too-many-movies's - Rented List

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This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi.

While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking.

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In the Paris winter of 1999 Camille (Lola Creton) is fifteen, Sullivan is nineteen. Although they love each other passionately, Sullivan wants to go travelling for a year - a plan that fills Camille with despair.

At the end of the summer, Sullivan leaves and a few months later he stops writing to Camille. Fast forward four years and Camille is fully devoted to her architectural studies when she meets a well-known architect, Lorenz, who restores her self confidence and they fall in love. It is then that Sullivan and Camille once more cross paths...

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Anna (Noomi Rapace) is a woman on the run with her eight year old son. Fleeing from her violent ex-husband they are given a safe house in a stark apartment block. Terrified he will find them, Anna buys a baby monitor to keep her son safe while he sleeps.

But strange noises start to echo from inside the building, another child is in danger and when her son makes a mysterious friend, Anna will no longer know what she can trust or what is imagined or real.

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Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken Samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House of a Feudal Lord. But after being told the tragic story of another Samurai's suicide, that of Hanshiro's close friend Motome, Hanshiro sets out on a path of vengeance.

A violent path hat will lead to a bloody showdown with those responsible for his friend's brutal death.

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World War II true tale, about a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland agrees to help hide Jewish survivors in the town's sewers.

But what starts out as a straightforward business arrangement soon turns into something unexpected, with the unlikely alliance seeping deeper into his conscience as he battles against all odds to keep them alive.

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This is an epic and rigorous tale of a night and a day in a murder investigation. Police, prosecutors, a doctor and the murderers themselves try to locate a buried body through one long night in the Anatolian steppes.

Many long-buried thoughts and fears are also disinterred in the minds of the investigators as they go about their thankless task.

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When Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest oligarch, begins to support the political opposition and challenges Russia's all powerful president Vladimir Putin, he sets in motion a series of events that are still being felt today and most likely for years to come.

Enraged, Putin instructs his secret service police to arrest Khodorkovsky in a dramatic raid on his private jet in October 2003 and then banishes him to a Siberian gulag on trumped up charges of tax evasion. Featuring an exclusive interview with Khodorkovsky behind bars (the only one of its kind), and with contributions from major political insiders and journalists, Khodorkovsky traces the metamorphosis of Russia's richest man into its most famous political prisoner.

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With traffic accidents in Argentina on the rise, bodies become currency and a flourishing black market strives to get rich from the personal tragedies that litter the streets. Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer with questionable ethics.

Lujan (Martina Gusman) is a young, idealistic country doctor new to the city. As their lives become intertwined, they form an unlikely romance that becomes threatened by Sosa's turbulent past.

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In the very near future, fuel prices are at an astronomical high and nobody drives any more. Car parks have become graveyards for abandoned vehicles.

When vegan schoolteacher Archie (Mike Brune) tries to invent an alternative engine that runs on wheatgrass, he accidentally creates one that runs on blood... Human blood. Archie's new status brings the attention of slutty Denise (Katie Rowlett), much to the disgust of her lovesick rival Lorraine (Anna Chlumsky), as Archie is forced into ever more shocking and extreme behaviour to keep his blood car on the road. When the US Government, intervenes, it leads to a shocking and politically incorrect finale.

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After eight years of torture in a POW camp, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home to receive a hero's welcome and is awarded a big cash prize.

Struggling to re-adjust to his former life, Rane faces another ordeal as a sadistic gang of thugs set their sights on his prize, killing his family and destroying his hand in the process. Now living only for vengeance, he enlists the help of his war buddy Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) to exact his own brand of justice.

The story of a dull office drone who keeps a kidnapped young boy locked in his house. Despite its subversive edge, feature successfully drains the shock out of a frightening premise and instead delivers a keen observational thriller.

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On a small southern Louisiana island exists a forgotten ramshackle town known as The Bathtub, the proud home of six-year-old Hushpuppy and her father Wink.

When her defiant father becomes ill and an environmental disaster causes ferocious floods to engulf the area, Hushpuppy is forced to survive on her own. Now she must face the elements, her destiny and prehistoric beasts that have awoken from their frozen graves.

The story centers on Pedro da Silva, orphan in a boarding school: Father Dinis, a descendant of libertines; a countess maddened by her jealousy; a businessman who mysteriously made his fortune as a pirate, all searching for the true identity of our main character. The feature spans over two discs.

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Jorge (Jorge Jellinek) still lives with his parents at the age of 45. He has been the film programmer and technical support at the cinematheque for 25 yea5. He also has a news show at a Montevideo radio station where he conducts interviews and talks about movies with filmmakers.

Jorge's life is consumed by movies. Because attendance is down, the cinematheque smuggles to make a profit and shuts down, leaving Jorge unemployed. With no other skill, for the first time he is forced to change his way of life in order to adapt to the new world he faces. In the end, maybe (he movies will help him survive.

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Long distance lorry driver Ruben (German de Silva) agrees to drive'Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and her 5 month old child en route from Paraguay to-Buenos Aires.

As the miles slowly melt the two damaged souls, LAS ACACIAS grows into a heart rending tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and the unlikely bond that grows between them.