mervyn-verstellung's - Rented List

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An unforgettable trip for everyone, 'Summer Things' is a hilarious blend of small-town snobbery, insatiable lust and fidelity.

When Elizabeth's wayward husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) finds every excuse to stay at home in Paris with his mistress, Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) invites friend Julie (Clotilde Courau) on holiday instead; a single mother desperate for holiday romance, but with a screaming baby in tow! On the other side of town their hard-up neighbours, Vero (Karin Viard), Jerome (Denis Podalydès) and son Loic (Gaspard Ulliel), are roughing it at a nearby caravan park and hating every minute. Meanwhile enjoying life stateside Elizabeth and Bertrand's nymphomaniac daughter, Emilie (Lou Doillon), is partying with boyfriend Kevin (Sami Bouajila), unaware that he's embezzled the money from her father's firm to pay for the trip...The scene is set for a farce of outrageous proportions, involving bed swapping, mistaken identity, suicide bids, passionate affairs and rampant testosterone...but whatever difficulties the holidaymakers get into, they make sure it never gets in the way of their constant pursuit of pleasure.

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When an argument between two young schoolboys results in one of the boys losing his teeth, the parents of both children decide to meet to discuss the matter.

Nancy Cowan, a neurotic investment broker, and her husband Alan, an ignorant high-flying corporate lawyer, join Penelope Longstreet, a politically correct campaigner and her husband Michael, a goofy wholesaler of sanitary goods, at their plush Brooklyn apartment. But what begins as a civilised chat soon spirals into a hilarious, alcohol induced night of violence, vomiting and verbal warfare as each couple sinks to the level of bickering children.

Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties, meets Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties. Seeking companionship, the pair marry to the outrage Emmi's family (including Fassbinder himself as her aggressive son-in-law), herfriends and her colleagues.

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This visually stunning & elegant story follows the life of Joana Prats, a beautiful, young woman who suffers from agnosia.

As the only one who knows the deep, dark secret left behind by her father, she is drawn into a sinister and life-threatening plot by those trying to garner information, taking advantage of her sensory confusion. The deceitful criminals will stop at nothing to get what they want and as the plot unfolds, will her two closest suitors protect her from falling victim to their cunning plans?

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In the aftermath of the era-defining Paris student riots of May 1968, a group of youngsters involved in the revolt abandon themselves to a bohemian existence and the fumes of opium.

At the centre of the group, romance develops between 20 year old Francois (Louis Garrel) and Lilie (Clotilde Hesme), but they soon find their love and idealism under threat from the harsh realities of everyday life.

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Thelma (Eili Harboe) has just left her religious family to study at a university in Oslo. A sudden bout of violent seizures coincides with her growing affections for fellow student Anja (Kaya Wilkins), who reciprocates Thelma's attraction.

As it becomes clear that the seizures are symptoms of mysterious and dangerous psychological abilities, Thelma is confronted with secrets from her past and the terrifying implications of her newfound powers.

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In this twisted take on infertility, an artist and her obstetrician husband are happily married but unable to conceive. When they decide to adopt a beautiful little boy named Jin-sung from the local orphanage they love him as their own.

Quiet and introverted the young boy plays happily in the back yard under the acacia tree until they fall pregnant... With the arrival of a sibling Jin-sung feels alienated from his adopted family and so runs away. With his departure the long dead acacia tree begins to bloom gloriously, emitting a thick scent throughout the house with terrifying effect. Is the cause of the unholy occurrences and accidents due to the ghostly apparitions or is Jin-sung out for his revenge...

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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort.

From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity.

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Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kiclman) and their two exemplary children.

Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has covertly taken under his wing. As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever-more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

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On a windswept, barren island, Andreas (Max Von Sydow) lives simply and quietly until he becomes entangled with Anna (Liv Ullmann), a beautiful, mysterious widow, and a neighbouring couple (Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson) harbouring their own sorrows and illusions.

Soon, secrets from Andreas and Anna's pasts threaten to shatter not only their desperate attempt at love...but their tenuous hold on reality as well.

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"Brakes" is a raw, dark and unconventional comedy from new writer/director Mercedes Grower.

Split into two halves it follows the tumultuous stories of nine couples, plunging straight into the brutal and absurd endings of their relationships first, before travelling back to the moments when the spark of love between them first emerged. Using London as their match-maker, each of their stories is unique yet familiar to us all.

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Sandrine Bonnaire won a Best Actress Cesar for her portrayal as Mona - a young and defiant drifter in this tragic story. Using a largely non-professional cast Varda recollects Mona's story through flashbacks of those who encountered her, producing a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman.

She's not a kind girl but courageous while wandering in the winter. She announces in 1984 the collective conciousness of homeless people dying from the cold.

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Exhilarating and astonishingly ambitious, "Victoria" is an adrenaline-fuelled heist thriller set on the streets of nighttime Berlin that features the staggering technical feat of being shot in a single, unbroken take.

Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning. Sonne and his friends are Berliners who promise to show her the real side of the city. But when the group are suddenly forced to repay a debt to a member of the city's criminal underworld, the night quickly spirals out of control.

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Two hit men are sent to murder an old associate of their underworld boss. But things are not all what they seem in their quarry's house and the discovery of a makeshift black magic altar and its shocking sacrifice sends the uncomprehending duo into the shadowy darkness of their own tortured souls.

They are then faced with terrifying confrontations with their worst primal fears.

The story of a young scholar who becomes resident in a haunted house, whilst also struggling to instigate a new romance, features some spooky set pieces, a potent aura of lovelorn macabre and a growing sense of ghoulish whimsy...