joe-2's - Rented List

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William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) falls for the free-spirited Agnes (Jessie Buckley). Their whirlwind romance leads to marriage and three children, but as Will's theatrical ambitions draw him to London, Agnes remains behind to manage the household.

When tragedy strikes, their bond is deeply tested - but through grief and resilience, their journey inspires the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

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The thrilling story of the infamous confrontation between iconic Republic of Ireland football captain Roy Keane (Eanna Hardwicke) and his national team manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) during the Irish team's preparations for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

On the surface, the feud was all about standards, but deep down it was an incredible story of two men whose contempt surpassed the sport they loved. The intense rivalry between these two personalities transcended the game, gripping an entire nation and the sporting world as a whole.

.A bold and original reimagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.

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Timothée Chalamet is Marty Mauser, a silver-tongues hustler with a dream that no one respects: to become the world champion table tennis player.

Hopping from one scheme to the next, Marty goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness, journeying from the Lower East Side to London, Paris, Tokyo, the Great Pyramids, and back with a trail of scorned lovers, business moguls, and mobsters hot on his tail.

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The film follows Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and her partner Jackson (Robert Pattinson), who have recently moved into an old house deep in the country. With ambitions to write 'The Great American Novel', Grace settles into her new environment, and the couple welcome a baby soon after.

However, with Jackson frequently - and suspiciously - absent, and the pressures of domestic life starting to weigh on her, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a path of destruction in her wake.

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A journey through the sensuous and the sensual, Kristen Stewart's directorial debut chronicles Lidia Yuknavitch's life as she experiences and processes childhood abuse, first love, addiction and grief, led by a raw and magnetic performance from Imogen Poots.

Adapted by Stewart from the acclaimed memoir by Yuknavitch, 'The Chronology of Water' is a poetic and unflinching exploration of identity, self-discovery and resilience, brought vividly to life through Stewart's assured directorial vision.

Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years, they must face Bob's past and run for the future.

Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and his beloved wife Kathryn (Cate Blanchett). When she is suspected of betraying the nation. George faces the ultimate test-loyalty to his marriage or his country.

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In this sparkling and elegant romantic comedy, the free-spirited and giddily impulsive Anais (Anais Demoustier) careers from one lover to the next while trying to find some direction in her life.

Following a brief dalliance with an older man (Denis Podalydes), she finds herself captivated instead by his beautiful long-time partner Emilie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), a successful and beguilingly charismatic writer, and an affair begins which may just offer the contentment Anais has been searching for. Featuring stunning Paris and Brittany locations, and a lead performance of immense charm by Anais Demoustier, the debut film by writer-director Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet is playful, passionate, and thoroughly enchanting.

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Jodie Comer "makes her mark" (Owen Gleiberman) in this thought-provoking drama set during the 14th century in France from visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott.

Based on actual events, the film centres on one woman's (Comer) accusation that she was brutally attacked by Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), her husband Jean de Carrouges' (Matt Damon) friend. Now, in order to prove his wife's claim, de Carrouges must fight Le Gris to the death, the victor believed to be determined by God. All three lives hang in the balance in this gripping, cinematic film also starring Ben Affleck as Le Gris' scheming ally, Count d'Alençon.

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Rose (Ann Skelly), an adopted child, wants to discover her biological parents. When Rose finds her birth mother Ellen (Orla Brady), it quickly becomes clear that she has no wish to have any contact. But Rose is determined, and Ellen is forced to reveal a secret she has kept hidden for over 20 years.

This revelation forces Rose to accept the nature of how she came into existence. Rose believes she has little to lose when she sets out to confront her father, Peter (Aidan Gillen). What Rose cannot foresee is that she is on a course that will prove both violent and unsettling.

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A grisly homicide...a sensational trial...a forbidden affair. It's 'Jagged Edge', a razor-sharp suspense-thriller about crime, punishment and passion. When a San Francisco socialite is viciously murdered, her publisher husband, Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges), is accused of committing the crime.

Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) decides to defend the charming, manipulative Jack, only to disregard legal ethics by having an affair with him. With the help of private eye Sam Ransom (Robert Loggia), she takes on a ruthless D.A. (Peter Coyote) who's using the case as a political steppingstone. However, a startling revelation puts Teddy in jeopardy of becoming the next victim of the 'Jagged Edge'.

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In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico.

A provocative, era-defining thriller from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) that unpacks the forces that led us to where we are today, featuring a powerhouse ensemble including Austin Butler and Emma Stone.

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Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo Rose: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposedly ideal life, a storm is brewing.

As Theo's career nose-dives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites in this wonderfully wry, dark comedy.

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After 20 years away Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has finally returned home but much has changed since he left to fight in the Trojan war.

His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is now a prisoner in her own home, hounded by ambitious suitors to choose a new husband, a new king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer), is facing death at the hands of the suitors in their relendess pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past, in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.