Charlotte Rampling

• StreetDance 3D | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £10.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Vertigo Films presents the UK's first ever street dance movie and the first British film to be shot entirely in 3D. With debut film appearances from Britain's Got Talent stars Flawless Diversity and George Sampson this groundbreaking event movie is an inspiring exhilarating joyride through the UK's street dance scene. Things couldn't be going better for street dancer Carly (Nichola Burley). She's in love with charismatic boyfriend Jay (Ukweli Roach) and their dance crew has just made it through to the finals of the UK Street Dance Championships. But everything changes when Jay walks out on Carly and the crew breaking her heart and leaving the street dancers' dreams in jeopardy. Thrown in at the deep end Carly struggles to prove to the crew - and to herself - that she can lead them to victory. Salvation comes in the unlikely shape of ballet schoolmistress Helena (Charlotte Rampling). Impressed by the skill and enthusiasm of Carly and her troupe she strikes the street dancers a deal: they can practice in the Ballet Academy's luxurious dance studio in return for collaborating with her ballet dancers. Helena hopes Carly can inject some of the street dancers' intensity and passion into her young charges before they audition for The Royal Ballet. A clash of cultures ensues as the two very different dance styles face off against each other. After years of classical training the ballet dancers are horrified at the crew's slouchy style while Carly is increasingly exasperated at their uptight aloofness. Eventually and despite themselves the ballet dancers begin to feel a grudging respect for the street dancers' spectacular moves. And Carly can't help falling for handsome ballet dancer Tomas (Richard Winsor). Will the two groups of dancers find a way to work together before the Street Dance Championship finals and the Royal Ballet auditions?

• The Duchess | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £2.82  |  Saving you £18.99 (82.60%)  |  RRP £22.99

  In The Duchess Keira Knightley will play the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Diana she lived an extravagant profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled and widely caricatured by the popular press.

• StreetDance 3D | Blu Ray | (27/09/2010) from £12.34  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  Vertigo Films presents the UK's first ever street dance movie and the first British film to be shot entirely in 3D. With debut film appearances from Britain's Got Talent stars Flawless Diversity and George Sampson this groundbreaking event movie is an inspiring exhilarating joyride through the UK's street dance scene. Things couldn't be going better for street dancer Carly (Nichola Burley). She's in love with charismatic boyfriend Jay (Ukweli Roach) and their dance crew has just made it through to the finals of the UK Street Dance Championships. But everything changes when Jay walks out on Carly and the crew breaking her heart and leaving the street dancers' dreams in jeopardy. Thrown in at the deep end Carly struggles to prove to the crew - and to herself - that she can lead them to victory. Salvation comes in the unlikely shape of ballet schoolmistress Helena (Charlotte Rampling). Impressed by the skill and enthusiasm of Carly and her troupe she strikes the street dancers a deal: they can practice in the Ballet Academy's luxurious dance studio in return for collaborating with her ballet dancers. Helena hopes Carly can inject some of the street dancers' intensity and passion into her young charges before they audition for The Royal Ballet. A clash of cultures ensues as the two very different dance styles face off against each other. After years of classical training the ballet dancers are horrified at the crew's slouchy style while Carly is increasingly exasperated at their uptight aloofness. Eventually and despite themselves the ballet dancers begin to feel a grudging respect for the street dancers' spectacular moves. And Carly can't help falling for handsome ballet dancer Tomas (Richard Winsor). Will the two groups of dancers find a way to work together before the Street Dance Championship finals and the Royal Ballet auditions?

• Charles Dickens Collection | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £32.24  |  Saving you £64.99 (65.00%)  |  RRP £99.99

  Martin Chuzzlewit (Dir. Pedr James 1994): Martin Chuzzlewit is a wealthy old man. But who will inherit his riches? He has disinherited his grandson young Martin suspecting the motives of the young man's love for Mary Chuzzlewit's nurse and companion. With such a prize to play for the rest of his family - including the snivelling hypocrite Pecksniff and the fabulously evil Jonas - bring forth all of their cunning greed and selfishness. With his grandson floundering in Amer

• Angel | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £4.47  |  Saving you £15.52 (77.60%)  |  RRP £19.99

  Angel

• The Statement | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £2.36  |  Saving you £9.02 (69.40%)  |  RRP £12.99

  Pierre Brossard as a young man was a Nazi executioner. He has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and anonymous life. A new investigation into his crimes is launched and Brossard finds himself the target of police investigators who want to bring him to justice and hitmen who are being paid to exact a deadly justice of their own...

• Farewell My Lovely | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £3.97  |  Saving you £6.02 (60.30%)  |  RRP £9.99

  Of all the Philip Marlowes, Robert Mitchum's in Farewell, My Lovely resonates most deeply. That's because this is Marlowe past his prime, and Mitchum imbues Raymond Chandler's legendary private detective with a sense of maturity as well as a melancholy spirit. And yet there is plenty of Mitchum's renowned self-deprecating humour and charismatic charm to remind us of his own iconic presence. As in the previous 1944 film version, Murder, My Sweet, Marlowe searches all over L.A. for the elusive girlfriend of ex-con Moose Malloy, a loveable giant who might as well be King Kong. In typical Chandler fashion, the weary Marlowe uncovers a hotbed of lust, corruption and betrayal. Like Malloy, he's disillusioned by it all, despite his tough exterior, and possesses a tinge of sentimentality for the good old days. About the only current dream he can hold onto is Joe DiMaggio and his fabulous hitting streak. Made in 1975, a year after Chinatown (shot by the same cinematographer, John Alonzo), Farewell, My Lovely is more straightforward and nostalgic, but still possesses a requisite hard-boiled edge, and the best kind of angst the 1970s had to offer. (By the way, you will notice Sylvester Stallone in a rather violent cameo, a year before his Rocky breakthrough.) --Bill Desowitz, Amazon.com

• The Night Porter | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £2.99  |  Saving you £12.00 (80.10%)  |  RRP £14.99

  In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer & lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.... Operatic and disturbing the controversial The Night Porter deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture.

• Zardoz | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £3.85  |  Saving you £2.14 (35.70%)  |  RRP £5.99

  A box office failure at the time, John Boorman's 1974 cult science fiction film Zardoz is an entrancing if overly ambitious project that offers pointed commentary on class structure and religion inside its complex plot and head-movie visuals. Its healthy doses of sex and violence will involve viewers even if the story machinations escape them. Beautifully photographed near Boorman's home in Ireland's Wicklow Mountains by Geoffrey Unsworth (2001), its production design is courtesy of longtime Boorman associate Anthony Pratt, who creates a believable society within the film's million-dollar budget. A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage "exterminator" commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. Zed finds as much hope as disgust with the Eternals; their advancements have also robbed them of physical passion, turning their existence into a living death. Zed becomes the Eternals' unlikely messiah, but in order to save them--and himself--he must confront the truth behind Zardoz and his own identity inside the Tabernacle, the Eternals' omnipresent master computer. --Paul Gaita

• Life During Wartime | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £9.99  |  Saving you £6.00 (37.50%)  |  RRP £15.99

  Joy (Shirkey Henderson) is married to a man with an unresolved 'affliction' and recieves visitations from her deceased ex-lover. Her sister Trish (Allison Janney) meets an unlikely new suitor (Michael Lerner) who she hopes will bring stability to her family while her husband (Ciaran Hinds) is just out of prison and keen to reconnect with his son. Helen (Ally Sheedy) the third sister is feeling intense pressure from her family and her Hollywood success. Ten years after the critically acclaimed Happiness director Todd Solondz returns to the familiar themes and characters with Life During Wartime and presents us with a tale thats poignant funny disturbing shocking and sad while creating a resonant portrait of modern life and love.

• Basic Instinct 2 (2006) | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £2.25  |  Saving you £16.02 (80.10%)  |  RRP £19.99

  Everything interesting begins in the mind. Dr. Michael Glass (Morrissey) a respected London criminal psychiatrist is brought in by Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (Thewlis) to perform a psychiatric profile and evaluation of novelist Catherine Tramell (Stone) following the mysterious death of a top sports star. Physically drawn to Tramell and mentally intrigued by her Glass is quickly sucked into her web of lies and seduction. The professional boundaries between Glass and Tramell are obliterated when she uncovers his basic instincts...

• The Wings Of The Dove | DVD | (15/06/2005) from £2.99  |  Saving you £12.00 (80.10%)  |  RRP £14.99

  Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure--more PBS than MTV--for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money. Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honours for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity--admittedly sordid--arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme. One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own video for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a "chick flick". Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. --Donald Liebenson

• Angel Heart | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £3.99  |  Saving you £9.00 (69.30%)  |  RRP £12.99

  The film packed with stunning images jaw-dropping scenes and superb performances from Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke is a fusion of two genres - the classic Chandleresque detective story and the supernatural. Harry Angel is hired for $125 a day to track down the big band swinger Johnny Favourite. What seems like a straight-forward missing person case dramatically becomes a murder hunt for this down-and-out private detective. His client Louis Cypher a mysterious stranger is forced to up his fee to keep Angel on the case. Each of Angel's leads ends up as a victim of a ritualistic act of murder as he begins to put together the pieces in the jigsaw of Johnny's strange story... the nightmare has just begun.

• Immortal | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.49  |  Saving you £11.02 (68.90%)  |  RRP £15.99

  New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested but she has a secret power even to herself... Based on Enki Bilal's own series of comic books La Foire Aux Immortels and La Femme Pige this was one all the first feature films to use an entirely digital backlot (in which actors were filmed in front of green screens and the background were added digitally afterwards).

• Swimming Pool | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £5.85  |  Saving you £14.14 (70.70%)  |  RRP £19.99

• D.O.A. | DVD | (15/06/2006) from £2.99  |  Saving you £12.00 (80.10%)  |  RRP £14.99

  A stylish piece of neo-noir, D.O.A. was directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel during their glory days as creators of Max Headroom. Sometimes mocked at the time for its extravagant visual imagery, this is a film which has aged better than might have been expected. Vastly reworked from the 40s original, D.O.A. stars Dennis Quaid as the burned-out campus novelist who discovers he has been fatally poisoned and sets out to find his killer in the short time left to him, along the way rediscovering his love for the life he is going to lose. Quaid is good enough both at chain-smoking cynicism and angry zest that this becomes emotionally credible; a worryingly young Meg Ryan is excellent as the hero-worshipping sophomore he co-opts into his search. With camerawork of sometimes hallucinatory vividness, rather too many shots of fans and Ferris wheels, and Charlotte Rampling playing a dragon-lady villainess to the hilt, this is a film which teeters on the brink of camp, but has the courage of its individuality. On the DVD: D.O.A. comes to disc with almost no special features whatever save for a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles in Spanish and the Scandinavian languages. Its widescreen visual aspect is 1.85:1 and the Dolby sound does full justice to a very loud score by bands like Timbuk 3.--Roz Kaveney

• Babylon Ad - 1 Disc Edition | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £3.00  |  Saving you £16.99 (85.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

  In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The package is a mysterious young woman with a secret. Based on the novel by Maurice G. Dantec.

• Stardust Memories | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £3.89  |  Saving you £6.10 (61.10%)  |  RRP £9.99

  Legendary comic filmmakers Sandy Bates (Allen) is tired of being funny. Teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown Bates attends a weekend retrospective of his films only to confront the meaning of his work the memories of his great love Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling) and the merits of settling down with new girlfriends Isobel (Marie-Christine Barrault). Plagued by hallucinations alien visitations and the bloodless studio executives trying to re-cut his bleak new film Bates struggles to find a reason to go on living. But when he falls prey to a gun-wielding fanatic his zany brush with death reveals that there is value to his own existence and that often the best reason to go on living is life itself.

• Henry VIII And His Six Wives | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £3.97  |  Saving you £6.02 (60.30%)  |  RRP £9.99

  A powerful portrayal of England's most infamous king. On his deathbed King Henry VIII (Keith Michell) looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.

• Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid / The Hustler / The Verdict | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £5.20  |  Saving you £28.00 (80.00%)  |  RRP £34.99

  Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West his sidekick Butch is a dreamer always planning that bigger better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend... Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach. The Hustler Paul Newma