"Director: Olivier Marchal"

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  • 36 (Quai des Orfevres) [2004]36 (Quai des Orfevres) | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

    Director Oliver Marchal is a former Parisian policeman and the story of 36 Quai des Orfevres draws on his own experiences of the police force as well as those of Dominique Loiseau who was a senior member of the BRI (Search and action Squad) in the mid-eighties and worked as a consultant on the film. Leo Vrinks (Auteuil) and Denis Klein (Depardieu) are at the head of two different departments of the Paris police force located at Quai des Orfevres. Once close they are no longer friends mainly due to their differing work methods and Vrinks' wife Camille. An audacious gang of robbers stage seven armed robberies throughout Paris leaving a bloody trail in their wake. After a year of terror the Chief of Police orders that Vrinks and Klein bring the criminals to justice with a substantial boon to the man who brings them in... His job. As the competition between the two men hots up the lines between right and wrong become blurred. Both men find themselves sinking into a hellish place not far removed from that of the criminals...

  • Gang Story [DVD]Gang Story | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £6.07   |  Saving you £9.92 (163.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

    Edmond Vidal is one of the French underworld’s most notorious figures having led the Gang des Lyonnais to a spate of successful armed robberies in the 1970’s. Overcoming dangerous gang rivalries and battling with the police over many years, Vidal survived to enjoy the good life…until now. With his life-long friend Serge Suttel in trouble, Vidal gets drawn into one last job. But fighting against his own history, and facing a desperate situation, is this the end for Vidal? Based on true life, Gang Story is a gripping tale that shocks and thrills in equal measure.

  • 36 [Blu-ray] [2004]36 | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £10.98   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Director Olivier Marchal is a former Parisian policeman and the story of 36 Quai des Orfevres draws on his own experiences of the police force as well as those of Dominique Loiseau who was a senior member of the BRI (Search and action Squad) in the mid-eighties and worked as a consultant on the film. Leo Vrinks (Auteuil) and Denis Klein (Depardieu) are at the head of two different departments of the Paris police force located at Quai des Orfevres. Once close they are no longer friends mainly due to their differing work methods and Vrinks' wife Camille. An audacious gang of robbers stage seven armed robberies throughout Paris leaving a bloody trail in their wake. After a year of terror the Chief of Police orders that Vrinks and Klein bring the criminals to justice with a substantial boon to the man who brings them in... His job. As the competition between the two men hots up the lines between right and wrong become blurred. Both men find themselves sinking into a hellish place not far removed from that of the criminals...

  • Braquo Series 1-3 [Blu-ray]Braquo Series 1-3 | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £60.73   |  Saving you £-10.74 (-21.50%)   |  RRP £49.99

    The complete first three seasons of Olivier Marchal's French police thriller. The series follows a group of police led by Eddy Caplan (Jean-Hugues Anglade) who use violent and unorthodox methods in their criminal investigations. When this is brought to the attention of Internal Affairs the department is faced with the difficult and dangerous task of exposing the group's methods and putting a stop to them.

  • Mr. 73 [DVD] [2008]Mr. 73 | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £10.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

    A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.

  • 36 [DVD]36 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £6.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (106.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

    In what many have described as the French equivalent of Heat two of France's acting heavyweights Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star as two detectives once close friends now bitter rivals they strive to claim the coveted position of Chief of Police by whatever means necessary... A gang of armed robbers have committed seven bloody robberies in Paris within the space of a year. Klein (Depardieu) and Vrinks (Auteuil) are heading up different departments of the Police force and are told that whoever stops the gang will be awarded the title of Chief of Police. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless blurring the lines of morality until there is no difference between the police and the criminals they chase.

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