jarf's - Rented List

Teenage carnappers go wild in the funniest car movie ever. Can a young runaway couple get married in Vegas before two sets of parents, a jealous boyfriend, a private detective and a mob of bounty hunters catch them?

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The extraordinary story follows the journey of Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, lost at sea for nine years, and his incredible experiences through strange and wonderful lands.

It chronicles Gulliver's best-known adventures to the lands of the tiny war-mongering Lilliputians and their opposites, the peace loving giants of Brobdingnag. But it doesn't stop there. We travel on through Jonathan Swift's fantastical world to Gulliver's stay with the intellectuals on the flying island of Laputa and finally to the land populated by civilised talking horses and their ape-like beasts of burden, the horrifying 'Yahoos'. Gulliver's adventures are interwoven with the story of his return to England where his family have fallen into the clutches of Dr. Bates (James Fox). Gulliver has to fight not only to win hack his wife (Mary Steenburgen) and son, but to prove his sanity as well.

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A new candidate is needed to infiltrate 'The People's Lobby' – a radical band of terrorists following the assassination of a British undercover agent.

Captain Peter Skellen (Lewis Collins) is welcomed into the group by its fanatical leader Frankie Leith (Judy Davis) and he gets closer to uncovering her plan to attack a major political target. When the terrorists storm the American Embassy in London it is down to Skellen to save the lives of the high-ranked hostages.

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"The Wrong Man" is like and unlike any other Alfred Hitchcock movie. The story packs tension, the images are spellbinding and the dilemma genuinely frightening. But this time the master of suspense dramatizes the harrowing true experiences of a man tried for crimes committed by a lookalike robber.

Henry Fonda plays musician Manny Balestrero, a man full of visible but unspoken rage at his wrongful arrest. Vera Miles is his distraught wife Rose, driven to madness by the ordeal. And the right man to bring the unsettling facts of the case to vivid screen life with documentary precision is Hitchcock. He made New York City a star of the film and cast real-life Balestrero case witnesses in small roles. He shot in many actual locations, among them the Stork Club, Manny's jail cell and Rose's sanitarium.

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"Used to be nobody gave two nickels about me," ex-Confederate cavalryman Paul Cable observes. Cable liked it that way. Now the would-be homesteader is drawing too much notice. And far too many bullets.

Tom Selleck rides into Western adventure in grand, gritty style as Cable in 'Last Stand at Saber River', from the novel by Elmore Leonard. With his strong-willed pioneer wife (Suzy Amis) and two children (Haley Joel Osment and Rachel Duncan), Cable returns to his Arizona home to resume a quiet life. Instead, he finds Union sympathizers (David and Keith Carradine) have taken possession of the small spread. The war should be over. But Cable faces one more battle before the healing can begin.

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We begin with young Jim Hawkins (Kevin Zegers), living with his grandmother at the Admiral Inn and all is quite as it should be... Until the fateful day a stranger named Billy Bones (Patrick Bergin) stumbles into the inn with a wild tale.

He is being pursued by a man named Blind Pew, who hands him a piece of paper with the 'black spot' on it. Bones tells Jim to go to his trunk and take the map of Treasure Island he finds inside. Thus begins a wild journey, with Hawkins and his companions Dr. Livesey (David Robb) and Squire Trelawny (Christopher Benjamin) on board the Hispaniola with the cook, Long John Silver (Jack Palance), and his somewhat strange crew. As they near the island and untold treasure, Hawkins realises that the crew are not what they first appeared to be. He is in danger of losing not only the disputed treasure, but also his life. 'Treasure Island' may in fact be his final resting place, if the pirates on board the Hispaniola don't murder him before they get there!

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Based on actress Carrie Fisher's best-selling autobiographical novel, 'Postcards from the Edge' is a wickedly witty expose of life in the Hollywood fast lane.

In a brilliant comic performance, Meryl Streep stars as Suzanne Vale, a wisecracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. As her aging movie star mother, Shirley MacLaine offers the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens in scenes spiked with razor-edged humour and searing honesty. Dennis Quaid, Rob Reiner and an all-star cast offer a bird's-eye view of Hollywood's has-beens and wanna-bes. Funny and uncompromising, 'Postcards from the Edge' dishes the Tinseltown dirt with style and wit, serving up a delicious behind-the-scenes comedy that no film lover can resist.

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San Francisco police officers Don Wong (Wong Tao) and John Sumner (Robert Jones) save a young woman (Sylvia Chang) from being assaulted by a gang of criminals.

Unfortunately, all the crime in San Francisco is run by Chuck Slaughter (Chuck Norris), who doesn't take kindly to police interfering in his business. Wong is kicked off the force by his corrupt Captain, and Sumner is murdered by Slaughter's men. Using his powerhouse kung fu skills, Wong vows to clean up the streets and take down Slaughter once and for all!

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Part road movie, part suspense thriller, the plot is high-tension simplicity itself. In the South American jungle, supplies of nitro-glycerine are urgently needed at a remote oil field.

The unscrupulous American oil company pays four out-of-work men (Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and Peter Van Eyck) to deliver the supplies in two sets of drivers: a tension magnified thousand fold by the unforgiving heat, the lure of filthy lucre and the rough and rocky roads where the slightest jolt can result in agonising death. Which of the disparate, desperate desperadoes will survive the white-knuckle journey and claim the loot and the glory?

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It all begins when young Jim Hawkins inherits a long-lost map to a pirate's treasure. Jim hires the great ship Hispaniola where he meets the good Captain Smollett (Kermit the Frog) and the evil yet charming Long John Silver (Tim Curry).

With adventure in their hearts and treasure chests of gold in their eyes, they set sail on the bounding main only to discover danger at every turn - including Benjamina Gunn (Miss Piggy), Treasure Island's very own love goddess, who's dressed to kill!

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The man with the gunsight eyes is back. And this time, he's judge, jury, and executioner. Lee Van Cleef reprises his most famous, most freewheeling, most trigger-happy role in 'Return of Sabata'.

This second go-round for the enigmatic sharpshooter who administers a unique brand of justice in the American West in the years following the Civil War finds Sabata in the role of victim. Sabata's skills as a gambler and thief are unparalleled. However, when a shifty band of desperadoes bilks him out of $5,000, he wants revenge.

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"Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island" is the pirate adventure sequel to the classic, "Treasure Island". Long John, Robert Newton reprising his bravura performance as the one-legged buccaneer, saves Jim Hawkins and the Colonial Governor's daughter from the evil Captain Medosa.

Naturally, there is more to his rescue plan than meets the eye; Jim has a medallion, which is the key to finding more gold onTreasure Island.The crafty old pirate is up to all his old tricks in this fabulous swashbuckling yam for all the family. To several generations of moviegoers, Robert Newton was Long John Silver.This dark, physically striking British actor had a unique voice and the malleable features, which permitted him to attempt a wide variety of acting parts. Newton did not have the conventional leading man looks but he nevertheless dominated many of the films in which he starred. Moreover, he was constantly rated among Britain's top box-office draws, an exceptional accomplishment for any character actor. It is a testament to Robert Louis Stevenson's flamboyant written dialogue and the acting skill and imagination used by Robert Newton in his films that our perception of pirates has been for evermore coloured by this one fictional character - Long John Silver.

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American sniper Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is known for his exceptional shooting skills. With his custom-made Sharps buffalo rifle, he hits targets at long range like no other.

A new job takes him to Australia, where he is employed to hunt dingoes for the greedy landowner Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). But Marston has only one goal: to claim even more areas of the largely uninhabited continent for himself, and he does not shrink away from the murder of the natives. When Quigley realizes that he is not supposed to kill wild dogs, but Aboriginal people, he refuses to start the job - and as a result gets himself into the line of fire of the unscrupulous rancher.

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The Doctor and his friends Ben, Polly and Jamie arrive at Gatwick airport. They quickly stumble upon an alien plot, centring upon the mysterious 'Chameleon Tours' - a low-price holiday company, whose young passengers have been vanishing in unexplained circumstances.

With the help of Scotland Yard and the airport staff, the Doctor investigates further, but it isn't long before his own friends start disappearing too. What is happening to the passengers of Chameleon Tours? Where are the company's planes really going? Can the Doctor unravel the mystery of Chameleon Tours before it's too late? Most of the BBC's original 1967 master recordings for 'The Faceless Ones' were lost soon after the programme's original transmission. However, audio-only recordings have survived and have been used here to create a brand new fully animated reconstruction of this lost classic.

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Paris 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes.

A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...