"Actor: Anna Galiena"

• Jamon Jamon | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in Jamón Jamón a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavour, but there is an edge, perhaps even heavy-handedness, to the dark humour that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordí Molla, by whom she is pregnant, but Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better (of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki, Amazon.com

• The Leading Man | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £5.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (124.35%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Indecent. Immoral. Irresitible. It's the role he was born to play... Robin Grange a hotshot Hollywood actor positively dripping with charisma and sex-appeal is about to make his debut in London both on stage and between the sheets. The writer of his new play Felix Webb is loved by the critics and in love with the new leading lady the gorgeous Hilary planning to desert his wife Elena for her. Enter Robin Grange who quickly grasps Felix's dillemma and begins weaving a web

• Jamon Jamon | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Salted pork shanks as leitmotiv in Jamón Jamón a dark comedy about an absurd love triangle: this is what post-Franco cine is all about (food and sex). Spanish tortillas (i.e., potato omelets) are also big in this one. Director José Juan Bigas Luna is intelligent, wry, and--despite the formulaic narrative that melodrama must essentially contain--unpredictable. At times his film exudes a certain Almodóvar flavour, but there is an edge, perhaps even heavy-handedness, to the dark humour that is either Luna's success or his downfall. The film garnered the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, after all. Try to follow: sexy Penelope Cruz (Belle Epoque) is growing up with her mother outside town on the wrong side of the highway. Together they run a truck stop where cars and life literally race past. Cruz is in love with Jordí Molla, by whom she is pregnant, but Molla's bourgeois mother, played by Anna Galiena (Being Human), thinks he can and should do better (of course, neither Cruz nor his mother knows of the erotic, avian interludes Molla enjoys on the side.) To save her son from the lower classes, Galiena hires Javier Bardem, a muscular, pretty man (whose regular consumption of the pork he distributes for a living has enhanced his sexual appeal) to pursue Cruz. The dark comedy finds a proper ending to the triangle in a grotesque but comedic landscape of death. This is not a cookie-cutter movie but rather one that will resonate with both your light and dark sides. After each surprise, you'll chuckle, feel guilty, and chuckle again. --Erik Macki, Amazon.com

• The Hairdresser's Husband | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the age of 12 Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous middle-aged local hairdresser who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. Antoine reaches middle age with his passion undiminished: upon meeting shy hairdresser Mathilde he is so taken by her that he proposes marriage. She accepts and he moves into her salon where they pursue their romance with an intensity that blind

• Virgin Territory | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (197.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Virgin Territory is the story of the beautiful Pampinea (Barton) a lovelorn princess in search of a worthy man to unlock her sexual desires. Unfortunately she is betrothed to the brutal Count Della-Ratta and looks settled for a sexless fruitless future. However Lorenzo (Christiansen) is a gambler a winner but this time hes beaten Della Ratta and risks losing the person the woman he desires.

• Black Angel (Senso '45) | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £8.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (135.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to and end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz, an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny.Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia... a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events.

• The Hairdresser's Husband | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the age of 12 Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous middle-aged local hairdresser who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. Antoine reaches middle age with his passion undiminished: upon meeting shy hairdresser Mathilde he is so taken by her that he proposes marriage. She accepts and he moves into her salon where they pursue their romance with an intensity that blinds them to the mundane realities of the outside world.

• Falcone | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino are ''excellent cadavers'' - a Sicilian term to distinguish the assassination of important political figures from the hundreds of ordinary people killed by the Mafia. These two courageous prosecutors risked their careers and lives to bring the Cosa Nostra to justice and their deaths galvanised the Sicilian government into destroying the Mob once and for all. Aided by mafioso turned informant Tommasso Buscetta the legendary ''Godfather of Two Worlds'' extradited from Brazil their crusade culminated in the greatest Mafia trial in history at which 475 men were indicted. Starring award winning actors Chazz Palminteri and F. Murray Abraham this is a portrait of two tragic heroes who in life combated a violent subculture rampant with corruption and in death exerted their greatest influence.

• Christoper Roth | DVD | (15/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bestselling horror novelist Christopher Roth (Joaquim De Almeida) feels in need of a change the gruesome ideas in his novels are starting to take over his dreams and have him asking the question: 'How long before I become one of the insane killers I write about?' In need of a break he and his wife Catherine head off to a remote house in Umbria Italy. Roth starts work on a new romantic novel and all seems to be going well but it's not long before this idyllic world is shattered. A young couple are brutally murdered in the woods near the Roths' rented house and Catherine has disappeared. A letter from the killer is on Christopher's table accompanied by a horrific photo ... and here begins the Roths' worst nightmare. A nightmare whose violence is greater than anything Christopher had ever envisioned.

• Fade To Black | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £5.46   |  Saving you £13.79 (328.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Rome 1948: In an attempt to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and to restart his career Orson Welles (Danny Huston) travels to Italy to make his come-back film but when an actor is murdered on set he is drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue murder and politics. Based on true events. Starring: Danny Huston Christopher Walken Paz Vega and Diego Luna.

• Bigas Luna Collection | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Golden Balls (1993): Ruthless stud Benito Gonzalez (Javier Bardem wants wealth women and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries a sophisticated daughter of a rich banker Marta (Maria De Medeiros) but keeps mistress Claudia (Maribel Verdu) on the side. When Marta and Claudia realise they are both victims of Benito's greed things for Benito begin to crumble. Has Benito's luck finally left him? Jamon Jamon (1992): Headstrong senorita Silvia (Penelope Cruz) becomes pregnant to village Mummy's-boy Jose (Jordi Mulla). Silvia's father has left town and her mother Carmen (Anna Galiena) is forced to become the town prostitute. Jose's overbearing mother Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli) fears her son will marry the daughter of a scarlet woman and takes action...she hires sexy young Raul (Javier Bardem) who works in the ham factory and enjoys nude bullfighting to seduce Silvia. What ensues is a series of chaotic and frantic couplings testosterone overload breasts that taste of ham and a duel to the death with a side of bacon. Tit & The Moon (1994): Completing Bigas Luna's saucy Spanish trilogy that began with Jamon Jamon and Golden Balls The Tit and the Moon tells of a young boy's search for the perfect breast. Set in a colourful Catalan resort this exhuberant tale of lust and love is a coming of age story with a differnce. Tete is a nine year old boy who is consumed with jealousy at his baby brother's monopoly of his mum's nipples. After asking the moon for a breast of his own his prayers are answered with the arrival of Estrellita (Mathilda May) a beautiful French dancer. But the course of true love doesn't run smooth and Tete finds stiff competition for her affection. She is deeply in love with her cabaret partner Maurice the flatulent motorbike rider and is also being pursued by Miguel the hunky flamenco-singing teenager. Ages of Lulu (1990): The story of a young woman's descent into the kinky and dangerous sexual underground in Madrid.