"Actor: Laurent Lucas"

• In My Skin 4K UHD | Unknown | (15/09/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One night at a house party, Parisian marketing professional Esther (Marina de Van) hurts her leg on some industrial supplies. Alone when it happens, she doesn't even realize she has been hurt: the lack of pain fascinates her. While her life starts to take shape - an exciting promotion at work and new plans with boyfriend Vincent (Laurent Lucas) - Esther becomes obsessed with thoughts of self-mutilation. A nuanced body horror filled with eye-catching and innovative set pieces, writer-director Marina de Van's landmark debut feature formed part of the New French Extremity movement and would go on to influence the likes of Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane) and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance).4K UHD & BLU-RAY DUAL FORMAT LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K restoration from the original camera negative4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the featureOriginal 5.1 DTS-HD master audioAudio commentary by Marina de Van (2004)New interview with Marina de Van (2025)New interview with cinematographer Pierre Barougier (2025)New interview with acting coach Marc Adjadj (2025)New interview with critic Manuela Lazic (2025)New visual essay by Valeria Villegas Lindvall (2025)Two short student films by Marina de Van: Bien sous tous rapports (1996) and Retention (1997)TrailerStills galleryNewly improved English subtitle translationReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time TomorrowLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Savina Petrovka and archival writing by Marina de VanLimited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• Elle | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

• In My Skin | Unknown | (15/09/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One night at a house party, Parisian marketing professional Esther (Marina de Van) hurts her leg on some industrial supplies. Alone when it happens, she doesn't even realise she has been hurt: the lack of pain fascinates her. While her life starts to take shape - an exciting promotion at work and new plans with boyfriend Vincent (Laurent Lucas) - Esther becomes obsessed with thoughts of self-mutilation. A nuanced body horror filled with eye-catching and innovative set pieces, writer-director Marina de Van's landmark debut feature formed part of the New French Extremity movement and would go on to influence the likes of Julia Ducournau (Raw, Titane) and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance).LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K restoration from the original camera negative4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the featureOriginal 5.1 DTS-HD master audioAudio commentary by Marina de Van (2004)New interview with Marina de Van (2025)New interview with cinematographer Pierre Barougier (2025)New interview with acting coach Marc Adjadj (2025)New interview with critic Manuela Lazic (2025)New visual essay by Valeria Villegas Lindvall (2025)Two short student films by Marina de Van: Bien sous tous rapports (1996) and Retention (1997)TrailerStills galleryNewly improved English subtitle translationReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time TomorrowLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Savina Petrovka and archival writing by Marina de VanLimited edition of 1000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• Witnesses The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £12.89   |  Saving you £7.10 (55.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Desecrated graves, dead bodies dug up and left in model homes… Every time, the same ritual: a woman, a man, a teenager, who weren’t related but who form a new family. Amid the bodies, a photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve, a Crime Squad legend in the North of France, now retired but forced to return to duty. Who is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young female detective Sandra Winckler, in charge of the case, must work with Paul Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During her investigation, she will have to delve into Paul’s past, believing him to know more than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past. For the detective and the ex-cop, life will never be the same… For in the shadows, is a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge

• Calvaire | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £8.69   |  Saving you £11.30 (130.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A cabaret singer is stranded with an ex-comedian who has been recently dumped by his wife.

• Elle | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring iconic actress Isabelle Huppert in a career-defining role, Elle is already one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Huppert is Michèle LeBlanc; founder and CEO of a successful video game company, who is attacked in her own home. Taking what appears to be a desire to shrug off the terrifying incident, she locks the door after her attacker and refuses to tell the police. Upending our expectations, Michèle begins to track down her assailant, and soon they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, one that at any moment may spiral out of control. From legendary filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, Elle is a gripping psychological noir thriller. Exhilarating and multi-layered, the film recalls the ambience of Hitchcock, De Palma and Polanski, with a thrilling cerebral edge.

• RAW DVD + digital download | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. Click Images to Enlarge

• Raw | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Strict vegetarian Justine faces a merciless onslaught of hazing rituals during her first week at veterinary school. One of these is the eating of raw meat and desperate to fit in she can't refuse. This taste of flesh not only compromises her principles but awakens an uncontrollable craving with horrific consequences. Product Features The Girl Can't Help It: a new interview with Actor Garance Marillier Making Ends Meat: a new interview with Producer Jean des Forets New audio commentary by film critic Alexandra West Audio Commentary with Julia Ducournau and film critic Emma Westwood In the Name of Raw: an interview with Director Julia Ducournau A Family Affair: a new video essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Raw À Votre Goût featurette with Julia Ducournau & film critic Emma Westwood Quick Bites with Julia Ducournau & film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Genre Matters Panel Discussion Australian Premiere Introduction Australian Premiere Q&A with Julia Ducournau and Kier-La Janisse Alternative opening, deleted scenes, trailers

• Witnesses Season 1 & 2 | DVD | (15/01/2018) from £38.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the first and second seasons of the French crime drama. In the first season, young detective Sandra Winckler (Marie Dompnier) takes charge of a case involving unrelated dead bodies being left inside model homes. When a photo of retired detective Paul Maisonneuve (Thierry Lhermitte) is found at the crime scene, he is forced to return to duty and help Winckler conduct her investigation. But does Maisonneuve know more about the crimes than he is willing to reveal? In the second season, when 15 frozen dead bodies are found at a bus stop Sandra is assigned to lead the investigation. With the victims all linked to the mysterious Catherine Keemer (Audrey Fleurot), Sandra does all she can to track her down, only to find that Catherine has lost her memory and has no recollection of anything that has happened. Can Sandra piece together the clues and solve the case?

• The Pornographer | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An art house movie that asks questions about the morality of art both on and off screen, The Pornographer is a hard-hitting yet strangely unmoving film. Very much a product of the French school of intellectual cinema, the filmmaker of the title is Jacques Laurent (played by Jean Pierre Leaud), a one-time director of adult films who, finding himself down on his luck, is forced to return to his old medium. Far from being a gaudy Boogie Nights style exposé of an unknown world, the film focuses on Laurent's inner turmoil and his rapidly disintegrating relationship with his wife, as well as his restored one with his son Joseph (Jeremie Renier). Director Betrend Bonello handles this material well, if overdoing the art house clichés a little, but the problem with the film (or for some its strong point) comes with the fairly hardcore sex scenes, presented as part of Laurent's movie. While intended to reflect the emptiness of the character's soul, it is hard to see past them as just an attention-grabbing device. Then again, can a film about pornography legitimately not feature sex? One suspects that this debate will run and run and, in its way, The Pornographer has much to say on the subject. On the DVD: The Pornographer's intended release fell foul of the BBFC, who objected to one particularly explicit scene, a continuing argument that provides much of the material for the DVD's extra features. There is a reproduction of the BFFC ruling, a statement in reply from Bonello (which demonstrate the similarities he shares with his fictional counterpart, certainly when it comes to a vision of erotica) and an excellent essay from critic Pierre Perrene. In addition there are biographies, the cinematic trailer and an option to view the film with or without English subtitles. Whatever the moral questions involved, Bonello's film is a visual treat and his stylish eye is well represented by this format. --Phil Udell

• Hidden/The Beat That My Heart Skipped/Lemming | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £10.28   |  Saving you £14.97 (165.96%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Set Comprises: Hidden (Cache): Life seems perfect for Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and Anne (Juliette Binoche) a bourgeois Parisian couple who live in a comfortable home with their adolescent son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). But when an anonymous videotape turns up on their doorstep showing their house under surveillance from across the street their calm life begins to spiral out of control. Subsequent videotapes arrive accompanied by mysterious drawings and gradually Georges becomes convinced that he's being tormented by a figure from his past. But when he confronts him the man assures Georges he is innocent. A growing sense of guilt begins to rise in Georges as he recalls his less-than-angelic childhood yet for some reason he's unable to be completely honest with Anne. Soon their happy home is an emotional battleground leading to a climax that is breathtaking in its ferocity and ambiguousness. Though Haneke's film works first and foremost as an insidious thriller it is also a powerful commentary on the urban paranoia and racism that continue to permeate modern society. Without using a score and keeping his camera detached and static Haneke nonetheless establishes a nearly unbearable level of tension. Not for the squeamish Hidden remains a work of menacing brilliance and was the winner of the Best Director award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The Beat My Heart Skipped (De Battre de Mon Coeur C'est Arrete): In this follow-up to his critical success Read My Lips Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's cult 1978 noir Fingers to come up with this memorable character study about a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music. Romain Duris in a standout performance portrays the 28 year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his father's footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. However a chance encounter with his late mother's music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life. The Beat That My Heart Skipped premiered at Berlin 2005 where it played to enthusiastic audiences and won the Silver Bear for Best Score in addition to securing Best Film Not In The English Language at the 2006 BAFTA ceremony Lemming: Alain (Laurent Lucas) seems to have it all - a beautiful wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) a perfect home and a prestigious new engineering job. But the unexpected sexual attentions of his boss' disconcertingly glacial wife (Charlotte Rampling) and the discovery of a rodent unaccountably stuck in the waste pipe of his kitchen sink spark the beginning of a strange unsettling and sometimes shocking chain of events that disrupts Alain's orderly life and leaves him questioning his own sanity. Featuring a masterfully unnerving performance from Charlotte Rampling the new film from director Dominik Moll (Harry He's Here to Help) is a chillingly suspensful and darkly comic ps

• Dans Ma Peau | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A successful businesswoman accidentally injures herself and develops an obsession with her own wounds. Increasingly she finds secret pleasure in self harm to the detriment of her job and her loving boyfriend... A powerful and darkly disturbing French drama from newcomer Marina De Van.

• Witnesses The Complete Season 1 | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £13.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Desecrated graves dead bodies dug up and left in model homes… Every time the same ritual: a woman a man a teenager who weren’t related but who form a new family. Amid the bodies a photo: the one of Paul Maisonneuve a Crime Squad legend in the North of France now retired but forced to return to duty. Who is digging up the bodies? Who is leaving them in model homes and why? Young female detective Sandra Winckler in charge of the case must work with Paul Maisonneuve to find out just who is behind these macabre stage settings. During her investigation she will have to delve into Paul’s past believing him to know more than he lets on. Because that’s where the truth must lie: somewhere in Paul’s past. For the detective and the ex-cop life will never be the same… For in the shadows is a man who will stop at nothing to gain his revenge – a long planned out revenge

• Lemming | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young engineer's life is turned upside down after the discovery of a dead lemming and a meal with his boss.

• Harry He's Here to Help | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This French thriller tells of a couple who are living with their three daughters in an old farmhouse that has caused them nothing but trouble since they started renovating it. However things look set to improve when they meet the ever helpful Harry.

• Tiresia | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to Greek mythology Tiresia is at the same time both woman and man. In this unusual Brazilian tale Tiresia is a transexual living in the outskirts of Paris. Following a kidnapping by the obsessed Terranova which denies her vital hormone dosage medication Tiresia begins to change back into male form. Disgusted Terranova abandons her in the countryside where her travails are far from over...

• Who Killed Bambi? | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (203.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A beautiful nursing student starts to investigate when patients start to disappear from their rooms.

• Alleluia | DVD | (22/12/2014) from £16.79   |  Saving you £-0.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Michel is an serial womaniser and professional hustler. When he meets Gloria she falls in love with him just like the others. But this time things will be different. Gloria finds her reason to live in Michel. Their love is passionate; limitless. When Gloria discovers Michel’s hustling she becomes his accomplice rather than risk losing him. Together they embark on a wild odyssey that becomes deadly and murderous. Their unfettered passions will drive them to the brink of insanity… ALLELUIA is the adaptation of a news event which shook the United States from 1947 to 1949: the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez lovers and serial killers whose infamous murders earned them the name ‘The Lonely Hearts Killers’.

• Harry, He's Here To Help | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This French thriller tells of a couple who are living with their three daughters in an old farmhouse that has caused them nothing but trouble since they started renovating it. However things look set to improve when they meet the ever helpful Harry.

• Hotel Harabati | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  French drama starring Laurent Lucas and Helene Fillieres as married couple Philippe and Marion. After ten years of marriage the busy couple can finally afford the time to take a honeymoon. Once they arrive at the train station in Paris they find a bag filled with money and their lives suddenly take an unusual turn.