dont-be-a-fred's - Rented List
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age. - Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
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Be Kind Rewind (2007)Rebobinados
When Jerry (Jack Black) becomes magnetised while trying to sabotage the power plant, he accidentally erases all the tapes in the old-fashioned VHS store his best friend Mike (Mos Def) is in charge of. To rescue the business Jerry and Mike decide to remake one of the erased movies, which becomes a huge rental hit. Soon friends from the neighbourhood help out re-making movies, from Ghostbusters to King Kong until the government threatens to not only destroy the tapes but also close their store.... - Director:
- Michel Gondry
- Cast:
- Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover
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Mike Leigh at the BBC: Abigail's Party (1977)Mike Leigh at the BBC: Abigail's Party
Beverly (Alison Steadman) has invited her new neighbours, Angela (Janine Duvitski) and Tony (John Salthouse), over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue (Harriet Reynolds), because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence (Tim Stern) comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive British middle class way with people who do not know each other, until Beverly and Lawrence start sniping at each other. - Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Cast:
- Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski
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Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw (2019)Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
For years, hulking lawman Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and lawless outcast Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton (Idris Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever, Hobbs and Shaw must partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves! - Director:
- David Leitch
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- Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba
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Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu are Charlie's Angels - a trio of elite private investigators who, with the latest in high-tech gadgets, martial arts techniques and a vast array of disguises, unleash their state of the art skills on land, sea and air. Their goal, to track down a kidnapped billionaire-to-be and keep his top-secret voice identification software out of his lethal hands. Aided by their faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray), and under the sure hand of their suave playboy boss, notorious for his clever ways of avoiding face-to-face meetings, the girls must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could destroy individual privacy and corporate security worldwide. - Director:
- McG
- Cast:
- John Forsythe, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)La Vita e Bella
Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then that life is threatened by World War II... and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate! - Director:
- Roberto Benigni
- Cast:
- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
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The Phantom Clone The action-packed adventure begins when Darth Sidious unveils his plan to create a new super-weapon - an enhanced Sith clone named Jek-14 - to help him defeat the Republic once and for all. It's up to Jedi Master Yoda and his young Padawan students to work together and save the galaxy!
Menace of the Sith
Count Dooku uses his new and improved Clone-a-Matic to create an army of Jek clones, but the original Jek-14 wants no part of the sinister scheme. Now, with the help of some old friends and two familiar Droids, substitute teacher Anakin Skywalker must lead Yoda's Padawan class to victory!- Director:
- Michael Hegner
- Cast:
- Anthony Daniels, Trevor Devall, Brian Dobson
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Horrible Histories: The Movie: Rotten Romans (2019)Horrible Histories the Movie: Rotten Romans
Atti is a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, Atti is forced to join the army and sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla (Emilia Jones), a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior. Meanwhile a furious Nero is determined to crush the British rebellion, led by Boudicca (Kate Nash). As the Romans prepare for an historic showdown with the Celts at the Battle of Watling Street the two new friends find themselves lined up on opposite sides of the battlefield. - Director:
- Dominic Brigstocke
- Cast:
- Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost
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Ted (Zac Efron): handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. Liz (Lily Collins): a single mother, cautious, but smitten. A picture of domestic bliss, the two seem to have it all figured out, that is until Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. As concern turns to paranoia, Liz is forced to consider how well she knows the man she shares a life with and, as the evidence piles up, decide if Ted is truly a victim, or actually guilty as charged. - Director:
- Joe Berlinger
- Cast:
- Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
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When Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), he charms her with his self-deprecating humour and his memories of her youthful idealism. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly. - Director:
- Jonathan Levine
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael
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Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) lives in contented retirement until her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted. The dark secrets she's been hiding since her university days have been uncovered by M15. She finds herself in their custody, accused of providing intelligence to the KGB. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a promising physics student at Cambridge University. There she falls for a young communist named Leo Galich (Tom Hughes) and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. After graduation, Joan secures a job in a weapons research facility where she comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Now Joan is forced to answer an impossible question: exactly what price would she pay for peace? - Director:
- Trevor Nunn
- Cast:
- Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
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This fantastic, funny animated adventure crosses all galaxies to entertain the entire family! Sibling rivals from the Planet BAAB, brainiac Gary Supernova (Rob Corddry) works all the gizmos at Mission Control, while his studly brother Scorch (Brendan Fraser) performs all the superhero stuff. But when Scorch is sent on an SOS operation to the Dark Planet (otherwise known as Earth), from which no alien has ever returned - it's up to Gary to rescue him, their planet and the universe. - Director:
- Cal Brunker
- Cast:
- Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba
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Armour of God (1986)Long xiong hu di
Starring as "The Asian Hawk", a bounty hunter and martial arts expert, with an insatiable taste for adventure, Jackie is blackmailed by a mysterious cult leader into acquiring 'the Armour of God', a mystical artifact from the Dark Ages, which holds the key to unlimited power. Combining action, romance and Chan's trademark Keaton-esque comedy, "Armour of God" is an explosive heart-pounding martial arts extravaganza, which is internationally one of Jackie's highest grossing films to date. Featuring a dazzling array of precision driving stunts, high-falls and explosive, high-energy fight action, this is one movie that is guaranteed to thrill from beginning to end, Making this film very nearly cost Jackie his life, and the accident footage is included in the end credits. - Director:
- Jackie Chan
- Cast:
- Jackie Chan, Stephen Apostolina, Steve Bulen
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Set against the backdrop of the 2016 US Presidential Election, political thriller 'Chimerica' explores the murky borders between fact and fiction; truth and censorship. Renowned American photojournalist Lee Berger has spent the best part of his career working in war zones, trying to recapture the early success of his electrifying photograph, the Tank Man - an image he took of a young man nearly 30 years ago in Tiananmen Square standing up to the might of the Chinese military. However, when accusations of "fake news" are levelled against him, his world falls apart. Desperate to reclaim his credibility and remember the photographer he used to be, Lee sets out on a journey to find the Tank Man but as he delves deeper, his frantic search places the very people he is trying to protect in grave danger. And even with the help of an old friend in China, can Lee manage to uncover the elusive truth before it is too late? - Director:
- Michael Keillor
- Cast:
- Alessandro Nivola, Cherry Jones, Terry Chen
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Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz), a sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends - but Greta's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta's life is what it seems... - Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe
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