machotrouts's - Rented List

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Director Gregg Araki chronicles the messed-up lives of six gay LA teenagers, as they try to keep it together in the face of AIDS, homophobia, queer-bashing and infidelity.

Along the way, the best friends - an aspiring film-maker, artist, skater dude, cosy dyke duo, and sexy depressive loner Andy (James Duval) - experiment with sex, drugs and artificial insemination. A film for anyone who has grown up gay and lived through the pain of alienation, this self-consciously cool story of the gay teen underground is New Queer Cinema at its edgiest, a humorous yet moving study of an unwanted generation.

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Another Country tells the story of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), teenage friends at an elite English public school during the summer of 1931. Clever, hedonistic and gay, Bennett is in his penultimate year of school and the future looks bright.

He is convinced he will rise to the heights of his chosen career in the diplomatic service by eventually being appointed Ambassador in Paris. His best friend Judd, committed to Lenin's brave new world, despises such bourgeois aspirations. Homosexuality, honesty and hypocrisy are the main themes in this coming-of-age film, based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell.

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In order to support her family, seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer and soon attracts the master painter's attention.

Although worlds apart in upbringing and social standing, Vermeer recognises her intuitive understanding of his work and slowly draws her into his mysterious world of art and passion. Whilst she falls increasingly under Vermeer's spell, his volatile family quickly grow jealous of her. Maria, his shrewd mother-in-law, struggles to maintain the family's lavish lifestyle, and seeing that Griet inspires Vermeer, takes the decision to let their relationship to develop. Van Ruijven, also sensing the intimacy between master and maid, commissions Vermeer to paint Griet's portrait. The result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created... but at what cost?

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Michel is an serial womaniser and professional hustler. When he meets Gloria, she falls in love with him, just like the others. But this time, things will be different. Gloria finds her reason to live in Michel. Their love is passionate; limitless.

When Gloria discovers Michel's hustling, she becomes his accomplice rather than risk losing him. Together they embark on a wild odyssey that becomes deadly and murderous. Their unfettered passions will drive them to the brink of insanity... 'Alleluia' is the adaptation of a news event which shook the United States from 1947 to 1949: the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, lovers and serial killers, whose infamous murders earned them the name 'The Lonely Hearts Killers'.

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Ageing Broadway actress Myrtie Gordon (Gena Rowlands) begins rehearsals for a play written by playwright Sarah Goode (Joan Blondell) in which she is to play a woman living in denial at the onset of her autumn years.

A series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten preparations and when she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, Myrtie is forced to confront her own personal and professional turmoil.

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Stuart Burge's film of John Dexter's production of Othello at the National Theatre was made in Shakespeare's Quarter Centenary year and stands today as a masterpiece among film presentations of theatre productions.

Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall has never been more movingly nor dramatically portrayed. One of Shakespeare's most powerful drama, here presented by an inspired National Theatre Company. Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finley and Joyce Redman all received both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for their performances. A screen classic in every sense.

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Vince (Dax Shepard) is a brown-noser. Zack (Dane Cook) is a full-time slacker. Vince will probably be the Super Club's "Employee of the Month" and Zack couldn't care less, until bright, sexy new-comer Amy (Jessica Simpson) arrives to work there ...and has a thing for the "Employee of the Month".

A hilarious battle starts up between Vince and Zack as they fight for the title - and for Amy's heart - in this outrageous comedy that proves you can't succeed at life and love until you get your shift together.

An autobiographical dark comedy about a gay boy growing up in a collapsing USSR, his mailorder bride mother and their adventurous escape to America, 'Potato Dreams of America' is a remarkable tale of a young man wherein coming out is the least of his concerns!

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'The Children of Castor' - an 80s apocalyptic science fiction TV series is a hit with young British viewers. For its young stars, Andy Van Allen (Brydon) and Nick Lee (Coogan), the future looks bright. Twenty years later, the show still has a dedicated following.

Whilst Nick is a successful actor in 'Sherlock Holmes in Miami', Andy's career has not fared so well. Even so, surely his fortunes haven't sunk to the level of 'The Children of Castor fan cruise...

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Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy, retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs.

Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle them into France. Soon after, they gain the services of professional criminals Lackery (Sidney James) and Shorty (Alfie Bass) and the four plot what they believe will be the perfect crime - which turns out to be anything but!

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When a skeleton was found under a Leicester car park in September 2012, the news broke around the world.

Research began, involving dozens of specialists in the fields of archaeology, osteology, history, forensic pathology, genealogy and DNA analysis; could this skeleton be the remains, lost for 500 years, of England's most infamous king?
Philippa Langley, an Edinburgh based screenwriter and secretary of the Scottish Branch of the Richard III Society, was the main advocator of the project, and together with the University of Leicester they embarked on a journey to discover the medieval monarch's lost bones.
Presented by Simon Farnaby, 'Richard III: The King In The Car Park' tells every step, twist and turn of the story. It unveils a brand new facial reconstruction made from the skull and reveals the results of the final tests that confirm or deny the body's identity.
Additionally 'The Unseen Story' features exclusive footage of the dig, forensic tests and fresh interviews with the lead scientists, piecing together the critical steps in the archaeological excavation. We see how the Greyfriars Church was uncovered and witness the painstaking exhumation of the lost King's grave from the first indications of human remains to the exposure of the body's twisted spine revealing a new dimension to the hunt for England's long-lost king.

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Bullets bounce off him. Criminal masterminds can't outfox him. Even the destructive gizmos dreamed up by mod scientists can't blast him into atoms. Superman has the strength and courage to defeat all foes.

And now for the first time in the classic TV series 'Adventures of Supermen', the Man of Steel's exciting flights, fights and super heroics are presented, in color. George Reeves returns as Superman (aka Clark Kent) in 26 episodes comprising Seasons 3 and 4 of the program that ran six seasons total. This time his exploits take him to a stuffy European monarchy, a remote desert isle and even a cave in the year 50,000 B.C. Among the villains he faces are invisible thieves, Kryptonite-toting thugs and, yes, scurvy-dog pirates. Arrrr, this is mighty adventure!

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Set in 1970's Santa Barbara, '20th Century Women' is the story of Dorothea (Annette Bening), a single mother, and her son Jamie, as he comes of age at a time brimming with cultural change and rebellion.

As life challenges both of them in new ways, Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie's upbringing; Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a lodger in their home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour.

Includes the following: - The island - Cowboy - Kali ma - Lucky blue - Love bite - Bramadero - Weekend in the countryside - Working it out - Future and derivates

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Lothar Krasna (Godunov), a brilliant but ruthless Oxford-educated physicist, is in the process of converting uranium to weapons-grade plutonium in the lawless country of Moravash. Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles (Davi) is framed for murder by CIA boss Dick Althorp (Ben Gazzara).

As his pride of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake the deadly mission to destroy Krasna's nuclear processing plant. Rowdy quickly discovers just what he is up against as he races against the clock to escape the blast zone before Krasna's nuclear reactor blows in an aerial climax between stolen jet fighters at 20,000 feet.