mmm's - Rented List
-
A glorious fantastical adventure, raves Daily Mirror's Mark Adams for 'Stardust', an epic fairy tale starring Claire Danes with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. In hopes of wooing a beautiful girl (Sienna Miller), Tristan (Charlie Cox) promises to bring her a falling star. But he's in for the adventure of his life when he discovers the star is actually a celestial beauty names Yvaine (Danes). When an old witch Lamia (Pfeiffer) atttempts to steal Yvain's youth, Tristan must protect her at all costs. - Director:
- Matthew Vaughn
- Cast:
- Ian McKellen, Charlie Cox, Claire Danes
- Formats:
-
-
When seriously ill teenager Milla (Eliza Scanlen) falls in love with free-spirit Moses (Wallace), it's her parents, Henry (Ben Mendelsohn) and Anna's (Essie Davis), worst nightmare. But as Milla's first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. - Director:
- Shannon Murphy
- Cast:
- Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace
- Formats:
-
-
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Gepetto (Roberto Benigni), fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio (Federico Ielapi), who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways. - Director:
- Matteo Garrone
- Cast:
- Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo
- Formats:
-
-
You only think you know this story. Writer-director Marc Meyers has crafted a haunting and evocative look at one of history's most notorious serial killers. Shot on location and in Dahmer's (Ross Lynch) childhood home, the film reveals his troubled family life, his increasingly bizarre attempts to make friends and his fascination with the macabre. Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Jeff's classmate Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff), 'My Friend Dahmer' chronicles the origins of the man, the monster...the high school senior. - Director:
- Marc Meyers
- Cast:
- Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche
- Formats:
-
-
Five strangers go with a tourist group to view old caves. Separated from the main group, they find themselves in a room with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who details how each of the strangers will die. ...And All Through the House - After Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins) kills her husband on Christmas Eve, she prepares to hide his body but hears a radio announcement stating that a homicidal maniac (Oliver MacGreevy) is on the loose.
Reflection of Death - Carl Maitland (Ian Hendry) abandons his family to be with Susan Blake (Angela Grant). After they drive off together, they are involved in a car accident. He wakes up in the wrecked car and attempts to hitchhike home, but no one will stop for him. Poetic Justice - Edward Elliott (David Markham) and his son James (Robin Phillips) are a snobbish pair who resent their neighbor, retired garbage man Arthur Grymsdyke (Peter Cashing) who owns a number of animals and entertains children in his house.
Wish You Were Here - Businessman Ralph Jason (Richard Greene) is close to financial ruin. His wife Enid (Barbara Murray) discovers a Chinese figurine and wishes for a fortune. Blind Alleys - Major William Rogers (Nigel Patrick), the new director of a home for the blind, makes drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with Shane, his Belgian Malinois.- Director:
- Freddie Francis
- Cast:
- Robert Rietty, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing
- Formats:
-
-
Psychomania (1973)The Death Wheelers
Upon discovering a dark family secret Tom Latam (Nick Henson), the leader of hell-raising teen motorcycle gang The Living Dead, decides to take drastic measures to ensure his gang's superiority. Through his devil-worshipping mother (Beryl Reid), Tom makes a pact with Satan to ascertain the secret of immortality. Using this information he encourages his fellow riders to end their lives, safe in the knowledge that they'll soon return from the dead to invulnerably terrorise the locals. - Director:
- Don Sharp
- Cast:
- George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson
- Formats:
-
-
Stroll down the corridors of a mental asylum, where your mind won't believe what your eyes see. In the tradition of Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow...this anthology of pulp horror tales, helmed by the ever- reliable horror master, Freddie Francis. The film features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of psychiatrist Donald Pleasance, who's attempting to justify his strange theories of colleague, Jack Hawkins. - Director:
- Freddie Francis
- Cast:
- Jack Hawkins, Charles Gray, Donald Pleasence
- Formats:
-
-
Koko-Di Koko-Da (2019)Koko-di Koko-da
When a married couple retreat to a remote area of forest as part of a re-conciliatory camping trip, they encounter a trio of otherworldly presences who steadily turn their trip into a nightmare. Led by a mysterious man dressed in a sharp white suit and boater, this group begin subjecting the couple to a terrifying series of visitations, each one more intense than the last. Both their origin and their motivations are unclear; are they physical manifestations of something supernatural or do these ghoulish spectres represent something even more sinister? - Director:
- Johannes Nyholm
- Cast:
- Leif Edlund Johansson, Peter Belli, Ylva Gallon
- Formats:
-
-
Set in 1930's England it tells of three former public schoolmates, Larry Dann (The Bill), Murray Melvin (The Devils) and the enigmatic Vivian MacKerrell (the inspiration for Bruce Robinson's creation 'Withnail', seen here in his only major screen role), who reunite in a country mansion haunted by the spirit of insane former resident Marianne Faithfull (The Girl on a Motorcycle). The haunting transports us to a surreal world of incest and murder, inhabited by a demonic doll and a sadistic doctor who presides over a corrupt insane asylum. - Director:
- Stephen Weeks
- Cast:
- Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson, Anthony Bate
- Formats:
-
-
The story of the greatest lover who ever lived, died, and lived again. Chilling and sensual interpretation of the classic horror tale, starring veteran actor Frank Langella and screen legend Laurence Olivier. When a ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby the sole survivor, Count Dracula, emerges from the storm to take up residence in the Carfax Abbey. Very soon local beauty Mina dies mysteriously, raising the suspicions of her father, Professor Van Helsing. Convinced of Count Dracula's evil, Van Helsing is horrified to discover his late daughter's friend Lucy has become involved with the sinister Count. But can Lucy be persuaded she is in danger, or is she too much in the thrall of her new found passion? - Director:
- John Badham
- Cast:
- Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
- Formats:
-
-
Le Doulos (1963)Doulos: The Finger Man
After serial burglar Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani) is released from his latest stint behind bars, he quickly returns to his criminal ways and plans a robbery with Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Rémy (Philippe Nahon). After murdering an old associate in retaliation for the killing of his former girlfriend, Maurice becomes racked with suspicion and distrust of everyone around him amid rumours that Silien has become a police informant. When Maurice and Rémy carry out a robbery of their own, the police quickly close in on them and Maurice begins to unravel the deadly web of deceit that has formed around him. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
- Formats:
-
-
Some people will do anything for a million dollars... even if it means killing anyone who gets in their way! Written and directed by Oscar nominee Sam Peckinpah and starring Academy Award winner Gig Young, Warren Oates, Robert Webber, Kris Kristofferson and the seductively beautiful Isela Vega, 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' is a gritty classic that vibrates with explosive action and nail-biting tension. When a Mexican land baron puts a million dollars on the head of the man who seduced his daughter, two money-hungry men (Young and Webber) recruit a small-town bartender (Oates) to help them do their dirty work. But their tequila-fuelled trek across the desolate Mexican frontier grows more intense, gruesome and bloody with every savage murder they leave in their wake! - Director:
- Sam Peckinpah
- Cast:
- Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber
- Formats:
-
-
Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96, one of the famed German U-Boats known as ‘The Grey Wolves’. Prowling the North Atlantic, they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle, coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy... - Director:
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Cast:
- Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
- Formats:
-
-
D.A.N.G.A.N. Runner (1996)Non-Stop / Dangan Ranna / Don't Stop
A would-be bank robber (Tomorowo Taguchi) forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk (Diamond Yukai), a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza (legendary actor Shinichi Tsutsumi) to whom he owes money. Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo. - Director:
- Sabu
- Cast:
- Tomorowo Taguchi, Daiamondo Yukai, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
- Formats:
-
-
The Witches (1967)Le Streghe
In the mid-sixties, famed producer Dino De Laurentiis brought together the talents of five celebrated Italian directors for an anthology film. Their brief was simple: each filmmaker would create an episode centred on a witch, to be played in all episodes by Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice, Ludwig). Luchino Visconti (Ossessione, Death in Venice) and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (Bicycle Thieves) open the film with 'The Witch Burned Alive', about a famous actress and a drunken evening that leads to unpleasant revelations. Civic Sense is a lightly comic interlude from Maura Bolognini (The Lady of the Camelias) with a dark conclusion, and 'The Earth as Seen from the Moon' sees Italian comedy legend Toto team up with Pier Paolo Pasolini (Theorem) for the first time for a tale of matrimony and a red-headed father and son. Franco Rosso (The Woman in the Painting) concocts a story of revenge in The Sicilian's Wife, while Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine) casts Clint Eastwood as Mangano's estranged husband in 'An Evening Like the Others', concluding 'The Witches' with a stunning homage to Italian comic books. - Director:
- Mauro Bolognini
- Cast:
- Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal
- Formats:
-