dmb's - Rented List
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Regular Lovers (2005)Les Amants Réguliers
In the aftermath of the era-defining Paris student riots of May 1968, a group of youngsters involved in the revolt abandon themselves to a bohemian existence and the fumes of opium. At the centre of the group, romance develops between 20 year old Francois (Louis Garrel) and Lilie (Clotilde Hesme), but they soon find their love and idealism under threat from the harsh realities of everyday life. - Director:
- Philippe Garrel
- Cast:
- Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas
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Bus 174 (2002)Ônibus 174
Sometime during the afternoon of June 12. Sandro di Nascimento, a disenfranchised young man who had survived a harsh and brutal childhood in the favellas of Rio boarded a bus on route 174 and took its passengers hostage. For 4 and a half hours, a tense stand off played out between the police and what was thought to be merely a drugged up street kid. In the devastating aftermath, filmmaker Jose Padilha meticulously wove together Sandra's story from hours of live television footage and testimony from the hijack survivors, police rescue teams, acquaintances and members of Sandra's family. Padilha's multi award winning documentary traces two parallel and equally devastating stories. The dramatic hijacking unfolds as it had in front of 35 million Brazilians who witnessed the police try and fail to handle the rapidly escalating situation. And then there is the even more tragic story of Sandra. In his youth, a survivor one of the most dreadful instances of urban violence in Brazil, Sandra's legacy of personal failure and the failure of his country to help those like him, collided with a restless social and economic climate that one fateful day, bringing to a bloody end his unexpected journey from the streets to the eyes of the world. - Director:
- José Padilha
- Cast:
- Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares
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Three Times (2005)Zui hao de shi guang
Three different time periods, 1966, 1911 & 2005. Three different Stories. Two amazing performances as Asia's brightest new stars, Shu Qi & Chang Chen, play out three enrapturing tales of unfinished love...
1966, a time for love.A young man enlisted for military service falls for a beautiful girl in a 1960's pool hall. But will she wait for him?
1911, a time for freedom.
A courtesan in a brothel falls in love with one of her clients, a political activist on the brink of joining the Chinese revolution.
2005, a time for youth.
Hidden passions arise when a beautiful bisexual singer becomes involved in a tangled affair with a photographer.- Director:
- Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Cast:
- Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Fang Mei
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The Serpent (2006)Le serpent
Vincent Mandel (Yvan Attal) is a photographer caught up in an ugly divorce and fighting for custody of his children. His already troubled existence is blown apart by the appearance of a ghost from his past, Joseph Plender (Clovis Cornillac). Seductive, sympathetic, Plender is nonetheless utterly ruthless - a predator motivated by pure hatred of former classmate Vincent, and hungry for vengeance. It seems that Vincent's only chance to escape is to enter his world... - Director:
- Eric Barbier
- Cast:
- Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Richard
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Fireworks Wednesday (2006)Chaharshanbe-soori
From the Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi, 'Fireworks Wednesday' is an engrossing portrait of three marriages set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year. The story begins with Rouhi (Taraneh Alidousti), a young bride-to-be who takes a temporary job cleaning for a family in northern Tehran. Upon arriving at the apartment she finds herself in the middle of an explosive domestic conflict between Mojdeh (Hedieh Tehrani) and her husband Morteza (Hamid Farokh-Nejad). Mojdeh suspects that Morteza is cheating on her with the next door neighbour. Over the course of the day, the young woman, the sparring couple, their small son, the wife's sister and husband and the beautician next door engage in a series of exchanges, confrontations and prevarications as the truth unfolds. - Director:
- Asghar Farhadi
- Cast:
- Hamid Farokhnezhad, Hediyeh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti
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Silent Souls (2010)Ovsyanki
When Miron's beloved wife Tanya passes away he asks his best friend Aist to help him assist in her burial according to the rituals of the Meryan people, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from West-Central Russia. The two men set out on a road trip across the boundless landscape, accompanied only by two small caged birds. Along the way Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life but as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realises he wasn't the only one in love with Tanya... - Director:
- Aleksei Fedorchenko
- Cast:
- Yuliya Aug, Larisa Damaskina, Olga Dobrina
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Dag is experiencing a personal meltdown. After a heavy drinking session, facing some deep and dark thoughts, he is saved by Benedict and enters a rehab facility run by Ernst - Benedict's stepfather who has a very different view on how to deal with substance abuse of all kinds. Benedict - a notorious womaniser, continues on his path of restless promiscuity but faces a reality-check when his young son enters the hospital and he realises he must live up to being a proper father - at least for a while. - Director:
- Øystein Karlsen
- Cast:
- Atle Antonsen, Tuva Novotny, Anders Baasmo Christiansen
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Peppermint Candy (1999)Bakha satang
Shown in reverse chronological order, Peppermint Candy is the tale of a solitary man's painful growth in life set against the back drop of nearly three decades of Korean history. A distraught and weathered man, Yong-ho stands on the rails of a train track staring oncoming death in the face. Through divided sequences we retrace the steps that brought him to this place and this state of mind. From his failed marriage and unsuccessful career, to his first love and his traumatizing experience in the army, we are shown all of the elements that went into the psychological demise of a broken man. - Director:
- Chang-dong Lee
- Cast:
- Kyung-gu Sol, Yeo-jin Kim, Jung Suh
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Meet Dag, a couples therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is away to change radically when Eva enters his life. Dag is a sometimes cynical, yet often heartwarming comedy that features a star-studded cast of Norway's most celebrated actors. - Director:
- Øystein Karlsen
- Cast:
- Atle Antonsen, Malin Helene H. Pedersen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen
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The Treatment (2014)De Behandeling
Based on the Sunday Times bestselling novel by crime writer Mo Hayder, "The Treatment" heralds a new and unforgettable turn in the Nordic noir phenomenon. A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. Detective Inspector Nick Cafmeyer is called in to investigate and as he digs deeper he exposes an insidious criminal network that unnervingly has links to his own past. - Director:
- Hans Herbots
- Cast:
- Geert Van Rampelberg, Ina Geerts, Johan van Assche
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Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Her hard-party mother (Kristen Wag) and absent father (Christopher Meloni) have left her rudderless, and she's fallen in love with her mother's boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard). As she finds solace in his seductive smiles and her animation, she emerges defiant. - Director:
- Marielle Heller
- Cast:
- Bel Powley, Susannah Schulman, Alexander Skarsgård
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Chris Hemsworth stars as Nick Hathaway, a gifted hacker currently serving a lengthy prison sentence. When a Hong Kong nuclear plant goes into meltdown after its security is penetrated, Chinese army cybersecurity captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang) offers his old college roommate a deal: help identify and apprehend the culprit in exchange for his own freedom. What follows is a frenetic, globe-trotting race against time to avert disaster, fraught with hidden agendas and ever-shifting loyalties. - Director:
- Michael Mann
- Cast:
- Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Wei Tang
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A Girl at My Door (2014)Dohee-Ya
Young-nam (Doona Bae) was a top graduate of the Korean police academy, but due to 'misconduct' is transferred to a post at a small seaside village. On her first patrol she encounters the mysterious Dohee; a young girl excluded by her local community. As Young-nam adapts to her new life, she witnesses Dohee's situation and is compelled to protect the girl from her family by letting her move in. All is well with this unconventional arrangement until Dohee's drunken father decides he wants her back. - Director:
- July Jung
- Cast:
- Doona Bae, Sae-ron Kim, Sae-Byeok Song
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Three years after he bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, Mike (Charming Tatum) finds the remaining Kings of Tampa likewise ready to throw in the towel. But they want to do it their way: burning down the house in one last blowout performance in Myrtle Beach, and with Magic Mike, the legendary headliner, sharing the spotlight with them. On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways. - Director:
- Gregory Jacobs
- Cast:
- Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer
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Not Here to Be Loved (2005)Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
Enormously charming and affecting, 'Not Here To Be Loved' tells the story of world weary Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) who, tired of his job, decides on a whim to shake himself out of his rut by enrolling for tango lessons. Thee he meets Francoise (Anne Cosigney), who is learning to dance in preparation for her impending wedding. Recognising in each other a mutual longing for something more from life, Jean-Claude and Francoise put aside their natural reserve and a tentative friendship develops that may just turn their lives upside down. Played with great depth and subtlety by Chesnais and Consigny, Stephane Brize's film is a tender and beautifully observed study of two people who have never quite learned to love or be loved. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Patrick Chesnais, Pascal Praud, Anne Consigny
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