dsp's - Rented List
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The White Ribbon (2009)Das Weisse Band
On the eve of World War I, the quiet order of a small protestant village in Northern Germany is disturbed by a series of mysterious and inexplicable accidents. To the mounting concern of the villagers, the events persist, becoming increasingly sinister and taking on the character of a perverse punishment ritual. But who is responsible. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Klaus Manchen
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Arahan (2004)Arahan jangpung daejakjeon
Hapless traffic cop Sang-hwan (Seung-beom Ryu) is accidentally hit by a powerful "palm blast" while trying to catch a handbag thief. When he discovers that the blast came from a beautiful martial arts student named Eui-jin (So-yi Yoon), he becomes obsessed with learning the special move himself. Five ancient Tai-Chi masters, impressed that Sang-hwan's exceptionally strong Chi has allowed him to survive the blast, recruit him to train alongside Eui-jin and take on an evil former master who has left the group and is now seeking vengeance. - Director:
- Seung-wan Ryoo
- Cast:
- Seung-bum Ryoo, So-yi Yoon, Sung-kee Ahn
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The Coast Guard (2002): Hae Anseon
Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honour, Private Kang (Jang Dong-kun) waits eagerly for a chance to prove his worth as a soldier. One night, he mistakenly kills an innocent civilian. As he is losing his grip on reality, tensions and paranoia escalate and further tragedy may become unavoidable. - Director:
- Ki-duk Kim
- Cast:
- Dong-gun Jang, Jeong-hak Kim, Ji-a Park
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When her mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young Eve (Fantine Harduin) is sent to live with her estranged father's wealthy relatives in Calais. But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
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In 1937 Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in Nanking. In Beijing there are rumours that a masked man is systematically killing Japanese soldiers, working his way up to the top Japanese general. With the world's attention focused on Europe all this carnage is allowed to rage throughout the country almost unnoticed. An American reporter is sent to China to uncover the truth behind the unrest, but what he finds threatens his own life and the very sovereignty of the United States. - Director:
- Peng Zhang Li
- Cast:
- Hu Sang, Jeremy Marr Williams, Peng Zhang Li
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Better Watch Out (2016)Safe Neighborhood
On a peaceful and quiet suburban street during the holiday season, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a 'normal' home invasion. Featuring a superb cast led by Olivia DeJonge, star of M. Night Shyamalan's smash hit 'The Visit', and Levi Miller, star of Pan, 'Better Watch Out' is a deliriously vicious thrill ride packed with original twists and turns. Chris Peckover directs this sinister holiday horror that is destined to be a Christmas classic. - Director:
- Chris Peckover
- Cast:
- Ben Ward, Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller
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Based upon the career of UFA studio star Sybille Schmitz and influenced by Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, Fassbinder’s savage satire stars Rosel Zech as forgotten screen icon Veronika Voss. Dreaming of a triumphant return to the glories of her past, she encounters journalist Robert Krohm (Hilmar Thate), a younger man who falls under the spell of her still-alluring beauty. As the two embark upon an affair, Krohm begins to uncover the true tragedy of Veronika’s life. - Director:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast:
- Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
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The Tiger (2015)Daeho / The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
Following a tragic accident involving the loss of his beloved wife, renowned hunter Man-duk (Choi Min-sik, Old Boy, Lucy) has retired his rifle and become a humble herb gatherer limping amongst his cherished mountains with his son. But with the arrival of Japanese soldiers determined to find a legendary great tiger, Man-duk finds himself pulled into one final hunt for his own personal redemption and closure. - Director:
- Hoon-jung Park
- Cast:
- Min-sik Choi, Man-sik Jeong, Hong-pa Kim
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Nowhere to Hide (1999)Injeong Sajeong Bol Geot Eobtda
Inchon, Korea. Citizens run for cover in the pouring rain while the mysterious Sungmin (Ahn Sung-Ki) walks up Forty Steps and stabs another man to death. He disappears with a briefcase full of cash while his accomplices finish off the dead man's subordinate. The police investigation reveals an underground drug world at war. Detective Woo (Park Joong-Hoon) is the determined police detective who pursues the elusive Sungmin in a chase through the maze of the city streets and hideaways. Along the way, Woo and his men hunt down the nefarious figures of the drug world. They also find Jugo (Choi Ji-Woo), the woman who loves Sungmin. But Sungmin remains at large, a master of disguise and elusiveness, until the final spectacular showdown with detective Woo in the suburbs of a coal-mining town. - Director:
- Myung-Se Lee
- Cast:
- Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-gun Jang
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Love and Other Cults (2017)Kemonomich / Love and Other Beasts
Based on an unbelievable true story director Eiji Uchida (Greatful Dead) tells the tale of a young girl named Ai (Sairi Ito) who at a young age is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, trying to start attending school for the first time, but ends up living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. Searching for a different life she finds herself adopted by a "normal" family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more seedy paths including the sex industry. The only person who understands Ai and her troubles is another cast off from society, Ryota (Kenta Suga), whose love for her brings him along the same dark paths. - Director:
- Eiji Uchida
- Cast:
- Sairi Itô, Kenta Suga, Kaito Yoshimura
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Exiled (2006)Fong Juk
1998. Macua. Every living soul jumps at any chance to make quick money. In this ruthless environment, for jaded hit-men wonder when the violence will end. After being sent to take out a renegade member of their gang, trying to go straight with his wife and newborn baby, they soon find themselves in the throes of a moral dilemma: whether to carry out their orders or defy their criminal boss and protect the life of their old friend. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Libby Brien, Philip Hersh
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Exhilarating and astonishingly ambitious, "Victoria" is an adrenaline-fuelled heist thriller set on the streets of nighttime Berlin that features the staggering technical feat of being shot in a single, unbroken take. Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local guys outside a nightclub in the early hours of the morning. Sonne and his friends are Berliners who promise to show her the real side of the city. But when the group are suddenly forced to repay a debt to a member of the city's criminal underworld, the night quickly spirals out of control. - Director:
- Sebastian Schipper
- Cast:
- Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski
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Still Life (2006)Sanxia haoren
Set against the spectacular landscape of the Three Gorges region, Jia Zhangke's humane and moving Golden-Lion winner tells two contemplative and compassionate stories of a man and woman searching for absent spouses in Fengjie - an ancient town on the Yangtze River which is being demolished and will soon vanish for ever in the flooding caused by the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project. - Director:
- Zhang Ke Jia
- Cast:
- Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han
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Toshiro (Tak, formerly Tak Sakaguchi), a former special forces operative, now lives a quiet life in the Japanese countryside. Despite his seemingly peaceful existence, Toshiro struggles to contain the destructive impulses that once made him the top soldier in an elite unit of killers. When his former commanding officer, the enigmatic Phantom (Akio Ôtsuka), comes out of the shadows seeking revenge, Toshiro goes on a kill-crazy rampage against a squad of ruthless assassins. - Director:
- Yûji Shimomura
- Cast:
- Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Takumi Saitoh
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Glory (2016)Slava
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's follow-up to 'The Lesson' is a social parable about a humble man who gets unwillingly celebrated. Railway linesman Tsanko (Stefan Denolyubov) finds lots of bank notes on the tracks. When he reports the money rather than pocketing it, the Ministry of Transport - embroiled in a scandal - takes the opportunity to parade their new hero. But Tsanko might not be a PR person's dream. Yet compared to PR head Julia (Margita Gosheva), he's an angel. When Julia removes his watch - a Russian-made Slava (Glory), inscribed and presented to him by his father - for the ceremony to present him with a new one, it sets off a chain of events that threatens to bring down the Ministry thanks to a combination of corruption, irresponsibility and arrogance. - Director:
- Kristina Grozeva
- Cast:
- Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Ana Bratoeva
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