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• Flesh And The Devil | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Greta Garbo and John Gilbert star in this classic silent melodrama about a love triangle between two boyhood friends and the amoral seductress who comes between them. Best friends Leo (Gilbert) and Ulrich (Lars Hanson) are cadets at a military academy when Leo falls madly in love with the gorgeous and aristocratic Countess Felicitas von Kletzingk (Garbo). However Felicitas neglects to tell him that she has a husband who upon discovering the affair challenges Leo to a duel. Leo kills von Kletzingk and is sentenced to five years of foreign service in Africa. Felicitas promises to wait for her brave young lover and Leo asks Ulrich to look after the grieving widow until his return. After three years Leo returns to discover that his bosom buddy has married Felicitas in his absence. She rekindles her illicit romance with Leo but refuses to give up the comforts of married life with the now wealthy Ulrich. Determined to have them both Felicitas drives the former friends into a deadly rivalry that culminates in a beautifully filmed finale that director Clarence Brown shoots almost entirely in silhouette. The use of inclement weather to invoke tragedy and mystery in the film contributes to the silent beauty of this MGM classic. Greta Garbo gives an incendiary performance as the smoldering femme fatale; she and John Gilbert supposedly began their torrid real-life affair while filming this movie. FLESH AND THE DEVIL based on the novel THE UNDYING PAST by Hermann Sudermann is a film that should not be missed.

• Murk | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jacob has ostensibly taken time off work to write a book but in reality he's still coming to terms with his sister Julie's attemted suicide she is now seriously disabled and wheelchair bound. Jacob feels somehow responsible and his guilt has robbed his life of direction. Meanwhile Julie has struck up a romance on the internet with the slightly odd yet seemingly decent and kind Anker and announces their intention to marry. After some initial doubts Jacob accepts Anker pleased that Julie has managed to find some kind of happiness. But on her wedding night Julie commits suicide and the family is devastated. The tragic answers to the questions raised by her suicide are found In the silent streets of a town called Murk.

• The Bridge: Season 1-4 | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £37.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

• Persian Lessons | DVD | (08/02/2021) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by true events, Persian Lessons is a powerful and harrowing story of survival from director Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog) anchored by exceptional performances. Nazi-occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Beats per Minute, The Intruder) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside fellow Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger, Personal Shopper, High Life). As the unusual relationship between the two men begins to incite jealousy and suspicion, Gilles becomes acutely aware that one false move could expose his swindle.

• Another Round | DVD | (27/09/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The intoxicating winner of the 2021 Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film: Another Round from director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, Far From the Madding Crowd). There's a theory that we should be born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. If Churchill won WW2 in a heavy daze of alcohol, who knows what a few drops might do for them and their students? Initial results are positive, and the teachers' little project turns into a genuine academic study. Both their classes and their results continue to improve, and the group feels alive again! As the units are knocked back, some of the participants see further improvement and others start to go off the rails. It becomes increasingly clear that while alcohol may have fueled great results in world history, some bold acts carry consequences. Extras: Interview at the Festival de Cannes 2020 with Thomas Vinterberg & Mads Mikkelsen