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• Ghosthouse | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Ghosthouse' is a chilling haunted house tale with twists and turns that'll keep you guessing. Director Umberto Lenzi (here credited as Humphrey Humbert) throws every last horror genre trapping there is into the plot involving a haunted house a spooky clown and many gruesome deaths!

• Supercop | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Supercop features International action superstar Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Tomorrow Never Dies) and a special appearance by everyone's favourite stuntmaster Jackie Chan!As a crime wave sweeps through Hong Kong the police call on Jessica Yang (Yeoh) a rising star in their ranks to help stop a notorious gang of thieves! What Jessica doesn't realise is that her boyfriend - recently discharged from the force - is the leader of this ruthless crime ring! Another hot hit from the acclaimed director of Rumble In The Bronx and Martial Law here's an explosive movie treat guaranteed to deliver adrenaline-pumping excitement!

• Silent Night | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christmas Eve 1944. Close to the German front Elizabeth (Linda Hamilton) has escaped with her young son Fritz to the family's hunting lodge in the Ardennes Forest to celebrate Christmas in peace. But the shocking reality of war soon intrudes in the form of three wouded U.S. soldiers who arrive seeking sanctuary - closely followed by three Germans who initially threaten Elizabeth with treason for harboring the enemy. Now in the cramped cabin bitter enemies are forced to confront each other face to face person to person. Before this Christmas Eve is over they will reflect not on what divides them but on what they have in common. And there is still one more surprise in store...

• Campfire Stories | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gather round the fire for the last night of your life! Two teens on their way to a backswoods party come across a beautiful young woman (Jamie Lynn Sigler) having car trouble. Their search for help leads them deep into the woods getting more and more lost with every step they take. Then their luck changes as they happen upon Forest Ranger Bill (David Johansen): but does their luck change for the better?

• Indochine | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £7.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (156.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1992, Indochine is a vast, panoramic love story set in the twilight years of French Indo-China. Comparisons with David Lean are inevitable, considering director Régis Wargnier's use of the setting as a backdrop to the love-triangle between the three main characters. Catherine Deneuve gives a strong, emotionally restrained performance as Eliane, the plantation owner whose colonial paradise is slowly falling apart. Vincent Perez is magnetic yet thoughtful as the young officer Jean-Baptiste, complemented by Jean Yanne's dry cynicism as the Chief of Police knowingly fighting a losing battle for French culture. Linh Dan Pham is affecting as Camille, Eliane's adopted daughter whose journey from aristocratic ancestry to Marxist induction personifies the changing face of South-East Asia in the period around World War Two. Patrick Doyle's score reinforces the expressive sweep of the direction and "orientalisms!" are kept to a minimum. On the DVD The 16:9 wide-screen format reproduces best in the domestic scenes, and there are 30 individual chapter points, detailed in the interactive moving menu. The disc also has detailed filmographies for the main cast and director, including an entertaining "gossip" file for Deneuve. English subtitles are optional. A half-hour location report would have been worthwhile, but overall this is a persuasive presentation of one of the few genuine historical-romantic epics of the 1990s. --Richard Whitehouse

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Ancient Egyptians | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £8.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (55.96%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Four episodes each telling a different story. They are dramatic renactments based on true stories that have been uncovered amongst all the papyrus and manuscripts found in Egyptian ruins. Ancient Egyptians brings these real people and their world to life as compelling stories combining drama feature film special effects and in-depth historical research; this is the first time it will be recreated in such vivid and authentic detail. The Battle Of Megiddo: May 19th 1458 BC: a rebel Syrian warlord challenges the might of Egypt. On a plain below the city of Megiddo the two greatest armies the ancient world has ever seen prepare to fight. The fate of Egypt lies in the hands its young Pharaoh who has never before seen battle. This is a true story. The chronicle of this epic struggle was carved into the stone walls of the Temple of Karnak over three and a half thousand years ago. It records how a pampered prince was transformed by war - and turned his kingdom into an empire. He became Egypt's greatest warrior Pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The Tomb Robber's Tale: October 1111 BC: the holy city of Thebes is rocked by scandal. The tombs of the Pharaohs are being plundered of priceless treasure. A labourer called Amenpanufer is arrested for tomb robbery and tortured. Three thousand years later the records of his trial still survive. But this is no ordinary criminal case. It's the true story of the greatest tomb robbing scandal in Egypt's history. The poor quarryman is just a fall guy hauled in to cover up a web of lies and corruption - but he knows enough to bring down the most powerful men in Egypt. Murder In The Temple: March 632 BC: in the temple of Teudjoi in Middle Egypt a group of priests gather to plot a murder. For decades they've suffered under the brutal reign of a powerful outsider Petiese the cousin of Egypt's new Pharaoh. Now the time has come for revenge against his unsuspecting family: his daughter son-in-law and their two young boys. The story of this tragic family saga has survived for two and a half thousand years. Set against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil it's the story of a thirty year feud that tears apart a city and brings down one of the most powerful dynasties in Egypt. The Twins' Tale: Egypt 164 BC: two children twin girls are plucked from poverty to become virgin priestesses of the Apis Bull cult. Their mother has abandoned them and their father has been murdered. As handmaidens to the dead bull they may be saved from a life of poverty and prostitution - but not if their mother has her way. The true story of the sacred twins is told in a letter they wrote to the Pharaoh over two thousand years ago. It's a tragic tale of greed and betrayal that unfolds in the shadowy underworld of the great temple city of Saqqara in the last decades of the Egyptian empire.

• Handel - Agrippina (Malgoire, Grande Ecurie, Chambre Du Roy) | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £27.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Agrippina was staged for the first time in late December 1709 - or possibly at the beginning of 1710 - at Venice's Teatro San Grisostomo and met with enormous success as testified by twenty-seven following performances a record number even for 18th-century standards. Agrippina's triumph sanctioned Handel's definitive investiture as an operatic composer. After nearly 300 years this opera appears as a masterpiece of 18th-century music and an innovative work considering that when Handel composed it he was just twenty-four years old. The composer's melodic creativity and sense of theatre are quite remarkable. The cast conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire includes Vronique Gens in the title role.

• A Woman's Life | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £9.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel 'Une vie', A Woman's Life is a timeless story of love, betrayal and anguish set in the repressive patriarchal world of early 19th century Normandy. Jeanne (Judith Chemla) is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. Yet little by little her illusions are stripped away when she marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who reveals himself to be a miserly and adulterous partner. This poignant period drama from French director Stéphane Brizé (The Measure of a Man) has impressed audiences and critics alike with its tragic tone and striking performances. The film competed at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci Prize for Best Film in competition, and now comes to UK audiences in a Blu-ray special edition that includes a selection of fascinating extra features. Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Optional English subtitles From the Novel to the Film, by Stéphane Brizé, a featurette in which the director talks about adapting Maupassant's work Making A Woman's Life, interviews with cinematographer Antoine Litslé, and sound engineer Pascal Jammes Stills gallery Original trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original French poster art and newly commissioned UK artwork FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Margaret Deriaz

• Offenbach: La Belle Helene -- Paris/Minkowski | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £11.02   |  Saving you £15.23 (156.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jacques Offenbach's 19th century parody of life under the yoke of Napoleon III, La Belle Hélène, has always seemed as tongue-in-cheek as the material could go. This new staging from the Théâtre Musical de Paris' 2000 season proves you can always go further. As if the social comment and knowing musical allusions (eg: Wagner's Tannhäuser) weren't enough, now via director Lauren Pelly's imagination Helen (Dame Felicity Lott) becomes a modern sexually frustrated woman dreaming the entire scenario. In her dream she is singled out as the most beautiful woman on Earth (prompting vain delusions to rival Snow White's wicked stepmother) as reward for Pâris (Yann Beuron) choosing Venus as most beautiful Goddess off Earth. Act 1 takes place in the bedroom and bed of Helen and ineffectual husband/king Ménélas (Michel Sénéchal). Here the fusion of costumes worn by High Priest Calchas (François Le Roux) seems incongruous until the archaeological dig setting of Act 2 turns everything into a dream. From then on, the analogy of bed as throne, the sheep costumes and male and female swimsuit parade followed by synchronised stage "swimming" of Act 3 all take on greater significance. Les Musicians du Louvre give a tremendous performance under Marc Minkowski's baton (which you often see popping into frame), particularly in the centrepiece duet between Lott and Beuron for their "Dream of Love". Contemporary makeovers of opera often lose sight of the original's intentions, but this update certainly preserves the spirit of Offenbach's vision. On the DVD: A choice of Stereo, Dolby 5.1 or DTS is a testament to the careful staging of this production, as is the video's multi-camera edit. In fact, the 25-minute behind-the-scenes documentary reveals the DVD was conceived as part of the staging. Four interviews make this a most welcome supplement, with Dame Lott having the most to say. --Paul Tonks

• Sergei Prokofiev: The Love For Three Oranges | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Sergey Prokofiev - The Love For Three Oranges.Opera in four acts and a prologue.

• An Autumn Tale | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £7.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rohmer's light-hearted comedy set amongst the vineyards of the Rhone Valley concludes his film cycle 'The Tales Of The Four Seasons'. Best friends Magali a widow and Isabelle a happily married bookshop owner have known each other since childhood. Although Magali enjoys her life as a winegrower she admits she would relish some male companionship: a confession that prompts Isabelle to secretly find her a man. After placing a lonely hearts ad Isabelle chooses a suitor but finds

• Senna - Triple Play with 'Making of' Production Notes (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (10/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Senna is the true story of Brazilian motor-racing legend, Ayrton Senna, whom many believe was the greatest driver who ever lived.Spanning Senna's titanic Formula One career, the film charts his physical and spiritual journey, both on track and off; his quest for perfection and his ultimate transformation from a supremely gifted novice, who exploded into F1 in 1984, to myth after the tragic events of Imola in 1994. Made with the full co-operation of the Senna family and Formula One Management, Senna is the first official documentary feature about his life, featuring astounding archive material, much of which is previously unseen.

• Rocco And His Brothers | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  ""Brilliant and overwhelming... Among the classics of the screen."" -The New York Times In sweeping epic style the award-winning Rocco & His Brothers tells the story of four poor Italian brothers and their mother who leave their country home and move to bustling Milan with hopes of improving their bitter fortune. The family is thrown into chaos when two of the brothers are torn apart by their love for the same woman and their struggles to succeed in a viciously competitive world. Fr

• Project S | DVD | (08/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Jackie Chan making a cameo appearance in a hilarious fight scene (in drag!) the undoubted star of this movie is Michelle Yeoh James Bond's latest sidekick in ""Tomorrow Never Dies."" Michelle reprises her role as Inspector Wah from the awesome ""Police Story 3"" and is assigned to Hong Kong to work with the Task Force set up to counter a cross border crime-wave. Michelle soon proves her worth when she dramatically foils an armed robbery. However her former partner Cheng shows

• Farewell Friend | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and French doctor Dino Barron (Alain Delon) are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances. Hoping to help a friend who has embezzled some bonds Barron tries to break into a safe in the dead of night. Sneaking into an underground vault he is surprised to discover that his old pal Propp is also on the premises likewise intending to crack the saf

• The New Adventures Of Pinocchio | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The New Adventures of Pinocchio is the charming sequel to the 1996 live-action movie. With a largely brand-new cast, the most important returning actor is Martin Landau as Geppetto. His role is pared down, however, by a neat twist in the tale. Udo Kier is the other returning actor, this time in the new bad guy/girl role of Madame Flambeau, whose carnival sets itself up in Pinocchio's town and offers everyone a miracle elixir to change their lives. Pinocchio (now played as a real boy by Gabriel Thomson) hopes the elixir will make his papa feel better from a nasty cold, but it turns out Flambeau tricked him with puppet-making juice. So now it's Geppetto who's the wooden star of the show! Lots of surprises keep the story happily moving along, with secret identities waiting to spring from the likes of Warwick Davis as the ringleader Dwarf. The Jim Henson Studio puppets are first class as always, with some flawless computer graphics coming to the rescue every so often. There's a beautiful backdrop of Luxembourg countryside too for this pantomime where everyone looks as if they had great fun putting it together. --Paul Tonks

• One Deadly Summer | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fuelled by a scorchingly erotic performance from Isabelle Adjani, the ingeniously plotted One Deadly Summer spirals from provincial drama into a disturbing and complex psychological thriller, proving itself among the most under-rated of modern French films. In the hottest summer since Body Heat, Eliane (Adjani) and local mechanic Pin Pon (Alain Souchon) begin an affair then marry. From this starting point (a similar plot device to Chabrol's Le Boucher, 1969), life in a beautiful small town in Southern France begins to come apart. Under Jean Becker's direction every character is fully rounded, and the naturalistic tone adds considerably to the impact of an intense drama that offers the perfect showcase for Adjani, establishing once and for all what an extraordinarily accomplished actress she can be. Where Beatrice Dalle in Betty Blue was similarly erotically charged and mentally unstable, Eliane has a dark and obsessive agenda that anticipates the sexual psychosis of Basic Instinct. Combining an art-house love of the French countryside with more class than a dozen Hollywood erotic thrillers, One Deadly Summer is a striking vision of sex gone bad which builds to a shocking climax. It deserves to take its place as a modern classic. --Gary S Dalkin

• La piscine | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jacques Deray's 1969 classic La Piscine is set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, where Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.Beautifully shot, and with music composed by three-times Academy Award-winning Michel Legrand, this slow-burning, sensual thriller is now available for the first time on DVD.

• Bizet - Carmen | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-18.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Bizet's powerful opera staged at London's Earls Court in Steven Pimkott's production.