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• Black Eagle | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  MARTIAL ARTS LEGEND SHO KOSUGI FACES OFF AGAINST ACTION MOVIE STAR JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME IN THIS 80s ACTION CLASSIC FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE OCTAGON After an F11 fighter plane gets shot down over the Mediterranean Sea the U.S. Government cannot afford to lose the top-secret laser tracking device on board. But unfortunately the KGB team lead by the infamous Andrei (Jean-Claude-Van-Damme) are beating the CIA in the race to find it. The CIA has no choice but to call in their best man master martial artist Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi) code name...Black Eagle. In response the KGB resorts to an all-out war with the powerful Andrei matching Ken blow for blow.

• Handel: Messiah (Handel: Messiah (Staged Version) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Song Of Scheherazade | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £5.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (55.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This feelgood musical drama tells the story of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's early career as a Russian Naval Academy cadet and an imaginary meeting with an exotic dancer who might have inspired one of his great works. It's 1865, and the young Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is a sailor on a two-year world tour with the Russian Navy. When the ship docks in Tangiers, his search for a piano on which to play his latest work brings him into the fold of a family of down-at-heel Spanish aristocrats. The daughter Cara (Yvonne de Carlo) works secretly as a veiled dancer with the stage name Scheherazade in order to support her mother Madame de Talavera (Eve Arden)'s spendthrift habits. Rimsky-Korsakov is captivated by Cara, and her tales from the mysterious East begin to infiltrate his compositions. As the week's furlough flies by, young Nikolai's musical and amorous aspirations come under threat from Brian Donlevy's severe Captain Vladimir Gregorovitch and dashing shipmate Prince Mischetsky (Phillip Reed) but a harmonious ending is on the horizon. Written and directed by Walter Reisch (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Niagara), the film also stars Charles Kullmann, a leading tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, who is smuggled aboard as the ship's doctor to perform many of Rimsky-Korsakov's enduring melodies.

• Indochine | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £7.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (156.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1992, Indochine is a vast, panoramic love story set in the twilight years of French Indo-China. Comparisons with David Lean are inevitable, considering director Régis Wargnier's use of the setting as a backdrop to the love-triangle between the three main characters. Catherine Deneuve gives a strong, emotionally restrained performance as Eliane, the plantation owner whose colonial paradise is slowly falling apart. Vincent Perez is magnetic yet thoughtful as the young officer Jean-Baptiste, complemented by Jean Yanne's dry cynicism as the Chief of Police knowingly fighting a losing battle for French culture. Linh Dan Pham is affecting as Camille, Eliane's adopted daughter whose journey from aristocratic ancestry to Marxist induction personifies the changing face of South-East Asia in the period around World War Two. Patrick Doyle's score reinforces the expressive sweep of the direction and "orientalisms!" are kept to a minimum. On the DVD The 16:9 wide-screen format reproduces best in the domestic scenes, and there are 30 individual chapter points, detailed in the interactive moving menu. The disc also has detailed filmographies for the main cast and director, including an entertaining "gossip" file for Deneuve. English subtitles are optional. A half-hour location report would have been worthwhile, but overall this is a persuasive presentation of one of the few genuine historical-romantic epics of the 1990s. --Richard Whitehouse

• Gounod - Romeo Et Juliette (Villazon) | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £18.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (5.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Under The Rainbow | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party exactly like her Prince would in her dreams she thinks she's finally found her knight in shining armour. But then when she meets Maxime the following night Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others. Will everything end happily ever after for Laura? Or will the prince turn out to be the frog? A sharp snappy and wonderfully droll comedy of manners and errors this charming French romantic drama has won over legions of admirers across the channel and is now poised to set hearts aflutter in Britain too.

• Dragon Eyes | Blu Ray | (09/04/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In New Orleans, a mysterious man looks to unite to warring gangs against the lawmen who have been using them to advance their corrupt agenda.

• The Man Who Loved Women | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-3.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A deceptively simple film, Francois Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women is neither an indictment nor an apology for philandering; rather, it's a courageous, lovingly detailed portrait of a complex, intelligent man suffering from an altogether intractable complaint. Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5", seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40-ish and somewhat square, no woman in the town of Montpelier seems capable of resisting his earnest advances. Not much else happens in them film, but in the hands of master visual storyteller Truffaut, the threadbare plot accumulates deep and ominous philosophical resonances. What drives Morane from woman to woman, and what accounts for his remarkable success? Does he secretly dislike women and consider them interchangeable (as one of the more prurient characters charges, to Morane's genuine befuddlement), or is his enthusiasm a kind of celebration? Truffaut refuses to answer plainly, but does drop clues; as his camera focuses on everyday objects, many take on a chilling, otherworldly lustre, and coldly foreshadow Morane's fate. This film was clumsily remade in English in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds assuming the role played here with such understated skill by the wonderful Charles Denner. --Miles Bethany

• The House Of Eliott - Part 1 | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £11.47   |  Saving you £8.52 (42.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first four episodes of the BBC drama series set in 1920's London. When the philandering Eliott dies penniless there is no inheritance for his daughters Beatrice and Evangeline to survive on. Forced to go into business their London dressmakiing enterprise grows into an industrial force to be reckoned with...

• Quai Des Orfevres | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £15.97   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Blacklisted for his daring ""anti-French"" masterpiece Le Corbeau Henri-Georges Clouzot returned to cinema four years later with the provocative 1947 crime fiction adaptation Quai des Orfevres. Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris ambitious performer Jenny Lamour her covetous piano-playing husband Maurice Martineau and their devoted confidante Dora Monier attempt to cover one another's tracks when a sexually ogreish high-society acquaintance is murdered. Enter Inspector Antoine whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path in this classic whodunnit murder mystery.

• Strip Tease Murder | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Diana, a popular stripper at the famous Flamingo Nightclub, collapses and dies on stage, her death is quickly attributed to natural causes. However, the club's comic (and Diana's beau), is not convinced. The police aren't interested so he sets out alone to find some answers. He soon finds that he's treading a dangerous path. Luckily he doesn't have to do it all alone, encouraged by fiesty stripper Angelin, the club's showgirls are willing to help and together they set a trap to expose the truth...

• La Kermesse Heroique | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A period comedy based on the Spanish invasion of Flanders in 1616 where the Mayor's wife organises the townswomen to preserve the peace using womanly wiles...

• The Captive | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £34.19   |  Saving you £-14.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chantal Akerman's La Captive is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's La Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between Death in Venice and Vertigo. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, La Captive will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--Tricia Tuttle

• Braquo Season 2 | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £17.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.78%)   |  RRP £22.99

  From the creators of Braquo and the writer of A Prophet comes the incendiary series 2 of Braquo. Rejected by their peers and superiors alike, Eddy and his renegade team suffer the shame and disgrace of going from hunters to the hunted. Caught in the crossfire of a gang war, the road to redemption will be long and difficult, and they can no longer rely on themselves alone to avoid a total fall from grace.

• Holiday | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £9.50   |  Saving you £0.49 (5.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy...

• Howl's Moving Castle Steelbook | Blu Ray | (25/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Like a dream, Howl's Moving Castle carries audiences to vistas beyond their imaginations where they experience excitement, adventure, terror, humor, and romance. With domestic box office receipts of over $210 million, Howl passed Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke to become the #3 film in Japanese history, behind his Spirited Away and James Cameron's Titanic. Based on a juvenile novel by Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle marks the first time Miyazaki has adapted another writer's work since Kiki's Delivery Service (1989). Sophie, a 19-year-old girl who believes she is plain, has resigned herself to a drab life in her family's hat shop--until the Witch of the Waste transforms her into a 90-year-old woman. In her aged guise, Sophie searches for a way to break the Witch's spell and finds unexpected adventures. Like Chihiro, the heroine of Spirited Away, Sophie discovers her hidden potential in a magical environment--the castle of the title. Using CG, Miyazaki creates a ramshackle structure that looks like it might disintegrate at any moment. Sophie's honesty and determination win her some valuable new friends: Markl, Howl's young apprentice; a jaunty scarecrow; Calcifer, a temperamental fire demon; and Heen, a hilarious, wheezing dog. She wins the heart of the dashing, irresponsible wizard Howl, and brings an end an unnecessary and destructive war. The film overflows with eclipsing visuals that range from frightening aerial battles to serene landscapes, and few recent features--animated or live action--offer as much magic as Howl's Moving Castle.--Charles Solomon

• Le Professionnel | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £11.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (28.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Joss Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a French spy given the assignment of killing an African dictator and when he arrives in Africa to do so he is captured and put in prison. The political winds had changed - the dictator is now an ally - and the best way to handle the agent is to keep him in jail. Naturally at odds now with his former bosses and with an ax to grind for his own incarceration the agent escapes after two years in prison and heads back to Paris where he announces that he is going to finish his assassination job during the coming diplomatic visit of the African leader. Once aware of his intent the French government sets up one trap after another but to no avail - the agent remains free and there is no doubt that he has the full capacity to do exactly what he says.

• The Louis Malle Collection - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (1958): In this his debut feature film director Louis Malle captures the hidden beauty of Jeanne Moreau the brilliant camerawork of Henri Decae and the musical force of Miles Davis in a tightly constructed film noir experience that launched his and Moreau's careers. Le Feu Follet (1963): Maurice Ronet stars as an alcoholic writer who upon leaving a drying-out clinic decides to commit suicide. He elects to visit all his friends to see if

• Jean-Claude Van Damme - No Retreat, No Surrender/Street Fighter/Nowhere To Run/Hard Target/Double Team/Desert Heat/Universal Soldier - The Return/Knock Off/Sudden Death/The Quest | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £52.63   |  Saving you £17.36 (32.99%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Titles Comprise: No Retreat No Surrender: Bruce Lee fan Jason Stillwell is not the best student in his martial arts class. Beaten numerous times he is horrified when the local crime syndicate runs his teacher out of town. Training hard using pearls of wisdom from the ghost of Lee Stillwell sets his newly acquired skills upon the syndicate and its' champion the deadly Ivan (Van Damme)... Street Fighter: Shadaloo South-East Asia 1995. As civil war enters its seventh month warlord General M Bison virtually brings about global warfare when he takes 63 Allied Nations' relief workers hostage and threatens to execute them unless a ransom of billion dollars is paid. It is the mission of Colonel William F. Guile to rescue the hostages but he has to locate them first! As part of an audacious plan to track down the General and his futuristic fortress Guile and British Intelligence Officer Cammy recruit to their forces two renegade heroes. Nowhere To Run: An escaped prisoner hiding from the authorities Sam Gillen (Van Damme) always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom he aids a beautiful young widow Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her children against a ruthless developer who's trying to drive them off their land. Hard Target: Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the 'amusement' of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man. Double Team: Though he's the nation's top counter-terrorist Jack Quinn (Van Damme) wants to get out of the spy game. But on his final mission he misses his target and wakes up in a place they call the Colony a think tank for spies who are too dangerous to roam the world but too valuable to be killed. Desert Heat: Desperate to flee the inner demons raging inside him mysterious loner Eddie Lomax (Van-Damme) rides to the last outpost of an abandoned desert highway prepared to end it all. But when a savage gang steals his prized cycle and leaves him for dead Eddie's life is saved by a soulmate from his past. Burning with a new reason to live Eddie sets off on a one-man search-and-destroy mission against his attackers. Universal Soldier - The Return: Continuing the story of Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) the unstoppable hero who was the last man standing at the end of the original film. Years later Luc - now devoting his life to fatherhood - is serving as a technical expert on a special Government project to revive and improve the Universal Soldier Training Programme. Knock Off: When a shipment of jeans to the US proves counterfeit Marcus Ray the King of the Knock-Offs (Van Damme) finds himself at the centre of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States' security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs disguised within other manufactured goods are schedules for departure from Hong Kong to America. Sudden Death: Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game. With the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end Van Damme frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue his daughter and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer... The Quest: Jean-Claude Van Damme directs and stars in this exciting action packed film which centres around Chris Dubois (Van-Damme) and the Ghan-Gheng a legendary 'special invite only' tournament that brings together the greatest fighters of the world in a winner takes all test of skill and courage.

• Pourquoi Pas Moi? | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A group of gay friends plan to finally tell all of their parents the truth at a grand party, but nothing goes as planned.