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• Almodovar - Vol. 1 | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of films from acclaimed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar comprising: Dark Habits (1983): 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! Pepi Luci Bom (1980): Pepi (Carmen Maura) is an unemployed heiress whose illegal plants indiscreetly placed on the balcony lead to an unwelcome visit from a police

• Mascarpone | DVD | (28/11/2022) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lorenza Mazzetti Collection (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (02/10/2023) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Foreign Correspondent | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II features, Foreign Correspondent was completed in 1940, as the European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Its titular hero, Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), is an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to put a fresh spin on the drowsy dispatches emanating from overseas, his nose for a good story (and, of course, some fortuitous timing) promptly leading him to the "crime" of fascism and Nazi Germany's designs on European conquest. In attempting to learn more about a seemingly noble peace effort, Jones (who's been saddled with the dubious nom de plume Hadley Haverstock) walks into the middle of an assassination, uncovers a spy ring, and, not entirely coincidentally, falls in love--a pattern familiar to admirers of Hitchcock's espionage thrillers, of which this is a thoroughly entertaining example. McCrea's hardy Yankee charms are neatly contrasted with the droll English charm of colleague George Sanders; Herbert Marshall provides a plummy variation on the requisite, ambiguous "good-or-is-he-really-bad" guy; Laraine Day affords a lovely heroine; and Robert Benchley (who contributed to the script) pops up, albeit too briefly, for comic relief. As good as the cast is, however, it's Hitchcock's staging of key action sequences that makes Foreign Correspondent a textbook example of the director's visual energy: an assassin's escape through a rain-soaked crowd is registered by rippling umbrellas, a nest of spies is detected by the improbable direction of a windmill's spinning sails and Jones's nocturnal flight across a pitched city rooftop produces its own contextual comment when broken neon tubes convert the Hotel Europe into "Hot Europe". --Sam Sutherland

• Houseboat | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This Academy Award-nominated film has the legendary Cary Grant as a government attorney who can't seem to shake his bad fortune. Living on a houseboat widowed and left with three unruly kids Tom Winters (Grant) hires Cinzia (Sophia Loren) as a governess only for her to turn his life upside down!

• Woman On Top | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £6.36   |  Saving you £6.63 (104.25%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set against the backdrop of enticing Brazilian music and fantasy, an engaging romantic fable about a seductive young woman's journey to emotional freedom.

• Heli | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From Cannes award-winning director Amat Escalante comes this controversial drama, the story of an older brother who struggles to protect his family from Mexico's drugs and violence culture.

• Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later | Blu Ray | (06/02/2023) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eduardo Coutinho's classic Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later is regarded as a landmark of filmmaking. Voted the greatest Brazilian documentary of all-time in 2017 and the 4th Greatest Brazilian film ever made in 2015 by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine). Part fictionalised true story and part documentary, this extraordinary film sets out to tell the story of João Pedro Teixeira, leader of the Sapé Peasant League in northeast Brazil, murdered on orders from the landowners. Before the film could be completed a right-wing military coup forced the closure of its production and the imprisonment of several members of the crew. Decades later, Coutinho returned to the original film location and using surviving footage alongside interviews with members of the original cast, including João Pedro's wife Elizabeth, he created this compelling commentary on Brazilian history, politics, and class conflict. Product Features Limited Edition Extras with first 3000 copies only Limited Edition numbered Blu-ray Limited Edition O-Card slipcase Limited Edition collector's booklet feat. new writing by Berkeley Professor Natalia Brizuela Limited Edition fold-out poster featuring the original design by Claudius Ceccon Features Optional English Subtitles Specially commissioned interview with the film's producer Zelito Viana (25 mins) Award-winning interview with the director Eduardo Coutinho (12 min) Newly commissioned trailer Region-free Blu-ray (ABC)

• Furious Desires | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £6.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Desire is mysterious. Desire is overwhelming. Desire is tragic. Desire is FURIOUS. The many permutations of that strange thing called desire are on full display in this stunning collection of short films: Daytime Doorman tracks the burgeoning desire between Marcelo and his sexy doorman Marcio. Xavier charts the beginnings of desire, when Nicholas begins to notice his son, Xavier, only pays attention to certain types of boys. The Other Side is about the frustrations of unfulfilled desire when the object of your lust is beyond your reach- literally. The Tigers Fight explores what happens when one man, unbound by the ancient traditions, decides to subvert what s expected of him to declare his desire for his best friend, and finally, in Loris Is Fine we learn about the lengths two young lovers will go to prove that their love is beyond desire.

• Nightmare City | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a radioactve spill causes mass contamination thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. But these are not your standard stumbling gut-munchers; this is an all-out attack by fast-moving flesh-ripping ass-kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain... Get ready for an all-you-can-eat buffet of gunfire gore and gratuitous aerobics where zombies run chaos reigns and heads explode. This is Nighmare City!

• Transsiberian | Blu Ray | (02/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A transcontinental dream that quickly turns into a living nightmare for an American couple travelling on one of the world's most legendary railway journeys.

• Open Your Eyes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £11.41   |  Saving you £7.57 (89.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) appears to have everything - he is charming, rich and very handsome - but his decision to climb into the car of the woman he's just snubbed changes his life, looks and loves - and possibly his grip on reality.

• Son Of The Bride | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A heartwarming tale of 42-year-old Rafael Belvedere, struggling to take control of his life and support his father to fulfill his ailing mother's dream: to get married in church.

• Fire On The Amazon | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.85   |  Saving you £2.13 (55.18%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In Bolivia's Amazon basin corporate cattle ranches are replacing the rain forest. When Santos charismatic leader of the union of rubber tappers forges an alliance with Indians to protest deforestation he is assassinated. O'Brien a US photo-journalist lacking skills as an investigator wants a story when he thinks the police have framed and murdered an innocent Indian as the assassin. In his search for the truth he involves Lysa Rothman who worked for Santos and with whom he falls in love. As he becomes ever more deeply embroiled he not only needs Lysa's help but that of the Indians' leader. How many will O'Brien endanger to get his story?

• Rome, Open City | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Open City' Roberto Rossellini's startling depiction of Nazi-occupied World War II Rome and one of the most prominent examples of his neorealist cinematic style is the story of a tenaciously held underground resistance against the Germans. When its leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) and a priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi) are captured the resistance collapses with disastrous personal results to all. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay; Fellini collaborat

• Kingpin, Complete Series 1 - The Producer's Cut | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Pitched as a gritty, hard-hitting crime drama series about a mob family, Kingpin invites inevitable comparisons with The Sopranos--the pilot episode is even directed by Sopranos alumnus Allen Coulter--but the basic premise is more a south-of-the-border Godfather, with Miguel Cadena (Yancey Arias) as the conflicted Michael Corleone-type character who finds himself inexorably but somewhat reluctantly taking charge of his family's Mexican drug cartel. Written and produced by David Mills, a graduate of NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street, the show has all the right credentials for a successful TV drama, combining a colourful ensemble cast and evocative locations on either side of the Rio Grande, but somehow it failed to find enough of an audience in the US to get beyond one season (a similar fate befell the equally praiseworthy Boomtown). Unlike Tony Soprano, Miguel's (American) wife Marlene (Sheryl Lee, still best known as Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks) supports her husband's position with Machiavellian schemes of her own, though both parents strive to shelter their eight-year-old son from involvement in the messier side of the family business. After a bloody coup in the pilot episode, Miguel and his ruthless brother Chato (Bobby Cannavale) cement their hold over the business while struggling with the twin threats of family infighting and law enforcement pressure. As in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, the DEA agents--principally go-getting Delia Flores (Angela Alvarado Rosa)--are significant characters in their own right. Also north of the border is cowardly plastic surgeon Dr Heywood Klein (Brian Benben), who enjoys the lifestyle too much to break his illicit connection with the Cadena family. It's all gripping, bloody, amoral stuff that makes for compelling viewing. Unfortunately, Kingpin never quite attains the effortlessly sublime levels of its northern predecessor and thus never quite breaks free from the long shadow of The Sopranos. --Mark Walker

• MTV: 8th & Ocean - The Complete First Season | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  8th and Ocean follows real life wannabe models through the rigors of fashion industry auditioning in Miamis ultra-hot South Beach. This new reality/drama comes from the producers of MTVs Laguna Beach.

• Tesis | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alejandro Amenabar's first film Tesis has impressive restrain for a debut, as you might expect from the man who went on to make Open Your Eyes and The Others. It's also the most intelligent consideration of the urban myth of snuff films seen onscreen in recent years. Ana Torrent is a priggish young student writing a thesis on violence in movies and finds out more than she wants to know. From the opening shots of her fascinated attempt to see a suicide victim mashed on the Madrid metro to her ambivalent involvement with Chemo (Fele Martinez)--a sinister nerd, obsessed with collecting dubious videos--and her flirtation with one of their principal suspects, Torrent portrays a traditionally plucky heroine along with her darker, more complicit and self-destructive side. As in his later work, Amenabar achieves maximum terror with minimum effect--dark rooms, gazes averted from torture we never see--because of his rich sense of the complexity of human character. What terrifies us here is the sense of our own demons. On the DVD: the DVD, which is presented in a 1.85:1 letterboxed video ratio and has Dolby Digital sound, comes with optional English subtitles, an intelligent, if slightly earnest documentary about the making of the film, a filmography, the theatrical trailer and a review article by the excellent Roger Clark. --Roz Kaveney

• Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Five Adventures | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the heady days of Louis Xlll's France live Dogtanian and three courageous Muskehounds - Athos Porthos and Aramis. Pledged to a life of a adventure they are mnavericks fighting for justice despite their sometimes unorthodix methods. Chivalry honour and companionship are all upheld as they battle against the forces of evil legendary swordsmanship helping them escape danger in the nick of time... Whether overcoming the powerful Richelieu or waging war Dogtanian and the The Three Muskehounds never lose their sense of duty - or sense of humour. They are truly a law unto themselves.

• Kitty Foyle | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though Ginger Rogers' starring vehicles always turned a profit for RKO Radio, many filmgoers thought of Rogers only in terms of "Fred Astaire's partner." Others considered her a delightful comedienne, but no great shakes as a dramatic actress. Thus it was both a personal and professional triumph when Ms. Rogers walked home with an Oscar for her performance in Kitty Foyle. Based on Christopher Morley's Story of an American Girl, the film, told in flashback, relates the progress of working-girl Kitty Foyle (Ginger Rogers) as she pursues her Cinderella dreams.