mmm's - Rented List

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A young girl named Sayuri (Yachie Matsui) is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage - but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home.

Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to a hidden attic room, and a young housemaid dies inexplicably of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives...is it all connected to her father's work studying venomous snakes? And is the fanged, serpentine figure that haunts Sayuri's dreams the same one spying on her through holes in the wall?

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Jenny (Susan Penhaligon) visits the local Catholic church to have her confession heard by the immoral Father Meldrum (Anthony Sharp), who is perversely interested in her sex life.

Rushing to escape his prying, she drops her apartment keys which Meldrum uses to invade her house and blackmail her by threatening to publish her recorded confession. Father Meldrum is looked after by his sinister housekeeper, Miss Brabazon (Sheila Keith) and when Jenny's boyfriend Terry confronts Meldrum, he is attacked with incense in the churchyard. Father Meldrum's standing in the community means that no one will suspect or accuse a man of the cloth; but in the meantime more people begin to die in mysterious ways through poisoned communion water and strangulation by rosary beads...

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Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic San Franciscan apartment she brews love potions, then lures men and seduces them. Her sorcery works only too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims.

When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

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Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) returns with the eagerly awaited 'First Cow', a gripping and glorious story of friendship, petty crime and the pursuit of the American dream on the harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest.

In 1820's Oregon, two loners team up to seek their fortune through a scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner's prized Jersey cow - the first, and only, in the territory. A true masterpiece from one of the great modern American filmmakers.

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Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard.

Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder's orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is the definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood. Erich von Stroheim as Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband and butler, and Nancy Olson as the bright spot in unrelenting ominousness, are equally celebrated for their masterful performances.

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Isabelle Adjani plays Elle, a provocative 19-year-old whose move, with her mother and sick father, to a sleepy Provence village sets the locals afire with lust and gossip. She soon finds a suitor in gentle Pin-Pon (Alain Souchon), the local mechanic, and they marry shortly after.

Then the tone shifts, when a dark secret emerges from her past, the film becomes more complex and Adjani's character reveals a disturbing side as she manipulates events and men in order to seek revenge for an outrage inflicted in her childhood...

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Light years from Disney, Juraj Herz's singular adaptation of the classic tale is an altogether darker interpretation.

The film follows the familiar story - innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with and eventually even love her captor - but it is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Juraj Herz's macabre re-imagining. Aided by wonderful sets and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale turned horror-story from Czechoslovak cinemas most wryly subversive artist.

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"Stray" explores what it means to live as a being without status or security, following three strays as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society.

Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds companions in the security guards who care for her. The strays' disparate lives intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians with whom they share the streets. Director Elizabeth Lo's award-winning film is a critical observation of human civilisation through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

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Blood, gore, severed heads, but a tender love story at heart. Takashi Miike is back! One night in Tokyo. Leo (Masataka Kubota), a young boxer down on his luck, meets his 'first love' Monica (Sakurako Konishi), a callgirl and an addict, but still an innocent.

Unwittingly caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, Leo and Monica find themselves pursued through the night by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin hired by the Chinese Triads. Prepare for unadulterated mayhem and carnage and fall for 'First Love'.

The film follows the story of a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

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The wife of a modern artist discovers the perverse and inclinations of the director of the gallery her husband's work in exhibited in. She witnesses the scenes of sexual submission he photographs, placing women in humiliating poses.

Fascinated by this man she too becomes his model and prisoner of his fantasies, trapped in a depraved world with no way of escaping.

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Double crosses, murder and madness...such things are the hallmarks of giallo and 'Paranoia' is a fine example of the form. Carol Baker is Helen, a race car driver whose life has hit the skids.

She's invited to spend the weekend with her ex-husband Maurice (Jean Sorel) and his wife Constance (Anna Proclemer). Constance wants the feckless Maurice dead and she'd like Helen to help. A plan is drawn up, but things are never so simple in the twisted world of the giallo...

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A young American man lost in Paris scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike. During a show in an old people's home Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe and haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, a place where everyone is famous and no-one gets old.

Here, The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Everything is beautiful until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream.

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After 20 years on the British police force, Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery) has seen too much: 20 years of murders, rapes and countless other violent crimes.

One day while interrogating a snide, sarcastic suspect in a child molestation case, all of his pent up anger and hatred surfaces and Johnson loses control, killing the man. What had started out as a routine investigation has turned into a case of police brutality, and Johnson must now attempt to reconcile his own violent behaviour.

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Growing up in a new-town tower block at the tail end of the 1960's isn't easy for awkward adolescent schoolgirl Wynne (Jenny Agutter). She has a bad case of puppy love for her much older foster brother, George (Bryan Marshall).

And to add to her anguish, might he even be the crazed killer of teenage girls known to prowl the woods nearby?