Classic Films

• The Last Emperor | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale. The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China. It follows his life from its elite beginnings in the Forbidden City, where he was crowned at age three and worshipped by half a billion people. He was later forced to abdicate and, unable to fend for himself in the outside world, became a dissolute and exploited shell of a man. He died in obscurity, living as a peasant in the People's Republic. We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but The Last Emperor focuses more on visuals than characterisation anyway. Filmed in the Forbidden City, it is spectacularly beautiful, filling the screen with saturated colours and exquisite detail. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of stranglings which are slowly wiping out the Brandon family and to find out the secret of the 'Star Of Delhi'. He once again does battle with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.

• Road To Bali | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Jamaica Inn | DVD | (27/06/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.30

  It's generally acknowledged that the Master of Suspense disliked costume dramas, and Jamaica Inn--a rip-roaring melodrama drawn from a Daphne du Maurier pot-boiler, set in 1820s Cornwall--is about as costumed as they come. So what was he doing directing it? Killing time, essentially. In 1939 Hitchcock was due to quit Britain for Hollywood, but delays Stateside left him with time on his hands. Never one to sit idle, he agreed to make one picture for Mayflower Productions, a new outfit formed by actor Charles Laughton and émigré German producer Erich Pommer. An innocent young orphan (the 19-year-old Maureen O'Hara in her first starring role) arrives at her uncle's remote Cornish inn to find it a den of reprobates given to smuggling, wrecking and gross overacting. They're all out-hammed, though, by Laughton at his most corseted and outrageously self-indulgent as the local squire to whom Maureen runs for help. Since his star was also the co-producer, Hitch couldn't do much with the temperamental actor. He contented himself with adding a few characteristic touches--including a spot of bondage (always a Hitchcock favourite), and the chief villain's final spectacular plunge from a high place--and slyly sending up the melodramatic absurdities of the plot. Jamaica Inn hardly stands high in the Master's canon, but it trundles along divertingly enough. Hitchcock fanatics will have fun comparing it with his two subsequent--and far more accomplished--du Maurier adaptations, Rebecca and The Birds.--Philip Kemp

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £8.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-39.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh

• Gamera The Invincible | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A legendary monster unleashes his wrath on the Earth... An atomic bomb blast is detonated as American and Soviet forces clash awakening Gammera an immense prehistoric turtle-like creature from his eons of slumber. The enraged beast wanders the arctic wilderness annihilating all traces of humanity in his path. The horrible devastation incites an international panic and world leaders convene to devise a strategy to eliminate the beast. The most advanced and powerful weapons in mankind's arsenal are useless against Gammera and merely provoke the awesome monster to greater acts of destruction. Faced with major cities in ruin and global carnage beyond imagination the world's top scientists combine forces to develop Plan Z - a final desperate chance for human survival.

• Falling Waters | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £4.84   |  Saving you £5.15 (51.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Purling bright waters reflect sunlight from heaven in shades of azure that can be enjoyed with a natural audio soundtrack or the ambient music of Yeskim.

• 1966 World Cup Final | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1966 World Cup Final

• Road To Rio | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• Three Ages | DVD | (23/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.36

• Mother India | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• BLACK HORSE CANYON - BLACK HORSE CANYON (1 DVD) | DVD | (15/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• When Worlds Collide (imprint Collection # 6) Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (04/09/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sword in the Stone - Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (02/10/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook - Limited to 3000 copies. This is Number 33 in the Disney Collection. A magical family experience, this Academy Award Nominee is now available in Blu-ray for the first time ever! The film follows the enchanting story of a young Arthur (nicknamed Wart) and his mentor, the profoundly wise - if slightly senile - court wizard, Merlin. The wizened old mage knows that the future holds much for Arthur and sets about preparing him for a life much grander than he could ever know.

• Brotherhood of the Bell | DVD | (08/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Roy Andersson Collection | DVD | (26/04/2021) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Contains A Swedish Love Story (1970), Songs from the Second Floor (2000), You the Living (2007), A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014), About Endlessness (2020) and Being A Human Person.

• A Gunfight | DVD | (11/12/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Revolver - Die perfekte Erpressung - Limitiert auf 1000 Stück - Filmart Polizieschi Edition Nr.14 | Blu Ray | (13/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Moby Dick - 3-Disc Limited Collector's Edition im Mediabook (+ Bonus-Blu-ray) (+ DVD) (Deutsche Version) | Blu Ray | (27/08/2021) from £27.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Weites Land (Special Edition) (+ 2 DVDs) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A