jorph600's - Rented List
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China O'Brien I / China O'Brien II (1990)Blond Heat / China O'Brien 2
The inimitable martial arts superstar Cynthia Rothrock stars in two of the most gloriously entertaining films of her career! In 'China O'Brien', city cop and formidable martial artist Lori "China" O'Brien (Rothrock) is forced to resign from the force and return home to a small Utah town after her involvement in an accidental death. But upon arrival in Beaver Creek, she finds that her lawman father - Sheriff John O'Brien (David Blackwell) - is desperately trying to bring down local crime boss Edwin Sommers (Steven Kerby), and it isn't long before she steps into the fray. Then, in 'China O'Brien II', Lori must once again protect her hometown when it becomes a hideout for a dangerous fugitive: the escaped drug lord Charlie Baskin (Harlow Marks). - Director:
- Robert Clouse
- Cast:
- Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke
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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). - Director:
- Alexander Payne
- Cast:
- Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
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A Small town steeped in folk lore and tradition hunger's for a sacrifice. Rebecca (Tuppence Middleton) has taken over as vicar of a rural English village. It seems safe, friendly and secure but when her daughter Grace (Evie Templeton) vanishes at the local festival, the villagers and local police join in a desperate search. However, the secrets of the village and the history it hides soon reveal their dark past to the distraught mother. In time Rebecca must decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to save her daughter from the clutches of pure evil. - Director:
- William Brent Bell
- Cast:
- Tuppence Middleton, Ralph Ineson, Matt Stokoe
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Ratman (1988)Quella villa in fondo al parco
Pint-sized cult hero Nelson De La Rosa stars as the horrific genetic mutation that is Ratman! Created to win a Nobel prize; the only awards he'll be picking up will be for slaying showering beauty Eva Grimaldi but not before she's soaped up for your pleasure! Janet Agren plays her sister out to discover what has happened to Eva and who or what is devouring the residents of a lush Caribbean island. A glorious exploitation fest of bad taste, worse acting, needless nudity and tense wince-inducing slaughter, please welcome the loveable Ratman. - Director:
- Giuliano Carnimeo
- Cast:
- David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Eva Grimaldi
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The Martian Chronicles (1980)Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
Earth is on the verge of extinction. To survive, mankind must find another place to live. And when three expeditions to Mars, headed by Col. John Wilder (Rock Hudson), find suitable conditions for relocation, humans pour in by the shipload, bringing the old evils of Earth with them! As Wilder begins to heed the lessons of the dying Martian civilization, can he save humanity from repeating its doom? - Director:
- Michael Anderson
- Cast:
- Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey
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Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin to life inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub. There, starry eyed American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emee (Joel Grey) sound the call for decadent fun, while in the street the Nazi party is beginning to grow into a brutal political force. Into this heady world arrives British language teacher Brian Robert (Michael York) who falls for Sally's charm and soon, the two of them find themselves embroiled in the turmoil and decadence of the era. - Director:
- Bob Fosse
- Cast:
- Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
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From the novel by Graham Greene comes this story of star-crossed lovers whose short affair begins and ends as tumultuously as the war that is its backdrop. In England during the Second World War, Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr) is the bored wife of a British civil servant. When Mr. Miles introduces her to American writer Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson) at one of the couple's cocktail parties, she is unable to deny her attraction to him, or to resist his interest in her. Almost as quickly as the two become deeply involved, spinning their dreams into plans for a long future together, Sarah mysteriously brings their affair to an end. With the help of a private detective (Albert Parks), Maurice sets out to find out why: did Sarah never love Maurice, or did she love him too much? - Director:
- Edward Dmytryk
- Cast:
- Van Johnson, John Mills, Peter Cushing
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In Hell (2003)Security Housing Unit
Kyle Lord (Van Damme) is arrested and convicted for the vigilante killing of his wife's murderer. Kyle must survive life in a maximum-security prison where inmates are made to battle to their death in a brutal no holds barred fight called "The Shu" for the warden's entertainment and profit. Kyle fights his oppressors and is quickly sent to "The Shu" where his unbridled rage catapults him to the victor's circle. Kyle has become one of the monsters he despises and must now battle within himself to survive... - Director:
- Ringo Lam
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lawrence Taylor, Lloyd Battista
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Based on the novel by Dame Agatha Christie, the undisputed mistress of mystery whose books have sold over half a billion copies. 'Appointment with Death' is impeccably delicious fun. Who arranged an 'Appointment with Death' for malevolent Mrs. Boynton? One of her sullen stepchildren? Her scheming lawyer? A lovely doctor...a mousy companion...a dragon lady Member of Parliament? Acclaimed actor Sir Peter Ustinov makes a third big-screen appearance as nimble-witted Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this elegant puzzler. Pitted against Poirot's "little grey cells" is a cast of suspects that definitely puts the "who" in whodunit: Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, Sir John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove and David Soul. So sharpen up your little grey cells, you have an 'Appointment with Death'. - Director:
- Michael Winner
- Cast:
- Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher
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Gates fall, an isolated small town community, witnesses the reopening of its decrepit textile mill. Sitting next to a cemetery and abandoned for years, the site has fallen into decay and is now only home to a horde of rats. After the mill beings operation again, a team of workers - almost as strange as the mill itself - venture into the basement to clean it. Trapped in the darkness below the mill, they find themselves pitted against each other, and against the terrifying secret that awaits them on the 'Graveyard Shift'. - Director:
- Ralph S. Singleton
- Cast:
- David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht
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What would you think of being trapped into a terrifying bet?
The spooky keeper of the eery inn of the graveyard had warned them: "It's a haunted crypt, rumour has it, it is the waiting room to hell, a place where all horrors from beyond the grave can be witnessed, but whoever succeeds inspending the night there and coming out alive wins the prize, the treasure nobody has been able to win for centuries..."
But for five friends, teenagers, full of optimism, brave and reckless do not believe that ghosts and monsters really exist and as long as they stick together, what could ever happen to them! Will they survive? Will they overcome the terror...will they win the bet?- Director:
- Lamberto Bava
- Cast:
- Pat Starke, Gregory Lech Thaddeus, Lea Martino
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Alligator 2 (1991)Alligator II: The Mutation
Deep in the sewers beneath the city of Regent Park, a baby alligator feeds on the experimental animals discarded by Future Chemicals Corporation. Nourished by the toxic growth hormones and other mutating chemicals, the gator grows immense in size ... and voracious in appetite. Now, it must kill to survive. It's a classic confrontation between man and beast. This sequel to the classic thriller Alligator stars Joseph Bologna (Transylvania 6-5000), Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Dee Wallace (The Howling). Richard Lynch (Bad Dreams) and Kane Hodder (Jason X). - Director:
- Jon Hess
- Cast:
- Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch
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The Girl Next Door-unfolds in a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958. 12-year old David Moran discovers that his next-door neighbours, the Chandlers, have adopted two girls; Megan and her younger sister Susan, recently orphaned in a terrible car crash, leaving them in the care of their mentally unstable aunt Ruth. David befriends the older of the two girls, and all seems well at first. However, he begins to notice that the girls' presence seems to provoke inexplicable jealousy and resentment from their aunt. Ruth's hostility towards the two girls soon escalates from verbal insults to physical abuse, involving her three young sons, the neighbourhood children, and 12-year-old David whose life will be changed forever. - Director:
- Gregory Wilson
- Cast:
- William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker
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His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office, this compelling film follows Milk's powerful journey to inspire hope for equal rights during one of the least tolerant times in the history of U.S. - Director:
- Gus Van Sant
- Cast:
- Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch
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From Director Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter John Sayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thriller with bite. A family returning from Florida decides their pet baby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him down the toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conducting secret experiments with animals and disposing of them in the sewer. The alligator, fending for itself, begins to feed on the dead animals, and grows. Now, twelve years later, after several mysterious murders, David Madison (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown) is on the case to find out who...or what…is killing people. - Director:
- Lewis Teague
- Cast:
- Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
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