"Director: Alain Robbe Grillet"

• Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1964-1974 (Blu-ray Box Set) | Blu Ray | (30/06/2014) from £31.49   |  Saving you £28.50 (90.50%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais' classic cine-conundrum Last Year of Marienbad, Alain Robbe-Grillet was also the director a number of stylish, controversial and erotic films which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trinignant (Haneke's Amour, Bertolucci's The Conformist), Marie-France Pisier (Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Bed and Board) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis' White Material, Haneke's Amour). Impossible to see for decades, these enigmatic, sexually.

• Trans-Europ-Express (DVD) | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £15.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (13.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant (Amour, The Conformist) and Marie-France Pisier (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Breakfast). Trintignant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers who are also on the train making a film about drug traffickers, and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected.

• Alain Robbe-Grillet: Six Films 1964-1974 (DVD Box Set) | DVD | (30/06/2014) from £34.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (42.87%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Perhaps best known as the writer of Alain Resnais classic cine-conundrum Last Year of Marienbad, Alain Robbe-Grillet was also the director a number of stylish & controversial and which starred such icons of French cinema as Jean-Louis Trintignant (Haneke's (Amour, Bertolucci's The Conformist) , Marie-France Pisier (Truffaut's Stolen Kisses and Bed and Board) and Isabelle Huppert (Claire Denis White Material, Haneke's Amour). Impossible to see for decades, these enigmatic, sexually-charged fi.

• La Belle Captive | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Presented for the first time in a newly restored version remastered from the original 35mm negative Alain Robbe-Grillet's erotic surreal classic is a precursor to David Lynch's world of enigmatic characters and dreamlike encounters. A man called Walter encounters a beautiful woman at a club then later finds her lying bound and bloodied in the road. He takes her to a nearby isolated villa where a sinister group of wealthy men in tuxedos are gathered and take a keen interest in the injured woman. The couple are given a room for the night where they are locked in. They make love but the following morning Walter wakes to find the woman gone the a villa a deserted ruin and blood on his neck. Did it happen or was it a dream? Nothing is quite what it seems.

• Successive Slidings of Pleasure (DVD) | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young woman is questioned by a detective (Jean-Louis Trintignant Trans-Europ-Express The Conformist) a repressed judge (Michael Lonsdale Moonraker) a curious nun a sexually-obsessed priest and her lawyer all of whom suspect her of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead bound to the posts of her bed a pair of scissors impaled in her heart. Does the woman have the powers to make all around her fall prey to her spell forcing them to slide progressively into desire lust and ultimately the unknown? This erotic drama from one of the most ground-breaking and daring of the post-war French filmmakers Alain Robbe-Grillet (writer of the classic Last Year in Marienbad) is presented here in a beautiful High Definition transfer complete with revealing and comprehensive exclusive extra features including a richly detailed audio commentary by Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas. Features: Fully uncut and uncensored version Video introduction by Catherine Robbe-Grillet (2013 6 mins) Filmed interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet by Frederic Taddei (2013 33 mins) Exclusive full-length audio commentary by cult film authority Tim Lucas

• Successive Slidings of Pleasure | Blu Ray | (24/02/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cult erotic drama from one of the most ground-breaking and daring of the post-war French filmmakers Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert. A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead bound to the posts of her bed a pair of scissors impaled in her heart. Does the woman have the powers to make all around her fall prey to her spell forcing them to slide progressively into desire lust and ultimately the unknown. Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet best known for his experimental post-war novels and writer of Alain Resnais' Last Year of Marienbad. This is one of the first in a collection of BFI releases which finally make the films of Robbe-Grillet's films available for the first time. Each title is release on DVD and Blu-ray in a Dual Format Edition. Special Features: Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition Extensive booklet with essay by Ben Hervey and full film credits

• Trans-Europ-Express | Blu Ray | (24/02/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This stylish cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new wave icons Jean-Louis Trintignant (L'Amour The Comfortist) and Marie-France Pisier (Stolen Kisses Bed and Breakfast). Trintignant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police three filmmakers who are also on the train making a film about drug-traffickers and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's will. Originally banned by the BBFC for scenes of sexual sadism and bondage Trans-Europ-Express was written and directed by ground-breaking and daring filmmaker Alain Robbe Grillet best known for his experimental novels and for writing Alain Resnais' Last Year of Marienbad. This is one of the first releases by the BFI in a series making many of Robbe-Grillet's films available in the UK for the first time and on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide. Special Features: Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition Extensive booklet with essay by Ben Hervey and full film credits