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• The Le Juge Et L'Assassin | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £9.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (45.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Le Juge Et L'Assassin Michel Galabru stars as Joseph Bouvier a former Sergeant in the French military. The film commences with Bouvier shooting his beloved and attempting to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain he is released from the Dole medical facility. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. Judge Rousseau (Philippe Noiret) thinks this case would help his career as a right wing politician and therefore issues warrants of arrests to find any hobo fitting the description. But if Bouvier was declared insane the Judge's plan may become a trap...

• Tickety Toc: Season 1 - Volume 1: It's Chime Time | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Very First Collection from the New Hit Series Where Madcap Adventures Happen Quickety Tickety! Set in an extraordinary world behind the Tickety Toc Clock It's Chime Time follows comedic heroes Tommy and Tallulah as they race to chime the time in Tickety Town... but as every hour passes and the clock springs to life things don't always run so smoothly! In these six exciting episodes the twins and their adorable friends will embark on wild storybook shenanigans daring circus acts and amazing magic tricks. There's also a giant game of Tickety-Tag and a marvellously messy photo day! With the help of their Tickety Town friends including Pufferty McCoggins Hopparoo Madame Au Lait Battersby Chikidee and Tooteroo your own preschoolers will learn the importance of teamwork community and social responsibility. In this very first Tickety Toc collection every second counts!

• Three | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Thriller starring Billy Zane and Kelly Brook. When wealthy Texas businessman Jack (Zane) takes a trip in his private yacht to the South Seas with his trophy wife Jennifer (Brook), it seems that the couple's happiness is complete. However, when the yacht capsizes Jennifer and hired hand Manuel (Juan Pablo Di Pace) barely make it alive to shore. Upon discovering themselves deserted on the tropical island, the two endeavour to set up camp but it's not long before their animal attractions overwhelm them. When Jack washes up alive on the same beach some time later, the trio must survive not only the elements but each other as tensions turn deadly.

• The Claude Chabrol Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Merci Pour le Chocolat: In Claude Chabrol's taut thriller Isabelle Huppert finds herself in the middle of an intricate and murderous web of deception. Betty: A young woman's life is thrown into turmoil when both her husband and in-laws decide to force a divorce onto her. Inspector Lavardin: Jean Poiret plays the inspector who finds himself confronting his ex while solving an unusual murder in a small sleepy village.

• Private Property | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £9.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (100.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tense familial drama focusing on two twins and their incessant feuding after the separation of their parents.

• Madame Bovary | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £14.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (6.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  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

• Ishtar | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £12.30   |  Saving you £-6.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Two totally untalented song-writers are advised by their agent to get away....as far away....as possible. Upon their arrival in Morocco they are separately recruited as spies for opposing sides of a planned revolution while simultaneously vying for the attentions of an attractive left-wing revolutionary. Based on an idea by Elaine May.

• Driver | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ryan O'Neal plays the driver - an ice-cool getaway ace for hire by whoever can afford his crash course skills. Bruce Dern is the detective - a man obsessed with arresting the speed demon at any cost... The Driver lures his foe into a deadly game of cross and double cross by leaving tantalising evidence at every heist until the vengeance-crazed Detective can stand no more and the film erupts into a frenzy of twisted metal and burning rubber. A 1970's classic from Walter Hill.

• The Crimes Of The Black Cat | Blu Ray | (06/07/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Michael H: Profession Director | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Over the last 25 years Michael Haneke has established himself as one of the most important directors in cinema history. From his early work to Amour he has created a unique universe revealing like no other the darkest corners of society our existential fears and emotional outbursts. Through interviews with his actors Isabelle Huppert Juliette Binoche and Emmanuelle Riva and much more as well as previously unseen footage Michael H. depicts the work of a rare artist.

• Scanners 2 - The New Order | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this sequel to David Cronenberg's original classic a corrupt, power-crazed police official has high ambitions and plans to use the telepathic power of scanners to achieve his goal. With the aid of scientist and a new drug he believes he can control their minds to do his bidding but a rogue Scanner has other plans.

• Blood Countess | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £4.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (165.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Le Chignon D'Olga | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.57   |  Saving you £11.42 (133.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Le Chignon d'Olga' is the charming first film from writer-director Jerome Bonnell. A tender romantic comedy-drama set in a provincial town it tells the story of brother and sister Julien and Emma who are grieving after the recent loss of their mother. As the summer draws to a close Julien aimlessly wanders the streets until one day he encounters Olga a beautiful young woman who works in a bookshop. Secretly without confiding even in his close childhood friend Alice he tries eve

• Dear Eleanor | DVD | (18/07/2016) from £9.00   |  Saving you £8.99 (99.89%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two teenage girls Ellie (Liana Liberato) and Max (Isabelle Fuhrman) travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

• Les Misérables | Blu Ray | (18/07/2023) from £34.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Offenbach: Des Contes D'Hoffmann | DVD | (25/04/2001) from £19.85   |  Saving you £6.40 (34.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unfortunately the qualities that make Jacques Offenbach's operetta The Tales of Hoffmann an irresistible melodic profusion of wit, dash and unfailing high spirits are only in evidence in the playing of the Lyon Opera Orchestra under Kent Nagano: operetta, more than its serious cousin, continues to be fair game for the whims of producers and designers. In this case an excellent cast including Daniel Galvez-Vallejo as Hoffmann, Natalie Dessay as Olympia, Brigitte Balley as Nicklausse and Isabelle Vernet as Giulietta, as well as Gabriel Bacquier who sings three roles, are obliged to perform Offenbach's operetta in a lunatic asylum designed by Philippe Starck as a three-dimensional grey set, topped with barbed wire. The production by Louis Erlo adapts and cuts scenes to fit this concept, so the tavern scene where Hoffmann sings his celebrated number "The Legend of Kleinzack" disappears, as do the chorus who are banished to the wings. In this environment there's no room for charm or even a kind of mad-hatter behaviour. The cast are reduced to stereotypes and of necessity singularly unlovable ones. What a wasted opportunity. The sound is excellent as it is on two fillers: a short film of Penderecki conducting his choral work, The Seven Gates to Jerusalem from the Midem festival at Cannes and a trailer for a Lyon Opera House production of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. --Adrian Edwards

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Zurich/Harnoncourt | DVD | (12/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In this Zurich Opera House staging of Mozart’s darkly comic cautionary fable Don Giovanni the lighting and stage design keep the characters shaded in half-shadow: even Zerlina’s wedding feels like a subdued affair here, and the Don’s banqueting room is a suitably gloomy venue for the Stone Guest’s climactic visit for a spot of dinner and damnation. Both this staging and video director Brian Large’s filming play no tricks with the audience’s expectations, opting for a largely traditional presentation of this tragedy of swaggering bravado, cuckolded lovers and revenge from beyond the grave. Nikolaus Harnoncourt brings all the sensitivity of his historically informed approach to the orchestra pit. Heading a very strong cast are Rodney Gilfry, defiantly strong-voiced but also haughtily handsome as the seducing Don, and Cecilia Bartoli, a mercurial presence as Donna Elvira. Their scenes together crackle and fizz, even when Bartoli’s extremely ripe vibrato contrasts a little uncomfortably with Harnoncourt’s authenticity. Liliana Nikiteanu makes for a pretty, naïve Zerlina, convincingly torn between her Masetto (Oliver Widmer) and the animalistic attraction of the Don. Laszlo Polgar’s Leporello is wheedling and base, but still the inheritor of his master’s charisma; Isabel Rey and Roberto Sacca are solid as the colourless moralists Anna and Ottavio; while Matti Salminen’s powerful Commendatore isn’t expected to do anything more than stand still and declaim. Overall this is an excellent musical performance, unexceptionally staged. On the DVD: Don Giovanni on disc has a good 24-minute "Behind the Scenes" feature, including interviews with Cecilia Bartoli, Harnoncourt, Gilfry and Isabel Rey. There’s also a trailer for other ArtHaus releases. The 16:9 picture sometimes struggles to bring definition to the dimly lit sets; sound though is crisp and clean PCM stereo or Dolby 5.1. There are subtitles in five languages. --Mark Walker

• Two Orphan Vampires | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Jean Rollin proves he's the master of the sexy vampire movie genre with this cinematic version of his novel of the same name. Louise and Henrietta are two orphans who can't see; unbeknownst to everyone else, though, their sight does return... but only at night, when they roam the streets on the lookout for someone on which to feast.

• Two Orphan Vampires | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99