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• A Very Long Engagement | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £4.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (280.56%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Audrey Tautou searches for her lost love in this emotional WW1 drama from Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

• Le Havre | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (Andr Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation.A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carn, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

• The Bureau Season 2 | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Malotru , a French intelligence officer, undercover in Syria for 6 years, is called back home. He will face the difficulty to forget his undercover identity, the disappearance of a colleague in Algeria, and the training of a young girl.

• The Snows of Kilimanjaro dvd (UK Release) | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £6.45   |  Saving you £11.54 (178.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Even though he's lost his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. These two have been in love for thirty years. Their children and grand-children fill them with joy... They have a group of close friends... They are proud of their union struggles and political activism. Their consciences are as clear as their gazes. This happiness will be shattered along with their sliding door when two armed and masked men break into their home, beat them, tie them up, tear their wedding rings from their fingers, and run off with their credit cards. They are even more distraught when they learn that this brutal attack was organized by one of the young laborers laid-off at the same as Michel was, it was carried out by one of their own. Michel and Marie-Claire realize, little by little, that Christophe, their assailant, only acted out of necessity. In fact, he lives alone with his two younger brothers and takes care of them admirably, keeping an eye on their studies and watching over their health...

• The Well Digger's Daughter | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As she cuts across the fields to take her father his lunch, Patricia meets Jacques. She is eighteen, he is twenty-six. She is pretty, with the fine manners of a young lady; he is a fighter pilot and a handsome young man. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting. There won't be a third rendezvous: Jacques is sent to the front. Patricia finds herself pregnant. The boy's rich parents accuse her of blackmail. Patricia and her father, the well-digger, will alone have the joy of welcoming her child. A joy that the Mazels will soon envy and seek to share when Jacques goes missing in action...

• The Bureau Season 1 | DVD | (16/01/2017) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All ten episodes from the first season of the French political drama starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Sara Giraudeau. After returning to Paris following an extended undercover mission in Syria, French intelligence officer Guillaume Debailly (Kassovitz) must face up to the challenge of reconnecting with his estranged daughter and ex-wife as he attempts to adjust to life back at home. Now tasked with training new recruit Marina Loiseau (Giraudeau), Guillaume's situation is further complicated by the arrival in Paris of Nadia (Zineb Triki), his love interest from his time in Syria, and the case of a fellow agent who mysteriously goes missing while undercover in Algeria.

• Conversations With My Gardner | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £9.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (83.76%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In Jean Becker's Conversations With My Gardner a middle-aged landscape painter played by Daniel Auteuil recently separated who has lived for many years in Paris returns to the house in the country where he grew up and which he's inherited from his mother. He hires a local gardener Jean-Pierre Darroussin and soon discovers they were best friends at school together. Based on a book by Henri Cueco this is mainly a two-hander for the talents of Auteuil and Darroussin. As two old friends they spend a lot of time talking philosophizing and reminiscing. This relaxed and in some ways quintessentially French film is appealing simply because it is content to explore in a gentle way a long-standing friendship. As the seasons change eternal truths come into perspective.

• A Very Long Engagement | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £11.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (37.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Audrey Tautou searches for her lost love in this emotional WW1 drama from Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

• 22 Bullets | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £3.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (415.47%)   |  RRP £17.99

  After a long brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia Charly Matte'' (Jean Reno) has turned a new leaf and gone straight. For three years he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then one winter morning he is left for dead on the docks of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for Tony Zacchia the only man who would dare to try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he failed.

• A Woman's Life | Blu Ray | (12/02/2018) from £21.98   |  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. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS 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

• The House by the Sea | DVD | (22/04/2019) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela, an actress living in Paris, Joseph, who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand, the only one who stayed behind in Marseilles to run the family's small restaurant. It's time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father's ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

• 22 Bullets | Blu Ray | (31/01/2011) from £11.83   |  Saving you £8.16 (68.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a long brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia Charly Matte'' (Jean Reno) has turned a new leaf and gone straight. For three years he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then one winter morning he is left for dead on the docks of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for Tony Zacchia the only man who would dare to try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he failed.

• Red Lights | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £12.93   |  Saving you £7.06 (54.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the hottest day of the year Antoine and Helene hit the road destined for the south of France. The oppressive heat and traffic gridlock take their toll on Antoine's frazzled nerves and as he attempts to cool off with one cold beer after another tensions between the bickering couple are pushed to boiling point. As night draws in Antoine stops off at yet another bar but returns to the car to find Helene missing. Panic-stricken he embarks on a desperate search only to find event

• Le Havre | Blu Ray | (06/08/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (Andr Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation.A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carn, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

• 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

• La Ville Est Tranquille | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michele (Ariane Ascaride) works nights in a fish market to finance her daughter's heroin addiction. When that's not enough she sells her body to Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) a striking docker who has turned his back on the cause to become a cabbie. Her supplier is Gerard (Gerard Meylan) a bar owner with a lucrative sideline in contract killing. His latest target is Claude (Pierre Banderet) a wealthy snob whose wife is so disgusted by him she takes up with an ex-convict. Frenc

• Amelie / A Very Long Engagement | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A Jean-Pierre Jeunet double-bill featuring Amelie and his latest effort A Very Long Engagement. A Very Long Engagement (2004): Never let go... From the director of 'Amelie' comes this very different love story. Set in France near the end of World War I it tells the story of a young woman's relentless moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance who has disappeared. Featuring another fantastic performance from Audrey Tautou this film has an amazing cast full o

• Army Of Crime | Blu Ray | (01/02/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In a Paris occupied by the Germans, the worker poet Missak Manouchian becomes the leader of a group of very young Jews, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Spaniards, Italians, and Armenians determined to fight for Human Rights.

• On Connait La Chanson | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of 7 Cesar Awards Same Old Song is a delightful romantic musical comedy directed by Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad) one of France's most internationally acclaimed directors. Same Old Song revolves around two Parisian sisters caught in a web of dysfunctional relationships and romantic confusion. Odile an upper-class wife and businesswoman finds an escape from her submissive husband Clau