"Actor: Gustav"

• Tattoo | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (72.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new police graduate is forced to take a superior detective into the world of clubs and drugs to solve a series of brutal killings.

• Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail - Mozart | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1980

• Metropolis | Blu Ray | (22/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  With its dizzying depiction of a futuristic cityscape and alluring female robot Metropolis is among the most famous of all German films and the mother of sci-fi cinema (an influence on Blade Runner and Star Wars among countless other films). Directed by the legendary Fritz Lang (M Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse The Big Heat etc.) its jaw-dropping production values iconic imagery and modernist grandeur - it was described by Luis Bu'uel as a captivating symphony of movement - remain as powerful as ever. Drawing on - and defining - classic sci-fi themes Metropolis depicts a dystopian future in which society is thoroughly divided in two: while anonymous workers conduct their endless drudgery below ground their rulers enjoy a decadent life of leisure and luxury. When Freder (Gustav Fr''hlich) ventures into the depths in search of the beautiful Maria (Brigitte Helm in her debut role) plans of rebellion are revealed and a Mariareplica robot is programmed by mad inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) and master of Metropolis Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel) to incite the workers into a self-destructive riot. A Holy Grail among film finds Metropolis is presented here in a newly reconstructed and restored version as lavish and spectacular as ever thanks to the painstaking archival work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and the discovery of 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. Lang's enduring epic can finally be seen - for the first time in 83 years - as the director originally intended and as seen by German cinema-goers in 1927.

• Beethoven - Fidelio | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ludwig Van Beethoven - Fidelio:From Berlin's Deutsche Oper in 1970.

• The Testament Of Dr Mabuse | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Testament of Dr Mabuse is Fritz Lang's sequel to his flamboyant Dr Mabuse two-part epic of the 1920s, this time adding subtle use of sound to the creepy effects developed for the earlier film. Once a Moriarty-like mastermind, the haggard Dr M (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has become an autistic asylum inmate who scrawls plans for daring crimes in his cell and exerts an unhealthy influence on his psychiatrist. Inspector Lohmann (Otto Wernicke), the jolly policeman from Lang's M, is puzzled by a series of daring crimes that bear the Mabuse signature, and a gang of thugs take instructions from a shadowy figure who claims after the doctor's death to be Mabuse reborn and is staging a reign of crime apparently designed to bring about the ruin of all law-abiding society. Though it works best as a textbook thriller, some commentators, including Lang, suggested that the pulp plot was intended to allegorise the evil influence of the Nazi party, with a crime boss who rants like Hitler. The many impressive set-pieces still work, too: the pursuit of a spy through a grinding print-works, an assassination at a traffic light, hero and heroine trapped in a room with a bomb and cutting a water main to flood their way to freedom, the persecution of the asylum head by a phantom of his patient, and a last-reel night-time chase. On the DVD: The Testament of Dr Mabuse on disc is accompanied by a 15-minute illustrated essay on the film and its history. There are English subtitles. --Kim Newman

• Nosferatu | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Mahler: Symphony No. 9 | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £7.45   |  Saving you £17.54 (235.44%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9Recorded live at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome 14 April 2004

• Mad Max / Lethal Weapon / We Were Soldiers | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Mad Max: On a remote stretch of deserted highway a band of violent bikers has taken over attacking anyone unlucky enough to cross their savage path. Racing up and down the seemingly endless miles of asphalt the crazed outlaws blaze through small towns plowing into vehicles and pedestrians alike with reckless abandon. Bringing a sense of law to this lawlessness are the mobile police force led by Max and Goose who are as fast and mean as their adversaries and are willing to

• Sparrows | Blu Ray | (21/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Metzger | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The first ever documentary on the life and work of Gustav Metzger founder of Auto Destructive Art one of the most pivotal cultural figures of the past forty years. The Scale of Gustav Metzger's achievements and his contribution to contemporary culture are clearly demonstrated in Ken McMullen's extraordinary and comprehensive film. From Freud to Vermeer from Nazi design to the importance of drawing and the films of Leni Riefenstahl Gustav Metzger speaks candidly and brilliantly of the influences which have shaped both his own work and the culture of our time. Gustav Metzger witnessed the rise of Nazism as a small child in Nurnberg in the early 1930s. He escaped to Great Britain in 1939 and trained as an artist before founding the auto-destructive art movement in 1959 which has influenced a generation of younger artists including The Who's Pete Townshend. Metzger pioneered the use of computers in art and with his 'Liquid Crystal Light Projections' which were incorporated into the stage shows of Cream and The Who at London's Roundhouse he defined the visual culture of the psychedelic era.

• The Mysterious Lady | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-3.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Garbo plays a cunning spy in this silent film from director Fred Niblo. Shot in 1928 'Mysterious Lady' sees Garbo playing Tania Fedorova a wiley seductress who both falls in love with and steals documents from a high ranking military man...

• Nosferatu | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £9.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (6.84%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Count Orlok's move to Wisburg and brings the plague this reveals his connection to the Realtor Thomas Hutter and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife Ellen - the only one with the power to end the evil.

• Nosferatu | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £10.07   |  Saving you £9.18 (104.20%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This DVD combines the original Dracula film Nosferatu (1922) enhanced by a Gothic industrial soundtrack from some of artists that were directly influenced by F.W. Murnau's Classic vampire film. An Estate Agent's Clerk (Gustav Von Wangenheim) in the city of Bremen leaves his bride (Greta Schroeder) to conduct business in the distant Carpathian mountains with an eccentric client named Graf Orlok (Max Schrek). During a long and hazardous journey the closer he gets to his destination the more terrified are the people he meets. What he finds when he reached Orlok's sinister castle is enough to make the flesh of the most devoted horror fan creep. Featuring music by: Electric Hellfire Club Christian Death Rozz Williams and more...

• Alle 7 Teile | DVD | (27/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Zombie Planet | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (-170.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  You are what they eat! In the year 2008 the world is ravaged by a low-carb diet enzyme that has led to zombies craving fresh red meat. The rich have set up safe zones to keep the zombies out. The dregs are the workers kept outside the safe zones to face the zombies: until their saviour the Zombie fighter Kane turns up to dish out the justice!

• Neues vom Kleinstadtbahnhof | DVD | (07/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dvorak: Piano & Cello Concerto | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £21.82   |  Saving you £3.17 (12.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Lethal Weapon | HD DVD | (11/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easygoing homicide detective with a loving family a big house and a pension he doesn't want to lose. Imagine Murtaugh's shock when he learns his partner is a guy with nothing left to lose; wild-eyed burnt-out Martin Riggs. Lethal Weapon is the trill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common; both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out take-no-prisoners martial-arts-and-machine-guns war with an international heroin ring. Director Richard Donner moves that war at two speeds: fast and faster. Hot LA days and nights explode in one show-topping scene after an other culminating in a no-holds-barred battle between Riggs and his Angel-of-Death nemesis (Gary Busey) - an electrifying sequence incorporating three martial-art-styles and requiring four full nights to film. Fierce fast and frequently funny Lethal Weapon fires off round after round of can't miss entertainment.

• Mahler: Symphony No 4 | Pelleas and Melisande Op.5 | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £12.19   |  Saving you £17.80 (146.02%)   |  RRP £29.99

  EURA 2055484; EURARTS - Germania; Classica Orchestrale

• History of the Organ - Vol. 2: Sweelinck to Bach | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The organ is one of the oldest, most complex and most glorious musical instruments known to man. This four-part series outlines the history of this magnificent instrument, ranging from the beauty of the sound to the wealth of the music written for it, and encompasses not only the craftsmanship involved in building such a complicated (and often ornate) structure, but also the wonderful settings in which these instruments now reside.