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• Trockadero Ballet 1 | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The all-male dance company entertain with a number of familiar works performed in their unique style and filmed live at La Maison De La Danse Lyon. The programme includes: 'Swan Lake - Act II' 'The Dying Swan' 'Raymonda's Wedding' 'Go For Barocco' and 'Le Corsaire (Pas De Deux)'.

• Human Resources | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £4.92 (37.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The 35-hour work week has all of France in its thrall. This film turns it into a feature about economic and familial politics. Frank a business school graduate returns to his provincial hometown to take a management position in the factory where his father has been working for 30 years. First Frank makes the mistake of actually asking the workers on the assembly line for their opinions. Then upper management manipulates his findings to lay off employees. This creates a huge rift not only between labor and management but between father and son. A human morality tale that evokes paternal and filial love and illustrates the personal risk behind political ideas.

• Merci La Vie | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Camille a naive schoolgirl encounters the intriguing Joelle a girl slightly older but vastly more experienced in the ways of the world. Joelle leads Camille into a new a rather uncomfortable world through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. Later in life as Camille discovers the paralysing fear of Aids she recalls her earlier encounters with Joelle and the fact she may have contracted the disease...

• Thorn In The Heart | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (61.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Michel Gondry is one of the coolest indie directors on the planet. From music videos for Daft Punk & Bjork to feature film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey he has turned his hand to capturing the best of quirk. Now in The Thorn In The Heart Gondry turns his camera to a more intimate and personal subject his aunt Suzette teacher mother and matriach. In a warm but ultimately dramatic documentary he exposes secrets and emotions that run through all families.

• The Crime Story Collection | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £13.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (81.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Six Classic Crime Films In A Three DVD Box Set Kiss Daddy Good NightUma Thurman turns in a stellar performance in this dark thriller following the exploits of Laura, a young femme fatale preying on the dregs of New York’s seedy nightlife. The tables are turned when the hunter becomes the hunted and Laura is thrust into a murderous mnage a trois. With a supporting cast including Steve Buscemi and Paul Dillon, Kiss Daddy Good Night is a gripping murder-mystery. View Of TerrorCeleste (Shannen Doherty) has it all – a successful career, handsome boyfriend and a new luxurious apartment with a breathtaking view of the city. Only days after moving in, her life begins to unravel as she becomes the victim of a menacing voyeur who knows her every move and her deepest secrets. She will discover that the problem with a stunning view is when you can see out – others can see in! Ruby’s DreamSmall time bowling alley/night club owner Ruby Dennis (Joe Pesci) has dreams of making it big in Las Vegas but the bigger the dream the easier it is to shatter. In his first starring role after making a name for himself in Raging Bull, Pesci brings a gritty realism to this dark exploration of the murky world of organised crime and the struggle of an honest man to better himself. Shattered SilenceMichael Douglas stars in this terrifying story of murder, mystery and supernatural encounters. Helen Connelly is a woman driven to the edge by frightening phone calls from a disturbing source – her young nephew who has been dead for 15 years. Is it paranormal activity or simply the work of a crazed murderer? As the body count begins to climb the source of the calls must be located before it’s too late. The MogulDanny DeVito stars and directs in this classic crime comedy about the dirty and dastardly deeds behind the glitz and glamour of American TV. Determined to make it big in television, DeVito enlists the help of his girlfriend (Rhea Perlman) and a few of mobster friends to ensure that his show tops the viewing charts…whatever the cost! Who Killed Joy Morgan?Kim Basinger stars as Laury Medford, a young woman caught in a love triangle with two prominent doctors who becomes embroiled in the hunt for the murderer of Joy Morgan. But who is Joy Morgan and what is her connection to Laury? A clever and complicated story where everyone is a suspect but only one is the true killer.

• Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cool, subtle psychological drama is a French speciality, and Anne Fontaine's Comment J'ai Tue Mon Pere ("How I Killed My Father") is an ultra-classy specimen of the genre. A study in the way emotional paralysis gets passed on from one generation to the next, it often recalls Philip Larkin's famous lines, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad; they may not mean to, but they do." Jean-Luc, a wealthy gerontologist to the ageing rich of Versailles (that's the town, rather than the ex-royal palace) gets a letter from Africa telling him his father's dead. Since his parent walked out on him and his brother when they were little, he's not too shattered by the news. But next thing he knows, the old boy has shown up and invited himself in for an indefinite stay. And under his blandly disruptive gaze, all the hidden faultlines in Jean-Luc's life--in his marriage, his relationships with his mistress and his failed-actor younger brother--start cracking wide open. Fontaine's film has points in common with Nanni Moretti's masterly The Son's Room, which also showed a professional man's seemingly flawless life crumbling under unforeseen family stresses. But befitting its Italian setting, that was a far warmer and less inhibited set-up. As Jean-Luc, Charles Berling's ice-blue eyes and chiselled good looks seem frozen in a mask of tight repression, and he's superbly matched by veteran actor Michel Bouquet as Maurice, his manipulative father. Both actors, and Stéphane Guillon as Jean-Luc's brother, are impeccably cast and it's easy to believe these three are closely related. The stiffly formal architecture of Versailles makes an ideal backdrop, and there's a quietly ominous score from British composer Jocelyn Pook, who also scored Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Ultimately Fontaine tantalisingly leaves us guessing whether Maurice really does return, or whether he's a ghost conjured! up from his son's guilt-ridden subconscious. On the DVD: How I Killed My Father on disc offers nothing but the theatrical trailer; a missed opportunity given that Fontaine, whose fifth feature this is, is little-known outside France. The transfer is full-screen; visual and sound quality is flawless. --Philip Kemp

• Alienator | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Blood gore and violence..... Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at an isolated sanitarium to embark on her recently acquired full-time position only to learn that Dr. Stephens has been murdered by one of the patients. And that Dr. Geraldine Masters has been left in charge. This doctor is not so keen on having Charlotte work there. The new nurse finds her position increasingly difficult as patients harass her at every turn and Dr. Masters is not who she first appears to be....

• The Japanese Masters Collection | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Floating Weeds (Dir. Yasujiro Ozu 1959): Floating Weeds is one of the final films directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. A remake of one of his own silent features it tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe led by Komajuro who arrive in a small coastal town. There Komajuro is reunited with his former lover Oyoshi and their illegitimate son who is unaware that the itinerant actor is his father. But the reunion provokes the jealousy of Sumiko Komanjuro's current mistress who plots a devastating revenge. Beautifully composed and surperbly played 'Floating Weeds' is one of Ozu's most affecting poignant and powerful films. The End Of Summer (Dir. Yasujiro Ozu 1961): This penultimate film by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu examines the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. As the family's generations-old sake making business begins to fail in the face of increasingly fierce competition Manbei the incorrigible elderly patriarch rekindles an affair with an old flame much to the disapproval of his daughter Fumiko. He is further distracted by his attempts to marry off his other two daughters: Akiko the eldest and a widow with a small son and Noriko the youngest who is still single. A sublime bittersweet elegy for a vanishing world The End of Summer is beautifully shot in muted colour elegantly acted and masterfully directed by one of the 20th Century's greatest filmmakers. The Lady of Musashino (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1951): Mizoguchi's dissection of the Japanese reaction to the aftermath of war as a fastidiously moral woman faces upheaval with the changing times brought about by the new post-Imperial period... The Life of Oharu (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1952): In feudal Japan the daughter of a samurai Oharu falls in love with a man below her station. Expelled from the castle in Kyoto her family tries to regain respectability but Oharu is forced into a new life as a concubine and then a fallen woman ever hoping to preserve some semblance of purity in a corrupt world...

• Offenbach - La Belle Helene (Minkowski) | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

• La veuve de Saint-Pierre - DVD | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (45.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The "widow" referred to in the title of La Veuve de Saint-Pierre isn't a woman, but a mechanism--to be exact, the guillotine, (though the title does take on a second meaning in the tragic final moments of the film). We're on the island of Saint-Pierre, a tiny forgotten French colony off the coast of Newfoundland, midway through the 19th century. A senseless drunken murder is committed and the killer is condemned to death, but zut alors!, there's no guillotine on the island. So one must be requested from the slow, bureaucratic authorities in Paris and, once approved, laboriously shipped over. Meanwhile the killer, a simple-minded giant of a man, is placed in the custody of the Captain, whose beautiful wife starts taking an interest in the prisoner. Director Patrice Leconte has always had an acute feel for place and period--he directed the mordantly witty costume drama Ridicule--and La Veuve vividly captures the sense of remoteness and resentful isolation of this blizzard-swept community. The brooding landscape, all slate-blues and greys, is beautifully framed by Eduardo Serra's camera, and Leconte draws affecting performances from his central trio of actors: Daniel Auteuil, with his intriguingly lopsided face, as the Captain; Juliette Binoche, radiantly vulnerable as his wife; and, in an unexpected but remarkably successful bit of casting, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the condemned man. La Veuve de Saint-Pierre may be a touch over-solemn at times, and its message is hardly unexpected; but it's an intelligent, engrossing and richly atmospheric piece of filmmaking. --Philip Kemp

• Buffet Froid | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Bertrand Blier's C''sar Award winning surreal comedy in which Gerard Depardieu stars as a suspected serial killer pitted against an ageing police inspector.

• 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.

• Art House 6 - Conversations with Jean-Michel Basquiat | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A documentary featuring one of the last interviews Basquiat made and some of the only footage of Basquiat in his studio painting and talking about his work.

• DVD/BLU-RAY - DEATHDREAM (AKA DEAD OF NIGHT) (LTD) (1 DVD) | Blu Ray | (28/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Curious Dr Humpp | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Sex dominates the world and now I dominate sex! Emilios Vieyra's cult classic digitally remastered and available on DVD for the first time. When a bunch of hippies a couple of lesbians and a stripper are kidnapped along with others they wind up at the estate of eccentric old Dr. Humpp who seeks to turn them into nonstop sex machines with the aid of a few aphrodisiacs and properly prepared brainwashing (thanks to the requisite sentient brain-in-a-jar). Soon these unfort

• Boudu Saved From Drowning - DVD | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Parisian bookseller Lestingois fishes Boudu a vagrant out of the river Seine. He befriends the tramp and puts him up at home where Boudu causes nothing but trouble. However events take a different turn when Boudu wins the lottery... Starring Michel Simon and Charles Granval renowned director Jean Renoir's 1932 classic farce Boudu Saved From Drowning /i> (Boudu sauv des eaux) has been beautifully restored in high definition and features a previously missing scene which was by chance conserved in the original negative.

• Belle Toujour | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliviera pays homage to Luis Bunuel's masterful exercise in surreal eroticism Belle de Jour with this latter-day sequel. 40 years on whilst attending a concert Henri Husson is startled to see Severine and follows her begging for a chance to have dinner. While she's reluctant to acknowledge him he eventually wears her down with the promise of revealing an old secret. Meeting at dinner Severine expects Henri to disclose the revelation: what he told her husband 40 years ago while he was paralysed from a gunshot wound inflicted by a lover. While Henri knew Severine's secret he never told her if he did (or did not) reveal her secret life to her wheelchair-bound husband and she's long wondered if he ever betrayed her confidences. However motivated by revenge he refuses to disclose the secret and leaves her in despair having satisfied his sadism and avenged his ego.

• I Pierre Riviere | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £17.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (15.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault I Pierre Riviere a unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835 when a young man Pierre Riviere murdered his mother sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives including the written confession of Pierre himself and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical bold and uncompromising director Rene Allio's extraordinary work is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry an historical reconstruction and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath.

• Kickboxer | Blu Ray | (04/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Verdi: Otello -- Berlin Opera/von Karajan | DVD | (12/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The complete opera 'Otello' by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed by the German Opera Choir and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The cast includes: Jon Vickers Mirella Freni and Peter Glossop. Conducted and directed by Herbert Von Karajan.