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• Catherine Cookson - Birth, Death, Love And Marriage | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £23.54   |  Saving you £16.45 (69.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Futebol | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One country. One game. Futebol is a riveting series of three 80 minute documentaries produced by award winning documentary maker Joao Moreira Salles of Videofilmes the production company he started with his brother Walter Salles in 1987. By turns fascinating enthralling and in parts profoundly moving Futebol is a social commentary on Brazil and the national obsession with the beautiful game and its stars. Episode 1: For thousands of boys all over Br

• Belzebuth (SHUDDER) | Blu Ray | (13/09/2021) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Special Agent Emmanuel Ritter leads a police investigation into a series of shocking deaths. But after a priest from the Vatican finds a link between the murders and an ancient demon, a descent into horror ensues. Starring Tobin Bell from the Saw franchise and Joaquín Cosío from 'The Strain', Belzebuth is a dark, terrifying new tale of demonic possession.

• Pilgrimage | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ireland, 1209. A group of monks including a young novice (Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Lost City of Z) and a mute lay-brother (Jon Bernthal, The Punisher, The Wolf of Wall Street) are tasked with transporting an ancient relic across the wilderness. As the true significance of the relic becomes apparent; their path becomes increasingly fraught with danger. The monks quickly realise that in this wild land of ancient superstitions, the faith that binds them together may ultimately lead to their destruction.

• Passenger | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £14.24   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A German woman on a ship coming back to Europe notices the face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she has been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war but she has actually saved a woman's life. Her vision is shown and then the actual events. The last film of talented Polish director Andrzej Munk who was tragically killed during the making of project Passenger picked up Best Film at the Venice Film Festival and won the Special Award at Cannes.

• Verdi: Luisa Miller | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £15.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Verdi: Luisa Miller (Levine Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

• Rasputin | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Prince Alexei heir to the last Tsar is a hemophiliac. The Tsarina is persuaded to allow a mysterious monk Rasputin to use his powers of healing on the Prince. Against the wishes of the Tsar Rasputin tends to the young Prince - with frighteningly successful results. So begins a relationship which ended in Rasputin's murder and the eventual downfall of Imperial Russia...

• Fire On The Amazon | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.85   |  Saving you £2.13 (55.18%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Bolivia's Amazon basin corporate cattle ranches are replacing the rain forest. When Santos charismatic leader of the union of rubber tappers forges an alliance with Indians to protest deforestation he is assassinated. O'Brien a US photo-journalist lacking skills as an investigator wants a story when he thinks the police have framed and murdered an innocent Indian as the assassin. In his search for the truth he involves Lysa Rothman who worked for Santos and with whom he falls in love. As he becomes ever more deeply embroiled he not only needs Lysa's help but that of the Indians' leader. How many will O'Brien endanger to get his story?

• Two Mules For Sister Sara | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (32.32%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in Mexico a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan (Clint Eastwood) who is on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara but not for the reasons she tells Hogan so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defences. Inevitably the two become good friends but Sara has a secret..

• Tango (1998) | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £9.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (60.54%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the seductive world of the tango stunningly brought to life by acclaimed director Carlos Saura Grammy-award winning composer Lalo Schifrin and Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. Mario Suarez is a director determined to make the ultimate tango movie. After his wife leaves him he falls in love with Elena a beautiful young dancer but she happens to be the girlfriend of Angelo Larroca a powerful man who is also an investor in the movie.

• Night Watch | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (50.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mop-haired hustler Victor plies his trade amidst the seedy nocturnal denizens of Buenos Aires with the grim threat of violence simmering just below the surface. Threatening strangers an attempted murder and the remembrance of a past love combine to send Victor on a soul-searching surreal urban odyssey in this sharp drama helmed by veteran Argentine director Edgardo Cozarinsky.

• My 20th Century | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Ildikó Enyedi (whose latest film On Body and Soul scooped four major prizes - including the Golden Bear - at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival) this magical film spins a tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest on the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan who paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899 Moving at a dizzy pace between Budapest, Hamburg, New York, Burma, Austria, Paris and Siberia, this is a film of dazzling beauty and acumen. It is a modernist fable, a fantasmagoria of scientific, political and sexual revolution and radicalism, the birth of cinema, and the joy of life. Shot in luminous monochrome by cinematographer Tibor Máthé, the multi-award-winning My 20thCentury attempts to claim back from the century of genocide the wonder of existence in a constantly changing world. Awards: 1989 Cannes Film Festival / Winner: Camera d'Or - Ildikó Enyedi 1989 Edinburgh International Film Festival / Winner: Jury Prize 1989 Las Vegas International Film Festival / Winner: Special Jury Prize; Best Cinematography 1990 Hungarian Film Week / Winner: Foreign Film Critics Award; Best Director; Best Actress; Best Cinematography 1990 The New York Times ˜10 Best Films of the Year' Voted by critics in the Top 10 Hungarian films of all time Special Features: My 20th Century (1989) presented from a brand new HD restoration of the film by the Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by director of photography Tibor Máthé and director Ildikó Enyedi. Original Hungarian soundtrack in original Mono 16-bit LPCM audio A new filmed interview with director Ildikó Enyedi, shot exclusively for this release by filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio; The Duke of Burgundy). Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and academic Jonathan Owen. New and improved English subtitle translation. World premiere on Blu-ray.

• Tesis | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alejandro Amenabar's first film Tesis has impressive restrain for a debut, as you might expect from the man who went on to make Open Your Eyes and The Others. It's also the most intelligent consideration of the urban myth of snuff films seen onscreen in recent years. Ana Torrent is a priggish young student writing a thesis on violence in movies and finds out more than she wants to know. From the opening shots of her fascinated attempt to see a suicide victim mashed on the Madrid metro to her ambivalent involvement with Chemo (Fele Martinez)--a sinister nerd, obsessed with collecting dubious videos--and her flirtation with one of their principal suspects, Torrent portrays a traditionally plucky heroine along with her darker, more complicit and self-destructive side. As in his later work, Amenabar achieves maximum terror with minimum effect--dark rooms, gazes averted from torture we never see--because of his rich sense of the complexity of human character. What terrifies us here is the sense of our own demons. On the DVD: the DVD, which is presented in a 1.85:1 letterboxed video ratio and has Dolby Digital sound, comes with optional English subtitles, an intelligent, if slightly earnest documentary about the making of the film, a filmography, the theatrical trailer and a review article by the excellent Roger Clark. --Roz Kaveney

• To End All Wars | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the book by Captain Ernest Gordon a phenomenal piece of work this is an unforgettable true-life story of extreme endurance survival and redemption set amid the brutal terror of a Japanese POW camp. A story of triumph faith courage and untimely forgiveness. The Times

• Matador | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  At his school in Madrid ex-bullfighter Diego Montes teaches his students the Corridor - 'the art of the kill'. Trainee bullfighter Angelo sexually repressed and mother fixated is taunted about his suspected homosexuality by Diego. To prove his masculinity Angel attempts to assault Diego's girlfriend. Failing in his attempt and consumed by guilt he confesses to murders he did not commit - the victims are killed with bullfighting instruments at the moment of sexual climax. Angel is

• If Only | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Out-of-work actor Victor Bukowski (Douglas Henshall) is desperate to stop his ex-girlfriend Sylvia (Lena Headey) from marrying another man. Then miraculously he is given a second chance to go back and correct the mistakes which led to their relationship breaking down. But will turning back the clock really change anything at all?

• Adoption | Blu Ray | (12/07/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society. Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens. 43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into adoption, and befriends orphaned teenager Anna, herself determined to start a new life for herself. Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, Márta Mészáros became the first woman filmmaker ever to receive the award. Seen today, Adoption, which features a single woman who constantly defies expectations, is powerful not just as a refreshing counterpoint to Europe's rising conservatism but, even more importantly, in the context of bold feminist cinema. Ela Bittencourt, Sight & Sound Adoption rings with a relevant message of self-empowerment and decisively taking control of one's fate in the face of a dour and uncaring society. Julia Ray, Cinema Rediscovered Special Features: Adoption (Örökbefogadás, 1975) presented from an HD transfer of the new restoration by the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute A Conversation with Márta Mészáros (2009): an archival filmed interview with the director Trailer Booklet with new writing on the film by Carmen Gray New and improved English subtitle translation World premiere on Blu-ray Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)

• The Red And The White | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mikls Jancs's career spans 5 decades and over 25 films. He has been nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes 5 times and won 'Best Director' in 1972. Available for the first time on DVD Csillagosok Katonak has been digitally remastered with new English subtitles added. Set in central Russia during the Civil War of 1918 this film from Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancso witnesses the brutality and senselessness of war as the Red and the White armies battle in the hills along the

• Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Five Adventures | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the heady days of Louis Xlll's France live Dogtanian and three courageous Muskehounds - Athos Porthos and Aramis. Pledged to a life of a adventure they are mnavericks fighting for justice despite their sometimes unorthodix methods. Chivalry honour and companionship are all upheld as they battle against the forces of evil legendary swordsmanship helping them escape danger in the nick of time... Whether overcoming the powerful Richelieu or waging war Dogtanian and the The Three Muskehounds never lose their sense of duty - or sense of humour. They are truly a law unto themselves.

• Empire | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (32.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Victor is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name written all over it.