ncobb-watched's - Rented List

As dark forces gather to hasten the Apocalypse, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) fights fire with fire in this mind-blasting supernatural action-adventure from the visionary director of 'Blade 2'. Based on the celebrated 'Dark Horse' comic book.

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"Come and See" is one of the greatest war films ever made and one of the finest achievements of Soviet cinema.

A devastating account of the Nazi occupation of Belarussia during World War II, it tells the story of a young boy's abrupt loss of innocence when he joins the Soviet resistance and is thrust headlong into the brutal horrors of combat. Featuring terrifyingly authentic battle scenes and poetic, almost surreal imagery, director Elem Klimov has fashioned a vivid and unforgettably powerful portrait of the terrible atrocities committed by men in the name of war.

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As General Francos fascists close in on victory during the final days of the Spanish Civil War, 12-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at a remote orphanage for children of left-wing families.

Soon after arriving, Carlos discovers the orphanage is haunted by Santi (Junio Valverde), a dead boy who stalks the buildings dark hallways and seeks revenge for his tragic death...

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A hotel room in the centre of Rome sets the interior scene where two young women, who have just met, go on a physical journey which will touch their souls.

Before they leave to go back to their respective lands, Spanish Alba (Elena Anaya) and Russian Natasha (Natasha Yarovenko) embark with their bodies and souls on an unforgettable one night stand.

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Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, Saura's masterpiece takes its title from a sinister Spanish proverb: 'Raise ravens and they'll pluck out your eyes'.

A subtle yet unmistakable indictment of the family as a repressive force in Spanish society, 'Cria cuervos' centres on an eight-year-old orphan (the spellbinding Ana Torrent) who believes herself to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian father (Hector Alterio), a high-ranking military man whom she blames for the death of her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin).

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This smash hit futuristic comedy is a fresh and sublimely entertaining tale from French filmmakers, Jeunet (Amelie) and Caro. In a starving, post-holocaust France, a butcher keeps his customers supplied by his cannibalistic tendencies.

But when his daughter falls in love with a circus performer, only an underground band of vegetarian freedom fighters can save her beloved from the meat cleaver.

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To warm and often hilarious effect, Mungiu combines several urban legends to portray a time during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.

As he does so, he subtly and comically unseats the propagandist myth that Ceausescu's Romania was the "golden age" of communism.

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Combining a surreal and distinctive take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations, 'Cronos' concerns elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) who, with his eight-year-old granddaughter Aurora (Tamara Shanath), discovers an ancient artifact that once belonged

to a 16th-century alchemist. Unbeknownst to Gris, the device - which resembles an ornate mechanical beetle - houses an immortal parasite that will grant eternal life to its host. The cost? An extreme aversion to daylight and an agonising thirst for human blood. Hot on the trail of the device is a dying millionaire (Claudio Brook) and his brutish nephew (Ron Perlman).

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Contemplating suicide as he stands against the parapet of a pier one summer night, ex-pop star Jota is interrupted by a sudden motorcycle accident. Rushing to the scene he discovers that the injured biker is an attractive young woman suffering from amnesia.

Masquerading as her boyfriend, he names her Lisa, invents a shared history for the two of them and whisks her off on a holiday to the Red Squirrel campsite. Here he reinforces his deception by keeping up the facade of their long-term relationship in front of the other campers. However, it is not long before Jota has to confront the surprising consequences of his lie, as there is more to Lisa than meets the eye...

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A passionate and secret love story as told by each one of the protagonists, Ana and Otto, from the age of eight until the age of twenty five. It all starts in 1980, when after school a girl and a boy start to run for different reasons.

Since that afternoon when the world escaped from their grasp, the lives of Ana and Otto will be intertwined in a single circle that will begin to close seventeen years later, in Finland, on the very edge of the arctic circle.

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Lucia is a young waitress working in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-term boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island.

There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucia begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship, experienced as if through the forbidden passages of a novel which the author allows her to read from afar.

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Two children, Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her young brother Alexander (Michalis Zeke), run away from their Athens home to search for their father, whom their mother has told them lives in Germany.

Boarding an express train, the children begin an epic journey into the chaos of the world and away from the innocence of childhood. Beautifully photographed by Giorgios Arvanitis and referencing several of Angelopoulos' earlier works, this extraordinary coming of age tale paints a dark portrait of Greece in the eighties - a country caught between its past and present, struggling to find a place in the future.

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Whilst crossing a snowy mountainside, a group of modern-day hunters are astonished to discover the corpse of a Greek guerrilla fighter from the 1949 civil war with wounds still fresh. At the subsequent inquest set up to explain the impossible phenomenon, the group is called upon to give evidence.

As they speak of their experiences during the civil war and the years that followed, each is revealed to be in part responsible for the man's death. Highly symbolic and at times surreal, the country's political right is held to account for its past crimes in Theo Angelopoulos' impassioned and powerful film.

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The most controversial film by Theo Angelopoulos tells the story of the Greek bandit Alexander (Omero Antonutti) at the turn of the twentieth century.

Escaped from prison, he kidnaps a party of English aristocrats and demands as ransom that his band of anarchist socialists are granted amnesty and that landowners turn their property over to the local peasants. But when the group reaches its mountain stronghold, internal tensions arise which threaten to bring about disaster. Taking inspiration from ancient cultural myth and actual historical events, Angelopoulos' visually stunning film presents a challenging and complex portrait of a revolutionary leader.

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Theo Angelopoulos' first feature tells the compelling true story of a crime of passion. In a remote village in Northern Greece, a middle-aged woman and her lover murder her husband and bury the body in the garden.

But as they attempt to flee the country, their escape plan fails and they return to the village just as the investigation into the husband's disappearance begins. Largely performed by the people of the village where the actual murder took place, 'The Reconstruction' is a multi-layered study of a crime and of the wider problems facing Greek society, which marked Angelopoulos as a filmmaker of great talent and individuality.