johns-list's - Rented

Amanda (Susan George) is the young, attractive babysitter hired by the Lloyd family to look after their son one fateful evening. It isn't long before Amanda realises she is being watched. As the night progresses, Amanda is gradually subjected to a brutal ordeal of unhinged terror.

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Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut 'Pi' with this gritty, emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr.

, the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall.

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'Red Shift' takes the viewer on a beguiling voyage through English history, spanning three distinct time periods: Roman Britain, the English Civil War and 1970s modem day.

Gamer's story follows three troubled young men, Tom, Thomas and Macey, who occupy these different eras and are haunted by shared visions. They are also linked by a common location (Mow Cop in south Cheshire) and by the discovery of a talisman: an ancient axe-head.

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When pensioner Tom Parfitt (Michael Palin) stages a fall in his eerie Yorkshire home in order to escape into residential care, a chilling and macabre mystery unfolds, which challenges weary police detective Rob Fairholme (Mark Addy) and teenage care worker Hannah Ward (Jodie Comer) to risk

everything they hold dear to unravel the truth. A traumatic murder investigation, a ghostly haunting and a coming-of-age tale rolled into one, Remember Me takes the audience from the windswept Scarborough coast to the tragic recesses of 20th Century history. Written by Gwyneth Hughes and directed by Ashley Pearce, this three-part drama is a dark and unforgettable voyage into the unknown.

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Collection of three short films directed by George Haggerty. Cine-magician Haggerty's assault on Hollywood was a slow-burn fuse. First, he had to run away from school and family in Glasgow and end up on the Left Bank of Paris - aged 14.

Second, he had to enrol as the youngest ever student of drawing at the esteemed Glasgow School of Art - aged 16. Third he had to teach art at some of the toughest sink schools in Scotland. Then the UK's National Film School opened and he jumped a ride with its Class of 1972, the pioneer generation, and he made his graduation film in Hollywood.

Hamburger Hamlet (1975)
Hamburger Hamlet starred Stacey Keach and it could only have been made by a maverick. Based on a Jorge Luis Borges short story, its magpie condensation of high and low art marks it out as one of the most experimental short films made in the tedious seventies. The stylish eighties brought Haggerty a mixed bag of Los Angeles blessings. His friends were outsiders, people like Charles Bukowski, Victor Mature and Sirius Trixon. He worked as personal chef to movie mogul Jack Warner he claims he helped poison him. He only just lost a major backgammon contest. He got around the car capital of the world on some seriously collectible Italian racing bikes. All of which set him up for a series of critiques of the fuhrers of fun.
Mall Time (1988)
It was Mall Time that launched this project and it still amazes viewers with its sheer cheek in not recognising boundaries of taste and presentation. Its wit is withering yet its tone is strangely triumphant and that's one of the paradoxes of the Haggerty canon. Movie trivia buffs should look out for a short vox pop with a teenage Drew Barrymore.
Robotopia (1990)
Robotopia uses the same blend of magic realism and poetic journalism to unpick contemporary Japanese culture. Post-war Japan is viewed as a vortex that sucks in imagery, ideas and applications from all over the world and somehow translates them into diverting artefacts. For a country that never had an industrial revolution, Japan has a unique relationship to robots. Haggerty's investigation of the how and why of this phenomenon bravely slides us up and down the interface between humans behaving like robots and machine robots behaving like humans.

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Chaos, paranoia and misunderstanding - yes, it's life as usual in the Harper household.

Ben stands up co - and gets put down by - his old school bully and gets a little jealous as a rich business man falls for Susan - or is that Janey? There are new worries as they discover Michael's seeing a therapist and Ben fails his retraining exam - and, while the family is divided over mean Uncle Norris's inheritance and the acquisition of a puppy, Ben's delighted co discover he's the inspiration for a wealthy if unhappy celebrity dentist!

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It's 1963, and Alison Wilson (Ruth Wilson) returns home to find husband Alexander (Iain Glen) dead. Soon afterwards, a woman unexpectedly arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife'.

Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband really was; but from their wartime romance whilst working for the secret service, to a mysterious period in India - it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest. Alison is left craving the truth as she makes discoveries that threaten to tear her carefully crafted world apart.

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Love is in the air in the Harper house. Ben is in love - with an extremely large television; Janey is in love with a new man; and Michael's current love has announced that she is pregnant.

Meanwhile, Ben and Susan's credit card statement highlights each of their secret vices and an armed robbery at the local bank leads to Ben and Janey being taken as hostages. Michael and Alfie investigate the world of internet dating with mixed success and Abi realises her true vocation in life is to become a nun!

Episodes Comprise:
1. The Parent Trap
2. Let's Not Be Heisty
3. Cards On the Table
4. The Wax Job
5. Neighbour Wars
6. Can't Get No Satisfaction
7. The Abi Habit

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This film, produced by ITV, is a superb historical drama tracing the life of British serial killer John George Haigh, the infamous Acid Bath Murderer. Haigh was brought up in 1920's Yorkshire by fanatically religious parents.

Despite his upbringing, Haigh's brief marriage failed and he was found guilty of committing fraud and sent to jail. Whilst incarcerated, quite by chance, Haigh discovered the impact acid had on the bodies of animals. Following his release from jail, Haigh reinvented himself as a respectable, well dressed, charmer who had little trouble ingratiating himself with his victims. Believing he could not be found guilty of murder if a body did not exist, Haigh acquired a workshop where he disposed of the bodies of his victims by putting them in an acid bath. After he lured his final victim, Olive Deacon, to her death at his workshop the Police closed in and finally brought the terrible crimes to an end. Despite pleading insanity at his trial, Haigh was found guilty of murder and executed on 10 August 1949.

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In this tense British thriller, Hiller (Bernard Hill), a humble computer expert, and his young stepson get mixed up with a dangerous gang of bank robbers.

Recently fired from his job and abandoned by his wife, Hiller's life is already descending into chaos when he crosses paths with the brutal gang of criminals. Planning an audacious robbery, they take Hiller and his child hostage, and force Hiller to use his technical skills to help them on the job. Once the plan has been put into action, the gang attempts to shake off the police, while Hiller desperately tries to free himself and his son from the crooks' clutches.

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The Harper family returns for more mayhem in Series 7 of the UK's favourite sitcom. When a mystery man arrives asking for Janey - Susan finally discovers the identity of Kenzo's father: Roger and Abi's marriage announcement gives Susan the idea to renew her marriage vows despite protests from Ben.

A death in the dentist's chair is not very good for business, but, as Ben discovers, it isn't very good for your private life either. Michael succeeds in placing the whole family on The Weakest Link, but Anne Robinson raises more difficult questions than might have been expected.

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Jean Le Bête (Oliver Reed) is an intimidating fur trapper who comes to a small mining town in British Columbia in search of a wife.

Having travelled for 3 days from his remote trappers hut Jean has to settle for a mute girl, Eve (Rita Tushingham), who has not spoken since her own family suffered at the hands of Indians when she was a young girl. The initial hostility between Jean and Eve thaws and the slowly changing relationship between the trapper and his mute partner is both touching and fragile. The story centres around these two mismatched individuals, both handicapped in their own way as they struggle to make a life together in the Canadian wilderness. From initial brutality to tolerance to mutual interdependence and finally love!

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Janey and son Kenzo spend much more time at the Harper house than is good for Ben and Michael moves from scam to scam with alarming ease. Add to that the ever-so-slowly blossoming of the Abi-Roger romance and the new cuckoo in the nest, wiser-than-he-looks Alfie Butts and the problems multiply.

The family's hurdles include Kenzo's third birthday party, Ben joining a secret society, Susan's new job leading her to a dinner date with a new man and an encounter with squatters. In other words, as usual, problems and situations constantly conspire to remind Ben and Susan that 'Family' is an 'F' word.

Episodes Comprise:
- Bliss for Idiots
- The Spokes Person
- Dentally Unstable
- Living the Dream
- An Embarrassment of Susans
- And Other Animals
- The Art of Being Susan

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Another highly-popular series in the successful run of Francis Durbridge thrillers. "A Game of Murder" is a six part drama series about the suspicious death of Bob Kerry (Anthony Sagar), a once-famous athlete in peak condition who is found dead on a golf course.

The coroner records a verdict of death by misadventure, but Kerry's son Jack (Gerald Harper), a Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan Police, is determined to seek out the true nature of events which lead up to his death. His pursuit of the truth and the evidence which confirms his suspicions sees the body count rise to the tune of one an episode, reaching its climax with the customarily unexpected Durbridge twist at the end.

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Ben and Susan are enjoying some new-found tranquility, Nick has moved into his own flat, Janey is at University and Abi is usually out at evening class.

Naturally the peace isn't to last! Janey comes back home with baby Kenzo and Michael has been "born again" and is holding Bible study sessions in the living room. With Ben's famous dental patients, Susan's election ambitions and an unhealthy obsession with Inspector Morse - not to mention the unlikely perils of house-sitting in a luxury modern apartment - domestic life is soon back to normal. So when Ben and Susan start being nice to each other it's no wonder Abi's suspicious; they couldn't be getting a divorce could they?