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• A Man on His Knees | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mistaken as a witness to a crime, Nino (Giuliano Gemma, The Iron Prefect), learns from a friend he has been put on a Mafia hit list and is being stalked by an assassin (Michele Placido, Romanzo Criminale),A man with a troubled past, Nino knows only too well what he faces and uses all his strength and cunning to keep himself and his family alive,Featuring stunning performances from both leads, Damiano Damiani (The Day of the Owl) applies his trademark realism and socio-political commentary to A Man on His Knees, charting Nino's desperation as he refuses to kneel before the power of organised crime,Newly restored in 4K, Radiance Films is proud to present one of Damiani's finest films on Blu-ray for the first time in the world. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K restoration from the original negativeUncompressed mono PCM audioArchival interviews with stars Giuliano Gemma, Tano Cimarosa and assistant director Mino GiardaNew interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano DamianiTrailerReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di BattistaBooklet featuring new writing by Roberto CurtiLimited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• Spies of Warsaw | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the opening days of World War II, war hero and military attach Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is drawn into a world of espionage and danger -- and sex and romance -- in a story spanning Europe.

• The Bible | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The unforgettable adventure of Man from the Creation! The greatest stories of the Old Testament are brought to the screen with astounding scope and power in this international film which depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis. This is the spectacular story of man's creation his fall his survival and his indomitable faith in the future. Matching the epic scale of the production are performances by George C. Scott as Abraham Ava Gardner as Sarah and Peter O'Toole as the ha

• Inferno | Blu Ray | (29/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Women aka La Ciociara | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £15.05   |  Saving you £0.94 (6.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Story of a Cloistered Nun | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After she rejects the marriage that her wealthy parents have arranged, young Carmella Simoni (Eleonora Giorgi Argento's Imferno) is packed off to the convent to become a nun. But there she finds the other 'brides of Christ' have some very bad habits: there are power games and sadism, and not everyone is sticking to their vows of chastity... Co-starring exploitation queens Suzy Kendall (The Bird With the Crystal Plumage) and Catherine Spaak (The Cat O'Nine Tails), Story of a Cloistered Nun is an erotically charged assault on repressive institutions. The alter boys at 88 Films are proud to present this ripe slice of nunsploitation on blu-ray for the very first time in the UK.

• The Killing - Series 1-3 | Blu Ray | (17/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Series 1 joins Sarah Lund on what is supposed to be her final day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department. She is all-set to immigrate to Sweden with her fiance when a 19-year-old girl is found raped and brutally murdered.;A local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of a hard-fought election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen when suddenly evidence links city hall to the murder. Over the course of twenty episodes each a day in the investigation suspect upon suspect is sought out as violence and political pressures cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.;Two years on and Series 2 finds Lund stripped of her investigative role and transferred to a low-key job in the country but when the body of a female lawyer is found murdered in macabre and puzzling circumstances Lund's former boss calls her back to assist with the investigation. Initially reluctant Lund soon changes her mind as she becomes engrossed with the case... Over the course of 10 gripping episodes the worlds of crime politics and the military become increasingly tangled and as the case progresses Lund's mission becomes a race against time to find the culprit and prevent further killings...;Now at long last Detective Inspector Sarah Lund returns in Series 3 the long-awaited third and final part of the trilogy. The financial crisis is raging and the number of bankruptcies and repossessions is on the rise but Lund has a newfound sense of peace in the form of a new job a new home and the recognition of achieving 25 years of service in the Police Force.

• The Son's Room | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £9.27   |  Saving you £13.71 (218.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Son's Room, which picked up the 2001 Palme d'Or at Cannes, marks a departure for writer-director Nanni Moretti. The films that made his name outside Italy, Dear Diary and Aprile, were both highly personal and politicised semi-documentaries, and a strong political sense underlies the half-dozen or so features he made before them. By contrast, The Son's Room is a subtle, intense study of a family cracking apart under the impact of grief, with no overt political element. For all that, it's the most moving film that Moretti's yet made. "It captured me" he says "more than any other [story] I'd worked on previously. It's a film in which the director shares his emotions with the audience, without imposing his own feelings." As usual, the director plays his own lead character. Here he's Giovanni, a successful psychiatrist in a provincial Italian city (Ancona on the Adriatic coast). He has a beautiful wife, happy in her own career, and two bright, good-looking teenage children, a son and a daughter. Then, out of nowhere, tragedy strikes and in its aftermath, the fissures begin to show in the idyllic façade. Giovanni in particular reveals the insecurities and neuroses lurking behind his tolerant, easy-going demeanour. Moretti homes in on his characters with clear-eyed compassion, never milking the tragedy for facile sentiment but sparing us nothing of the gut-wrenching grief they feel. Nor does he succumb to the temptation of a feel-good happy ending: we are left with a hint of hope for the future, but no more. This is intelligent, mature filmmaking that respects its audience. On the DVD: The Son's Room comes to disc with just the trailer--and the flabby US trailer at that. A commentary from Moretti would have been more than welcome. Still, the transfer, in the original 1.66:1 ratio, is impeccable, with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound to match. --Philip Kemp

• Puccini: Madama Butterfly -- Verona/Arena | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £3.49   |  Saving you £15.76 (706.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This traditional production of Puccini's enduringly popular opera Madama Butterfly should give much pleasure. It was recorded at the open-air theatre in Verona in 1983 with the local orchestra and chorus under the aptly named Maurizio Arena. The video direction is by an expert in the field, Brian Large, who brings home all the intimate moments of Puccini's drama from an open set that ascends and sprawls across rows of seating. His camera draws the viewer into scenes that the audience cannot witness at their distance--most movingly when Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, gives up his attempt to read Pinkerton's letter to Butterfly saying he has no intention of seeing her again (set to that magical melody which will recur as the humming chorus). It's of little matter that there are no operatic stars in the cast for this ensemble consists of experienced singers who fill the night air with lungs to match Puccini's heaviest demands. The audience, many of them evidently on holiday, greet the show-stopping moments with waves of applause. Their enthusiasm may drown a few bars of orchestral continuity but the orchestra itself is always at the service of the singers on a soundtrack that captures the atmosphere of an open-air performance with astonishing verisimilitude. Butterfly, sung by the statuesque Raina Kabaivanska, may not see Cio-Cio San (to give "butterfly" her real name) 16 years again and some of her arm movements are overdone but her big number "Un bel di" and its reprise when she's holding her child by Pinkerton are touchingly conveyed. Neither does she overplay the final scene where she prepares to follow her father's example using the Mikado's dagger to commit suicide--a moment that sends a shiver down the spine in its economy. Nazzareno Antinori as her Pinkerton, with his matinée idol looks and resonant voice, complements her well; their singing of Puccini's spacious love duet at the close of Act One goes down a treat with the crowd. --Adrian Edwards

• Two Women aka La Ciociara (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  TWO WOMEN finally gets the release it deserves, pristinely restored and re-mastered in HD, doing justice to this neo-realist masterpiece which won Sophia Loren an Oscar for ˜Best Actress' the first ever in a foreign-language film. Uniquely, this release is presented in two versions: one in Italian, and one in English, dubbed by Loren herself. TWO WOMEN tells the story of a young widow, Cesira (Sophia Loren) and her 12 year old daughter who flee war-ravaged Rome to Cesira's native village in Ciociaria. Yet, as the allied forces push back the German occupation, the two women fall victim to a devastatingly brutal act at the very hand of the country's liberators.

• A dice with five sides | DVD | (27/03/2023) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Italian For Beginners | DVD | (31/03/2003) from £10.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (94.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  veral lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

• Le Amiche | Blu Ray | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A key film of Antonioni's middle-period Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) finds the Italian master expanding his palette in the realm of traditional narrative cinema by way of his powerhouse direction of an ensemble cast while entrenching his devotion to expressing the emotional makeup of the modern woman. Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) embarks from Rome to set up a fashion-salon in Torino. Shortly after arrival she finds herself caught up in the (melo)dramas of a bourgeoise circle of acquaintances (including the iconic Valentina Cortese) and their attendant attempts at suicide their class prejudices and the romantic alliances that threaten to transform the social clique into an emotional tar-pit. Le amiche represents the epitome of Antonioni's '50s period and although it lays the groundwork for such '60s breakthroughs as L'avventura and La notte it proves itself no less brilliant.

• In Your Hands | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A woman trying to conceive finds herself pregnant in a very strange way in this spooky Danish outing.

• Camille 2000 Dual Format | Blu Ray | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another Sexploitation classic from the erotic imagination of Porno Chic veteran Radley Metzger... From an age before the hardcore explicitness of Porno Chic comes a swingin’ late 60s erotic film brimming with Italian opulence, liberated sex and modish inflatable furniture. When Marguerite, a promiscuous woman with a troubled past and a deep distrust of men meets Armand, she lets her guard down and falls in love. But can they resist old habits and latent emotions in order to stay together? Find out in this visual, sensual cinematic feast of multiple sexual partners, from the director of Score and The Opening Of Misty Beethoven. A vivid mix of colour, grandiose set design, bizarre costumes and frank sexuality, Camille 2000 is an essential piece of erotic film history and a must see for cult movie fans. Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD Presentation. Brand new high definition restoration of the extended cut-available for the first time in the UK. Optional English for the Hard of Hearing subtitles. Audio commentary with director Radley Metzger and film historian Michael Bowen. On the set of Camille 2000-featuring stars Daniele Gaubert, Nino Castelnuovo and Radley Metzger. Sylviana's Bare Striptease-previously cut scene from the feature. Cube Love Scene-A newly discovered alternate take. Restoration Comparison. Original trailers. Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly illustrated artwork by The Red Dress. Collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Robin Bougie.

• Proust, Ou Les Intermittences Du Coeur | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Dark Silence | DVD | (06/02/2017) from £7.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Craig moves with his daughter, Jennifer, into a new home after the death of his wife. It's not long before the pair discover the house is haunted by a dark presence that wants to take over the child. One day Jennifer disappears and Craig must face a terrible truth in order to find his daughter.

• Ivan The Terrible - Prokofiev And Grigorovich | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded at the end of 2003 this production features in the title role of the amazing star of the Paris Ballet Nicolas Le Riche one of the foremost dancers of today. Famous all over the world of his elegant strength the beauty of his expression and the musicality of his movements he has created leading roles for choreographers such as Rudolf Nureyev Mats Ek and John Neumeier. As the Czar Ivan he dances opposite Elonora Abbagnato his fellow dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet whose highly refined dancing in the role of his wife Anastasia gives rise to great hopes for her future.

• What Have They Done To Your Daughters? | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Bible - In The Beginning | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The greatest stories of the Old Testament are brought to the screen with astounding scope and power in this international film which depicts the first 22 chapters of Genesis. This is the spectacular story of man's creation his fall his survival and his indomitable faith in the future. Matching the epic scale of the production are performances by George C. Scott as Abraham Ava Gardner as Sarah and Peter O'Toole as the haunting presence of the Angel of God. The legendary John Huston directs and delivers a commanding performance as Noah. From the film's opening amidst cosmic chaos to its lingering message of hope and salvation The Bible stands as a monumental motion picture achievement.