pas-films's - Rented List
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Cassavetes' most commercially successful feature and a benchmark of American independent cinema, 'A Woman Under the Influence' is a devastating drama starring Gena Rowlands as Mabel Longhetti, a mother of three whose blue collar husband Nick (Peter Falk) toils as a construction worker. Their simmering differences lead to a series of domestic dramas that eventually culminate in Mabel's nervous breakdown and six-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. Once released, Mabel and Nick must confront their uncertain futures. - Director:
- John Cassavetes
- Cast:
- Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper
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"Sea Fever" is a tense and original Irish sci-fi thriller reminiscent of cult classics 'The Thing' and 'The Abyss', starring Hermione Corfield and Connie Nielsen. For marine biology student Siobhan (Hermione Corfield), it was supposed to be a research excursion with a trawler crew fishing the West Irish seas. Out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat and they become marooned with a mysterious parasite infecting their water supply. Soon the oozing force infiltrates the entire vessel and turns Siobhan's journey into a claustrophobic fight for survival. Can they stop the mysterious water borne parasite from spreading before it's too late? - Director:
- Neasa Hardiman
- Cast:
- Connie Nielsen, Dougray Scott, Hermione Corfield
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A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in "the Yabba" may take him on a path darker than ever expected. - Director:
- Ted Kotcheff
- Cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
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Birds of Prey (2020)Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
You ever hear the one about the cop, the songbird, the psycho andnSfe mafia princess? This twisted tale is told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis (a.k.a. Black Mask), and his zealous right hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. While on the trail, Harley clashes with the Birds of Prey, but the unlikely foursome may have to team up to take Roman down. - Director:
- Cathy Yan
- Cast:
- Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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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. - Director:
- Marielle Heller
- Cast:
- Bel Powley, Susannah Schulman, Alexander Skarsgård
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless lovable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. Steve Martin (Neal) and John Candy (Del) are absolutely wonderful as two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation. - Director:
- John Hughes
- Cast:
- Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
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Possession (1981)The Night the Screaming Stopped
With their marriage in pieces Anna and Mark's tense relationship has become a psychotic descent into screaming matches, violence and self-mutilation. Believing his wife's only lover is the sinister Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), Mark (Sam Neill) is unaware of the demonic, tentacled creature that Anna (Isabelle Adjani) has hidden away for liaisons in a deserted apartment and will stop at nothing to protect. - Director:
- Andrzej Zulawski
- Cast:
- Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
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Freeways are clogged. Terror stalks our cities. At shops and restaurants, the customer is seldom right. The pressures of big-city life can anger anyone. But Bill Foster is more than angry. He's out to get even. "I'm going home", Foster says as he abandons his grid-locked car on the hottest day of the year. Instead, he walks straight into an urban nightmare by turns absurdly funny and shatteringly violent. Michael Douglas is Foster, an ordinary guy at war with the frustrations of daily living. Robert Duvall is the savvy cop obsessed with stopping Foster's city-wide rampage. Falling Down is their story, a spellbinding, unconventional thriller that asks: "Are we falling apart?" - Director:
- Joel Schumacher
- Cast:
- Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
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Johnny (David Thewlis) is a frenetic and destructive outsider who tears through the lives of others like an emotional tornado. On the run from Manchester, he seeks sanctuary with his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp) in London, where he immediately targets her vulnerable housemate Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) with his unique blend of predatory charm. From there he embarks on a nocturnal odyssey across the city, dragging other disaffected souls into his orbit as he spirals towards his own personal apocalypse. - Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Cast:
- David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers - Blake's own brother among them. - Director:
- Sam Mendes
- Cast:
- Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
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Welcome to Greenleaf, a picture-postcard Indiana town where the high school is the proud focus of attention and "alternative lifestyle" means you bowl on alternate Tuesdays. But on the night of the Oscars telecast, the town's - and the world's - center of attention is Greenleaf teacher Howard Brackett. A former student, who's now a superstar actor, tells an audience of millions that Howard is gay. Poor Howard. He's outted when he didn't know he was in! Kevin Kline plays stunned Howard, scrambling to go forth with his wedding to devoted Emily (Joan Cusack) and doing his frantic best to assert his manliness. - Director:
- Frank Oz
- Cast:
- Kevin Kline, John Cunningham, Joan Cusack
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Ida (2014)Sister of Mercy
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes "Ida", a poignant and powerfully told drama about 18-year-old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, who is preparing to become a nun when she discovers that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, "Ida" is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment. - Director:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Cast:
- Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
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Safe their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas): take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that, unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame, nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad. - Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast:
- Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
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Fortysomething Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) thinks his marriage is perfect, until his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) asks for a divorce. Now Cal is single and looking for love with the help of expert ladykiller Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling), who gives Cal's manhood a remarkable makeover. Amid inappropriate crushes and romantic encounters, Cal and Jacob discover that being a player without the right partner isn't just crazy and stupid, it's impossible! - Director:
- Glenn Ficarra
- Cast:
- Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
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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? - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Alina Gatti, Josh Brolin
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