jarf's - Rented List

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Screen legend Bruce Willis plays Lt. Wakes, a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and informant. Wakes joins forces with Madison (Nicky Whelan), a witness injured during the shootings.

After the killers pursue Madison across the abandoned floor of a hospital, she confirms Wakes' worst fears: the two men are actually corrupt vice cops covering up a crime. As Wakes vows revenge, this heart-pounding action-thriller reaches an explosive climax.

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Heidi is the lovable orphan who enriches the lives of everyone she meets. Heidi gains her reclusive Grandfather's acceptance, only to be sent away to Frankfurt to live with the Sesemann family. There, she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.

Torn between Klara's companionship and the memory of her life in the Alps with her beloved Grandfather, Heidi is faced with the most difficult decision of her young life. In the end, Heidi follows her heart, leading to a miraculous and joyful conclusion.

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Suddenly a night of fun becomes a night of horror. Something haunts Beth (Angela O'Neill), something about the sorority house, she can't remember what it is but it's something evil, deep in the past when she was a little girl.

It was meant to be a fun weekend for the girls but Beth is plagued by a series of horrific nightmares each one more real than the last and each one concerning a knife wielding maniac. And then, as the girls throw an all-night party they have a most unwelcome guest - the slasher in Beth's dreams! But now it's for real and the bloodthirsty killer stalks them one by one. Undiluted, heart-stopping terror.

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It's going to be the slumber party to end all slumber parties. With her parents away, Trish (Michelle Michaels) is planning a weekend of high jinx fun for her high school basketball team friends - a slumber party at her house.

She's not sure if she wants to invite the newly arrived and talented Valerie (Robin Stille) but someone who's definitely coming is Russ Thorn. Locked up in a mental institution since 1969, Thorn, the nastiest of driller killer psychos, has escaped and is heading back to town intent on more bloody mayhem. This night no one's going to get much sleep - there's potato chips, drinks, dope, severed heads, blood and gore a-plenty. Even the pizza delivery boy ends up a yucky mess (just like his pizzas!).

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The mysterious but kindly solicitor Mr. Blunden (Laurence Naismith) visits Mrs. Allen (Dorothy Alison) and her young children, offering her the position of caretaker at a derelict country mansion.

More surprises are in store when the children encounter the ghosts of two former young residents and find themselves transported back in time to help their new friends right a 100-year-old wrong.

Bursting with energy, hyper-kinetic fight-action and stunning imagery, New Dragon Gate Inn tells the story of fabled resistance fighter, Zhou Huaian (Tony Leung), and his heroic struggle against despotic eunuch and master swordsman Cao Shao-qin, played with considerable menace by martial-arts supremo Donnie Yen.

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In 1972, it was Bruce Lee. In 1994, it was Jet Li. In 2011, international superstar Donnie Yen takes up the heroic mantle of martial arts legend Chen Zhen.

Directed by Andrew Lau and featuring some of the most breathtaking martial arts fighting ever caught on camera, Legend of the Fist is an unmissable slice of epic action. After the war, Japanese forces start imposing their expansionist ideals on a beleaguered Shanghai, but one expert martial artist decides to take a stand and becomes a masked avenger to fight injustice and save his beloved country.

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From John Woo, the director of Hong Kong movie classics including 'Bulle in the Head' and 'The Killer', comes the incredible 'Last Hurrah for Chivalry'; his unique take on the Wuxia or heroic fantasy movie genre.

This time the guns are replaced with swords but the trademark Woo themes of heroism and honour are much in evidence as the newly married swordsman Kao (Lau Kong) seeks revenge on the evil Pai (Lee Hoi San) for wiping out his family on his wedding night. Alone he cannot beat him so he enlists the help of Chang (Wei Pai) and Green (Damian Lau) to exact justice upon Pai - John Woo style! In common with Woo's best films this new brotherhood isn't as honourable as it first appears and as the truth emerges the scene is set for a climactic deadly battle. This, like the rest of the film, is expertly choreographed and beautifully captured in John Woo's brutally inimitable style that will delight fans who prefer their action hardcore!

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According to an ancient prophecy, a peasant boy shall rise to become a mighty emperor and overthrow a long reign of cruelty and oppression. To maintain power and change destiny, the existing leaders seek to eliminate this threat by unleashing an army to murder male children across the land.

But when these ruthless warriors reach one humble village, they find themselves overwhelmed by a local uprising. Only the true leader can turn the tide of war and end the bloodshed.

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Filmed in an oppressively dark and jumpy style reminiscent of the blockbuster 'Seven', this chilling Hong Kong horror stars Chingamy Yau as a police complaints officer being stalked by a psychopath who believes she is the devil's daughter.

Maverick cop Mo Ti Nam (Donnie Yen) tries to protect her with his lethal kicks and flying fists as the madman 'Judas' convinces her that she may indeed have demonic powers. Only the bumbling assistance of Mo's partner Ka-Ming, busty female cop 'Leon' and the unpredictable Mo himself stand between Chingamy and the chainsaw-wielding madman who wants to rip out her heart...

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Belle Williams (Queen Latifah) is beautiful, tough and sexy, not to mention renowned for weaving her taxi through New York's city streets at speeds upwards of 135 miles per hour! Detective Andy Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), young, handsome and eager, is one of New York's finest, but one of the Big

Apple's worst drivers. Hot on the stiletto heels of four sexy Brazilian bank robbers, Washburn convinces Belle to team up with him to pursue the quartet of crooks. Together, the cool cabbie and the overconfident cop go on a death-defying game of cat and mouse with the beautiful bad girls. That is, if Belle and Washburn don't kill each other first!

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Former pizza delivery guy Daniel is speed crazy.

Embarking on a new career as a taxi driver, his specially modified car is so fast even police radar can't spot him! When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer Emilien, he is forced to accept a deal to keep his license: a stint as Emilien's personal driver. Now on the other side of the law, Daniel becomes the unlikely mastermind behind an investigation into a gang of German bank robbers. Aided by his girlfriend, Emilien's mother and a whole squad of pizza delivery boys, Daniel and Emilien join forces with hilarious consequences to foil the robbers on foot, on scooters and of course in taxis...

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As the tale opens, a manically insane, hyperactive Belgian criminal, "Le Beige," undergoes extradition to trial in Africa.

En route, he temporarily lands in the Marseilles police department for a few hours where Emilien (Frederic Diefenthal) works, and bamboozles him into believing that he's actually a Belgian embassy employee railroaded by the real crook, who is now at large. Emilien foolishly buys the story and sets Le Beige free, prompting an outrageous and explosive series of complications... But luckily enough tor Emilien, his friend taxi-driver Daniel (Samy Naceri) who drove the criminal from the Police Station unaware of him being a criminal, comes to the rescue. When Emilien tells police commissioner Gilbert (Bernard Farcy) where he can retrieve the criminal he gets his old job back and the hunt for the criminal is on!

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Six young people, each with their own agenda, set off to take part in a social study set up to ascertain the nature of human interaction and relationships.

What begins as a fun weekend where the participants have the use of a luxury house and all facilities, becomes something more sinister when the organiser of the project is found dead in horrific circumstances. Suspicions become heightened as another member of the group is also found dead in a freak accident. Trapped in a house and unable to leave the experiment, the six participants begin to suspect one another.

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After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David (Luke David Blumm), the two of them flee town in search of safety.

But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura (Andi Matichak) commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son.