dmb's - Rented List

Follow Ana through three stages of her life, a life plagued by violence, sexual obsession and murder, told through a skewed lens of psychedelic lighting schemes and surreal fever dreams.

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In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence is paralyzed with grief after the loss of his twin brother.

Twelve-year-old James drifts into the perilous orbit of local teenagers while his single mother, Marlee, is too exhausted from her menial job to interpret the clues. When sudden violence forces mother and son to flee their home in the night, they alight desperately on Lawrence's property. Though this provides safe harbor, it rekindles the fury of a bitter, longstanding conflict.

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Athina Rachel Tsangari's acclaimed film tells the strange tale of Marina, a withdrawn young woman who lives with her ailing father in a Greek factory town.

Finding the human species strange and repellent she keeps her distance, choosing to observe life through Sir David Attenborough's nature documentaries and the sexual education lessons she receives from her only friend. Bella.

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An elderly lady in her 60's Yang Mija (Yun Junghee) works as a carer for a disabled man and she also raises her grandson alone. She has to endure the onset of Alzheimer's disease and also learns that her grandson was one of the attackers of a junior high school girl that committed suicide.

Through all of tins and to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a poet the elderly woman starts to take a poetry class and starts writing...

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This highly charged sexual thriller from Mexico follows Laura (Monica del Carmen), a freelance journalist, as she alleviates the boredom of her solitary existence by moving from one anonymous sexual encounter to another.

Upon meeting Arturo (Gustavo Sanchez Parra), she finds herself drawn into a sadomasochistic relationship in which he is the dominant partner. Increasingly, however, the balance of power shifts. What begins as an attempt by two lonely people to connect with one another soon becomes something more dangerous. When Laura marks a red square around an upcoming date on her calendar, the wheels are set in motion for a startling conclusion.

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One of the most critically acclaimed films of 2011 tells the story of Julie, a young French actress shooting a film in Lisbon about a 17th Century nun who is seduced by a soldier.

Among the city's enigmatic and transient inhabitants, she encounters a young Nun and the exchange between the two women changes Julie's destiny forever. This absorbing drama is the fourth film by the acclaimed New York-born filmmaker Eugene Green and his first to be released in the UK.

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"In the City of Sylvia" is one of the most acclaimed European films of recent years and marks the international breakthrough of Spanish director, Jose Luis Guerin.

In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer and Robert Bresson, Guerín presents the deceptively simple tale of a man seeking the woman he met six years before. With only a sketch to identify her, he searches the streets and cafes of Strasbourg, hoping to encounter the object of his desire.

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From the producers of Half Nelson and Maria Full Of Grace, comes one of the best reviewed films of the year. After a business trip to New York, Mikey visits his parents in their Tribeca loft. But instead of catching his flight back to L.A.

to his wife and young child, he finds himself unable to leave.

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Henry Fool is a sharp witted black comedy about Simon, a socially inept garbage man with severe self esteem issues, whose life is about to be turned upside down by Henry Fool - an ex-convict sex offending, chain smoking, beer consuming egomaniac.

Henry soon introduces Simon into the world of literature and inspires him to write a book-length poem, but just as Simon’s new found career goes from strength to strength, Henry Fool’s past is about to catch up with him.

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In Copenhagen, the writer and journalist Jacob and his girlfriend Nina are surprised when his beloved sister Julie, who became handicapped after an attempt of suicide, informs that she is going to marry her Internet acquaintance Anker.

However, on her wedding night, Julie commits suicide in the bathtub of the hotel, dying in the hands of Anker. After the funeral services, Anker leaves Copenhagen and while packing Julie belongings, Jacob finds a book that belongs to Anker with an obituary identical to the one Anker had written in Julie's grave. The intrigued Jacob calls Anker, but his cellular is out of service. Jacob decides to investigate the destination of Anker and finds him in the small town of Mørke in the Midden-Jutland. When he meets his former son-in-law, he finds that he is going to marry the handicapped Hanne on the next Saturday. Jacob tells Hanne's sister Sonja his fears about Anker, but neither she nor the local deputy Carl believe him. Jacob decides to stay for the wedding while investigating the circumstances in which the woman died after marrying Anker

A priest becomes a vampire… another man's wife is coveted… a deadly seduction triggers murder

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Solo, a Senegalese immigrant driving a taxi in North Carolina, has aspirations of becoming a flight attendant and help provide a better life for his pregnant wife and step-daughter. One night he picks up William, a tough Southern old-timer with a lifetime of regrets.

One man's dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realise they need each other more than either is willing to admit.

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A darkly comic, discomfiting and deliberately provocative work that draws parallels with recent contemporary events. Dogtooth is shocking, compelling and perversely erotic. In a house on the edge of the city live a self-contained family. The only person allowed to leave is the father.

The mother remains enclosed, 'protecting' her son and two daughters from the evils of the outside world. However, when the son reaches an age where it is deemed that his sexual needs should be met, this insular and radical environment is threatened by the arrival of a female security guard. Capturing incidents that range from the weird to the repulsive, Dogtooth presents a sharp and frequently startling look at modern life. Particularly evocative of the work of Michael Haneke this is cinema at its most bold and brilliant.

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Jeanne (Emilie Dequenne) is a free spirited rollerblading Parisian young woman living at home with her widowed mother (Catherine Deneuve). Half-heartedly looking for a job she goes for an interview with her mother's old flame, Samuel Bleiston (Michel Blanc), now a world famous Jewish lawyer.

Turned down because of secretarial inexperience the interview sets in motion a sequence of events that snowball into a huge political and national news story, having ramifications for all involved. As Jeanne decides to escape her mother's comfortable nest and sets up home with newfound love Franck (Nicolas Duvauchelle), an aspiring wrestler, she soon finds herself in more trouble. Alongside the film's political agenda, the film is fuelled by a fast burning romance.

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When a brutal kidnap gang grabs powerful businessman Stanislas Graf and holds him to ransom, he is subjected to a terrifying ordeal of torture and humiliation.

But outside, the urgent police investigation exposes hidden details of Graf's personal life - secret affairs, huge gambling debts and shady deals - sparking a media scandal which leaves his wife and family stunned and his business empire questioning their loyalty to him. With the ransom unpaid and his captors' patience wearing thin, Graf realises with horror that his reckless post may finally be catching up with him...