wes's - Rented List

The Marxmen Go West to where the sun always shines, the fun never sets and where they outwit a land grabber. Highlights include the $1 scam, the stagecoach ride, Chico and Harpo bellying up to the bar and the train-chase finale...

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The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) is the setting for the twisted puzzler.

Twain informs his guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night.

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A fourth anthology from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. A unique mixture of comedy, drama, love, intrigue, ancient curses, industry gossip, room service, and murderous intent.

Guest stars include Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter); Noel Clarke (Kidulthood); Emilia Fox (Silent Witness); Monica Dolan (W1A); Sian Gibson (Car Share); Fenella Woolgar (War And Peace); Rory Kinnear (Count Arthur Strong); Marcia Warren (Sherlock); Bill Paterson (Fleabag); Tanya Franks (Chewing Gum); Hattie Morahan (Outnumbered), Nicola Walker (Unforgotten) and Weruche Opia (Bad Education).

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A constant fixture in critics' polls, Yasujiro Ozu's most enduring masterpiece, 'Tokyo Story', is a beautifully nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret.

From the simple tale of an elderly husband and wife's visit to Tokyo to see their grown-up children, Ozu draws a compelling contrast between the measured dignity of age and the hurried insensitivity of a younger generation.

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The Griswolds are going on vacation. In the driver's seat is Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase), an everyman eager to share the open road and the wonders of family togetherness with his long-suffering wife (Beverly D'Angelo) and their two frustrated teens.

After myriad mishaps; 2,460 miles; and a run-in with a hapless security guard (John Candy), it's a wonder the Griswolds are still together. There's never been a family vacation like it.

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Chicago Morning Post editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy).

Then a late breaking story involving the impending execution of an anarchist who escapes and is hidden from the police by the former husband and wife throws the pair together once again.

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An argument about a restaurant bill spirals out of control, a karaoke night veers wildly off script, and a mysteriously exclusive art exhibition brings sharp new meaning to the term 'cutting-edge culture'.

Belly laughs and macabre twists combine in six endlessly inventive episodes with guest stars including Philip Glenister (Outcast), Jason Watkins (W1A), Fiona Shaw (True Blood), Keeley Hawes (The Durrells), Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife) and Derek Jacobi (Vicious). Pemberton and Shearsmith deliver their most daring series yet, as they rewrite the rules of comedy and drama with this genre-bending masterpiece.

Episodes Comprise:
1. The Devil of Christmas
2. The Bill
3. The Riddle of the Sphinx
4. Empty Orchestra
5. Diddle Diddle Dumpling
6. Private View

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It's been eleven years since the downfall of arch-criminal and master-of-disguise Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), now sequestered in an asylum under the watchful eye of one Professor Baum (Oskar Beregi).

Mabuse exists in a state of "catatonic graphomania", his only action the irrepressible scribbling of blueprints that would realise a seemingly theoretical "Empire of Crime". But when a series of violent events courses through the city, police and populace alike start asking themselves with increasing panic: "Who is behind all this?!" The answer borders on the realm of the impossible...

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Having just quit her job as a Los Angeles TV horror hostess, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) receives the unexpected news that she's set to inherit part of her great aunt Morgana's estate.

Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals - amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent (William Morgan Sheppard), who, unbeknownst to Elvira, is in fact an evil warlock secretly scheming to steal the old family spellbook for his own nefarious ends...

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A sunny day, a quiet road, rural France: the genre defying scene is set for unsettling, atmospheric terror...Young English nurses Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice) are on a cycling holiday, unaware that another tourist girl was brutally slain in the same region two years earlier.

They happen upon a mysterious man, Paul (Sandor Eles), who seems interested in them. Cathy is intrigued by the man, but suspicious Jane wants to continue on the journey. The two split apart after arguing the point, but, when Jane returns to the village where they're staying, her friend is nowhere to be found. Frantic, she searches for Cathy. Will she find her in time?

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Between 2009 and 2013, England's Test cricket team rose from the depths of the rankings to become the first and only English side to reach world number one.

Compelling, funny and emotional, 'The Edge' tells the story of a special band of brothers' rise to the top, their unmatched achievements and the huge toll it would take. One of the toughest sports on the planet, and psychologically perhaps the most demanding, 'The Edge' reveals the ruthless intensity of the game, the sacrifices required to reach the top and the extreme impact on players' mental health. Featuring hilarious, stunning unseen behind the scenes footage from the period and breath taking original interviews with star players and coaches including: Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Sir Alastair Cook, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Monty Panesar, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Matt Prior, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Steven Finn, Tim Bresnan, David Saker and Andy Flower, 'The Edge' is Test cricket like you've never seen it before. This is the story of a team that went above and beyond the call of duty.

Be invited into six more entirely different No. 9s, ranging from the poignant to the unsettlingly scary, but always funny and surprising. Episodes Comprise: 1. La Couchette 2. The 12 Days of Christine 3. The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge 4. Cold Comfort 5. Nana's Party 6. Seance Time

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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort.

From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity.

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In the not-so-distant future, Earth is barren of all flora and fauna, with what remains of the planet's former ecosystems preserved aboard a fleet of greenhouses orbiting in space.

When the crews are ordered to destroy the remaining specimens, one botanist, Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), rebels and flees towards Saturn in a desperate bid to preserve his own little piece of Earth that was, accompanied only by the ship's three service robots.

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He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality.

Together they tour the local galleries, cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth, like art, is always open to interpretation. Captivating and hugely entertaining, this acclaimed romantic tale playfully and provocatively blurs the lines between reality and imagination.