- The Dentist (1932)
- The Pool Shark (1915)
- The Pharmacist (1933)
- The Barber Shop (1933)
- The Golf Specialist (1930)
- The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)- Director:
- Clyde Bruckman
- Cast:
- W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler
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The unlikely detective duo return in this quirky crime drama, packed with corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries. Frank (Mark Benton) and Lu (Jo Joyner) are not alike. Frank is a talented but decidedly grumpy detective. Lu is an ex-hairdresser with masses of charm and a keen sense of trouble. The two shouldn't work together yet, somehow, they do. The highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detective duo are back on the case in pretty tourist town Stratford-Upon-Avon. Foul play festers at the local tennis club and a pedigree pooch is held for ransom. Fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft and corruption lurk beneath the town's idyllic surface. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard - where fact is stranger than fiction and low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama. - Director:
- Ian Barber
- Cast:
- Mark Benton, Jo Joyner, Patrick Walshe McBride
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Bruce Willis is Eddie "The Hawk" Hawkins, the world's most famous cat burglar, who, after 10 years in prison, is ready to go straight. But it's not going be easy for the Hawk. The mob and the CIA have conspired to blackmail Eddie and his partner (Danny Aiello) into stealing three da Vinci masterpieces from the most heavily guarded museums in the world. Sounds simple, right? Wrong! While trying to steal the goods, Hawk falls in love with a beautiful but schizophrenic nun (Andi MacDowell) and is relentlessly pursued by the greedy and powerful Minerva and Darwin Mayflower (Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant), who want the artworks as part of their twisted plot to ruin the world's economy. It's wall-to-wall action os the wisecracking Hawk saves the world, wins the girl and gets the last laugh! - Director:
- Michael Lehmann
- Cast:
- Bruce Willis, Frank Welker, Danny Aiello
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Black Sheep (2006)Ovejas asesinas
Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield returns to his family's farm to sell out to his brother Angus, unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program. When a pair of inept activists release a mutant lamb from Angus' laboratory onto the farm, thousands of sheep are turned into bloodthirsty predators. Along with farmhand Tucker and greenie girl Experience, Henry finds himself stranded deep on the farm as his worst nightmare comes to life. - Director:
- Jonathan King
- Cast:
- Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis
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Stalin Is Dead! And with The Soviet Union's top job now up for grabs, the men in Stalin's council are about to enter an 'interview' process unlike any other. With the prospect of absolute authority over the nation within grasp, in the days that follow, devious plotting and farcical backs tabbing are fair play, and one man will emerge with supreme power over the USSR. The question is: who? - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor
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Hidden deep beneath the burning city of Berlin in the final days of World War Two, three German generals embarked on an audacious plan to correct the wrongs perpetrated by the Nazi party. A sacred pact was signed, funds allocated and events put into motion that, 40 years later, would see the first sons of the three generals head a foundation "The Holcroft Covenant" now worth $4.5 billion. Such a vast sum of money is bound to attract some unwanted attention. Murder, conspiracy and danger are at the heart of this compelling thriller based on the novel by best-selling author Robert Ludlum. - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant
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Cliff Richard, the most successful British recording artist ever, stars in this gritty kitchen-sink drama. Set in London's Swinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that 'Two a Penny', his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a film as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self-centred and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever... today" lies the possibility that he may well not. - Director:
- James F. Collier
- Cast:
- Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers
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James Bond: From Russia with Love (1963)From Russia with Love
James Bond (Sean Connery) squares off against the evil Spectre organisation in a pulse-pounding race to seize the Soviet Lektor decoding machine. His mission thrusts him into a thrilling boat chase, a brutal helicopter attach and a deadly brawl aboard the Orient Express, proving once again that Agent 007 can't be stopped! - Director:
- Terence Young
- Cast:
- Barbara Jefford, Sean Connery, Eric Pohlmann
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Written by multi-award-winning playwright Jack Rosenthal one of Britain's best-loved and most consistently successful screenwriters - "Sadie, It's Cold Outside" is a wry and sympathetic comedy starring Rosemary Leach and Bernard Hepton as Sadie and Norman Potter, a world-weary middle-aged couple lamenting their lost dreams in an exhausting, increasingly hostile world. When Sadie was a little girl, her one ambition was to be a housewife. Now, having spent the last 23 years cooking, cleaning and sleeping with her leg in an elastic bandage, her one ambition is to take all her clothes off in Tesco, stick a Green Shield Stamp on her navel and scream herself sick. When Norman was a little boy, his ambition was to single-handedly thrash Australia in every Test Match or possibly win a Nobel Prize. Sadly, he's never had the time; he s been busy every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday watching television...and Sunday's his day of rest! - Director:
- Mike Vardy
- Cast:
- Rosemary Leach, Bernard Hepton, Yvonne Ball
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The great Walter Matthau stars as Henry, a once-rich playboy who has obliviously spent his entire inheritance. Desperate to marry into further financial support, he meets Henrietta (Elaine May), a shy, awkward, though independently wealthy botany professor. What follows is a giddy tale of dubious legal advice, ruthless skullduggery and ferns. - Director:
- Elaine May
- Cast:
- Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston
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The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives. As they sit down to dinner one night, celebrating the engagement of the eldest child, Sheila (Eileen Moore), to prosperous business man Gerald (Brian Worth), a knock at the door announces the arrival of a visitor who will change their lives forever. - Director:
- Guy Hamilton
- Cast:
- Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
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