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• Die Medici: Lorenzo der Prächtige - Staffel 3 | DVD | (03/07/2020) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Baaria | DVD | (10/01/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nominated for a Golden Globe, this is the story of the Sicilian town of Bagheria, also known as Baaria. Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO).

• Sex Cowboys | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sex cowboys is a travel inside our generation, the lost generation, destined to live without a permanent employment, a fixed home and a defined lifestyle. The characters of this travel are nomadic, precarious e immature in the comedy of their life: to Simone's anger and to Marla's magic need, alternates passion and sex. The generational crisis is inside us, and we have to find a way to survive and make the present our dream, since in our future we won't have space.

• By The Light Of Day (Alla Luce Del Sole) | DVD | (22/12/2014) from £7.25   |  Saving you £5.74 (79.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A priest(Luca Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children, by providing them with a place to play and learn, and then works on their parents. The church slowly becomes the focal point of the community and very quickly ends up full with standing room only. There's a heavy Mafia presence in the community but the priest stands up to them and encourages his parishioners to do the same. He does this effectively and suffers the consequences as the antagonism grows between him and the Mafia. Based on a true story, the ending is truly heart-rending.The acting is superb all round, the children in particular are very genuine and believable. The character of the priest is in keeping with the benign and virtuous Monatlbano and Zingaretti gives a powerful performance in this truly wonderful movie This movie is a must have for any Inspector Montalbano or Luca Zingaretti fan

• Paolo Borsellino - The 57 Days | DVD | (15/12/2014) from £6.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (97.12%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alberto Negrin directs this Italian drama starring Luca Zingaretti. The film traces the 57 days after the assassination of his friend and fellow anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone when Paolo Borsellino (Zingaretti) must come to terms with his own inescapable destiny.

• Golden Door | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This modern fable captures the spirit of the immigrant experience as one family sheds the comfort of the Old World for the opportunities of the New.

• Platoon (Ultimate Edition) | DVD | (01/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the first-hand experience of director Oliver Stone, this is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing, it is a dark, unforgettable memorial to every soldier whose innocence was lost in Vietnam.

• A little lust | DVD | (13/03/2017) from £10.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  16 year old Rocco's two aims in life are to get laid and to see his favourite pop star in concert with his best friends, sassy and tomboyish Maria and nerdy and quiet Mauri. When a bullying incident at school forces Rocco to come out to his divorced middle-class parents their liberal leanings are severely tested. Luckily his two friends stand by him and join him in running away from home (in his parents stolen car) to see their favourite singer in concert, followed hot on their heels by his neurotic mother and eccentric gran to hilarious effect. A vibrant , funny coming out tale,, A Little Lust is both immersive and totally life-affirming.

• The Toymaker | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £5.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nazi Germany, 1941, a legendary Occult book that holds the secret of bringing inanimate objects to life ends up in the hands of Toymaker Amos Blackwood. As the Nazis terrorize the locals while searching for the book, the Toymaker uses the power of the book and gives life to his collection of vintage dolls and handmade toys. The SS raid the Toymaker's shop, confiscating the book and arresting Amos. But the animated dolls and toys don't take kindly to the loss of their master. So, begins a mission to rescue the Toymaker from the clutches of the Nazis and exact their brutal and bloody revenge.

• Brother Sun, Sister Moon | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes a decorous effort at communicating the ideals of Francis and even tweaking the character toward flower-power relevance. But the result is feel-good fluff, a boring movie that doesn't penetrate its subject as much as reinvent him toward a modern bias. Graham Faulkner is entirely forgettable in the lead and Donovan's songs on this project aren't exactly first-rate, either. --Tom Keogh

• Werewolves Of The Third Reich | DVD | (19/02/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WHEN THE FULL MOON RISES, THE WAR BEGINS. In Nazi Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers known as The Fearless Four are shipped off to a military prison. While they're being transported, Nazis attack the convoy but the rebellious American soldiers manage to escape. Travelling deep into rural Germany, they stumble upon an SS experiment camp run by the notorious Doctor Mengele, who plans to fuse human and animal DNA to create an army of Werewolf soldiers. The Fearless Four are now the allied forces' only hope of preventing Hitler's Third Reich gaining the upper hand in the War.

• 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

• Verdi: La Traviata -- Venice | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £14.19   |  Saving you £3.80 (26.78%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This performance of Verdi's La Traviata comes from the Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice in 1992. The intimacy and social realism of the story make it one of the most dramatically successful of all operas, while the score contains some of the finest music of the 19th century. Despite the strong production values and well-staged party scenes, any production of La Traviata stands or falls on the performers in the vital roles of the lovers Violetta and Alfredo, and that of Alfredo's father, Giorgio. Here Giorgio Zancanaro is suitably decent and morally serious as Giorgio, and Neil Shicoff makes a strong impression as an ordinary man suddenly overwhelmed by love. The drawback is that--and there is no polite way to say this--Edita Gruberova is not only too old to play the sparkling young society girl, Violetta, but she is a much better singer than she is an actress. She comes into her own in the tragic last act, but is otherwise awkward and uncomfortable when the part requires her to demonstrate confidence and sensuality. This remains a production with considerable merits, but overall a more dramatically, not to say visually, compelling version is that originally broadcast world-wide live from Paris in 2000 starring Eteri Gvazava and José Cura.On the DVD: The production is presented at 4:3 with above average picture quality for a live opera DVD, and with excellent PCM stereo sound. The disc and booklet both offer a synopsis, but other than the option to watch with or without subtitles there are no special features. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Defintive Edition - Platoon | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the first-hand experience of director Oliver Stone, this is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing, it is a dark, unforgettable memorial to every soldier whose innocence was lost in Vietnam.

• Tell No One | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Charming and funny, Tell No One bubbles over with irresistible romantic playfulness. Italian-born Matthia is about to move to Madrid to be with his gorgeous boyfriend, Eduard. By all accounts, their relationship couldn't be more perfect - so it's in a no-brainer for Eduard to surprise Matthia by flying over to Italy before the move so he can finally meet his man's family. There is only one problem- despite assurances otherwise, Matthia has NOT come out to his loved ones! Now, Matthia h...

• Shoeshine | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £49.96   |  Saving you £-29.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Vittorio De Sica Shoeshine (known in its native Italian language as Sciuscia a Sicilian corruption of the English word ""shoe-shiner"") was filmed on location in postwar Rome using non-professional actors. It was inspired by the real stories of those struggling to overcome the oppressive forces of a corrupt and ineffective political system. De Sica's film depicts the troubled lives of two young boys caught up in the chaos of a world plagued by poverty and unemployment. Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) work on the street where they shine the shoes of American troops. They dream of a better life seeking solace in a horse that they ride to escape their harsh reality. When the boys are implicated in a petty crime they are punished by the society that has robbed them of their innocence resulting in tragic consequences. Shoeshine is widely regarded as one of the finest films to have emerged from the Italian neo-realist cinema and became the first foreign language film to receive an Oscar; available for the first time ever on DVD!

• Rev | DVD | (30/11/2020) from £4.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young thief with a history of grand theft auto becomes an informant and helps police bring down a criminal enterprise involved in the smuggling of hundreds of exotic super cars.

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

  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?

• Top Dog | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £20.71   |  Saving you £-12.72 (-159.20%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Maverick cop Jake Wilder (Chuck Norris) is convinced his career has gone to the dogs when he meets his new partner a mischievous high-I.Q. canine name Reno. But when a brutal terrorist plot is uncovered Jake and Reno joins forces to become a two-fisted four-pawed crime fighting machine in this explosive action adventure.

• Christie Malry's Own Double Entry | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christie Malry's Own Double Entry is the revenge fantasy of a resentful, humiliated, somewhat simple office wage-slave who undergoes an epiphany in the unlikely surroundings of a lecture on accountancy. Malry, superbly depicted by Nick Moran as a sort of English Timothy McVeigh, decides to allocate a monetary value to every single act of, as he puts it, "casualness, indifference and mass carelessness" that besets him, and to exact appropriate recompense. As the debt grows, so do Malry's retributions, from disfiguring the paintwork of a Rolls-Royce to poisoning a substantial percentage of London. Based on the novel by B.S. Johnson, the film is funny and clever, making inventive use of flashbacks, and the echoes of broadly similar fables, like Taxi Driver and Falling Down, are never loud enough to be distracting. An overall atmosphere of tensing malevolence is abetted by a terrific soundtrack of original songs by Auteurs and Black Box Recorder songwriter Luke Haines. The only duff notes the film strikes are the initially engaging but eventually utterly baffling excursions to the Renaissance court of an Italian prince. Aside from this one over-ambitious conceit, this is a fine and mystifyingly under-rated film. On the DVD: Christie Malry's Own Double Entry includes only the original theatrical trailer as a special feature. It is all too easy to imagine that an advertisement for a product you've already paid for is exactly the kind of thing that Christie Malry would have entered in the "Debit" side of his ledger. --Andrew Muller