martin-shepherd's - Rented List

Show moreShow less

Retired hit man Henry Brogan (Will Smith) is forced on the run by a young, highly skilled operative who will stop at nothing to eliminate his target.

Now on a race around the globe, Henry must outsmart the mysterious assassin at every step - but how far will he go once they finally come face to face?

Show moreShow less

Based on the gripping true story of the Kursk submarine tragedy of 2000 in which 188 men lost their lives, 'Kursk: The Last Mission' is a tense submarine thriller from critically-acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg.

When a Russian naval exercise goes horribly wrong, the Kursk submarine erupts in flames killing most of the men on-board and sending the trapped survivors to the bottom of the sea. Time is running out for Russian Captain Mikhail Averin (Matthias Schoenaerts) and his crew, as fire engulfs the vessel, starving them of oxygen. Ignoring the advice of their own people, the Russian government refuses the help of the UK Navy operation headed by Commodore David Russell (Colin Firth). When they finally give way to mounting domestic pressure, it's too little too late...

Show moreShow less

British film legend Peter Cushing plays everyone's favourite Timelord, and having invented the 'Tardis', a strange machine capable of travelling into other dimensions, the Doctor and his three young accomplices set forth on a quest through time and space.

Their journey takes them into the dark, undiscovered depths of the universe and to the planet of Skaro. A primitive world devastated by nuclear war and populated by two warring species, a peaceful tribe known as Thais and a life form heavily mutated by radiation, encased in protective machines. A merciless force of destruction known as The Daleks!

In the near future a French Submarine find's it self in a global crisis when a group of terrorists steal a submarine and simulate a nuclear attack, Commandant Grandchamp (Reda Kateb) and his expert acoustic analysts must defy their own governments orders amid high-stake international tensions and battle to save the world from apocalypse.

Show moreShow less

The film paints the relationship between L.S. Lowry (Timothy Spall), one of Britain's most iconic artists, and his mother Elizabeth (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he lived until her death. We see Lowry in the beginnings of his career, as he yearns for his work to be appreciated in London.

However, his disdainful mother actively tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions. At the same time, the film explores how Elizabeth is the very reason Lowry paints anything at all, as he desperately seeks to create something, anything, which will make her happy. This powerful yet humorous story imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son relationship had on the great artist.

Show moreShow less

On the 26th November 2008, a wave of devastating terror attacks throughout Mumbai catapulted the bustling Indian metropolis into chaos.

In the heart of the city's tourist district, Jihadist terrorists laid siege to the iconic Taj Palace Hotel, whose guests and staff became trapped in a heroic, day-long fight for survival.

Show moreShow less

When workers in the remote mining town of Rejection, Nevada, fall victim to an unseen predator, the mine's owner, Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross), hires a mercenary to destroy the carnivorous creatures before they swallow up his profits.

What follows is an all-out assault that takes the battleground from deep in the earth to a suspense-filled showdown on the streets of Rejection!

Show moreShow less

Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.

Show moreShow less

This spectacular Prehistoric adventure tells the story of Tumak, a caveman and the son of the leader of the Rock Tribe. When Tumak (John Richardson) is banished from his tribe he wanders through the brutal prehistoric lands until he stumbles apon the Shell Tribe.

Loana (Raquel Welch), the daughter of the chief, takes pity on the exhausted and injured wanderer and nurses him back to health, much to the chagrin of her betroved, who fights Tumak for his honour and the hand of his woman. Tumak is expelled as a result. Again he has to wander the treacherous wastelands in search of his tribe. Loana decides to join him and follows him back to the caves of his people. She teaches the Rock tribe civility and Tumak assumes leadership. The tribe seems as peace, though this peace is shattered by Tumak's treacherous brother Sakana (Percy Herbert) who plots to overthrow the new chief.

Show moreShow less

Riveting Sci-Fi action-thriller Push is set in a deadly world of psychic espionage where the ability to move objects using only the mind, see the future, create new realities and kill without ever touching the victim can turn a person into a lethal weapon – or a target.

A young man and a teenage girl with extraordinary gifts take on a clandestine agency in a battle they can win only if they change the future.

Show moreShow less

In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed.

Hard-hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (XXX, The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post-apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only to uncover a shocking secret that will bring the entire world to its knees. Eye-popping action and mind-blowing special effects clash head-on in this hard-edged film, where the only rule is survival.

Show moreShow less

Those morphing, man-eating monsters are shaking things up again in the dusty little town of Perfection, Nevada - and survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is the only solution to the latest in evolution! Aided by a couple of young local entrepreneurs (Shawn Christian and Susan Chuang), Burt pits

his impressive knowledge of weaponry against the newest and deadliest generation of Graboids. If Burt and his new partners can't find a way to stop them, then the creatures that put Perfection on the map will wipe it right off the face of the earth.

Show moreShow less

When there is an assassination attempt on U.S. President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is wrongfully accused and taken into custody.

After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the President. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm and save the country from imminent danger.

Show moreShow less

A Cambridge professor and his friends hear tales, whilst travelling in Palestine, of a lost city in deepest Africa ruled by a beautiful woman seeking her one true love. Intrigued by the legends they set off across the desert in search of the strange land.

Little do they know they are being led into a trap of the immortal She, the cold blooded queen Ayesha (Ursula Andress), who is pining for the return of the lover she murdered long ago...

Show moreShow less

"Blinded by the Light" is an uplifting coming-of-age story about a teenager (Viveik Kaira) who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the words and music of Bruce Springsteen.

This heart-warming and inspiring depiction of a British Muslim boy growing up in 1980's Luton stars Kulvinder Ghir (Still Open All Hours), Hayley Atwell (The Avengers), Rob Brydon (The Trip), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones's Diary) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones), and is based on the memoir "Greetings from Bury Park" by celebrated British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor.