dan23's - Rented List

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Victor (Colin Farrell), a rising gangland player, has infiltrated the crime empire run by ruthless kingpin Alphonse (Terrence Howard) with the single purpose of making him pay for destroying his once happy life.

As he meticulously orchestrates his vengeance from his high-rise home,he is watched from afar by a mysterious young woman (Noomi Rapace) who threatens to expose Victor unless he helps her carry out her own campaign of retribution. Each fixated on avenging the past, they devise a violent and cathartic plan that could change their worlds forever.

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Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is a mild-mannered executive with a loving family and a perfect life, until one gruesome night when his teenage son is senselessly murdered during a gas station holdup.

Transformed by grief and not satisfied with courtroom justice, Nick takes the law into his own hands - and wages an all-out war against a gang of vicious street thugs.

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The year is 2071. When villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, a deadly virus is released, killing hundreds of innocent people.

This is merely the beginning of a greater threat to human kind and, fearing a more devastating biochemical attack, a significant reward is offered for the successful capture and arrest of the evil culprits. Bored with their current situation Spike and his rag-tag crew of bounty hunters aboard the Spaceship Bebop accept the challenge wholeheartedly - determined to track down the bad guys one way or another and cash in their reward. Ahead of them is an adventure like nothing they have ever imagined. A cult spin-off from the successful Anime TV series, brought to life by the famed Japanese Sunrise Animation Studios, 'Cowboy Bebop: The Movie' is an electrifying full-tilt trip into a vast, colourful and dangerous galaxy.

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Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the 'Three Colours' trilogy, was premiered to unanimous glowing critical praise at the 1989 Venice Film Festival and its reputation as a cinematic masterpiece remains undiminished. The Ten Commandments, are equally captivating and powerful.

The storied are set around the same Warsaw apartment block and focus on the complexities of human relationships. The themes are the universal ones of love, marriage, infidelity, parenthood, guilt, faith and compassion. The result is a unique and life enhancing look at various moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people in their daily lives.

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a courageous teen who desperately needs his help - and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.

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The godfather of all great car chase movies, 'Gone in 60 Seconds' follows top car thief Pace (H.B. Halicki) and his crew as they find themselves entangled in a drug smuggling plot.

Caught in the underworld of stealing and selling on sought after vehicles, Pace must lead his guys to freedom as they are chased ruthlessly by the police.

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From circus to theatre, from anonymity to fame, "Chocolat" is the incredible true story of how Rafael Padilla Chocolat (Omar Sy), escaped slavery to become the first black stage performer in France.

Performing a lead role in a circus pantomime act in Paris, Chocolat shot to stardom with his partner, Charles Footit (James Thierree), as the pair's unprecedented double act sent shock waves through conservative Parisian society. However, as their fame grew so did the gambling and discrimination, taking a toll on the duo's friendship and their lives.

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The second version of John Buchan's classic thriller sees Kenneth More as the innocent man caught up in international intrigue. Richard Hannay meets a young nanny and takes her back to his flat. He soon learns she is not all that she seems to be and when she is murdered he becomes the prime suspect.

On the run from the police, he heads to Scotland and searches for the connection with the '39 steps'.

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Based on a true story, federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella.

Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo) and rookie undercover agent posing as his fiancee Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar's top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt). To catch the criminals Mazur will have to become one, risking it all to build a case that leads to indictments of more than 100 drug lords and the corrupt bankers who cleaned their dirty money.

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Its All Gone Pete Tong is a hysterically funny comedy following the tragic life of the legendary DJ Frankie Wilde from international fame through to his subsequent battle with adversity. Frankie is living the opulent life of a superstar, residing in his trophy villa in Ibiza with his trophy wife.

But then tragedy hits, as his career and his well being are suddenly threatened by a seemingly insurmountable twist of fate. This feel good comedy has something for everybody.

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Man has split the atom and ushered in a new era. But how could he know he would also create Them!? A landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants that gets better with age and boasts remarkable Academy Award - nominated special effects.

Starring James Whitmore, James Arness and Edmund Gwenn, Them! begins in New Mexico with a child wondering in shock, a ransacked general store - and a battered corpse full of enough formic acid to kill 20 men. It ends with an epic struggle in the 700 miles of storm drains under Los Angeles, where the insect hordes are beaten. But they're not conquered because they spawned a generation of films about radioactive creatures. Some approximate the terror but few have equaled the artistry of Them!

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Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) puts her family first, second, and third. But her man-child husband, high-maintenance kids and idiot boss are taking a toll. She gives and gives, and gives and gives, and then gives a little more, but it's never enough.

When the alpha moms (Christina Applegate, Annie Mumolo and Jada Pinkett Smith) at her kids' school push her too far, Amy finally snaps. Good Amy becomes Bad Amy really fast - and she doesn't go alone. Teaming up with two other misfit moms (Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell), Amy gets a jolt of freedom that shakes up her life and might even make her a better mom. So call a sitter, put on your comfy pants, and pour yourself a double Chardonnay, because these moms are about to get bad.

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The days of adventures and merriment have come to an end, as Christopher Robin (Nikolai Leon), now a young man, has left Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet to fend forthemselves. As time passes, feeling angry and abandoned, the two become feral.

After getting a taste for blood, Winnie-The-Pooh and Piglet set off to find a new source of food. It's not long before their bloody rampage begins.

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Off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien teamed for the sixth time in this enduring gangster classic. Cagney's Rocky Sullivan is a charismatic ghetto tough whose underworld rise makes him a hero to a gang of slum punks.

O'Brien is Father Connolly, the boyhood chum-turned-priest who vows to end Rocky's influence. Other ace talents join them: Humphrey Bogart as a scheming lawyer, Ann Sheridan as Rocky's hard-edged girlfriend and the Dead End Kids as worshipful street urchins, all ably directed by Michael Curtiz.