tom-3's - Rented List

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L'Appartement is a fanciful and romantic tale of love and obsession. A blend of Gallic romanticism and Hitchcockian style, this film is a delicious pastiche of five people's passions and lives.

The story circles around Max (Vincent Cassel), on the verge of getting married, who suddenly overhears the voice of Lisa (Monica Bellucci), his long-lost love, arguing emotionally on the phone outside the men's room. He manages to track down her apartment, but in it he discovers another woman, who claims to be the Lisa he has overheard. She seduces him and manages to become the focus of his attention. However, the story line is only beginning to twist...

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Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is a former rock star who is still rocking the Goth look. Now 50, he relives the days of superstardom with avid young fan and best friend Mary (Eve Hewson).

Living off his royalties with his wife (Frances McDormand), he rattles around his grand Dublin mansion until the death of his estranged father calls him to New York. Reunited with his family, Cheyenne discovers a secret that will send him across America. On a journey through the Midwest, full of surprises and surreal encounters, from New York socialites to ethical gun-shop owners, to a reunion with old friend David Byrne of Talking Heads, Cheyenne is on the road trip of his life.

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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort.

From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity.

When an Iranian immigrant (Ben Kingsley) attempts to reclaim his dream - in the form of a house for his family - he's unaware that the home's former owner (Jennifer Connelly) is determined to recover what she feels is rightly hers.

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Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone presents a breathtaking new cut of his sweeping epic film Alexander, the true story of the world's greatest warrior.

Using footage never seen and dramatically reshaping dozens of scenes, he brings to life the overpowering forces and fierce personalities that forever changed history. Driven by a craving for his father's (Val Kilmer) love and the brutal ambition of his mother (Angelina Jolie), Alexander (Colin Farrell) faced massive armies in Persia, Afghanistan and India and was never defeated.

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Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. His life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson).

As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae's disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

Using brain-implant technology, corporate assassin Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) takes control of other people's bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

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In this true-life cold war spy thriller, unossuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), Wynne forms a covert partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), and both men risk everything in a danger-fraught race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Prepare for the closest shave of your life in Stephen Sondheim's Victorian horror thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Captured here in its original theatrical stage production whilst on tour in Los Angeles in 1982, the star-studded cast lights up the stage and brings Sondheim's macabre yet humorous musical numbers to life with thrilling effect. George Hearn (Flags of our Fathers) plays Todd, the falsely imprisoned barber whose lust for revenge drives him to murder and the enigmatic Angela Lansbury (The Manchurian Candidate) plays his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, who bakes away the evidence in her pie shop. The combined horror and humour bleeds through every pour of the production with brooding menace as Todd serenades his blades in My Friend. All of the now much loved songs are included, the achingly beautiful ballad Johanna, the clever pun-strewn A Little Priest as Mrs. Lovett creates recipes for her pies and intricate choral and ensemble numbers.

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Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father in law Phil (Chris Cooper) to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel.

What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis' letters catch the attention of customer service rep Karen (Naomi Watts) and, amidst emotional and financial burdens of her own, the two form an unlikely connection. With the help of Karen and her son Chris (Judah Lewis), Davis starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.

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Gillo Pontecorvo's multi-award winning picture 'The Battle of Algiers' has perhaps never been as pertinent as it is now. Set from 1954 to 1962, the movie uses documentary-style black and white photography to recreate real events.

Algerian liberation fighters use terrorist techniques against the French colonial occupiers; the French retaliate with brutal military force. Brilliantly directed set-pieces and remarkable crowd scenes make the film a masterpiece; the ominous familiarity of its subject makes it a must-see" - The Times How to win battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in Cafes. Sounds familiar? The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a rare showing of this film.'' - Pentagon tlyer for their in-house screening of Battle Of Algiers All the armies of the world - including the Pentagon - will never, but never, be able to conquer a country which wants to control its own destiny" - Saadi Yacef

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South Dakota rodeo star Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) awakens from a severe head injury after a horse stamped on his skull. The doctors tell him he must give up the sport - one that is his passion but also his lifeline - for fear it may kill him.

While his sister Lily is mentally disabled and his father drinks, gambles and womanises, Brady is the crutch that supports the family - but without the rodeo, he's facing a life of misery.

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13 (Tzameti), directed by Gela Babluani, wowed critics across the board and has won awards at both Sundance and Venice film festivals. Sebastien (Georges Babluani), a Georgian immigrant in France, leads an impoverished life with his family.

When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon), Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money troubles. When Godon suddenly dies, Sebastien decides to follow the instructions meant for the recently deceased addict. The clues lead him into the heart of the French countryside and face-to-face with a ring of clandestine gamblers who bet on human lives.

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This Filthy Earth is the story of sisters Kath (Demelza Randall) and Francine (Rebecca Palmer) whose lives are disrupted by two men - Buto (Shane Attwooll) their brutal cousin greedy for the girls' land and Lek (Xavier Tchili) a gentle stranger who offers the possibility of escape.

Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition, events unfurl which threaten their sibling bond.

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Perhaps the greatest rock documentary ever made, Martin Scorsese's 'The Last Waltz' captures what was advertised as legendary rock group The Band's final farewell concert appearance.

Joined on stage by more than a dozen special guests, including Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Muddy Waters and Joni Mitchell, The Last Waltz started as a concert, but it became a celebration. Interspersed with candid discussions between director Scorsese and members of 'The Band', 'The Last Waltz' has been called "the greatest rock concert movie ever made - and maybe the best rock movie, period"...