susan's - Rented List

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Based on the international bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman and nominated for 2 Oscars (including Best Foreign Language Film), 'A Man Called Ove' is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared.

An ageing retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the quintessential angry old man next door. Having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his wife Sonja's gravesite. But when a boisterous young family moves into the neighbourhood, immediately incurring his wrath, things take an unexpected turn. Pregnant Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered Ove thinks he needs -and yet, from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and Ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light.

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Math savant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is more comfortable with numbers than people, working as a freelance accountant for the world's most dangerous criminal organisations.

With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division closing in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where a clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it's the body count that starts to rise.

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Tom Cruise reunites with his 'Edge of Tomorrow' director, Doug Liman, in an international escapade based on the outrageous, true exploits of a hustler and pilot recruited to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history.

Based on an incredible true story of the CIA's biggest secret, 'American Made' will remind you: It's not a crime if you're doing it for the good guys…

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All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail (Michelle Williams), to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr.

refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s advisor (Mark Wahlberg) become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.

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Telling the story of Ismael, a filmmaker preparing his new feature, whose life is turned upside down when his wife (Marion Cotillard), missing and presumed dead for twenty years, mysteriously returns.

His girlfriend (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attempts to help Ismael retain his sanity as his personal and professional life spins out of control.

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A murder that won't stay buried, a passion that can't be extinguished.

Jean (Catherine McCormack) and Thomas (Sean Penn), a couple on the edge of their marriage attempt to rekindle their relationship on a sailing trip with Thomas' brother Rich, and his sultry girl-friend Adaline (Liz Hurley). However, Jean becomes tortured by images of the past, her husband's betrayal, and the grisly murder of 2 young girls, over a century ago.
As Jean delves further into the mysterious events surrounding the Isles of Shoals, she discovers not only a link between Thomas and Adaline, but also feels a sinister connection to the murders herself. Jean must uncover the truth, or face a watery grave.

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Inspired by a true story and based on the New York Times bestseller, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as the working-class Boston man whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts of the world.

'Stronger' is the deeply personal account of the heroic journey that came after that photo - defining a man's inner courage, a community's pride, a family's bond and an unexpectedly tenacious love.

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At the height of the 1960s Cold War, Russia launches its flagship nuclear submarine, the K-19. In command is iron-willed Captain Alexei Vostrikov. Also aboard is the popular executive officer Mikhail Polenin, who clashes with Vostrikov but shares his unwavering patriotism.

As the K-19 heads toward American waters, a shocking discovery is made: the vessel's nuclear reactor system is leaking, imperiling the men and the sub's missiles. With time running out, the fearless Vostrikov and his crew join together as brave countrymen who must decide the true meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice.

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Marcos and his wife kidnap a baby for ransom money, but it goes tragically wrong when the infant dies. In another world is Ana, the daughter of the general he drives for, who prostitutes herself for pleasure. Marco confesses his guilt to her in his troubled search for relief.

He then finds himself on his knees amidst the multitude of believers moving slowly towards the Basilica in honour of the Lady of Guadalupe.

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Marcia, a frumpy lingerie sales girl from Buenos Aires, lives a solitary life of dreary routine after having been dumped by her boyfriend.

But soon her dreams of romance are unexpectedly answered when a pair of feisty leather-jacketed, crop-haired lesbian punks, Lenine and Mao, accost her on the street. The three of them hijack a taxi and head off for the coast to visit Lenine's eccentric Aunt Blanca, who shares her house with the hapless Felipe and uptight Delia. These oddball characters develop strong bonds, but as liaisons form and break up, the dynamics of the group shift and personalities reveal themselves in varied and surprising ways.

Jennifer Lawrence is Dominika, a former ballerina forced to enter Sparrow School, a secret government program that thrusts her into a treacherous espionage game between Russia and the CIA. She emerges trained as a lethal agent, but is trapped in a world she desperately wants to escape.

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Marie (Marion Cotillard), an adventurous young pilot, sets out to track down her lover who has vanished in the Sahara during a record flight attempt from London to Cape Town.

Her unexpected arrival turns life upside down for a remote French Camel Corps troop that is already preoccupied with the stirrings of a local uprising. Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a captain in the Corps, decides to help Marie with her desperate quest. They set out together across the grand and hostile sea of sand, their desire to survive slowly bringing them together in unexpected love...

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When her boyfriend Hugh (James Le Gross) is shot dead in a corner store robbery, LA photographer Sophie Jacobs (Courteney Cox) tries to get on with her life as best she can. But as she struggles with the memory of the murder, Sophie's life begins to change.

She starts to suffer flashbacks and hallucinations, and the line between reality and her subconscious begins to shatter. A gripping psychological thriller, November follows Sophie as she tries to transcend the trauma of the murder - the on-going police investigation, the guilt of an affair, the photograph that appears to show her car outside the corner store on the night of the murder... At times drowning, at times just above the surface of her own reality, for Sophie the truth becomes entirely subjective

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In 'I Feel Pretty', Amy Schumer stars as Renee Bennett, an ordinary woman who struggles with feelings of insecurity and inadequacy on a daily basis. After suffering a fall at a spin class, she wakes up believing she is suddenly the most beautiful and capable woman on the planet.

With this newfound confidence she is empowered to live her life fearlessly and flawlessly, but what will happen when she realizes her appearance never changed?

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A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Robert Bresson's 'Au Hasard Balthazar' follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding.

Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie (Anne Wiazemsky), is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence.