dsp's - Rented List

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When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his 'safe' company job, his family's happy, humdrum life is put at risk.

Unwilling to accept the shame of unemployment, the loyal salaryman decides not to tell anyone, instead leaving home each morning in suit and tie with briefcase, spending his days searching for work and lining up for soup with the homeless. Outstanding performances; serene, elegant direction; and Kurosawa's trademark chills are evident as he ratchets up the unsettling atmosphere and the grim hopelessness of Sasaki's unemployment.

When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has.

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Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a construction worker who has lived his entire life in a dreary fishing village. With no girlfriend or friends, he spends his days working and looking after his grandparents, with no enjoyment in life other than his car.

Meanwhile, Mitsuyo (Eri Fukatsu) also lives a monotonous life pacing between the men's clothing store where she works and the apartment where she lives with her sister. When the two lonely souls meet using an online dating site, they immediately fall in love with each other. But there's a secret Yuichi had been keeping from Mitsuyo: Yuichi is the one suspected of killing the woman whose body was found at Mitsue Pass only a few days before... As Yuichi and his new lover try to elude the police, the events that led up to the murder and its aftermath are revealed. We learn the stories of the victim, the murderer, and their families - stories of loneliness, love hotels, violence and desperation, exposing the inner lives of men and woman who are not everything they appear to be.

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Garlanded with awards, Apichatpong's visionary film exists in dual realms, exploring connected themes of love and desire in a radically different way. A fractured love story is interrupted by a feverish night-time odyssey into the heart of the jungle where shape-shifting spirits and tigers abound.

The conscious and the subconscious, the modern and the ancient, reality and myth; all become magically entwined in this hypnotic, mysterious drama.

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Lala, (Ines Efron) a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighbourhood in Argentina, is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Paraguayan maid working at her mansion.

The pair hatch a plan to rob Lala's family to fund their dream of living together in Paraguay, but while Lala waits to be reunited with her lover, she is detained in a prison in the outskirts of Buenos Aires for a crime she committed long ago. Desperate to be with her girlfriend, Lala devises a dangerous rescue plan to get her back.

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Rohmer's delightful film explores the highs and lows of a trio of twenty-something love affairs in the French capital.

With a fine cast of exceptional young actors, each story uses as a backdrop a variety of stunningly photographed locations, among them Montpamasse, the Marais and the city's many parks and gardens. This triptych combines all those themes cherished by Rohmer aficionados: seduction, elegant language and love for a city called Paris.

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Linda Fiorentino stars as Bridget Gregory, the most memorably evil and sexy of all cinema femmes fatales; the woman who "makes Stanwyck in Double Indemnity look like Snow White!" (Leonard Maltin) Beautiful, intelligent and ambitious, Bridget Gregory persuades her doctor husband Clay (Bill Pullman)

to enter a $700,000 cocaine deal so they can pay off a loan shark. She then takes off with the money and hides out in a small town where she becomes involved with young , dumb Swale (Peter Berg). Clay hires Harlan (Bill Nunn), a tenacious private investigator, to track down his wife and the money. As the pair close in, Bridget embroils Swale in an elaborate and deadly scheme to be rid of them once and for all.

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In the sweltering heat of a Korean summer, black bin bags begin to appear around the city of Seoul, each filled with assorted, unrelated body parts. Instantly the police recognise the work of a deranged psychopathic serial killer.

The high profile case sets the city on edge and lands in the lap of jaded Detective Cho. With Internal Affairs on his back, Cho immediately sets about tracking down any leads his department come up with. The most promising is also the least likely - a beautiful, demure and very quiet museum curator that has dated all the victims at one time...

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In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy, Theeb (Jacir Eid), embarks, uninvited but eager for adventure, on a perilous desert journey with his elder brother Hussein to guide a British officer Edward (Jack Fox) and his guide Marji to their secret destination.

Immersed in a way of life that has endured for centuries, the brothers are unaware of the tremendous upheavals taking place at the fringes of their world: the First World War is raging, the Ottoman Empire is coming undone, the Great Arab Revolt is brewing, and the British officer T.E. Lawrence is plotting with Prince Faisal to establish an Arab kingdom. The ensuing journey, filled with danger and hardship, will result in Theeb's rapid growing-up. Shot entirely on location against the ravishing landscape of Wadi Rum in Jordan, (where David Lean shot Lawrence of Arabia) and cast with non-professionals from one of the last of Jordan's nomadic Bedouin tribes, 'Theeb' is a remarkable accomplishment, a genre-crossing blend of a coming-of-age drama and a western.

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Victor Chmara (Hippolyte Girardot) looks back at an idyllic summer in the late 50's which he spent with the beautiful aspiring actress Yvonne (Sandra Extercatte) and her mysterious friend Dr. Meinthe (Jean-Pierre Marielle).

On their first encounter he was drawn to her and they seemed destined to be together, however the sun-filled days of social gatherings and passionate assignations would be all too fleeting.

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In this third instalment of the adrenaline-fuelled action franchise, super-assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail.

After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin's guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world's most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

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Why does Nobuchi (Masayuki Mori) visit the grave of his old friend Kaji (Tatsuya Mihashi)? Why is he so secretive with his wife Shizu (Michiyo Aratama)? And how does Nobuchi's friendship with the young student Hioki (Shoji Yasui) - for whom the older man acts as reluctant sensei - relate to his

time with Kaji? As the Meiji Era draws to a close with the emperor's death and the suicide of General Nogi, a fateful tale of tainted love, failed friendship, and redemptive honour unravels with tragic consequences.

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In the depths of fast paced Tokyo, an intricate web of deceit and intrigue is being spun... A reputed gang leader has crossed the wrong people, and now a rival gang, the police and one of the most powerful businessmen in the country are out to find him.

They are all hoping that his beautiful girlfriend, Macy, will inadvertently lead them to him. In this high-stakes game of life and death, the players are not who they appear to be, and the truth will out only in the final stages...

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When Takata Gou-ichi (Takakura Ken) learns his estranged son Ken-ichi (Nakai Kiichi) is seriously ill, he rushes to be by his side. But Ken-ichi refuses to see him. Rie (Terajima Shinobu), Ken-ichi's wife, gives Takata a videotape to help him get to know his son again.

The mention of a promise on the tape sends Takata on an odyssey to prove his love for his son. He encounters colourful strangers, discovers human kindness... and a sense of family he thought he had lost long ago.

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Mr Duval, a country vet and his wife, live deep in provincial France. Their two children are 9 year old Olivier, the apple of his mother's eye and his older sister Nadine. Mrs Duval sends Olivier to deliver food to her ailing mother in law.

The child goes missing and the loss breaks up the already fragile family in a mass of recriminations, Mr Duval taking a post in Africa. Six years later the policeman who had unsuccessfully investigated the case, now in the Paris vice squad, comes across a teenage rent boy who could be the lost son. The parents take him back unquestioningly lavishing presents upon him much to the alienation of Sister Nadine, for whom, Olivier's attention now is definitely sexual.