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• Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (18/01/2021) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The provocative Italian filmmaker ELIO PETRI's most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (A Fistful of Dollars' GIAN MARIA VOLONTÉ, in a commanding performance) investigating a heinous crimewhich he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable rendering of controlled chaos. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival interview with director Elio Petri, conducted by critic and filmmaker Alexandre Astruc Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005), a ninety minute documentary on the director's career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers New interview with film scholar Camilla Zamboni Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2008), a fifty minute documentary about actor Gian Maria Volonté Music in His Blood, an interview with composer Ennio Morricone from 2010, conducted by film critic Fabio Ferzetti Trailers New English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Evan Calder Williams and excerpts from a 2001 book by author and screenwriter Ugo Pirro

• The Last Valley | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  James Clavell's The Last Valley is a heartfelt film of paradise found and lost in the midst of the bloody Thirty Years War, a senseless religious conflict long since degenerated into a rabble of looters preying on peasants. It's also a triumph of passion over style. Michael Caine stars as the Captain, a happily tolerant leader whose army of mercenaries--a mix of Protestants and Catholics--murders, pillages and rapes side by side for whichever faction is paying more at the time. Omar Sharif is Vogel, a lone refugee whose flight from the marauding band leads them all to a beautiful village in the mountains. The Captain and Vogel make an unlikely pair: the shrewd mercenary with the dream of peace, and the philosopher-peasant hanging on to his own life in the face of certain death--and their alliance to preserve this Eden and her people stands in contrast to the soldiers who soon become splintered by greed, lust and religious zealotry. Clavell isn't exactly subtle, but his sense of irony is biting: one Christian soldier is ready to lead a mob in righteous battle after a perceived blaspheme, and in the next scene attacks and rapes an innocent Christian maiden he's sworn to protect. The film falters in clumsy battle scenes and awkward dramatic staging, but Caine's complex characterisation of the guarded Captain and Sharif's haunted performance keep the story alive, and the beautiful photography fixes the film like a jewel into its setting. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• The Damned | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-5.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In 1930s Germany a wealthy industrialist family struggles to maintain its status and influence in the face of the relentless rising tide of fascism. Divided by the rapidly changing social and economic climate the family members resort to blackmail sexual manipulation and murder in a desperate struggle for power and prestige.

• Flavia The Heretic | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.84   |  Saving you £0.15 (1.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Flay Me Baby One More Time! Witness the most notoriously graphic and nasty descent into the nunsploitation genre with Gianfranco Mingozzi's unforgettable masterpiece of shock cinema that is Flavia The Heretic. Set during 15th Century Italy when brutality was wielded mercilessly in the name of God young Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) is imprisoned in a monastery by her tyrannical father. Rather than the years of quiet contemplation she might expect the sexually frustrated Flavia instead gets a crash course in hell on earth as rape torture castration bondage and worse becomes her world but that is nothing compared to what will become of her! Beautifully filmed by Alfio Contini (The Night Porter) and boasting a score by Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani this disturbingly cruel exploration of religiously condoned sexual violence is as well made as it is sadistic on the senses.

• Don't Torture a Duckling Limited Edition 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £17.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (City of the Living Dead, The House by the Cemetery), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece, Don't Torture a Duckling. When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch, Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin). With the bodies piling up and the community gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders city journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian, The Four of the Apocalypse) and spoilt rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) team up to crack the case. But before the mystery is solved, more blood will have been spilled, and not all of it belonging to innocents Deemed shocking at the time for its brutal violence, depiction of the Catholic Church and themes of child murder and implied pedophilia, Don't Torture a Duckling is widely regarded today as Fulci's greatest film, rivalling the best of his close rival Dario Argento. Arrow Films is proud to present this uniquely chilling film in its 4K debut. 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ¢ Brand new 4K restoration from the original 2-perf Techniscope camera negative by Arrow Films ¢ 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray™ presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) ¢ Newly restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks ¢ Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack ¢ Audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films ¢ Giallo a la Campagna, a video discussion with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film ¢ Hell is Already in Us, a video essay by critic Kat Ellinger ¢ Lucio Fulci Remembers, a rare 1988 audio interview with the filmmaker ¢ Who Killed Donald Duck, an interview with actress Barbara Bouchet ¢ Those Days with Lucio, an interview with actress Florinda Bolkan ¢ The DP's Eye, an interview with cinematographer Sergio D'Offizi ¢ From the Cutting Table, an interview with editor Bruno Micheli ¢ Endless Torture, an interview with makeup artist Maurizio Trani ¢ Theatrical trailer ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady ¢ Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Barry Forshaw and Howard Hughes

• Royal Flash | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £11.15   |  Saving you £3.84 (34.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser's novel Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life. It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However the hoax is discovered and Flashman flees the continent experiencing one calamity after another - as well as some of history's most significant events - in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book 'hero' you encounter!

• Don't Torture A Duckling | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £14.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (The Psychic, The Beyond), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced: his 1972 masterpiece Don t Torture a Duckling. When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local witch , Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman s Skin). With the bodies piling up and the community gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders city journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian, The Four of the Apocalypse) and spoilt rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) team up to crack the case. But before the mystery is solved, more blood will have been spilled, and not all of it belonging to innocents... Deemed shocking at the time for its brutal violence, depiction of the Catholic Church and themes of child murder and paedophilia, Don t Torture a Duckling is widely regarded today as Fulci's greatest film, rivalling the best of his close rival Dario Argento. Arrow Video is proud to present this uniquely chilling film in its UK high definition debut.

• Flavia the Heretic | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Witness the most notoriously graphic and nasty descent into the nunsploitation genre with Gianfranco Mingozzi s unforgettable masterpiece of shock cinema that is Flavia The Heretic. Set during 15th Century Italy when brutality was wielded mercilessly in the name of God, young Flavia (Florinda Bolkan) is imprisoned in a monastery by her tyrannical father. Rather than the years of quiet contemplation she might expect, the sexually frustrated Flavia instead gets a crash course in hell on earth as rape, torture, castration, bondage and worse becomes her world but that is nothing compared to what will become of her! Beautifully filmed by Alfio Contini (The Night Porter) and boasting a score by Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani this disturbingly cruel exploration of religiously condoned sexual violence is as well made as it is sadistic on the senses. Extras: New unique interview with the iconic Florinda Bolkan the legend of arthouse and grindhouse Italian cinema (imdb) Audio commentary by genre-specialist Kat Ellinger, Editor Diabolque Magazine

• Footprints on the Moon (Restored Limited Edition All Regions) | Blu Ray | (29/04/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Luigi Bazzoni's unique vision of 'FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON' is brought to life by the striking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro (three-time Oscar® winner including 'Apocalypse Now'). Florinda Bolkan ('Flavia The Heretic') delivers a masterful, nuanced performance bringing captivating depth to the character of Alice - a young translator grappling with memory loss. Tormented by nightmare visions of a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) deliberately abandoning astronauts to die on the Moon, Alice is struggling to recall three missing days. A mysterious postcard beckons her to the enigmatic island of Garma. Once there, an unsettling revelation unfolds: the inhabitants recognise her presence during the unaccounted-for days, not as Alice, but as another person named Nicole. Confronting uncomfortable truths, Alice embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery shrouding her identity and the events of those missing days - a quest which culminates in murder and an extraordinarily surreal finale. Touching on mental health issues as well as on climate change, it resonates with today's challenges while immersing viewers in an emotionally charged experience that transcends the ordinary. 'FOOTPRINTS' unfolds as a mesmerising exploration of identity and the boundaries of perceived reality, memory, dreams, and existential mysteries; it stands as the most haunting and visually stunning Giallo you will ever see, presented here restored from 4K scans of the original camera negative, finally doing justice to the exquisite unearthly visions of its creators. Special Features: 'Remembering the Moon' introduction by star Florinda Bolkan 'Master of Light' interview with Vittorio Storaro 'To the Moon' interview with Ida Galli aka Evelyn Stewart Audio commentary by Film-Critic Genre-Expert Rachael Nisbet Original Italian theatrical trailer New English Subtitles over the Optional Original Italian + switchable SDH over the English language version Full HD 1080P encode from restored 4K scans of the original camera negative in 1.85:1 WIDE-SCREEN

• A Lizard In A Woman's Skin | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lizard In A Woman's Skin

• Don't Torture A Duckling - Fan Edition | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.

• Footprints | DVD | (29/08/2009) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Florinda Bolkan stars as a translator named Alice Cespi whose life is falling apart due to strange memories from childhood when she was forced to watch a film called Footprints On The Moon involving an experiment of leaving astronauts stranded on the moon.

• The Octopus - Series 1 | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as “La Piovra” or “The Octopus”). Even as his family and life are being destroyed by ruthless criminals the intrepid comissar keeps fighting…

• The Last Valley | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £13.13   |  Saving you £-7.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In his nomadic travels, Vogel (Omar Sharif) comes across a beautiful, peaceful village where the community lies unaffected by the war raging around it. Here, he is given the opportunity to lodge there for the winter in return for protection. When an army of ruthless mercenaries led by 'The Captain' (Michael Caine) also discover the oasis, the peace is shattered and the village descends into conflict and violence.

• Royal Flash | Blu Ray | (20/05/2013) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-7.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser's novel, Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life. It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to promote their own menacing political schemes devious Otto von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) and Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates) convince Flashman to disguise himself as a Prussian noble so that he can marry a gorgeous duchess (Britt Ekland). However, the hoax is discovered, and Flashman flees the continent, experiencing one calamity after another - as well as some of history's most significant events - in this hilarious romp that might just make you laugh instead of marvel at the next comic book hero you encounter! Special Features: Commentary with Actor Malcolm McDowell and Film Historian Nick Redman Inside Royal Flash Featurette Meet Harry Flashman Featurette Original Theatrical Trailer

• Prisoner Of Rio | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £12.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (30.79%)   |  RRP £16.99

  In 1963 a group of determined criminals carried out the most daring and lucrative crime of the century...The Great Train Robbery. All of the gang were caught tried and sentenced but one gang member served only two years of a thirty year term before escaping from Wandsworth Prison. Overnight Ronnie Biggs (Freeman) became the world's most wanted man. With every police force in the world hunting for him Biggs changed his identity and his face; somehow managing to keep one step ahead

• Don't Torture A Duckling (1972) | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a remote Italian village rife with ignorance and superstition several young boys are murdered. Suspicion falls on a beautiful blonde newcomer to the village but when a hard-nosed reporter and a promiscuous young woman search for the true killer they discover a motive even more shocking than the crimes themselves.

• The Trap | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A chance meeting with an ex-lover turns into a nightmare when Michael comes face to face with Marie the woman he jilted sixteen years ago. After dinner that evening the couple realise whilst making love that the feelings and emotions they share are as strong as they used to be. Michael awakes the next morning to find that he has been drugged and tied to the bedposts. Marie admits to drugging him and has tied him up so that he can never leave her again. Realisisng the woman's desperate insanity Michael shouts and struggles about his imprisonment. He is beaten for rebelling and stabbed when he attempts to escape. Between beatings and forced love making he realises that his only way of escape is to seduce Marie's sixteen year old daughter who has witnessed the violent ordeal he has endured. However the daughter is as mad as her mother and wants the leading role in the delirious sexual game....