Find out how it all began for one of the big screens most celebrated baddies in this chilling prequel.
Inspector George Gently: Series 2 (4 Discs)
Find out how it all began for one of the big screens most celebrated baddies in this chilling prequel.
Following the grisly 1997 Cube and its 2002 sequel, Cube 2: Hypercube, Cube Zero stretches the originals The Twilight Zone-like, strangers-in-a-box theme a little thin. Fortunately, there's a difference this time. The hero is not just another disoriented captive of the Cube's interconnected--often lethal--rooms, but rather a geek named Eric (Zachary Bennett) who sits in a control station wrestling with his conscience about inflicting misery on innocent people. Taking orders over the phone from some almighty, unknown power in a distant office, Eric reaches a breaking point and enters the maze himself, intent on helping a woman (Stephanie Moore) who doubts his motives. The existential bent of the prior films becomes even more Kafkaesque this time with the arrival of a white-collar team of tormentors, bureaucratic tyrants who can't or won't explain the point of the Cube. Imaginative writer-director Ernie Barbarash rescues what might have been a tedious formula flick. --Tom Keogh
Cube: Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly endless maze of interlocking cubical chambers armed with lethal booby traps. None of these people knows why or how they were imprisoned. But it soon emerges that each of them has a skill that could contribute to their escape. Who created this diabolical maze and why? There are unanswered questions on every side whilst personality conflicts and struggles for power em
The King and the Mockingbird is a classic French animated film written by Jacques Prévert (Les Enfants du Paradis) and Paul Grimault (The Little Soldier) based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep. Charles the XVIth reigns tyrannically over the kingdom of Takicardie. Only brightly feathered Mockingbird a playful and talkative fellow who has built his nest high up in the gigantic palace near His Majesty's secret chambers dares to make fun of him. In love with a beautiful and demure shepherdess the King wants to force her to marry him. However the young girl is in love with a brave little chimney sweep. Helped by the Mockingbird they run away to escape the King's evil clutches... Directed by Paul Grimault the king and the mockingbird is a masterpiece which inspired a whole generation of international directors such as Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).
Written and directed by Jiri Menzel director of the Academy Award winning Closely Observed Trains and based on the novel by celebrated Czech author and long-time friend of Menzel's Bohumit Hrabal I Served The King Of England is a beguiling comedy about opportunism identity money and sex that effortlessly mixes wit and slapstick with sharply observed political and social satire. Young provincial waiter Jan Dite may be short in height but his aspirations are nothing but high when it comes to ambition. For Jan is determined to become a millionaire and he knows just how to do it. Continually watching and listening to his superiorsand his high-flying big-spending customers Jan learns how to succeed by pleasing others.
A new comedy from Germany. No seriously... A group of disbanded anarchists are forced to work together again years later when it turns out that a bomb they placed in a villa long ago has recently killed a real estate agent. The police after confiscating an old video tape showing the placing of the bomb think it is a new wave of terrorism. The anarchists come up with a plan to raid the police station dressed like TV reporters to recover their material but must rebuild their frien
Oscar nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category and the winner of five prestigious Czech Lions Awards 'Divided We Fall' is a delicious black comedy which deftly deals with the compromises forced upon ordinary people during wartime. Based on real life events in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia Divided We Fall tells the tale of childless couple josef and Marie Cizek who offer refuge to David a young Jew fleeing from his persecutors. However when a Nazi official also ta
It's 1960s England and the world is changing fast... Martin Shaw plays one of the unsung heroes of detective fiction, Chief Inspector George Gently, whose passionate investigations reveal the dark underbelly of a society on the cusp of change. Lee Ingleby is his ambitious and undisciplined sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus. Episode Comprise: Gently in the Night - Bacchus and Gently hunt for the murderer of a woman whose body is discovered in a local church. Gently Evil - A young woman's body is discovered in an idyllic coastal village with the subsequent investigation leading Gently and Bacchus to suspect her estranged husband. Goodbye China - Gently looks into the suspicious death of an old friend and informant when he is given different reasons for the man's demise by the coroner and the nurse who tended him in his final few hours. Gently in the Cathedral - As a result of one of Gently's old enemies being released from prison the detective finds himself suspended from duty and his life at risk.
A gritty suspense thriller 'A Letter from Death Row' takes you through the mind of convicted murderer found guilty of killing his girlfriend Michael Raine (Bret Michaels lead singer of rock group Poison) as he writes his memoirs whilst on Death Row telling his side of the story. Whilst on Death Row Raine is befriended by the Governor's assistant Jessica Foster who claims to be writing a book about Death Row inmates. As she gains Raine's trust he realises that she is the only person that holds the secret to his life or death.
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