January 1991 : The world is watching the Gulf War. Day and night millions tune into CNN-TV to see a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. As the US Forces take a starring role the PR department at the White House is working overtime. What they're looking for is a hero. What they find is a scandal. What a troubled officer must now uncover is the truth...
Directed by renowned producer/director Herbert Wilcox at the height of his career, this British post-War film drama spans four generations to tell the never-changing story of the soldier husband who returns home expecting to find everything just as he left it. Starring screen icon Anna Neagle, Elizabeth of Ladymead is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Ladymead is the gracious Georgian mansion in which El...
Relive all four pulse-pounding seasons of Beauty & The Beast. Three years after NYPD detective Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk) witnesses her mother's murder, a case leads her to ex-soldier Vincent Keller (Jay Ryan), a man with a dark and mysterious past. As their love grows, so does the danger. While Catherine discovers more about who and what Vincent really is, together they must uncover who cursed him with his unnatural abilities. From the shadows, sinister forces conspire to tear them apart and threaten to destroy their lives altogether. It soon becomes clear that in order to stay alive, they'll have to stay together. Special Features: Dressing The Beauty Creating The Beast A Day In The Life Of The Writers' Room Gag Reels Deleted Scenes And More!
Directed by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version, Pygmalion) and adapted from the seminal play by Terence Rattigan (The Deep Blue Sea Separate Tables) THE WINSLOW BOY is a classic tale of standing up to bureaucracy and one family's testing fight for justice. Based on real life events, The Winslow Boy, Starring Robert Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye Mr Chips) as Sir Robert Morton and Basil Radford (Whiskey Galore, The Lady Vanishes) as Desmond Curry the story follows the tribulations of an Edwardian naval cadet who is accused of the theft of a 5 shilling postal order, then expelled from his academy. On returning home his father becomes determined to clear his name and prove his innocence after what he considers an unfair internal enquiry. During his pursuit for justice the case eventually reaches The House Of Commons to cause public outcry and a political furore. A thoroughly British, searing drama about the conquest for truth and the sacrifices that come with it. Extras: NEW - George Arthur Shee and The case of the missing postal order NEW - Interview with cultural historian Matthew Sweet NEW - Interview with Geoffery Wansell, Author and critic, Stills Galler
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Ugo Tognazzi (La grande bouffe) is an innocent playboy holiday rep in Greece who is picked up by two secret agents (Michel Piccoli, Le Mépris and Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection). Suspected of being part of an underground resistance, he is to be transported by the agents to Athens where he will be interrogated by superior officers. Their journey is the start of a cat-and-mouse game that beautifully plays on Tognazzi's screen persona with the thrilling tension of Costa-Gavras' Z. Newly restored in 4K by Studio Canal, Peter Fleischmann's paranoid thriller is made available on Blu-ray for the first time.
Arthur Penn's chronicle of hippie life during the late 1960s garnered the acclaimed director his second Oscar nomination. Based on the song by folk music troubadour Arlo Guthrie son of legendary ""Dust Bowl"" balladeer Woody Guthrie this tribute film to ""the last generation"" features memorable scenes with other folk artists like Pete Seeger who join Arlo in song to make a profound statement about war protest and change. In the late '60s a changing social and political climate inspi
The Time Traveler's Wife is based on the best-selling book about a love that transcends time. Clare (Rachel McAdams) has been in love with Henry (Eric Bana) her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together even though she never knows when they will be separated. Henry is a time traveler - cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning Clare desperately tries to biuld a life with her one true love.
Mr. Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night just before Christmas Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master were dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls. This film is based on Leon Garfield's classic tale about the apprentice who wishes for nothing more than the death of his hated master, as he wants to spend New Years Eve with his friends, but finds the burden of the man's ghost too great to bear.
A Sardinian peasant is suspected of murder following an encounter with bandits. In order to survive, he has no option but to turn to banditry himself. Winning multiple awards at the Venice Film Festival, Bandits of Orgosolo continues the traditions of Visconti and De Sica yet with his own style and rhythms Vittorio De Seta musters just as much power as the earlier masters. This release includes De Seta's remarkable short film programme The Lost World' comprising his Cannes Film Festival award-winning short film Islands of Fire and others which survey Italy's poorest communities. Despite awards and plaudits on release these incredible films only now make their English language debut on home video. Upon release, Bandits moved Martin Scorsese to observe: It was as if De Seta were an anthropologist who spoke with the voice of a poet. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURESDisc 1: New 4K restoration from the original camera negative by The Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with Titanus with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family FoundationNew interview with cinematographer Luciano Tovoli (2024, 28 mins)New interview with curator and filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht (2024, 11 mins)Disc 2: The Lost World: A programme of ten restored short films by De Seta, featuring Islands of Fire (1954, 11 mins), The Age of the Swordfish (1954, 11 mins), Golden Parable (1955, 10 mins), Sea Countrymen (1955, 11 mins), Solfatara (1955, 11 mins), Easter in Sicily (1955, 10 mins), Orgosolo's Shepherds (1958, 11 mins), Fishing Boats (1959, 11 mins), A Day in Barbagia (1958, 11 mins), The Forgotten (1959, 21 mins), restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.Archival interview with Vittorio De Seta (2008, 18 mins)New interview with curator and filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht (2024, 21 mins)TrailerOptional English subtitles Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di BattistaLimited edition booklet featuring new writing by Roberto Curti
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Based on a true story this musical drama tells the story of how artistic fantasy music and friendships helped teenager Renee embark on a courageous journey towards recovery.
Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscriptions door to door.
A clash between King Solomon and his brother is further complicated when the Queen of Sheba seduces Solomon in an attempt to bring about Israel's downfall... In this glorious biblical epic director King Vidor cinematically explores the evils of the flesh and pagan worship.
A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots. Ex-Sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War One. It is time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world. Originally broadcast on BBC in 1976 this double DVD release of When The Boat Comes In contains the first five episodes from the fondly remembered drama series.
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Even though he's lost his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. These two have been in love for thirty years. Their children and grand-children fill them with joy... They have a group of close friends... They are proud of their union struggles and political activism. Their consciences are as clear as their gazes. This happiness will be shattered along with their sliding door when two armed and masked men break into their home, beat them, tie them up, tear their wedding rings from their fingers, and run off with their credit cards. They are even more distraught when they learn that this brutal attack was organized by one of the young laborers laid-off at the same as Michel was, it was carried out by one of their own. Michel and Marie-Claire realize, little by little, that Christophe, their assailant, only acted out of necessity. In fact, he lives alone with his two younger brothers and takes care of them admirably, keeping an eye on their studies and watching over their health...
Based on the books by best-selling author Henning Mankell, detective Kurt Wallander is an intense and headstrong maverick who is prone to eating poorly, sleeping irregularly and drinking too much. In some of the very first Wallander episodes ever to be produced, this collection joins Rolf Lassgard as Inspector Wallander as he sets out to solve 4 mysterious cases (across 6 episodes) starting with a violent and deadly showdown in Pyramid.
'EMILY' tells the imagined life of one of the world's most famous authors, Emily Brontë. The film stars Emma Mackey ( Sex Education , Death on the Nile ) as Emily, a rebel and misfit, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. EMILY explores the relationships that inspired her - her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling - The Musketeers ) and Anne (Amelia Gething - The Spanish Princess ); her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen - The Lost Daughter , The Haunting of Bly Manor ) and her care for her maverick brother (Fionn Whitehead - The Duke , Dunkirk ) whom she idolises. Frances O'Connor makes her directorial debut with EMILY, from her own original screenplay. The film also stars Adrian Dunbar ( Line of Duty ) and Gemma Jones ( Bridget Jones's Baby , Gentleman Jack ).
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