machotrouts's - Rented List

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Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, 'The Young Offenders' is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley), two inner-city teenagers from Cork.

Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy (Dominic MacHale). When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euros, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.

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Charlie Sheen narrates, as cast and crew share their personal experiences making the Academy Award winning film, 'Platoon'.

Widely considered to be one of the most authentically crafted war films ever made, this non-union, low budget, independent film was cast almost exclusively with young, unknown actors, including Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Kevin Dillon and John C. McGinley, making their first film. Thirty years later, they pull no punches in their first-hand accounts of the gruelling boot camp, Oliver Stone's "unique" directing style, and the brutal filming conditions that together forged their eternal brotherhood.

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It's 2019, the world is on the brink of absolute destruction. Tokyo shimmers with tech-noir fetishism, gangs of cyber-punk bikers cruise the sprawl of the post-atomic city and rioting crowds surge under the neon-topped buildings looming a thousand storeys into the sky.

Now, old gods return to do battle with Akira and something more than comic book ultra-violence is unleashed...

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High-school senior Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) has his whole life in front of him, and not a lot of living behind him...

until the girl of his naughtiest dreams (Elisha Cuthbert) moves in next door and gives him some experiences he'll never forget! But when he discovers that she's a runaway porn star and that a devious producer (Timothy Olyphant) is on a mission to get her back, Matthew will have to prove his devotion...by going all the way!

A shipment of the emperor's gold has been hijacked, and every kung fu warrior, assassin and hired gun in China will battle through the streets of Jungle Village to claim the treasure.

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Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher ('Billy Liar') in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s.

Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he'll ever get to leave the past behind.

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Tarzan And His Mate

Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan legendary lovers of the silver screen, star in this epic story of jungle romance. Tarzan, the handsome, strong, king of the Apes and Jane, the beautiful, sophisticated English girl, prove that social barriers disappear when hearts beat like native drums.
Tarzan Finds A Son
John Sheffield is introduced as ‘Boy’, the infant son of a couple whose plane has crashed in the jungle, in this exciting installation in the popular film series

1950's Hollywood. The glitz, the glamour, the sleaze, the secrets. Guy Stone (Matt Letscher) is the king of Tinseltown, a macho man all the girls want and all the guys want to be. It seems nothing can stop his rise to superstardom. Nothing, that is, except one small problem - Guy is into guys!

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Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of St. Cloud's Orphanage in rural Maine. Though groomed by its proprietor, Dr. Larch (Michael Caine), to be his successor, Homer nonetheless feels the need to strike out on his own and experience the world outside.

Then, while working at an apple orchard, Homer falls for the beautiful Candy (Charlize Theron) and learns some powerfully indelible lessons about life, love and home!

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Presenting the first look into the vibrant world of consummate filmmaker Robert Altman, film reveals the organic evolution of 'Short Cuts', one of the director's ensemble masterpieces, as he adapts Raymond Carver's trenchant stories into the genre he perfected.

Granting directors Mike Kaplan and video pioneer John Dorr unprecedented access to his 22 stars and creative team throughout filming, we witness Altman's legendary "improvisational" process, the entertaining insights of his collaborators , and his unique observations on life, art and culture. Whether it's Jack Lemmon's excitement at performing his egg trick, Julianne Moore's description of her breakthrough role, Peter Gallagher's choreography in chain-sawing furniture, artist Don Bachardy capturing the cast on canvas , poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow, surprising Altman with a Carver gift, or the maestro himself cracking up during Jennifer Jason Leigh's phone sex calls, film unfolds with the natural flow of an Altman film, which perhaps caused him to say, "I never thought it would be this artful".

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A group of gay activists in Belgrade make a deal with a war-hardened Serbian crime boss when his fiancee demands an extravagant wedding only gay theatre director Mirko and friends can provide. In exchange, macho Limun reluctantly agrees to provide security for their planned pride parade.

It's a tall order: previous attempts to march were met with violence from right-wing skinheads - including Limun's own son - who vow to be there again. When Limun's gang refuse the security job, he travels back into one-time enemy territory to recruit a band of former combatants, now dear friends, who will stand up to the hordes of homophobes on pride day, Seven Samurai-style. Inspired by the tense Belgrade Pride Parade of 2010 and set against the lingering xenophobia from the Balkan War in the 1990s.

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A product of humble beginnings, Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) earns fame as a talented artist with a unique vision.

And from her enduring relationship with her mentor and husband, Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), to her scandalous affairs, Frida's uncompromising personality would inspire her greaterst creations!

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Even more compelling today than when it was first released, Sidney Lumet's 'Network' is a wickedly funny, spot - on indictment of the TV news media.

Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky), this searing satire stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall. When longtime news anchor Howard Beale (Finch) is fired, he suffers a violent, on - air breakdown. Ironically, his angry rantings boost his sagging ratings - much to the surprise and delight of the UBS brass. Subsequently rehired and reinvented as the "mad prophet of the airwaves", he soon becomes a pawn of ruthless programming executives who milk his madness for every share point it's worth. Of course, when the "prophet" ceases to be profitable, something has to be done about Beale, preferably on camera, before a live studio audience...

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Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell face off in the ultimate Dad vs. Step-Dad showdown! Brad (Ferrell), who always dreamed of having the perfect family, is determined to become the best step-dad to his new wife's (Linda Cardellini) children.

But when their biological father Dusty (Wahlberg) shows up unexpectedly, Brad's idyllic family life is turned upside down and he must go toe-to-toe with Dusty...

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"A Face in the Crowd" chronicles the rise and fall of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own.

His charisma and cunning soon shoot him to the heights of television stardom and political demagoguery, forcing Marcia to grapple with the manipulative, reactionary monster she has created.