dmb's - Rented List

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Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a Pakistani immigrant, struggles to drag his heavy cart along the streets of New York to his corner in Midtown Manhattan. And every morning, from inside his cart he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own.

He is a man who wonders if he will ever escape his fate.

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In his fantasies. Aaron is an advisor to pilot Charles Lindbergh, but his fortunes are actually in rapid descent, lie remains undaunted, devising ill-fated money making schemes, and inventing glamorous identities for his parents. But things take a dive as his family begins to fall apart.

Left alone, he begins the practical business of slaying alive, putting his family back together, and forging his own identity as "King of the Hill".

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"After Life" revolves around an intriguing premise. At a half way station between heaven and earth, guides greet the newly dead.

Over the next three days, they will help them sift through their memories to find the one defining moment of their lives - an old woman remembers dancing for her older brother's friends as a child; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a young girl wants to ride the Splash Mountain at Disneyland. The chosen moment will be recreated on film and relieved for eternity.

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Linklater's breakout second film is an utterly unique series of loosely interweaved episodes shining a delightfully off-beat light on a parade of socially disconnected, overly educated, and barely motivated citizens in Austin Texas.

In coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town, life's strange quirks, odd foibles and disruptive inanities come astonishingly to life. Linklater's film remains a cult sensation that launched a thousand imitators. But none of the effusive 20-somethings littering the casts of 1990s US independent cinema can hold a candle to those of this hilarious and vibrant true original.

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Working the underbelly of the Paris streets as a narcotics cop, Lucien 'Lulu' Marguet (Didier Bezace) is a man who refuses to play by the rules, much to the disenchantment of his superiors.

Assigned to the drug squad, he is driven only by a desire to rid the streets of dealers and prevent innocent lives being destroyed by addiction to heroin. However Lulu's professional ideals are constantly tested by the pressure of poor funding, and corrupt, incompetent colleagues.

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Johan is the head of a family in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico.

However, he goes against the law of both God and men by falling in love with another woman and, although he is honest with his wife about the affair, his actions create conflict in their otherwise serine and tranquil existence.

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Two years after his star-making role in Five Easy Pieces, Nicholson reunited with director Bob Rafelson for this gritty story of small-time losers and big-time dreamers.

Dern co-stars as Nicholson's older brother, a scam artist who's all style and no substance, and Burstyn excels as an aging beauty who has prostituted herself for an elusive shot at happiness.

Erik (Espen Klouman Hoiner) and Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) have been best friends since childhood and both want to become writers. While Erik's manuscript is refused by the publishers as lacking in talent, Philip is eagerly welcomed and overnight becomes a young star in Norway's literary scene. Soon, their young dreams clash with reality.

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Maggie Cheung (playing herself) has been cast by a once revered but now out of touch director as the latex-clad cat-burglar in his ill-fated remake of the French classic 'Les Vampires'.

From the moment she arrives in Paris chaos ensues until the director finally has a breakdown and is replaced by another who doesn't know why she was cast in the first place. Amidst all the confusion Cheung becomes drawn to her character and is soon pulling on latex and prowling her hotel corridors at night.

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In this thought-provoking documentary, Director Amir Bar-Lev tracks the overnight celebrity of little Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. A media sensation by the age of four, critics compare her work with Jackson Pollock's.

Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. But, sadly, the bubble bursts. When a 2005 profile by 60 Minutes suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial - with the burden of proof placed squarely in their lap: Is Marla a child prodigy or an innocent victim of a hoax?

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When Jim (Casey Affleck) fails to become a writer in New York he's forced to return to his childhood home in Indiana. But a simple life turns out to be complicated when he's forced to take up his injured brother's factory job.

When he finds himself in love with local nurse, Anika, (Liv Tyler) he realises he'll have to make a choice - embrace an uncomplicated life in rural America or run away again to pursuit his dream in the urban jungle of New York.

Water Lilies is a beautifully observed, intelligent and provocative portrait of female adolescence. Set in the competitive world of synchronised swimming, three 15- year-old girls experience first love, friendship and rivalry in very different ways.

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A stylish and brutal glimpse into the intense violent underbelly of the ruthless Parisian underworld where mob boss Corti rules over his thugs with an iron fist. In an empire of fast cars, upscale drugs and expensive women, money is god but power and money alone can never buy trust.

When Corti loses trust in his own gang he makes them wish for a quick death and begins a crime-spree certain to send Paris into total lockdown.

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Sandra (Asia Argento), a former prostitute with a penchant for S and M and narcotics, travels to Paris to rekindle her love affair with debt-ridden entrepreneur Miles Rennberg (Michael Madsen). The couple have a fiery but short-lived relationship and their last steamy encounter ends in violence.

Sandra flees to Hong Kong in search of a new life and a fresh start. However, nothing is quite as it seems, as Sandra finds herself trapped in a deadly game of manipulation.

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The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle's exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.

Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) a successful New York designer, Frederic (Charles Berling) an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jeremie (Jeremie Renier) a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, background and unique visions of the future.