awwatchedthese's - Rented List

For Gary King (Simon Pegg) and Andy Knightley (Nick Frost) it was supposed to be the ultimate reunion - one night, five friends, twelve bars. A boozy quest to 'The World's End' pub on which only the strongest will survive. Having the time of their lives, they're ready to take on the world... but tonight they might just have to save it.

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Three unlikely comrades embark on a cross country mission in a stolen yellow Mini. Their objective is to get to Invercargill in one piece but they can't help breaking the law as they go.

Named the 'Blondini Gang' by the police they are pursued every inch of the way and must improvise if they and their car are going to make it in one piece.

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Set in rural Northern Ireland during World War II, this drama follows the fortunes of the Coyne family as the US Army Air Corps sets up a base next to their town.

Moybeg is home to Englishwoman Rose (Hattie Morahan), her Irish husband Michael Coyne (Owen McDonnell) and their three children: Emma (Eileen O'Higgins), Francis (Michael Nevin) and Kate (Mia Carlin). With her English accent and her London ways, Rose is the only 'stranger' in the community. That is until 4,000 American servicemen and women arrive along with the handsome Captain Dreyfuss (Aaron Staton). As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the airbase, she is also drawn to the engaging young captain. As each episode brings them closer together, will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?

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A sailor, Farrel, leaves his ship and begins a lengthy journey to wintry Tierra del Fuego's interior, to an isolated village and family that he hasn't seen in years. The route seems familiar to him, and we gradually piece together his relationship with the people and community he finds there.

From the opening sequences on Farrel's ship, to the spectacular harshness of his destination, Alonso is meticulous in mapping the sights and sounds of the landscape and Farrel's personal journey into the past.

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Steff is left the entire estate of his ex-partner, Martin Hilde, son of a wealthy family. Along with the inheritance he is asked to scatter Hilde's ashes in the sea.

Hilde's mother is refusing to abide to her late son's wishes, intending to contest the will and demanding the ashes stay on the family grounds. Steff's Carpentry business is failing, desperate, he strikes a deal with the mother for a fraction of the inheritance in exchange for the ashes and no contest to the will. Meanwhile, Hilde's ex-boyfriend Rex becomes involved and refuses to let Steff betray Hilde's last wish. Rex kidnaps the urn and heads for the coast and is hotly pursued by Steff. Hilde's mother is intent on thwarting both their plans and so begins Hilde's last journey...

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The police are after Jack Barrett (Peter McEnery), who has stolen several thousand pounds and is now on the run.

He tries desperately to get in touch with Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde), a prosperous young barrister with a beautiful wife but, cornered and arrested by the police he commits suicide in his prison cell rather than answer their questions.

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Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja, an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys than take her to bed.

Whatever, that's life, but when the perfect couple moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check, suddenly finding herself with a whole new set of problems when she grows a little too friendly with married neighbour Sigve.

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Based on the beloved best-selling book comes the story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson).

Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him. Ultimately, words and imagination provide the friends with an escape from the events unfolding around them in this extraordinary, acclaimed film directed by Brian Percival.

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Grace Douglas and Adam Elliot grew up side by side in remote rural Scotland. Recently married, they are full of hope for the future - until their young lives are cut short by a brutal murder.

The Douglases and Elliots are fiercely different families, split by old rifts but forced together in rage and grief when the man who killed Grace and Adam crashes into their lives, they face a choice that will have dark consequences for all of them. As they stumble down the path they have chosen, truth and morality become obscured. The death of Grace and Adam is just the start of this dangerous journey, one that will twist and turn until its devastating end.

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Martin Scorsese directs this true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 80s - earning him the title "The Wolf of Wall Street". Money.

Power. Women. Drugs. Temptations were for the taking and the threat of authority was irrelevant. For Jordan and his wolf pack, more was never enough.

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"Mysterious Creatures" is a compelling new drama about a family torn apart by Asperger's Syndrome. In November 2004 Bill and Wendy Ainscow took an overdose of sleeping pills and waded into the warm Atlantic Ocean off Tenerife to commit suicide. Wendy survived but tragically Bill died.

The couple's bizarre suicide pact was the culmination of years of trying to cope with and get state help for their daughter Lisa who sufers with Aspergers Syndrome. This complex and moving true story of love, loss and reconciliation is brought to life by two of the UK's leading acting talents; Brenda Blethyn as Wendy and Timothy Spall as Bill and introducing Rebekah Staton as Lisa.

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Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a high school girl from the other side of town. Blane's (Andrew McCarthy)'s the wealthy heartthrob who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.

From its bittersweet story to its hip New Wave soundtrack, the film features great supporting performances from Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, James Spader and Annie Potts.

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The High Street was once the heart and soul of every town in Britain. Not anymore.

But what if we could turn back time, to the days of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker? The story of the rise and fall of the great British high street is brought to life in an entertaining and ambitious new series that transports four empty shops and a group of modern shopkeepers and their families back to the birth of the high street in the 1870s, before propelling them through a century of dizzying change, right up to the 1970s. Over six hours of gripping television, the families' lives are turned upside down as they experience how shopkeepers lived and worked in six key eras of British history. But this High Street is no museum. The shops must serve modern day customers who are used to the pace and convenience of 21st century shopping. In a challenge laced with real-life entertainment, family drama and human endeavour, can the families deal with whatever history throws at them? And can they lure shoppers back?

Manny and the herd discover a lost world of ferociously funny dinosaurs, including a cranky T-Rex who's got a score to settle with Sid. Meanwhile, Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte, but is she trying to win his heart or steal his acorn?

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In this riveting behind the scenes look at big business in the 1980s, an ambitious young broker (Charlie Sheen) is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).

But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a price that's too high to pay.