mg-watched's - Rented List

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Down on his luck Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles upon the dangerous, cut-throat world of underground world of freelance crime journalism - discovering that filming murder and mayhem can be a quick way to make a buck.

Aided by Nina (Rene Russo), a ruthless veteran of TV news, Lou combs LA's seedy underbelly for the city's most sensational news footage. He soon discovers he's uniquely suited to his new job, but events begin to spiral out of control as one dark choice leads to another.

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When Josey Aimes returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region - the iron mines.

It's an industry long dominated by men, in a place unaccustomed to change. She is prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male co-workers proves far more challenging. Based on the true story of the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the US. Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson and Sean Bean co-star in this emotionally explosive true story. All she wanted was to make a living. Instead she made history.

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When a number of blood-spattered bodies turn up on the murky streets of downtown, Homicide Detective Wilder is assigned to the case to track down this unusual Serial Killer whose victims are all attractive young men.

Rebecca Barlow is a famous painter whose unusual but distinctive style has brought her great acclaim. Her agent Pearlman encourages her talent. He knows that passion, fear and hostility sells. Yet unknown to him and her admirers in the hip gallery set, her inspiration comes from her own dark images of life. She prowls the late night bars and discos in search of men to seduce and lure into her world… making love inflames her creative juices which only flow when she kills her men in the act of love and then incorporates their deaths into her works of art…

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Having left school in the summer the boys have gone their separate ways, most noticeably Jay, who delights in telling the others via email that he is on a 'mental gap year' in the 'sex capital of the world' - Australia.

Neil is desperate to see Jay, and Will and Simon are having such a miserable time at Uni they decide they might as well visit him to see what the fuss is about. Once in Oz, the boys discover Jay's tales of super-stardom in Sydney aren't quite true, but Will sees this as an opportunity to embark on a travelling experience, with cool people who are doing a gap year properly.

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A Soft Place
Two women conspire in a laundromat after finding themselves in a sticky situation.
A bedroom tryst brought them together, but hubby's stained duvet threatens to tear them apart!

Private Life

Ruth Ackroyd leaves the monotony of her work at her father's textile mill on a Friday evening and secretly takes the train to Manchester. There, she meets a man on the platform, but all is not what it seems...

Dani and Alice
Dani and Alice are coming to the end of a tumultuous relationship. As they prepare to leave their favourite girl bar, the ramifications of Alice's actions earlier in the night are brought up in a heated conversation, with tragic end results.

Below the Belt
Seventeen year old girls Jill and Oona explore their sexuality in between bouts of boxing and playfignting. Yet when Oona invites Jill back to her house, the sparring spills over into something mush more intense.

Fem
Portraying femininity from ancient mythology and popular cinematic culture, Fern subverts images of empowered women to experimental and lyrical effect, with a butch narration from Peggy Shaw of 'Split Britches'.

Wicked Desire
The Crabb family in Texas are thrown a curve-ball when they discover that daughter Jessica is moonlighting under a secret identity at school. Through the eyes of younger sister Bee. we witness the attempts of the family to make Jessies 'normal'.

Congratulations Daisy Graham
Daisy Graham is having a hard day. Everyone in town insists she prepare for the big ceremony tomorrow. But Daisy has more important things to think about-Like the box of bullet sie needs to track down.

Late
Maggie has missed a date with a girl she really liked and will not return her best friend's phone calls. By looking around her apartment and listening to her phone messages, we learn why.

Happy Birthday
A hilarious role-reversal tale of two couples, two birthdays and a sex toy! Abigail wants a dildo. Hannah wants a baby. Jack and Madeleine are happy with things just the way they are.

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What happens when fate suddenly snaps its fingers and turns four lives upside down? Open Hearts is about losing control, looking life in the face, and having the courage to go for the love of your life. Cecilie (Sonja Ilichter) and Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) arc young and in love.

They arc soon to get married and they have their whole lives ahead of them. But, suddenly things go wrong and everything changes. Marie (Paprika Steen) and Niels (Mads Mikkelsen) are older, happily married and have three children, but their marriage is tested to the limit when unexpectedly the four paths cross and Niels falls passionately in love with Cecilie. One thing is for sure: nothing can ever be the same again...

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Imprisoned on infamous Devil's Island, Papillon (Steve McQueen) is obsessed with the idea of freedom. Together with his friend Dega (Dustin Hoffman), Papillon ceaselessly works on means of escape, his spirit refusing to be broken by savage and humiliating treatment from their captors.

One of the few epic films which more than lives up to the promise of the greatest best seller on which it is based - aided by the unforgettable performances of Hoffman and McQueen. A must-see classic!

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Hamburg, the city where the 9/11 bombers lived and plotted, remains on high alert. When a suspected terrorist arrives in the city, he attracts the interest of a secret anti-terror unit who must uncover the truth about his identity and possible connections to high level terrorists.

As the clock ticks down the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true motives - is he an oppressed victim or a militant terrorist hell-bent on destruction?

Paris, Je T'aime tells stories of love from the City of Love. Eighteen renowned filmmakers have created their own vignette based in different areas of Paris to form a collection of short films which will embrace you to fall in love with the world¿s most romantic city.

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On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble.

Soon his lies, deceits and strange behaviour have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

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Based on a story by suspense master Stephen King, 1408 is a gripping "roller-coaster of a head trip" that will have you on the edge of your seat. John Cusack delivers "a tour de force performance" as a skeptical writer investigating paranormal events.

When he insists on staying in the reportedly haunted room in 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel against the grave warnings of the hotel manager, he discovers the room's deadly secret an evil so powerful, no one has ever survived an hour within its walls.

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A series of dirty bombs are set in LA. You have the choice to seal your home and protect yourself from the deadly airborne virus spreading its way across the city, or to wait for your partner to return from the epicentre of the attack to what they think is a safe haven.

So when they return - what do you do? Do you let them in? Will they understand that letting them in means infecting you with the lethal virus too? And who can you trust? The authorities? The media? Your neighbours? This compelling and taut thriller raises these questions and more when married couple Lexi (Mary McCormack - ER, The West Wing and Brad (Rory Cochrane - A Scanner Darkly) have to face the unthinkable.

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Womanising stockbroker Ryan Turner (Charlie Sheen) used to be a Wall Street hot shot, until insider trading lands him in hot water. Now he's lost his job, his apartment and even his girlfriend Cindy (Denise Richards).

Ryan's luck changes when Cindy's boss, Page Henson, a no-nonsense newspaper editor, calls demanding Cindy's advice column. Suddenly, Cindy is suffering from 'Brazilian Flu' and Ryan is writing her column and cashing her paychecks. At first, his self-centred advice sucks, but as he gets better, the 'Ask Cindy' column becomes the talk of the town. Now everyone wants a piece of Cindy, especially Cindy herself. How can Ryan keep the truth from getting out, and how will it affect his blossoming romance with Page (Angie Harmon)?

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Liam Neeson stars as Matt Scudder, a troubled former NYPD investigator and now a ruthless, unlicensed private detective.

When a series of kidnappings targeting the city's worst drug criminals escalates to grisly murder, the circuit's leader hires Scudder to find the culprits and bring them to bloody justice. Operating outside the law where the police fear to tread, Scudder discovers a trail of victims and finds himself in a chilling race against the clock to track down the killers before they strike again...

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David (Dan Stevens) is the perfect guest. Friendly and helpful, the charismatic soldier arrives at the Peterson family's doorstep claiming to have been a friend of their beloved son who recently died in action.

The Petersons welcome David into their home and into their lives, but when people in town start dying under mysterious circumstances, their teenage daughter Anna (Maika Monroe) begins to suspect that David isn't who he claims to be.