mg-watched's - Rented List

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Working-class waitress Slim (Jennifer Lopez) thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch (Billy Campbell), the man of her dreams.

After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror and menace. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family. Finally she fights back, engaging Mitch in a physical and psychological battle, showing him she's had enough.

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Ashley Judd stars as Claire Kubik, a smart and sexy attorney whose perfect world comes crashing down when the FBI charges her husband Tom (Jim Caviezel) with the murder of innocent civilians during a covert army operation fifteen years earlier.

Aided by a shrewd ex-military lawyer (Morgan Freeman), Claire fights to clear Tom's name, but gets too close to exposing a government cover-up in the process. Now she must risk her career - and even her life - to find the truth.

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This lavish adaptation of Emile Zola's epic novel about striking coal miners, stars Gerard Depardieu as Maheu, a simple miner who struggles to make a life for his wife (Miou Miou) and seven children, whilst working in the mines of Le Voreux.

When Etienne Lantier (Renaud), a Belgian outsider, comes to town looking for work, he is befriended by Maheu and employed alongside the hard-working family and soon begins to speak out about social change and the appalling conditions of the coal mines. The contrast between the wealthy villas and lavish meals of the French aristocracy and the hellish atmosphere of the mines, where the workers earn just enough money to keep from starving, is starkly illustrated in this painstaking and moving evocation of a true classic of French literature.

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A rusting Oregon town is the backdrop for this remarkable tale of man and woman touched by love’s inescapable spell. From Bradley, the hopeless romantic who looks for love in all the wrong places; to Harry.

a local professor with the wisdom and experience to guide those close to him; to young, beautiful Chloe, who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar.

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Adrienne Barheau is Jessica Valdemar, a former stewardess who marries an old man for his money.

Through hypnosis, her ex-lover Robert tries to get Valdemar to sign his money over to Jessica, but when Valdemar dies in the process, caught between the dead and the living, Robert and Jessica find themselves in a situation from which they cannot escape. Argento transposes The Black Cat to the present, with Harvey Keitel as Rod Usher, a crime scene photographer whose flighty girlfriend, Annabel, has a cat he despises. Usher kills the cat, telling Annabel that it's gone missing. Through a chain of events that reveals itself to be nothing less than destiny. Rod's life turns to a violent shambles.

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Sailor Bill Masen is in hospital for an eye operation. With his eyes bandaged, he is unable to witness a freak meteorite show that blinds the entire population of London. As spores from the shower develop into 'triffids' (vicious, man-eating plants), humans Seem powerless to resist.

Along with a small group of seeing survivors, Masen begins the fight to save civilization.

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This film tells the story of Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) and her new love Kim (Christina Cox). Maggie has flunked law school and is working for uptight Frances, who runs a gay bookshop in Vancouver. Kim is a van-dwelling artist.

It's love at first sight, but, just as their relationship is blossoming, Maggie learns that her mother and brother are coming to visit. They don't know about Maggie's sexuality, that she now has a girlfriend or that she is flat-sitting for a woman who runs Safer Sex With Latex workshops. Will Maggie come clean and come out? Will her mother cope with her recent divorce and her daughter's lifestyle? Will Frances get her books back from customs? Will post-op transsexual Judy ever break through Frances' reserve and win her heart? And who will find the stash of sex toys in the flat...?

The story about a womanising New York executive Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) who becomes convicted that he's a vampire when one of his conquests bites his neck in the throes of passion. Rachel (Jennifer Beats) sizzles as the femme fatale who sets Peter on his batty course...

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Five friends return home from a cocktail party to their cottage deep inside the woods of the Peak District.

Having rubbished the notion of urban legends our main characters find themselves weaving through the nightmare reality of their very own horror story! Cut is a claustrophobic thrill ride only relenting on its increasingly unbearable tension and heart stopping shocks to inject a little humour to soften the blow and increase the fun! Because the film takes place in a single continuous shot the audience feel more connected to the action that ever before there is no escape!

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Charles Bronson is a hero all the way as a rogue cop pursuing a deranged killer in this action-packed suspense thriller. Serving up vigilante justice as only he can, Charles Bronson delivers one of his most riveting performances in this exceedingly well-made film.

Charles Bronson plays Leo Kessler, a cynical Los Angeles cop on the trail of Warren Stacey (Gene Davis), a homicidal maniac who turns rejection from beautiful women into the ultimate revenge. When the legal system sets Stacey free, Kessler plants evidence to put him behind bars for good. But Kessler's plan backfires, leaving him with only one option: to hunt down Stacey on his own...before the crazed killer strikes again!

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Cheating husband Laurent has it all - a beautiful wife, a good job and two adorable children. Somehow that isn't enough - he just can't stop having affairs. Loli, his gorgeous wife, fed up with Laurent's unexpected evening appointments, meets and is seduced by Marijo, a butch, cigar-smoking lesbian.

When Loli hears of her husband's adulterous activities, she is outraged and Marijo moves in to become her live-in lover. With Laurent's male ego in tatters, the stage is set for a sexy, hilarious menage-a-trois battle for Loli's sexual favours. Will Laurent go to where no man has gone before to win his wife back?

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It was 1965 in rural Australia. "Flirting", the sequel to "The Year My Voice Broke", follows the adolescent Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) as the 'the school dag' at a strict boys' boarding school.

Relief from peer group pressure comes from Thandiwe Adjewa (Thandie Newton), daughter of an African nationalist lecturer, who is 'doing time' at the girl's boarding school nearby. Danny and Thandiwe become kindred spirits, lovers and problems for their teachers, whose methods of maintaining control are long detention sessions and a good thrashing with the cane. The only support the couple receive is from Nicola Radcliffe (Nicole Kidman), the head prefect who is sympathetic to their plight.

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Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Robert Shaw) and Ansell (Malcom McDowell) run for their lives.

But even as they cross a seemingly endless expanse of open territory, the walls of their "cage" begin to close in as a relentless helicopter pilot stalks them in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to an end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz (Gabriel Garko), an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair.

During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny. Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia (Anna Galiena)...a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events.

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Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences in this passionate and daring erotic drama.

Encouraging each family member to push the boundaries of their sensuality, 'Sexual Chronicles of a French Family' paints a portrait of a unique family taking their next steps in exploring their sexual lives and desires.