matt-b's - Rented List

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Mel Gibson stars in and directs this sweeping saga about Scotland's brutal battle for independence in the 13th century. When William Wallace's (Mel Gibson) wife is ravaged and murdered by English troops, his quest for revenge quickly turns into an impassioned fight for his country's freedom.

Tales of Wallace's bravery inspire every commoner to take arms against the English and escalate their crusade into a full scale war.

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Pixie (Olivia Cooke) wants to avenge her mother's death by masterminding a heist, but her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run with two young men (Hardy, McCormack) who are way out of their depth being chased across the Wild Irish countryside by gangsters.

She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.

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Filmed across three continents with stunning cinematography. 'Imperial Blue' drags the "white man in Africa" narrative kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

American smuggler, Hugo Winter (Nicolas Fagerberg), travels to Uganda to find the source of Bulu, a mysterious shamanic drug with prophetic powers. After being robbed and beaten up in a downtown brothel. Hugo is rescued by two sisters who offer to help him, but they are both competing for his money. As they journey together deep into the forest, their uneasy alliance comes apart with horrifying consequences.

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He's the best there is. In fact, he's the only one there is! He's Ace Ventura Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino.

He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he's always gets his man...or beast!

When New Orleans paramedics and long-time best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene.

A British Army doctor (Jemima West) comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD, only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.

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Time. It's running out for Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid). He has just 24 hours to find out who poisoned him... and why. In his bizarre and deadly search, everyone has a secret. Everyone is a suspect. Even the woman (Meg Ryan) who loves him.

Directed by Rocky f Morton and Annabel Jankel, creators of superstar "Max Headroom", D.O.A. pulsates with explosive action and sizzling performances by Quaid and Ryan, two people who find themselves suddenly living on the edge. It's a night on the run, filled with fear, danger... and passion.

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One night in 1990's rural England, a retired couple finds their isolated house besieged by a gang of young criminals. The thieves think it will be easy to make them give up the secret of their safe.

But they have no idea what nightmare they've gotten themselves into as they fight to escape the house alive.

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Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) makes a living as a small-town "ghost buster," ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome "guests".

But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam, until a powerful spirit goes on a murderous rampage, and everyone in town thinks that Frank is behind it. Now he must try to clear his name and find a way to stop this diabolical ghost - without becoming one himself!

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It is the near future and society is crumbling. John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a struggling labourer who drifts into town and makes a deadly discovery - society has been invaded by aliens from another dimension who are controlling the Earth through mind control.

Armed with only a submachine gun and a pair of special sunglasses, can Nada infiltrate the aliens' transmitting station and reveal their true forms?

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Jenn (Kiersey Clemons) finds herself completely alone on a small tropical island when her boat goes down. By day, every ounce of her strength, cunning, and courage is strained simply to find food, outlast the elements, and survive.

But as the sun sets, Jenn's waking nightmare inexorably grows into terror when a malevolent force comes to stalk the jungle for prey.

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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him.

So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him.

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With air so polluted that the only way to breathe is through manufactured air canisters, the human race is on its knees until a message from the future gives one of the biggest corporations on Earth hope.

A reclusive young man named Ethan (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is to be the saviour of the human race but what he discovers in his journey through time is an unthinkable conspiracy that could lead him to change the course of his timeline forever. Would you save humanity if you knew humanity may not be worth saving after all?

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She's an experienced climber, she trusted him to rescue her, but something went wrong high above the valley floor...and Cabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) has been blaming himself for her death ever since.

Unable to deal with the tragedy, Gabe quit his job with the Rocky Mountain Rescue team and fled from his cherished mountains, leaving behind his self-esteem, his friends and the woman he loves. Now he must return to those dreaded peaks, where he finds himself trapped in a desperate battle against ruthless criminals, unforgiving nature and himself in Cliffhanger.

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Director Ron Howard teams with Steve Martin and an all-star cast to create a hilarious, touching and unforgettable portrait of life's most rewarding occupation: Parenthood. The Buckmans are a modern-day family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the 'right' way.

At the centre of the storm is Gil (Steve Martin), who manages to keep his unique sense of humour while attempting to maintain a successful career and be a loving husband and parent, all at the same time. As Gil and the rest of the Buckmans discover, being the 'perfect' parent often means just letting children be themselves.