matti's - Rented List

A serene and melancholy love story between a German man and a Polish woman as they are caught up in the advent of modern capitalism in Poland. Based on the novel by Gunther Grass.

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Based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa, the film recounts the ancient custom of younger inhabitants in a remote Japanese mountain village who are obliged to shepherd those over the age of seventy to the top of Mount Narayama to await their death.

One such elder must first sort out the lives of her three children before she fulfils her duty to the village.

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As night falls, a secluded house hidden deep in the woods takes on a terrifying life of its own. Eleven year-old Neve is the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed the rest of her family.

Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's claims of supernatural events occurring at the family home. But if s not long before the nightmarish horrors of Neve's past return to claim more victims.

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The film that made Francesco Rosi's international reputation, this Citizen Kane-style investigative portrait was originally called Sicily 1943-60, as Rosi sought not so much to depict Giuliano himself as the society from which he sprang, in which the police, the Carabinieri and the Mafia all have

strong vested interests. Filming in the exact locations and utilising court reports as primary source material, Rosi mainly cast local Sicilians, some of whom knew Giuliano personally. The only professional actors were Frank Wolff (Once Upon a Time in the West} and Salvo Randone (L'Assassino).

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Harry Hambridge (Pat Shortt) is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse.

On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that fecking flag and maybe his passion for life along the way.

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Anarchic Londoner Morgan Delt (David Warner), a working class artist and self-confessed dreamer with a gorilla-fixation tries to regain the affections of his upper-class ex-wife Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave).

Leonie rejects Morgan's attempts at reconciliation and when she informs him of her plans to marry stuffy art dealer, Charles Napier (Robert Stephens), Morgan slips off the mental deep end into a vivid fantasy life. Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in an often hilarious campaign to win Leonie back...

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Bob Wilcot (Ian Carmichael) is a suave television personality standing as prospective Conservative MP at the Eamdale by-election, not out of an ethical imperative but because his uncle, Lord Wilcot (Sim), needs the publicity for the commercialisation of the ancestral home.

But the young Tory becomes smitten by his attractive opponent, Labour candidate Stella Stoker (Patricia Bredin). As the election looms, the candidate's respective agents join forces to become obstacles on the pair's path to true love.

Arthur Parker - cowardly and dishonest, with a fistful of dreams and an eye for the ladies - is a sheet-music salesman in 1930s Britain. Frustrated by his frigid wife and cynical shopkeepers, he looks to a desperate romance and a life-affirming immorality to reach the fantasy world of the songs.

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In an unknown country in an unknown war, a young soldier has deserted the army in fear of his life and his sanity. Disguised in strange face paint and women's clothes, he is eventually taken in by a band of travelling gypsies.

Due to his strange attire they believe he is The Rawney, a strange, mad and magical old woman of legend who can perform magic, control animals and bring good luck. But strange forces are conspiring and it will take more than faith to survive them.

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Martin Durnley (Hywel Bennett), who has a childish alter ego "Georgie", lives with his mother Enid (Phyllis Calvert) and his nouveau riche stepfather (Frank Finlay) whom he resents intensely.

Enid dotes on Martin, largely because her first son Pete is a "mongol", and she is afraid that Martin may inherit a similar affliction. One day whilst shopping martin encounters Susan Harper (Hayley Mills), an attractive student currently working as a librarian. When he is caught shoplifting a toy duck baby-faced Martin adopts the guise fo retarded Georgie, consequently Susan takes pity on him and offers to pay for the item rather than create a fuss. This moment of kindness captures Martin’s interest, sowing the seeds of a deadly obsession.

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Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) is admitted to a rehabilitation centre after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio (Vincent Cassel).

Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free...

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It's 1943, and the Germans are in control of the French port of Marseilles. Although the Nazis seem to be having plenty of fun at the local bordellos, they're upset by the amount of crime in the poor part of town, and suspicious that anti-Nazi plots are hatching there.

Dave (Stephen Boyd) and Jim (Tony Wright) are English POW's who have recently escaped from Germany. They are hiding in a tiny apartment waiting for the French resistance to arrange their passage to England. Bored with captivity the Englishmen venture out and Dave falls for local woman Lise (Anna Gaylor). Meanwhile the mysterious Dr. Martout (James Robertson Justice) makes a living by helping escapees on their passage out of the city, but all is not what it seems! Given an ultimatum to quell the French Resistance, the German Commander decides to demolish the crime-infested Old Quarter, where Dave and Jim are hiding. Dave wants to wait for the resistance, Jim chooses Dr. Martout, but will either of them see England again?

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Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing.

He finds postwar Helsinki rampant with persecution, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhabitations. His work - made famous by his signature 'Tom of Finland' - became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

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Shot in a dazzling combination of luminous black and white celluloid and state of the art colour saturated digital video, 'Eloge de l'amour' concerns an author (Bruno Putzulu) and the beautiful young woman (Cecile Camp) he is considering for a part in a project he is writing which deals with the

four key moments of love. Convinced that he may have met the woman before, we travel back two years in time to a series of interviews with an elderly couple who fought in the Resistance. Could this be where the enigmatic pair first met?

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From legendary filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, 'Elle' is a gripping psychological noir thriller. Starring iconic actress Isabelle Huppert in a career-defining role, 'Elle' follows Michele LeBlanc (Huppert), founder and CEO of a successful video game company, who is attacked in her own home.

Upending our expectations, Michele begins to track down her assailant, and soon they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, one that at any moment may spiral out of control.