"Actor: Olivier"

• Spartacus | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £9.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rebecca | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." From the first classic line of this unforgettable film, Rebecca casts its spell. David O. Selznick brought Alfred Hitchcock to the United States in order to give this adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel the proper atmosphere. The resulting film is a stunning marriage of their sensibilities. It paid off critically and financially as well. Like Gone with the Wind, which Selznick released a year earlier, Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture.Laurence Olivier stars as Maxim de Winter, who, reeling from the recent and unexpected death of his glamorous wife Rebecca, impulsively marries a young and adoring governess (Joan Fontaine). The new Mrs de Winter tries to fit into her role as mistress of the great house Manderley, but every step she takes is haunted by Rebecca's spirit. The ghost's brooding presence is personified by the insanely meticulous Mrs Danvers, brilliantly portrayed by Judith Anderson. As Fontaine's character begins to uncover the dark secrets of the de Winter clan, the house seems to take on a life of its own.Passionate love and romance blend seamlessly with typically Hitchcockian emphases on guilt, sexuality and Gothic horror. The production values are stunning and the cast is excellent, down to the least of the supporting players. While Rebecca has enough surprises to captivate even the most jaded of moviegoers, it is also one of those rare films that improves with each viewing. --Raphael Shargel

• Home | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Home, starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet is about a family living on the side of an abandoned motorway. A road movie in reverse, Home charts what happens to them when their lives progress from normal and fun to strange and absurd.

• Oh! What A Lovely War - Special Collector's Edition | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £10.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (47.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms presented as the ""new attraction"" at the Brighton Amusement Pier complete with syrupy cheer-up songs shooting galleries free prizes and a scoreboard toting up the dead The Story focuses mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) whose five sons enlist and end up as cannon fodder Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war including: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers The final image is a veddy proper British picnic on a graveyard. Of the many fleeting satiric images parading past the camera one of the most indelible is the sight of several generals playing leapfrog as the world all around them goes to hell in a handbasket.

• Fanfan La Tulipe | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £11.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (79.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Fanfan La Tulipe' is a swash-buckling romantic comedy full of fun and frolics directed with finesse by Christian Jacque and starring the legendary Gerard Philipe as the hero. Set during the reign of Louis XV Fanfan La Tulipe a known womaniser and skilled swordsman is forced by his countrymen to marry his latest conquest a peasant girl. But on his way to the wedding he encounters a 'fortune teller' who tricks him with predictions of marrying a Princess so he enlists in the King

• Powell & Pressburger Boxset | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £26.43   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.94

  This box set features a collection of Powell And Pressburger finest films. Includes: 1. The Tales of Hoffman (1951) 2. Black Narcisus (1946) 3. A Matter of Life & Death (1946) 4. The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 5. A Canterbury Tale (1944) 6. I Know Where I am Going (1945) 7. 49th Parallel (1941) 8. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) 9. Ill Met By Moonlight (1957) 10. They're A Weird Mob (1966) 11. The Red Shoes (1948)

• Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (8-disc Blu-ray box set) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2018) from £64.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 8-disc set celebrating the 60th anniversary of Woodfall Films. Includes eight iconic films (many newly restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time) that revolutionised British cinema and launched the careers of the likes of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. Features: Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut) Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964) The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965) Special Features: Presented in High Definition All films newly remastered for this release, excluding Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Extras TBC

• The Jazz Singer | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Back in 1927, The Jazz Singer entered the history books as the first true, sound-on-film talking picture, with Al Jolson uttering the immortal words, "You ain't heard nothing yet!" But even then it was a creakingly sentimental old yarn. By the time this second remake showed up in 1980 (there was a previous one in 1953) it looked as ludicrously dated as a chaperone in a strip club. Our young hero, played by pop singer Neil Diamond in a doomed bid for movie stardom, is the latest in a long line of Jewish cantors, but secretly moonlights with a Harlem soul group. When his strictly Orthodox father (Laurence Olivier, complete with painfully hammy "oya-veh" accent) finds out, the expected ructions follow. Though the lad makes it big in showbiz, it all means nothing while he's cut off from family and roots. But in the end--well, you can guess, can't you? Diamond comes across as likeable enough in a bland way, but unencumbered by acting talent, and the music business has never looked so squeaky clean--nary a trace of drugs, and precious little sex or rock 'n' roll. As for anything sounding remotely like jazz, forget it. This is one story that should have been left to slumber in the archives. --Philip Kemp

• Derek Jarman Volume Two: 1987-1994 (6-disc Limited Edition Blu-ray box set) | Blu Ray | (25/02/2019) from £14.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spanning the years 1987-1994, this collection includes 6 feature films from director Derek Jarman, including The Last of England and Blue. The Last of England (1987) War Requiem (1989) The Garden (1990) Edward II (1991) Wittgenstein (1993) Blue (1993) Special Features: Face to Face (40 mins, 1993): in-depth interview with Derek Jarman by Jeremy Isaacs Audio commentary on The Last of England with producer James Mackay, lighting designer Christopher Hughes, production designer Christopher Hobbs and composer Simon Fisher Turner Audio commentary on War Requiem with Don Boyd Original trailers + many more extras TBC 100-page perfect-bound book with new essays of each of the included films, contemporary reviews and rare never-before-seen images from Jarman's archive, held by the BFI National Archive

• Ma Mere | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £10.01   |  Saving you £9.98 (99.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  17 year old Pierre heads off to spend his summer holidays on the Canary Islands with his parents. However when his father is killed in a car accident the grieving Pierre is left alone with his prostitute mother (Huppert) who along with her partners in crime Rea (Preiss) and Hansi (de Caunes) inducts her son into a world of sexual transgression illicit desire and taboo-busting libertinism... Christophe Honore handles this heady philosophical blend of eroticism spiritualism and m

• The Child | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruno and Sonia a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang have a new source of money: their newborn son... From the makers of Rosetta and The Son comes the winner of the 2005 Palme D'Or The Child!

• A Bridge Too Far | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £7.08   |  Saving you £12.91 (182.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1977's A Bridge Too Far by director Richard Attenborough features an all-star cast in an epic rendering of a daring but ultimately disastrous raid behind enemy lines in Holland during the Second World War. A lengthy and exhaustive look at the mechanics of warfare and the price and futility of war, the film is almost too large for its aims but manages to be both picaresque and affecting, particularly in the performance of James Caan. The impressive cast includes Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery and Liv Ullmann among others. While not a classic war film, it nevertheless manages to be a consistently interesting and exciting adventure. --Robert Lane

• Stanley Kubrick: 5-film Collection | Blu Ray | (22/11/2021) from £62.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This 5-film collections contains the following feature films on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray: Spartacus (1960) Extended Version with 12 Additional Minutes Spartacus, the genre-defining epic from director Stanley Kubrick, is the legendary tale of a bold gladiator (Kirk Douglas) who led a triumphant Roman slave revolt. Restored from large format 35mm original film elements, this action-packed spectacle won four Academy Awards®, including Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction**. Featuring a cast of screen legends such as Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, John Gavin and Tony Curtis, this uncut and fully restored masterpiece is an inspirational true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom. Extended Version with 12 Additional Minutes 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning  achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and earned four Oscar® nominations, including Best Picture. Its power still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp. The Shining (1980) Academy Award® winner¡ Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's disturbing blockbuster horror novel. Writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson), a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife (Duvall) and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel's stored energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane...and there may be no escape for his family in this haunting story of madness, memory, and violence. Full Metal Jacket (1987) Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey as a drill instructor from hell shine in this gripping chronicle of U.S. Marine recruits during the Vietnam War. Shifting from the raw brutality of basic training to the dehumanising effects of combat, Full Metal Jacket deftly combines nonstop action with scathing dark humour.

• Clash of the Titans Double Pack | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Henry V | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £6.44   |  Saving you £3.55 (55.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Laurence Olivier was Oscar-nominated for his mesmerising performance as King Henry V which was made to boost the morale of British troops during World War Two.

• The World at War: The Complete Series | DVD | (31/10/2016) from £45.29   |  Saving you £44.70 (98.70%)   |  RRP £89.99

  A televisual milestone and the benchmark for all war documentaries that followed, The World at War presents the story of World War Two from its beginnings in Hitler's pre-war Germany to its horrific climax at Hiroshima. Made with the full co-operation of the Imperial War Museum and narrated by Laurence Olivier, this powerful twenty-six part series combines eyewitness testimony with rare archive footage to tell the unforgettable story of the greatest conflict the world has ever known. A brand-new High Definition restoration, this is The World at War as it is meant to be seen in its original full screen format with the maximum picture area from the original film materials now visible onscreen. SPECIAL FEATURES: All eight supplementary documentaries made by the World at War production team Making of documentaries Experiences of War: unseen and extended interviews Dolby 5.1 mix (as well as original Mono audio) Image Gallery

• Henry V | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laurence Olivier was Oscar-nominated for his mesmerising performance as King Henry V which was made to boost the morale of British troops during World War Two.

• The White Crow | Blu Ray | (05/08/2019) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an aeroplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris. It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union. Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behaviour and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger. From Nureyev's poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport, THE WHITE CROW is the true story of an incredible journey by a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.

• The Ebony Tower | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Featuring a formidable central performance by Laurence Oliver one of Britain s most revered actors this BAFTA-nominated television play was adapted by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) from the novel by John Fowles; a distinguished supporting cast includes Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. Henry Breasley (Olivier) is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by David Williams (Rees) a brash young artist commissioned to produce a biographical study of the great man. Breasley shares his home in the South of France with two young English girls both former art students Diana and Anne. In this strange mnage David is left in no doubt about his host's views on modern abstract art. However he is puzzled by the old man's relationship with the girls especially when he also finds himself strongly attracted to Diana...

• A Voyage Round My Father | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the Award Winning writer of 'Rumpole of the Bailey' comes this critically acclaimed autobiographical story of an unforgettable journey of an abusive father and his son. John Mortimer's autobiographical play 'A Voyage Round My Father' was given this spectacular film adaptation in 1981. Mortimer best known for his 'Rumpole of the Bailey' stories has fashioned an unexpurgated but affectionate portrait of his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer played by Sir Laur