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• I Only Want You To Love Me | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  I Only Want You To Love Me (Ich will doch nur, da ihr mich liebt) ‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.’ Henry David ThoreauConstruction worker Peter recounts his sorry tale from prison. Kind and hard working he builds his parents a house. They reciprocate with emotional abuse. He goes to Munich to work, bringing his wife who is soon pregnant. He works hard, they buy things on credit. He tries to fill the emotional void with material goods but his spending habits lead him into a spiral of debt and pressures mount. Finally he snaps. Made for German television in 1976, during a pause from filming feature Satan’s Brew, I Only Want You To Love Me is based on a true account taken from For Life (Lebenslaenglich), a book of interviews edited by Klaus Antes and Christiane Erhardt. Made when Fassbinder was going through a professional crisis I Only Want You To Love Me is a very personal reflection of his own childhood and adolescence. Extras: Documentary ‘Of Love and Constraints’ (60 minutes) Image Gallery

• Tale of A Vampire | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A cross-cultural oddity, Tale of a Vampire feels like a 1970s British horror movie retranslated from the Japanese and mounted as a vehicle for Julian Sands. Director-writer Shimako Sato takes a gloom-haunted approach to the undead, allegedly influenced by the necrophile romanticism of Edgar Allan Poe (it claims to be based on Poe's poem "Annabel Lee") but also draws on the popular blood-sucking posiness of Anne Rice's bestselling novels. Alex (Sands), is a style-conscious vampire whose white shirts are always immaculate although he spends most of his nights messily pouring gore over his face. Living in a spartan docklands pad, Alex haunts a library of long-forgotten lore where he sets his cap at a young woman (Suzanna Hamilton) who may be the reincarnation of his lost love. Unfortunately, a hat-wearing rival vampire (Kenneth Cranham) has been nurturing a grudge against Alex for lifetimes and sticks his oar in, complicating the relationship between vampire and willing victim, setting up for a big stake-shoving climax. For all its vampire feuds and dodgily S&M-flavoured blood-drinking scenes, this is somewhat staid and solemn, with few locations and a low budget abstraction reminiscent of those old episodes of The Avengers where they could only afford to build a corner of a set and there wasn't any money left to hire actors. While Sands, with aptly vampirish poise, and Cranham, with a sinister Southern accent, are interesting and poised antagonists, making the most of Sato's allusive dialogue, heroine Hamilton lets the side down with an awkward performance that hardly suggests anyone worth giving up immortality for. Cranham's character is supposed to be Poe himself, oddly transformed from his historical stature: he seems to have put on a bit of weight since his death in 1849, but Cranham's sly nasty way of ordering gruesome nouvelle cuisine and tormenting a harmless crackpot is aptly Poeish. The slow-paced film takes a long time to confirm what is obvious from the outset (even from the title) and then shudders to a halt with all the characters' fates left vague. However, it has a unique and disturbing atmosphere--the few familiar vampire images of a bloody Sands are outweighed by weirder moments like Cranham's presentation of a pale Hamilton, tied to a bed with red ribbons, as an offering to his nemesis--that makes it more insidiously memorable than many of its higher-budgeted, splashier cousins. On the DVD: A no-frills (no trailer, no cast notes, no nothing), full-screen presentation, which sometimes cramps Sato's careful compositions, this also has a mixed blessing transfer which lends a mouldy or rusty fuzz to some of the blacks in the many night scenes. There is, however, a nice animated menu. --Kim Newman

• Last Gasp | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-7.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Pray you never hear the last gasp! A wealthy real estate developer Leslie Chase runs a wild native tribe the Totec off their sacred land-and murders their chieftain. The dying chieftain breathes his last gasp into Chase's mouth. This last breath actually contains a curse in which Chase inherits a bloodthirsty need to kill humans and eat their flesh. After years of being tormented by these irresistible urges serial murderer Chase is pursued by a private investigator who was hired by the wife of one of her victims to locate her missing husband.

• Moulin Rouge/Mr And Mrs Smith/Thelma And Louise | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £8.88   |  Saving you £11.11 (125.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moulin Rouge (Dir. Baz Luhrmann 2001): Christian [Ewan McGregor] a young writer with a magical gift for poetry defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe-soaked artist Toulouse-Lautrec whose party-hard life centres around the Moulin Rouge a world of sex drugs electricity & the shocking Can-Can. Christian falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Satine the Sparkling Diamond [Nicole Kidman] the most beautiful courtesan in Paris & star of the Moulin Rouge... Mr And Mrs Smith (Dir. Doug Liman 2005): Starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as the eponymous Mr. & Mrs. Smith - in one of 2005's most entertaining and explosive blockbusters. After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith (Pitt and Jolie) are stuck in a rut the size of the Grand Canyon - until the truth comes out! Unbeknownst to each other they are both lethal highly paid assassins working for rival organizations. When they discover they're each other's next target their secret lives collide in a spicy explosive mix of wicked comedy pent-up passion nonstop action and high-tech weaponry that gives an all-new meaning to ""Till death do us part!"" Thelma And Louise (Dir. Ridley Scott): Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy who as a musician is always on the road.Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey however turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico but soon they are hunted by American police...

• Work And The Glory Vol.3 - A house Divided | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling.

• A Life For The Tsar - Bolshoi Opera | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 17th Century tale of how a peasant gave his life to save the Tsar for the Russian people. After the Russian Revolution the Communist regime renamed the opera Ivan Susanin after the main character and altered the libretto in order to emphasise how Susanin delivered Russia from attack from the Polish enemy. The original title and libretto have now been restored. In this production by The Bolshoi Opera filmed in 1992 Russian bass Egveny Nesterenko magnificently sings the dramatic role of Ivan Susanin the tragic hero who leads the Polish enemy on a false path in their search for the Tsar and so allowing the Tsar to escape. The cast also includes Marina Mescheriakova as Susanin's daughter Antonida Alexander Lomonosov as her fiance Sobinin and Elena Zaremba as Susanin's son Vanja. The conductor is Alexander Lazarev.

• C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation - Miami Complete season 2 (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Chronicling the work of the Miami-Dade crime investigations CSI: Miami is set against the sun fun and tropics of the Florida tourist haven. Leading the team is Horatio Caine played with steely calm by Emmy-award winning film and TV veteran David Caruso. An ex-bomb squad detective Horatio is no stranger to confrontations with criminals and the underworld... Episodes comprise: 1. Blood Brothers 2. Dead Zone 3. Hard Time 4. Death Grip 5. The Best Defense 6. Hurricane An

• Ninja Condors | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a ninja fighter working for the underworld kills the cop that once saved his life he decides to change his ways and leave the underworld. He knows however that nobody leaves this treacherous organisation alive death is the only way out. To protect himself against the hit men he knows are right behind him he enlists the help of the Ninja Master who taught him the art of Ninjitsu. Before long however the underworld catches up with the two and the battle for survival begins

• Undead Or Alive | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Army deserter Almer is on the run with local cowboy Luke after a robbery. After joining forces with an Apache warrior they set out to wreak vengeance on the Army. However what they don't know is that an Apache curse has turned all the local people into zombies.

• We Are Monster | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (53.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Based on the true story of the death of Zahid Mubarek (Aymen Hamdouchi), a first time offender who was beaten to death by fellow inmate Robert Stewart (Leeshon Alexander).  We Are Monster is a fearless look at the culture of racism and ineptitude that led to Mubarek s tragic murder, and a chillingly intense look at Stewart s fractured psyche.  Raw and powerful filmmaking, underpinned by Alexander s stunning performance, that strips down and challenges issues on racial tension, hatred and youth violence.

• Russia In Revolt | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  No revolution has been portrayed on screen more vividly than that in St Petersburg (aka Petrograd) during October 1917, and if what we see in Russia in Revolt is not the truth as it happened, this box set confirms that fiction can be much more potent than fact. Sergei Eisenstein came of age as a director during this period, putting his innovations into practice and redefining history in the process. Strike (1924) was Eisenstein's first film. Its combination of physical impact and studio experimentation is still impressive, and if the abundance of symbolic images leads to visual overload, the feeling of a "them-against-us" confrontation still packs its punch. The Battleship Potemkin (1925) refines Eisenstein's thinking in 73 minutes of heightened realism that, as late as 1958, was still considered the finest film ever made. The 1905 Potemkin mutiny, the murder of sailor Vakulinchuk, the massacre on the Odessa steps, the triumphal return of the ship to port--these images made history as surely as if they were the real thing. A scrolling synopsis sets the scene, and extracts from Dmitry Shostakovich's symphonies heighten tension. October 1917 (1928), also known as "10 Days that Shook the World", charts the period leading from the Czar's abdication, through the months of indecisive Provisional Government to the Bolshevik storming of the Winter Palace. Eisenstein takes montage technique to new limits, as images of individuals and institutions overwhelm the viewer. The scrolling background story details events as they really were, and Shostakovich's music again sets the scene. Dating from 1927 Esfir Shub's The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty documentary uses archive footage from the Romanov tercentenary in 1913 to the Bolshevik takeover four years on. Here truth really is fashioned into myth. The musical score consists of a medley of Russian favourites, pounded out on an electric piano, making for a rather limited, though not inappropriate, soundtrack. The additional documentary essay is a useful overview, and the on-screen photo collection a valuable bonus. On the DVD: it's good to have Oleg Donskikh's DVD commentary on The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty disc, as he points out economies with the actualité on a scene-by-scene basis. Yuri Sivrin's continuous commentary is required listening as a guide to the film-maker's art, as well as for shutting out the bizarre electronic score which otherwise serves as backing. All four films have been digitally remastered, and the 4:3 aspect ratio has excellent clarity. Stylishly packaged, there's no better way into the absorbing world of Soviet film than this. ---Richard Whitehouse

• Trauma | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £10.37   |  Saving you £5.62 (35.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Aura a suicidal anorexic preparing to jump off a bridge is rescued when David prevents her from plunging into the abyss. When Aura's mother a psychic dies just as she is about to divulge the identity of a vicious psychopath Aura begs David for help. The two try to protect one another while embarking on a dangerous search for a killer who's been decapitating innocent people...

• The Shaw Brothers Collection - Heroes Two | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Often cited as one of Chang Cheh's best films Heroes two marks the beginning of the Shaolin cycle and the collaborations between Chang and celebrated choreographer Liu Chia-Ling. This powerful production is truly a landmark in Kung-Fu cinema history Set in the aftermath of the burning of a Shaolin temple a misunderstanding pits two great warriors against each other.

• Pretty Woman / Muriel's Wedding / Green Card | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pretty Woman (Dir. Garry Marshall 1990): Academy Award-nominee Julia Roberts and charismatic leading man Richard Gere light up the screen in one of Hollywoods biggest blockbusters. Roberts stars as a street-wise down-on-her-luck working girl whose chance encounter with a handsome corporate mogul leads to an improbable love affair... and a modern-day Cinderella fantasy that has captured the hearts of movie-goers all over the world. Featuring a chart-topping soundtrack this is an irresistible and timeless romantic comedy. Muriel's Wedding (Dir. P.J. Hogan 1994): You're invited to one of the most celebrated and audaciously funny hit comedies of the year - Muriel's Wedding! Follow frumpy misguided Muriel Heslop on her lifelong quest for a glitzy fairy-tale wedding. With visions of nuptials dancing in her head this ABBA-obsessed misfit ditches her pathetic life and plastic friends in a small Australian suburb for big-city dreams in Sydney. But the road to the altar takes surprising twists and turns - and Muriel is about to learn the lesson of a lifetime. Wry witty and hailed by critics everywhere Muriel's Wedding is one affair you don't want to miss. Green Card (Dir. Peter Weir 1990): Thinking they will never see each other again Bronte a demure New Yorker and George a newly immigrated Frenchman agree to a marriage of convenience. Everything goes off without a hitch until immigration officials investigate their marriage and suspect it's a fake. To prove they're husband and wife these two opposites move in together for an hilarious and memorable weekend of love and laughter...

• Seinfeld - Series 1-9 - Complete | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Emmy award-winning Seinfeld is one of the most popular shows of all time. Mining his rich comedic resources Jerry Seinfeld provides a hysterical look at life as a single adult in the '90s. Along with a refreshing cast and top-notch writing this series is quickly becoming a comedy classic. This Limited Edition release contains the complete Seinfeld Television series on 32 discs plus an additional exclusive bonus disc featuring an hour-long roundtable with the 4 key cast members and Larry David and also includes a sumptuous 226 page coffee table book created by the cast and crew chronicling the show.

• Dragnet 8 DVD Set | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jack Webb got the idea for the series Dragnet after appearing in a small role in the film He Walked By Night the story of an actual murder of a Los Angeles policeman. Jack became friendly with the technical advisor to the film a serving policeman in the LA robbery division and reasoned that a drama based on the day by day activities of the police might prove popular. Dragnet was originally a radio series airing from June 1949 to February 1957. It was here that the show's problems were ironed out a successful format was established and the characters introduced. By the time the show made the transition to television Dragnet was eagerly anticipated. The television show ran from December 1951 to August 1959 and again from January 1967 to April 1970. The show's strength was undoubtedly its realism for Jack Webb insisted that the show depict real life cases that the Los Angeles police force in particular the robbery and homicide divisions were tackling. Indeed so realistic was the show that when Jack Webb died in 1982 the Los Angeles police department announced that they had 'retired' badge number 714 (Webb's number on the show) and city offices lowered their flags to half-mast in recognition whilst members of the LAPD provided a guard of honour. Set Comprises: Disc 1: The Big September Man/The Big Seventeen Disc 2: The Big Show/The Big Break Disc 3: The Big Betty/The Big Trunk Disc 4: The Big Boy/The Big Shoplift Disc 5: The Big Hit-And-Run Killer/The Big Girl Disc 6: The Big Producer/The Big Crime Disc 7: The Big Little Jesus/The Big Frame Disc 8: The Big Oskar/The Big Score

• Hacks | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in a fictional paper the drive to get the story is intense - the phrase ‘by any means necessary' doesn't even cover it. Phone hacking, blagging, pinging... the staff here do it all. But it's all about to unravel and in a big way...Editor Kate Loy (Claire Foy) doesn't take any prisoners and the Proprietor of the tabloid she runs, Stanhope Feast (Michael Kitchen), demands she always gets the biggest stories first. But her moral compass went awry a long time ago - something that's about to cause her major problems. As the scandal breaks and the net closes in on her, things get funnier for the viewer as things go from bad to worse for the characters...

• The Burning | DVD | (13/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Versailles: The Complete Series 2 | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Versailles, 1672-1678. The Franco-Dutch war wages on, Louis XIV (George Blagden) confronts his bitter rival, Guillaume d'Orange. But danger threatens even inside the kingdom, within the court of Versailles itself with the Poison scandal. Between mysticism and obscurity, a dive into the dark side of power, with the king's downward spiral, and his return towards the light.Louis has completed the first stage of his plan: to build the most beautiful palace in Europe, far away from Paris...And to lock the nobility inside it so as to exercise absolute control over it. But his plan backfires. Louis has created a new civilisation where the courtiers are ready to do anything to get to the Sun. Behind the veneer of etiquette, they dream of money, power, and climbing the social ladder. They will do whatever they have to: morality is waning, and poison spreads...Versailles is rotting. Blinded by his affection for Madame de Montespan, Louis is deaf to the Church's injunctions. The greatest enemy standing before him is no longer the nobility, nor is it Guillaume d'Orange: the palace that he himself designed could end up becoming his worst enemy.

• Just Married / Shallow Hal / Dude, Where's My Car? | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £19.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Just Married Tom's a traffic reporter with blue collar roots. Sarah's a writer whose family is as wealthy as it is snobbish. Much to her clan's and ex-boyfriend's horror Sarah (Brittany Murphy) and Tom (Ashton Kutcher) fall in love and marry. Following their wedding they set off on what they expect to be the perfect vacation but thanks to her ex-beau and relentless bad luck the happy couple experiences the honeymoon from hell! Shallow Hal Hal Larsen is the ultimate shallow guy. Hal finds beauty only in supermodels and centrefolds. The first thing he looks for in a woman is looks. Hal won't even consider dating someone with a less-than-perfect body smile and sense of style. But after an impromptu hypnosis by self-help guru Tony Robbins Hal's view of woman makes a 180-degree turn; he now sees their true inner beauty. Enter Rosemary an overweight Peace Corps volunteer. Hal envisioning Rosemary's kindness and humour as female nirvana is instantly smitten and an idyllic romance begins. When the spell is broken Hal must now face unrecognisable Rosemary and learns one of life's most important lessons. Dude Where's My Car? Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding their girlfriends - The Twins - are ticked off and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse Chester is a favorite customer at the local topless club and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks horny space babes and a couple of totally gay Scandinavian dudes - all trying to find the continuum transfunctioner the device that can save or destroy the universe...