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• High Tension (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/01/2024) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A weekend away visiting parents becomes a living nightmare for Alex and her best friend Marie when a deranged killer breaks in, slaughters family members and kidnaps Alex. Hiding to evade capture Marie sets off on a white knuckle pursuit to save her friend.

• Spin Series 1&2 | DVD | (03/04/2017) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The acclaimed French political crime drama comes to DVD in this Series 1&2 Box Set. Spin is a political thriller that brings us deep in the heart of a tension filled political campaign. Games of power, reason, hate and love: these Spin doctors will go to any lengths to see their candidate win. Series 1 France is in shock: the President s been assassinated. Behind the scenes, politicians are already campaigning for the special snap election in 35 days time. Presidential advisor Simon Kapita (Bruno Wolkowitch) wants to preserve his mentor s honour and sides with low-level Minister Anne Visage. He believes she s the only one capable of defeating their political enemy, Prime Minister Philippe Deleuvre. But Simon finds his former protégé (Ludovic Desmeuze played by Spiral's Gregory Fitoussi) in his way, now working for his rival the PM s campaign. Both spin doctors go to war. Series 2 Simon Kapita is back and again at war with Ludovic Desmeuze. Having been called to the heart of the government, Simon must deal with with the politcal and media fallouts from some major political scandals, a any one of which, could bring down the government whilst former protege Ludovic tries all he can to outsmart and out-spin him.

• Requiem for a Vampire (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2018) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On the run from a reform school, two young women end up trapped in a haunted castle ruled by a hoard of sexy, blood crazed vampires and their leader, an evil immortal creature who is the last of his kind. Seeking to reproduce his race, he preys on his innocent victims. In order to achieve his goal of immortality, however, the women must remain virgins.

• Essential Tavernier Boxset | Blu Ray | (18/04/2022) from £49.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bertrand Tavernier was one of the most outstanding French film makers of his time. Born in Lyon in 1941, he began his career with a short-lived stint as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Melville an experience and environment that affected him so deeply that he took up first film journalism then worked as a highly influential press agent for ten years before returning to filmmaking. A diverse filmmaker whose works covered a spectacular range of genres, settings and time periods, Tavernier imbued his films with intelligence and grace, but they were also often a commentary on political and social injustice and the strength of the human spirit. This essential collection includes 8 of his films, a tribute and testimony to the spectacular work of the legendary filmmaker. Product Features QUE LA FÊTE COMMENCE (1975) Analysis of the film with Guillemette Odicino Interview with Bertrand Tavernier et Philippe Noiret Interview with Jean Rochefort UNE SEMAINE DE VACANCES (1980) Analysis of the film with Guillemette Odicino Filming the movie COUP DE TORCHON (1981) Analysis of the film with Guillemette Odicino US Trailer Trailer Alternative Ending Interview with Bertrand Tavernier and Philippe Noiret Interview with Eddy Mitchell L.627 (1992) Making of Deleted Scenes LA GUERRE SANS NOM (1992) Introduction with Bertrand Tavernier and Patrick Rotman Analysis of the film with Vincent Martigny ÇA COMMENCE AUJOURD'HUI (1999) Interview with Bertrand Tavernier Making of Deleted Scenes LAISSEZ-PASSER (2002) Making of Deleted Scenes LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER (2010) Interview with D. Le Fur Making of Presentation with L. Laurent Weil, M. Thierry and R. Personnaz

• French Connection 2 | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £12.97   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gene Hackman reprises his Oscar-winning role as Popeye Doyle the hard-nosed New York detective determined to break a French narcotics ring. Kidnapped by heroin Kingpin Alain Charier (Fernando Rey) in Marseilles Doyle is mercilessly forced to become a junkie himself. Upon his release Doyle must kick his habit and join forces with his French police counterpart (Bernard Fresson) to hunt down Charnier. Gritty action riveting performances and a vividly realistic setting make French Con

• Calvaire | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £8.69   |  Saving you £11.30 (130.04%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A cabaret singer is stranded with an ex-comedian who has been recently dumped by his wife.

• Le Trou | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Influential director Jacques Becker's final film, Le Trou is also amongst his very best. Hailed as a masterpiece by Truffaut, it remains a compelling work, superbly directed and photographed with a remarkable attention to detail. 1947. A young man, Gaspard Claude (Marc Michel), is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the notorious Santé Prison in Paris and is placed in a cell with four hardened criminals. The latter have decided to escape from the prison by digging their way out of their cell. Reluctantly, they take Gaspard into their confidence and labour digging their way out of their cell. Then, just when escape appears certain, Gaspard is called away to see the prison governor

• The Washing Machine (Limited Metal Tin Edition) | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £11.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Exclusive Shameless limited metal tin edition specially design by top British artist graham Humphreys. With his epoch-making Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato single-handedly invented the found-footage film genre (later imitated by Blair Witch et al). With The Washing Machine Deodato reboots the Giallo genre stretching its boundaries into this utterly extreme surreal erotic thriller. Originally called Mortal Vortex this long-lost Giallo is now revived in this Exclusive Shameless Limited Metal Tin Edition. By the time Police Inspector Stacev arrived at the eerie Budapest flat of three beguiling sisters to investigate one of the girls' claim to have found a butchered body in their washing machine the corpse had disappeared. Piqued as much by the potential foul play as by the mischievous saucy sisters our detective becomes entangled in their web of sexual obsession and deadly treachery: Each sister spins a different versions of events - including warped stories of cannibalism (what else!) - Whilst seducing the non-too-reluctant officer! Deodato cycles through truly inventive stylish and very hot sex scenes... until an arresting climax! Will it all come out in the wash?

• Bizet: Carmen -- film version | DVD | (13/03/2000) from £17.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (11.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie version of Bizet's popular opera Carmen was filmed on location, conveying a kind of atmosphere, a sense of space, movement, and presence that's hard to achieve in a staged performance. It takes the action out of doors for many scenes, with the opening titles superimposed on the bloody conclusion of a bullfight. Elsewhere the changing of the guard, the crowd scenes, the dance number that opens Act 2, and the panoramic scenery of the smugglers' mountain hideout all benefit from the freedom granted by movie cameras. It's an exciting Carmen, too, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, though, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. Casting her in the role was a gamble, but it worked; she is a convincing actress. Unlike most opera-house performances this movie version uses the opera's original opera comique form with some spoken dialogue rather than recitatives.--Joe McLellan, Amazon.com

• The Agnes Varda Collection Vol 2 (4 discs) | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Agnes Varda Collection (4 Discs)

• Rainbow Brite - Volume 1 | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £6.51   |  Saving you £-3.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A brave little girl gets sent to a desolate world to give it hope joy and colour earning the right to become Rainbow Brite. Her quest is filled with danger but she is helped along by her friends. Episodes comprise: Beginning Of Rainbowland - Part 1 & 2 / Peril In The Pits / Mighty Monstromurk Menance - Part 1 / Mighty Monstromurk Menance - Part 2

• Intimacy | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £7.44   |  Saving you £5.55 (74.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted from the short stories of acclaimed writer Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy is an intelligent, thought provoking and frank adult drama about relationships, jealousy and the inability to love.

• Au Revoir Les Enfants | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Au Revoir Les Enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie-until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle's own childhood the film is a subtle precisely observed tale of courage cowardice and tragic awakening.

• 13 Tzameti | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A clean-faced 20-year-old Sebastien leads an impoverished life with his immigrant family constantly struggling to find the money for their next meal. When hired to repair the roof of the morphine-addicted Godon (Philippe Passon) Sebastien eavesdrops in on a conversation which appears to offer a quick and easy solution to his money troubles. When Godon suddenly falls dead Sebastien decides to follow the instructions meant for the recently deceased addict in a desperate bit to se

• Family For Rent | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul-André is a shy and introverted 40-something. He's rich but alone, fed up with life, and decides that what he needs is a family. Violette is also in her 40s and full of life, but money troubles mean that she could lose her home and even her family. Paul-André offers her a crazy deal he rents her family in return for paying off her debts. He will finally be able to test out the true joy of family life for better or worse!

• High Tension | Blu Ray | (22/01/2024) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A weekend away visiting parents becomes a living nightmare for Alex and her best friend Marie when a deranged killer breaks in, slaughters family members and kidnaps Alex. Hiding to evade capture Marie sets off on a white knuckle pursuit to save her friend. Product Features UHD presented in HDR10+ proved by Director Alexandre Aja New audio commentary by Dr Lindsay Hallam An Experiment in Suspense: a new interview with Alexandre Aja The Man in the Shadows: a new interview with Writer Grégory Levasseur The Darker the Better: an interview with Cinematographer Maxime Alexandre The Great French Massacre: an interview with Special Effects Artist Giannetto De Rossi Only the Brave: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on High Tension Archive 'Making of' featurette Archive Interview with Cécile De France Archive Interview with Maïwenn Archive Interview with Philippe Nahon Rigid slipcase with new artwork by James Neal 70-page book with new essays by Anna Bogutskaya, Prince Jackson, Stacie Ponder and Zoë Rose Smith 6 collectors' art cards

• Spiral: Series 1-3 Box Set | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (125.06%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Series One: A badly beaten body of a young Romanian woman is discovered on a Parisian rubbish dump. Her identity and past life are gradually uncovered as the various parts of the French Justice System investigate her death. However it becomes apparent that her story is tied to a network of corruption touching the very people charged with uncovering the truth about her. Series Two: A burned corpse is found in the boot of a car in a seemingly isolated case of urban violence. However the case grows in complexity and danger as each new piece of evidence unearths a duplicitous world of international trafficking informers double lives and arms dealing. An audacious plan to strike at the heart of the crime network means that the slightest slip will result in certain death. Series Three: When the mutilated body of a young woman is found on a disused railway track in the North of Paris Police Captain Laure Berthaud seizes the opportunity to restore a tarnished reputation leads her squad on the hunt for what she believes to be a deranged serial killer. However with her personal life in tatters and a potential rift emerging from within her own ranks Berthaud's world is on the verge of disintegration.

• Henry And June | DVD | (10/04/2003) from £12.97   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma Thurman), who finances her husband's life in Paris so he may praise her beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband's writing and her lovers' affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed direction. The strength of the original material and Medeiros' strong performance make it worth viewing. -- James McGrath, Amazon.com

• Eloge De L'Amour | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jean-Luc Godard's eagerly awaited Eloge de l'Amour was one of the highlights of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, dividing critics between those who loved its extraordinary beauty and those who found it hard to discern an overall theme from a multitude of contending threads. Certainly the plot is elusive. A young writer (Bruno Putzulu) wants a dark-haired woman (Cecile Camp) to play a role in his evolving project, a study of the four stages of love: meeting, physical passion, separation and reconciliation. By the time the funding comes through, she has killed herself and he looks back to the time when he might, or might not have met her before. Above all, the picture explores the blurred territory between the personal and the collective memory and the difference between a life which is simply lived and one in which the individual brings the power of imagination to their existence. Ultimately, the characters remain curiously faceless and the film fragments into a kaleidoscope of merging images, colours and landscapes and collective experience triumphs.Godard's legendary status as the godfather of French New Wave cinema has long since passed into the realms of cliché. Here, the "present" is shot on the streets of Paris in black and white. Godard's city of light looks as timeless as it did back in 1966 when he made Masculin Feminin. The second part of the film is shot in digital video, absorbing the audience with its electrically intense, mesmerising colours. Eloge de l'Amour is, more than anything, a sensual experience. Godard provokes but doesn't provide any answers. But fans of his more polemical work will enjoy the satirised American producers who want to purchase the rights to the Resistance couple's story. Americans have no memory, says the author. So they buy it from others. Godard never was a fence-sitter. --Piers Ford On the DVD: the main DVD extra on this disc sounds enticing: an interview with one of the world’s most innovative and influential directors. Yet the reality is disappointing, as it’s merely a transcript. The biography is more of the same. The only other additional feature is the subtitles, though there’s no option to turn them off. --Nikki Disney

• Three Colours White | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £2.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (577.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  White is the second of witty Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowki's "three colours" trilogy Blue, White, and Red--the three colours of the French flag, symbolising liberty, equality and fraternity. White is an ironic comedy brimming over with the hard laughs of despair, ecstasy, ambition and longing played in a minor key. Down-and-out Polish immigrant Karol Karol is desperate to get out of France. He's obsessed with his French soon-to-be ex-wife (Before Sunrise's Julie Delpy), his French bank account is frozen, and he's fed up with the inequality of it all. Penniless, he convinces a fellow Pole to smuggle him home in a suitcase--which then gets stolen from the airport. The unhappy thieves beat him and dump him in a snowy rock pit. Things can only get better, right? The story evolves into a wickedly funny anti-romance, an inverse Romeo and Juliet. Because it's in two foreign languages, the dialogue can be occasionally hard to follow, but some of the most genuinely funny and touching moments need no verbal explanation. --Grant Balfour