humilityprim's - Rented List
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The Iron Rose (1973)La Rose De Fer
This is one of Rollin's rarest films released for the first time on video anywhere. Centered on a young couple who make love in an abandoned tomb and find themselves trapped for a night among the graves and crypts of a massive cemetery. The pair frantically try to escape the haunted grounds but all in vain as they are slowly overtaken by hysteria and finally death. - Director:
- Jean Rollin
- Cast:
- Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Natalie Perrey
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Cowardly scholar Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) has the hots for the beautiful Sonja (Diane Keaton), but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars. Devastated by news of Sonja's plans to wed a foul-smelling herring merchant, Boris enlists in the army only to return home a penniless hero! Finally agreeing to marry him, Sonja settles down with poor Boris to a rich life of philosophy, celibacy and meals of snow. But when the French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a zany scheme to assassinate Napoleon, Boris learns - in a hilarious but fatal coup attempt - that God is an underachiever, there are no girls in the afterlife and the Angel of Death just can't be trusted! - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Woody Allen, Norman Rose, Diane Keaton
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La Pointe Courte (1955)La Pointe-Courte
In Agnes Varda's directorial debut she faithfully portrays the complicated relationship between a married couple (Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret) set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing town. Shot with a documentary feel, the film also focuses on the daily struggles of the locals, and was radical enough to later be considered as one of the progenitors of the French New Wave. - Director:
- Agnès Varda
- Cast:
- Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's groundbreaking 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'. Taylor won her second Academy Award (and New York Film Critics, National Board of Review and British Film Academy Best Actress Awards). Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into their destructive path. The movie won a total of five Academy Awards and remains a taboo-toppling landmark over 40 years later. - Director:
- Mike Nichols
- Cast:
- Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
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Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome / The Maiden Galaxy
"Senpai" is a man smitten with his inscrutable junior, The Girl with Black Hair. Although he plans to woo her by engineering a series of "coincidental" encounters, he reckons without the exploratory nature of this girl as she roams through an abstract, bustling night in Kyoto. From pub crawls to festivals, book fairs to impromptu musical performances, the night is short and there's much to take in - how can "Senpai" possibly grab the attention of the apple of his eye? - Director:
- Masaaki Yuasa
- Cast:
- Gen Hoshino, Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa
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Possession (1981)The Night the Screaming Stopped
With their marriage in pieces Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. Believing his wife's only lover is the sinister Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), Mark (Sam Neill) is unaware of the demonic, tentacled creature that Anna (Isabelle Adjani) has hidden away for liaisons in a deserted apartment and will stop at nothing to protect. - Director:
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Cast:
- Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
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From Golden Globe Nominee Director Paul Schrader, 'First Reformed' is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church's lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he's been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Cedric the Entertainer, Amanda Seyfried
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Jen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens) until his two sleazy friends arrive early for an unannounced hunting trip. As tension mounts in the house, the situation abruptly and viciously intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, she survives and soon begins a relentless quest for bloody revenge. - Director:
- Coralie Fargeat
- Cast:
- Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Avant Strangel, Kevin Janssens
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Casey (Haley Lu Richardson) lives with her mother, a recovering addict, in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of modernism. Jin (John Cho), a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his estranged, dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the architecture that surrounds them. - Director:
- Kogonada
- Cast:
- John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey
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Hiroshima Death Match (1973)Hiroshima shitô hen / The Yakuza Papers: Hiroshima Death Match
Hiroshima, 1950. Demobilised kamikaze pilot Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) is released from prison and finds himself hungry and broke. Following a bust up with a local gang, he earns the psychotic wrath of local underboss Otomo (Chiba), but Yamanaka's suicidal impulses are soon put to good use as a hitman for another gang, befriending series hero Shozo Hirono in the process. Despite a budding but forbidden romance with the boss's niece (Kaji), Yamanaka's instability and recklessness soon begin to make him a dangerous liability. - Director:
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast:
- Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
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Carter Nix (John Lithgow) is a respected psychologist, loving husband and devoted father who decides to take a year off to help raise his daughter. Carter's wife Jenny (Lolita Davidovich) is pleased to have her attentive husband home - at first. When Carter shows obsessive behaviour toward their daughter, Jenny becomes concerned. To further complicate matters, Jenny's old flame (Steven Bauer) re-enters her life. But nothing can prepare her for the emergence of Carter's multiple personalities, and a fiendish plot to recreate the experiments of his deranged father. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer
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Now two are left: Susy, recently blinded and still learning how to live in a sighted world, and Roat, a psychopathic killer. Roat wants a heroin-stuffed doll he thinks Susy has. All Susy wants is to survive. Dim the lights, check the door's chain lock, and brace yourself for a chiller as polished as the steel of Roat's blade. - Director:
- Terence Young
- Cast:
- Mel Ferrer, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
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Loveless (2017)Nelyubov
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin
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Perceval (1978)Perceval le Gallois
The isolated and naive Lord Perceval (Fabrice Luchini) sets out on a quest to become a benevolent knight after he encounters what he thinks are godly beings. His travels take him on an awkward crusade into strange new worlds, finally ending in the court of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
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1920's outback Australia, Northern Territory. When Sam (Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal farmhand who works for the local preacher (Sam Neill) is sent to help new neighbour and bitter war veteran Harry (Ewen Leslie), their relationship quickly deteriorates, ending in a violent and fatal shootout. Sam is forced to flee with his wife, pursued by lawman Sergeant Fletcher (Bryan Brown), but as the truth starts to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served. - Director:
- Warwick Thornton
- Cast:
- Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan
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