owned's - Rented List

It's the boys' night out, time for bawdy fun. Yet revelry alone can't satisfy these community leaders out on a lark. There's still an adventure they can be duped into trying, one that will transform a certain Count from moldering dust into blood-lusting flesh.

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Pioneering, immensely influential and often challenging, 'Armchair Theatre' was ITV's flagship drama anthology series.

Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output, with diverse and powerful plays showcasing some of Britain's most gifted writers. This release comprises four plays featuring performances by some of the era's most celebrated and accomplished actors - including Barry Foster, Joseph Tomelty, Patrick Wymark, Athene Seyler, Clive Morton, Zena Walker, Earl Cameron, Donald Houston, Katharine Blake and Lynn Redgrave.

Featured Plays:
- Worm in the Bud (1959)
- The Invasion (1963)
- The Chocolate Tree (1963)
- What's Wrong With Humpty Dumpty? (1967)

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Bruce Eillis is back in action - mind-blowing, heart-stopping, rip-roaring action - as John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

John's latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger a World War!

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You Better Watch Out! He's green...he's mean...and he hates Christmas! The Grinch is a bad tempered hairy green creature, who lives inside a cave atop Mount Crumpit, overlooking the village of Whoville.

As the Whos of Whoville frantically prepare for their yuletide celebrations, The Grinch decides to put a stop to Christmas once and for all, and steals all their presents and decorations on Christmas Eve...only to finally come to learn that the true spirit of Christmas goes much deeper than tinsel and toys.

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Thrust into his new position as commander, Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) thrusts into space - aboard the explorer ship the USS Orville.

Joined by his first officer ex-wife (Adrianne Palicki) and an intergalactic crew, he grapples with everything from a planet-absorbing space anomaly to an overly amorous, gelatinous engineer (Norm MacDonald). With its wry humour, insightful social commentary and brilliant ensemble cast, 'The Orville' is one of the freshest shows ever to enter our atmosphere.

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A handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives at a bourgeois household in Milan and successively seduces each family member, not forgetting the maid. Then, as abruptly and mysteriously as he arrived, he departs.

Unable to endure the void left in their lives, the father (Massimo Girotti) hands over his factory to the workers, the son abandons his vocation as a painter, the mother (Silvana Mangano) abandons herself to random sexual encounters, and the daughter sinks into catatonia. The maid (Laura Betti), however, becomes a saint. In this cool, richly complex and provocative political allegory Pasolini uses his schematic plot to explore family dynamics, the intersection of class and sex, and the nature of different sexualities. After winning a prize at Venice Festival, Theorem was subsequently banned on an obscenity charge, but Pasolini later won an acquittal on ground of the film's 'high artistic value'. Theorem is visually ravishing, with superb performances from all the cast and a brilliantly eclectic soundtrack - with music ranging from Mozart and Morricone to the natural sound of chirping birds.

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Set in the 18th Century, 'Plunkett and Macleane' is the story of two notorious highwaymen based on real life characters. With Plunkett's (Robert Carlyle) brains and know-how and Macleane's (Johnny Lee Miller) social connections, they infiltrate wealthy society.

After robbing the rich they line their pockets - for Plunkett to fulfil his dream and travel to America and for Macleane, to sustain his high cost of living. They hold up the coach of the Lord Chief Justice Gibson (Michael Gambon), Macleane falls in love with his beautiful and rebellious niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson (Liv Tyler). His charming manner quickly earns him the name "The Gentleman Highwayman". Gibson's second-in-command, Thief taker general Chance (Ken Scott) also pursues Rebecca's intentions in vain, but it is his relentless pursuit of the "Gentleman Highwayman" that edges Plunkett and Macleane nearer to capture and possible execution at the famous Tyburn tree, the partners' daring and loyalty are pushed to the limit...

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Captain Kirk (William Shatnar) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) return, along with the faithful crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Get ready to beam aboard and explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy, discover new alien species, and of course, find a few tribbles along the way. Voiced by the original cast, this Emmy Award-winning series is sure to capture the imagination of every generation.

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Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this sixth series of Birds of a Feather - one of the 1990's most successful, long-running and memorable sitcoms.

This release comprises all thirteen episodes of Series Six along with the 1994 Christmas Special, featuring guest appearances by Michael Winner and designer David Emanuel. Created by the legendary comedy partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves, financially and emotionally, when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives, Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of Dalentrace - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl's criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now, Sharon lives with Tracey, enjoying a few home comforts and offering much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull, there are always the extra-marital antics of their man-eating Jewish neighbour, Dorien (Lesley Joseph), to keep them entertained...

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Cult director Wong Kar Wai's first film shot outside of Hong Kong is a spellbinding tribute to blind passion that features two of Asian cinema's biggest stars.

Lai (Tony Leung) and Ho (Leslie Cheung) arrive in Argentina as lovers, but while driving south in search of adventures, something goes wrong and Ho leaves for Buenos Aries. Devastated, Lai finds work in a tango bar but is consumed by thoughts of being happy together once more with Ho. A heady cocktail of sound and vision, Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle marry the rythms of Buenos Aries and Frank Zappa's jazz to an astonishing array of images.

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Michael Palin embarks on an epic, revelatory journey into Iraq, one of the most dangerous and complex countries in the world.

Following the Tigris river for over a thousand miles, from its source in eastern Turkey to the Persian Gulf, Michael discovers what life is like for the 40 million people who live in Iraq. Iraq is often called the 'cradle of civilisation', Michael's journey explores the country's past as well as its troubled present.

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Pioneering, immensely influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV's flagship drama anthology series.

Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output, with diverse and powerful plays showcasing some of Britain's most gifted writers. This release comprises four plays featuring performances by some of the era's most celebrated and accomplished actors including Clifford Evans, Kenneth Griffith, Robert Lang, Pauline Yates, Anna Massey, Ronald Hines, Beryl Reid, Ian Holm and Alfred Burke.

Featured Plays:
- Nothing to Pay (1962)
- The Cherry on the Top (1964)
- Light the Blue Touch Paper (1966)
- Edward the Confessor (1969)

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Three Remarkable Classic Episodes:

Where is Everybody? (1959)
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
The Encounter (1964)

Fenton, a WWII veteran, proudly shows his captured samurai sword to Arthur Takamuri, a young Japanese/American gardener who picks it up and instantly knows he must kill his host!
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1964)
A Confederate spy is spared death when the rope meant to hang him miraculously breaks. Or does it?

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Martin Shaw takes on the role of P.D. James' Adam Dalgliesh, one of the greatest detectives of English fiction. Dalgliesh is now a Commander at Scotland Yard running a squad dealing with sensitive, unsolved crimes.

A reclusive widower whose wife died during childbirth, the intense, solitary detective is nevertheless a ruthless pursuer of truth - his emotional detachment aiding his innate ability to crack the most complex of cases.

The Murder Room (2005)
The Dupayne museum with its gruesome murder room is the focus of Dalgliesh's murder investigation into the death of one of its co-directors. Discovering a family at war, the Commander is faced with series of murders which mimic the crimes from the notorious exhibition.

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Inspired by a short story by visionary author Philip K. Dick, Screamers: The Hunting, is a mind-shattering sequel to the legendary sci-fi cult thriller! It's been thirteen years since the robotic killing machines known as Screamers destroyed the human population of Sirius 6B.

But now a distress signal brings a team of rescuers to the supposedly abandoned planet. Can it be a long lost colony of human survivors? Or have the Screamers evolved into something even more sinister... half-man/half-machine hybrids that need to escape Sirius 6B to finish their mission: the complete annihilation of the human race?