mg-watched's - Rented List

Westworld is a dark odyssey about artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Days of fantasy play out in a vast, remote Wild West park where a guest pays top dollar to become the person they've always dreamed of during their adventures with android hosts. But behind the scenes, something's not right.

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Madame Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet) is an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the still to-be-completed Palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her, the famous landscape architect Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts).

However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Le Notre and forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV (Alan Rickman). But Sabine is made of strong stuff; her honesty and compassion help her to overcome both the challenges of her newfound popularity, and an unspeakable tragedy from her past, to win the favour of the Sun King and the heart of Le Notre.

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It is the eve of Prohibition, and county treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is looking to cash in.

As the undisputed "Boss" of Atlantic City, Nucky leads a double life as a politician and bootlegger; Prohibition may have outlawed alcohol, but to provide "liquid gold" for a thirsty nation. In a city defined by notorious backroom politics and vicious power struggles, Nucky must battle with a relentless federal agent, ambitious underlings, and opportunistic rivals – including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, and Al Capone.

Blue Valentine is a true love story flooded with romantic memories of the courtship between Dean and Cindy. The tale is told in past and present as they recall the episodes that brought them together.

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On the rooftop of a city skyscraper, Detective Hollis (Terrence Howard) pleads with Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) not to jump. What he does not known is that Gavin, an atheist, is involved in a deadly feud with Joe (Patric Wilson), a Christian extremist.

Joe's gorgeous wife, Shana (Liv Tyler), is caught in middle as Joe seeks to test Gavin's faith... or lack of it. Cutting between the present and past, tension escalates as verbal shots give way to deadly threats in a race against time that no-one can stop.

Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost his will to live, a terminally ill ex-con and a pathologically shy mortician.

Roderick Blank, a successful executive whose life is turned around by an email that includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. The mysterious femme fatale who becomes an urban folk hero when she targets men guilty of sex crimes against women.

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Holly (Abigail Hardingham) appears to have found true love when she falls for her colleague Rob (Cian Barry). He is nursing a broken heart after losing his girlfriend Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) in a fatal road accident and she desperately wants to relieve his anguish.

However, the couple's happy union is soon compromised when the restless Nina returns from the afterlife and begins taunting them each time they attempt intimacy.

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Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) and his wife, Deborah (Winona Ryder) appear to have a model American life, living with their children in an idyllic suburban house.

Unbeknownst to Deborah and the kids, when Kuklinski goes off to work in the morning - or, on occasion, in the middle of dinner or the middle of the night - he is carrying out executions at the behest of a local crime family.
"The Iceman" shows the development of Kuklinski's career from the 1950s through the 1980s, showing how he employed a wide variety of methods (guns, knives, poisonings etc.) that made it difficult to trace all the fatalities to a single killer.

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A coming-of-age comedy about love, life and friendship starring British rising stars Jessica Brown Findlay and Felicity Jones. From the moment they meet, seventeen-year-old wild child Emelia and shy, sensible Beth are firm friends despite their differences.

Beth is desperate to break free from her eccentric, dysfunctional family - her father Jonathan, a once famous writer suffering from writer's block and her outspoken and single-minded mother Joa, who cannot hide her resentment at having given up a once promising acting career. Before long, Emelia is bringing her own brand of chaos to the household with explosive consequences.

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Haunted by his past, WWII veteran and drifter Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) crosses paths with a mysterious movement called The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) aka The Master and his wife Peggy (Amy Adams). Their twisted relationship is the core of this film.

Will Freddie be able to outrun his past? Will The Cause help or hurt him? Can this tortured, violent creature be civilized? Or is man, after all, just a dirty animal?

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world.

Her hard-party mother (Kristen Wag) and absent father (Christopher Meloni) have left her rudderless, and she's fallen in love with her mother's boyfriend, Monroe (Alexander Skarsgard). As she finds solace in his seductive smiles and her animation, she emerges defiant.

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Bill (Callum Turner) and Percy (Caleb Landry Jones) are two disillusioned young men drafted into national service with the war in Korea looming. Instead of buckling down and enduring their training they skulk and skive in very way they can.

Whether that be stealing a superior's precious clock or finding girls in the local town, it's these gallivanting jaunts that turn out to be the real life lessons

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Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. 'I Really Hate My Job' is the story of an evening in a cafe in London's Soho.

As in so many jobs, nothing much happens - except laughter, song, rage, collapse, intrigue, cooking, lying, nudity, conversation, secrets, love, friendship, ageing, hatred, rat-infestation and the arrival of a movie star. You might assume they're just three waitresses, one cook and one dishwasher but they see themselves as an artist, an actor, a lover, an author and a philosopher.