plastic-teaspoon's - Rented List

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Rohmer's delightful film explores the highs and lows of a trio of twenty-something love affairs in the French capital.

With a fine cast of exceptional young actors, each story uses as a backdrop a variety of stunningly photographed locations, among them Montpamasse, the Marais and the city's many parks and gardens. This triptych combines all those themes cherished by Rohmer aficionados: seduction, elegant language and love for a city called Paris.

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'Inside Llewyn Davis', the new film from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads.

Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles - some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of the Village to an empty Chicago club - on an odyssey to audition for a music mogul - and back again. Brimming with music performed by Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan (as Llewyn's married Village friends), as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis - in the tradition of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' - is infused with the transportive sound of another time and place.

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The BAFTA-winning series returns as Director Michael Winterbottom reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in a culinary coast-to-coast odyssey.

Just as Don Quixote undertook three journeys, Steve and Rob will set off on a third jaunt of their own, this time travelling over 1,000 miles down the entire length of Spain. Following in the footsteps of poet and novelist Laurie Lee, Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos hit the road in search of culture, history, breathtaking vistas and, of course, some of the finest food in Europe. All the while serving up sparkling, free-flowing conversation, peppered with barbed back-and-forths, in-car singalongs and their peerless trademark impersonations.

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From the writer of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation comes this hilarious comedy about sexual manners and the perils of conformity. Nathan is a mild mannered scientist with an ambitious mission.

After enduring a strange upbringing due to his parents' obsession with social etiquette, he becomes in turn obsessed with conducting experiments to teach mice table manners! When Lila, another victim of an unhappy past with a dark secret comes into his life, he falls in love. Together they discover a man who has been living alone in the wilds since childhood, and Nathan brings him home to be educated, which could be his greatest triumph. But things get more complicated when Nathan's fetching French assistant tries to snare him into romance, and the consequences are hilarious and unexpected

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Meg Ryan stars in this dark psychological thriller, where desire and death mix in the shadows of New York. Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a lonely but determined woman living alone in Manhattan, who becomes involved in an investigation, following the gruesome slaying of a young woman in her neighbourhood.

It soon appears that she may know more about the murder than she thinks< after witnessing what could have been the prelude to the crime. Drawn to the homicide detective investigation the case, she discovers the dark side of passion when she embarks on a risky and turbulent affair with him. But as the death toll rises, each victim getting closer to Frannie, she begins to wonder if her new lover is hiding a deadly secret!

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Filmed on the virtually deserved Setonaikai archipelago in south-west Japan. The Naked Island tells the story of a small family unit and their subsistence as the only inhabitants of an arid, sun-baked island.

Daily chores, captured as a series of cyclical events, result in a hypnotizing, moving, and beautiful film harkening back to the silent era.

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Originally shown on BBC1 in 1974 and rarely seen since, "Penda's Fen" has become the stuff of legend, its name invoking the spirit of a time when television had the power to provoke and astound.

Exploring themes of personal and national identity, language, history and industrial progress, this unclassifiable drama boldly weaves its exquisite, fantastical imagery with the rousing music of Elgar to tell a tale of ancient legends and sexual awakening which stands as one of British television's greatest ever achievements.

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Once an eminent barrister, cynical drunkard John Sawyer (James Mason) leads a reclusive life, out of touch with the burgeoning youth movement of the mid-1960's.

But when his daughter Angela's (Geraldine Chaplin) boyfriend is wrongfully accused of murder, Sawyer decides to confront his demons and the changing world around him in order to defend him.

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John Schlesinger's brilliantly observed suburban drama finds a recent divorcee (Glenda Jackson) and a middle-aged Jewish doctor (Peter Finch) in a progressive love triangle with a bisexual artist (Murray Head).

Both discover a new freedom with their young lover, as they confront the conventions that have defined their lives.

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Miner Frank Machin (Richard Harris) lodges with a widow, Mrs. Hammond (Rachel Roberts). His competitive nature and powerful physique lead him to join the local rugby team and, as his career progresses, so too his brutal nature distances him from those around him.

Success - and perhaps a new sense of insecurity - seems to make Frank harsher and cruder...

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Jacques Deray's 1969 classic 'La Piscine' is set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, where Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday.

Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

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Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen head up an all-star cast in this wild and zany chapter from the swinging sixties. Michael James (O'Toole), the feature editor of Paris' hottest fashion magazine, finds himself surrounded by beautiful women with troublesome promiscuous tendencies.

In an attempt to straighten out his complex love life, he confides in Dr. Fritz Fassbender (Sellers). Unfortunately the doctor is crazier than his patients and entangles them on a roller-coaster ride of lunacy and romance! Woody Allen's debut script is a masterpiece, brimming with witty satire, slapstick and good old-fashioned sex appeal.

Playing the eponymous Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers), a poor, provincial French schoolteacher slowly corrupted by big business, Sellers is at the peak of his powers. This melancholy character comedy...

Set in a decadent 19th century, 'Morgiana' is the story of two sisters. Klara (Iva Janzurová) is auburn-haired and beautiful; Viktoria (also Iva Janzurová) is wicked, sadistic, bursting with hate and jealousy - and plots to poison her more popular sibling...

When 17-year-old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colorful characters (such as Lord Sanderson - Donald Sutherland), discovers the pleasures of casual sex, and falls in love with Gordon (Calvin Lockhart). That's when things get complicated.