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• Shoeshine | Unknown | (18/08/2025) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Awardwinning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boysbest friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi)set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention centre, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child's-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking.An international breakthrough for neorealism, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Awardwinning film is an indelible fable of innocence lost amid the hardscrabble reality of 1940s Italy. On the streets of Rome, two boysbest friends Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi)set out to raise the money to buy a horse by shining shoes. When they are inadvertently caught up in a robbery and sent to a brutal juvenile detention centre, their loyalty to each other is severely tested. A devastating portrait of economic struggle made all the more haunting by its child's-eye perspective, Shoeshine stands as one of the defining achievements of postwar Italian filmmaking. Italy 1946 91 minutes Black & White 1.37:1 ItalianSpine #1272 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features Sciuscià 70 (2016), a documentary by Mimmo Verdesca, made to mark the film's seventieth anniversary New program on Shoeshine and children in Italian neorealism featuring film scholars Paola Bonifazio and Catherine O'Rawe Radio broadcast from 1946 featuring director Vittorio De Sica Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Forgacs and Shoeshine, Joe?, a 1945 photo-documentary by De Sica New cover by F. Ron Miller

• Street Law | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After Carlo is mugged by thugs he goes to the police, but when they drop the case, he loses faith in the justice system and decides to take on the hoods himself. Teaming up with a young robber, he goes on a mission of vengeance.This smart poliziotteschi movie directed by Enzo G. Castellari (Inglorious Bastards) and starring legendary spaghetti western favourite Franco Nero (Django), is a cool and entertaining street-level crime pic bursting with Italian flavours. Product Features2K Restoration From the Original Camera NegativeHD (1080p) Blu-rayTM Presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio2.0 English Mono2.0 Italian Mono with Newly-translated English SubtitlesAudio Commentary with Italian Cinema Experts Eugenio Ercolani, Troy Howarth and Nathaniel ThomsonShorter US Grindhouse CutSniff Around and Find Out - Featurette by Mike MalloyEnzo's Law - An Interview with Director Enzo G. CastellariOliver Onions - An Interview with Composer's Guido and Maurizio De AngelisStreet Stunts - An Interview with Actor and Stuntman Massimo VanniOriginal TrailerTV Spot

• Spider-Man 3 | DVD | (15/10/2007) from £3.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (476.19%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Spider-Man returns to battle a host of new baddies in the third adventure based on the popular comic book hero.

• Barbarella | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-0.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.29

  Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality fantasy humor beauty and horror cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40 000 when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards in an uninhibited manner the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is

• Spider-Man Trilogy | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Spider-Man: (Dir. Sam Raimi) (2002): Peter Parker (Maguire) was a shy, quite nerdy teenager...until he was bitten by a genetically altered spider. Now with the heightened senses and incredible strengths and abilities of a spider, Parker has become the amazing Spider-Man. Despite facing close competition, the long awaited Spider-Man became one of 2002's biggest hits!Spider-Man 2: (Dir. Sam Raimi) (2004): Two years have passed, and the mild-mannered Peter Parker faces new challenges as he struggles with 'the gift and the curse', desperately trying to balance his dual identities as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his life as a college student. Tormented by his secrets and facing a deadly new threat in multi-tentacled Doctor Octopus (Molina), Peter finds that his relationships with all those he holds dear are in danger of unraveling. His life-long yearning for M.J. (Kirsten Dunst) becomes even stronger as he fights the impulse to reveal his secret life and declare his love. His friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death and his growing vendetta against Spider-Man. Even Peter's beloved Aunt May (Rosemary Harris), who has fallen on hard times after the death of Uncle Ben, begins to have doubts about her nephew...Spider-Man 3: (Dir. Sam Raimi) (2007): Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M.J. and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the horizon. When his suit suddenly changes, turning jet-black and enhancing his powers, it transforms Peter as well, bringing out the dark, vengeful side of his personality that he is struggling to control. Under the influence of the suit, Peter becomes over confident and starts to neglect the people who care about him most. Forced to choose between the seductive power of the new suit and the compassionate hero he used to be, Peter must overcome his personal demons as two of the most feared villains yet, Sandman and Venom, gather unparalleled power and a thirst for retribution to threaten Peter and everyone he loves.

• The Decameron (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first of Pasolini’s colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films, The Decameron tells ten stories based on fourteenth-century originals. Full of bawdy, earthy spirit, and presented in a high-definition restoration, the film romps through its tales of sex and death – of lusty nuns and priests, cuckolded husbands, murdered lovers and grave-robbers – with five of the stories linked by the character of an intriguing artist, played by Pasolini himself.

• Camelot | DVD | (01/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Joshua Logan's 1967 film of the hit Broadway musical about the love triangle between King Arthur (Richard Harris), Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave), and Sir Lancelot (Franco Nero) is strong on star emphasis and weak on such fundamentals as story and sets. Except for a handful of solidly dramatic scenes--such as Guenevere grieving, late in the film, for the ruination she and Lancelot have caused--there's not a lot to get excited about. (The story's theme of a lost, great society, however, certainly struck a chord in the 1960s.)The Lerner-Loewe songs ("If Ever I Would Leave You", "Camelot") pretty much sell themselves, even if they are, at best, only proficiently performed in this movie. --Tom Keogh

• Unfinished Business | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £1.99   |  Saving you £18.00 (904.52%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A hard-working small business owner (Vince Vaughn) and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives.

• Hell Of The Living Dead 4K Ultra HD | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You can't beat an Italian zombie movie and here's one of the best, looking yuckier than ever in this sensational 4K UHD presentation. There's been a nasty outbreak of the living dead in Papua New Guinea and it's up to an intrepid reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton), her cameraman (Gaby Renom) and an on-hand squad of commandoes to find out why and to try and stop it. There are disgusting special effects, some unexpected adversaries (a zombie rat, a zombie child and a zombie granny!) plus head-shots galore: truly, a film with something for everyone. Co-written by Claudio Fragrasso (inspired auteur of Troll 2) and directed by exploitation ace Bruno Mattei (Rats Night of Terror; Violence in a Woman's Prison), 88 Films are proud to present this classic of family entertainment full-blooded shocker in all its gory glory! ExtrasBrand new 4K Remaster from the Original Negatives presented in Ultra High Definition (2160p) in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio in Dolby Vision (HDR10 Compatible)  High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Also Included LPCM 2.0 English Mono LPCM 2.0 Italian Mono with newly translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary with Italian Genre Film Experts Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth Beauty and the Dead - An Interview with Margie Newton Poor Zombies - An Interview with Claudio Fragasso Vincent and Clyde - A 2022 Interview with Claudio Fragasso Writing the Dead - An Interview with Rossella Drudi Attack of the VHS Zombies Original Trailer Reversible sleeve with newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys and original Italian poster

• Oedipus Rex | Blu Ray | (24/09/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three years after The Gospel According to Matthew, Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with asavage, highly personal take on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re). As his first colour feature, Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender, sensual, and wholly unsparing.The film is divided into three sections set in different eras. The opening takes place in 1920s Italy, and recounts a birth thatechoes that of the director himself, the product of a beautiful bourgeoise's affair with a military officer. The mid section depicts a time outside of history - it is here that the myth of Oedipus (portrayed by Franco Citti of Accattone and Coppola's The Godfather), one of patricide and incest, plays out opposite the young man's mother/lover (Silvana Mangano). An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry.

• The Deuce: Season 2 | DVD | (04/02/2019) from £13.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featuring an acclaimed ensemble cast led by James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and executive produced by David Simon, George Pelecanos, Nina K. Noble and Franco, Season 2 of The Deuce finds its protagonists living at the apex of the Golden Age of Porn: when the dream of a mainstream X-rated film business is a credible reality, and the free-for-all sex trade of Times Square is at its gaudy, unrestrained height. Picking up in late 1977 (five years after S1), the Deuce's backroom massage parlors and SRO hotels have exploded into sprawling sex emporiums featuring nude girls, live sex shows and peep booths for every imaginable fetish. The NY Mafia's grip on the porn business is beginning to slip as talent migrates to the West Coast but for now, the city is flush with movies, music and art as the drug-fueled party rages around the clock. Season 2 of The Deuce captures the disco era in all its excesses before developers, crack cocaine, AIDS and videotapes conspire to end the debauched glory of Times Square.

• Verdi: Il Trovatore | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £16.62   |  Saving you £0.37 (2.23%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of Verdi's opera 'Il Trovatore' by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus; conducted by James Levine. Singers include: Eva Marton Luciano Pavarotti Sherril Milnes and Dolora Zajick; directed by Brian Large.

• The Deuce: Season 1 | DVD | (12/02/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Deuce chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to clean up Times Square. Seizing the chance to cash in on the nascent porn business (and sometimes being consumed by it) are a vivid assortment of characters, including: Vincent Martino (James Franco), a bartender with vision and connections; Frankie Martino, Vincent's identical twin, a dangerously freewheeling counterpart to his entrepreneurial brother; Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a self-made, on-the-street sex worker eying a new career in porn filmmaking; pimps C.C. (Gary Carr) and Larry Brown (Gbenga Akinnagbe); young prostitutes Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Lori (Emily Meade); midtown cop Chris Alston (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.); newspaper reporter Sandra Washington (Natalie Paul); mob capo Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli); disillusioned college student Abby Parker (Margarita Levieva); and others. Over the course of eight S1 episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence and billion-dollar profitability.

• Killer Cop | Blu Ray | (28/04/2025) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Police inspector Matteo Rolandi (Claudio Cassinelli, The Suspicious Death Of A Minor) witnesses a massacre in a hotel when a bomb explodes and kills dozens of civilians. The prime suspect, a young political activist (Bruno Zanin, Amarcord), is shot dead soon after, despite being under the protection of General Attorney Di Federico (Arthur Kennedy, The Man From Laramie). As Inspector Rolandi continues his investigation, he soon discovers a terrifying conspiracy behind the act of brutal terrorism. Based on the notorious 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, Killer Cop is a gritty poliziottesco from giallo master Luciano Ercoli (The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion).

• The Pope's Exorcist | Blu Ray | (22/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Rosamunde Pilcher Collection | DVD | (23/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bestselling novelist Rosamunde Pilcher is renowned for her unsurpassed storytelling. Her rich, romantic tales and their beautiful settings are captured perfectly in this special 12 disc set which contains seven sumptuous adaptations based on her books. In Coming Home, when Judith Dunbar loses touch with her family at the outbreak of WWII, the glamorous and wealthy Carey-Lewis's welcome her into their home. This story continues in Nancherrow when the family must struggle to come to terms with post-war Britain. Stars include Peter O Toole, Joanna Lumley and Emily Mortimer. Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice revolve around two families who meet under tragic circumstances. What befalls them and how they draw closer in the Scottish Highlands makes for a gripping and dramatic tale. Stars include Sinéad Cusack, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman and Franco Nero. Four Seasons focuses on the Combes family and their magnificent country estate Endellion where scandal, vengeance, jealousy and desire rage as furiously as the sea. Stars include Michael York, Senta Berger, Frank Finlay, Juliet Mills and Tom Conti. The Shell Seekers is the story of love, families and an exquisite painting that has captivated millions and which tears a family apart, when the daughter of a famous artist has the opportunity to reassess her life and revisit the past. Stars include Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell. September sees the return of the beautiful, carefree Pandora to the village she deserted under a cloud of mystery some 20 years earlier. Secrets and lies have their consequences in this compelling drama. Stars include Jacqueline Bisset, Edward Fox, Mariel Hemingway and Michael York

• Homefront | Blu Ray | (31/03/2014) from £6.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Former drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker (Jason Statham: The Expendables) is a family man who moves off the grid with his daughter, to a seemingly quiet bayou backwater to escape his troubled past. However, Broker's world soon becomes anything but quiet once he discovers that an underbelly of drugs and violence riddles the small town. Soon, a sociopathic methamphetamine kingpin, Gator Bodine (James Franco: Spiderman) puts Broker and his daughter in harm's way forcing Broker back into action in order to save his family and the town. Supported by an all-star cast including Winona Ryder (The Iceman, Black Swan), Kate Bosworth (Movie 43, Superman Returns) and Rachelle Lefevre (White House Down, The Twilight Saga), Homefront is adapted for the screen by the legendary Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables, Rambo) and is the directed by Gary Fleder.

• Flyboys | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £7.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (105.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Flyboys," is inspired by the epic tale of the American young men who would become known as the legendary Lafayette Escadrille.

• Pumping Iron | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In 1977 an independent documentary movie shone a light on the world of bodybuilding becoming a huge box office hit and creating an international sensation. It launched one man's multi-million dollar career and changed the world of bodybuilding and physical exercise forever: Pumping Iron.

• She Killed In Ecstasy | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Horror classic in which a young doctor commits suicide after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee into compromising situations and then killing them one by one... Also known as ""Mrs. Hyde"".