i-done-watched-these's - Rented List
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"Benediction" explores the turbulent life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon (Peter Capaldi / Jack Lowden). Having survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War, he was decorated for his bravery and became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front and he became one of the leading war poets of the era. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, Sassoon embarked on affairs with several notable men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, his life became a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion. His is the story of a troubled man in a fractured world, searching for peace and self acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to us in the modern world as it did then. - Director:
- Terence Davies
- Cast:
- Kate Phillips, Tom Blyth, Jack Lowden
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Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader's (writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) The Card Counter is told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity. An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions. Redemption is the long game in this revenge thriller featuring riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan
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From visionary director Robert Eggers comes 'The Northman', an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
- Director:
- Robert Eggers
- Cast:
- Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Based on the unbelievable true story of Japan's lost soldier...Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later. - Director:
- Arthur Harari
- Cast:
- Yûya Endô, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Matsuura
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It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe, and plan to launch an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect the invasion force from potential annihilation. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point. - Director:
- John Madden
- Cast:
- Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly MacDonald
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True Things (2021)True Things About Me
Bored by the daily tedium of her office job, Kate (Ruth Wilson) is sleepwalking through life when a chance sexual encounter with a charismatic stranger (Tom Burke) awakens her. High on infatuation and the exhilaration of this new relationship, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to this mysterious new man. Hoping he will provide the escape she so desperately desires, she embarks on an emotionally dangerous journey that slowly begins to consume her. With a cast that also includes Hayley Squires, 'True Things' is the unmissable new film from acclaimed director Harry Wootliff. - Director:
- Harry Wootliff
- Cast:
- Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires
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Les Enfants Terribles (1950)The Terrible Children / The Strange Ones
In this compelling tale of obsession, teenage siblings Paul (Edouard Dermithe) and Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) create an intense, private world in their shared room. They live, sleep, bicker and play out erotically charged games within their chambre, without heed to the world around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their disturbingly private realm, the scene is set for tragedy. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast:
- Jean Cocteau, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe
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In 1961, Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), a 60 year old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge - Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. - Director:
- Roger Michell
- Cast:
- Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook
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Carmen and Lola (2018)Carmen y Lola / Carmen & Lola
17-year-old Carmen (Rosy Rodríguez) lives in a thriving Roma community in the suburbs of Madrid. Like every other woman she has ever met, she is destined to be married to a boy of her parents' choosing. But when Lola (Zaira Romero), a fellow Roma girl with dreams of going to university and succeeding on her own terms, catches her eye at the local market, everything changes - with explosive results. Heaving with the passion and determination of a love denied, Arantxa Echevarria's 'Carmen and Lola' thrusts us into the customs, music and revelry of Romani culture, as seen through the eyes of two young women driven by their desire to live as one. - Director:
- Arantxa Echevarría
- Cast:
- Zaira Romero, Rosy Rodríguez, Moreno Borja
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Morbius (2022)Morbius the Living Vampire / Untitled Marvel Project
One of Marvel's most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic anti-hero Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. While at first it seems to be a radical success, a darkness inside him is unleashed. Will good override evil - or will Morbius succumb to his mysterious new urges? - Director:
- Daniel Espinosa
- Cast:
- Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona
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New Year's Eve 1999. Cappo (Elliot Edusah), Two Tonne (Jordan Peters) and Kidda (Reda Elazouar) drive through London in their tiny Peugeot 205, pumping a live UK garage set from the stereo and arguing about their Avirex jackets and Naf Naf imports. As the eighteen-year-olds step into adulthood they know their lives and friendships are on the brink of change. Determined to end the century on a bang they drive across the city in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party Ever. - Director:
- Reggie Yates
- Cast:
- Elliot Edusah, Jordan Peters, Reda Elazouar
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Late on a cold night somewhere in the US, teenage Casey (Anna Cobb) sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World's Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may not be happening to her, adding her experiences to the shuffle of online clips available for the world to see. As she begins to lose herself between dream and reality, a mysterious figure reaches out, claiming to see something special in her uploads. - Director:
- Dan Schoenbrun
- Cast:
- Anna Cobb, Holly Anne Frink, Michael J Rogers
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Newly married, young, beautiful and naïve, Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) travels to Bangkok to join her older diplomat husband. On the plane, which takes off from Paris, she gets a taste of the erotic joys waiting for her in Asia. In Bangkok, the capital of the senses, with the encouragement of her husband, Emmanuelle abandons sentimental love to find fulfilment in her pleasures, first with young girl Marie-Ange (Christine Boisson), then with new lover Mario (Alain Cuny). Emmanuelle revels in this new-found pleasure so much so that excess becomes the word of the hour, especially when Jean goes away on a business trip and leaves Emmanuelle alone in the hands of Mario. - Director:
- Just Jaeckin
- Cast:
- Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Marika Green
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Having been raised in complete isolation in a remote part of Australia, the sheltered Claudia (Markella Kavenagh) finds herself stranded and emotionally ill-equipped to cope following the death of her mother. But then, the free-spirited Grace (Maiah Stewardson) appears in the garden like a mirage and the two young women quickly form an intense bond. Finding in each other the support, love and intimacy they both need. But can their romantic idyll endure the pressures of the real world? Katie Found's poetic debut feature is beautiful and moving tale of first love and loss. - Director:
- Katie Found
- Cast:
- Arthur Angel, Markella Kavenagh, Steve Mouzakis
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Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolises, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss Tony Soprano. - Director:
- Alan Taylor
- Cast:
- Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal
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