humilityprim's - Rented List
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The Piano Teacher (2001)La pianiste
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot), with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship. But when one of Erika's students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel), attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered, unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Noam Morgensztern, Annie Girardot
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Sammy Prescott (Laura Linney / Whitney Vance) is a single mother who has lived all her life in Scottsville, New York. Now she's raising her 8-year-old son there, enjoying the peace of the family home and security of her job at the bank, blotting out any memories of Rudy's father. But the illusion of perfection is shattered when her charmingly self-destructive brother Terry (Mark Ruffalo) comes home for a visit. - Director:
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Cast:
- Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Mark Ruffalo
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A family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) are determined to find a way to protect their children at all costs while they desperately search for a way to fight back. - Director:
- John Krasinski
- Cast:
- Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
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Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) is a comedian turned private eye who gets into hot water when he meets a fat man (George Silver) and a femme fatale (Janice Rule). Armed with only rapid-fire banter and a sharpened instinct, Ginley must save the dame from a drug smuggling ring before the joke's on him. Paying homage to Bogart, Chandler and Hammett, 'Gumshoe' puts a clever spin on the classic detective tale. - Director:
- Stephen Frears
- Cast:
- Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay
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The near future: eXistenZ is the ultimate game, brainchild of the hip, hyper and sexually alluring Allegro Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Once downloaded via a bioport implanted into the players' spine, eXistenZ promises an experience that will shatter forever the line between fantasy and reality. At its launch armed fanatics burst in, determined to destroy the game and its creator. Forced to run for her life, Allegra's sole ally is a young security guard (Jude Law). Together they seek refuge in the only place the gaming goddess feels safe - the world where existence ends and eXistenZ begins. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm
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A radical fusion of brutal martial artistry, extreme violence and dark visuals, 'The Story of Ricky' is one of the most infamous and disturbing film projects in the history of Asian Cinema. Based on the Japanese comic-strip 'Riki-Oh', the movie is set in a futuristic prison where Riki is mistakenly locked up and then systemically tortured by the sadistic warden and his cohorts. Through his radical actions and selfless attitude, Ricky quickly becomes a hero for the rest of the inmates and initiates a daring plan to break free from the brutal regime in which he is incarcerated. - Director:
- Ngai Choi Lam
- Cast:
- Siu-Wong Fan, Simon Broad, John Culkin
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Visionary director Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs' tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture. - Director:
- Wes Anderson
- Cast:
- Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Liev Schreiber
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Teacher and student or man and woman. How do you draw the line? Based on his own controversial and incendiary stage play about a young college student who accuses her much older professor of sexual harassment, David Mamet's riveting drama features two grandstand performances from leads William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt. Now more relevant and provocative than ever, 'Oleanna' is both a reaction against the plague of political correctness, and a powerful, yet teasingly ambiguous, plea for tolerance between the sexes. - Director:
- David Mamet
- Cast:
- William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda
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Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)The Cemetery Man
Meet Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), gravedigger and guardian of the mythical Buffalora Cemetery where the dead just don't stay dead. Seven days after burial, the fresh cadavers claw their way out of their coffins looking for flesh to eat. And it's Francesco's job to dispatch these 'Returners' before they escape into the local community. But his quest to stop the dead from invading the world of the living falters when he falls in love with a beautiful and enigmatic widow visiting her husband's crypt. For when he kills her by mistake and is cursed to see her face for eternity, the difference between being alive and dead become chillingly confused in his shocked and romantically damaged brain. - Director:
- Michele Soavi
- Cast:
- Anna Falchi, Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro
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Most Beautiful Island (2017)Day to Night
Inspired by real life events, 'Most Beautiful Island' is a psychological thriller chronicling one harrowing day in the life of Luciana (Ana Asensio), a young immigrant woman struggling to escape her past and make ends meet in a new life in New York. As Luciana's day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome, unforeseeable extremes. Before her day is done, she inadvertently finds herself a central participant in a twisted and dangerous game. - Director:
- Ana Asensio
- Cast:
- Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little
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The Villainess (2017)Ak-Nyeo
Exploding onto the screen in a kinetic flurry of hyper-stylised action, The Villainess is a stunning vengeance film that draws its inspiration from western classics including Nikita and Kill Bill. Sook-hee (Kim Ok-vin, Thirst) is a trained assassin who takes revenge on the men who murdered her father in a breath-taking opening sequence. After losing consciousness she awakes at the National Intelligence Service who recruit her as an agent to undertake confidential missions. Initially refusing, Sook-hee soon realises it is her only method of escape, until she is assigned a new assignment that changes everything... - Director:
- Byung-gil Jung
- Cast:
- Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Sung-Jun
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When her mother falls ill under mysterious circumstances, young Eve (Fantine Harduin) is sent to live with her estranged father's wealthy relatives in Calais. But trouble is brewing, as a series of intergenerational back-stabbings threaten to tear the family apart. Meanwhile, distracted by infidelities and betrayals, they fail to notice that their new arrival has a sinister secret of her own. - Director:
- Michael Haneke
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
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House (1977)Hausu
Upset by her widowed father's plans to remarry, Angel (Kumiko Ohba) sets off with six of her schoolgirl friends in tow for a summer getaway at her aunt's isolated mansion. In this house of dormant secrets, long-held emotional traumas have terrifyingly physical embodiments and the girls must use their individual talents if any are to survive. - Director:
- Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Cast:
- Kimiko Ikegami, miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba
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From the Academy Award-winning creators of Finding Nemo comes the action-packed animated adventure about the mundane and incredible lives of a house full of superheroes. Bob Parr (voice of Craig T. Nelson) and his wife Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) used to be among the world's greatest crime fighters, saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they live "normal" lives with their three kids, Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell), Dash (voice of Spencer Fox) and Jack-Jack (voice of Maeve Andrews). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction. - Director:
- Brad Bird
- Cast:
- Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter
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Better Off Dead (1985)Better Off Dead...
After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, Savage Steve Holland's writing/directorial debut is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years. - Director:
- Savage Steve Holland
- Cast:
- John Cusack, Rich Little, David Ogden Stiers
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