machotrouts's - Rented List
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Palindromes (2004)Palíndromos
12-year old Aviva Victor wants to be a Mom. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. Like so many trips, this one is a round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again. - Director:
- Todd Solondz
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis
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Bad Boy Bubby (1993)Bubby, el noi dolent
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, 'Bad Boy Bubby' with its hard-hitting content of deprivation, mental illness and incest, shocked its audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the 1990s. Nicholas Hope gives an astonishing performance as Bubby, a demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother who uses him for sex. When Bubby - who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do - escapes into the outside world, he soon discovers young women, crime, rock 'n' roll, and pizza. Will this naive 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all? - Director:
- Rolf De Heer
- Cast:
- Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill
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Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) is infatuated by the seemingly perfect couple she sees from her daily commuter train that runs past their house. One day she sees something shocking and in that moment, everything changes. Driven by intrigue and obsession, Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar, but to what lengths will she go to uncover the truth? - Director:
- Tate Taylor
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson
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Arrival (2016)Story of Your Life
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team - led by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - are brought together to investigate. As nations struggle to coordinate a response, mankind teeters on the verge of global war, leaving Banks and the team in a race against time for answers - and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity's very existence. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
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On a remote mountaintop, a rebel group of commandos perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner (Julianne Nicholson) for a shadowy force known only as 'The Organization'. After a series of unexpected events drives them deep into the jungle, fracturing their intricate bond, their mission slowly begins to collapse. Set against a stunningly beautiful but dangerous landscape, Alejandro Landes' awe-inspiring film is a breathtakingly epic vision that will leave you both mesmerised and utterly gripped. - Director:
- Alejandro Landes
- Cast:
- Sofia Buenaventura, Julián Giraldo, Karen Quintero
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