"Actor: Hans"

• Stella Does Tricks | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting) gives a powerful performance as Stella, a gutsy teenage prostitute who can already turn tricks with the best of them but still enjoys a giggle about sex with her girlfriends, a young group ran by oily pimp Mr Peters (James Bolam). Despite an oddly close relationship with Peters, she is desperate to escape from him, and when her best friend is attacked by one of his cronies she decides to make her move - but not before taking a spectacular revenge on the attacker...

• Wagner: Parsifal | Blu Ray | (19/05/2014) from £14.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (102.77%)   |  RRP £29.99

  C Major presents for May from Bayreuth Festival 1998 conducted by the great Wagner conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli: Parsifal, never before available on Blu-ray. The four main roles are taken by Poul Elming, Linda Watson, Falk Struckmann and Hans Sotin - one of the strongest line-ups in Bayreuth's more recent history.

• The Shaggy D.A. | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog and back again in this fresh update of the Disney comedy classic The Shaggy Dog. It all begins when workaholic D.A. Dave Douglas (Allen) takes on a case involving an animal laboratory - one that will take him away yet again from his wife (Davis) and kids who already yearn for his all too distracted attention. But when Dave is accidentally infected with a top secret genetic-mutation serum everything he thought he knew about being himself and his family changes. Yet with his newly perked up ears and his front row seat on the household carpet Dave is able to gain a whole new perspective into his family's secrets and dreams. Now he wants nothing more than to stop fetching and return to fathering - only first he'll have to stop the evil forces behind the serum...in an adventure that will bring the whole family together.

• Bus Stop | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Broadway hit by William Inge this comic drama is about a rancher who falls for a nightclub singer while stranded at a bus stop in a blizzard. Monroe's dramatic breakthrough movie and the film debuts of Lange and Murray who eventually married.

• Faust | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shot in the UFA studios with a big movie star in the lead and all the special effects and production design resources any blockbuster of its time could wish for, FW Murnau's 1926 Faust represents a step up from his better-known Nosferatu. Oddly, Faust is a less familiar film than the vampire quickie and this release affords fans a chance to see what Murnau can do with an equally major fantasy story. Adapted neither from Marlowe's play Dr Faustus nor Goethe's verse drama, the script scrambles various elements of the legend and presents a Faust (Gosta Ekman) driven to summon the Devil by despair as a plague rages through the town, desperate to gain enough learning to help his neighbours. When this deal doesn't quite work out, because he is stoned by townsfolk who notice his sudden fear of the cross, Mephisto (Emil Jannings) offers Faust instead renewed youth and an opportunity to seduce a famously beautiful Italian noblewoman and then to return to his home village and get involved with the pure Gretchen (Camilla Horn). Like most versions of the story, it's episodic and some sections are stronger than others: the great stuff comes in the plague and initial deal sequences, though it picks up again for the tragic climax as Gretchen becomes the central figure and suffers horribly, freezing in the snows and burning at the stake. Jannings' devil, a gruesomely humorous slice of ham, is one of the great silent monster performances, reducing everyone else to a stick figure, and Murnau faces the challenge of topping his Nosferatu imagery by deploying a battalion of effects techniques to depict the many magical journeys, sudden appearances and transformations. On the DVD: Often seen in ragged, incomplete prints projected at the wrong speed, this is a decently restored version, running a full 115 minutes with a complete orchestral score. The original materials show some of the damage to be expected in a film of its vintage, but the transfer is excellent, displaying the imaginative art direction and camerawork to superb advantage. Aside from a nicely eerie menu, the sole extra is a full-length commentary originating in Australia: written by historian Peter Spooner but read by narrator Russell Cawthorne (who mispronounces the odd name). This provides an interesting wealth of background detail, such as Murnau's attempt to cast Hollywood's Lillian Gish as Gretchen, and delivers a balanced assessment of the film itself. --Kim Newman

• The Idealist | DVD | (13/02/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Christina Rosendahl co-writes and directs this Danish thriller starring Peter Plaugborg. The film follows investigative journalist Poul Brink (Plaugborg) as he attempts to uncover the truth behind a nuclear accident in Greenland during the Cold War. When an American B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed in Danish territory in 1968, only three of the devices were recovered and documented. Two decades later, and with a number of the recovery workers suffering with serious illnesses associated with radiation poisoning, Brink looks to find out what really happened in the aftermath of the crash. With both the Danish and US governments looking to cover up the existence of a fourth bomb, Brink faces a tough battle to find the truth. The cast also includes Arly Jover and Thomas Bo Larsen.

• No Way | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £16.16   |  Saving you £-6.17 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Extreme sports action with Hans Rey. This new documentary chronicles the life to date of Hans Rey who is widely considered the pioneer of extreme mountain biking. We follow his story from a small town in California and Tuscany. In the process we learn how a boy with a bike and a dream made his way to mountain biking's hall of fame. Featuring classic footage and stills shot over two decades by some of the top cinematographers and photographers in action sports. Lots of classic Hans

• Hangmen Also Die | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £19.94   |  Saving you £-4.95 (-33.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Triple Oscar winner Walter Brennan stars alongside Brian Donlevy and Anna Lee in Fritz Lang's masterful 1943 epic of suspense. Prague 1942. Czechoslovakia is occupied by the Nazis and suffering under a brutal regime controlled by SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich - the vicious sadist the Czech's call 'The Hangman'. When Heydrich is gunned down by a Czech patriot the fleeing resistance fighter (Brian Donlevy) finds temporary refuge in the apartment of Nasha Novotny (Anna Lee) and her family before escaping. In retaliation the Nazis take hundreds of hostages - including Nasha's father (Walter Brennan) - and threaten to shoot them if Heydrich's assassin is not handed over. Nasha Novotny is left with the most terrible decision of her life. Should she save her father - by betraying Heydrich's killer to the Gestapo? Nominated for two Oscars and co-written by the legendary playwright Bertholt Brecht Hangmen Also Die is a gripping war story given a stunning Film Noir edge. Digitally restored and remastered it is now available to own on DVD for the very first time.

• The Fourth Man | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Only two years separate The Fourth Man, the final Dutch language movie by director Paul Verhoeven, and the explosive commencement of his Hollywood career. Controversy raged about violence in Flesh + Blood, RoboCop and everything else he made thereafter. Yet controversy has always been a part of the filmmaker's work. This savage comedy shocker could well be seen as a trial run for Basic Instinct, since it features an ice-cold seductress (Renee Soutendijk) with mysterious motivations and sexual preferences. The hallucinatory tale follows a novelist (Jeroen Krabbé) first falling for her, and then feverishly investigating whether she's a serial husband killer. The film is full of what would soon be recognised as Verhoeven trademarks: a little blasphemy, a lot of nudity, dispassionate characters and hidden agendas. One of the aspects that caught the eye of international audiences was the film's colourful lighting and camerawork. This was from Jan de Bont, who, thanks in large part to Verhoeven, would go on to direct Speed and others. Many prints of the movie were edited around the world, but it's presented here uncut. Full of symbolic flourishes and allegorical plot points, this is a dizzying display of the type of black comedy that not even Verhoeven can get away with in today's politically aware industry. --Paul Tonks

• Pittsburgh | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends his lovers and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Master Blackmailer | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (54.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh

• Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Wunderlich, Keilberth) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Wunderlich Keilberth)

• A Ravishing Idiot | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £11.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (18.66%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Normally spies are a cold blooded breed... but not agent 0038-24-36! An inept crook and Russian spy (Anthony Perkins) attempts to steal N.A.T.O. secrets. Unable to accomplish anything this bumbler hires special agent 0038-24-36 (Brigitte Bardot) to assist in his work. This 1964 spy comedy is a real oddity.

• Ich bin dein Mensch | Blu Ray | (23/09/2021) from £11.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Commando Leopard | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £7.05   |  Saving you £5.94 (84.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by the highly regarded Italian shlockmaster Antonio Margheriti (Cannibal Holocaust / The Last Hunter) and starring Lewis Collins (Who Dares Wins) and renowned cinema mad man Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu), Commado Leopard is a classic Italo-action movie where South American rebels must fight to free their country from the brutal oppression of a fascist dictatorship. After spectacularly taking out a dam, the rebels become public enemy No.1 for El Presidente, relentlessly pursued through the jungle by Colonel Silvera - played by Kinski at his swivel-eyed best - in an 80s low action classic that gives you exactly what you want, big guns, big explosions and glorious, beautiful, mindless destruction. Now, find out why the Italian's ruled the 80s video store in this rental classic from the golden era of Euro-action trash... Special Features: Making of Featurette Collector's Booklet by Howard Hughes

• Strauss - Arabella | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Richard Strauss: Arabella, performed by various performers, and conducted by Sir Georg Solti,

• Giordano - Andrea Chenier (Santi) | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £15.37   |  Saving you £1.62 (9.50%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Political intrigue during the French Revolution and the fate of a woman desired by two men are the focal points of Giordano's gripping drama Andrea Chenier. Placido Domingo sings the title role with great passion and tenderness in this acclaimed 1981 Vienna State Opera production; Gabriela Benackova portrays the hero's beloved Maddalena.

• A Lady Takes A Chance | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £16.29   |  Saving you £-0.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When New Yorker Molly Truesdale takes a bus tour of the West rodeo rider Duke Hudkins literally falls into her lap. It's love at first sight for Molly and she sets out to catch her cowboy! 'A Lady Takes A Chance' is vintage John Wayne available to buy for the first time in the UK.

• Rocky And Bullwinkle - Season 1 | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The entire first season of animated antics with flying squirrel Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky) and his dim companion Bullwinkle J. Moose!

• X312 - Flight To Hell | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A plane crashes in the jungles of South America. Among the survivors is the president of a powerful bank who tries to conceal the fact that he has a stash of stolen jewellery from the other walking wounded. Unfortunately once his secret is revealed it's everyone for himself (or herself) as the passengers battle it out to survive and get the loot...