rob44's - Rented List

A once abused woman, Sadie (Olivia Wilde), devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers, while hunting down the husband she must kill to truly be free. This is a compelling, gritty and highly enthralling revenge thriller with a powerful message.

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Based an the remarkable true story of a murderer's attempted escape from prison to Mexico, Gary Tison (Robert Patrick) makes one last dash for freedom with the help of his trusting and loyal family.

Commanding his three sons and fellow convicted murderer Randy Greenawalt (Chris Browning), Tison and his gang leave a trail of bodies in their wake as they do all they can to reach the border.

Ava (Jessica Chastain) is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

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Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a timely psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we've all experienced - road rage - to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion.

Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

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Hugh Jackman stars as the charismatic politician Gary Hart in this thrilling drama following the rise and fall of Senator Hart, who captured the imagination of young voters and was considered the overwhelming front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.

But his campaign was sidelined by the story of an extramarital relationship with Donna Rice. As tabloid journalism and political journalism merged for the first time, Senator Hart was forced to drop out of the race leaving a profound and lasting impact on American politics and the world stage.

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Micky Mason (Martin Herdman), is a skilled manual worker who, since the financial crash, can find nothing but menial zero hours jobs. To survive he takes a course of action that is completely out of character, but it's the only way he can see of keeping his family together.

'Sink' is about surviving, but it's not all anguish and despair - it's also warm and tender. It's about people finding their way through.

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Set in 1946, this engrossing drama follows Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley), a British woman whose colonel husband (Jason Clarke) is charged with rebuilding war-ravaged Hamburg.

When she joins him there during the bitter winter months, she learns they will be sharing their home with a German widower (Alexander Skarsgard) and his troubled daughter. Before long, the unusual arrangement intensifies political divides and stirs deep personal wounds. In this increasingly charged environment, enmity and grief give way to unexpected passion and betrayal.

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Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells star in this tense, action packed thriller based on true events. After three lighthouse keepers arrive for work on a remote Scottish isle, they make a fateful discovery: a wrecked rowboat - with a chest full of gold.

As a mysterious boat heads towards the island, the three men make a choice that will change their lives forever, ensnaring them in a web of greed, paranoia and murder.

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"The 12th Man" is a breath-taking war thriller about an incredible true-life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live.

Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia led by Kurt Stage (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive. The legendary story of Jan Baalsrud's escape remains one of the wildest, most unfathomable survival stories of World War II.

A white-knuckle World War II suspense drama, about an American submarine crew as they battle against time, danger and their own fears. Their mission; a daring plan to capture a top-secret encrypting device from a Nazi U-boat.

A group of international assassins are tasked with killing one man. If they succeed, they walk away with the title of King of Killers and millions in the bank. In this high-octane action adventure, there's only two ways to leave this competition; in a body bag or crowned King of Killers.

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Could reports of subterranean tremors beneath the Norwegian city of Oslo predict an imminent catastrophic earthquake? We follow a geologist who races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating quake strikes the city.

Your nails will dig into your chair during this acclaimed thriller with jaw-dropping scenes of devastation and powerful performances.

Following the apparent abduction of his mother when he was a boy and the break up of his family a young filmmaker sets out to shoot a documentary that will expose the lies of alien abductees. He, along with his crew uncover a dark secret and a disturbing truth that we are not in fact, alone.

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Teenagers Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are best friends with a very unusual after-school job - they're teenaged hit girls.

When their boss instructs them to knock off mobster Michael (James Gandolfini), Violet and Daisy discover that their latest hit is a man who treats them with courtesy and kindness. Soon the girls are faced with the challenge of divided loyalties between their boss and their target.

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In the 13th century, the lands along the shores of the Baltic Sea are ruled by bloodthirsty Pagan clans. The most powerful of these clans, rules the land of Semigallia, where even Vikings fear to tread.

In Rome, the Pope's illegitimate son, Max (James Bloor), tells his father that he will wage a crusade against the Pagan warriors, take over their land, and become their ruler. The reigning King of Semigallia is poisoned and on his deathbed bestows power to an unexpected heir, a common man named Namejs (Edvin Endre). By accepting the "Ring of Kings" the new heir to the throne must unite his people and wage war against the violent battalions of Roman soldiers.