matty-m00's - Rented List
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The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table receives its most impressive screen treatment in Excalibur, from visionary movie maker John Boorman. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic 'Le Morte D'Arthur' are here: Arthur (Nigel Terry) removing the sword Excalibur from the stone; the Round Table's noble birth and tragic decline; the heroic attempts to recover the Holy Grail; and the shifting balance of power between wily wizard Merlin (Nicol Williamson) and evil sorceress Morgana (Helen Mirren). - Director:
- John Boorman
- Cast:
- Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay
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Steven Spielberg's film "Empire Of The Sun" is an inspiring action-packed epic of a small boy in a great war. That boy is Jim Graham, a young Briton whose unconquerable spirit soars high and free above the harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during World War 2. Through his eyes we see the fascination and horror of war. And we see a child's hold onto childhood weaken as his struggle to survive grows fiercer. - Director:
- Steven Spielberg
- Cast:
- Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
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Richard Gere stars as Eddie Jillette, a tough, uncompromising cop whose vow to avenge his partner's death draws him into a torrid affair with the only witness, the murderer's girlfriend. Kim Basinger is the sultry Cajun beauty Michel, caught in the war between Gere and vicious crime lord Losado (Jeroen Krabbé), the man who possesses her. Jillette's vendetta takes him from the streets of Chicago to the violent underworld of New Orleans, where he abducts Michel to flush out Losado. He escapes into the treacherous bayou with his unwilling captive, but as their pursuers close in and the danger mounts, so does their lust for each other. Out of time and out of luck, Jillette confronts Losado in an explosive climax where there is...no mercy. - Director:
- Richard Pearce
- Cast:
- Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé
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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man (Ben Kingsley) undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin arid the organisation that will kill to protect its cause. - Director:
- Tarsem Singh
- Cast:
- Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode
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In the early 1970's, there emerged from the brutal streets of New York the voice for a new generation of youth disillusioned by the lost promises of the 60's. The voice belonged to Jim Carroll, whose unflinching, compelling and corrosive memories of adolescence exploded into the worlds of literature and music. Travelling desperate roads Jim (Leonardo DiCaprio) keeps writing, but his spiralling descent into drug addiction causes his journal entries to turn surreal, mirroring a life of mindless crime, depravation and despair. Finally a stint in Riker's Island juvenile reformatory and his written account of a life spinning out of control rescue him from annihilation. - Director:
- Scott Kalvert
- Cast:
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol
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Silent Tongue (Tantoo Cardinal) is a mute Kiowa who is raped by Eamon McCree (Alan Bates), the owner of the Kickapoo Traveling Medicine Show. Eamon attempts to make up for his crime by marrying her, hoping for forgiveness. Instead, Silent Tongue enacts a bitter retribution through her two daughters, Awbonnie (Sheila Tousey) and Velada (Jeri Arredondo). Awbonnie, as the film begins, has already died, but her grieving husband Talbot (River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho) refuses to let her go, dragging around her corpse. To assuage Talbot, his father Prescott (Richard Harris) sets out to purchase Velada from Eamon, thinking that only Awbonnie's sister can replace her in Talbot's eyes. But Velada's half-brother Reeves (Dermot Mulroney) protests the attempted transaction. As a result, Prescott kidnaps Velada and flees, with not only Reeves and Eamon chasing him, but also Awbonnie's ghost. An ambitious work that offers a weighty meditation on reparation and revenge, Shepard's poetic vision is well served by a first rate cast and Jack Conroy's expansive Scope photography. - Director:
- Sam Shepard
- Cast:
- Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix
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Psychiatrist Isaac Barr is a noted expert patsy in his field - and the perfect patsy in a devious scheme of murder and inheritance. And his fall could be straight down from atop a towering lighthouse. Handcuffed in 'No Mercy', Richard Gere and Kim Basinger now face a lighthouse catwalk in 'Final Analysis', a gripping, masterful update of the complex psychological thrillers of yesteryear. Writer Wesley Strick (Cape Fear) and Director Phil Joanou uncover sultry evil around each turn. The mood is sinister: Barr (Gere) breaches professional ethics by romancing the gorgeous sister of a troubled client (Uma Thurman). One black widow makes a mystery exciting. Two make this one irresistible. - Director:
- Phil Joanou
- Cast:
- Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)Tsigoineruwaizen
The pair are reacquainted when Nakasago is suspected of the murder of a woman in a coastal resort town and Aochi is called in to provide a testimony. Catching up over drinks that evening, both become infatuated with the young geisha serving them, Koine. Several years later, Nakasago meets a dead-ringer for Koine and marries her, but it is not long before this wild-eyed and restless roamer is ready to move on again. - Director:
- Seijun Suzuki
- Cast:
- Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Kisako Makishi
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Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a small group of people are beginning to question whether this "Golden Age of Man" comes at a secret and terrible price. And when the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen, finally reveals his true form to the world, the sight is as profound as it is disturbing. - Director:
- Nick Hurran
- Cast:
- Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts
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A cosmic nightmare from the minds of H.P Lovecraft and Richard Stanley. 'Color Out of Space' follows Nathan (Nicolas Cage) and Theresa Gardner (Joely Richardson) and their children, whose recent retreat to rural life crumbles when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time. The local wildlife begins to mutate and the family attempts to fight the contagion that has consumed their farm with the help of a friendly hydrologist (Elliot Knight) and eccentric neighbour (Tommy Chong). But what chance can a few humans have against a nebulous entity capable of traversing the gulf between worlds, a nightmarish being that exists beyond the limits of the human spectrum? - Director:
- Richard Stanley
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Brett W. Bachman, Joely Richardson
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On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower, and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. The "well-planned" heist is now a circus. Based on a true incident, this thriller earned six Academy Award nominations. - Director:
- Sidney Lumet
- Cast:
- Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen
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Strap yourself in for Final Destination 3, the most terrifying thrill ride ever! After Wendy and her friends survive a deadly roller coaster ride, they start being killed in even more gruesome ways. Wendy realizes that the nightmare isn't over ... Death has returned to finish the job. But can she convince the rest of her friends before it's too late? - Director:
- James Wong
- Cast:
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche
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When a struggling horror novelist arrives at a small town for a book signing, he is unwittingly embroiled in a murder investigation. As he starts to piece the case together, inexplicable events disrupt his life and seem to be trying to tell him something. But as he gets closer to the truth, he discovers details that are mysteriously entwined with his own life. - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast:
- Val Kilmer, Tom Waits, Bruce Dern
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From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, 'Days of Thunder' explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race car driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends race car driver Cole Trickle's career until he turns to a beautiful doctor Claire Lewicki (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and true courage needed to race, to win and to live. - Director:
- Tony Scott
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall
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Dark Smith is a tormented soul infatuated with his girlfriend Mel who's too much of a free spirit to be tied down. During one day in L.A. they hook up with an eccentric array of friends, each with their own issues, and embark on a surreal orgy of drink, drugs and polysexual encounters culminating in a hedonistic party and one hell of a climax. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton
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