"Actor: Isabelle"

• La Ceremonie | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect and Sophie proves to be ""a bit bizarre but a real pearl"" according to Madame Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset). Sophie remains distanced from the family and only comes out

• Le Refuge | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £7.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (51.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Refuge

• Cirque Du Soleil - Midnight Sun | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (66.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On 11 July 2004 over 200 000 spectators filled the downtown streets of Montreal to take part in a unique celebration an incredible one-night-only special event! With more than 250 artists Midnight Sun is a brilliant combination of music and circus - the perfect chemistry of sight and sound. An unforgettable viewing experience filmed live in high-definition!

• Let's Be Evil | DVD | (30/01/2017) from £4.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Step into a virtual reality nightmare... Desperately in need of money to care for a sick parent, Jenny takes a job supervising children at a learning centre for gifted students. But when she and two other new employees are ushered into a maximum-security underground bunker where eerily robotic children are outfitted with augmented reality glasses, Jenny finds herself thrust into a disturbing technological experiment in which she is an unwitting player in a terrifying virtual game. This future shock brain-bender, starring Kara Tointon (TV s Mr Selfridge, Last Passenger), Isabelle Allen (Les Miserables) and Elliot James Langridge (Northern Soul, TV s Hollyoaks) , is a creepy kids thriller for our tech-addicted culture.

• One Deadly Summer | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Fuelled by a scorchingly erotic performance from Isabelle Adjani, the ingeniously plotted One Deadly Summer spirals from provincial drama into a disturbing and complex psychological thriller, proving itself among the most under-rated of modern French films. In the hottest summer since Body Heat, Eliane (Adjani) and local mechanic Pin Pon (Alain Souchon) begin an affair then marry. From this starting point (a similar plot device to Chabrol's Le Boucher, 1969), life in a beautiful small town in Southern France begins to come apart. Under Jean Becker's direction every character is fully rounded, and the naturalistic tone adds considerably to the impact of an intense drama that offers the perfect showcase for Adjani, establishing once and for all what an extraordinarily accomplished actress she can be. Where Beatrice Dalle in Betty Blue was similarly erotically charged and mentally unstable, Eliane has a dark and obsessive agenda that anticipates the sexual psychosis of Basic Instinct. Combining an art-house love of the French countryside with more class than a dozen Hollywood erotic thrillers, One Deadly Summer is a striking vision of sex gone bad which builds to a shocking climax. It deserves to take its place as a modern classic. --Gary S Dalkin

• Looking for Hortnese | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Looking For Hortense is a bittersweet comedie de moeurs that is French in spirit but universal in appeal. Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a Chinese civilization professor lives with his partner Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas) a stage director and their son Noé. The couple's relationship has drifted into routine that has drained it of love. Damien finds himself trapped one day by Iva who orders him to ask his father a senior member of the French Council of State for help in preventing Zorica (Isabelle Carré) a woman Iva knows from being deported. But Damien and his father don't get on and are barely ever in touch with each other. This dangerous mission throws Damien into a spiral that will turn his life upside down.

• Madame Bovary | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £15.13   |  Saving you £4.86 (32.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gustav Flaubert's celebrated novel of obsessive ardour undergoes a dazzling retrofit for the screen, courtesy of French neurosis-master Claude Chabrol. The basic story (a woman's selfish quest for happiness ends up obliterating all she holds dear) may be the same but Chabrol's talent for biting through to the dark marrow of passion makes this a startling experience, even for people familiar with the source material or the numerous other cinematic adaptations. Casting Isabelle Huppert in the title role (she's at least a decade older than the standard conception of this wilfully tragic heroine) was a potentially risky gambit that paid off big; underneath her glorious surface lies a startling foundation of brilliant ice. The same can be said about this stunning film. Viewers intrigued by this potent actress-director pairing may also want to check out The Story of Women and the wonderful La Ceremonie. The film is in French with English subtitles. --Andrew Wright

• Coup De Torchon | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Coup De Torchon stars Philippe Noiret as Lucien Cordier an ieffectual local constable. The townsfolk and his adulterous wife alike view him with contempt - however he realises that he can use his position to gain revenge and vengeance on those who don't respect him!

• Ogre | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No Donkey. No Fairy Tale. Just Terror. Threatened by a fatal epidemic in the 1850's the townspeople of Ellensworth give up control of their town in return for a cure. The curse is broken but as a result the town has a horrific man eating Ogre who returns annually for his human sacrifice. 150 years later a group of teenagers stumble upon Ellensworth which has changed slightly the inhabitants are immortal and nobody has aged. Unfortunately they have arrived at the time of the yearly human sacrifice with the Ogre rampaging through the town and its terrified people taking refuge. They soon realise that they have unwittingly become part of the hunt.

• Quartet | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) in Paris in the 1920s is left penniless and without means of support. A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith Alan Bates) offer her refuge but at the price of seduction by the husband...

• Sideways/I Heart Huckabees | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (-44.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Sideways (Dir. Alexander Payne 2004): A story about friendship and pinot envy. A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's (Thomas Haden Church) final days as a bachelor careers woefully sideways as he and Miles (Paul Giamatti) hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth soon find themselves drowning in wine and women (Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen). Emerging from a haze of pinot noir wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future the two inevitably collide with reality. Now the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged... if they get there in one piece at all. Winner of the 2005 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. I Heart (Love) Huckabees (Dir. David O. Russell 2004): Convinced that a series of coincidences involving a doorman hold some secret to life's largest riddles Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) seeks the help of a detective agency unlike any other . . . which leads him down a path that questions the essence of existence itself. In an attempt to ferret out the meaning of these flukes he consults Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman Lily Tomlin) AKA the Existential Detectives a pair of married metaphysicians who fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients secret innermost lives. When on a case these two follow their clients around closely observe their daily activities query their friends and employers and intently examine the lives they lead. The difference is that the Existential Detectives seek the solutions to the most persistent mystery of all -- the one that lies at the core of reality and existence itself . . . which means their investigations can get a little tricky. Bernard and Vivian kick off their existential exploration of Albert Markovski by probing his past and present reality. Along the way they uncover his festering conflict with Brad Stand (Jude Law) a golden boy executive climbing the corporate ladder at Huckabees a popular chain of retail super-stores that wants to sponsor Albert's Open Spaces Coalition for the PR value. The Existential Detectives are convinced that Brad -- seemingly Albert's opposite -- is the key to cracking Albert's case but then Brad turns the tables on their investigation by hiring the detectives himself. As Bernard and Vivian begin to dig deeper into Brads ambition and his relationship with Huckabees hot blonde spokesmodel Dawn (Naomi Watts) Albert begins to lose faith and rebels against their conclusions. Pairing up with another of the duo's clients -- firefighter tough guy and uncompromising soul searcher Tommy (Mark Wahlberg) -- he joins forces with the Jaffes arch nemesis the sexy French philosopher Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert) who valiantly battles for the contrasting point of view.

• The French Collection Vol 3: Isabelle Huppert | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The French Collection: Vol.3 - Isabelle Huppert

• Cold Front | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Rien Ne Va Plus | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (80.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Claude Chabrol's fiftieth film two lifelong partners in crime Betty (Isabelle Hupert) and Victor (Michel Serrault) operating out of a small RV criss-cross the country hopping from convention to convention and scamming bourgeois businessmen out of petty sums of money. They make enough however to maintain a comfortable if elusive lifestyle. When Victor discovers that Betty has been carrying on her own scam for over a year the blurry lines between secrets and lies break down.

• Anna M | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £14.83   |  Saving you £1.16 (7.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the grips of delirious illusion Anna a young gentle and shy young woman convinces herself that Doctor Zanevsky is fervently in love with her. Nothing can shake her certainty... But after hope will come resentment followed by hatred...

• Massenet: Manon -- Paris Opera/Lopez-Cobos | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of the Massenet opera 'Manon'. The Paris National Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos.

• Madame Bovary | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.

• Jude Law - The Collection - I Heart Huckabees/Road To Perdition/Enemy At The Gates | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  I Heart Huckabees: Jason Schwartzman stars as Albert Markovski an environmental activist seeking the meaning behind a series of coincidental meetings with an enigmatic stranger. He enlists the help of existential detectives Bernard (Dustin Hoffman) and Vivian (Lily Tomlin) who agree to spy on his everyday activity in order to understand his psyche. The detectives discover that Albert is locked in a battle with Brad Stand (Jude Law) a smarmy executive at the Huckabees department store chain. Shallow and vain Brad defies Albert's protests about the proposed expansion of Huckabees into a nearby marsh... Road To Perdition: Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan a father fighting to keep his only son from traveling the Road To Perdition. Directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes this towering motion picture achievement has been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike as one of the year's most extraordinary films. Enemy At The Gate: While the Nazi and Russian armies hurl rank after rank of soldiers at each other and the world fearfully awaits the outcome of the battle of Stalingrad the celebrated Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law) quietly stalks his enemies one man at a time. His fame however soon thrusts him into a duel with the Nazi's best sharpshooter Major Konig (Ed Harris) and the two find themselves waging an intense personal war while the most momentous battle of the age rages around them... Final Cut: Eleven friends gather at the wake of a successful writer Jude. His grieving wife reveals that he has been making a film of their lives and forces them to watch as stories emerge of secrets lies and disloyalty. Husbands are turned against wives and friends against friends as the true colours of their lives are revealed. But the biggest revelation is yet to come. Little by little the truth comes out about the circumstances of Jude's death his own part in it and the parts played by all of his friends.

• Comedie De L'Innocence | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the day of his ninth birthday Camille announces to his mother Ariane (Isabelle Huppert) that he wants to go home to his ""real"" mother. Realising that her son isn't playing games Ariane agrees to take Camille to an address he gives her an apartment on the far side of Paris she doesn't know. There lives an enigmatic woman called Isabella (Jeanne Balibar) whose own son born the same time as Camille drowned two years ago. Ariane looks helplessly on as Camille throws himself int

• Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Cirque du Soleil first ventured beyond Canada's borders, its powerful, singularly ambitious "reinvention of the circus" seemed quixotic. Inspired by European precedents, this was a big top downsized to a more intimate, single ring, as the French-Canadian troupe jettisoned animals, banished the usual fright-wigged clowns in favour of funny folks versed in (gulp) pantomime, and focused on acrobats, contortionists and illusionists. Conventional wisdom would have held that such esoterica was doomed, but anyone lucky enough to catch that initial Cirque production (or, for that matter, any of its subsequent offerings) knows just how wrong conventional wisdom can be.Cirque's creative brain trust, including "guide" Guy Laliberte and director Franco Dragone, have crafted each production as an extended performance piece framed by recurrent characters, unified production design and underlying themes. Already mesmerising visual tableaux and astonishing illusions are given an added poignancy (and, occasionally, true gravity) by the productions' underlying comments about society, conformity, beauty and emotion; even without such conscious motifs, however, Cirque's sheer artistry is never less than riveting.Quidam revolves around an Everychild, living with self-absorbed (and deliberately archetypal) parents, who is whisked away to a vividly surreal world where Cirque's remarkable acrobats and artists take literal flight. Their tools are often prosaic--oversized flying rings, an open steel wheel large enough for a single inhabitant, skateboards, ropes--yet the resulting images are stunning. Injecting further drama and atmosphere is the score (here by musical director Benoit Jutras), which is as far removed from traditional circus music as Cirque's "acts" are from Barnum & Bailey. Performed with synthesisers, electric guitar, solo reed instruments, percussion and voice (often singing in a kind of Esperanto that's tantalising yet foreign), Cirque's music can be dismissed as New Age only until heard in its intended context. Quidam can't quite achieve the sheer, enveloping wonder that its theatrical source does, but for fans of Cirque du Soleil's unique performance art, this latest presentation sustains the troupe's magic. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com