rob-1's - Rented List

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Look closer at the most talked about film of the year. A funny, moving and shocking journey through life in suburban America. Look closer at fortysomething ad man Lester Burnham and his status-seeking wife, Carolyn, as their marriage and lives slowly unravel.

Lester's wife hates him, his daughter Jane regards him with contempt, and his boss is positioning him for the axe. Look closer as Lester decides to make a few changes in his life; the freer he gets, the happier he gets. But Lester is about to learn that the ultimate freedom comes at the ultimate price. Look closer at an acclaimed cast led by the brilliant performances from Kevin Spacey as Lester and Annette Bening as Carolyn.

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The year is 2047. Most of the world's population now spends its time connected to a virtual world. Nash (Mike Dopud) has been hired to track down terrorists who are threatening these worlds by randomly killing people from within.

When he finds them he discovers he's in the middle of a dangerous game between his employer and criminals who will do anything to protect their identity in this fast moving sci-fi thriller.

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Obsessed with gene regeneration, and fascinated by the phenomenon of the waking dream, Dr. Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) explores the psyche of Gabriel Howarth (Cam Gigandet), a young man whose life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

When Gabriel's dreams mirror political assassinations, he must race against the clock to not only save himself and his wife Brinn (Brit Shaw), but stop an experimental government program. With time running out, and Gabriel's life on the line, only Dr. Reese holds the key to unlocking the truth.

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Academy Award Winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the timeless story of courage, sacrifice and hope.

Also starring Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins and Jennifer Connelly, this visually stunning, action-packed adventure from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky is hailed as "a one-off creation of colossal proportions".

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Deep under the Arctic Ocean, American submarine Captain Joe Glass (Gerard Butler) is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress, when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order.

With crew and country on the line, Captain Glass must now assemble an elite group of Navy SEAL's to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and sneak through enemy waters to stop WWIII.

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Mike (William Fichtner) is a middle-aged man in a routine marriage, wrestling with the feeling that his life is passing him by.

When a young couple move in next door, Mike quickly befriends the young and vulnerable Jenna (Jessica McNamee), herself trapped in a tumultuous marriage to Scott (Michael Rosenbaum). As Jenna slowly reveals the dark details of her relationship, Mike's wife Lisa between her husband and their beautiful neighbour - pushing their own marriage to breaking point. With his hither to mundane world crumbling around him, Mike makes a desperate effort to save Jenna, putting his relationship with both her and his wife in jeopardy.

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Based on the gritty cult novel "Dermaphoria", "Desiree" is a mysterious police thriller about illegal drugs, lost love and one man's true desire set in New Orleans. Eric (Joseph Morgan) survived an almost lethal overdose of his own chemical compound.

He wakes up in police custody, badly burnt and implicated as both the chemist of this new popular recreational drug that is sweeping through New Orleans and the arsonist responsible for blowing up the drug's makeshift factory. Suffering from major memory loss his only clear recollection is that his girlfriend's name is Desiree (Nicole Badaan). After being interrogated by Detective Anslinger (Ron Perlman), Eric is unexpectedly released on bail and told by his shady lawyer Morell (Kate Walsh), he has five days to recall what happened at the factory that day.

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As Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, a young artist named Yuri (Max Irons) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks) from the "Holodomor", the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of

Ukrainians. Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti-Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine.

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Cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself recruited and sent to a secret lab to decipher an encrypted message. After breaking the code that is housed inside a mysterious satellite, Alex becomes convinced that the message is a disturbing warning... from the future.

Once he returns home, a string of unexplainable incidents start happening, creating confusion and setting events into motion. Alex finds himself caught up in an unexpected journey to discover the reality about warnings and himself.

Justine (Brie Larson) has brokered a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two Irishmen (Cillian Murphy) and a gang led by Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and Ord (Armie Hammer) who are selling them a stash of guns. But when shots are fired in the handover, a heart stopping game of survival ensues.

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From acclaimed director Steve McQueen comes the incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. It is 1841 and Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbertder) and must find the strength within to survive. In his twelfth year in captivity, a chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.

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From Golden Globe Nominee Director Paul Schrader, 'First Reformed' is a brooding, thriller-drama centred around Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a troubled priest of a small, historical church in upstate New York, who starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with Mary (Amanda

Seyfried) and her husband Michael, an unstable environmental activist. Consumed by thoughts that the world is in danger and motivated by the church's lack of action, Toller embarks on a perilous self-assigned undertaking with the hope that he may finally restore the faith and purpose he's been longing for in his mission to right the wrongs done to so many.

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Based on the astonishing true story of a teenage German soldier whose sadism would eventually earn him the nickname of the Executioner of Emsland. The Captain picks up two weeks before the end of the war.

A petrified soldier, fleeing military police, finds a Nazi captain's uniform to wear and avoid execution. Thus disguised and high on the terrifying charisma of his clothing, he invents a secret mission from the Fuhrer and embarks on a brutal odyssey of torture and slaughter.

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As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) sceptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen.

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In 2020, Elias van Dprna (John Cusack), CEO of the world's' largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention: Kronos, a super-computer designed to end all wars.

However, it quickly determines that mankind itself is the biggest threat to world peace and launches an attack to rid the earth of the "infection" of man. Years later, a small team of survivors set out in search of a new world where mankind exists without fear of robot persecution. But does this world actually exist? And will they live long enough to find out?