In the year 2257 a planet-sized vessel of supreme evil is hurtling towards the earth with relentless speed threatening to exterminate every living organism in its path. It has been left to the ex-marine and unlikely taxi-driving hero Korben Dallas (Willis) to reunite the four stones that represent the elements - Earth Air Water and Fire with the mysterious Fifth Element to unleash the only power that will save the Earth. Joined on his mission by the intriguing Leeloo (Jovovich) and Priest Vito Cornelius (Holm) Dallas must retrieve the elements from the beautiful Diva aboard the luxury cruise ship the Fhlotsin Paradise.
Even if all written and documentary evidence were to disappear, you could still get a real insight into Britain's involvement in the Second World War through feature films such as Above Us the Waves (1955) and In Which We Serve (1942). Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success compared with the naval and domestic drama of the earlier In Which We Serve. Noël Coward wrote the screenplay and musical score, co-directed (with David Lean) and gave possibly his finest screen performance as the commander of HMS Torrin. His speech to the survivors of the sunken ship, as they prepare for reassignment, is just the highlight of a film packed with memorable visuals and perceptive dialogue. On the DVD: Though there are no additional features the black-and-white prints have come up excellently in the 4:3 video aspect ratio. There are 15 access points for each film, though the lack of subtitles is an unfortunate omission. These are period pieces that capture the mood of an era.--Richard Whitehouse
Re-mastered from the original negative featuring The Clash and some of punks most important bands. Directed by German filmmaker Wolfgang Buld this is a unique visual record of London punk life in the late seventies. Filled with unseen live footage and some incredibly naive comments. Punk in London is so loaded with history and brilliance that you can almost smell the energy! Tracklist: 1. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes 2. Jimmy Pursey Interview 3. Chelsea Interview 1 4. C
An adaptation of Jane Austen's story of marriage and manners set in a picturesque 19th Century village which revolves around a spoilt young woman Emma Woodhouse who delights in influencing the love-lives of her friends with disastrous results.
The world's first soap for pre-school children. Balamory combines storytelling great characters and light learning to provide pre-school children with a unique and memorable experience.
Both a kind of home movie and a salute to the hip, pop-up sketch comedy of 1960s/early 1970s television--Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, that sort of thing--Schizopolis is a hit-and-miss series of gags with vaguely connecting threads of Kafkaesque paranoia. Soderbergh himself stars as two people--one an ineffective dentist and the other a speechwriter for a cult movement called Eventualism, which has set out to "question all answers"--connected by their romances with the same woman, played by Soderbergh's real-life ex, Betsy Bramley. There isn't so much a story as a series of bits in which these characters often (though not necessarily) turn up, from press conferences on the subject of horse urination to old footage of nudists to a scene of an Eventualist exchange between husband and wife: "Generic greeting!" "Generic greeting returned!" None of this leads to a literal point but after a while an undercurrent of disease about making sense of the modern world becomes apparent beneath the jokes. Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape, Out of Sight) is certainly a filmmaker who goes his own way in life, always hitting his target in one spot or another and occasionally getting a bull's-eye for his trouble. Schizopolis is no bull's-eye and it has just as many detractors as admirers but it's impossible not to appreciate Soderbergh's conviction that making a film out on the fringes is a worthy endeavour. --Tom Keogh
Noel Coward's great British war film made at the height of World War II in 1942 tells the story of a naval destroyer and its crew as they fight for their lives in a life raft after their ship is sunk.
The Volume 1 of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films including Psycho (1960) Rope Saboteur Rear Window Shadow of a Doubt The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Saboteur (1942)Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of a fire that killed his best friend. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)A young woman discovers her visiting Uncle Charlie may not be the man he initially seemed to be. Rope (1948)Two young men strangle their classmate hide his body in their apartment and invite his closest friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the perfection of their crime. Rear Window (1954)A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his window and becomes convinced one of them has committed a serious murder. The Trouble with Harry (1955)The trouble with Harry is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)A family holidaying in Morocco stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Psycho (1960)A young woman steals $40 000 from her client and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor who has been too long under the presence and domination of his mother. Special Features: Disc 1 The Making of Saboteur - A Closer Look Storyboards Hitchcock Sketches Saboteur Theatrical Trailer Disc 2 The Making Of Featurette John M Hayes Interview Art Gallery Rear Window Trailer Compilation Rear Window Theatrical Trailer Disc 3 The Making Of Art Gallery Rear Window Trailer Compilation Rope Theatrical Trailer Disc 4 The Making of - The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over Art Gallery Hitchcock Trailer Compilation The Trouble with Harry Theatrical Trailer Disc 5 Production Notes Cast and Filmmakers Theatrical Trailer Disc 6 The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much Art Gallery Hitchcock Trailer Compilation The Man Who Knew Too Much Theatrical Trailer Disc 7 Shadow of a Doubt beyond Doubt Documentary Production Drawings Art Gallery Shadow of a Doubt Theatrical Trailer
The Fifth Collection: Rules of the GameStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Marcel Iures. At Heathrow Airport a suitcase is found in the middle of the long stay car park. But it's not the usual sort of suspect package - inside is the naked body of a dead girl. The involvement of an influential Ukrainian millionaire doesn't make the case any easier. Kill the KingStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Ben Miles. When a friend of Walker's a paediatric surgeon is found dead DCI Connor uncovers conflicts from a recent operation and the death of a young girl. There's more than one suspect and the question is what tips the balance from anger to murder? ConvictionStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Kierston Wareing. Terry Dyer returns from prison to uncover the truth behind a murder he claims he didn't commit. Buried secrets of terrible events are unearthed as Connor heads up the team in this explosive tale of injustice and revenge. The BoxStarring David Hayman Kerry Fox David O'Hara. Walker returns home to Glasgow as he investigates the case of a missing woman married to Kevin Reid a man with dark ties to his brother Ronnie. When the woman is found dead the police are convinced the brothers are involved but can the truth be uncovered before it is taken to the grave? The Sixth Collection: TracksStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Roy Marsden. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in a rain-soaked chalk pit the signs point to local hardman Ray Harper. Ray's son Andy and his friend Darren claim they never saw the dead girl. But their shared secret will only lead to death and despair. SirenStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Tamsin Egerton Vincent Regan. An ambulance is run off the road and its passenger shot multiple times. It looks like a hit but this complex murder revolves around a beautiful rich girl with something to hide and the dark deadly world of the cocaine dealer. Ghost TrainStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Jane Lapotaire Aleksander Mikic. When a girl falls to her death from a Ferris Wheel it could be a tragic accident. A fortune teller Satchell's aunt thinks not and when another murder follows she appears to be right. Shady business dealings point one way - but the secrets of the fairground point another. ShooterStarring David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Dorian Lough Gary Whelan. A jewellery shop robbery ends in murder leading police to the notorious Bilkin Family. Witnesses are murdered and Satchell's wife and child threatened. Now it's personal - and with a paid informant giving the Bilkins what they need it could all go terribly wrong.
Soon after their first meeting Matt and Casey's relationship turns into a love affair. Under pressure from their parents to break up they decide to hit the road in a desperate attempt to stay together....
A U.S. governement funded propaganda docu-drama film from 1938 designed to inform the public of the perils of smoking marijuana but ironically now worth seeing for its laughable historical and scientific innaccuracy...
Ninja Assasin A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan. Enter The Dragon A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
While horror conventions may change from generation to generation, there are ideas that will scare us no matter what time period we inhabit. Dead of Night is a classic horror anthology that effectively plays on those timeless fears. Mervyn Johns stars as a man who has been summoned to a house with a group of strangers he has never met but has seen in his dreams. As they convene, he predicts certain events will happen as they do in his dreams and when they do, the other guests relate their own experiences with the supernatural, including tales of a possessed mirror, a sinister ventriloquist's dummy and an eerie premonition of death. Throughout the group meeting, the protagonist fears something horrible will happen to him and we are left to wonder what it might be. The film's final, revelatory sequence offers an unexpectedly horrific surprise. It may have been made in 1945 but Dead of Night is still spooky. --Bryan Reesman
Miles Davis has been described as 'the chameleon of modern music' his refusal to veer away from any genre label and constantly reinvent his music inspired many jazz artists who followed him This DVD features Davis recorded live at the 10th Paris Jazz Festival in November 1989; just 2 years before his untimely death. Tracklist includes: 'Don't Stop Me Now' 'Jilli' 'Mr Pastorius' 'Tutu' 'Human Nature' 'New Blues' 'Hannibal' 'Amandla' 'Wrinkle'
When headstrong Earlene (And Then Came Lola star, Ashleigh Summer) makes a discovery that she is totally unprepared for she acts on impulse, leaves everything behind and heads to LA. The perfect distraction appears in the shape of Bruno (Boys On Film star, Miles Szanto), a mysterious and beautiful wandering intersex teenager, who Earlene meets at Venice Beach. The two misfits quickly become friends, but when Earlene is embroiled in one of Bruno's home rental scams, whilst simultaneously disco...
From the mid-fifties to his death in the early nineties Miles Davis was universally recognised as one of the most innovative musicians working in Jazz. He was also one of the most popular with his albums regularly breaking into the pop charts and he picked up a total of eight Grammy Awards. He also launched the careers of many jazz musicians including Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter Chick Corea Billy Cobham John McLaughlin and many more. This concert filmed in Munich in 1987 followed the release of his Grammy Award winning album Tutu and the set list features two tracks from that record the title track and ''Portia'' plus his unique arrangements of Michael Jackson''s ''Human Nature'' and Cyndi Lauper''s ''Time After Time''. Tracklist: 1. Medley: One Phone Call / Street Scenes / That''s What Happened 2. New Blues 3. Human Nature 4. Tutu 5. Time After Time 6. Portia
When a tyrant comes among us a hero will arise to oppose and crush him. In the whole range of fact and fiction there is no character who satisfies this need with more romantic exuberance than Robin Hood. This new serial written specially for television tells once more with a few original variations the story of his exciting life and adventures... The long awaited 1975 miniseries first aired on BBC1 is finally available of DVD!
Here is a great collection from the legend that is John Wayne.
Contains 6 classic Doris Day movies: Romance on the High Seas (1948) My Dream is Yours (1949) I'll See You in My Dreams (1952) On Moonlight Bay (1951) By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) Lucky Me (1954)
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