mervyn-verstellung's - Rented List
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Ted (Zac Efron): handsome, smart, charismatic, affectionate. Liz (Lily Collins): a single mother, cautious, but smitten. A picture of domestic bliss, the two seem to have it all figured out, that is until Ted is arrested and charged with a series of increasingly grisly murders. As concern turns to paranoia, Liz is forced to consider how well she knows the man she shares a life with and, as the evidence piles up, decide if Ted is truly a victim, or actually guilty as charged. - Director:
- Joe Berlinger
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- Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan
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Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz), a sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends - but Greta's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta's life is what it seems... - Director:
- Neil Jordan
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- Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe
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Death Line (1972)Raw Meat
When Students Alex and Patricia (David Ladd and Sharon Gurney) discover a dying man in their local underground station, they spark off an investigation that reveals a sinister and macabre plot that even turns the stomachs of hardened police officers Calhoun and Rogers (Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington). Prominent people, it seems, have been disappearing from London tube stations, and an MI5 agent (Christopher Lee) is called to help solve the deepening mystery. What is the terrible secret of the capital's underground system ? And who - or what - is turning the tube tunnel into a Death Line? - Director:
- Gary Sherman
- Cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
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The Witch (2015)The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
New England, 1630: William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) lead a devout Christian life with their five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness. When their new-born son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a family unrevelling within their own fears and anxieties, leaving them prey to an inescapable evil. - Director:
- Robert Eggers
- Cast:
- Anya Taylor-Joy, Wahab Chaudhry, Ralph Ineson
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Beloved (1998)Sevilen
Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover play the unforgettable lead roles in a powerful, widely acclaimed cinematic triumph from Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme. On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe (Winfrey) is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past (Glover) unexpectedly re-enters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope. - Director:
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast:
- Oprah Winfrey, Oumou Sangare, Danny Glover
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Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing. From the visionary mind of Ari Aster comes a dread-soaked cinematic fairytale where a world of darkness unfolds in broad daylight. - Director:
- Ari Aster
- Cast:
- Florence Pugh, Linnea Larsdotter, Jack Reynor
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Gloria Bell (2018)Gloria
Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor. One evening, she meets Arnold (John Turturro) and finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of harmonising this new life with an old past. - Director:
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast:
- Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius
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Prey (1977)Alien Prey
Something has fallen to Earth. Something terrible. A merciless, carnivorous predator with an insatiable hunger for flesh...Assuming human form, the creature stumbles upon a remote country house owned by a beautiful young lesbian couple. Jessica (Glory Annan) is sweet, innocent and desperate for new experiences. Josephine (Sally Faulkner) is overprotective, jealous - and has a locked trunk full of blood-soaked secrets. As the creature struggles against its bloodlust and studies the girls, it suddenly realises that it may not be the only dangerous predator in the house... - Director:
- Norman J. Warren
- Cast:
- Barry Stokes, Derek Kavanagh, Sally Faulkner
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300 years ago, Mad Dolly (L.E. Mack) was burned alive at the stake, screaming a terrible curse upon her persecutors and their descendants. Now she's back and hunting. James Garrick (John Nolan) - her latest intended victim realises she's coming when people start to die bloodily all about him. Knifed, slashed, crushed, beheaded, impaled. Suspicion falls on his mysterious cousin Ann (Carolyn Courage), a hostess at a seedy Soho sex club. Is she possessed by Mad Dolly or just a helpless pawn caught up in a storm of demonic terror? - Director:
- Norman J. Warren
- Cast:
- John Nolan, Carolyn Courage, James Aubrey
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Based on Stephen King's terrifying novel comes a film critics are calling a "creepy masterpiece." After the Creed family relocates from Boston to rural Maine, they soon discover an ancient burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home. When tragedy strikes, the grief-stricken father is driven by the cemetery's sinister power, setting off a perilous chain of events that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences. Some secrets are best left buried in this "twisted and bone-chilling" thrill ride. - Director:
- Kevin Kolsch
- Cast:
- Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow
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Satan's Slave (1976)Evil Heritage
After her parents are killed in a car crash, beautiful young Catherine (Candace Glendenning) is trapped in a remote country mansion with her uncle (Michael Gough), her sadistic cousin Stephen (Martin Potter) and the family maid (Barbara Kellerman). Plagued by premonitions, Catherine has horrific visions of witches being tortured and abused and satanic covens performing unspeakable rituals. She soon realises that - while Stephen lusts after her body - her uncle may have far more terrible intentions... - Director:
- Norman J. Warren
- Cast:
- Michael Gough, Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning
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Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson star in 'Chernobyl', the critically acclaimed five-part mini-series. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukrainian SSSR suffered a massive explosion that released radioactive material across Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and as far as Scandinavia and Western Europe. Dramatising the true story of the 1986 nuclear accident, one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, Chernobyl shines a light on the brave men and women who fought an unprecedented war against an invisible enemy, and who suffered and sacrificed, saving millions of lives, often at the cost of their own. - Director:
- Johan Renck
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)Come As You Are
After Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) is caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, she's quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy centre that treats teens "struggling with same-sex attraction". At the facility, Cameron is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious "de-gaying" methods, and earnest Christian rock songs - but this unusual setting also provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron connects with peers, and she's able to find her place among fellow outcasts. - Director:
- Desiree Akhavan
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- Chloë Grace Moretz, John Ellison Conlee, Steven Hauck
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Mads Mikkelsen gives a tour de force performance as a pilot whose plane has crashed in a remote corner of the Arctic. Stranded in the wilderness he uses his ingenuity to survive. When about to receive his long-awaited rescue, an explosive accident means his opportunity is lost and the dire situation further complicated. The tragic turn of events, involving another crash survivor forces the pilot to make a perilous choice between the relative safety of his camp and a deadly trek into the unknown. - Director:
- Joe Penna
- Cast:
- Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk
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Evolution (2015)Évolution
10-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a mysterious medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what is happening around him. He senses that his mother is lying to him, and is determined to find out what she does with the other women at night, on the beach... What he discovers is the beginning of a nightmare into which he is helplessly drawn. But in Stella, a young nurse at the hospital, Nicolas finds an unexpected ally. - Director:
- Lucile Hadzihalilovic
- Cast:
- Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier
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