"Actor: Francois"

• DIE NIBELUNGEN (Masters of Cinema) (BLU-RAY) | Blu Ray | (29/10/2012) from £14.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (21.64%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang's two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelungen is a courageous and hallucinatory work. Its extraordinary set-pieces, archetypal themes, and unrestrained ambition have proved an inspiration for nearly every fantasy cycle that has emerged on-screen since - from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings.In Part One, Siegfried, the film's eponymous hero acquires the power of invincibility after slaying a dragon and bathing in the creature's blood. Later, an alliance through marriage between the hero and the royal clan of the Nibelungen turns treacherous, with Siegfried's sole weakness exploited. In Part Two, Kriemhilds Rache [Kriemhild's Revenge], Siegfried's widow travels to the remote land of the Huns to wed the monstrous Attila, and thereby enlist his forces in an act of vengeance that culminates in massacre, conflagration, and, under the auspices of Lang, one of the most exhilarating and terrifying end-sequences in all of cinema.Adapted from the myth that was also the basis for Wagner's Ring cycle of operas, Lang's epic offers its own startling expressionistic power - a summit of the director's artistry. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Die Nibelungen in a spectacular new HD restoration.

• Trafic | DVD | (08/12/2014) from £9.70   |  Saving you £8.29 (85.46%)   |  RRP £17.99

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• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) | Blu Ray | (29/04/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bresson achieves the pinnacle of his art in the tale of a gentle creature's journey through a cruel world. A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, Au hasard Balthazar, directed by Robert Bresson (Pickpocket), follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations outside of his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly. Through Bresson's unconventional approach to composition, sound, and narrative, this simple story becomes a moving parable about purity and transcendence. Special Edition Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview from 2005 with film scholar Donald Richie Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson, a 1966 French television programme about the film, featuring Bresson, filmmakers JeanLuc Godard and Louis Malle, and members of Balthazar's cast and crew Original theatrical trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar James Quandt

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £6.96   |  Saving you £-0.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Anybody who has written him off because of a string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl--may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed. Contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalised enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on DVD as they were in the theatre (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophising about extra-terrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call." Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed (albeit one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial). --Miles Bethany

• Transporter, The / Transporter 2 | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £5.94   |  Saving you £19.05 (320.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Transporter (2002): Rules are made to be broken! Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean hiring himself out as a mercenary ""transporter"" who moves goods - human or otherwise - from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW Martin finds his latest assignment could well be his last after his package is revealed to be a beau

• Transporter 3 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £4.00   |  Saving you £15.99 (399.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, the ex-Special Forces agent who specializes in high-risk deliveries.

• Theo & Hugo | Blu Ray | (05/12/2016) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Théo and Hugo encounter each other's bodies one night in a Paris sex club. Wanting to know more about each other, they leave the club and drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations? Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (Drôle de Félix, Born in 68) deliver their most ambitious film yet, displaying a consummate sensitivity in bringing us closer to two men as they strive for intimacy in spite of being stalled by their insecurity.

• The Disappearance | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £13.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (172.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All eight episodes from the French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon. With the grieving family pressing for answers, it's not long before Molina uncovers a number of shocking secrets which could push them to breaking point.

• First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £10.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (45.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life

• Little White Lies | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (101.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From award-winning director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) comes Little White Lies a joyous portrayal of friendship and humanity. Featuring a truly exceptional ensemble cast; including the Academy and BAFTA award winning actress Marion Cotillard (Inception); and the Csar 'Best Actor' award winner Franois Cluzet. Walking the fine line between laughter and tears Canet directs some of France's most skillful performers to deliver startlingly intimate performances. Every year Max (Franois Cluzet) a successful restaurant owner invites his family and friends to his beautiful beach house. But this year the vacation is not all fun in the sun as each guest raises the veil that for years has covered their true feelings. Their relationships convictions and friendships are sorely tested when finally forced to own up to the little white lies they have been telling each other.

• Nicolas On Holiday | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited holidays have finally arrived. Petit Nicolas and his family head to the sea and move in to the Beau-Rivage Hotel. At the beach, Nicolas wastes little time making new friends, and they set about causing havoc in the holiday resort. He also attracts an admirer in the form of Elizabeth, a little girl who follows him everywhere. Nicolas is really going to enjoy a holiday to remember. Based on Sempé's beloved character, Petit Nicolas.

• Female Agents | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £3.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (472.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1944, "Female Agents" follows a five strong all-female commando unit that parachutes into occupied France on a dangerous mission.

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi blockbuster, now fully restored in 4K. Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind - discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind - contact. Special Features: Three Kinds of Close Encounters Featurette Steven's Home Videos & Outtakes Close Encounters of the Third Kind Making-Of Documentary Steven Spielberg: 30 Years of Close Encounters 1977 Featurette Watch the Skies Deleted Scenes Extensive Photo Gallery Storyboard Comparisons Theatrical Trailers Includes all 3 versions of the film Theatrical Version Special Edition Director's Cut

• The Class (Single-disc edition) | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £6.09   |  Saving you £9.90 (162.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Francois and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighbourhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students.

• Orphee | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cocteau's fantastical updating of the Orpheus legend is cinematic poetry. Unforgettable and profoundly influential.

• Irreplaceable | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the past thirty years, Dr. Jean-Pierre Werner has been working as a general practitioner in the countryside, far away from any other medical facility. When he finds out that he suffers from a serious illness, Werner is left with no choice but to find a replacement, although he considers himself irreplaceable French box-office star François Cluzet (Untouchable) headlines this engaging and compelling drama that takes a realistic look at rural medicine.

• Dellamorte Dellamore | Blu Ray | (15/10/2018) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michele Soavi, the director of THE CHURCH and THE SECT, now sears our retinas and our emotions with his cool, sexy DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, for the first time on Shameless Blu-ray! This remastered HD version finally does justice to his undisputed Grand Guignol masterpiece and to the luscious visions of Anna Falchi and dreamy Rupert Everett. Meet Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett), the cemetery-man, gravedigger and guardian of the mythical Buffalora Cemetery where the dead just don t stay dead. Seven days after burial, the fresh cadavers claw their way out of their coffins looking for flesh to eat. And it s Francesco s job to dispatch these Returners before they escape into the local community. But his quest to stop the dead from invading the world of the living falters when he falls in love with a beautiful and enigmatic widow visiting her husband s crypt. For when he kills her by mistake, and is cursed to see her face for eternity, the difference between being alive and dead become chillingly confused in his shocked and romantically damaged brain. Features: DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE is presented in a remastered HD version, for the first time on Shameless Blu-ray! New interview with writer-producer Gianni Romoli New interview with SFX genius Sergio Stivaletti Audio Commentary & Fact-Track by director Michele Soavi & writer Gianni Romoli English Audio & Optional Italian Audio with revised English Subtitles Collector s reversible inlay sleeve with original poster artwork

• DIE NIBELUNGEN (Masters of Cinema) (DVD) | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang's two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelungen is a courageous and hallucinatory work. Its extraordinary set-pieces, archetypal themes, and unrestrained ambition have proved an inspiration for nearly every fantasy cycle that has emerged on-screen since - from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings.In Part One, Siegfried, the film's eponymous hero acquires the power of invincibility after slaying a dragon and bathing in the creature's blood. Later, an alliance through marriage between the hero and the royal clan of the Nibelungen turns treacherous, with Siegfried's sole weakness exploited. In Part Two, Kriemhilds Rache [Kriemhild's Revenge], Siegfried's widow travels to the remote land of the Huns to wed the monstrous Attila, and thereby enlist his forces in an act of vengeance that culminates in massacre, conflagration, and, under the auspices of Lang, one of the most exhilarating and terrifying end-sequences in all of cinema.Adapted from the myth that was also the basis for Wagner's Ring cycle of operas, Lang's epic offers its own startling expressionistic power - a summit of the director's artistry. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Die Nibelungen in a spectacular new HD restoration.

• Round Midnight (1986) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (09/05/2022) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'Round Midnight is a love letter from director BERTRAND TAVERNIER (Coup de torchon) to the heyday of bebop and to the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a miraculous, sui generis fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist DEXTER GORDON plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start, Turner relocates to Paris, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (The Intouchables' FRANÇOIS CLUZET) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the self-destructive musician. HERBIE HANCOCK's evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived in, soulful authenticity. Product Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, supervised by composer Herbie Hancock and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio New interview with jazz critic Gary Giddins New conversation with music producer Michael Cuscuna and author Maxine Gordon, widow of musician Dexter Gordon Behind-the-scenes documentary from 19TK[ck] Panel discussion from 2014 featuring director Bertrand Tavernier, Cuscuna, Maxine Gordon, and jazz scholar John Szwed, moderated by jazz critic and broadcaster Mark Ruffin Performance from 1969 of Fried Bananas by Dexter Gordon, directed by Teit Jørgensen[ck] Excerpt from the 1996 documentary Dexter Gordon: More Than You Know, by Don McGlynn ck] New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by scholar Mark Anthony Neal

• Delicacy | Blu Ray | (06/08/2012) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (76.98%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A French woman is courted by a Swedish co-worker even though she is still mourning over the death of her husband three years earlier.