rob-6's - Rented List

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The Third and Final Season of 'Tin Star' is the most thrilling, shocking and darkly comic rollercoaster ride yet.

It tells the story of Jack (Tim Roth), Angela (Genevieve O'Reilly) and Anna (Abigail Lawrie) returning to Liverpool, where their story began twenty years ago, to face their deadliest enemies in a battle with the past to win freedom in the present. But instead, our heroes are forced to face up to the devastating and inescapable truth about who they really are.

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Ousmane Sembene's 1968 film 'Mandabi', the first ever feature length film in the African language of Wolof. Makhouredia Gueye gives a wonderful performance as jobless Ibrahima Dieng who receives a money order for 25,000 francs from his nephew in Paris.

News of his good fortune soon spreads and neighbours, friends, corrupt bureaucrats and even his own relations attempt to trick Dieng out of the money due to him. Winner of the international Critics prize at Venice Film Festival in 1968, Mandabi is a brilliant tragi-comic foray into the corrupt and absurd world of Senegalese bureaucracy.

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Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information.

With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem...

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One of Osamu Tezuka's most adult and sexually-charged works, Barbara (1973-74) was originally serialized as a follow-up to Ayako (1972-73) in Big Comic from July 1973 to May 1974.

Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara". The controversial story, dealing with various taboos such as forbidden love, mystery, art, Eros, scandal and occultism, was said to have been impossible to be cinematized at the time of its original publication, but was made into a live-action film for the 90th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth by his son Macoto Tezka.

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Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honour.

But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable - not to mention ruthless - opponent than he anticipated...and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.

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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, 'Minari' follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother.

Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, 'Minari' shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Set across a three-year time period, 'Being a Human Person' peeks behind the curtain to reveal Andersson's unique, immersive, and at times arduous method of filmmaking, the personal demons he faces and the legacy of a master storyteller as he calls time on an incredible career.

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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis.

The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

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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"Promising Young Woman" is a bold new vision that has ignited a debate starring Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan as 'Cassie': a wickedly smart but singularly focused woman, who in order to overcome events from her past lives a double life by night. Following an unexpected encounter.

Cassie is given the chance to right the wrongs of the past.

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Underground discos thud to the beat of dance music as men and women dress to the nines and slip through checkpoints to party the night away. Meanwhile, fingers on triggers, tensions mount between armed police forces and anti-government guerillas.

This is Algiers in the 1990's, and what headstrong fashion student Nedjma, Papicha (Lyna Khoudri) to her friends, doesn't know, is that her life is about to change forever...Lifting the lid on the radical events of the Algerian Civil War, Mounia Meddour's Papicha follows the trials and tribulations of a group of determined young women as they come face to face with a new, dangerous reality. 'Papicha' is an Algerian word that refers to a funny, attractive, liberated young woman.

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Composer Peter Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) abandons his intimate friend, Count Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable), when Madame Von Meck (Izabella Telezynska) sponsors him after she hears him perform his First Piano Concerto.

A tortured man, unhappy except in his music, Tchaikovsky marries Nina Milukova (Glenda Jackson), a passionate, neurotic girl. When he is unable to fulfill the demands of matrimony, his tensions become so great that he attempts suicide and has a nervous breakdown. Nina's world also falls apart, and she deteriorates into madness and ends in an asylum. Tchaikovsky recuperates at a country estate of Madame Von Meck. The two correspond, but never meet. At a great party, which she gives in his honor Count Chiluvsky appears, and when Tchaikovsky rebuffs him, he tells Madame Von Meck the truth about her protege. Madame Von Meck immediately servers all connections with the composer. Tchaikovsky is hurt, but continues to compose and conduct throughout the world. World fame does not ameliorate his unhappy state. At the age of 53, after composing his "requiem," his Pathetique Symphony, he deliberately drinks water contaminated with cholera germs. A few days later he is dead. Decades later, his music still lives.

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A dramatic account of three women and their lives, seen through the looking glass of sex, words, madness, death, and family, 'Guilty Of Romance' - the new crime noir from the award-winning director Sion Sono - tells the tale of three women entangled in a mystery...

a mystery that is the gate to a hell-bound love like no other! Set just before the turn of the 21st century, a grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment in the pouring rain. Whilst the police investigate, the story interweaves with that of Izumi, the wife of a famous romantic novelist whose life seems just a daily repetition without romance. One day, to break away from the loveless monotony, she decides to follow her desires and accepts a job as a naked model faking sex in front of the camera. Soon she meets with a mentor and starts selling her body to strangers, whilst at home she hides behind the facade that she is still the wife she is supposed to be.

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Jade (Vicky Knight) is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling.

Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.

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Young Liina (Rea Lest) and Hans (Jörgen Liik) are preparing to marry in their village in the woods, when Hans becomes entranced by the arrival of a visiting Baroness (Jette Loona Hermanis). Love spells are conjured so that each receives their intended mate, but there are more sinister things afoot.

Death can visit in the form of a farm animal...but it's fine because one can hide by wearing trousers on the head. And, besides, the dead can come back to the village and chat anyway...although when the devil arrives, don't try to cheat him. And then there are the "kratts" - supernatural servants made from discarded bones, tree branches, and trash...just make sure to give them work to do, or else.