matty-m00's - Rented List

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Deborah Kerr (in the performance of her career) plays the emotionally repressed vicar's daughter who takes up a job as a governess to two seemingly angelic orphans.

Gradually coming to believe that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of their former governess and her sadistic lover, she begins to see manifestations of the ghosts prowling the huge gothic mansion of Bly House. Director Jack Clayton sustains a superbly haunting atmosphere throughout the film, and like James' original work, cleverly retains the ambiguity of wether the ghosts are real or the products of the governess's fevered imagination. Aided by Freddie Francis's exquisitely inventive and atmospheric CinemaScope photography, we, like the governess, are never quite sure what unspoken horrors are lurking beyond the edge of the frame and are kept guessing until the film's tragic conclusion.

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In the small town of Snowfield, 700 people are suddenly and inexplicably missing. Left behind are two sisters, the town sheriff (Ben Affleck), his deputy (Liev Schrieber) and a professor (Peter O'Toole). They soon discover that the unthinkable has happened: a ferocious force of evil...

dormant below the earth for centuries...has surfaced with enough power to destroy every human being. You're in for a terrifying, edge-of-your-seat movie experience as these five lone survivors race to stop this awesome threat before it wipes them...and all of mankind...off the face of the earth!

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A ruthless assassin (Bruce Willis) has been hired to eliminate someone at the very top of the U.S. government. Constantly changing his identity and location, he is known only as the Jackal. Everything about this hit man, including his sinister timetable, is a secret.

Aware of the Jackal's presence but uncertain of his purpose, the FBI's Deputy Director (Sidney Poitier) faces the biggest challenge of his career. In order to track down this coldblooded killer, he and a by-the-book Russian intelligence officer (Diane Venora) enlist the aid of an imprisoned Irish terrorist (Richard Gere). These unlikely allies enter a global race against the clock to stop the mysterious mercenary before he can complete his deadly assignment.

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The Black Dahlia weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today.

Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett(, are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia" - an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public. While Blanchard's growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his relationship with Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city's most prominent families - who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim.

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Isolation...alienation...happiness. In America they all go hand in hand. Buy a new TV and you will be happy. Still not happy? Experience alienation. Can't afford a new TV? Then live in isolation. 'Be happy', and if that doesn't work, pretend to make it work.

For the characters in Todd Solondz' award winning, subversively funny film Happiness, the struggle to attain such a state is fraught with perils both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Using brain-implant technology, corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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Somewhere in Eastern Europe 1922… Filming F. W. Murnau's classic vampire movie, Noferatu, is being disrupted not only by funding problems, but by rumours of disappearances and deaths amongst and cast and crew.

On the first night of shooting, the cameraman mysteriously takes ill and collapses… Some days later, his replacement falls into a trance and never recovers… Leading man Max Shreck (Willem Dafoe) is never introduced to the cast and crew and he is never seen out of character. Hapless actor Gustav (Eddie Izzard) thinks his sinister co-star is the ultimate method actor. In fact, director Murnau (John Malkovich) has sealed a pact with Shreck offering him the neck of his leading lady (Catherine McCormack) at the end of the shoot if he delivers the ultimate performance for the camera. Stranded on an island, the crew must finish the film before Shreck's bloodlust becomes incontrollable.

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In this critically acclaimed and incredibly tense supernatural thriller, a foreigner's mysterious appearance in a quiet village causes suspicion among the locals - suspicion which quickly turns to hysteria, as the residents begin killing each other in brutal outbursts, seemingly without motive.

As the hopelessly out-of-depth investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he agrees to consult a shaman for answers - unknowingly escalating the situation.

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Nicolas Cage is back and this time he's got a sword and an alien invasion knocking at his door! The future hangs in the balance as a being from another world returns to Earth to face off against the best warriors the human race has to offer.

From special ops soldiers to the best in MMA, this epic battle for the survival of Earth will place humanity on the brink of extinction.

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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike (River Phoenix) is quite, gay and suffers from narcolepsy.

Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike's mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, whit Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way.

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London's clubland - a twilight hidden world, as seductive as it is decadent, where prostitution, drugs and even murder are part of the game in the smoky atmosphere of the Baron Club.

"Hussy" is a dramatic and compelling love story centred on Beaty (Helen Mirren), a self destructive woman whose experience of life has encompassed drugs, sexual encounters and a dangerous gangster lover. At the London nightclub where she works as a hostess, she meets and almost against her will, falls in love with a mysterious young American, Emory (John Shea), who works the spotlights. Emory finds that he must accept both Beaty's decadent existence and her murderous ex-lover when he returns from prison. Yet even he has a secret past of his own and he too becomes involved in the dealings of the underworld...an involvement which leads to violence, drug smuggling, and ultimately, death...

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Bestial dreams interrupt the venal plans of a French aristocrat attempting to save a crumbling mansion by marrying off his deformed son to a horny American heiress.

Initially turned down flat by British censors but presented here uncut, Walerian Borowczyk's most outrageous feature broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience even today.

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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Starring Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem and Academy Award Winner Penelope Cruz, with Peter Sarsgaard, 'Escobar' chronicles the life of the most notorious drug kingpin in history, during the years of his sensational and scandalous love affair with Colombia's leading TV anchor, Virginia Vallejo.

A feared and fearless criminal who amassed a fortune in excess of $20billion and is said to have been responsible for the deaths of more than 3,000 people, Escobar's reign of terror was infamous, and tore his beloved Columbia apart. Twenty years in the making, Escobar offers a fresh and unique take on a criminal who was cruel and charismatic in equal measure. Exploring his infatuation with Vallejo, it journeys deeper into the legend of 'The King of Cocaine' than ever before, telling of his astonishing rise, and ultimately, his tragic fall.

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"The Dinner", starring Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall, is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant.

When Stan Lohman (Gere), a popular congressman, invites his troubled younger brother Paul (Coogan) and his wife Claire (Linney) to join him and his wife Katelyn (Hall) for dinner at a fashionable restaurant, the stage is set for a tense night. Stan and Paul's teenage sons are friends, and the two of them have committed a crime that has shocked the country. While their sons' identities have not yet been discovered, their parents must now decide what action to take. A riveting story filled with many shocking twists and turns, 'The Dinner' is a chilling parable about the savage reality hidden beneath the surface of middle class lives.