matty-m00's - Rented List

In this oddball mix of sci-fi, horror and political espionage, a mysterious healer appears in the abode of a leading American senator who finds that his terminally ill son is quickly cured of his leukaemia. The appreciative politician opts to keep this puzzling presence around... although all is not as it seems.

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After years sifting through crashed aircraft, Accident Investigator Kris Kristofferson cracks up. He begins a desperate search for a time machine that hasn't yet been invented. Cheryl Ladd is the woman he falls in love with - a woman who doesn't yet exist.

Only she can explain just what happened to the passengers of the doomed 747, which Kristofferson is investigating.

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Vojtech Jasny's stylised, surreal satire is one of the most gloriously absurd and visually inventive films of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

A travelling circus and its magical feline mascot arrive in a provincial Czech town, unleashing mayhem as they expose the virtues, vices and desires of its unruly inhabitants. Part colourful modern fairytale, part pointed political metaphor, the film was promptly banned after the1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. This unique, comic fantasy is now restored in all its vibrant glory.

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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.

Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation.

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Horror legend Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) stars in this pulse- pounding film where revenge is best served in cold blood.

A professor of the occult experiences a shocking tragedy when the "destroyers" - a group of murderous students who fail to believe his tales of the dark forces, brutally attack him and his family and leave them to die. Now in a deep coma and the only survivor of the assault, he calls upon those demonic forces beyond the world of the living to grant him vengeance on these who took everything from him.

After a number of millionaires die in suspicious circumstances soon after marrying, FBI investigator Alexandra Barnes (Debra Winger) becomes obsessed with proving glamorous socialite Catharine Petersen (Theresa Russell) is the murderer, but finds that she too is falling under her spell.

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In Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall', a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all - but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson), and a conspiracy theorist, KC Houseman (John Bradley), believe her. The unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.

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The time is the present. The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the best "Wheel Man" for hire. His work in driving getaway cars are exhibitions in excellence, works of art. The Detective (Bruce Dern) is the top cop of the force. Nobody he tracks down ever eludes him. Except the Driver.

As the Driver pulls off another job, the Detective lays in wait for him. But the Driver has already planted his alibi, and is one step ahead of him. Through his operative, the Connection (Ronee Blakely), he hires the mysterious young woman, the Player (Isabelle Adjani), to lead the Detective astray...

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John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is loyal, decent, lumbering-a 40-year-old drug runner who suffers from insomnia but seems to be sleep-walking through life in Light Sleeper. When John's boss, the bubbly but sharp-witted Ann (Susan Sarandon), decides to retire, John must rethink his life's path.

But breaking out of the life he's led will take some doing, especially after coming into contact with his ex-girlfriend (Dana Delkany), a recovering drug addict, and becoming embroiled in a mysterious murder.

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Join Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Jobeth Williams and Meg Tilly as they reunite for the funeral of a college pal. During the weekend that follows, these friends compare their sixties ideals with the harsh reality of their lives in the eighties.

Old friendships, shared experiences and a soundtrack featuring Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Procal Harum and Smokey Robinson made 'The Big Chill' an irresistible trip down memory lane. In a cold world, you need your friends to keep you warm.

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken (Ryan Gosling).

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The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One, Damiel, (Bruno Ganz) wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, Marion (Solveig Dommartin).

Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the transformation by explaining the simple joys of a human experience.

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Angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) remains alone after his friend Damiel (Bruno Ganz) became human. In reunited Berlin, Cassiel always experiences people's thoughts and feelings only as an observer. After all, he also loses the desire for heavenly existence and changes the sides.

He meets old and new friends, but soon gets to feel the cold and loveliness of people. Tragic comedy with Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Horst Buchwood, Nastassja Kinski etc.

Amidst a future war between humans and AI, an ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) grieving the disappearance of his wife Maya (Gemma Chan) is recruited to kill an Al architect who has developed a mysterious weapon that could end humankind...

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From the wondrously fertile mind of writer/director John Waters, 'A Dirty Shame' tells what happens when a horny horde of 'sex addicts' invades a blue-collar neighbourhood, to the shock and dismay of the neighbours.

Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman), grumpy, repressed and middle-aged, doesn't like sex. Her handsome husband Vaughan (Chris Isaak) still has marital urges, but Sylvia couldn't be less interested. She is in complete contrast to her exhibitionist daughter, Caprice (Selma Blair), a go-go dancer with stupendously enlarged breasts! Everything changes when Sylvia is involved in a freak accident and receives a head injury. Sexy tow-truck driver Ray-Ray Perkins (Johnny Knoxville) rushes to her aid and Sylvia realises he's no ordinary service man; no, he's a sexual healer who knows how to bring out her flaming cauldron of hidden lust. A prude no longer, Sylvia suddenly views the world through hypersexual eyes. She seeks out Ray-Ray at his garage, and discovers that she is not alone. Other head injuries have brought forth a flock of sex addicts who have infiltrated every corner of the community. Sylvia and Vaughan's marriage is jump-started by a new sex act that elevates the community into a whole new dawn of sexual awakening.