machotrouts's - Rented List

The magical, heart-warming story, which has become the most popular family film of all time, tells the story of a spirited young woman, Maria (Julie Andrews), who leaves the convent to become governess to the seven children of the autocratic Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer).

The original classic screen version of Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book, brought to you in wonderful colour. Directed by Zoltan Korda in 1942, this is the story of a boy who grows up with a family of wolves in an Indian forest, learning their language and habits.

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Lost in a blizzard on the rocky English moors, a stranger stumbles upon Wuthering Heights, the dark, gloomy estate of the mysterious Heathcliff, a man so tortured by unrequited love he has lost the will to live.

As the storm rages on, the weary wanderer is mesmerized by the sorrowful tale of Heathcliff, a former stable boy, shared an innocent love with Cathy, a wild spirit whose fiery passion for him could never be realised. For when Heathcliff goes to seek his fortune, he returns to find Cathy married into high society - a discovery that shatters his soul but cannot touch the burning desire that will rage in him forever.

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Dovzhenko's landmark 'film poem' style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian workers, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex and other issues as they relate to the collective farms.

An idealistic vision of the possibilities of communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, 'Earth' was viewed negatively by many soviets because of its portrayal of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.

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When "The Jazz Singer" was released in theatres, the future of Hollywood changed. For the first time in a feature film, an actor spoke on screen, stunning audiences and leaving the silent era behind.

Al Jolson was the history-making actor, playing the son of a Jewish cantor who must defy his rabbi father in order to pursue his dream of being in show business.

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High Plains Drifter returns Clint Eastwood to his familiar scene of the Old West and his familiar role of "The Man With No Name." Eastwood portrays a mysterious stranger who emerges out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the guilt-ridden town of Lago.

After committing three murders and one rape in the first 20 minutes, The Stranger is hired by the town to protect it from three gunmen just out of jail. The Stranger then paints the entire town bright red, renames it "Hell", and supplies Divine retribution in a fiery climax.

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Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure.

One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), the 'Camille' of this sumptuous romance tale based on the enduring Alexandre Dumas story.

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When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon bass called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately send in their "best" man, Dix, on the

mission. Dix travels to Vegan to rescue the President but is quickly duped and ends up returning to Earth where he installs the clone-President and removes the real one. The bumbling Dix must find a way to restore the real president before aliens takeover the Earth, and restore in himself a belief in truth justice and the American way.

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The tension is unmistakable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air at the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show. Director Christopher Guest takes a hilarious look at dog show participants (and the pooches who love them).

Meet the contestants - a fly-fishing bloodhound owner (Guest), Shih-Tzu-doting partners, squabbling yuppie lawyers, a bimbo trophy wife and her poodle handler and a married couple who dream up little ditties about terriers - all fighting for the ‘Best in Show’ prize.

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What wonders await you in Willy Wonka's factory? Explore fields of soft minty sugar grass in the Chocolate Room... Sail along the Chocolate River in a pink sugar boat... Experiment with Everlasting Gobstoppers in the Inventing Room...

Observe talented squirrels in the Nut Room and travel to the Television Room by a glass elevator. You'll find a lot that's funny, a little that's mysterious... and an adventure as sweet and satisfying as a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight bar.

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Marcel Ophuls' four-and-a-half hour portrait of the French town of Clermont-Ferrand under German occupation from 1940-44 is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, as important as Claude Lanzmann's 'Shoah' in its value not just as a film but as an essential historical record in its own right -

not least since its interviewees are all long dead. Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. He also demolishes numerous self-serving national myths to such an extent that, although he made the film for French television, they wouldn't show it for over a decade. But, as he demonstrates again and again, the overwhelming majority of French citizens during this period weren't heroes, villains or cowards, but simply ordinary people trying to make the best of an impossible situation. And it's Ophuls' portrayal of these people, their hopes, their fears and their appalling moral quandaries, that remains unmatched in film history.

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Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, in pursuit of rising to the top of his elite music conservatory. Terence Fletcher (J.K.

Simmons), an instructor known for his terrifying teaching methods, discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into the top jazz ensemble, forever changing the young man's life. But Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher pushes him to the brink of his ability and his sanity.

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The relationship between Mr. Darcy, a wealthy single man, and Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited young woman, provides the core of this emotional and compelling story.

Adapted by acclaimed screenplay writer Andrew Davies, the series was given an energy rarely witnessed in costume drama and an electricity heightened by Jennifer Ehle's passionate performance and Colin Firth's smouldering presence. The series was an immediate hit and took its place among the greatest ever television dramas.

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Michael Douglas plays Dan Gallagher, a New York attorney who has a tryst with seductive Alex Forest (Glenn Close) while his wife (Anne Archer) is away. Dan later shrugs off the affair as a mistake and considers it over. But Alex won't be ignored. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever...

even if it means destroying Dan's family to keep him.

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Kassie (Jennifer Aniston) is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally's (Jason Bateman) objections, decides it's time to have a baby - even if it means doing it by herself! Kassie gets her wish with a little help from a charming sperm donor (Patrick Wilson) but

unbeknownst to her, a mishap at the insemination party means Wally drunkenly switched the donation with his own 'special offering' then promptly forgot about it... That is until seven years later when Wally finally gets acquainted with Kassie's son Sebastian, whose precocity, neuroses and hypochondria bear a striking similarity to his own characteristics. Could it be... ?!