alec-guimness-films's - Rented List
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In the House (2012)Dans la maison
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, and finds himself strangely compelled as the boy becomes more dangerously involved with his class-mate's attractive mother. However, as the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, the boy's intrusion unleashes a series of uncontrollable events. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
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A Hijacking (2012)Kapringen
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbaek) and the engineer Jan (Roland Moller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Soren Malling) and the Somali pirates. - Director:
- Tobias Lindholm
- Cast:
- Pilou Asbæk, Stelios Lambis, Peter Baxter
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)Ray Harryhausen, le titan des effets speciaux
The remarkable career of the movie industry's most admired and influential special-effects auteur, the legendary Ray Harryhausen, is the subject of Gilles Penso's definitive documentary 'Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan'. Leaving no doubt as to Harryhausen's seminal influence on modern-day special effects, the documentary features enlightening and entertaining interviews with the man himself, Randy Cook, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Phil Tippett, Terry Gilliam, Dennis Muren, John Landis, Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and many more. These filmmakers, who today push the boundaries of special effects movie-making, pay tribute to the father of Stop Motion animation and films such as 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms', 'It Came from Beneath the Sea', 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad', 'Mysterious Island', 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'The Golden Voyage of Sinbad' - the films that enthralled them as children and inspired them to become filmmakers in their own right. - Director:
- Gilles Penso
- Cast:
- Ray Harryhausen, Peter Jackson, James Cameron
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In this sensational Oscar-nominated documentary, six former heads of Israel's secret service share shocking, highly-guarded state secrets from their counter-terrorism unit. With rare footage and CGI reconstructions, they reflect upon their controversial actions surrounding covert military operations from the 1960s to the present day, revealing the foiled terrorism plots as well as enhanced interrogation techniques and state-sanctioned targeted assassinations. These unbelievable, chilling and astonishing revelations will change the way you see the world. - Director:
- Dror Moreh
- Cast:
- Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter
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Love Is All You Need (2012)Den Skaldede Frisør
Ida (Trine Dyrholm) is in the mood to celebrate after finishing a course of treatment for breast cancer and, with her daughter's Italian wedding to look forward to, things are looking up. However, when she arrives home from the hospital to find her husband doing some celebrating of his own with a much younger woman, Ida's world comes tumbling down. Arriving solo in Sorrento for the wedding, Ida is determined to put on a brave face and refuses to let even the initially brusque manner of the groom's father, Philip, (Pierce Brosnan) put her off. But as the wedding celebrations gather pace, all involved - including the supposedly happy couple - are faced with the realisation that the spirit of Italy is offering them the chance of a new beginning - one that Ida and Philip ultimately grasp with both hands. - Director:
- Susanne Bier
- Cast:
- Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind
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A dangerous but charismatic fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) is hiding out from bounty hunters on a remote island on the Mississippi when he's discovered by two young boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland). An unlikely alliance forms as the boys struggle to help Mud escape his pursuers whilst at the same time reunite him with his long-time love Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). - Director:
- Jeff Nichols
- Cast:
- Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland
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Directed by Neil Jordan and starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, Byzantium is an erotic horror fantasy that takes vampire mythology to a new level of modern terror. Upon the wind swept shores of a desolate coastal town stands the Byzantium guesthouse. After years of being abandoned, its doors are about to be opened again by the predatory and seductive Clara (Arterton), who plans on turning the hotel into a brothel, and her young and introverted daughter Eleanor (Ronan). But these mysterious women have a dark secret that goes back 200 years and is about to reach its ungodly and deathly climax. - Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley
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Heartbreaker (2010)L'arnacoeur
Alex (Romain Duris) is a charming, funny and effortlessly cool professional break-up artist with just ten days to sabotage the relationship of a seemingly perfect couple. But with one of his targets, the beautiful, feisty and independent Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), will he find that when it comes to love the perfect plan doesn't always exist? - Director:
- Pascal Chaumeil
- Cast:
- Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier
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Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) have the perfect existence: still passionately in love, with a beautiful young son and a wonderful life ahead of them. But their lives are shattered when, out of the blue, Lisa is arrested for the brutal murder of a colleague. Found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison, the couple's world collapses into a frenzy of fear and paranoia. Julien, convinced of his wife's innocence, embarks on a mission so perilous it will risk the lives of everyone he loves: he will stop at nothing to daringly break her out of prison. With the police tracking his every move, and only his own certainty of his wife's innocence to rely upon, how far will Julien go to save her? And at what cost? The most riveting thriller of the year will leave you on the edge of your seat. - Director:
- Fred Cavayé
- Cast:
- Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch
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Everlasting Moments (2009)Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick
A true story set in Sweden in the 1900s about one woman’s impressive capacity to survive during a time of great social change and unrest. When Maria Larsson wins a camera in a lottery, her decision to keep it alters her whole life. It enables her to see the world through new eyes, offering her a path to freedom and independence from her abusive husband. - Director:
- Jan Troell
- Cast:
- Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
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Angel of Mine (2008)L'Empreinte De L'Ange
Divorced mother Elsa Valentin's (Catherine Rot) life is fraught with tension, fighting for her son in a bitter custody battle and juggling a demanding job. But nothing can prepare for what happens when she crosses paths with Lola, a young girl whom she believes to be the daughter she lost in a hospital fire over six years ago. Unable to let go of the desperate hope that her daughter might still be alive, Elsa begins to ingratiate herself with Lola's own mother Claire (Sandrine Bonnaire) inching her way into Lola's life. At the expense of her own increasingly distraught family, Elsa's obsession heightens and her behaviour turns increasingly disturbing. But how far will she go for what only she believes is the unsettling truth? Based on an true story. - Director:
- Safy Nebbou
- Cast:
- Catherine Frot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wladimir Yordanoff
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Living a meager life as a maid in a small town north of Paris in 1912, Seraphine Louis carries a secret and almost fanatical passion to express her divinely inspired visions through painting. Without training and resources Seraphinc feverishly creates her art with all the minutiae of her rural life that come to hand: wine, mud, fruits and flowers all merge in the astonishing conception of her paintings. Seraphine's modest life and hidden talent are changed forever when she is discovered by a German art critic and dealer who is mesmerized by her paintings and encourages her to leave her home for Paris and expose her art to the world, But as Saphine paints her most inspired pieces and her reputation soars to startling heights, her life begins to spiral out of control into the realms of madness. - Director:
- Martin Provost
- Cast:
- Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
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A Prophet (2009)Un prophète
A nineteen-year-old troublemaker starts a six year sentence in a notorious prison, a concrete hell where violence is the only language understood. Taken under the wing of a powerful mafia boss, he is initiated into a vicious and brutal way of life. As the years pass, he proves his worth, moving up the ranks within the prison. However, he has his own plans, and they don't involve taking orders from anyone. Using his ruthless cunning to extend his influence beyond the walls of the jail, he arranges drugs runs, hostage exchanges and violent assassinations. Once merely a petty criminal, he is soon on his way to establishing a criminal empire of his own. - Director:
- Jacques Audiard
- Cast:
- Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
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"Drive" is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best - Drive! - Director:
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Ralph Lawler, Carey Mulligan
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a rebellious sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in international cocaine smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. However, when his enthusiastic new partner disappears, his favourite hooker attempts to blackmail him and the drug-traffickers themselves try to buy him off, sergeant Boyle finally realises that he needs to take matters into his own hands. - Director:
- John Michael McDonagh
- Cast:
- Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong
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