jarf's - Rented List

Robbie and his girlfriend, Amy, are among a group of students who pay their private night games in the romantic thriller that catapulted Kidman to center stage. On screen throughout, Kidman discovers what will happen when a friendly game becomes real life ... and real life becomes a deadly game.

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When young Ben Clark moves to a new town with his family, he befriends his elderly neighbour, 'Milner'. Milner is an accomplish magician and Ben bags to be instructed in this mystical craft. Milner is initially reluctant, recognising a mystical scar on Ben's face.

However, Ben's persistence and his natural talent for magic soon win Milner over. Every hundred years, Morgana returns to claim Fingall's talisman from Merlin, with which she intends to destroy the world. Until now she has failed, but she too recognises the mysterious scar on Ben's face... a scar that marks Ben out as a magician of potentially great power. She realises that Ben is the key to overcome Merlin. But then discovers that Milner is in fact the great sorcerer, Merlin, and gets drawn into a battle between Merlin and the forces of evil in the form of this sorceress, Morgana. Ben must choose between good and evil... drawing on all his magical powers to save the world as we know it...

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While attempting to run away from the Ravenscroft Reform School, a teenage girl is shockingly caught and dragged away to an unknown fate by an unseen assailant. The next day a young science teacher, Janet (Karen Witter) arrives to start her new job.

She has been drawn to Ravenscroft by its idealistic and charismatic director, Gary (Robert Vaughn). Janet soon begins having strange hallucinations of someone trapped behind a brick wall, trying desperately to get out. She turns for help to the school psychologist, Dr. Schaeffer (Donald Pleasence). He assures her that her imagination is just a little over-active Janet befriends one of the girls, fingers (Nia Long), who tells her about the parties in the basement. When more girls "run away" Janet explores the basement and has a terrifying hallucination of an old man, Jacob, (John Carradine) bursting through a brick wall to attack her. When she learns Ravenscroft had once been a lunatic asylum, and that Dr. Schaeffer hadformerly been a patient there, she is fearful that he may still be dangerous!

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Twelve year old Oskar is an outsider; struggling to fit in at school and left alone to fend for himself at home while his mother works nights. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli.

As a sweet romance blossoms between them, Oskar learns to overcome his tormentors and discovers Eli's dark secret and the connections to gruesome events occurring across town. Together they must help Eli be gone and live, or stay and die.

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Once upon a time, there lived in Denmark a young shoemaker named Hans Christian Andersen whose magical tales delighted boys and girls throughout the land.

Filled with music, laughter and wonderful, glittering fun, this charming fable follows the adventures of the legendary storyteller and recaptures the spirit of fairyland make-believe for children of all ages. Danny Kaye is a delight as Hans, who one day journeys beyond the borders of his small village, across the sea and into the dazzling city of Copenhagen. There he encounters marvels and wonders beyond his wildest dreams...and finds the inspiration for some of his most unforgettable characters such as "The Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina" and many more!

Retired Detective, Moretti (Max von Sydow) is asked to assist in the investigation of a series of brutal murders that bear of the signs of a case that he worked on 17 years ago. When the killer strikes again, Moretti finally agrees to help unravel the mystery from years ybefore and catch the killer....

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Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner and Courtney B. Vance star in this hilarious thriller about five grad school liberals who share a house, a left-wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism.

But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.

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Initially prevented by his over-protective father from learning martial arts, Fok Yune Gap (leung Kar Yan) trains secretly with Japanese tutor Chiang Ho San (Yasuaki Kurata), eventualy becoming a master.

Years later when Yune Gap has evolved into fighting legend, Japan sends a champion to challenge him. The challenger is Ho San. In a tragic twist of fate the two friends are honour-bound to engage in a potentially deadly duel of unarmed combat.

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Delicious students, who we can only assume are studying for a masters degree in stripping, head off for a vacation to a location remote enough to ensure undisturbed carnage should a killer be lurking nearby...

Luckily for fans of psycho sexual thrillers a black gloved saw-wielding killer has followed them to their bordello of nudity and soon starts effective slayer multi-tasking by molesting and mutilating his way through a cast of fine beauties including the ever delicious Suzy Kendall!

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Luigi Pistilli plays writer Oliviero, an abrasive drunk who amuses himself by holding drunken orgies at his grand country manor much to the displeasure of his long-suffering wife (Anita Strindberg).

But this decadence is soon rocked by a series of grisly murders, in which Oliviero finds himself implicated.

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In Italy, Celine an American model, is abducted while en route home to meet her sister Linda (Emmanuelle Seigner). Celine (Elsa Pataky) is reported missing and F.B.I, agent Inspector Enzo Avolfi (Adrien Brody) is assigned the case.

He's from the Special New York City Department investigating a serial-killer that kidnaps foreigners to destroy their beauty. Enzo and Linda team up to rescue Celine from a sadistic killer known only as Yellow.

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Acclaimed director John Landis presents this madcap send-up of late-night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches! Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with

a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.

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They're abnormally large. They have four rows of teeth. There are millions of them, and they're all hungry. But these are no ordinary Slugs. When toxic waste contaminates their water system, these vicious creatures mutate into carnivorous killers that invade a small town.

Soon, local drunks, kindly old gardeners, evil businessmen and horny teens all meet unspeakable and slimy deaths. Can the rampage be stopped before the entire community is devoured by this flesh-eating horror?

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The Ancient World's Of Most Spectacular epic unfolds on screen as a star-studded, special-effects-filled adventure of breathtaking beauty and power in this lavishly produced adaptation of Homer's Odyssey.

An extraordinary international cast sweeps you into the heroic age of the mighty warrior-king Odysseus (Armand Assante) as his victorious return from the Trojan War becomes a decade-long quest to reach his homeland and his faithful wife, Penelope (Greta Scacchi). Aided by the goddess Athena (Isabella Rossellini), Odysseus braves all the terrors and temptations of a mysterious, far-flung world, matching wits and wiles with a fantastic array of beings both mortal and monstrous. It's the voyage of a lifetime, and a journey you and your family will never forget, in this glorious retelling of one of the greatest adventure tales of all time.

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Based on true events, Evelyn tells the inspiring story of real-life hero Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) and his young children, Evelyn, Maurice and Dermot. Abandoned by his wife, Doyle does his best to make it as a single dad, raising his kids alone in Ireland.

Their life isn't easy and when his wife's mother reports her daughter's abandonment to the authorities, the power of the Church and the Irish courts take his children away and put them in orphanages. Doyle is devastated. Vowing to reunite his family, he enlists the help of new friend Bernadette Beattie (Julianna Margulies), her solicitor brother Michael (Stephen Rea), their American lawyer friend Nick, and Nick's mentor Tom Connolly. Together they attempt to do what has never been done before - challenge a law before the Irish Supreme Court. Doyle's fight to keep his family intact becomes an uplifting testament to the strength of a father's love and the power of the human spirit.