dont-be-a-fred's - Rented List

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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Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love star in this compelling true story of porn iconoclast Larry Flynt. An early school drop-out, Flynt was nobody's hero - least of all when he pushed American tolerance to the limit with his raunchy porn magazine 'Hustler'.

But Flynt was to become an unlikely champion when he took his crusade for freedom of speech all the way to the Supreme Court and won! 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' is a story that encompasses love, loss...and a heck of a lot of fun!

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"The Iron Mask" sees action legends Jackie Chan (Rush Hour) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Total Recall) team up in this action high concept fantasy historical epic, featuring breath-taking fights and stunning visuals.

Set in the 18th century, 'The Iron Mask' follows English traveller Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng) as he journeys from Russia to China encountering dragons, black magic wizardry and a dragon king, in this incredible but dangerous adventure. This action adventure also stars Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner).

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It's a night of a violent, storm and a writer Onoff (Gerard Depardieu) is desperately running down a street when the police stop him. Unable to produce any identification, he is brought to the police station for questioning. Some hours ago a women, as yet unidentified, was killed in her hotel room.

The Superintendent (Roman Polanski) begins what turns out to be a night of relentless and anguishing interrogation. With no memory of his movements Onoff becomes the Superintendent's prime suspect. At dawn the identity of the women is revealed and the writer is faced with new and frightening consequences.

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A wicked chain of events finds the corpse of the mummy Imhotep resurrected in a British Museum, ready to walk the earth once more and determined to fulfill his quest for immortality. But this time, a dueling force of evil has also been set loose in the world.even more powerful than Imhotep.

When these forces clash, the fate of the world will hang in the balance, sending Rich and Evie O'Connell (Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz) on a desperate race to save the world from unspeakable evil, and rescue their son, before it's too late.

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Guy Pearce stars as Jim Dillon - a cop on the edge, forced to step up to protect a small town thrown into lockdown by an armed gang. With the town's residents lives on the line, this ex-Texas ranger soon realises that these killers have done their homework.

Diablo (Devon Sawa) the gang leader, delivers a brutal message to any who opposes the gang, forcing Jim to take no prisoners as he prepares to take his town back.

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"Midway" centres on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific during WWII.

The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and sailors who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome the odds.

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Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is a strange and fragile character... having experienced such a traumatic childhood, which resulted in spending a long time in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up.

The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother (Miranda Richardson )... Spider believes that his father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne), murdered her so that he could move a prostitute into the house in her place. As Spider claws through the falsehoods he has woven around himself, he finally begins to arrive at the truth of his life and his mother's death... The truth, which will take him to the very limits of his faltering sanity...Spider, a supremely moving portrait of one man's struggle.

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You've never met a hero quite like Shrek (voice of Mike Myers), the endearing ogre who sparked a motion picture phenomenon and captured the world's imagination with...

the Greatest Fairy Tale Never Told! Relieve every moment of Shrek's daring quest to rescue feisty Princess Fiona (voice of Cameron Diaz) with the help of his loveable loudmouthed Donkey (voice of Eddie Murphy) and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from scheming Lord Farquaad (voice of John Lithgow). Enchantingly irreverent and "monstruosly clever", 'Shrek' is ogre-sized adventure you'll want to see again and again!

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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters.

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

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Secret agent Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to Malawi to assassinate President N'Jala (Sidiki Bakaba). At the last moment, the French authorities make a change of policy and betray Beaumont to the Malawi government.

After two years in captivity, Beaumont escapes from the African state and returns to Paris to enact his revenge. He notifies his former paymasters that he intends to carry out his mission, by killing N'Jala during a state visit to France. The ruthless Commissioner Rosen (Robert Hossein) is assigned to prevent him at all costs...

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From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy Award-winning mini-series The Corner, this unvarnished, highly realistic drama series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore - one that culminates in a complex series of dangerous wiretaps and surveillance.

Told from the points of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe where easy distinctions between good and evil, and crime and punishment, are challenged at every turn.

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When electric cars first appeared on the market in the 1990s, mass production and commercialisation was abruptly - and dubiously - shut down, a story told in Chris Paine's first documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Just a few short years later, the race is back on to develop an affordable,

stylish electric car and win over a sceptical public. Revenge of the Electric Car goes behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, the innovative California start-up Tesla Motors and an independent car converter named Greg "Gadget" Abbott to find the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. This new generation of automobiles emerges as the future: fast, furious and cleaner than ever.

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Every house is identical. Every house is empty. Except for yours. Welcome to YONDER. Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) are a young couple looking to take the next step in their relationship and own their first home.

Sold on the prospect of an ideal suburban lifestyle at the newly opened YONDER, they drive out with enigmatic estate agent Martin (Jonathan Aris) to take a look, and the trap is sprung. In YONDER, the food they're given has no taste, identical homes line identical streets tesselating toward the horizon underneath a sky dotted by uniform clouds, and every road leads right back to the new home that has become their prison. The idyllic dream of 'suburban bliss' has given way to a recursive nightmare, and the only hope for Gemma and Tom's escape lies within a mysterious box and the infant inside it.

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Blood, gore, severed heads, but a tender love story at heart. Takashi Miike is back! One night in Tokyo. Leo (Masataka Kubota), a young boxer down on his luck, meets his 'first love' Monica (Sakurako Konishi), a callgirl and an addict, but still an innocent.

Unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, Leo and Monica find themselves pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin hired by the Chinese Triads. Prepare for unadulterated mayhem and carnage and fall for 'First Love'.