"Actor: Jean"

• Nelly And Mr Arnaud | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A woman desperately in need of employment meets up with a former judge who just happens to be looking for a secretary. Whilst working on his memoirs the two become quite close but their relationship becomes strained upon the arrival of the publisher...

• Tintin and the Mystery of Golden Fleece | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £12.73   |  Saving you £8.25 (84.70%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A surprise message from Istanbul is about to ruin Captain Haddock's day. Named as sole beneficiary in the will of his late comrade Paparanic Haddock and his best friend intrepid boy reporter Tintin (Jean-Pierre Talbot) journey to Turkey to claim a strangely disappointing bounty - but is all as it seems? One of the very few adaptations to meet with Tintin creator Herg'''s approval Tintin and the Golden Treasure is a spirited live-action take on his iconic comic creation and features all his best-loved characters. Uncanny Tintin-alike Jean-Pierre Talbot's martial arts skills and the larger-than-life Georges Wilson as Captain Haddock make for lively performances in a film which no Tintin fan young or old will want to be without.

• Manon Des Sources | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Less a sequel than a seamless continuation of its predecessor, Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to womanhood of the daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed farmer of the first film. As she discovers the truth of what happened to her father as a result of the scheming of their neighbour (Yves Montand), who took the land for himself, she vows revenge, realising that the neighbour's deeds have irrevocably shaped the course of her life. Her moves toward avenging her father's demise provide an ironic twist to this harsh and thought-provoking saga, and French director Claude Berri perfectly illustrates the lasting consequences of deceit, greed, and revenge. Manon des Sources is a very special subtitled film-choice, destined to be revered for years to come. --Robert Lane

• Godzilla (1998) 4K Ultra HD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following French atomic bomb tests in theSouth Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing through the Panama Canal. ScientistNiko Tatopoulos is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing inManhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city.

• In Like Flint / Our Man Flint | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £14.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (4.46%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's really been only one rival to James Bond: Derek Flint in the swinging-60s action-comedies Our Man Flint (1966) and In Like Flint (1967). That's because of James Coburn's special brand of American cool. He's so cool, in fact, that he doesn't care to save the world. That is, until he's personally threatened. He's a true libertarian, with more gadgets and girls than Bond, but with none of his stress or responsibility. Our Man Flint finds our unflappable hero thwarting mad scientists who control the weather--and an island of pleasure drones. Lee J Cobb costars as Flint's flustered superior, and Edward Mulhare plays a British nemesis with snob appeal. For fans of Austin Powers, incidentally, the funny-sounding phone comes from the Flint films. However, Our Man Flint's best gadget remains the watch that enables Flint to feign death. There's a great Jerry Goldsmith score, too. There was bound to be a sequel, and In Like Flint delivers the same kind of zany fun as its predecessor. Flint is recruited once again by Lee J Cobb to be the government's top secret agent, this time to solve a mishap involving the President. It turns out, the Chief Executive has been replaced by an evil duplicate. The new plan for world domination involves feminine aggression, and Flint, with his overpowering charisma, is just the man to turn the hostile forces around. In Like Flint is still over the top, but some of the novelty has worn off, and it doesn't have quite the same edge as the original. Even Jerry Goldsmith's score is a bit more subdued. But the film still has James Coburn and that funny phone. --Bill Desowitz

• MOTHER! | DVD | (22/01/2018) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in Oscar® nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. The film shattered audiences and critics around the world. It's been called gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding (Empire) and Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work (Time Out). Experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown! Bonus Features: mother! The Downward Spiral The Makeup FX of mother!

• Bad Girls - Series One | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  If the concept of a TV drama set in a woman's prison was one potentially fraught with cliché, the critical and commercial success of Bad Girls is a testament to fine writing, performance and production. With no preamble or scene setting, Series 1 immediately plunges the viewer into the world of Larkhall Prison, its inmates and staff. This approach leaves the characters to reveal themselves at varying pace, with each episode bringing new details about their life on the outside. Given the nature of the setting, it is unsurprising that the show is an ensemble, female-dominated piece. Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones and Debra Stephenson are all excellent in the three key roles, with impressive support throughout the cast. Male characters are generally relegated to the sidelines, with the exception of sleazy warden Jim Fenner (played with skin crawling accuracy by Jack Ellis). The sexual realities of the environment are handled realistically and sensitively, and not for nothing is the word "uncut" splashed across the cover: there are some quite disturbing scenes, especially in the earlier episodes. On the DVD: The DVD enhances the show's attempts to capture the atmosphere of prison, with sharp contrast between light and darkness and the constant barracking, cat-calling and snide asides sounding crisp, clear and suitably nasty. Of the impressive 70 minutes of extra features much will only be of real interest to absolute devotees. A documentary examining work on the forthcoming third series may go into admirable detail, but how much interest a costume truck can actually be is perhaps debatable. The footage itself is a little unpolished, but does provide the cast members with an opportunity to reveal themselves, as does the extensive interview section. Not only do the main actors give valuable insights into their characters, but it is also interesting to see how the process has influenced their opinions on the prison system. A feature on a book signing in London certainly puts the show into an audience context, but the collection of outtakes (presented in a, supposedly intentionally, amateurish and tacky manner by Lahbib) is at best superfluous. There is more than a hint of trying to find material to fill the space, but overall this is an impressive effort. --Phil Udell

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £15.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (25.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots. Ex-Sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War One. It is time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world. Originally broadcast on BBC in 1976 this double DVD release of When The Boat Comes In contains the first five episodes from the fondly remembered drama series.

• Made In The USA | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

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• The Snows of Kilimanjaro dvd (UK Release) | DVD | (24/12/2012) from £11.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (51.30%)   |  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...

• Le Jour Se Leve - 75th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £11.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (51.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Marcel Carné directs this classic French romantic drama starring Jean Gabin. François (Gabin), a factory worker, has love affairs with a flower girl, Françoise (Jacqueline Laurent), and a performer, Clara (Arletty), both of whom have been involved with seedy, older man Valentin (Jules Berry). When the two men come face-to-face a jealous François ends up killing Valentin. As the police close in on him, François barricades himself in a small room, going over the events which led him into such desperate straits.

• Ronin | DVD | (29/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money.

• Deep Water | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £5.98   |  Saving you £14.01 (234.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deep Water is the true journey of Donald Crowhurst, a electronics inventor who enters the most daring nautical race ever.

• Heidi (Colourised) | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £26.63   |  Saving you £-16.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Shirley Temple, in a role that seems custom-made for her, portrays the spirited young heroine of the popular children's novel, giving her rich emotional depth and infinite charm. When her Aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi is taken into the Swiss mountains to live with her gruff Grandfather (Jean Hersholt), a hermit who comes to adore her. But the Aunt returns to steal Heidi away, selling her to a family whose invalid daughter (Marcia Mae Jones) needs a companion. Bullied by an evil governess (Mary Nash), Heidi still charms the entire household and never stops trying to return to her beloved Grandfather.

• La Bete Humaine | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Severine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them but doesn't tell the police because he's in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her.....

• Vincent And Theo | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A blistering portrait of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh Robert Altman's 'Vincent and Theo' focuses on the deeply neurotic relationship between the unstable impoverished Vincent (Tim Roth) and his art dealer brother Theo (Paul Rhys). Specifically it investigates the role Theo played in providing the normality and connection to the outer world that Vincent lacked while Vincent in turn acted as the living embodiment of Theo's unfulfilled artistic aspirations...

• Gerard Depardieu - Screen Icons Collection | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £17.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (94.50%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Set Comprises: Buffet Froid Bertrand Blier's Csar Award winning surreal comedy in which Gerard Depardieu stars as a suspected serial killer pitted against an ageing police inspector. Mon Pere Ce Hero Veronique living with her divorced mother is going on easter's holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a nice looking boy Benjamin she manages to complicate the situation several times because she makes up a story where her father is presented as her lover and in addition he is a hero and secret agent but with a somewhat criminal past. Tous Les Matins Du Monde It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man Marin Marais comes to see him with a request he wants to be taught how to play the viol. Le Colonel Chabert A dishevelled man visits a lawyer in 1817 Paris claiming the rank and fortune of the dead Colonel Chabert.

• Mississippi Mermaid (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wealthy plantation tycoon Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless) puts up an ad for a bride and luminous beauty Julie (Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour) arrives in answer. More attractive than the photograph he received Louis is nevertheless enraptured despite some strange details in her story. Things get complicated when Julie disappears and Louis determines to find her, leading him on a trail of mystery and erotic obsession. Adapted by Truffaut from a novel by Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black), Mississippi Mermaid is a lush colour noir that features the twists and turns of the genre with the heart of Renoir (to whom the film is dedicated) while Belmondo and Deneuve are on top form.

• Doctor Who - Battlefield | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £5.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (236.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The TARDIS materialises in the English countryside near the village of Carbury where a nuclear missile convoy under the command of UNIT's Brigadier Winifred Bambera has run into difficulties. Lying on the bed of the nearby Lake Vortigern is a spaceship from another dimension containing the body of King Arthur supposedly held in suspended animation and his sword Excalibur. Ancelyn a knight from the other dimension arrives on Earth to aid the King but is followed by his rival Mordred and the latter's mother a powerful sorceress named Morgaine. They all recognise the Doctor as Merlin - a fact that the Time Lord attributes to events in his own future.

• Frenzy | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £6.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (53.93%)   |  RRP £9.99

  By the time Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last picture came out in 1972, the censorship restrictions under which he had laboured during his long career had eased up. Now he could give full sway to his lurid fantasies, and that may explain why Frenzy is the director's most violent movie by far--outstripping even Psycho for sheer brutality. Adapted by playwright Anthony Shaffer, the story concerns a series of rape-murders committed by suave fruit-merchant Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), who gets his kicks from throttling women with a necktie. This being a Hitchcock thriller, suspicion naturally falls on the wrong man--ill-tempered publican Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). Enter Inspector Oxford from New Scotland Yard (Alex McCowan), who thrashes out the finer points of the case with his wife (Vivian Merchant), whose tireless enthusiasm for indigestible delicacies like quail with grapes supplies a classic running gag.Frenzy was the first film Hitchcock had shot entirely in his native Britain since Jamaica Inn (1939), and many contemporary critics used that fact to account for what seemed to them a glorious return to form after a string of Hollywood duds (Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz). Hitchcock specialists are often less wild about it, judging the detective plot mechanical and the oh-so-English tone insufferable. But at least three sequences rank among the most skin-crawling the maestro ever put on celluloid. There is an astonishing moment when the camera backs away from a room in which a murder is occurring, down the stairs, through the front door and then across the street to join the crowd milling indifferently on the pavement. There is also the killer's nerve-wracking attempt to retrieve his tiepin from a corpse stuffed into a sack of potatoes. Finally, there is one act of strangulation so prolonged and gruesome it verges on the pornographic. Was the veteran film-maker a rampant misogynist as feminist observers have frequently charged? Sit through this appalling scene if you dare and decide for yourself. --Peter Matthews