tjc's - Rented List

A troubled young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and religious cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his bloodcraving urges after he falls for a lonely housewife, all the while his hostile cousin becomes convinced that the young man is actually Nosferatu.

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Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them - until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City.

As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the Martians have no immunity against the diseases of Earth, and must now figure out how to infect the invading army to eradicate the aliens before all of Earth is destroyed first.

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Robert (Bruce Willis) is a retired CIA agent living at a secret resort in the woods. One day, his estranged son drives to the camp for a visit - but he's followed by Robert's old nemesis, Balzary (Chad Michael Murray).

As the site is besieged by Balzary's attack squad, father and son retreat to a high-tech bunker. But are its steel walls and advanced weapons powerful enough to match Balzary's bloodthirsty plans for revenge?

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Living in Bangkok, where he fights bare-knuckle in the local gyms, heroin addict Billy Moore (Joe Cole) is arrested and sent to Klong Prem jail for selling drugs.

There, unable to speak the language, it's a matter of daily survival, as he is forced to live in unimaginable, unsanitary conditions, forever fearful of beatings from guards and other prisoners. It's only when Billy takes up Muay Thai boxing that he is able to see a way out of this hellish environment.

In this suspenseful story, Robin Williams gives an incredible performance, praised by the critics, as a photo technician who spirals headlong into a deep haunting obsession with a family whose pictures he develops.

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Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma for four years - ever since the "accidental" death of his mother and her lover. Kept at a small rundown hospital, he is experimented on by the insensitive Dr.

Roget (Robert Helpmann) who describes Patrick as "170lbs of limp meat hanging off a comatised brain". However, Patrick has been slowly developing powerful psycho-kinetic powers...When a new nurse is assigned to him, he falls in love with her, leaving notes on her typewriter using his telekinesis...But she soon realises that Patrick may be using his powers for far more sinister purposes as nurses and doctors at the hospital begin to die under mysterious circumstances...

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

'Locke' is the story of one man's life unravelling in a tension-fuelled race against time. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line.

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In 'The Brute', Sarah Douglas gives a courageous performance as Diane, a glamorous fashion model trying to escape the brutal blows of her sadistic husband, fearsomely portrayed by Julian Glover.

After a particularly savage attack, Diane leaves to stay with photographer friend Mark (Bruce Robinso) and his girlfriend Carrie (Suzanne Stone). Finding solidarity with other victims at a nearby women's refuge, she aims to forge a new life alone, but her violent ex-partner is determined to track her down.

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Growing up in a new-town tower block at the tail end of the 1960's isn't easy for awkward adolescent schoolgirl Wynne (Jenny Agutter). She has a bad case of puppy love for her much older foster brother, George (Bryan Marshall).

And to add to her anguish, might he even be the crazed killer of teenage girls known to prowl the woods nearby?

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Christopher Lambert stars as John Brennick, a man about to experience the ultimate in criminal punishment - the Fortress. The setting is the United States in the future. With resources scarce and population soaring, couples are allowed just one child.

Former Black Beret Captain John Brennick and his wife Karen have broken the law. After the loss of their first child, Karen is pregnant again. Caught and tried for their crime, they are sent to the Fortress, the most sophisticated maximum-security prison on the planet, a jail built 30 storeys underground and equipped with technology beyond imagination. Each prisoner is implanted with an 'intestinator', a device designed to inflict severe pain or death for any violation of the prison rules. Unrelenting and unforgiving, the Fortress is a hellhole prison of the future. Escape-proof. Built to hold anything...except an innocent man.

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As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver (Mark Greenstreet) draws near, well-heeled Diana (Jemma Redgrave) moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares.

But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny (Kathleen Wilhoite), who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.

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Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense.

What you are about to see is the footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

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Dora (Daria Nicolodi) moves back into her old family home with her husband, Bruno (John Steiner), and Marco (David Colin Jr.), her young son from her previous marriage.

But domestic bliss proves elusive as numerous strange and disturbing occurrences transpire, while Dora is haunted by a series of nightmares and hallucinations, many of them involving her dead former husband. Is the house itself possessed? Or does Dora's increasingly fragile grip on reality originate from somewhere far closer to home?

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Finally being held accountable for his catastrophic experiments in re-animating the dead, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) finds himself incarcerated at a maximum-security penitentiary.

With the arrival of a new prison doctor Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) who happens to be an enthusiastic student of West's work, the medical deviant is afforded the opportunity to resume his grisly studies - this time on his fellow inmates, with predictably hair-raising results.