jnk's - Rented List

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In the middle of a long harsh winter, a whole city has been left without a voice. Mr. TV, a wicked, ruthless man, is the sole owner of the images that illustrate and breathe life into the city as well as of an extensive chain of products that bear his personal seal.

He is implementing a sinister, secret plat to subjugate all of the souls who live there forever more, and only a young girl, her father and a blind boy stand in his way.

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Paolo Sorrentino's gripping psychological thriller probes the dark secret harboured by middle-aged Italian loner Titta Di Girolamo, who has lived for eight years in an anonymous Swiss hotel.

Elegantly dressed, he impassively spends his days in the lobby or the hotel bar, observing the guests and staff with cool detachment. But his icy demeanour cracks when he begins to talk to the attractive barmaid Sofia, and the terrible truth about Titta's concealed world begins to unravel.

An unemployed mechanic (Juan Villegas) adopts a large white dog called Bombon. Luckily for him, the dog turns out to be a prize purebred who might earn him some money. Man and dog set out on a wonderful road trip through Patagonia, where they make a great team.

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From the heart of Santiago's criminal underworld comes the year's most prolific gangster thriller. In a world ruled by murder, drug trafficking and prostitution, survival depends on betrayal and trust is a luxury you cannot afford.

Tarantinoesque in its directorial style, 'Los Debutantes' is the gripping tale of 24-year-old Silvio (Nestor Cantillana) and his 17-year-old brother, who leave the poverty of their small town lives in search of their fortunes in the city of Santiago. It is a move that will cost the brothers more than they could know as both fall for the beautifully seductive femme fatale Graciella (Antonella Rios), a club stripper and mistress to mob boss Don Pascual (Alejandro Trejo), whose whipped cream act captures their imaginations, and their hearts. As Silvio and his brother become embroiled in this violent and seedy gangland world it emerges that there is more to Antonella than meets the eye.

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Amelie (Sylvie Testud), who spent her childhood in Tokyo, wants to go back as a corporate interpreter to the country of her fondest memories.

As a woman and as a foreigner unable to grasp the codes of a strict hierarchical society, she fails miserably Scorned and humiliated by her immediate boss Fubuki (Kaori Tsuji) and the whole raft of her superiors Messrs Saito. Omochi.Tenschi and Haneda (Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama,Yasunari Kondo, Sokyu Fujito). Her life spins into a downward spiral that is both tragic and hilarious. She tries to understand the soul of modern Japan from the 44th floor of a company skyscraper in this clash of western and eastern cultures.

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Set in Berlin, 1945, this powerful and provocative war drama retells the final days of the Second World War as recorded in the diaries of Adolf Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, while barricaded with Hitler and his closest confidants in the Fuhrer's secret bunker.

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel with an astonishing performance by Bruno Ganz as history's most notorious figure, this unprecedented and controversial insider's perspective is a gripping insight into the madness and desperation of Hitler in the final hours of the war as the Russian Army closes a ring around Berlin.

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What do you do when your 28 year old son won't leave home? He leaves his washing on the floor, brings girls home all the time, treats the place like a hotel. Everytime you see him you feel sick. But you still love him. You can't ask him to leave, so what to do? Drive him out. Hoover at 4.00am.

Put smelly fish behind his radiator. Have sex in the lounge. Cut off the electricity while he is working...make him want to move!

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Nicolas Winding Refn's follow up to 'Pusher' follows the love between Leo and girlfriend Louise which appears sealed when Louise finds she is expecting a baby. Louise's pregnancy triggers Leo's violent self loathing and marks the beginning of the end of their relationship.

After a savage beating at the hands of Leo, Louise loses her baby, forcing her brother to exact dire revenge. Bleeder is a hard hitting and deeply moving human tragedy.

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An inspiring, laugh-out-loud social comedy about an office assistant, Francois Pignon, who pretends that he is gay in order to save his job, The Closet looks at the hilarious attempts of Pignon's confused colleagues to come to terms with his hitherto secret sexuality.

Written and directed by Francis Veber, one of French cinema's most popular and enduring directors, The Closet also boasts a roll call of truly outstanding acting talents including Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu.

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When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks into the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure.

Beamed inside by a power-hungry Master Control Program, he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high-velocity "Light Cycles" and Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), a specialized security program. Together they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both the electronic world and the real world!

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"Triumph of the Will" may be the most enduringly controversial film ever made, justly both despised and admired. Is it disgusting propaganda? Absolutely. Is it a documentary record of a critical historical moment? Yes...but also no.

Perhaps the only thing on which everyone could agree is that it is one of the most terrifying horror movies of all time. A shamelessly biased, unabashedly subjective rendering of the infamous 1934 Nuremberg rallies of the Nazi part, 'Triumph of the Will' was commissioned by Hitler from his favourite actress turned director Leni Riefenstahl. The power and purity of Reifenstahl's artistry is such that this incredibly perverse and corrupt film has its own kind of demented integrity. An essential document of Hitler the Orator and mesmerizer of the masses, this programme revels in the monumental architecture of Albert Speer, the formal precision of the marching cadres, and above all, the almost religious exaltation of Hitler as the mystical personofication of the dreams and ideals of his people, captured kinetically with a mastery of technique that is both breathtaking and revolting. It is a film no one who sees can ever forget.

The Other Side of the Bed is a raucous and sexy comedy. The film tells the story of two couples, along with a collection of their friends and co-workers, whose switching back and forth between lovers leads to lies and heartache. But if love is only a game... why not cheat?

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As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier (Romain Duris), an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange programme to gain a working knowledge of the Spanish language.

Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend (Amelie's Audrey Tautou), then heads to Barcelona. An English girl (Kelly Reilly) and her brother (Kevin Bishop), a young woman from Belgium (Cecile de France), an Italian, a boy from Denmark, a German and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life.

A real tour de force from the director Pedro Almodovar 'Law Of Desire' is a wildly funny, emotionally intense and deeply moving drugs-and-sex fuelled murder mystery, a breathless, vibrant riot of flaming passions run wild.

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From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, 'Brokeback Mountain'.

Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys, and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.