tom-3's - Rented List
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Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yellow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare. Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind. The obsessed Van Gogh painted the way other men breathe, driving away family and friends, including artist Paul Gauguin (Anthony Quinn). - Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Cast:
- Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
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Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins. An electrifying thrill ride unfolding with propulsive energy, startling twists, and breathtaking action, Anna introduces Sasha Luss in the title role with a star-studded cast including Academy Award winner Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, and Luke Evans. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans
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Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small English town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fuelled soundtrack, 'Teen Spirit' is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story. - Director:
- Max Minghella
- Cast:
- Elle Fanning, Agnieszka Grochowska, Archie Madekwe
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In a remote hotel in Normandy, bio-mathematician Danielle Flinders (Alicia Vikander) meets British Secret Service Operative James More (James McAvoy). There to prepare for their respective missions, Danielle and James can't help but fall madly in love. After days of intense passion, they must separate. Danielle embarks on a deep-sea diving project to support her theory about the origin of life, while James journeys to Somalia to track down a source for suicide bombers infiltrating Europe. Soon, they are worlds apart. James is taken hostage by jihadist fighters and has no way of contacting Danielle, and she has to go down to the bottom of the ocean in her submersible, not even knowing whether James is dead or alive. - Director:
- Wim Wenders
- Cast:
- Alicia Vikander, James McAvoy, Alexander Siddig
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In 1972, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, recorded an album of gospel music at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The result, "Amazing Grace", went on to become one of the biggest albums of Aretha Franklin's career and one of her most beloved works. Music lovers won't want to miss this thrilling film, which is both an extraordinary look at a key moment in American cultural history, and an invaluable record of one of the world's greatest artists doing what she did best. - Director:
- Alan Elliott
- Cast:
- Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, Southern California Community Choir
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Hustlers (2019)The Hustlers at Scores
Working as a stripper to make ends meet, Destiny's life changes forever when she meets self-assured Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), the club's top money earner and matriarch. Under Ramona's wing, Destiny (Constance Wu) soon learns how to work her way around the wealthy Wall Street regulars. When the 2008 economic collapse forces them out of work, the savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their old clients. Inspired by the viral 2016 article titled The Hustlers at Scores, this is a true story about glamour, greed and above all, friendship. - Director:
- Lorene Scafaria
- Cast:
- Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles
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Winner of the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and heralded as possibly the best war film ever made, Restrepo focuses on the deployment of a US platoon in Afghanistan's hostile Korengal Valley. Over the course of 15 months, the two filmmakers Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author of 'The Perfect Storm') lived with the unit shadowing their every move, resulting in extraordinary footage. From spectacular combat and ambush scenes to difficult discussions with local village elders, civilian and military deaths, never before has such access been granted. Restrepo is as close as it gets to seeing what life as a soldier is really like. -
We Are the Best! (2013)Vi är bäst!
Lukas Moodysson returns with this raucous coming-of-age comedy set in 1982, Stockholm. Klara and Bobo are united as misfits by their love of music, ignoring their own lack or talent and the people who tell them punk is dead, the pair form their own band with shy classmate Hedvig. Between fighting over boys and provoking their metal-head nemeses, the three begin preparing for their debut live gig. - Director:
- Lukas Moodysson
- Cast:
- Serina Björnbom, Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin
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What’s a guy supposed to do when he catches the early flight home and finds his girlfriend in bed with a room full of naked strangers? Return to college and start a fraternity! Before you can say "wild and wet wrestling," Frank "The Tank", Mitch and Beanie have their own frat raging with out-of-control antics. But when things get too wild, the dean sets out to shut them down. The laughs are top of the class (even if the guys aren’t!) in the hit comedy from director Todd Phillips. - Director:
- Todd Phillips
- Cast:
- Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell
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Frances (Chloe Grace Moretz), a sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is Greta (Isabelle Huppert), an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to widowed Greta. The two become fast friends - but Greta's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly disturbing as Frances discovers that nothing in Greta's life is what it seems... - Director:
- Neil Jordan
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe
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War Dogs (2016)Arms and the Dudes
Two friends (Jonah Hill and Miles Teller) in their early 20s, living in Miami Beach during the Iraq War, exploit a little-known government initiative that allows smaller businesses to bid on U.S. military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and living the high life. But the two get in over their heads when they land a $300-million deal to arm the Afghan military - a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, including the U.S. government. - Director:
- Todd Phillips
- Cast:
- Jonah Hill, Mikush Lleshdedaj, Miles Teller
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The Castle is a classic tale of David versus Goliath, except Goliath is the Australian Government and David is Darryl Kerrigan... a tow-truck driving, grey hound racing, moustachioed father from suburban Melbourne. Even though there's an airport practically running through his backyard, Darryl loves his family's humble home. But when the airport needs room to expand, the government says that the Kerrigan's have got to go. With the help of local lawyer Dennis Denuto and newly acquired friend, QC Lawrence Hamill, Darryl takes on the Government to tell them they're dreaming! - Director:
- Rob Sitch
- Cast:
- Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry
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Failed comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) encounters violent thugs while wandering the streets of Gotham City dressed as a clown. Disregarded by society Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as Joker in director Todd Phillips' thrilling origin story. - Director:
- Todd Phillips
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
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Big-city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy that has audiences and critics rolling in the aisles! John Cusack stars as David Shayne, an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground - even if it means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by a wacky cast of characters, including a gangster's ditzy girlfriend, a mob hit man, and a tipsy actress, Shayne's got to pull it all off before the curtain falls, and the bullets start to fly! - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
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Based on Alan Bennett's play and starring the original stage cast, The History Boys is set in a school in the north of England in the mid 1980s, where the Headmaster is desperately trying to send boys to Oxford and Cambridge. To do this he enlists the help of a supply teacher to coach his brightest pupils into shape for the exam. The boys however are torn by their loyalty to the eccentric, poetry-spouting English master Hector. (Richard Griffiths). As they prepare for exams and admissions, the boys' journey becomes a reflection on how education works and where it leads. - Director:
- Nicholas Hytner
- Cast:
- Richard Griffiths, Frances De La Tour, Clive Merrison
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