"Actor: Olivier"

• Spartacus | Blu Ray | (24/01/2011) from £22.94   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  They trained him to kill for their pleasure... But they trained him a little too well... This presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes cut from the films original release plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) the bold gladiator slave and Varinia (Jean Simmons) the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus (Laurence Olivier) Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Roman Empire at it's glorious height. The inspirational account of one man's eternal struggle for freedom Spartacus combines history with spectacle to create a moving drama of love and commitment.

• The Devil's Kiss | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £5.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (67.06%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One kiss dragged the dead from their graves...Claire Grandier is a medium with one thing on her mind... Blood drenched vengeance. She's a psychic black widow who'll stop at nothing to destroy the Duke De Haussement, the man she holds responsible for her husband's untimely death.After charming her way into the creepy basement of the Duke's crumbling castle on the promise of revealing occult secrets, she sets to work with a sick professor and a twisted dwarf, creating a demon-possessed Frankenstein zombie who's programmed to Kill! Kill! Kill! in this demented and mixed up Spanish classic.Wild 70s fashion and fashionable devilry collide with every clich in the gothic horror manual for a wild ride into sleazy retro Euro-terror. Prepare to feel the wicked caresses of Satan...

• Trilogy - One / Two / Three | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Three films in different genres based around the same set of characters. Each film stands alone but once viewed as a whole the scale and skill of Belvaux's cinematic triple vision is revealed. One: A hard-boiled film-noir and a dramatic start to Lucas Belvaux's trilogy. After a bloody escape from prison political terrorist Bruno (played by the director himself) attempts to resume his campaign of bombings and assassinations. But his colleagues have now comfortably settled into a bourgeois lifestyle so he's forced to go it alone stopping at nothing to achieve his goals... Two: Afraid that he might be dying Alain conceals the truth from Cecil the woman he loves. Despite her instincts she suspects he's lying and prefers to imagine he's having an affair. Yet is it possible everyone is in on the conspiracy including best friend Agnes? Three: Manise is equally devoted to his wife Agn''s and his job as a cop. He has done deals with the local crime boss too. However his troubles are triplefold: he is trying to capture Bruno dealing with the local crime boss and dealing with his wife's addiction to morphine. All these events are threatening to collide with tragic consequences... This is a powerful cinema experience and presented on four DVDs in a specially designed box set Lucas Belvaux's achievements are more evident since they offer the chance to watch simultaneously three different scenes which take place at the same moment in time. Comparisons have been made to Kieslowski's classic 'Three Colours' trilogy but 'One Two And Three' form a trilogy of outstanding achievement.

• The Entertainer | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ironically given the story, married Olivier the following year). Albert Finney makes his screen debut in a tiny role and the remarkable cast also features Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird and Charles Gray. Archie himself is a hollow man who brings pain to all around him, and while Olivier's brilliant performance reveals the layers of cynicism which disguise the emptiness inside, the emotional resonance lies with those forced to endure Rice's manipulations, adulteries and deceits. On stage John Osborne's play proved to be a signature part for Olivier, and director Tony Richardson--who filmed Osborne's equally sour Look Back In Anger (1958)--handles the material with unvarnished realism. Unfolding like a dark variation on Chaplin's Limelight (1952), the film equally casts a shadow over the less stellar Tony Hancock vehicle The Punch and Judy Man (1963), ultimately working as both family tragedy and allegory for a declining post-war England. Surprisingly an American 1976 TV movie remake starring Jack Lemmon held its own against this minor British classic. On the DVD: The Entertainer is presented letterboxed at 1.66:1, and sourced from an excellent print preserves the look of the original black and white cinematography very well. Even so a little material is clipped from either side of the image, though this is most notable on the left of the picture. The mono sound is very good. There are no features other than optional subtitles, including English for those hard of hearing. --Gary S Dalkin

• Eastern Boys | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From Robin Campillo the celebrated writer of Palm D'or winner The Class and creator of The Returned comes his highly acclaimed second dramatic feature film. Daniel cruises the Gare du Nord where Eastern European Boys hang out. One afternoon he plucks up his courage to speak to Marek one of the boys and invites him to his home. However next day when the doorbell rings Daniel hasn't the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap. Special Features: UK Exclusive Interview With Director Actors Auditions Rehearsal Footage

• Of Gods And Men | Blu Ray | (11/04/2011) from £15.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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.

• Four Chilling Horrors | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-4.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Titles Comprise: Talking Lives (unrated): When Montreal detectives handling a local homicide investigation reluctantly ask for an outsider's help to get inside the head of a cunning serial killer top FBI profiler Illeana Scott joins the case. With meticulous insight she theorizes that the chameleon-like killer is life-jacking - assuming the lives and identities of his victims. Her seemingly cold demeanor alienates her from the territorial local police force - she's at her best when she's working alone. But when an unexpected attraction sparks a complicated romantic entanglement the consummate specialist begins to doubt her finely-honed instincts. Alone in an unfamiliar city with no one she can trust Agent Scott suddenly finds herself on a twisted and terrifying journey surrounded by suspects in a case that has become chillingly personal. Dead Calm: Take an ocean voyage of full-masted fright with Dead Calm a spare smart seductive piece of movie-making with enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours Thriller specialist Philip Noyee directs three splendid actors - Sam Neill Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane - in riveting performances. Joe and Rae Ingram (Neill and Kidman) do the right thing and rescue the half-delirious sole survivor (Zane) of a crippled schooner. But soon the stranger will plunge the unwary pair into an intense battle of cat and mouse. And life or death. House of Wax (2005) : What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House Of Wax an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade and her hot-headed brother Nick. They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose the only town for miles. Once there they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction - Trudy's House of Wax which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose - or become permanent additions to the House Of Wax. Sphere: Far below the surface in the mid-Pacific U.S. officials have isolated what may be the greatest discovery in human history. They've found a huge spacecraft that plunged into the depths - 300 years ago. What is the spacecraft's origin? Could there still be living intelligence aboard? Dustin Hoffman Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson portray members of an elite underwater team charged with finding the answers in 'Sphere' the deep-water suspense science-fiction adventure that shapes a new dimension in thrills bringing the underwater squad face to face with a mysterious terror as near as their own thoughts...

• One Nation, One King | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paris, 1789. The Bastille has been stormed and a breath of liberty blows through the streets of Paris. Francoise, a young washerwoman, and Basile, without a family or a name, discover the unique exhilaration of love and revolution. With their friends and the working-class people of Paris, they begin to realize dreams of emancipation in the newly formed assembly where they witness, with both hopes and doubts, the creation of a new political system. Their debates and the riots on the streets hold the fate of their once sacred king and the birth of a republic. Freedom has a story.

• The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone | DVD | (02/02/2009) from £5.54   |  Saving you £7.45 (134.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on Tennessee Williams' only novel and set amongst the picturesque grandeur of post-war Rome The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone is a steamy tale of romantic obsession starring Helen Mirren and Olivier Martinez. Fading Broadway star Karen Stone (Mirren) finds herself at life's crossroads when her adoring rich husband passes away while the couple are en route to Italy. Taking an apartment in Rome she seeks solace by embarking on a series of meaningless flings with a procession of

• Q Planes | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £6.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Major Hammond of Scotland Yard (Ralph Richardson) is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of prototype British aeroplanes when on their test flights. At first Hammond is seen as an outsider at the factory, but he soon finds a friend in star pilot Tony McVane (Laurence Olivier) who helps him try to unravel the case. Hammond becomes convinced that the company secretary at the factory, Jenkins (George Curzon) is a foreign agent and follows him to London. Meanwhile, the mystery still remains unsolved when Tony returns to the aircraft factory, determined to make the next test flight.

• L'Appartement | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £9.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (115.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Max the romantic protagonist is planning a marriage investigating a murder chasing after a lost love and getting bizarrely hooked up with a mystery girl. Switching between time women chic cafes and beautiful Parisian apartments Mimouni's film makes the most of its deliriously romantic setting whilst effortlessly unravelling an intricate and unpredictable plot which playfully ties its lovelorn characters up in knots as it races along to a heady conclusion.

• Fire over England (Digitally Remastered) | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson) is dealing with her country's deteriorating relationship with Spain. Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier), a naval officer whose father was killed fighting the Spanish, volunteers to go undercover in the Spanish court and learns plans are afoot to send an armada to ambush the British navy. Meanwhile, the aging Elizabeth, who has fallen for the dashing Ingolby, struggles with the fact that he is fixated on one of her beautiful ladies-in-waiting (Vivien Leigh).

• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Two Disc Edition) | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £5.19   |  Saving you £19.06 (484.99%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law play an intrepid reporter and ace aviator determined to stop an evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth.

• That Hamilton Woman | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two of Hollywood's biggest legends and off screen lovers VIVIEN LEIGH (Emma Hamilton) and LAURENCE OLIVIER (Nelson) star in this Academy award-winning story based on one of history's most ill-fated love affairs. However, the film left no-one in any doubt that Nelson's warning of the dangers of appeasing Napoleon was an obvious parallel to the threat Hitler posed to Europe at the time. Shot in just six weeks in Los Angeles, Korda's first directorial effort since 'Rembrandt' is an appealing mix of high drama and romance, which succeeded with the critics and audiences alike. Politically the film also made an impact on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, Churchill decided it was his favourite film, while the American Senate decided it was mere propaganda and subpoenaed Korda to appear before them, along with Chaplin and Hitchcock, on the suspicion of being British agents. Also, the film created a stir with the American film censor whose concern with the morals of the picture forced new dialogue to be included to reflect the couple's suffering by commtting adultery. The New York Times critic dwelt on neither the politics or the drama, but complained that such is Leigh's beauty in the film that when she is on screen it is immpossible to concentrate on anything beyond her stunning looks.

• Augustine | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Seven Per Cent Solution | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna in order to place him in the care of Sigmund Freud after his abuse of cocaine starts to spiral out of control. While Holmes believes he is solving a kidnapping Freud delves into his subconscious.

• The Son | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (166.85%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Olivier a carpenter who teaches his craft to teenagers become obsessed with a new student Francis. The reason for his obsession soon becomes apparent - Francis murdered Olivier's son many years earlier...

• The Beggar's Opera | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Beggar's Opera captures the quality and satiric edge of the Hogarth engravings that influenced John Gay's original version. The fast-paced scenes scintillating dialogue and inventive music have made this ballad opera an overwhelming success time and again.

• The Conquest of the Air | DVD | (14/09/2015) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Charting man's complicated journey towards and mastery over flight, this fascinating film uses both drama and documentary footage to present a highly cinematic account of the evolution of aviation, encompassing early experiments in automated flight, the development of bombers and aircraft carriers, and the earliest experiments in vertical rotary flight. A project initiated in 1935 by Alexander Korda as a potential collaboration with Winston Churchill, The Conquest of the Air was produced in fits and starts over the following five years eventually being released in 1940 as a propaganda film to help the war effort both here and in America. The film is featured here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio.

• Unfaithful | Blu Ray | (26/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Although the premise of infidelity and its devastating consequences on all involved may not be a new one, Unfaithful still manages to emerge as a stylish, involving thriller. Based on an obscure 1970s French offering, director Adrian Lynne's version is pure Hollywood, from its casting of Richard Gere and Diane Lane in the lead roles, to its graceful visual style and even its somewhat unsatisfactory denouement. It's impossible not to watch the film without thinking of Lynne's own Fatal Attraction, although here the gender roles have been reversed to focus on the affair between bored suburban housewife Connie and exotic French book dealer Paul. The obsessive relationship between the two provides the film with its only real frisson. Gere is given very little to work with as the dull cuckolded husband Edward and delivers even less. The film moves rather slowly towards its key plot twist which never really lives up to its promise. On the DVD: Unfaithful may be lacking a little as a film, but this DVD is an impressive package. The film has a rich visual element and the digital picture quality brings out the best in Adrian Lynne's unique eye for detail. The reams of extras include commentaries from director Lynne and the cast, a well put together documentary, interviews, features, deleted scenes and a (superior) alternative ending. Lynne is always good interview value, coming across as a slightly less eccentric Ken Russell, and Lane and Olivier Martinez are both engaging and charismatic. A shame, then, that the movie itself isn't quite so impressive. --Phil Udell