greatest-ever-made's - Rented List
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In a film that stirred up the censors, Marlene Dietrich plays a lusty gypsy named Lydia, whose caravan makes a romantic refuge for British agent .Ray Milland. Escaping from the Nazis, Agent Ralph Denistoun (Milland) and his partner arrange to meet in Stuttgart to purloin Hitler's poison gas formula. On the journey, Denistoun meets Lydia, whose uncanny knowledge of the Black Forest keeps him out of harm's way. Disguised as a gypsy, complete with glistening golden earrings, Denistoun arrives at the designated meeting place, which is glutted with Nazi soldiers. Only with the help of the extraordinary gypsy woman can he finish the mission that will make him a hero. - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
- Cast:
- Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye
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Meet Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak), Greenwich Village's most seductive sorceress. Powerful, glamrous, and a wee bit bored, Gillian knows that witches can't fall in love. But they can have fun... especially if their lover belongs to another woman! So when Gillian discovers handsome new neighbor Shep Henderson (James Stewart) is the fiance of an old college nemesis (Janice Rule), she promptly puts the befuddled publisher under her spell. But while her sex may have heated up Shep's heart, it has also unthawed her own, leading to a romantic compilation that not even Pyewacket -- Gillian's mind-reading cat -- could have foreseen. - Director:
- Richard Quine
- Cast:
- James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
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In this Academy Award-nominated Best Picture, two widowed mothers - one white, Beatrice Pullman (Claudette Colbert), and one black, Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers) - decide to pool their talents and go into business together, opening a waffle shop. A surprising financial success, their business is quickly franchised into a chain of coffee shops that market their unique product line - Delilah's waffle recipe and Bea's maple sugar-candy hearts. But their success is a mixed blessing because it complicates their relationships with their own daughters. Ashamed of her mother, Peola seeks a new life by passing for white. Bea's love for her daughter is tested when she and Jessie fall for the same man. - Director:
- John M. Stahl
- Cast:
- Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
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Shirley MacLaine is Irma, a popular Parisian prostitute who has just hired a new pimp, Nestor (Jack Lemmon), a former honest cop who was fired and framed by his boss after Nestor inadvertently had him arrested in a raid. However, Nestor's love for Irma is making his newfound vocation impossible, so he poses as a phoney British lord who insists on being Irma's one and only "client". But when "Lord X" (Jack Lemmon) appears to have become the victim of foul play...further comedic complications ensue! - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Jack Lemmon, Louis Jourdan, Shirley MacLaine
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John J. Bramble (Franchot Tone), the sole survivor of a British tank crew, makes his way to a desolate town where he is given refuge by a hotel owner (Akim Tamiroff) and a French chambermaid (Anne Baxter) as they prepare to receive General Erwin Rommel (Erich Von Stroheim) and his German staff. Posing as a hotel waiter, Bramble attempts to infiltrate Rommel's inner circle and report their battle plans to the Allies... - Director:
- Billy Wilder
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- Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
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Kiss Me Stupid (1964)The Dazzling Hour
Dean Martin is full of charm, wit and snappy one-liners in this sly, irreverent, brash and daring comedy from the legendary team of Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond . When world-renowned singer "Dino" (Martin in a hilarious self-parody) passes through Climax, Nevada, he doesn't count on meeting two would-be songwriters with a plan to trap him there and serenade him with their songs. But then again, they weren't counting on Dino's insatiable appetite...for wine and women! And when one of the men learns that his own wife was once president of Dino's fan club, he hires a replacement wife (Kim Novak) to help lure the carousing star into a song-buying mood! - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston
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God is great. I'm not (2001)God Is Great, I'm Not
Michele, a 20 year old, who just broke up with her boyfriend, is at a low point in her life. To bounce back, she goes on a spiritual quest to believe in something, if not... in someone. Catholicism does not answer her needs, and Buddhist meditation literally puts her to sleep! Then, she meets Francois, a Jewish veterinarian. Although he is ambivalent about his own faith, their relationship leads Michele to study the Torah and consider converting. In this light and fluid comedy, Audrey Tautou plays with her usual childlike grace to tackle the questions of faith, both in herself and in God, and brings to the foreground all the thousand little ways in which men and women miscommunicate and evolve on different planes. - Director:
- Pascale Bailly
- Cast:
- Audrey Tautou, Edouard Baer, Julie Depardieu
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Ordet (1955)The Word
A tale of miraculous resurrection brought about by human love, Ordet is an extraordinary expression of spiritual optimism without being either sentimental or pious. Religious intolerance and family tensions lie at the heart of the film, which explores the clash between orthodox religions and true faith. Dreyer achieves its powerful effects in deceptively simple ways, and has produced, in its closing moments, one of the most extraordinary scenes in all cinema. - Director:
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Cast:
- Birgitte Federspiel, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Hanne Agesen
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Hangman's Knot is an exciting, suspense-filled Western starring Randolph Scott and an excellent supporting cast, including Donna Reed and Lee Marvin. At the end of the Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on, the troop seeks refuge in a stagecoach waystation. A feisty ex-Union army nurse (Donna Reed) and three others are held captive while the men plot their next move. The troops' leader (Randolph Scott) wants to return the gold in exchange for amnesty, but the bloodthirsty bounty hunters are closing in, and have every intention of taking the loot and hanging the soldiers. - Director:
- Roy Huggins
- Cast:
- Randolph Scott, Donna Reed, Claude Jarman Jr.
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Charlton Heston is the powerful, brooding owner of a plantation in the wild and treacherous South American jungle. Eleanor Parker is his charming American mail order bride. But Heston is wary of the beautiful and talented Parker, and wonders why she would leave America for the rigors of jungle life. They're both threatened by the advance of billions of relentless killer ants who are making their way across the jungle - cutting a path of creeping horror which is 20 miles long and two miles wide. - Director:
- Byron Haskin
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer
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Avvoacto is a disgraced former lawyer, now collecting debts for his partner. Staying at the seedy hotel, the Snack Bar Budapest, he meets the teenage crime kingpin Molecola, who has grand plans for the district. With women and drugs free to him, he accepts an offer he can't refuse. His instructions are to force out the hotel's owners, but when Avvocato accidentally kills one of Molecola's punk he starts a wave of gang violence, culminating in a shoot out against the strippers loyal to Molecola. - Director:
- Tinto Brass
- Cast:
- Giancarlo Giannini, Philippe Léotard, François Négret
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Live Virgin (1999)American Virgin
Katrina Batoloti (Mena Suvari) wants to become a serious actress, but her father Ronny (Robert Loggia), an 'adult film' producer, insists that she become a lawyer instead. Faced with this conflict of interest, Katrina vows to become the biggest porn star the world has ever known and comic complications ensue; as her father and boyfriend try to prevent her from losing her virginity in front of millions of paying viewers on a live webcast. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Marois
- Cast:
- Mark Adair-Rios, Jason Bercy, Brian Bloom
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Based on the story by Graham Greene, 'Went the Day Well?' is a classic piece of propagandist entertainment, a warning to British citizens to remain ever alert for the arrival of the enemy. A rare foray into darker material by Ealing Studios, Alberto Cavalcanti's film tells the story of a quiet English village which has been infiltrated by German soldiers masquerading as British troops, leaving the plucky villagers to uncover the plot and fight back. - Director:
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Cast:
- Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor
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Toto the Hero (1991)Toto le héros
Convinced that a nursery fire lead to them being mixed up as babies, Thomas has been consumed with jealous hatred for his wealthy and successful neighbour Alfred, the man he believes stole the life that should have been his. And now, an old man, he reflects on the past, the tragedies of his own life and his thoughts turn to vengeance. - Director:
- Jaco van Dormael
- Cast:
- Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer
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The Black Dahlia (2006)La Dalia Negra
The Black Dahlia weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett(, are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia" - an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public. While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his relationship with Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families - who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Brian De Palma, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart
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