pete-1's - Rented List
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The Great Beauty (2013)La Grande Bellezza
Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome's decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife - a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old - his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes... - Director:
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Cast:
- Toni Servillo, Christine Aubry, Carlo Verdone
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The Wild Pear Tree (2018)Ahlat Agaci
Sinan (Dogu Demirkol) returns from his studies in the city of Canakkale to his parents' home in the small rural town of Can. He hopes to publish a book of essays and short stories (or what he describes as a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel"). But his teacher father Idris (Murat Cemcir) is an addictive gambler, so much so that his mother and sister have become reluctantly accustomed to making do without food or electricity. And so Sinan, with his writing dreams, worrying that we will be reduced after army service to teaching in the remote East, wanders around town, visiting his grandparents, encountering old friends, all the while looking for funding for his book. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Dogu Demirkol
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Ocean's Eleven (2001)Ocean's 11
Eleven men, three casinos and one night. The plan is set and conman Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his eleven-man crew are about to score big in the most high-tech heist in history. Meet the handpicked specialists, Ocean's eleven elite including an ace card-sharp, a pickpocket, an explosives expert, a card dealer, a retired thief, a surveillance man, a chinese acrobat, two frontmen and a bitter casino mogul. The target is Bellagio, the Mirage and the MGM Grand, all owned by ruthless entrepreneur Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) who just happens to be dating Danny's ex-wife the beautiful and glamorous Tess. The score $150 million. - Director:
- Steven Soderbergh
- Cast:
- George Clooney, Cecelia Ann Birt, Paul L. Nolan
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From Academy Award Winner Steve McQueen, the director of '12 Years a Slave', and from Gillian Flynn, the writer of 'Gone Girl', comes a powerful thriller with a stellar cast, including Oscar Winner Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo. Four women - with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts - conspire to take fate into their own hands. Also featuring Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall and Liam Neeson, Widows delivers explosive action and gripping suspense! - Director:
- Steve McQueen
- Cast:
- Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki
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Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon. Alone with only the base's vigilant computer Gerty as his sole companion, Bell's extended isolation has taken its toll. His only link with outside world comes via satellite messages from his wife and young daughter. He longs to return home, but a terrible accident on lunar surfaces leads to disturbing discovery that contributes to his growing sense of paranoia and dislocation so many miles away from home. - Director:
- Duncan Jones
- Cast:
- Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
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Tom Cruise plays Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Nicole Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. - Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field
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Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with undiminished grace and humour. The foundations of their marriage have, however, been built upon a set of uneven compromises and Joan has reached a turning point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel rewarding a spectacular body of work, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets. 'The Wife' is a poignant, funny and emotional journey, a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation... - Director:
- Björn Runge
- Cast:
- Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons
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After tragedy forces young Prince T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) to assume Wakanda's throne, he is faced with the ultimate test, putting the fate of his country and the entire world at risk. Pitted against his own family, the new king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and embrace his future as an Avenger. - Director:
- Ryan Coogler
- Cast:
- Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
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After David Kim's (John Cho) 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever. - Director:
- Aneesh Chaganty
- Cast:
- John Cho, Michelle Sparks, Betsy Foldes
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A tragicomedy where everyone is caught up in loving someone who already loves somebody else. One summer, aristocratic actress Irina (Annette Bening) takes her lover, the successful novelist Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), to her lakeside retreat. Nina (Saoirse Ronan), a naive girl who lives on a neighbouring estate, falls in love with the older Boris, who basks in her adulation. Meanwhile, Masha (Elisabeth Moss) is obsessed with Irina's son Konstantin (Billy Howie), who loves Nina. - Director:
- Michael Mayer
- Cast:
- Annette Bening, Corey Stoll, Glenn Fleshler
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Julian Michaels (Bruce Willis) has designed the ultimate resort: Vice, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial (Ambyr Childers) becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop (Thomas Jane) who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all. - Director:
- Brian A. Miller
- Cast:
- Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis, Ambyr Childers
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A dazzling, high-tech thriller based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name depicts an American future devoid of truth, where celebrity "firemen" engage in televised search-and-destroy missions to burn books and abolish art, culture and history. In this paranoid world, a zealous fireman (Michael B. Jordan), in the process of being groomed to succeed his longtime captain (Michael Shannon), meets a young informant (Sofia Boutella) and agrees to assist an underground group with bold plans to preserve thousands of classic works, if they can only outwit the all-seeing forces intent on destroying them. - Director:
- Ramin Bahrani
- Cast:
- Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella
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Cold War (2018)Zimna Wojna
In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the creative freedom of the West. But one day, as they spot their chance to make a break for Paris, both make a split decision that will mark their lives forever. Pawel Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning 'Ida' with the stunning 'Cold War', an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. Sumptuously shot in luminous black and white, it spans decades and nations to tell a love story that is as tragic as it is moving, and as transportive as it is honest. - Director:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Cast:
- Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
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In Cold Blood is the powerful, true story of a callous murder, based upon the best-selling novel by Truman Capote. A prosperous and respected Kansas farmer, his wife and his two teenage children are wantonly and brutally slaughtered. The murderers are two mindless ex-convict drifters: Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. The story penetrates the inner workings of the criminals' minds as it follows their purposeless meanderings through Mexico and the United States in evasion of the law and finally to the dramatic end of their journey. - Director:
- Richard Brooks
- Cast:
- Robert Blake, Paul Frees, Scott Wilson
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Horror legend Vincent Price is Dr. Phibes, former musician, current murderer. Seeking revenge from the medical staff that left his wife for dead, he sets about knocking them off one-by-one in a series of elaborate murders based upon a Ten Plagues of Egypt. Death by bats, by boils, by blood and more await the nurse and surgeons who failed to save the life of the beloved Victoria Regina Phibes! - Director:
- Robert Fuest
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Paul Frees, Joseph Cotten
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