machotrouts's - Rented List

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Tien (Angela Mao) arrives in town looking to exact revenge on Ling for abandoning her pregnant sister and thus driving said sister to commit suicide.

Although Tien agrees to help Ling (Yi Chang) take down the leader of a local gambling syndicate, she nonetheless still plans to avenge her sister's death which she holds Ling responsible for.

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, the world fights a different type of conflict. Conventional warfare is a thing of the past. This time the enemy remains faceless.

Now a madman has organised a cartel of international terrorists and mercenaries into a lethal guerrilla strike campaign spreading fear and death across the globe. And the United States has become the prime target.
In the shadow of night, a group of commandos slip quietly out of the sky, parachuting onto the roof of a military hangar. They eliminate several guards and open two huge bay doors. Inside, Owen Turner steps up, admiring a $2.2 billion B-2 Stealth bomber. A highly decorated fighter pilot, Turner, was thought to be dead, killed on a top-secret mission in Central America. But this was just an elaborate ruse to steal important satellite access codes and disappear. Until now ...

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Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the screenplay from his novel The Perilous Passage.

Anthony Quinn stars as a brave Basque mountaineer who is hired by the American military to guide Professor Bergsson (James Mason) and his family over the dangerous Pyrenees. Together the two men struggle to ensure the group's survival and elude Von Berkow a crazed Nazi played by Malcolm MacDowell.

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High-flying TV exec Harry Silver (loan Gruffudd) is growing restless with married life and parenthood. When his wife Gina (Natasha Little) discovers he's had a one-night stand with a work colleague, she walks out on him, leaving the hapless Harry to take care of the couple's five-year old son Pat.

The going is tough at first, but with the help of his parents and the American waitress at Pat's favourite restaurant, Harry starts to learn some hard lessons about being a good father.

Welcome to a magical world of spectacular adventure! When wily and resourceful Hugo discovers a secret left by his father, he unlocks a mystery and embarks on a quest that will transform those around him and lead to a safe and loving place he can call, home.

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Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard star in this offbeat comedy as childhood friends whose lives have drifted apart but must reunite following the sudden death of a fourth friend.

The trio finds out that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that vanished with real-life airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. After discovering a map left behind, they decide to follow its course to claim the loot. They soon run into a few things that their friend hadn't planned on, including backwoods pot farmers with itchy trigger fingers, beautiful tree-living hippies and a bear with maternal instincts that knows no bounds! Also starring a hilarious Burt Reynolds, 'Without a Paddle' proves that it's better to be down a river than up a creek.

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When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) witnesses the arrival of alien ships from a distant world, an incredible series of events begins- planes which disappeared during the Second World War are found intact in Mexico, long lost ships mysteriously re-appear in the middle of the desert and people from all

around the world, including Neary are convinced that someone is trying to communicate with them. Nearys search to find an answer leads him to take part in the ultimate encounter with the extra-Terrestrials and to board the vast, beautiful Mothership.

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He shouldn't have been there. But in the moment that Michael Sullivan's son witnesses a brutal slaying, the lives of this 12-year-old and his gangster father are shattered irrevocably and their destinies forever joined. Now.

targeted by the mob he's devoted his life to, Sullivan and his son find themselves with nowhere to turn and a sadistic killer in relentless pursuit. It's here - in a fierce and primal struggle to stay alive and protect his boy - that this lifelong gangster will discover honour and redemption. Riveting, powerful and visually stunning, Road to Perdition ranks among the classic gangster movies of all time.

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Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy.

Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of meta-humans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes - Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash - it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

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Brian Jones was more than just "a Rolling Stone," he was their founding member, in 1962. His blonde hair, ambiguous glamour and obvious talent inspired enormous curiosity, making him the face of the Sixties revolution.

In "Stoned," Stephen Woolley charts the rise of the precocious Cheltenham teenager to fame and fulfilment, and then re-creates the nightmare of his chaotic plummet to a mysterious death, drowned in the swimming pool.

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Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) returns from the Crusades to find his father dead and vows revenge.

With his Moorish companion Azeem (Morgan Freeman), he joins a band of peasant rebels to do battle against the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman, Die Hard) and win the hand of the fair Maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), cousin of the absent King of England.

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite as sci-fi geeks taking a pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland. There they meet a smart-ass alien, Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), who takes them on an insane road trip.

As they struggle to return Paul home, the little green man might just take the outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

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In this action-packed sequel to the box-office smash xXx, Ice Cube stars as Darius Stone, a thrill-seeking troublemaker whose criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest xXx agent.

Augustus Gibbons, the National Security Agency officer returns and recruits ex-con Stone to help save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defence George Deckert (Willem Dafoe). Only a renegade xXx agent like Stone has the Xtreme skills to stop Deckert'5 dangerous military splinter group from taking over the government in America's capital.

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The nightmare of war is seen through the eyes of one of its most tragic casualties - a child soldier - in this harrowing vision of innocence lost from Cary Joji Fukunaga.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Uzodinma Iweala, 'Beasts of No Nation' unfolds in an unnamed, civil-war-torn West African country, where the young Agu (Abraham Attah, in a haunting debut performance) witnesses carnage in his village before falling captive to a band of rebel soldiers led by a ruthless commander (an explosive Idris Elba), who molds the boy into a hardened killer. Fukunaga's relentlessly roving camera work and stunning visuals - realism so intensely visceral it borders on the surreal - immerse the viewer in a world of unimaginable horror without ever losing sight of the powerful human story at its center.

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The fact she's Russian, an obvious sex maniac and can't speak a word of English seems at first to be a good thing.

But when Nadia's (Nicole Kidman) mysterious Russian cousins turn up out of the blue to celebrate her birthday, John (Ben Chaplin) finds himself drawn into an adventure that he didn't ask for, but which might be exactly what he needs. Forced into robbing his own bank to save Nadia's life, John discovers that life has quite a few more surprises than he bargained for.