siddhartha's - Rented List

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In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the creative freedom of the West.

But one day, as they spot their chance to make a break for Paris, both make a split decision that will mark their lives forever. Pawel Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning 'Ida' with the stunning 'Cold War', an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. Sumptuously shot in luminous black and white, it spans decades and nations to tell a love story that is as tragic as it is moving, and as transportive as it is honest.

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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.

Based on the true story that will inspire the world. Richard Williams (Will Smith), father of legendary tennis champions Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) Williams, shows how family and perseverance can achieve the impossible and impact the world.

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Despite having graduated from the prestigious Tokyo University, Kazuhiko (Yôji Minagawa) is unemployed and living with his parents without any plans for the future.

Everything changes, however, when he takes up a job at a local bathhouse and discovers that it is used by the yakuza as a convenient place for executions and corpse disposal

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Willem Dafoe gives a mesmerising performance as legendary painter Vincent van Gogh in 'At Eternity's Gate'.

Covering his time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, we find a complex, troubled soul who is seeking a new visual language while also struggling to make sense of himself and his connection to those around him, including friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin (Oscar Isaac) and a confiding priest (Mads Mikkelsen).

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A subtle and beautifully observed social satire that deftly balances hope and despair, 'A Blonde in Love' is widely celebrated as one of the great films of the 1960's.

This bittersweet romance from Milos Forman, the multiple Oscar-winning director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus', unfolds as a sweetly seductive tale of young love, but also provides a wry critique of life under totalitarianism. Aided by gorgeous cinematography and naturalistic performances, the film adeptly distils universal truths from the simplest of situations, presenting them with a sharp yet compassionate eye.

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Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this critically acclaimed South Korean film tells the story of Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a part-time worker who bumps into old neighbour Haemi (Jong-seo Jun).

She asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Kenya, but when she returns, Haemi introduces Ben (Steven Yeun) to Jongsu. One day, Ben visits Jongsu with Haemi and confesses his own secret hobby.

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English rose Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her husband (Jason Flemvng) nave moved to a rustic cottage in Normandy in pursuit of the French dream. Their new neighbour, bored local baker Martin (Fabrice Luchini), is a romanticist and devotee of Flaubert.

Fie becomes transfixed by his very own 'Madame Bovary', and takes a watchful interest in her life. When a dashing young man catches Gemma's eye, Martin begins to fear that she will fall to the same fate as her literary namesake.

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In the hopes of rekindling their marriage, sophisticated American couple Port and Kit Moresby (John Malkovich and Debra Winger) set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria -uncertain of exactly where they are heading but determined to leave the modern world behind.

They are instead tested to their limits by the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.

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Often cited as one of the masterpieces of Chinese cinema, 'The Spring River Flows East' is an epic and tragic melodrama set in Shanghai and Chungking around the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Part one, 'Eight War-Torn Years', tells the heart-rending story of a working-class couple, Sufen (Bai Yang) and Zhang Zhongliang (Tao Jin), whose marriage is torn apart when the war forces Zhongliang to flee from Shanghai to Chungking. Part two, 'The Dawn', sees Zhongliang return to Shanghai. His fortunes transformed, he has married into a wealthy bourgeois family but his world is undone by a chance meeting with the now-destitute Sufen.

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Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a feisty New York writer, mails a letter to a small London bookshop requesting some rare English classics.

Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), the reserved English bookseller, answers her request, beginning a touching and humorous correspondence that spans two continents and two decades. Hanff's acerbic wit starkly contrasts Doel's aloof British demeanor, but their mutual love of books forms a bond that deepens with each passing year. Their intimate, richly detailed letters draw us into their lives as Helene and Frank share their dreams, hopes, sorrows and joys — and in doing so, develop a lasting and extraordinary friendship.

"Another Year" is a touching story which follows happily-married couple Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) and their friends and family over four seasons. Featuring love and warmth, joy and sadness, hope and despair, companionship and loneliness, a birth and a death...

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Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a respected local fisherman, is expecting his first child with his beautiful wife, Mariela (Tatiana Astengo).

However, their peaceful existence is threatened by Miguel's love for Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a visiting artist whose presence is viewed as a threat by the villagers. When a fatal accident befalls the community, Miguel is faced with hiding his true feelings or coming to terms with who he is and risk losing everything, including those he loves.

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Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) is an English teacher who also works as a translator to earn extra cash. Stunned by a theft by one of her students she is determined to find the culprit. But meanwhile her personal life is put under huge pressure.

A bailiff tells her that her house is about to be seized because of unpaid mortgage payments. Determined to keep the house, she will do everything she can to get the money before it is too late. Her personal and professional life converge as she wonders, whilst her options start to run out, whether to question the principles she teaches her students.

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Julio and Tenoch are typical over-sexed and under-occupied teenagers. During a festive afternoon with their families they meet Luisa, a twenty eight year old Spaniard, and flirt with her with all the style and grace seventeen year old boys are known for.

As a joke, they invite her to accompany them on a road trip to a beach called Boca Del Cielo, neglecting to mention that they wouldn't know where to find it, even if it did actually exist. To their astonishment, she accepts.