fmj's - Rented List

A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kelly) who poses as the scoundrel. Vincente Minnelli directs, bringing his uncanny skill with color and design to this joyous romp set to Cole Porter tunes.

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"In The Good Old Summertime" - a tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in 'The Shop Around the Corner' and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in 'You've Got Mail'.

In between those two, Judy Garland and Van Johnson had mail plus Gold Old tunes evoking an era of straw-boaters and silver moons. Sparked by Garland's comedic zest and musical appeal, this confection is "one of the sweetest, most unpretentious entertainments of 1949". It's also a nostalgic farewell and a sunny hello. Buster Keaton appears in his final film for the studio he first joined in 1928. And Liza Minnelli, all of 18 months young, makes her debut in the finale.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are irrepressible in this enjoyable musical that features a fantastic score from Irving Berlin.

Fred and Ginger's talent as dancers is on prominent display here, from their explosive romp in "Let Yourself Go" to Astaire's blazing nautical tap in "I'd Rather Lead a Band". The highlight for many fans will come with "Let's Face the Music and Dance".

Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.

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On a remote mountaintop, a rebel group of commandos perform military training exercises while watching over a prisoner (Julianne Nicholson) for a shadowy force known only as 'The Organization'.

After a series of unexpected events drives them deep into the jungle, fracturing their intricate bond, their mission slowly begins to collapse. Set against a stunningly beautiful but dangerous landscape, Alejandro Landes' awe-inspiring film is a breathtakingly epic vision that will leave you both mesmerised and utterly gripped.

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Academy Award nominee Agnieszka Holland brings to the screen the extraordinary and powerful story of the real-life Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin's genocidal famine in Ukraine, which killed almost 10 million during The Holodomor of 1932 and 1933.

Gareth Jones (James Norton) is an ambitious Welsh journalist, who gained fame after his report on being the first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. On leaving a government role, Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself. Hearing murmurs of government-induced famine, Jones travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of man-made starvation. Deported back to London, Jones publishes an article revealing the horrors he witnessed, but is accused of being a liar by those who have an interest in silencing him. As the death count mounts, Jones has to fight for the truth.

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John Mills, Richard Attenborough and Bernard Lee star in this gripping true story of one of the most crucial events of the Second World War: the historic evacuation of more than 350,000 men from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940.

With the Germans pushing the British back to the edge of the sea and then strafing them on the beaches, the civilians of Britain came back to the rescue of their armed forces. In an act of remarkable heroism, every small boat available was mobilised to carry them back to safety, if the Germans had captured these men, the war would have been effectively lost. Their actions led to the coining of the phrase "The Dunkirk Spirit".

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Theodore Decker is 13 years old when his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love.

Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day... a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.

After elderly druid Getafix falls out of a tree, he resolves to find a young successor to whom he can entrust the secret formula for the magic potion that makes his village the only one in Gaul still unconquered by the Romans.

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Whip-smart GP Mona Harcourt (Archie Panjabi) lives a charmed life at the heart of a loving family in London alongside political lobbyist husband Guy (Jack Davenport).

But on the same day that a terror attack strikes West London, she receives the devastating news that her brother has been kidnapped in Pakistan. As the shock resonates through the family and buried secrets come to light, Mona is drawn into a tangle of betrayal, conspiracy and murder. One way or another, she must find a way to protect herself, her career and her family as, one by one, they are all put at risk. But just how far is she prepared to go to keep her loved ones safe?

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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.

When a mysterious life-threatening event strikes Earth, astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) goes on a dangerous mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

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Fuelled by the intense rivalry between electricity titans Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), 'The Current War' tells the dramatic story of the late 19th century race to light up America and power the world.

Rounding out the cast are Nicholas Hoult as the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, Katherine Waterston as Westinghouse's outspoken wife Marguerite, Tom Holland as Edison's confident young secretary Samuel Insull, Matthew Macfadyen as the famous financier and banker J.P. Morgan, and Tuppence Middleton as Edison's supportive wife Mary.

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Set in 1944 this is the story of an incredibly courageous group of Russian soldiers who are captured by the Germans following a sustained period of fierce fighting and relentless tank battles.

Taken to a POW camp they are given an opportunity to restore a T-34 tank but manage to escape captivity by stealing it. A time of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love and legendary miracles, this is a time for heroes. 'Iron Fury' is a visceral assault on the senses featuring some of the most heart stopping and authentic tank skirmishes ever seen on film.

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When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan (Florence Howard) goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher (Martin Freeman) quickly realises that this is no ordinary missing persons case.

A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards (Stephanie Hyam). In his fight to get justice for the mothers, Elaine Pickford (Siobhan Finneran) and Karen Edwards (Imelda Staunton), Steve discovers that the rights of the victim are not always as valued as the rights of the suspect and that his actions have devastating consequences for his career and family. Based on a true story.