dsp's - Rented List

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Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect Francois Tellier. When one of their S&M games goes too far, Laura is accidentally strangled.

Even though the police are struggling to solve the murder, Charles finds it difficult to cope with the situation and to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Helene.

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Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic San Franciscan apartment she brews love potions, then lures men and seduces them. Her sorcery works only too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims.

When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

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Shingen (Tatsuya Nakadai), a powerful warload, has become as legendary as the motto emblazoned on his war banners. "Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as the fire, immovable as the mountain". As he lies dying from his battle wounds.

Shingen orders his clan to find a double to replace him - to keep his death secret so that his enemies will not attack. The man chosen for this role is called Kagemusha (the shadow of the warrior). However this Kagemusha turns out to be a petty criminal who must somehow transfer himself into a great leader and command allegiance of 25,000 samurai warriors.

A middle-class mother suffering from post-natal depression, an aboriginal alcoholic trying to find salvation at the church, a runaway homeless kid with and enormous appetite, a one-legged truck driver and a female boxer, all lonely, yet linked in someway, somehow, through the fabric of Taiwan's class-driven society.

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In the debut film from internationally acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong, Green Fish tells the story of Mak-dong (Han Suk-kyu), discharged from the military and returning home to find his village transformed into a city.

Confused, alone and alienated he drifts into the shady world of organised crime which offers some stability and familiarity in its codes of honour and respect. However, morality comes crashing down through the complicated love triangle which develops with his gangland boss and his boss's mistress, all the while as the criminal empire itself starts to come apart at the seams.

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When legendary Kung-fu master, Law Sun (Teddy Robin), awakes from a 30 year coma he discovers that his once celebrated martial arts school has become a teahouse.

With the aid of his now middle-aged apprentices, Dragon (Chan Koon Tai) and Tiger (Leung Siu Lung) and new-kid-on-the-block, geeky office worker, Cheung (Wong You Nam), Master Law trains his motley crew of gallant fighters for the battle of their lives - one they must win to safeguard all their futures.

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Obsessive idealist Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) has sworn to direct a film about one of the world's most iconic figures, Christopher Columbus. He is determined to overturn the myth of the arrival of Western Civilisation in the Americas as a force for good.

His film will show what Columbus set in motion: the obsession with gold, the taking of slaves, and the terrible violence visited on those Indians who fought back. The brilliant actor playing Columbus constantly challenges the director, accusing him of hypocrisy and cheap manipulation. Costa (Luis Tosar), Sebastian's friend and producer, doesn't give a damn. All that matters is that the film comes in on time and within budget. While the shoot progresses in and around the city of Cochabamba, civil and political unrest simmer, as the entire water supply of the city is privatised and sold to a British/American multinational. Violence increases daily until the entire city explodes in the now infamous Bolivian Water War. 500 years after Columbus, sticks and stones once again confront the high-tech weaponry of a modern army. Only this time the fight is not over gold, but the simplest of life-giving elements - water.

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Failed comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) encounters violent thugs while wandering the streets of Gotham City dressed as a clown.

Disregarded by society Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as Joker in director Todd Phillips' thrilling origin story.

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After tragedy forces young Prince T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) to assume Wakanda's throne, he is faced with the ultimate test, putting the fate of his country and the entire world at risk.

Pitted against his own family, the new king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and embrace his future as an Avenger.

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Marina Vidal's life is thrown into turmoil following the sudden death of her partner, Orlando. Met with suspicion from the police and contempt from her lover's relatives. As tensions rise between her and Orland's family, she is evicted from their shared home and banned from attending his funeral.

But faced with the threat of losing everything, Marina finds the strength to fight back. Sebastián Lelio returns with a groundbreaking, deeply humane and Oscar-winning story about a trans woman's fight for acceptance. Anchored by a powerhouse performance from rising star Daniela Vega, 'A Fantastic Woman' is an urgent call for compassion.

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Tung Choi (Tony Leung) is a genial noodle restaurant owner, who finds himself one day involved in a minor accident with the rude and abrasive Deborah (Sammi Cheng). After a series of arguments and a heavy night of drinking to sort out their differences, they end up spending the night together.

As the mismatched couple struggle to come to terms with what has happened, Tung Choi must deal with his high-maintainance girlfriend Mindy (Niki Chow) and the growing involvement of his interfering family.

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When Lady Sandra Abbott (Imelda Staunton) discovers that her husband is having an affair, she seeks refuge with her estranged, bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie). As a fish out of water, Sandra is at odds with her sister's free-spirited lifestyle, until she is persuaded to join Bif's dance class.

Here, Bif and her friends Charlie (Timothy Spall), Jackie (Joanna Lumley) and Ted (David Hayman) show Sandra that retirement is in fact only the beginning, and that divorce might just give her a whole new lease of life and love.

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When penniless Kung Fu Olympian, Kong Ko (Jacky Wu Jing), is lured into the shadowy world of underground boxing, he thinks winning a few fights is all that it will take to secure his future.

But as he rips through some of the best fighters on the circuit and the stakes become higher, he is transformed into a lethal fighting machine built to destroy everything in his path. Only when Kong is told to throw a fight or risk his girlfriend being killed, is he forced to make the ultimate choice whether to stand up and fight or face the final humiliation...

Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security. No trap, no trick and especially no man inside can match a mother with a mission when she is determined on 'Breaking In'.

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'Suzhou River' is a visually arresting tale of mystery and obsession set in the neon lit nightclubs and grimy industrial wastelands of Shanghai. Petty criminal Mardar wanders the city streets haunted by the memory of his dead lover Moudan, who threw herself into the murky depths of the Suzhou river.

But when he encounters MeiMei, the performer of a Mermaid act in a nightclub, Mardar is so struck by her striking resemblance to Moudan that he becomes convinced that she is in fact his lost love...