jaferacer's - Rented List
-
The Seventh Continent (1989)Der siebente Kontinent
Based on a true story, Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing portrait of familial disintegration which he describes as a depiction of his native Austria's 'progressive emotional glaciation'. Set over a three year period, it documents how the mundane day to day routines of a middle class family alienate them from the world and each other until, suddenly and shockingly, their lives self-destruct. Addressing themes that would inform much of his later work - the breakdown of society, violence and the media - 'The Seventh Continent' is both intelligent and masterfully composed. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer
- Formats:
-
-
Les Biches (1968)Les biches / Bad Girls / The Heterosexual
Frederique (Stéphane Audran) is a cool, rich predatory lesbian who picks up a young student, Why (Jacqueline Sassard), taking her back to her elegant villa in St. Tropez. They lived happily together for some time, annoyed only by the lunatic pranks of the two resident camp buffoons. At the party, Why is attracted to a young architect who readily seduces her. Frederique is rather amused by her young campions budding romance; but she later visits Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and allows him to seduce her as well. Slowly and initially reluctantly he enters their lives and an uncertain, unsettling menage-a-trois is formed. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stéphane Audran
- Formats:
-
-
To fill the void of his middle class existence, 14-year-old Benny (Arno Frisch) immerses himself in the world of home video recordings, and becomes increasingly distant from his family and the world around him. After inviting a girl to his house, events take a nasty turn when he re-enacts a scene from one of his favourite videos - the slaughtering of a pig. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Arno Frisch, Dietrich Siegl, Angela Winkler
- Formats:
-
-
Olaf teams with Sven on a merry mission - with four great new songs in Walt Disney Animation Studio's 'Olaf's Frozen Adventure'. It's the first holiday season since like, forever, and Anna and Elsa host a celebration for all of Arendelle. But, when everyone leaves early to enjoy their own holiday customs, the sisters realise they have no family traditions of their own. So, Olaf sets out to comb the kingdom for the best holiday traditions, to make this first Christmas warm and memorable for his friends. - Director:
- Kevin Deters
- Cast:
- Josh Gad, Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell
- Formats:
-
-
Three Colours: Red (1994)Trois couleurs: Rouge
The third and final part of Kieslowski's trilogy has been acclaimed as his masterpiece. Immaculately played by an extraordinary cast, "Red" masterfully plays on Kieslowski's interpretation of brotherhood and destiny. Irene Jacob is stunning as a young model who meets a retired judge by chance when she rescues his dog from a car accident. Jean-Louis Trintignant is utterly compelling as the embittered judge who spends his days eavesdropping on his neighbours' phone conversations. Their initially fiery relationship mellows into a close friendship that ultimately liberates them both. A final twist of fate reveals the destinies of the characters from all three parts of the trilogy. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Irène Jacob, Marc Autheman, Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Formats:
-
-
Three Colours: White (1994)Trois couleurs: Blanc
'Three Colours White', a very funny and ironic black comedy, is the second in Krzysztof Kieslowski's acclaimed trilogy based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish hairdresser, is divorced by his beautiful French wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) and thrown onto the streets of Paris, penniless and with no passport. All seems lost until he meets a fellow Pole who ingeniously smuggles Karol back to Warsaw in a suitcase. Once there, Karol is determined to take revenge against his ex-wife. He deals successfully on the black market until he has enough money to put his plan into action, but he hasn't counted on love getting in the way of its perfect execution. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
- Formats:
-
-
Three Colours: Blue (1993)Trois couleurs: Bleu
Julie (Juliette Binoche) loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover. But music still surrounds her and she uncovers some unpleasant facts about her husbands life. Slowly Julie learns to live again, as music and the gift of creativity prove to be a healing force. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy
- Formats:
-
-
Time of the Wolf (2003)Le Temps Du Loup
Controversial filmmaker Michael Haneke is reunited with Isabelle Huppert, the star of 'The Piano Teacher', in this nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down. Huppert plays Anne, who flees the city with her husband Georges (Daniel Duval) and their two children, in the hope of finding safe refuge at the family's country home. But soon after arriving they learn they have made a terrible mistake and must embark on a gruelling odyssey through a country totally devastated by disaster, without even the most basic of utilities such as water and electricity. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
- Formats:
-
-
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)Mission: Impossible 5
With their elite organisation shut down by the CIA, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team (Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) must race against time to stop The Syndicate, a deadly network of rogue operatives turned traitors. To stop this global threat, Ethan must join forces with an elusive, disavowed agent (Rebecca Ferguson) whose loyalty is suspect as he faces his most impossible mission ever. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner
- Formats:
-
-
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)Mission: Impossible 4
No plan. No backup. No choice. Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his elite team (Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg) go underground after a bombing of the Kremlin implicates the IMF as international terrorists. While trying to clear the agency's name, the team uncovers a plot to start a nuclear war. Now, to save the world, they must use every high-tech trick in the book. The mission has never been more real, more dangerous or more impossible. - Director:
- Brad Bird
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, April Stewart, Jeremy Renner
- Formats:
-
-
Mission Impossible 3 (2006)Mission: Impossible III
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrams. Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet - a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Shanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan). - Director:
- J.J. Abrams
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames
- Formats:
-
-
Mission Impossible 2 (2000)Mission: Impossible II
How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? You don't. This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in. - Director:
- John Woo
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
- Formats:
-
-
Mission Impossible (1996)Mission: Impossible
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Jon Voight., Emmanuelle Béart
- Formats:
-
-
Mission: Impossible: Fallout (2018)Mission: Impossible VI
Same missions are not a choice. On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilisation. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames
- Formats:
-
-
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse / The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse) finds that diabolical Weimar name resurfacing in the Cold War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveillance tech - all abound in Lang's paranoid, and ultimate, filmic labyrinth. One of the great and cherished "last films" in the history of cinema, 'The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse' provides a stylistic glimpse into the 1960's works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. - Director:
- Fritz Lang
- Cast:
- Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Fröbe
- Formats:
-