mg-watched's - Rented List

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Celebrating 25 years of a good marriage, Darcy feels her life is complete with a loving husband and wonderful children. Outside their lives a serial killer hunts his victims, killing young females, whilst a suspicious stranger stalks Darcy's family.

Thinking bad things only happen to others, Darcy soon finds out the truth as she uncovers a gruesome reality about her husband that suddenly makes the outside world frighteningly real. Realising that her husband is not who she thought he was, his sinister secret threatening not only their marriage but also her life, will Darcy survive the dark truth that is so horrific it can't be real?

A Super-Secret Organisation recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training programme just as a dire global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.

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In a post-apocalyptic eternal drought, people kill for water. Where it is scarce and desperately needed, a farmer (Michael Shannon) defends his land from threat, and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil in the hope of a better life for his family.

However, his daughter's boyfriend (Nicholas Hoult) wants the land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.

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On the run from the law after a bar-room brawl, troubled Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) flees the US to Italy. Arriving completely alone and without a plan, he soon meets the mysterious Louise (Nadia Hilker), and quickly falls in love.

But upon discovering that there's more to her than meets the eye, he must decide just how far he'll go for love.

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Nicolas Cage delivers a blistering, unforgettable performance as Evan Lake, a desk-bound Langley CIA agent forced into retirement by signs of early onset dementia.

At the same time he discovers that his former tormentor, Jihadist Muhhamed Banir (Alexander Karim), is not dead as assumed for two decades but is alive and receiving experimental medical treatment. Banir's exact location is unknown but with the help of a disgraced young agent (Anton Yelchin), Evan sets out to track down and confront him before it is too late for both of them.

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From Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon, it's the tail end of the psychedelic '60s and paranoia is running the day from the desert to the sea of sunny Southern California.

With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, the FBI, LAPD detectives, a tenor sax player working undercover, a group of Beverly Hills dentists and a mysterious entity called The Golden Fang, everything's gone from "groovy" to "where you at, man?" in what seems like a matter of moments. So when private eye Doc Sportello's ex-old lady Shasta Fay shows up at his door with a story about her current billionaire land-developer boyfriend and his wife and her boyfriend...well it all starts to get a little peculiar after that. Maybe you'll just want to see the movie?

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From writer/director J.C. Chandor comes "A Most Violent Year", a riveting crime thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, the most dangerous year in the city's history.

Starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain, this gripping story shows one man's determined battle to build his business in the midst of corruption and mob rule whilst protecting his family, without resorting to the violence that surrounds them.

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Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef (Susan Sarandon) leads a quiet life with her mother (Ellen Burstyn), her painkillers, and an occasional drink. But when she checks on an ill neighbor, she stumbles upon a gruesome murder that shatters her peaceful existence.

With the help of a fellow detective (Gil Bellows) and a transfer cop (Topher Grace), she unearths a series of similar killings across the country. When a local priest (Donald Sutherland) suggests a link to an ancient ritual, Hazel focuses her search on a religious madman with a deadly higher calling. Based on the novel by Inger Ash Wolfe, it's a journey to the shadowy landscape between faith and fear.

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Ryan Gosling directs an all-star cast in this gripping thriller about love, family and the fight fight for survival in the face of danger.

In the virtually abandoned town of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks) a single mother of two, is swept into a dark and macabre underworld in a desperate quest to save her home and hold her family together. Meanwhile, her teenage son Bones (lain De Caestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of the town that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.

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Don Champagne seems to have it all: a successful business, a perfect house, perfect kids, and a perfect wife. Unfortunately, when his wife, Mona, learns of Don's affair with a pretty new salesgirl, this suburban slice of heaven spirals out of control.

Don soon realizes that Mona will stop at nothing, including murder, to maintain their storybook life where "Perception is Everything".

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Jennifer Aniston leads an all-star cast in this hilarious crime comedy penned by legendary author Elmore Leonard. She plays pampered housewife Mickey, who is kidnapped by two petty crooks (John Hawkes) and who plan to extort a $1 million ransom from her wealthy husband (Tim Robbins).

A pretty solid plan save for the fact that he is having an affair with a voluptuous mistress (Isla Fisher) and doesn't want her back. As the crooks switch to plan B, a furious Mickey decides it's time get even!

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Ruthlessly efficient killer, Jamie (Danny Dyer) breaks the rules of his profession when he falls for beautiful stripper, Chloe (Holly Weston) after discovering that notorious gangland brothers, Lee (Martin Kemp) and John (Gary Kemp) have hired him to kill her father.

As violent chaos breaks out when he turns against his criminal employers to protect the woman he loves, he ultimately finds redemption.

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Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, a beautiful, enigmatic, and haunted woman, disappears - just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality.

Having lived for so long in a stifled, emotionally repressed household and head over heels in love for the first time - Kat barely registers her mother's absence. But as time passes, she begins to come to grips with how deeply her mother's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, Kat finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

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The story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history.

Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a foundering Earth behind to lead an expedition travelling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

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John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple.

Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that's now... Annabelle.