Pierre (Charles Berling) and Benoit (Yvan Attal) and have been the worlds best friends for 20 years. For 20 years Pierre has been exploiting his charm wackiness cheek and genuine ability to please; for 20 years Benoit has been working hard at his life paying for his friend quietly waiting for love to hit him wanting whats sensible. Marie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is shy or rather discreet and thinks she knows what she wants. She is looking for a Benoit but marries Pierre. How do you take the news that your best friend is madly in love with your wife? How do you go from a couple of friends to a loving couple to an infernal triangle?
A stylish British drama which studies love and life in a depressed industrial town in Northern England. Deborah Kerr stars in this vividly characterised story of a penniless family struggling through the depression years. Kerr is a mill girl in love with Evans who loses his job and refuses to marry her on ""dole money"". He is killed in a demonstration against conditions and unemployment so Kerr marries an old bookie she doesn't love in order to get jobs for her father and brother. Thi
Spanish director Jésus Franco directs this controversial sado-masochistic drama regarded by many as his masterpiece. Based on the novel 'Philosophy in the Boudoir' by Marquis De Sade the film tells the story of an innocent young woman Eugenie (Marie Liljedahl) who is taken by her father (Franco regular Jack Taylor) to stay at an island paradise at the request of the elegant Madame de Saint Ange (Maria Rohm) with whom he is obsessed. There Eugenie becomes the unwitting pawn in a game of sexual debauchery and sadomasochistic pleasure as the enigmatic hostess and her stepbrother conspire to corrupt her transforming her from a virginal innocent into a sexually-charged drug-addicted sadist.
Jean-Pierre Mocky was a prolific icon in French cinema. Actor, director, novelist, and in-demand raconteur, Mocky made mainstream films with an independent spirit, even owning a cinema to help the distribution of his films. Yet those films had a specific style, unmistakably his, often with controversial and outlandish themes, and he came to be known as a wild and untameable force, acting as an uncompromising agitator within the French film industry for over six decades. Three of his wild cinematic adventures from the 1980s are collected in this new boxset. Cult horror sensation Litan, hooligan horror Kill the Referee and Hitchcockian mystery Agent Trouble are presented from new 4K restorations on Blu-ray for the first time outside of France. Worried by a disturbing dream, Nora wakes to find her husband missing during a trip to Litan. She goes out to find him but encounters one bizarre event after another taking place at the village festival, including uncanny acts and a masked marching band. As Nora and Jock attempt to escape the village, a series of strange murders take place against the backdrop of a mad doctor performing experiments on the recently deceased. Jean-Pierre Mocky's Litan is a classic cult Euro-horror and a Kafkaesque fever dream of surrealist imagery, arrestingly shot by Edmond Richard (The Trial, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie). When a referee calls a penalty that causes a French football team to crash out of the championship, their ultra-dedicated hooligan fans vow to track him down and murder him by the end of the evening, as Inspector Granowski (played by director Jean-Pierre Mocky) attempts to stem the carnage. With an unrelenting one-night narrative recalling After Hours and Green Room, Kill the Referee mixes black humour with horror as its escalating sense of dread builds toward a shattering climax. A bus of fifty French tourists lay dead. While the driver makes a call, a wanderer, Victorien (Tom Novembre, Denti), boards the bus and robs all the passengers. Returning home he visits his aunt Amanda (Catherine Deneuve, The Hunger), and lets her in on his secret, unwittingly bringing her to the attention of icy hitman Alex (Richard Bohringer, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover). A conspiracy thriller reminiscent of Hitchcock, Jean-Pierre Mocky's wonderfully eccentric mystery has a light comic touch that carefully balances its grotesque flourishes. Featuring a wonderful cast including Cesar-nominated Dominique Lavant, Pierre Arditi and Kristin Scott Thomas in only her second screen appearance.LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES: New 4K restorations of each film presented on three discs, made available on Blu-ray (1080p) for the first time outside of France Uncompressed mono PCM audio Archival interview with Jean-Pierre Mocky about his relationship to the fantastic (1982, 12 mins) Archival Making of Litan' documentary from French television (1982, 26 mins) Newly filmed interview with journalist and broadcaster Philippe Auclair on Kill the Referee (2024) Interview with Mocky's assistant Eric Leroy on Kill the Referee (2022, 13 mins) Television reportage from the set of Kill the Referee (1983, 5 mins) Archival French TV interview with Jean-Pierre Mocky (1987, 18 mins) Archival interview with Catherine Deneuve on Agent Trouble (1987, 5 mins) Archival interview with Richard Bohringer on Agent Trouble (1987, 5 mins) Interview with Eric Leroy on Agent Trouble (2022, 13 mins) Interview with Olivia Mokiejewski on Agent Trouble (2022, 4 mins) New and improved optional English subtitles Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow Limited edition 80-page book featuring new writing by Roberto Curti, Nathaniel Thompson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and newly translated archival interviews including Serge Toubiana on Jean-Pierre Mocky, and Oliver Assayas on Michel Serrault, as well as an on-set report of Kill the Referee Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
All the glamour and greatness of the world's most exciting drama of speed and spectacle! Nine races. One champion. James Garner Yves Montand Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula 1 drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's seat tale of speed spectacle and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John Frankenheimer (who 32 years later would again stomp the pedal to the metal for the car chases of Ronin) directs this winner of 3 Academy Awards crafting split-screen images to capture the overlapping drama and orchestrating you-are-there POV camerawork to intensify the hard-driving thrills. Nearly 30 top drivers take part in the excitement so buckle up movie fans. Race with the best to the head of the pack.
This delighful Irish comedy feautures the first original screenplay by "The Commitments" author Roddy Doyle, and tells of shy movie buff Brendan's attempts to woo the outgoing Trudy.
Jealousy, vengeance, obsession, cannibalism, and blood-drinking collide in Fascination, director Jean Rollin's decadent fantasy of sex and death. When a thief holes up in a remote château, taking two beautiful chambermaids' hostage, the arrival of his accomplices and the château's aristocratic owners leads to an orgy of violence and ritualistic bloodletting. With its standout performance from Brigitte Lahaie (The Night of the Hunted), as the scythe-wielding Eva, and an evocative score from Philippe D'Aram (The Living Dead Girl), Fascination is one of the purest expressions of Rollin's unique fantastique aesthetic. Product Features INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES New 4K restoration from the original negative by Powerhouse Films Original French mono soundtrack Audio commentary with Sylvia Kristel: From 'Emmanuelle' to Chabrol author Jeremy Richey (2023) Jean Rollin Introduces 'Fascination' (1998): filmed appraisal Rituals (2023): updated documentary on the making of Fascination by Rollin's personal assistant, Daniel Gouyette, including interviews with key collaborators Natalie Perrey and Brigitte Lahaie The Music of 'Fascination' (2023): new presentation of an interview with composer Philippe D'Aram Newly edited archival interview with assistant director Natalie Perrey (2023) Critical appreciation by the author and film historian Virginie Sélavy (2023) Alternative sequences: two extended sex scenes Original theatrical trailer Image galleries: promotional and publicity material, and behind the scenes Virgins and Vampires (1999): documentary on Rollin, produced and directed by Andy Starke and Pete Tombs, featuring contributions from actors Monica Swinn and Brigitte Lahaie, Nigel Wingrove of Redemption Films, and Rollin New and improved English translation subtitles Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Vanessa Morgan, an archival introduction by Jean Rollin, a previously untranslated archival interview with Rollin, an archival interview with actor Fanny Magier, critic Daniel Bird on the film's soundtrack, and full film credits Limited edition of 10,000 individually numbered units (6,000 4K UHDs and 4,000 Blu-rays) for the UK and US All extras subject to change
Penetrate the moody sensual world of Last Tango in Paris and prepare yourself for 'the most controversial film of its era'. Nominated for two Academy Awards and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation and 'altered the face of an art form'. He (Brando) is a 45-year-old American living in Paris haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is 20 year old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heights - and depths - beyond anything they could ever have imagined.
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple an impoverished young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. Quickly learning the true nature of the house's homicidal inhabitants the boy battles against sadistic security devices befriends an elusive and abused young girl and finally learns the secret of the creatures deep within the house...
Returning home from a game, a group of varsity basketball players, cheerleaders, and coaches become stranded on the infamous East 9 Highway and must fight a winged nightmare bent upon feasting on human flesh.
When conman and former soldier Freddy Benson arrives in the south of France he clashes with fellow conman Lawrence Jameson. To determine who will leave they arrange a wager to see who can con $25 000 from next woman they see.
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.
In one of Agnes Varda's more provocative films she presents us with the dilemma faced by husband and father Francois (Jean -Claude Crouot) who finds himself falling in love with an attractive postal worker. What follows is a detailed study of adult fidelity and happiness which will ultimately end with major repercussions for all parties involved.
When a British writer visits her publisher's home in the South of France, her English reserve is jarred after the publisher's reckless daughter unexpectedly arrives and sets off an unsettling series of events.
A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
In his penultimate film Gordon Harker heads a strong cast in a charming comedy charting the battle between the staff of a none-too-prosperous hotel and a supervisor eager to make some unpopular changes. Co-starring Marie Lohr John Loder and Billie Whitelaw Small Hotel is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then there's a visit from Mr Finch. He thinks it's time Albert was replaced... Features: Original Theatrical Trailer
Hollywood screen couple Doris Day and Rock Hudson light up the screen with laughter in three delightful comedy gems! Join them as they fall in, out, and back in love again in a series of misadventures including Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back and Send Me No Flowers. Co-starring the hilarious Tony Randall, the Dirus and Rock Hudson Romantic Comedy Collection captures one of cinema's most popular and enduring couples at their very best! Bonus Features Back in Bed with Pillow Talk Chemistry 101: The Film Duo of Doris Day and Rock Hudson Pillow Talk Feature Commentary with Film Historians Jeff Bond, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman Theatrical Trailers
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