dont-be-a-fred's - Rented List
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The Rock (1996)La roca
Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away, a chemical weapons expert (Nicolas Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Sean Connery), who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz, must now break in and disarm the missiles. - Director:
- Michael Bay
- Cast:
- Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
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The Emmy award winner for outstanding comedy series, created by Armando Iannucci and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus in her 5-time Emmy-winning role, returns for its sixth season with executive producer David Mandel as showrunner. The fireworks begin with former VP and onetime President Selina Meyer out of office for the first time in years after her loss in a Senate vote to resolve an Electoral College tie last season. Forging ahead to secure her legacy and find her place in the world, while much of her former staff pursues endeavours of their own, this new season finds Selina and her band of fellow misfits hilariously attempting to make their mark while navigating the political landscape in Washington and beyond. - Director:
- David Mandel
- Cast:
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Carson Pak, Anna Chlumsky
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After a two-year, sold-out, worldwide tour, Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) is the biggest name in music. Go behind the scenes as Conner faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when Conner4Real is no longer the dopest star of all. - Director:
- Akiva Schaffer
- Cast:
- Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer
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Stephen King's the Langoliers (1995)Stephen King's The Langoliers
One A red-eye flight across the country, a small group of passengers - Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse, Frankie Faison, Bronson Pinchot- awakens mid-journey to face a shocking reality: they are somehow the only people left in the entire world. Fear turns to panic and desperation when they learn that they have slipped though a rip in the fabric of the universe. Unimaginable evil awaits them if they don't find a way back... and they are literally running out of time. Based on the story from Stephen King's bestseller "Four Past Midnight". . - Director:
- Tom Holland
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- Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse
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A History of Violence (2005)Una historia violenta
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man (Ed Harris) who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who's wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris
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Thirst (2009)Bakjwi
A priest becomes a vampire… another man's wife is coveted… a deadly seduction triggers murder- Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Hae-suk Kim
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Airheads (1994)Cabezas huecas
In this hilarious spoof of the music industry, three intelligently challenged rock 'n' rollers (Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler) decide to take drastic action after their music continually falls on deaf ears. They break into a radio station, hoping to get their demo played on the air. But when the deejay (Joe Mantegna) and station manager (Michael McKean) refuse to play their song, the boys have no choice but to take the entire radio station hostage. - Director:
- Michael Lehmann
- Cast:
- Mike Judge, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi
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Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) wants the wedding other dreams and Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) wants to marry the woman he loves. But before that, his buddies (Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven and Leland Orser) decide to throw him an unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas. Kyle s last night of freedom involves booze, gambling, drugs and even a visit from a young stripper. When the stripper accidentally gets hilled, the boys get led by Boyd into disposing of the '105 pound problem' in the desert instead of calling the police. Thus begins a darkly comic homicidal trail, dropped like lethal breadcrumb by writer-director Peter Berg in this audacious, sure handed motion picture debut. - Director:
- Peter Berg
- Cast:
- Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Cameron Diaz
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Old college friends Luke (Rafe Spall), Hutch (Robert James-Collier), Phil (Arsher Ali) and Dom (Sam Troughton) - decide to take a hiking trip deep in the Swedish wilderness in order to bond and reminisce about old times. However, they soon find themselves hopelessly lost in the dense woods and, as night closes in they become increasingly desperate to escape the woods. But they are not alone. Someone, or something, malevolent is watching them, intent on making them face their deepest fears and ensuring they never leave. - Director:
- David Brückner
- Cast:
- Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier
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Face/Off (1997)Face Off
To avenge the senseless murder of his son, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) undergoes a radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and assumes Sean's identity, the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare, fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife and daughter! - Director:
- John Woo
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- John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
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When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason "Mace" Brown (Jessica Chastain) joins forces with rival German agent Marie (Diane Kruger), former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah (Lupita Nyong'o), and skilled Colombian psychologist Graciela (Penelope Cruz) on a lethal mission to retrieve it. The unlikely team must also stay one step ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng (Bingbing Fan), who is tracking their every move as the action rockets across the globe. - Director:
- Simon Kinberg
- Cast:
- Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan
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Bill Murray has joined the Army, and the Army will never be the same! When John Winger (Murray) loses his job, his car, his apartment and his girlfriend, all in one day, he decides he only has one option: volunteer for Uncle Sam. He talks his friend Russell (Harold Ramis) into enlisting with him. Where else, they figure, can they help save the world for democracy and meet girls! John and Russell find basic training a snap: they are arrested twice, have endless run-ins with their drill sergeant (Warren Oates) and get into a big mess at a female mud-wrestling match. They even steal a top secret government vehicle to take some gorgeous female MPs on a date, and wind up behind the Iron Curtain. - Director:
- Ivan Reitman
- Cast:
- Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis
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Max Renn (James Woods) is looking for fresh new content for his TV channel when he happens across some illegal S&M-style broadcasts called "Videodrome". Embroiling his girlfriend Nick (Deborah Harry) in his search for the source, his journey begins to blur the lines between reality and fantasy as he works his way through sadomasochistic games, shady organisations and body transformations stunningly realised by Oscar-winning makeup effects artist Rick Baker. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
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- James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits
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In 2032 arch-criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Unable to deal with Phoenix's brutal 1990s style, officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashion crime. They revive Sgt. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix. - Director:
- Marco Brambilla
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- Sylvester Stallone, Adrienne Barbeau, Wesley Snipes
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Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are three vampires living together and struggling to cope with modern life. From doing housework to trying to get into nightclubs, they're perfectly normal - except for their immortality, fangs, and thirst for human blood. When their 8000 year-old housemate, Petyr, turns 20-something Nick into o vampire, the guys must guide him through his newfound eternal life. In return, they ore forced to learn a thing or two about modern life. - Director:
- Jemaine Clement
- Cast:
- Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh
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