mg-watched's - Rented List

Show moreShow less

Keys To Tulsa is a murderously irreverent tale of sex, intrigue and humour in the deep, dark South.

Eric Stoltz heads an all-star cast as Richter Boudreau, the 'black sheep son of a black sheep' manoeuvring through a wonderfully bizarre coterie of characters as he finds himself pushed back into the world of wealth and privilege that spawned him. As he becomes the inadvertent pawn in a dangerous scheme of blackmail, Richter must at last face the hypocritical values and petty jealous of small town America - what emerges is a dramatic and potentially deadly journey through his past, present and future.

Show moreShow less

One crisp Thanksgiving morning Eliza finds a letter - a love poem - to her husband from a mysterious "Sandy". Unable to digest its implications alone, she drives out to Long Island to discuss it with her family.

There, her overbearing mother, her laconic father, her sardonic sister Jo and Jo's Kafka-reading boyfriend, Carl, pile into the family station wagon and to drive to Manhattan to confront the possibly philandering Louis (Stanley Tucci).

Show moreShow less

After being dumped by his girlfriend (Michelle Ryan), art student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) develops chronic insomnia. Finding himself with too much time on his hands, Ben begins working the night shift at the local supermarket.

There Ben begins to imagine he can freeze time and uses his "ability" to undress and sketch the female customers in the nude. Ben is occasionally distracted from his fantasy by his unconventional yet hilarious co-workers, who introduce him to their inventive antics of losing time to survive the boredom of the graveyard shift, but it is quiet check-out girl Sharon (Emilia Fox) who catches his attention and she soon becomes the object of his fantasies. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, Cashback unveils a world where reality and fantasy blur and love and beauty are realised in the most unusual places.

Show moreShow less

When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter (Willem Dafoe) busts contract killer Jesse Weiland (Matt Dillon), he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss (Tom Berenger) who ordered the hit.

Show moreShow less

The critically-acclaimed hit series returns with a new case and a new cast, starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch. A Highway Patrol motorcycle officer stumbles upon the scene of a bizarre murder, in which the victim's body has been ritually mutilated.

The crime triggers an investigation that brings together three law-enforcement officers from different cities, each with troubled pasts, and a thug-turned-entrepreneur in danger of losing his empire. As the case grows broader and darker - revealing multiple criminal collusions involving billions of dollars - it forces the participants to face their own inner demons in order to solve the crime, all the while navigating a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.

Show moreShow less

In 1995, Detectives Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) and Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey), partners in Louisiana's Criminal Investigation Division, are assigned to a macabre murder by a killer with disturbing occult leanings.

As they attempt to uncover the secrets of this bizarre crime, their own lives collide and entwine in unexpected, sometimes catastrophic ways. In 2012, when a similar case leads to an investigation of the original '95 murder by two new detectives, Marty and Rust separately tell the story of the investigation, their lives, and how they've affected each other as detectives, friends, and men.

Two quarrelsome sisters must overcome their differences as they journey to Cuba to uncover the mysteries of their family's past. But arriving in Havana, their plans soon go awry as they encounter romance and danger, in what will become a holiday they will never forget.

Show moreShow less

Compelling, complex, gripping and genuinely disturbing, The Red Riding Trilogy is a breathtaking, neo-noir epic based on horrific, factual events and adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni from David Peace's series of groundbreaking novels.

The Red Riding Trilogy follows controversial stories revolving around the manhunt for the brutal Yorkshire Ripper. After a failed attempt to crack Fleet Street, a cynical journalist returns to his homeland of Yorkshire and finds himself assigned to report on the case of a local girl who has gone missing. But after her bizarrely mutilated body is discovered, he is thrown into a sleaze infested, nightmarish world of corruption. As the killer's identity remains a mystery, savage events spiral out of control, spanning generations and leading to a shocking climax.

Show moreShow less

British Special Forces Sergeant Michael Stonebridge and US ex-Delta Force commando Damien Scott are thrust back into the field at the orders of maverick new Section 20 commanding officer, Major Rachel Dalton.

When enigmatic billionaire businessman, Conrad Knox resolves to play God with the future of southern Africa using weapons stolen from the crumbling regime in Libya, Section 20 are the only force capable of confronting his deadly scheme.
"Strike Back: Vengeance" is a heart-pounding, thrill-ride set across five electrifying stories. Section 20 are tasked with rescuing British hostages from a Somali warlord in Mogadishu; chasing an infamous al-Qaeda operative into a terrifying siege in the Algerian desert; turning a scientist concealing a deadly secret in Cape Town; diffusing a scheme to overthrow the government of Zimbabwe and finally countering a nuclear plot that will change the face of Africa forever. But when Knox and his generals attack the very heart of Section 20 and the private lives of its operatives, the fight becomes personal...

Show moreShow less

Billy Bob Thornton and Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke star in an interweaving tale, which unfolds in Los Angeles in the decadent ‘80s: a city ruled by addictions of every type - from sex, to drugs, to power - where youth is wasted, where love is fleeting, where every night is a

headlong rush to the next orgy of sensation. Sooner or later, the party has to end...and the hangover is bound to be a killer.

Show moreShow less

In the 1960s, no star burned brighter than original "It" girl Edie Sedgwick. Starring Sienna Miller in a "captivating, compelling and absurdly sexy" performance (Terry Lawson), Factory Girl follows Edie's meteoric rise from art student to the top of New York's fashion scene.

As the muse of pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), Edie paid a steep price for fame. An intoxicating journey through pop-culture history, Factory Girl takes us inside Warhol's legendary studio, where the worlds of art, fashion and celebrity all collided.

Show moreShow less

Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be.

Their spiritual quest, however, veers rapidly off course (due to events involving over the counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer and a laminating machine, at this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins.

Show moreShow less

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

As they attempt to find a way out of the swamp they come across the Crowley house, the former home of Victor Crowley, a hideously deformed boy killed in tragic circumstances. It soon becomes apparent that the legend of Victor Crowley is much more than just a story and soon the group find themselves hunted by a killer more hideous and terrifying than they could ever have imagined.

Show moreShow less

How do you make a fortune from the bloodlust of millions? One sadistically savvy businessman (Samuel L Jackson] has created an empire with his brutal, fight-to-the-death gladiator website.

His newest warrior is David Lord (Kellan Lutz], a kidnapped fireman, now imprisoned and forced to fight for his life. To buy his freedom, Lord agrees to do a series of lethal bouts. But as the body count escalates, and with his most challenging battle remaining, Lord unleashes a torrent of bloody carnage and reveals a secret that threatens to tear down the entire enterprise.

Show moreShow less

A couple of good-looking small town teenage slackers, Bobby and Marty, have known each other forever. They work dead end jobs, do drugs and hustle cash by selling porno home videos and queer phone sex. The sadistic Bobby treats Marty like a toy, dominating him brutally and efficiently.

It's how they have always been. They hook up with beautiful, spoiled Ali, and her awkward, vulnerable friend Lisa for a double date on the beach, where Ali is viciously humiliated by Bobby. Lisa falls in love with Marty, and Bobby feels his control slipping... things get ugly.