pip-1's - Rented List

When New Orleans paramedics and long-time best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene.

A nefarious supervillain plans to take over the world by starting WWIII and only Matt Helm (Dean Martin) can stop him.

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A darkly comic, discomfiting and deliberately provocative work that draws parallels with recent contemporary events. Dogtooth is shocking, compelling and perversely erotic. In a house on the edge of the city live a self-contained family. The only person allowed to leave is the father.

The mother remains enclosed, 'protecting' her son and two daughters from the evils of the outside world. However, when the son reaches an age where it is deemed that his sexual needs should be met, this insular and radical environment is threatened by the arrival of a female security guard. Capturing incidents that range from the weird to the repulsive, Dogtooth presents a sharp and frequently startling look at modern life. Particularly evocative of the work of Michael Haneke this is cinema at its most bold and brilliant.

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The engaging drama relives the heart warming story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney girl with a dazzling style and talent to match.

Barbara's story takes us on a journey spanning 50 years from 1943-1993 - her lonely childhood and WW2 evacuation as a child, her humble beginnings as a bus conductor's daughter, the complicated relationship with her father John Deeks. Barbara's complex past with her father may well have shaped the choice of men in her life - including her first husband Ronnie Knight, who during the marriage was one of 'Britain's Most Wanted Men'. But Babs ever the consummate professional, never let her fans down whatever her personal anguish. Barbara's first stage debut came at the age of 12 and she's remained in the spotlight ever since. Her infectious personality grabbed the hearts of the nation and captured the eye of ground breaking theatre director Joan Littlewood. Working with Joan on stage and screen saw Babs nominated for a Tony and a BAFTA. Babs later secured her the place as the blonde bombshell in the Carry on Films and thereafter history was made. A finely woven script, the story unwinds, full of heart and heartbreak with a touch of sauciness thrown in for good measure.

Fast-forward to the 1980's as Wonder Woman's next big screen adventure finds her facing a wide array of foes, including Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) and Cheetah (Kristen Wiig).

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The renowned photographer Richard Billingham made his feature-film debut with this intricate family portrait, inspired by his own memories of growing up in the West Midlands in the late 70's and early 80's, and then of his father and mother in the late 90's.

Billingham revisits the figures of his earlier photographs - his alcoholic father Ray (Justin Salinger / Patrick Romer); his mother Liz (Ella Smith); and his younger brother Jason - with a series of family vignettes where life, lived on the margins of society and societal taboos, can spiral out of control.

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The Beach Boys are quite simply America's finest pop group. Their combination of great melodies, intricate harmonies, intelligent songwriting and sheer fun has ensured that they remain loved and admired throughout the world more than forty years on.

On 'Endless Harmony, The Beach Boys' finally get the opportunity to tell their own story. Combining exclusive interviews with Brian and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston with the band's own archive footage and rarely heard tracks, it gives a real insight into both the success and the sadness of 'The Beach Boys'. There are also contributions from many who worked with the band or were inspired by them including Maurice Gibb, Elvis Costello, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, Carol Kaye and Glenn Campbell. Featuring excerpts from 45 Beach Boys' songs including rarities and previously unreleased versions of the classics:
- Good Vibrations
- California Girls
- God Only Knows
- Heroes and Villians

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The sleeper hit of 1965, 'Cat Ballou' was declared an instant classic when its sly blend of Western parody and rapid-fire action hit the screen.

Lee Marvin won an Oscar for Best Actor for his dual role as noseless ("it got bit off in a fight") gunslinger Tim Strawn and as Kid Shelleen, the woozy, boozy has-been who goes up against him. Jane Fonda co-stars as Catherine "Cat" Ballou, the schoolmarm-turned-outlaw who teams up with Kid. Singer Nat King Cole and comedian Stubby Kaye also appear, singing the title song, "The Ballad of Cat Ballou".

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When insurance underwriter Hugh Drummond (Richard Johnson) learns of the deaths of top oil executives - at the hands of a pair of beautiful but brutal female assassins - he is convinced that it is the work of an international crime syndicate.

His investigations uncover that the syndicate is after a big oil concession, and to get it they must commit regicide...

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Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel. Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman. Charley robs small banks with small payrolls.

That keeps him out of trouble until he stumbles onto the Mob's secret stash. The chase is on as the Big Boys go after the "Last of the Independents". It's a heart-pounding ride that builds to a fiery airborne climax as Charley makes his last desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.

Like everyone else, Geoffrey (Richard Beckinsale) and Beryl (Paula Wilcox) want to fall in love - or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn't live in Manchester in 1972...

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Undoubtly Luis Bunuel's most accessibly film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 40 years ago.

Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs cold with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clementi), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. Expertly dramatizing the collision between fantasy and reality, and between depravity and respectable bourgeois values, Bunuel, working from the novel by Joseph Kessel, fashions an immaculately designed (the fetishistic interiors and production designs are astonishing) and amoral comedy of manners.

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Expert mountaineers Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) lead rival expeditions to scale the highest peak on Earth, Mount Everest. Their quest becomes dangerous when the fearless climbers collide head-on with one of the fiercest blizzards in the mountain's history.

Faced against impossible conditions, the limits of human spirit and physical endurance are put to the ultimate test in an epic struggle for survival in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller based on actual events.

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In this colourful classic from acclaimed B-movie director Arthur Marks, the ever-sexy Pam Grier plays a magazine photographer who accidentally witnesses an assassination attempt.

Stalked across town by a criminal cult, it is up to the genre's biggest star, and future Jackie Brown performer, to stay one step ahead of her antagonists.

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It's 1908. The West has changed. Grizzled frontiersman Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) hasn't. Despite the fortune he's made selling water to thirsty desert travelers, he lies in wait.

Someday two no-account desert rats - who long ago robbed Hogue and left him to die in the baking Arizona sand - will drop by for a drink...