alec-guimness-films's - Rented List

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When Aboriginal detective Jay Swan returns to his home town to solve the brutal murder of a teenage girl, he is immediately thrown into a web of lies and deceit.

Alienated by the white-dominated police force to which he is attached and ostracised by the local Indigenous community, Jay must stand alone and attempt to unravel the truth before tensions boil over.

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While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell.

Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when Freddy's ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreams of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man. Watch him fall.

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After enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea a corporate battle ensues between competing diving teams to win the lucrative contract to lay the pipeline deep on the ocean bed.

Norwegian diver Petter (Aksel Hennie) is obsessed with reaching the depths necessary to lay the pipeline and, along with his brother, take on the Americans, who have an equally ambitious diver in Mike (Wes Bentley). But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. In trying to get to the truth behind the accident Petter finds himself up against shadowy forces and an industrial machine that will go to any lengths to keep the truth under-wraps.

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In the 1920s, political activist Jimmy Gralton built a dance hall in rural Ireland. As the hall grew in popularity its free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.

A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns from the US. The hall stands abandoned but as Jimmy sees the poverty and growing oppression in the village, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He decides to reopen the hall, and so takes on the established authorities of the church and the government.

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As a young girl, Nessa Stein witnessed the assassination of her father by the armed wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Now in her late thirties, Nessa is at the forefront of the Middle East peace process.

Ennobled for her campaigning work, the newly made Baroness must fight forces that are conspiring against her as she awards a highly lucrative contract to a Palestinian businessman. When he is subsequently killed, Nessa and her brother come under the close scrutiny of Whitehall and the Secret Intelligence Service. Set against the gripping backdrop of government paranoia and espionage, 'The Honourable Woman' tells the story of one woman's personal journey to right the wrongs conducted in a past life.

Dwight Evans is a mysterious outsider whose quiet life on the margins is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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A young boy is taken by his Mayan father on a magical fishing trip to the Banco Chinchorro - the largest coral reef in Mexico. The reef, with its clear waters, frigate birds, egrets, and even a lounging crocodile, is like a Paradise before the fall.

But father and son must part at the end of the summer... Pedro Gonzdlez-Rubio's documentary style film is, at its simplest, a study of pure happiness and has won huge praise and numerous festival awards.

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The story follows the relationship between Roberto and his 17 year old daughter, Alejandra. Roberto is very depressed after his wife Lucia dies in a car accident and decides to move away with his daughter to a new city.

They try hard to adjust to their new life and Alejandro does her best to help, but struggles as she becomes the victim of bullying at her new school. To protect her father, she decides not to tell him anything, but as the bullying gets worse her situation becomes more and more desperate.

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13 (Tzameti), directed by Gela Babluani, wowed critics across the board and has won awards at both Sundance and Venice film festivals. Sebastien (Georges Babluani), a Georgian immigrant in France, leads an impoverished life with his family.

When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon), Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money troubles. When Godon suddenly dies, Sebastien decides to follow the instructions meant for the recently deceased addict. The clues lead him into the heart of the French countryside and face-to-face with a ring of clandestine gamblers who bet on human lives.

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The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S. submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction.

Captain Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way as the final chapter of human history is coming to a close...

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Aaron, a young misfit in a remote Scottish community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men, including his older brother.

Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames him for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe his brother is dead, and possessed by grief, madness and magic, Aaron sets out to recover him.

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Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), an impassioned young outlaw couple, are finally apprehended after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds local officer Sheriff Wheeler (Ben Foster), Bob takes the blame and is sent to jail.

Four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to reunite with his beloved wife and the daughter he has never met with dramatic and heart-breaking consequences.

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Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel, Shell's only company is her reserved and softly spoken father Pete, to whom she is devoted.

On the cusp of womanhood, she Is struggling to re-imagine her role within her family and in life in general. Pete, meanwhile, still keenly feels the absence of his wife, who ran away when Shell was four, while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing.

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Deaf secretary Carla is bullied by her mean spirited male colleagues. When they suggest she needs an assistant it seems like the final insult, but, when the first applicant is ex-con Paul she seizes the chance to change her life.

Carla covers his mistakes and he, anxious to go straight, reluctantly helps her take revenge on her colleagues. When Paul asks Carla to return the favour, she finds herself drawn into the criminal underworld, ruled by ruthless loan shark Marchand. Recognising her ability to lip-read as a weapon no one will have bargained for, the two set out to see justice done.