tom-3's - Rented List
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"The Old Oak" is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it's also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to 'The Old Oak' by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara (Ebla Mari) with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson
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"Dumb Money" is based on the insane true story of the YouTuber who brought Wall Street to its knees and got rich by turning the video-game retailer GameStop into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich - until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down. - Director:
- Craig Gillespie
- Cast:
- Paul Dano, Kaliswa Brewster, Chase Fein
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Involuntary (2008)De Ofrivilliga
It's summer in Sweden...A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they'll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking male bonding to a new level. And as day turns to night, a coach driver decides enough is enough and won't drive his passengers any further. - Director:
- Ruben Östlund
- Cast:
- Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund Johansson
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Scrapper (2023)Nan / Yet To Be
It's said that it takes a village to raise a child but 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) has other ideas. Living alone since her beloved mum died, Georgie fills the flat they shared with her own special magic. But when her absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson) turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality. A dreamy, witty and unmissable tale of family and fresh starts, "Scrapper" is a film that believes life's not so much about chasing rainbows but snatching fistfuls in both hands. - Director:
- Charlotte Regan
- Cast:
- Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Cary Crankson
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Inspired by true events, 'Play' is an acute observation based on real cases of bullying. In a city, a group of boys aged between 12-14 robbed other children on about 40 separate occasions between 2006 and 2008, but instead of physical force used the 'brother trick' involving role play and psychological manipulation. A fascinating and disturbing account of how children can subvert a situation and by sheer authority lead others more vulnerable into dangerous territory. - Director:
- Ruben Östlund
- Cast:
- Kevin Vaz, Johan Jonason, Anas Abdirahman
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On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O'Connor), the boy from the manor house nearby who is Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever. - Director:
- Eva Husson
- Cast:
- Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth
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An American Pickle (2020)In a Pickle
Herschel Greenbaum (Seth Rogen), a struggling laborer who immigrates to America in 1919, falls into a vat of pickles at his factory job and is preserved in brine for 100 years. He emerges in present-day Brooklyn to find that he hasn't aged a day. But when he seeks out his family, he learns that his only surviving relative is his great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum (also played by Rogen), a mild-mannered computer coder whom Herschel can't even begin to understand. - Director:
- Brandon Trost
- Cast:
- Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen
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The Flash (2023)Baby Shower
The Flash uses his superpowers to travel back in time, inadvertently altering the future - but will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?- Director:
- Andrés Muschietti
- Cast:
- Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle
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Blithe Spirit (1945)Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit'
Rex Harrison plays novelist Charles Condomine who is plagued by the ghost of his sexy first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond). Second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) doesn't believe him and brings in eccentric medium madam Arcati (A hilarious performance by Margaret Rutherford) to get proof. Lean and Coward's third screen collaboration (after 'In Which We Serve' and 'This Happy Breed' and Before 'Brief Encounter') is a sophisticated and witty delight. - Director:
- David Lean
- Cast:
- Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
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When Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), he charms her with his self-deprecating humour and his memories of her youthful idealism. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly. - Director:
- Jonathan Levine
- Cast:
- Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael
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Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a sixteen-year-old, extrovert from the outskirts of Wolverhampton with raging hormones and gigantic dreams. Even though she loves her big, boisterous family, Johanna yearns to get out and make a name for herself - which she does, reinventing herself as revered and feared music critic, Dolly Wilde. As she slaughters her way to greater and greater success, the lines between Johanna Morrigan and Dolly Wilde begin to haze. She has finally figured out how to build a girl - but is this the girl she wanted to build? Based on Caitlin Moran's book of the same name, 'How to Build a Girl' is an irreverent coming of age comedy about what it's really like to be a girl. - Director:
- Coky Giedroyc
- Cast:
- Beanie Feldstein, Cleo, Dónal Finn
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Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) is a single, 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress store searching for his place in the world. Unfulfilled by his work he spends s good portion of his day pursuing his goal of someday adopting a baby from China. Then one day the lovely but misguided Harriet Lolly (Zooey Deschanel) comes in to his store and falls asleep on one of his beds. Brian must content with her father, Al Lolly, (John Goodman) an art-collecting loudmouth with a bad back and deep pockets, in order to win her heart. - Director:
- Matt Aselton
- Cast:
- Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman
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Experienced manservant Barrett (Dirk Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the chagrin of Tony's girlfriend (Wendy Craig), Barrett slowly insinuates himself in the house and manipulates his master by slyly rearranging the decor. The arrival of Barrett's alluring and sexually permissive 'sister' (Sarah Miles) fatally severs the class barriers and the boundaries between master and servant, as Tony succumbs to the will of his stronger adversary. - Director:
- Joseph Losey
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig
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A Man Called Ove (2015)En man som heter Ove
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. - Director:
- Hannes Holm
- Cast:
- Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
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"The Lion in Winter", is set in England during Christmas 1183. Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is deliberating over who to chose as his successor, and plans a family reunion in the hope to resolve this. His scheming wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn), and 3 sons: Richard the Lion-Hearted (Anthony Hopkins), Prince Geoffrey (John Castle), and Prince John (Nigel Terry) are all in attendance, and are all vying for the throne. Princess Alias (Jane Merrow) - Henry's mistress whom he wishes to marry and her brother, the young and crafty King Philip of France (Timothy Dalton) are also at the reunion. With much at stake, rebellion, treachery and deception is rife as everybody fights for their position on the throne. - Director:
- Anthony Harvey
- Cast:
- Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins
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