greatest-ever-made's - Rented List
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (14) in film history. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
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The Silence (1963)Tystnaden
United since childhood in apparent incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman's sombre view of modern man's condition - wherein human relations are grotesquely egocentric and perversely sexual - is a shattering vision of despair. Ester (Ingrid Thulin), Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) and Anna's son Johan (Jorgen Lidstrom) travel by train to a foreign city whose language they do not understand. In an arid hostel, Ester tries to retain her sexual hold upon her sister. Anna leaves, however, and in a nearby cabaret watches a couple making love: she picks up a man, and returns to the hotel. Playing with a kindly porter, Johan overhears Ester confronting Anna with the man in her room. Tanks roll through the city streets. Ester is dying, and several times thinks her sister has left... - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
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Cat People (1982)La marca de la pantera
Nastassia Kinski stars as Irena, a beautiful young woman on the bridge of sexuality; she discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. The tremendous passion of this girl's first romantic love is so strong, however, it by-passes the chaos around her-including her brother's (Malcom McDowell) extraordinary demands - as it pushes her on to her own bizarre destiny. With a style as timeless as myth, Cat People is an erotic fantasy of the passion and terror that surround this girl's first love. Desire... passion... blood, her lust transforms her into one of the Cat People. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
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What? (1972)Diary of Forbidden Dreams
Roman Polanski described it as "the ribald adventures of an innocent girl". Critics called it "an amoral, depraved disaster". More than four decades after its controversial release, it remains the most butchered, debated and least-seen film of the Oscar-winning director's entire career. The succulent Sydne Rome stars as an oft-naked American girl lost inside a Mediterranean villa inhabited by priests, pianists, peverts and a syphilitic pimp (a deliciously bizarre performance by Marcello Masfroianni) while indulging in madcap acts of gang rape, sodomy and ping-pong. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith
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The Sherwood sisters get of the train in Manhattan looking for fame and fortune. Eileen, a beautiful aspiring actress and Ruth, a loveless would-be writer, move to New York to realize their dreams. After suave magazine editor Robert Baker insultingly rejects Ruth's corny romantic tragedies, Ruth takes his advice to write about something she really knows - her belle-of-the-ball sister's power over men. Ruth secret jealousy of Eileen leads to a web of lies that only an international incident with the Brazilian Navy and a jail-bound conga line can untangle. - Director:
- Richard Quine
- Cast:
- Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett
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Stormy Weather (1943)Der Tänzer auf den Stufen
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, and Lena Horne star in this classic musical which was a showcase for the best black talent of the 40's. Having just made 'Cabin In The Sky' Lena Horne shines again and makes the title song one of the great moments in the history of musicals, Fats Waller performs a rousing rendition of his signature tune, 'Ain't Misbehavin', Cab Calloway does 'The Jumping Jive' and joining Bill Robinson on the dance floor the Nicholas Brothers perform a jaw-dropping routine at the finale that has to be seen to be believed. - Director:
- Andrew L. Stone
- Cast:
- Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra
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