"Actor: Cecilia"

• What Have I Done To Deserve This? | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.57   |  Saving you £9.42 (109.92%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An erotic and bizarre black comedy which follows a typical Spanish housewife with rather atypical family problems! Nazis homosexuality drug dealing extra-marital affairs and a plot to forge Hitler's diaries: everything you'd expect from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's fourth film!

• The Blu-ray Experience: Opera & Ballet Highlights | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £5.40   |  Saving you £-0.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Features performance extracts from Verdi's IL TROVATORE, Tchaikovsky's SWAN LAKE, Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, Puccini's LA BOHEME and GIANNI SCHICCHI, Bizet's CARMEN, Mendelssohn's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Strauss' DIE FLEDERMAUS, Rameau's ZOROASTRE, Bellini's NORMA, and Balanchine's JEWELS.

• Riders Of Destiny / Sagebrush Trail | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In 'Riders Of Destiny' a secret agent is sent from Washington to help a group of ranchers whose water supply is threatened. 'Sagebrush Trail' is the story of a young cowboy wrongly convicted of a killing. He breaks out of jail to track down the real murderer.

• Carlos Saura - Carmen / Flamenco / Tango | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This box set features a collection of films directed by the Spanish maestro Carlos Saura. Tango: A 1998 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Carlos Saura's incomparable vision of dance and music is woven around the Latin passion of the Tango. In this sensual motion picture evocatively photographed in stunningly rich and vivid colours by legendary Vittorio Storaro cinematographer of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Last Emperor' tells the passionate struggle of choreograph

• Peace Hotel | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.49   |  Saving you £7.50 (88.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1930's China Ping (Chow Yun-Fat) known as the ""King Of Killers"" renounces his murderous way after his precious wife is caught up in a gun battle and loses her life. Heartbroken Ping puts away his six shooters and establishes the 'Peace Hotel' promising protection and safe passage to all the visitors under his roof. For a decade his golden rule holds firm. That is until the mysterious appearance of a beautiful young woman whose beauty and hidden agenda threatens to break his

• The Promise | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £5.54   |  Saving you £10.45 (188.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An orphaned girl driven by poverty at such a young age makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess she regrets her promise for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy. In love again with a man behind a red armor and a golden mask who rescues her from death she is tormented by their inevitable parting. Meanwhile Kunlun the slave of a great general is searching for the lost memories of a family he once had. Soon the fate of these two intertwine when the princess believes the general to be her hero thus pulling him into this web of fate. What end will befallen our three characters? Are their fates already sealed by a higher power or can they still choose a life they want?

• Mozart: Requiem | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  1991 was the 200th anniversary of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. To mark the occasion Sir Georg Solti conducted this stellar concert offering a performance of ""Requiem"" delivered exactly as the original composer intended. The hallowed surroundings of Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna provided an apt location for the concert particularly as it's where Mozart's funeral rites were conducted in 1791.

• The Promise | Blu Ray | (27/04/2009) from £13.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (46.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An orphaned girl driven by poverty at such a young age makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess she regrets her promise for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy. In love again with a man behind a red armor and a golden mask who rescues her from death she is tormented by their inevitable parting. Meanwhile Kunlun the slave of a great general is searching for the lost memories of a family he once had. Soon the fate of these two intertwine when the princess believes the general to be her hero thus pulling him into this web of fate. What end will befallen our three characters? Are their fates already sealed by a higher power or can they still choose a life they want?

• Involuntary | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (7.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's summer in Sweden... A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they'll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking male bonding to a new level. And as day turns to night a coach driver decides enough is enough and won't drive his passengers any further. Showered with International awards and praised by critics the world over Involuntary is a dazzling and highly original comedy from the new enfant terrible of Scandinavian cinema Ruben stlund.

• Red Wolf | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £18.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (31.66%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Director Yuen Woo Ping's The Red Wolf is, like Under Siege (1992) and Speed 2 (1997), essentially Die Hard on a ship. However, rather than being "inspired by", this movie is virtually a Hong Kong remake of the Bruce Willis action classic, right down to the jump-off-the-roof crash-through-the-window highlight. The setting is New Year's Eve on a cruise liner which happens to be carrying a consignment of plutonium. Gangsters hijack the ship and it's up to an unnamed security officer (Kenny Ho) and tender-hearted pickpocket Lai (Christie Chung) to save the day. Budget limitations are revealed by only having about 60 passengers, and by an almost complete absence of shots of the sea, but the director manages to pack plenty of extremely violent action and by playing things straight generates considerable suspense from the formulaic story. Helping immensely are strong turns from Elaine Lui and Wing Cho as the psychotically ruthless main villains. Some of this film is very nasty indeed, so a tension-shattering detour into slapstick by Chung is simply bizarre, and the finale goes laughably OTT. The dubbing is mediocre but the blend of furious marital arts and Terminator-style slaughter is still a winning combination for hardcore action fans. --Gary S Dalkin

• Il Barbiere Di Siviglia | DVD | (17/04/2003) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mozart - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Bartoli Kuebler)

• Dark Habits | Blu Ray | (20/02/2017) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Yolanda sings in a seedy nightclub. When her boyfriend dies of an overdose, she fears the police and seeks refuge in a convent that saves women from the streets. These off-beat nuns include a heroin using abbess who loves Yolanda, one who writes romance novels under a pseudonym, another raising a tiger in the convent yard, and one who designs fabulous fashions and is in love with the local priest. They plan an evening extravaganza starring Yolanda to celebrate the abbess's birthday and to convince their wealthy patron not to abandon them.

• Legendary Amazons | Blu Ray | (14/05/2012) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Produced by The King of Action Cinema, Jackie Chan, Legendary Amazons is an epic martial arts adventure set during the brutal wars between the Song and Xia Dynasties of Ancient China.Paying homage to the 1972 Shaw Brothers classic The 14 Amazons, this action-packed blockbuster recounts the adventures of the legendary Yang Clan, a courageous and patriotic attack force of warrior women. Each a master of a unique style of martial arts, they are called to fight their greatest ever battle, when an overwhelming army of barbarian invaders threatens to overrun their homeland.Packed with blockbuster thrills, Legendary Amazons delivers more action in one movie than you might possibly expect in five!

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (12/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In this Zurich Opera House staging of Mozart’s darkly comic cautionary fable Don Giovanni the lighting and stage design keep the characters shaded in half-shadow: even Zerlina’s wedding feels like a subdued affair here, and the Don’s banqueting room is a suitably gloomy venue for the Stone Guest’s climactic visit for a spot of dinner and damnation. Both this staging and video director Brian Large’s filming play no tricks with the audience’s expectations, opting for a largely traditional presentation of this tragedy of swaggering bravado, cuckolded lovers and revenge from beyond the grave. Nikolaus Harnoncourt brings all the sensitivity of his historically informed approach to the orchestra pit. Heading a very strong cast are Rodney Gilfry, defiantly strong-voiced but also haughtily handsome as the seducing Don, and Cecilia Bartoli, a mercurial presence as Donna Elvira. Their scenes together crackle and fizz, even when Bartoli’s extremely ripe vibrato contrasts a little uncomfortably with Harnoncourt’s authenticity. Liliana Nikiteanu makes for a pretty, naïve Zerlina, convincingly torn between her Masetto (Oliver Widmer) and the animalistic attraction of the Don. Laszlo Polgar’s Leporello is wheedling and base, but still the inheritor of his master’s charisma; Isabel Rey and Roberto Sacca are solid as the colourless moralists Anna and Ottavio; while Matti Salminen’s powerful Commendatore isn’t expected to do anything more than stand still and declaim. Overall this is an excellent musical performance, unexceptionally staged. On the DVD: Don Giovanni on disc has a good 24-minute "Behind the Scenes" feature, including interviews with Cecilia Bartoli, Harnoncourt, Gilfry and Isabel Rey. There’s also a trailer for other ArtHaus releases. The 16:9 picture sometimes struggles to bring definition to the dimly lit sets; sound though is crisp and clean PCM stereo or Dolby 5.1. There are subtitles in five languages. --Mark Walker

• Bad Habits | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (100.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nothing is quite what it seems in this early Almodovar comedy in which the unconventional nuns of a dilapidated Madrid convent write soft porn get high and still find time to design fabulous evening wear!

• Cecilia Bartoli - Maria | DVD | (17/03/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Disc 1: Cecilia Bartoli - The Barcelona ConcertDisc 2: The Documentary - Malibran Rediscovered - The Romantic Revolution: This unique film follows Cecilia Bartoli as she plays tribute to her predecessor, the legendary singer Maria Malibran - the first female superstar in music history, muse to composers and adored public goddess or Romanticism.

• Mozart: Cosi fan tutte | DVD | (30/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mozart's third and final opera with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, the hugely ambitious dramatic comedy Così fan Tutte (roughly translated as: "They're All Like That"), is brought passionately to life in a first-class production conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and featuring one of the great starring roles for Cecilia Bartoli. Filmed live at the Zurich Opera House in February 2000 on a set which visualises the subtitle "The School for Lovers", the plot revolves around two army officers arguing about the fidelity of their brides, then setting out to test their chastity. Despite the often playful humour, this is not only psychologically telling music-making, but reveals Mozart exploring the structure of opera, discarding convention to mix large ensemble sections with arias for as many different combinations of singers as possible. With Liliana Nikiteanu attractively contrasted with Bartoli, and thoroughly convincing performances by Roberto Sacca (Ferrando) and Oliver Widmer (Guilelmo), this Così has a freshness and flow which, coupled with the timeless romantic themes, feels very contemporary. On the DVD: the presentation, which includes an interesting 22-minute behind-the-scenes documentary, is spread over two DVDs. There is a multi-language booklet minus libretto, though there is the option to watch with English subtitles. Given the difficult live stage lighting conditions the 16:9 anamorphically enhanced picture is as good as can be expected. There are both stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks, though the latter gives the voices a disconcertingly disembodied character, leaving the former to be preferred. The total running time is approximately 213 minutes, not 275 minutes stated on the packaging. --Gary S Dalkin

• I Was A Teenage Vampire | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After Jeremy Capello is bitten by a beautiful and mysterious older woman his life begins to change dramatically as he realises he is becoming a vampire. What with the usual high school and teenage problems he soon realises that life isn't easy at seventeen...especially when you're a vampire.

• What Have I Done To Deserve This | DVD | (20/02/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Madrid, the housewife Gloria lives in a tiny apartment with her husband, the taxi driver and forger Antonio; her lunatic mother-in-law, who is addicted in bottled water and cupcakes; and two teenage sons, one of them a drug dealer and the other gay. Gloria works as cleaning lady to raise some money for her dysfunctional family and is addicted in pills; her best friend is her neighbor, the call-girl Cristal. Antonio has a secret passion on a decadent German singer for whom he had worked as driver in Germany. A writer tries to convince Antonio to forge letters from Hitler and travels to Germany to meet the singer to invite her to participate in the scheme. Meanwhile Gloria delivers her gay son to a pervert dentist. Her mother-in-law finds a lizard while walking with her grandson on the street and they call it Dinero (Money) and bring it home. When Gloria has an argument with Antonio, she hits him on the head with a piece of wood, killing him. Now the police detectives investigate the...

• Escape | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Husband and wife doctors Paul and Kim Jordan need a drastic change. Distraught by the inexplicable death of their baby, Paul (C. Thomas Howell) convinces Kim to abandon their American lives and join a medical mission in Thailand. It seems to be just the distraction they need, until the day Paul is kidnapped by human traffickers who need a surgeon to operate on their wounded leader. Kim is left alone in a strange country, trying desperately to find her husband with no proof of what happened. While captive on the gang's secluded island, Paul is caged with Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), an Englishman being held for ransom. With nothing to do but talk, the two men quickly clash over philosophy, as Malcolm relies on a bold faith in God and Paul believes no god would allow these evils to happen in the world. Paul takes another hit when he finds his patient's condition much worse than he can handle on his own in such primitive conditions...