joe-2's - Rented List
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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably. - Director:
- Francis Lee
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- Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones
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"The Paperboy" is the story of two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey), a successful reporter and Jack (Zac Efron), a college dropout. Ward returns to his hometown to investigate the case of a wrongly convicted, but deeply unsavoury man, who has been sentenced to death for murdering a sheriff. As the brothers dig deeper, it becomes clear that they are on a journey filled with lust and betrayal. - Director:
- Lee Daniels
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- Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack
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Cocktail (1988)The Bartender
International superstar Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident and ambitious bartender, who, with the help of a seasoned pro Bryan Brown, becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to tropical Jamaica and meets an independent artist Elisabeth Shue , their steamy romance brings a new perspective to the self-centred bartender's life. - Director:
- Roger Donaldson
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- Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
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The Impossible (2012)Lo imposible
Based on a true story, 'The Impossible' is the unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. Both epic and intimate, devastating and uplifting, 'The Impossible' is a journey to the core of the human heart. - Director:
- J.A. Bayona
- Cast:
- Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike (River Phoenix) is quite, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike's mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, whit Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way. - Director:
- Gus Van Sant
- Cast:
- River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo
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Edge of the World (2021)White Rajah
'The Revenant' meets 'Last of the Mohicans', 'Edge of the World' is an epic, swashbuckling adventure story that inspired 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'Apocalypse Now'. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) as Sir James Brook, the English adventurer who fought pirates and slavery to rule a kingdom in the jungles of Borneo in 1840. As he embarks on a lifelong crusade to end head-hunting, like Lawrence of Arabia, Brooke defied the Empire to free a nation. - Director:
- Michael Haussman
- Cast:
- Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Josie Ho, Dominic Monaghan
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What if the most important story in your life was not your own? Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices of all time, was always considered controversial: a black artist who was exploited; a volatile drug addict who achieved great heights; and a woman who stood firm while performing the seminal protest song Strange Fruit, making her an enemy of the state. Bringing Billie Holiday to life in colour for the first time and drawing on nearly 200 hours of never-before-heard taped interviews with musicians like Count Basie and Tony Bennett, as well as friends, lovers, pimps and the FBI agents who were sent to hunt her down, 'Billie' is the definitive story of a jazz icon and of the journalist who died trying to tell it. - Director:
- James Erskine
- Cast:
- Tony Bennett, Billie Holiday, Count Basie
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"Tina" is the ultimate celebration of a global superstar and an intimate portrait of a woman who overcame extreme adversity to define her career, her identity and her legacy on her own terms. From her early career as the queen of R and B to her record-breaking sell-out arena tours of the 1980's, Tina Turner draws back the curtain to invite us into her private world in a way she has never done before. Revealing her inner-most struggles, and sharing some of her most personal moments, 'Tina' is the defining and inspirational record of one of the greatest survivors in modern music. - Director:
- Daniel Lindsay
- Cast:
- Tina Turner, Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey
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Easy Money (2010)Snabba Cash
Poor business student JW (Joel Kinnaman) is living a double life mingling with the wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his exclusive lifestyle and to capture the attention of a sexy heiress, he's lured into a world of crime to make some quick cash. When JW crosses paths with a fugitive on the run from both the police and the mafia, they hope that brokering a one-off cocaine deal will allow them to escape from their past for good. But when a mafia enforcer hunts them down, JW's journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organised crime, and the fate of all three men becomes entangled in a dramatic struggle between life and death. - Director:
- Daniel Espinosa
- Cast:
- Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic
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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter. Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past. - Director:
- Emerald Fennell
- Cast:
- Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie
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Young and Beautiful (2013)Jeune and Jolie
Whilst on holiday with her family, seventeen year old Isabelle (Marine Vacth) experiences her first sexual relationship with an attractive young man. A few days later, and for no apparent reason, Isabelle casts him aside and behaves as if their encounter never happened. When she returns home to Paris, Isabelle begins a dangerous new career; she sets up a profile on an escort website and lies about her age in order to make appointments with older, wealthy clients in chic, expensive hotel rooms. On one hand she is a cool professional, catering to the sexual whims of the various men she encounters; on the other she is maintaining the illusion of being a regular school student for her parents and friends. However her double life spirals out of control, and she is forced to deal with the consequences of what she has been doing. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot
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"Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" takes the viewer on an intimate and electrifying journey that moves between four cinematic layers - performance, family, artist and traveller - to explore the fascinating world of this pop cultural phenomenon. Jones' bold aesthetic echoes throughout unique musical performances that include hit songs Slave to the Rhythm and Pull Up to the Bumper. Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous, Grace Jones plays all these parts - yet here we also discover her as lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, allowing us to explore the world inside the icon. - Director:
- Sophie Fiennes
- Cast:
- Grace Jones, Jean-Paul Goude, Sly & Robbie
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Barbara (2019)Tezuka's Barbara
One of Osamu Tezuka's most adult and sexually-charged works, Barbara (1973-74) was originally serialized as a follow-up to Ayako (1972-73) in Big Comic from July 1973 to May 1974. Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara". The controversial story, dealing with various taboos such as forbidden love, mystery, art, Eros, scandal and occultism, was said to have been impossible to be cinematized at the time of its original publication, but was made into a live-action film for the 90th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth by his son Macoto Tezka. - Director:
- Macoto Tezuka
- Cast:
- Gorô Inagaki, Fumi Nikaidô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
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During the Second World War, Eric (Jeremy Irvine) is captured and held prisoner by the Japanese. Brutally tortured and forced, along with his fellow captives, to build the Thai-Burma Railway. Eric is left traumatised for years to come, despite the best efforts of his wife (Nicole Kidman). Many years later, an older Lomax (Colin Firth) resolves to track down one of his torturers, Takashi Nagase (Hiroyuki Sanada), hoping to find the answers that will enable him to finally let go of the hatred he has felt throughout his life. - Director:
- Jonathan Teplitzky
- Cast:
- Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård
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Daniel Plainview and son are independent oil men, looking for prospects in California at the turn of the 20th century. They are challenged by a young preacher, Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), whose own ambition is matched by Plainview's. Their battle forms the centre of a scary, darkly-comic historical journey into an abyss of madness. - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds
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