dont-be-a-fred's - Rented List
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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)Fumer fait tousser
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers - known as the Tobacct Force - is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their break goe; wonderfully well until Lezardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth... But will they repair their relationship in time for a final epic battle? From visionary director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin) comes a darkly hilarious superhero movie unlike any other. - Director:
- Quentin Dupieux
- Cast:
- Gilles Lellouche, Franck Lascombes, Ferdinand Canaud
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Sexy Beast (2000)Bestia salvaje
A contented ex-villain is forced to do one last spectacular robbery by a psychotic face from his past in this mould-breaking stylish thriller by director Jonathan Glazer. Gary Dove (Ray Winstone) is blissfully retired, living in a Spanish villa paradise with the wife he adores. His perfect lifestyle is shattered by the arrival of his gangster nemesis Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), intent on persuading him to return to London for a big heist. Desperate not to sacrifice his carefully built idyll, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, ending in an explosive psychological showdown, and a sensational underwater bank robbery in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves. - Director:
- Jonathan Glazer
- Cast:
- Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
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Lars von Trier's bold, brilliant and controversial new film tells the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg and newcomer Stacy Martin), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, from birth to the age of 50. One night, a gentle old bachelor named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgard) finds Joe beaten up in an alley. After taking her to his flat he cares for her wounds and questions her about her life, listening intently as, over the film's eight chapters, she recounts the lusty, labyrinthine story of her life... - Director:
- Lars Von Trier
- Cast:
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe
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An uncompromising, double-Bafta winning portrait of a particular milieu of working-class family life in southeast London, where its writer and director grew up, 'Nil by Mouth' is a powerful, astute, authentically foul-mouthed account of unfettered machismo, booze and drugs, petty crime and domestic abuse. The performances are mesmerising throughout, with Ray Winstone as the volatile and self-pitying Ray, Kathy Burke as his longsuffering wife Val and Charlie Creed-Miles as her junkie brother Billy. Shot and scripted in a deceptively casual realist style reminiscent of John Cassavetes, this profoundly personal and humane film eschews sensationalism and sentimentality to illuminate a vicious circle of abuse and criminality. A dark but dazzling masterwork. - Director:
- Gary Oldman
- Cast:
- Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles
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Sudden Impact (1983)Impacto fulminante
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan's bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. Clint Eastwood scores again in Harry's fourth film (which he also directs), tracking a traumatised rape victim (Sondra Locke) who coldly guns down her bygone attackers - and, as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle
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When two LAPD detectives are sent to a remote Alaskan town to aid in the investigation of an horrific teen murder, they find themselves under the glare of the region's perpetual daylight. While closing in on the murderer, veteran officer Will Dormer's partner is killed, and the jaded cop is compromised by the calculated mind games of the primary suspect - a reclusive writer, Walter Finch (Robin Williams). Sleep-deprived and guilt ridden over his role in his partner's death, Dormer (Al Pacino) must outmaneuver a brilliantly idealistic local cop (Hilary Swank), a brilliantly twisted killer and the brilliance of the Midnight Sun. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Al Pacino, Ian Tracey, Robin Williams
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This outrageous comedy finds a rogues' gallery of wealthy guests (from business tycoons to heiresses) aboard a hyper-luxury yacht, whose downtrodden staff - under the command of their captain and avowed Marxist (Woody Harrelson) - must respond to their every belittling whim in the hope of winning tips. Among the super-rich patrons are the oh-sobeautiful couple Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), two models and social-media influencers who have been invited on a free trip to show off the kind of lavish lifestyle many could only dream of. - Director:
- Ruben Östlund
- Cast:
- Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean Kriek
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Eight years ago, after assuming the blame for D.A. Harvey Dent's death, a disgraced Batman (Christian Bale) mysteriously vanished. But everything changes with the appearance of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and the arrival of Bane (Tom Hardy), a ruthless madman. Bane's reign of terror forces Bruce out of his self-imposed exile and into the ultimate battle for Gotham City's survival... and his own. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Christian Bale, Constantine Malahias, Tom Hardy
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Condorman (1981)Kondormannen
A cartoonist adopts the identity of his own winged creation - Condorman - and suddenly, his life explodes into high-flying adventure with more fantasy and excitement than all of his comic strips put together. The special effects soar in a series of hair-raising chases and madcap plot twists in this crazy comedy where Condorman lives! - Director:
- Charles Jarrott
- Cast:
- Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera
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"Vengeance", the directorial debut from writer and star B.J. Novak (The Office), is a darkly comic thriller about Ben Manalowitz (B.J. Novak), a journalist and podcaster who travels from New York City to West Texas to investigate the death of a girl he was hooking up with. With an ensemble cast that includes Issa Rae, Ashton Kutcher and Dove Cameron. - Director:
- B.J. Novak
- Cast:
- B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, Analeigh Tipton
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Yes Man on DVD April 4th! Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything. Working every funny bone in his nimble body and every muscle in his hilariously mobile face, Jim Carrey plays Carl in a YEScapade about opening up to lifes possibilities especially when those possibilities include romance with an intriguing, free-spirited musician (Zooey Deschanel). - Director:
- Peyton Reed
- Cast:
- Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper
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Sisu (2022)Immortal
During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path. - Director:
- Jalmari Helander
- Cast:
- Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan
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Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams (Mia Wasikowska). He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. - Director:
- Richard Ayoade
- Cast:
- Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn
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Slipstream is set in a world where nature has gone mad and flying, fuelled by the wind, is the principal means of travel. A runaway fugitive, being taken to prison by two law officers, is kidnapped by a young adventurer intent on collecting a reward. They head off down the Slipstream - a river of wind - in a small solar-powered craft with the law officers in pursuit. The changing relationship of these four characters is played out within a series of strange and threatening adventures, leading to an exciting climax in the turbulent winds of the Slipstream. - Director:
- Steven Lisberger
- Cast:
- Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge
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Saw II (2005)Saw 2
Jigsaw is back. The brilliant, disturbed mastermind who wreaked havoc on his victims in last year's SAW is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Mathews (Donnie Wahlberg) begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his nefarious plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives - and now it's time for Mathews to join the game. - Director:
- Darren Lynn Bousman
- Cast:
- Donnie Wahlberg, Conrad Coates, Beverley Mitchell
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