richard-1's - Rented List

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Featuring a career defining performance from Vincent Cassel, the two part saga follows the incredible series of hold-ups, prison breaks and kidnappings throughout the 70's and 80's across several continents.

Part 1: Killing Instincts

Mesrine: Killer Instinct introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algeria! War. Handsome and charming, he is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and easy money if presents. Mentored by Guido (Gerard Depardieu) Mesrine soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, choosing the high risk life of a gangster over the honest life of th hard working family. After pulling off an audacious heist he and his lover Jeanne (Ceciie France), flee to Canada where the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety.
Part 2: Public Enemy Number One
The incredible and brutal story of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) continues in Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1. Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and is eventually condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the police and reinventing himself as a celebrity criminal through his savvy manipulation of the media. After such a monumental rise, comes the inevitable fall as the detectives close in, bringing the life of Jacques Mesrine to a full bloody circle.

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Two of French cinema's hottest actors - Louis Garrel and Romain Duris - star as two brothers in this story of love and heartbreak set in a gorgeously atmospheric Paris.

Distraught after the end of a long relationship, Paul (Romain Duris) moves back into his father's (Guy Marchand) apartment where his womanising brother Jonathan (Louis Garrel) still lives. When Paul takes to his bed and refuses to rise, his father and brother both try their own methods of coaxing him from his depression, yielding somewhat mixed results. Director Christophe Honore deftly alternates mood and tone in this entertaining, witty and sensitive family drama which pays ebullient homage to Truffaut, the nouvelle vague and, of course, Paris.

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Generally regarded to be the best of the classic gangster films, 'Scarface' tells the exciting story of organised crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era.

Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Carmonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, 'Scarface' was a groundbreaking film which established both Paul Muni and George Raft as major Hollywood stars, while influencing all gangland films to follow.

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Handsome twenty-something, Manuel (Facundo Gambandé), travels back to his hometown with an ulterior motive - to ask his parents for money to move to Denmark with his super hot boyfriend.

Soon after arriving, however, things start to get complicated - his boyfriend dumps him, he has surprising romantic encounter with an ex-teacher, and his parents are finding every possible means to avoid talking about his love life!

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Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon and Fred Astaire star in this wonderfully entertaining 1960s comedy mystery set in London.

When young William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) arrives in London to work under diplomat Franklyn Ambruster (Fred Astaire), he rents an apartment from the lovely Carly Hardwicke (Kim Novak) - unaware that the police suspect her of having poisoned her husband. When Carly's missing husband mysteriously reappears... and then is murdered... a neighbour helps her escape a murder charge. But then the trouble really starts...

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Though she is engaged to a politician (Vincent Price), Ellen (Gene Tierney) lures the handsome Richard (Cornel Wilde) into marriage after knowing him just a few days.

But Richard soon learns from her sister (Jeanne Crain) and mother (Mary Philips) that Ellen's selfish, possessive love has ruined other people's lives. When his own brother drowns while in Ellen's care and she has an accident that kills her unborn child, Richard grows increasingly suspicious of he insatiable devotion.

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When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, the foundation is laid for one of his most engaging and suspenseful excursions.

Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. As his niece draws closer to the truth, the psychopathic killer has no choice but to plot the death of his favourite relative in one of Hitchcock's most riveting psychological thrillers.

Towering ominously among the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains, Castle Dracula strikes fear in the hearts of the Transylvanian villagers below.

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Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang's two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungen) is a courageous and hallucinatory work, a film in which every single shot might alone endure as an exemplar of visual art.

Its extraordinary set-pieces, archetypal themes, and unrestrained ambition have proven an inspiration for nearly every fantasy cycle that has emerged on-screen since - from 'Star Wars' to 'The Lord of the Rings'. In Part One, 'Siegfried', the film's eponymous hero acquires the power of invincibility after slaying a dragon and bathing in the creature's blood. Later, an alliance through marriage between the hero and the royal clan of the Nibelungen turns treacherous, with Siegfried's sole weakness exploited. Adapted from the myth that served as the basis for Wagner's Ring cycle (though not an adaptation of the operas themselves), Lang's picture employs its own counterpoint through a systematic, viral series of deranged geometrical patterns and the arresting, kabuki-like quality of the actors' performances. The result is a film of startling expressionistic power, and a summit of Fritz Lang's artistry.

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Tom (Romain Duris) is an aspiring musician who plays seedy bars in the backstreets of Paris. The one thing tearing him away from his music is the example set by his father - a sleazy life of crime which Tom seems set to follow.

But when, by chance, he meets a friend of his concert pianist mother's, his musical ambitions are rekindled and he strives to make a better life for himself.

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'The Swimmer' takes place in an affluent Connecticut suburb, and for Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) it is where he confronts all of his dreams...and deceptions.

Burt Lancaster gives the best performance of his career as Ned the troubled suburbanite who one summer morning decides to "swim" home via the pools of his wealthy friends. Along the way he encounters several women from his past: a tempestuous teenage girl (Janet Landgard), teetering at the edge of adolescence and womanhood; his embittered ex-mistress (Janice Rule); and the sensual wife of an old friend (Kim Hunter). Ned's journey is one of embarrassments, humiliation and steamy passion. He passes from one scenario to another until he arrives home to an empty house...and to a startling self-revelation.

A middle-aged cop is assigned to tail a gangster's moll with his two partners, hoping she'll lead them to some $200,000 worth of stolen loot, but when the cop falls under the spell of the moll, falling in love with her, his honest ways become twisted and soon he plots with her to kill the gangster and take off with the money.

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George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier) is a respectable family man of comfortable means. But he throws it all away for the love of Carrie.

Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral", William Wyler's 'Carrie' is a powerhouse of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie (Jennifer Jones), the smalltown girl come to Chicago.

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Forget 'Prison Break' and 'The Green Mile' - this is life behind bars like you've never experienced it before. It's a world inhabited by memorable characters from beautiful young boys to hardened (sometimes literally), older men and a cat called Plato. 1970's Chile.

Jaime (Juan Carlos Maldonado) is sent to prison after the murder of his best friend, 'The Gypsy'. Young and good looking, he catches the eye of 'The Stud', an older, respected man who soon stakes his claim. Under the protection of 'The Stud', Jaime is dubbed 'The Prince', sparking animosity amongst other inmates. When 'The Prince' finds himself drawn to another prisoner, he learns that his protection comes at a price. Finding himself at the centre of prison politics, 'The Prince' is caught in a war between love and loyalty that threatens to plunge the whole prison into chaos. The film has some intoxicating elements of homoerotic fantasy in its depiction of prison life hut the brutality and violence that the inmates endure is never underplayed.

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Jerry (William H. Macy), a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.

It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge (Frances McDormand), a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant -investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!