tom-3's - Rented List

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Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets.

But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent "Cruella".

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A peerless filmmaker of substance and scale, David Lean directs Boris Pasternak's tumultuous tale of Russia divided by war and hearts torn by love. Epic images abound: revolution in the streets, an infantry charge into no-man's-land, the train ride to the Urals, an icebound dacha.

Omar Sharif plays the title role, Julie Christie is his haunting, long-time love Lara and both are caught up in the tidal wave of history.

Disney presents 'Queen of Katwe', a movie based on a vibrant true story starring Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo, and directed by Mira Nair. A Ugandan girl's life changes forever when she discovers she has an amazing talent for chess, in this celebration of the human spirit.

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Another Country tells the story of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), teenage friends at an elite English public school during the summer of 1931. Clever, hedonistic and gay, Bennett is in his penultimate year of school and the future looks bright.

He is convinced he will rise to the heights of his chosen career in the diplomatic service by eventually being appointed Ambassador in Paris. His best friend Judd, committed to Lenin's brave new world, despises such bourgeois aspirations. Homosexuality, honesty and hypocrisy are the main themes in this coming-of-age film, based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell.

This epic drama explores the life and music of Elvis Presley as seen through the prism of Presley's complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

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Meek, owlish Felix (George Segal) and strident, catty Doris (Barbara Streisand) live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentleman callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in on Felix.

When they both get thrown out, they move in with Barney (Robert Klein)... until they drive him out! That's when Felix and Doris finally decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites attract? The Streisand-Segal pairing does in this comedy classic.

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After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a survivalist's (John Goodman) underground bunker. He claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

But, as his increasingly suspicious actions lead her to question his motives, she'll have to escape in order to discover the truth.

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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him.

So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him.

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The setting is Eastern Europe, circa 1904. Yentl (Barbra Streisand), a smart, spirited woman, is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to pursue her love of knowledge...and discovers yet another kind of love.

Mandy Patinkin gives a sensitive and forceful performance as Avigdor, Yentl's fellow student and best friend. And Amy Irving was nominated for an Oscar for her role as the demure and breathtakingly beautiful Hadass. Streisand's passion for the project shows in every frame - highlighted by the lush, Oscar-nominated art direction, stunning cinematography, and her shimmering performance of the Academy Award-winning song score.

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After years of reckless behaviour and being haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi (Laura Dern), Cheryl (Reese Witherspoon) makes a rash decision to embark on a challenging trek across the Pacific Crest Trail.

With absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles all on her own - in what becomes a remarkable journey of self-discovery and redemption that strengthens and ultimately heals her.

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Two brothers' loyalty is tested as their paths collide amidst a violent world of drugs and gangs. Mo is growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest London flat is a completely different world - the streets of Hackney.

The impressionable Mo idolizes his charismatic older brother and wants to follow in his footsteps. However, Rashid wants a different life for his brother and will do whatever it takes for him not to live the life he leads. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events that forces the brothers to confront their inner demons.

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"Top Gun" takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best.

And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

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The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.

'Monsters and Men' tells a ripple-effect narrative: from an eye-witness (Anthony Ramos) who captures a shooting on his phone, an African-American police officer (John David Washington) battling with his conscience to stand up against his fellow officers, to a local high school student (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) who transforms from passive bystander to vehement activist. With fluid cinematography that's alert and expressive, the film explores the ramifications of such an event in a terrifying and poetic way.

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Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II.

Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, 'Human Flow' follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey. This film is a witness to its subjects and their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind. 'Human Flow' comes at a crucial time when tolerance, compassion and trust are needed more than ever. Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?

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Acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier returns with 'The Worst Person in the World', a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning.

Set in contemporary Oslo, it features a star-making lead performance from Renate Reinsve as a young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, navigates multiple love affairs, existential uncertainty and career dissatisfaction as she slowly starts deciding what she wants to do, who she wants to be, and ultimately who she wants to become. As much a formally playful character study as it is a poignant and perceptive observation of quarter-life angst, this life-affirming coming of age story...