Recommended Rented Movies (7 titles)
A list of the best movies I have rented in the last 2 years ...
Crash
A powerful and clever drama, the cast excells and the pace is perfect ... the result is a compelling movie about the interacting lives of strangers in LA
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Crash
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon
Director: Paul Haggis
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Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
72%
from 100,379 members
Hotel Rwanda
An insightful drama focusing on the true human cost of a war that happened while the world stood by and watched, told from the native Rwandans point of view ... a triumph!
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Hotel Rwanda
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte
Director: Terry George
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Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.
78%
from 76,893 members
Memento
An original thriller, full of surprises and wonderful performances ... enthrals from start to finish!
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Memento
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Christopher Nolan
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MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
75%
from 60,092 members
Million Dollar Baby
The writing and acting is top-noche in this gritty yet subtle and heartbreaking drama ... from a non-boxing fan
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Million Dollar Baby
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Released a little over a year after the grand success of his Oscar-winning feature 'Mystic River', Clint Eastwood returns to the director's chair for 'Million Dollar Baby'. Eastwood also stars in the role of Frankie Dunn, a down-on-his-luck former boxing manager who spends the twilight years of his ..read more »
71%
from 95,526 members
The Departed
A first-rate thriller - twisting and turning - with a dream director and cast, it keeps you guessing and on the edge of your seat throughout
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
77%
from 86,116 members
The Last King Of Scotland
A riveting drama and a mesmerising performance from Forest Whitaker, this movie perfectly captures the atmosphere and the circumstances of Uganda's recent violent history
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The Last King Of Scotland
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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It was supposed to be a wild adventure in a far-off country, but when a naive young doctor arrives in 1970's Uganda - hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand - he finds himself instead on a shocking ride into the darkest realm on earth. Befriended by the charismatic new leader, Idi Amin, and ..read more »
77%
from 103,933 members
Walk The Line
It helps to like Johnny Cash's music but it isn't a necessarity to enjoy this wonderful honest drama following the career and personal life of J.R. Cash, with a particular focus on his relationship with June Carter, portrayed in a career-defining performance from Reece Witherspoon
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Walk The Line
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick
Director: James Mangold
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Primarily the story of the love that grew between country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career, WALK THE LINE is the result of intense collaboration between director James Mangold, co-writer Gill Dennis, Johnny Cash, and June Carter Cash. Though both Cashes died ..read more »
74%
from 71,869 members
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