mervyn-verstellung's - Rented List

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Set in the 1980s, in the former Etruscan landscape of rural Italy, Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a vagabond-type character, is mourning the loss of his love.

A local ragtag group of graverobbers make use of his archaeological skills to find ancient tombs filled with artefacts, but Arthur uses the digs to search for a door to the afterlife, of which myths speak, where he imagines reuniting with her.

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When Dani (Carolyn Bracken) is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted (Gwilym Lee) are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor.

A year later, Dani's blind twin sister Darcy (also Carolyn Bracken), a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend. Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous item from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.

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Made under the Franco regime, Victor Erice's astonishing 1973 feature debut is quite simply one of the most remarkable, influential and purely poignant films to emerge from the 1970's. A bona-fide classic of European cinema, the film brought Erice instant and widespread acclaim.

An audacious critique of the disastrous legacy of the Spanish Civil War, 'The Spirit of the Beehive' is set in a rural 1940's Spanish village haunted by betrayal and regret. Following a travelling cinema's screening of James Whale's Frankenstein, seven year-old Ana (the mesmerising Ana Torrent, later to grow into an international star of some standing) becomes fascinated with Boris Karloff's monster. Obsessed with meeting the initially gentle creation, she transfers her entrancement to tending a wounded army deserter. Atmospherically rendered by legendary Director of Photography Luis Cuadrado, it's impeccably performed by both Torrent and veteran actor Fernando Fernan Gomez in the role of her emotionally scarred, bee-keeping father. Existing in a highly evocative dreamlike state, it's a powerfully symbolic, richly allegorical tale that is as unique as it is beautiful.

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John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago.

John's father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis is in the early stages of dementia, making running the farm on his own increasingly difficult, so John brings him to stay at his California home so that he and his sister Sarah (Laura Linney) might help him find a place near them to relocate to. Unfortunately, their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis's adamant refusal to change his way of life in the slightest.

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One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

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Everyone has a Tully (Tony Curran) - the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, Jimmy (Martin Compston) and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit.

With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the climax of their youth - a magical weekend in Manchester. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news, and a request that will test their friendship, love, and loyalty to the limit...

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Ann Hunter (Dale Dickey) and her husband retired to an unnamed American suburb 10 years ago to be near his family. But one day, out of the blue, they are snatched from their home by a corrupt legal guardian who believes they have hidden wealth.

Their home and assets are legally stripped from them, and they are put in a prison-like "eldercare facility". Trapped in a corrupt and terrifying system, 'The G' begins to show her true mettle as she and her loyal granddaughter fight to get them out...and get revenge on the people who did this.

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Starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, 'Mothers' Instinct' is an unnerving psychological thriller about two best friends and neighbors, Alice (Jessica Chastain) and Céline (Anne Hathaway), whose perfect lives in '60s suburbia are shattered by a tragic accident.

As their familial bonds are gradually undermined by guilt and paranoia, a gripping battle of wills develops, revealing the darker side of maternal love.

Halloween night, 1977. In an attempt to boost viewing figures, a struggling late-night talk show host promises to broadcast television's first live possession. This is the footage from that infamous and extremely harrowing event.

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As London grapples with an environmental crisis that submerges the city in unprecedented floodwaters, a young family finds themselves torn apart amidst the chaos. A determined new mother (Jodie Comer) navigates the treacherous waters to keep her newborn safe and reunite with her loved ones.

An exhilarating and emotional journey that unveils the unbreakable spirit that arises in the face of disaster.

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From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story: reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O'Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream.

But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou's criminal family.

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As Eddie (Allen Leech) and Miranda (Isabelle Anaya) drive through a remote area, they unwittingly cross paths with a disturbed sociopath, Wade (J.K. Simmons) whose sole mission is to sow chaos.

Wade fixates on Eddie, leaving Miranda momentarily free to escape, but he quickly turns his relentless focus on her. Wade proves to be an ever-present threat, staying one step ahead and relentlessly pursuing anyone who dares to aid her.

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Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton) is the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, as he is to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs.

Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threatens them all...

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After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret

torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or spell his destruction.

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When Liz Evans's (Samantha Morton / Louisa Cliffe)'s local cinema in Wales is threatened with demolition, she does everything in her power to keep it open.

Her final idea, to attract younger people by screening the new Jurassic Park movie there, leads to a conversation with 'Mr Spielberg' and an offer to host the premiere.