m-balsara's - Rented List

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In the early hours of the morning college student Brendan Grye gets an unexpected phone call from an old flame. Close to hysteria, she barely has time to tell him that she's screwed up badley and needs his help before the line goes dead. Its the last he sees or hears of his ex.

Determined to find out what's happened, Brendan finds himself drawn into a dark and secret world of drug rats and thugs, where one man - The Pin - calls the shots, makes the deals and decides who lives and who dies.....

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster star in the action-packed crime thriller, Inside Man. A tough cop, a clever bank robber and a power broker fuel a dangerous game of cat and mouse full of hidden agendas and explosive surprises.

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Master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents 'Hero' - starring martial arts legend Jet Li in a visually stunning martial arts epic where a fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation! With supernatural skill...and no fear...

a nameless soldier (Jet Li) embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat!

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Seven-year-old Damian believes he's received a divine gift from above when a suitcase filled with cash literally falls out of the sky. Against the advice of his older brother Anthony, Damian is anxious to share the wealth with those less fortunate.

But when the loot turns out to be stolen, his noble intentions are put to the test - with heartwarming and hilarious results.

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Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, now ekes out a living aboard his ship, Serenity.

He leads a small, eclectic crew, but when Mal takes on two new passengers - a young doctor and his telepathic sister - he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, and so Serenity finds itself caught between the unstoppable military force of the Alliance, the horrific, cannibalistic fury of the Reavers - and another danger lurking at the very heart of the spaceship...

A pictured-postcard afternoon in the countryside ends in tragedy as Joe (Daniel Craig) and Claire (Samantha Morton) witness a ballooning incident. Bound together by their experience, fellow witness Jed (Rhys Ifans) becomes obsessed with Joe, stalking him and becoming ever more threatening...

August in Edinburgh sees the population swell with actors, directors, street performers, comedians, media high-flyers and audiences. And so the lives of a dozen people intersect in an outrageous comic account of hopes, dreams and fears at festival time.

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The story of Bob and Charlotte, two Americans in Tokyo. Bob (Bill Murray) is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is a young wife tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband.

Through their respective insomnias, the two cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar and strike up a surprisingly intimate friendship. As the unlikely pair venture through Tokyo together, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, they ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.

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This is the single reason why every comic from Eddie Murphy through to Chris Rock calls Richard Pryor the Godfather of Comedy.

And you'd better goddam believe he's the funniest man alive, whether he's talking about the time he stepped into the ring with Ali, killed his wife's car with a 44 magnum or snorted cocaine in front of his grandmother - this is your chance to find out why Richard Pryor is the greatest comedian ever.

On a daredevil caving holiday six girls are trapped underground when an unexpected rock fall blocks their exit. Searching the maze of tunnels for a way out, they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless, hungry predators, once humanoid but now monstrously adapted to live in the dark

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Casim (Atta Yaqub) is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club.

His parents Tariq (Ahmad Riaz) and Sadia (Shamshad Akhtar) are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine (Sunna Mirza), who is soon to arrive in the UK. Plans go awry when Casim meets Roisin (Eva Birthistle). A teacher at his sister Tahara's school, Roisin is different from any girl he's ever met. She's gorgeous, intelligent and definitely possesses a mind of her own. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But Casim knows all too well that, even if he wasn't due to marry, his parents would never accept a 'goree' - a white girl. As a Catholic, Roisin finds that her own community isn't very supportive either. When their relationship is discovered, the repercussions of the scandal reach far and wide and sparks fly as cultures clash and personalities collide.

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Fed up with being preyed upon at school by loudmouth bully George (Josh Peck), friends Sam (Rory Culkin), Clyde (Ryan Kelley) and Millie (Carly Schroeder) decide to teach their tormentor a lesson.

Inviting him out on a boat trip to celebrate Sam's birthday and joined by Sam's older brother and his friend, the group plans a prank that will put George in his place. By the end of the day, however, this close-knit group of friends will have been tested and torn apart by a series of tricky moral decisions.

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Based on a pair of short stories by Andre Dubus, this drama brings two marriages and four lives to a crossroads by infidelity. Jack (Mark Ruffalo) is a college professor whose marriage to Terry (Laura Dern) has been going through a rough patch.

Beyond the tensions over Terry's failings as a mother and housekeeper, Jack is deeply infatuated with Edith (Naomi Watts), the beautiful wife of his best friend, Hank (Peter Krause), a fellow professor and struggling poet. As it happens, Edith is also attracted to Jack, and they soon begin an affair that Edith is certain will soon be found out. Hank, meanwhile, is a man with a flexible attitude about his own fidelity, and he falls into a relationship with Terry. Before long, all four parties learn about the infidelity of their spouses and friends, with differing reactions; Terry becomes desperate to save her marriage, Jack decides he's in love with Edith, but neither couple is willing to divorce.

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Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying.

Moments after takeoff, Lisa's (Rachel McAdams) seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill a rich and powerful businessman...And Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.

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Me and You and Everyone We Know is a comic and poetic take on contemporary relationships. In her feature debut as director, Miranda July casts herself as Christine, a drifting video artist who falls for down-on-his-luck shoe salesman Richard (John Hawkes).

Recently separated from his wife, Richard struggles with his parental responsibility for seven year old Robby and teenage Peter. Left unsupervised while their dad works, the two boys amuse themselves on their PC, constructing animal pictures using the punctuation keys, and getting involved in some increasingly risque instant-messaging. Orbiting this central quartet are an assortment of expertly drawn characters, whose lives intersect in sometimes bizarre but always believable ways; from the curator of the gallery to whom Christine has submitted her video project to Robby & Peter's next door neighbour, a young girl who collects consumer goods for a "hope chest" in her bedroom.