fmj's - Rented List
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Jones plays a housewife from Pennsylvania having an affair with a handsome Italian while taking a holiday in Rome. As she prepares to return to her family, her lover begs her to stay. Can she bear to leave? will she abandon her respectable home and family to remain with him? Will they have a last minute fling? When in Rome, do as the Romans do! - Director:
- Vittorio De Sica
- Cast:
- Gino Cervi, Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift
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The thrilling third series introduces Sergeant Danny Waldron (Daniel Mays), the highly proficient leader of a police Armed Response Unit whose unpredictable behaviour is becoming a threat to colleagues and suspects alike. When AC12 are called in, DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) clashes with Danny, and it's left to DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) to investigate undercover. As the inquiry intensifies, Supt. Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) begins to suspect the case is linked to AC12's past and a possible traitor in their midst. - Director:
- Michael Keillor
- Cast:
- Daniel Mays, Will Mellor, Shaun Parkes
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)Ieri, oggi, domani
Adelina (Sophia Loren) sells black-market cigarettes on the streets of Naples to support her unemployed husband Carmine (Marcello Mastroianni). Caught by the police, and with a jail sentence hanging over her head, desperation sets in. She learns that she can avoid prison as long as she's pregnant. Several years and seven children later, Carmine is exhausted, so jail looks inescapable as does Adelina's contempt for Carmine. In Milan, our second protagonist, Anna (Loren), is bored and wealthy, drives a Rolls Royce, and is having an affair with a writer (Mastroianni). She talks dreamily of running off with him, that is until one day he crashes her car... In the third and final vignette, Loren plays Mara, a call girl from Rome, who turns the head of a naive young man training to become a Priest, prompting a run-in with his self-righteous grandmother and a vow of abstinence. Features Loren's notorious striptease, which was recreated years later by Robert Altman in Prêt-à-Porter. - Director:
- Vittorio De Sica
- Cast:
- Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè
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This hilarious road movie follows the misadventures of the wort rock and roll band in the world, the Leningrad Cowboys. When a promoter in their native Siberia, stunned by the band's lack of talent, advises them to try their luck in America they head for New York. Having learned en-route on the plane and sporting shades, outside quiffs and outrageously long winkle-pickers, they are passed off as Americans. Jim Jarmusch, in a cameo role as a shifty car salesman, sells them an old Cadillac in which they head south with their frozen bass player and a coffin full of beer. - Director:
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Cast:
- Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää
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Rififi (1955)Du rififi chez les hommes
Jean Servais is Tony le Stephanois, a master thief with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvenirs of a recent stint in the pen. The ageing Tony is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when he realizes his girlfriend has thrown him over for a rival gangster, he agrees to attempt one last job. Together with three collaborators – a young father, a boisterous Franco-Italian and a sentimental Milanese safecracker – Tony meticulously engineers his biggest heist yet: robbing the most heavily guarded jewelry store in Paris. - Director:
- Jules Dassin
- Cast:
- Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
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A Blonde in Love (1965)Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde
A subtle and beautifully observed social satire that deftly balances hope and despair, 'A Blonde in Love' is widely celebrated as one of the great films of the 1960's. This bittersweet romance from Milos Forman, the multiple Oscar-winning director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Amadeus', unfolds as a sweetly seductive tale of young love, but also provides a wry critique of life under totalitarianism. Aided by gorgeous cinematography and naturalistic performances, the film adeptly distils universal truths from the simplest of situations, presenting them with a sharp yet compassionate eye. - Director:
- Milos Forman
- Cast:
- Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík
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Based on the best-selling crime novel from a series by Denise Mina, set in Glasgow in 1982, Paddy Meehan is a young girl in a world of men; a feisty 'copy boy' in the sexist, hard-boozing, cutthroat world of journalism. Paddy dreams of being an investigative reporter, and she grabs the opportunity when a young boy, Brian Wilcox, is kidnapped and found murdered. Paddy sees connections to a year-old crime that nobody else sees and she is determined to make it her story. But when Paddy crosses the line, she becomes outcast from her devoutly Catholic family and puts the lives of her colleagues, as well as her own, at risk. The closer she gets to the murderer, the closer she gets to murder; and the price of achieving her dream will prove greater than she can ever imagine. - Director:
- David Kane
- Cast:
- Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi, David Morrisey
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Tom Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, a brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad. Driven by a fierce desire to bury his working class past, Mitch joins a small, prosperous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn) an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets out to find the truth in a deadly crossfire between the FBI, the Mob, and a force that will stop at nothing to protect its interests - The Firm. - Director:
- Sydney Pollack
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman
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The 10-episode legal thriller stars 2021 Golden Globe Nominee Bryan Cranston as Michael Desiato, a respected New Orleans judge whose teenage son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices. SAG Award winner Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire) stars as Jimmy Baxter, the much-feared head of a crime family opposite Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Hope Davis (The Special Relationship) as his wife, Gina, who might be even more dangerous than her husband. The series also stars Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (The Wire), and Sofia Black-D'Elia (The Night Of). Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney of 'The Affair' guest stars as Fiona McKee, a fearless prosecutor trying a major case in Desiato's courtroom. Additional guest stars include Amy Landecker (Transparent ), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black), Chet Hanks (Empire), Lamar Johnson (The Hate U Give) and Lilli Kay (Chambers). - Director:
- Clark Johnson
- Cast:
- Bryan Cranston, Hunter Doohan, Hope Davis
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Iron Monkey (1993)Siu nin Wong Fei Hung ji: Tit Ma Lau
Wong Kei-ying (Donnie Yen), a physician and martial artist, is mistaken for a masked vigilante known as the Iron Monkey (Yu Rong-Kwong); a Robin Hood style hero who has been robbing the wealthy local officials in order to provide medical treatment for the poor. The two men must team up to defeat a corrupt political regime, and protect the lives of the people whose cause they champion. - Director:
- Woo-ping Yuen
- Cast:
- Brianne Siddall, Rongguang Yu, Donnie Yen
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'Feast of July' is the highly acclaimed tale of secrets, passion and betrayal. Tragic misfortune strikes Bella Ford, a beautiful and mysterious young woman engaged in a futile search for the lover who betrayed and abandoned her. Weary, frightened and completely alone, Bella is offered shelter in the Wainwright family home. There she will eventually overcome her sense of loss...and find three handsome Wainwright sons who battle for her affections. But just as it seems all is well again, Bella's former lover unexpectedly reappears and she finds her life haunted by the secrets of a hidden past. - Director:
- Christopher Menaul
- Cast:
- Embeth Davidtz, Tom Bell, Gemma Jones
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Line of Duty returns for an explosive second series with another high octane police corruption tale. When a police convoy is ambushed by armed criminals, three officers are killed and a protected witness critically injured. Convinced that the gunmen were tipped off by a police source, AC12 - DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) joined by DC Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine) - must track down the leak. Initially AC12's most valuable witness, suspicion soon falls on the sole surviving officer, DI Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes). In pursuit of their prey, AC12 find a web of corruption and vice with links to the very top of the force. - Director:
- Douglas Mackinnon
- Cast:
- Michael Nardone, David Maybrick, Antonio Magro
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All seven episodes from the first series of the 1980's ITV sitcom starring Penelope Keith and Geoffrey Palmer. After 25 years of marriage, mother-of-five Caroline (Keith) decides to go back to work. Her husband Donald (Palmer) wants her to get a part-time job in their home town, but Caroline instead gets a job for a large American publishing company in London - which promptly makes a takeover bid for the company Donald works for. Since the organisation specifies that married couples are not allowed to work together, Caroline and Donald must now keep the true nature of their relationship under wraps as they struggle to get along together both at work and at home. - Director:
- John Howard-Davies
- Cast:
- Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer, Charles Burnell
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It is all change at Grantleigh Manor when Martin Forbes-Hamilton dies and Audrey is forced to sell her beloved stately home to millionaire grocer Richard DeVere. Life in the sleepy village will never be the same again when Richard and his formidable mother, Mrs Polouvicka move in. Richard gets off to a bad start with Audrey when he misses the church service and things go from bad to worse when he decides to modernise the manor. - Director:
- Gareth Gwenlan
- Cast:
- Penelope Keith, Jayne Lester, Peter Bowles
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When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate with her partner, DI Sunil Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar). Jimmy Sullivan was a homeless boy, murdered in 1976 when the building was a hostel. His diary implicates four suspects; a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of. Nothing in this case is black and white. Can you ever really know the people closest to you? What secrets have they buried? - Director:
- Andy Wilson
- Cast:
- Peter Egan, Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar
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