fmj's - Rented List
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After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes. Against the wishes of his wife (Angie Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a ragtag underground army into a first-class fighting machine. But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Senta Berger). - Director:
- Melville Shavelson
- Cast:
- Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra
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1976 (2022)Chile '76
It's 1976 in Chile, 3 years after Pinochet's military coup overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, and opponents of the new regime are being hunted down. Carmen (Aline Küppenheim) heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps into unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to. - Director:
- Manuela Martelli
- Cast:
- Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina
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Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high speed, high-class tale of Middle Eastern intrigue set in London. Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, this breezy, romantic thrill casts Peck as an Oxford professor of languages hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message. When Peck unravels its real meaning and befriends Sophia Loren, the magnate's exotic but unpredictable companion, the chase is on. - Director:
- Stanley Donen
- Cast:
- Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
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El Cid (1961)El Sid
El Cid, Bronstons epic movie masterpiece, is a tribute to one of history's greatest legends. This dazzling spectacle, with a cast of thousands, fills the screen with action and romance - from knights in armour jousting on horseback to massive battles on sea and land, where columns of warriors stretch across the horizon. At the centre of this powerful motion picture is Charlton Heston in the role he was born to play the immortal El Cid. Heston is the Spanish warrior with the vision to be just and the courage to be merciful, whose love and devotion to the radiant Chimene (Sophia Loren) knows no bounds. - Director:
- Anthony Mann
- Cast:
- Charlton Heston, Robert Rietty, Sophia Loren
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)Avatar 2
"Avatar: The Way of Water" reaches new heights and explores undiscovered depths as James Cameron returns to the world of Pandora in this emotionally packed action adventure. Set more than a decade after events of the first film, this breathtaking new movie launches the story of the Sully family and introduces audiences to the majestic ocean tulkun. - Director:
- James Cameron
- Cast:
- Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
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Petite Maman (2021)Little Mom
'Petite Maman' is a sublime modern fairytale about the quiet wonder of mother-daughter relationships. After the death of her beloved grandmother (Margot Abascal), eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) meets a mysterious friend in the woods. Together they embark on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps Nelly come to terms with this newfound loss. Celine Sciamma's new masterwork examines childhood, memory and loss with a typically delicate touch, elegantly weaved together into an enchanting and moving depiction of love and acceptance. - Director:
- Céline Sciamma
- Cast:
- Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse
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300 Years of the relentless and far Reaching Viking Empire. Pirates, raiders, traders - An unstoppable and fearless force that no one saw coming.
- Director:
- Daniel Sharp
- Cast:
- Anders Winroth, Alban Depper, Rachel Lee
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938)Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Set on the French Riviera, the charming daughter (Claudette Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) catches the eye of a dashing millionaire (Gary Cooper). After a brief courtship, she accepts his marriage proposal, only to find out on their wedding day that he has been down the aisle before - seven times! Determined to teach him a lesson, she makes a mockery of their matrimony in a variety of side-splitting situations. - Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Cast:
- Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
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In the antebellum South, headstrong coquette Julie Marsden (Bette Davis, who won the Best Actress Oscar) loves to kindle competition among men. Her machinations cost Julie her fiancé (Henry Fonda), though, after she makes a public display of herself. She vows to win back her man, but her scheming goes awry, resulting in another suitor's demise. Will the self-absorbed Julie rise to the occasion when the chance for atonement arises? - Director:
- William Wyler
- Cast:
- Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
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Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, 'Les Miserables' tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption - a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Hugh Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Famine's (Anne Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever. - Director:
- Tom Hooper
- Cast:
- Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
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Fields plays small-town grocer Harold Bissonette – Pronounced ‘Bee-son-ay’ by his wife – who puts up with difficult customers and annoying neighbours. Bissonette has ambitions to own a California orange grove and, aided by an inheritance – and from selling his business – acquires what, on their arrival, turns out to be a worthless shack set in scrubland. Her suspicions confirmed, Mrs.. Bissonette begins to leave with their children but the land turns old to be more valuable than it looks… - Director:
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Cast:
- W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol
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The film is Fritz Lang's seventh Hollywood feature, made in 1953 on a miniscule budget and shot in just twenty days by one of the best 'noir' cameramen Nicholas Musurca and is considered one of his best murder mystery films. Norah is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier posted overseas. When she receives a letter from him ending their engagement, feeling despondent, she falls for the charms of Officer Lothario and agrees to a date. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, where he gets her drunk and then takes her back to his apartment. She is later forced to fight off his lecherous advances by bludgeoning him to death and flees, leaving behind her handkerchief, high heels and a blue gardenia at the scene. She awakes the next morning remembering nothing while a nationwide murder hunt gets underway, but journalist Casey Mayo offers his support and suggests an interview in exchange for a fair trial. - Director:
- Fritz Lang
- Cast:
- Anne Baxter, William Phipps, Richard Conte
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Charles Laughton won an Oscar for his masterful portrayal of Henry VIII, one of Britain's most notorious monarchs, who is better known for his succession of wives than his prowess for ruling the nation. Alexander Korda's landmark film from 1933 lavishly, and often humorously, charts Henry's exploits: his hasty marriage to Jane Seymour on the day of the public execution of Anne Boleyn; his remarriage again, in order to maintain European alliances; his infatuation with Katherine Howard whilst awaiting the arrival of his new bride, Anne of Cleves (played by Laughton's wife, Elsa Lanchester), and he and Anne's subsequent divorce; and the execution of Katherine following her affair with courtier Thomas Culpeper. Finally, we see King Henry as a bitter, enfeebled old man, persuaded to marry his children's nurse and lady-in-waiting, Catherine Parr. Charles Laughton's portrayal of Henry, from flamboyant womaniser to henpecked glutton, is a wonder to behold and, for many, the definitive depiction of this colossal figure. Deservedly, 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' was the first British film to score a major box-office hit in America; it paved the way to Hollywood success for Laughton's co-star Merle Oberon, and earned Alexander Korda an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. - Director:
- Alexander Korda
- Cast:
- Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)The Gent from Frisco / The Knight of Malta
A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this cracking mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. - Director:
- John Huston
- Cast:
- Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
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In this long-awaited film adaptation of Judy Blume's classic, groundbreaking novel, eleven-year-old Margaret (Abby Ryder Fortson) is uprooted from her life in New York City to the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara (Rachel McAdams), who is also struggling to adjust to life outside the big city, and her adoring grandmother, Sylvia (Kathy Bates). A timeless coming-of-age story, 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' sparkles with insightful humour while candidly exploring life's biggest questions. - Director:
- Kelly Fremon Craig
- Cast:
- Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
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