seen-1's - Rented List

Gerard Depardieu stars as the hapless Alphonse who, through a chance meeting with a total stranger, is drawn into a surreal universe of bizarre logic and black humour.

Kurosawa's assured debut about a young mans spiritual journey through the study and practice of judo. This sequel reunites most of the principal cast from the original and follows Sanshiro face a new set of enemies whilst continuing his quest to become a judo master.

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The Most Beautiful (1944)
(Ichiban Utsukushiku)
An artful propaganda film that provides a fascinating portrait of female volunteers in the Japanese war effort.

They Who Step On The Tiger's Tail (1945)
(Tora no o ofumu otofeotachi)

A lord and his bodyguard disguise themselves as monks in this classic tale of deception.

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A group of scientists, led by Dr. Barton (Jeff Morrow), take a trip into the Florida Everglades to find the sinister Gill Man, capturing him for further medical experiments - and to utilise his ability to breathe underwater to further space travel.

But the rampaging Gill Man pays the team an unexpected visit and is accidentally set on fire. In saving his life, the deranged Dr. Barton discovers that the creature has lung tissue and can be transformed to become more human than fish. Put on display as a freak, the modified creature finds little acceptance in an intolerant world and embarks on a trail of revenge and destruction!

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"One Wonderful Sunday" starts off with Masako meeting Yuzo at the train station so they can spend the day together. Both do not have much money and are living separately with friends or family. Masako seems to bask in his misery by being a bit depressing.

Yuzo always seems to take situations and make them positive. They spend they day on very little money. Since they're constrained on the amount of money they decide to do things that don't cost very much money. They visit a house that's for sale, go to a place that's available for rent, and play ball with some school children. It starts to rain and the couple decides to go to a show by looking at an advertisement. Unfortunately, two men in front of them purchased all the tickets and are selling them at a higher price! Masako is upset about this, since he always feels cheated by the "black market". He picks a fight with the man that doesn't end very well. They go back to Masako's room where he's again in a depressed mood.

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For shy and awkward Ryoichi, dreams of musical superstardom have long since faded and he's resigned himself to a lifetime of unrewarding office work for a company that barely acknowledges his existence.

But when he randomly buys a pet turtle named Pikadon, a series of events are put into place that not only give Ryoichi the chance to fulfil his rock and roll fantasies, they might just bring about the end of the world. With more imagination in the first ten minutes than most films can boast in their entire running time, Love and Peace is pure Sono: a bonkers and uproarious one-of-a-kind that simply has to be seen to be believed.

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"Montparnasse 19", a film about the tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani, was itself beset by tragedy.

Max Ophuls, the famed director of 'Letter from an Unknown Woman' and 'Le Plaisir', died during its production, leaving his friend Jacques Becker to complete the picture. Its lead performer too, the great French actor Gerard Philipe, would succumb to cancer just over a year after its release. In tracing the latter part of Modigliani's life, 'Montparnasse 19', focuses on the key figures during his time in Paris - his patron Leopold Zborowski (played by Gerard Sety) and two muses, Beatrice Hastings (Lilli Palmer) and Jeanne Hebuterne (Anouk Aimee) - and his gradual descent into alcoholism and drug addiction. The end results, both hauntingly beautiful and savagely ironic, are really quite remarkable. A fitting tribute to the outstanding careers of Ophuls and Philippe, and another excellent entry in the equally superb filmography of Becker, a filmmaker who is finally getting his due.

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Jacques Becker's dark, offbeat comedy about a failing marriage stars Daniel Gelin as Edouard, a poor pianist married to Caroline (Anne Vernon), a beautiful girl from a middle-class family.

Caroline's uncle Claude (Jean Galland), a complete snob who looks down on Edouard like the rest of his family, invites the couple to a party at which he is expected to play for his supper in front of Claude's important friends. Add the fact that Claude's son Alain (Jacques Francois) is in love with Caroline and this evening is destined for disaster.

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France (Mireille Perrier), a young woman, returns to Cameroon to visit Mindif, the colonial outpost she grew up in during the last days of French rule. As she travels, she recalls her childhood there and the bond formed with their 'houseboy' Protee (Isaach de Bankole).

A quiet and observant child, unable to quite understand the simmering sexual and racial tensions between the adults around her, France finds her idyll shattered when a plane full of strangers makes an emergency landing nearby.

When a dead girl is found at a local shipping docks, fetishist coroner Yamazaki soon discovers her hair is still growing at an amazing rate. Taking the body home he starts cultivating the crop to sell to local hair salons as "exte" unaware that the hair is possessed.

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Jorgos is a young Greek guest worker in Germany, known pejoratively as a "Katzelmacher," Bavarian slang for "cat screwer," referring to the supposed sexual habits of foreigners. He rents a room in Elisabeth's house in the Munich suburbs.

She and Peter hang out with a group of disaffected and bored young people who resent Jorgos and beat him up when he dates a German girl.

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Jacques Rivette's award-winning, critically acclaimed film stars Michel Piccoli in one of his finest performances as an artist who, ten years previously, abandoned his masterpiece entitled 'La Belle Noiseuse' (The Beautiful Troublemaker), a painting of his wife (Jane Birkin).

When he encounters the beautiful and fascinating Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart), he is inspired to return to the unfinished canvas, using her as his new model. But disturbing tensions develop as the work progresses and the reasons for the painting's original rejection begin to surface.

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French gangland boss Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) has been on the run in Italy for a decade in order to escape a death sentence. But when police finally close in, he turns to his old criminal friends to help him and his young family return to Paris.

With loyalty in short supply, it takes an insouciant stranger (Jean-Paul Belmondo) to come to the rescue.

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Querelle is a sailor on shore leave in the French port of Brest. Following an argument, in which he stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner, he seeks shelter in a nearby brothel. There he befriends the predatory madam, Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), who leads him into his first homosexual encounter.

From then on Querelle embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and sometimes violent sexual self-discovery that will transform him forever from the man he once was...