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• MAYERLING - MOVIE | DVD | (16/10/2015) from £13.16   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Car Wash | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £11.37   |  Saving you £-5.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Car Wash is an earthly irreverent but affectionate look at a typical day in Los Angeles car wash. An ensemble piece which interweaves the lives of employees customers and passers-by Car Wash stars a galaxy of gifted actors most of whom are relatively unknown to movie goers and spotlights an array of guest stars in vivid cameo roles inculding George Carlin ""Professor"" Irwin Corey The Pointer Sisters and Richard Pryor as Daddy Rich a flamboyant Reverend who preaches the

• Dinner Of Herbs | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £12.11   |  Saving you £-2.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Catherine Cookson's best-selling novel of murder passion and betrayed friendships this sweeping drama spans forty years during the second half of the 19th century. Roddy Greenback arrives in a remote Northumberland community. His father meets a violent death leaving the boy alone with no family to speak of. The young Roddy is adopted and raised by Kate Makepeace a good friend of his father and develops a close friendship with Hal and Mary Ellen but their sibling bond is put to the test as they become adults. The hidden secrets of the past are painfully unearthed as their lives continue to be intertwined by a tragic destiny.

• Outpost III: Rise of the Spetsnaz | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £9.05   |  Saving you £6.93 (114.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sergeant Dolokhov leads his team of fearless Russian Spetsnaz through the Eastern Front of Europe. After a ferocious raid on a Nazi convoy, Dolokhov unearths details of the shocking research being taken out by the Nazis.

• A Raisin In The Sun | Blu Ray | (01/10/2018) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The classic film version of Lorraine Hansberry's revelatory dramastarring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Deenewly restored. LORRAINE HANSBERRY's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to the screen, directed by DANIEL PETRIE. The original starsincluding SIDNEY POITIER (In the Heat of the Night) and RUBY DEE (Do the Right Thing)reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry's intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie's film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America. Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on the reallife events on which the play is based Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From A Raisin in the Sun to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, editor of Poitier Revisited Trailer PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon

• Hammer Of The Gods | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.   Set in Viking Britain in 871 AD, Hammer of the Gods is a visceral, intense tale set in a world whose only language is violence. A young Viking warrior, Steinar (Charlie Bewley), is sent by his father the king on a quest to find his estranged brother, who was banished from the kingdom many years before. Steinar's epic journey across terrifyingly hostile territory gradually sees him emerge as the man his father wants him to be -- the ruthless and unforgiving successor to his throne.    

• Planet of the Vampires | Unknown | (15/09/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the outer reaches of deep space, the spaceship Galliott answers a distress signal from Aura, an unexplored planet. As the ship attempts to land, members of the crew inexplicably begin to attack one another. This is the start of a terrifying expedition into the unknown, one plagued by paranoia, possession and violent mayhem wrought upon the unsuspecting explorers by the planet's mysterious inhabitants. A sci-fi horror hybrid from genre master Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace), Planet of the Vampires is widely regarded as one of the most influential genre films ever made, with a clear influence on films such as Alien and Pitch Black. With a uniquely chilly atmosphere and fantastic production design that belies its low budget origins, Planet of the Vampires is a true genre classic.SPECIAL FEATURES4K scan of the film from the original negative under the supervision of Lamberto Bava and carried out at Fotocinema in Rome in collaboration with CSC Cineteca Nazionale High-Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the Italian (90 mins) and English (88 mins) versions of the film Uncompressed mono audioArchival audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark (2014)A documentary feature which explores Planet of the Vampires, Mario Bava and the connection between gothic and science fiction. Co-directed by Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger; featuring interviews with Guy Adams, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Alexandra Benedict, Johnny Mains and John Llewellyn Probert (2024)Archival interview with Lamberto BavaSuper 8 Version - a reconstruction of the cut-down version distributed as Planet der Vampire (17 mins)Joe Dante and Josh Olsen trailer commentaries - the filmmakers provide a short overview of the film (2013)TrailersPress and image gallery from the Tim Lucas / Alan Y. Upchurch collection

• Eisenstein Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Strike (1925): In 1922 Lenin also had said that ""...of all of the arts for us the cinema was the most important."" In 1924 the Proletkult offered Eisenstein then 26 years of age the job of directing the first of eight episodes in the film series 'Towards the Dictatorship'. This brilliant and complex re-creation of the development of a 1912 factory strike in Tsarist Russia and its savage destruction by agents provocateurs police and mounted troops was an ideal vehicle for the youthful Eisenstein to express his desire to reflect the dialectic of the Russian revolution in the most comprehensive of art forms. Eisenstein had been developing the Kuloshov's 'montage' effect in editing and in this his first film he uses it with tremendous skill to enhance symbolism and achieve highly charged emotional responses to the strength energy and heroism of the working classes and the tragic events depicted. Strike is a truly visual and technical masterpiece which is at times overwhelming in its powerful portrayal of these events in history. Strike was the only film ever made in the series and it changed the direction of the soviet cinema for many decades to come. Battleship Potemkin (1925): Planned by the Soviet Central Committee to coincide with the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution this film was developed by the 27 year-old Sergei Eisenstein from less than one page of script from a planned eight-part epic that was intended to chronicle a large number of revolutionary actions. Starting with the Potemkin's crew's refusal to eat maggot-infested meat the mutiny develops and their leader Vakulinchuk is shot by a senior officer. The officers are overthrown and when the Potemkin docks at Odessa crowds appear from all directions to take up the cause of the dead sailor and open rebellion ensues. What became the Czarist soldiers fire on the crowds thronging down the Odessa steps: the broad newsreel-like sequences being inter-cut with close-ups of harrowing details. Returning to sea the Potemkin's crew prepares the guns for action as the ship flying the flag of freedom steams to confront the squadron. When they finally meet theirs worst fears are allayed as with relief coupled with joy they are universally acclaimed. This film which was destined to become such an influential landmark in cinematographic history opened in Moscow in January 1926. It ran for only four weeks. October (1927): Commissioned by the October Revolution Jubilee Committee (Chairman Nikolai Podvolsky) for the tenth anniversary of the revolution Sergei Eisenstein's third major feature film ""October 1917"" is a marvelous reconstruction of the events from February leading up to the revolution and the Bolshevik's overthrow of the czarists and Kerensky's provisional government in 1917. True to the communist philosophy there were no main characters; the proletariat providing the 'heroic' star quality throughout. The ultimate victory belonging to the revolution. Eisenstein's skill and experimentation in using fast moving and rhythmic montage to produce telling metaphors and build and intensify sequences was not fully understood by the early Russian audiences; typical examples being the rapidly alternating images employed to create a machine-gun firing and the cross-cutting between power-hungry Kerensky and the statue of Napoleon. Outstanding for the period are the dynamic sequences illustrating the massacre in the vicinity of the St Petersburg bridges and the storming of the Winter Palace which feature a profusion of exciting cinematic techniques. Eisenstein's research was extremely thorough and he did not allow contemporary events to influence his production. The film's release was dela

• MacArthur | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962 General Douglas MacArthur (Peck) reflects on the events of his life: his achievements as the head of the American forces in the Pacific during World War II his years governing post-war Japan and his final campaign in Korea which lead to clashes with President Harry S. Truman and his subsequent dismissal...

• Jet Pilot (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (49.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story! A corps of silver jets soar across the majestic blue American skies while a beautiful lady waits faithfully for her hero. John Wayne and Janet Leigh star in this military romance: a classic Howard Hughes production! Anna a Russian MIG pilot escapes the USSR and lands on a US Airforce base in Alaska. There she meets Colonel Shannon and after he debriefs her the two become romantically involved and move to Palm Springs. Trouble arises when the US authorities discover that Anna is not really a defector but a Soviet spy. Army honchos decide to turn the tables by letting Shannon follow her back home and do some of his own espionage. But once there Soviet forces endanger Shannon's life - and Anna has to choose between her country and the man she has come to love...

• Marketa Lazarova | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

• Shock | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Best remembered for his gothic horror movies, for his final feature, Shock, he eschewed the grand guignol excesses of Black Sabbath or Blood and Black Lace for a more intimate portrait of mental breakdown in which true horror comes from within. Dora (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red) moves back into her old family home with her husband, Bruno (John Steiner, Tenebrae), and Marco (David Colin Jr., Beyond the Door), her young son from her previous marriage. But domestic bliss proves elusive as numerous strange and disturbing occurrences transpire, while Dora is haunted by a series of nightmares and hallucinations, many of them involving her dead former husband. Is the house itself possessed? Or does Dora's increasingly fragile grip on reality originate from somewhere far closer to home? Released in the United States as a sequel to Ovidio G. Assonitis's Beyond the Door, Shock more than lives up to its name, proving that, even at this late stage in his career, Bava hadn't lost his touch for terror. Now restored in high definition for the first time, the Maestro of the Macabre's chilling swansong disturbs like never before in this feature-laden release from Arrow Video. Special Features High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Brand new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films Original Italian and English front and end titles and insert shots Restored original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by Tim Lucas, author of Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark A Ghost in the House, a new video interview with co-director and co-writer Lamberto Bava Via Dell'Orologio 33, a new video interview with co-writer Dardano Sacchetti The Devil Pulls the Strings, a new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Shock! Horror! The Stylistic Diversity of Mario Bava, a new video appreciation by author and critic Stephen Thrower The Most Atrocious Tortur(e), a new interview with critic Alberto Farina Italian theatrical trailer 4 US Beyond the Door II TV spots Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Christopher Shy FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Troy Howarth, author of The Haunted World of Mario Bava

• Song Without End | DVD | (06/08/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stunningly filmed in Technicolor and featuring one of the finest musical scores Hollywood has ever produced, Charles Vidor's Song Without End - the 1960 biopic of the virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt won both Oscar (1961) and Golden Globe awards (1961). Dirk Bogarde stars as Franz Liszt.The finest virtuoso pianist of his day, Liszt is the toast of Europe, filling concert halls from Paris to Vienna and playing command performances for the crowned heads of Europe. His interpretations of the works of the great composers are unsurpassed - but he dreams that one day his own compositions will enthrall his adoring crowds. As his fame grows, his personal life falls apart. Already involved in a scandalous affair with a French Countess (Genevieve Page), now he dreams of seducing and marrying a Russian Princess (Capucine) whose love is absolutely forbidden... A musical masterpiece, Song Without End features almost forty beautiful pieces by some of the world's greatest composers including Chopin, Beethoven,Wagner, Bach, Verdi and Schumann as well as works by Liszt himself. Solo piano pieces are performed by the maestro Jorge Bolet, with accompaniment from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Roger Wagner Chorale. Song Without End was to be the final film by Charles Vidor who died before production was complete, with his place taken by George Cukor.

• In from the side | Blu Ray | (28/11/2022) from £11.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Inspector Marotta | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £9.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (32.69%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the sensational true story of the robbery of St Peter's Treasure from the Vatican. 1925: the first Sacred year after the war - Inspector Marotta is called to Rome to investigate rumours of a breath-taking robbery which is said to be like no other ever attempted before. A theft of such proportions in the middle of the Sacred Year would be a disaster and the only way to avoid it is to infiltrate the criminal circles. Unknown in Rome Inspector Marotta goes undercover gaining the con.

• Madeleine | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £5.55   |  Saving you £7.44 (134.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lean's accomplished film of the famous Scottish Madeleine Smith case in which a woman from a wealthy family is accused of the murder of her lover.

• Django, Prepare A Coffin | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.

• Andrei Rublev | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Widely regarded as Tarkovsky's finest film Andrei Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and Tatar invasions. Made on an epic scale it does not flinch from portraying the savagery of the time from which almost inexplicably the serenity of Rublev's art arose. The great set-pieces - the sack of Vladimir the casting of the bell the pagan ceremonies of St.

• Kolobos | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £16.87   |  Saving you £-7.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sometimes nightmares do come true.... Night time and rain falls over the city. A young couple are out for a drive and take a shortcut through a deserted alley..... they make a gruesome discovery: A girl who has been savagely battered and slashed lies in a pool of her own blood. As the girl loses conciousness she utters one word - Kolobos.

• The Party And The Guests | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Distinguished by being ""banned forever"" in its native Czech Republic Jan Nemec's ""A Report on the Party"" is a great film from the flowering of the Czech cinema in the 1960s. It is a political thriller that satirizes unquestionable conformity. A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical but elegant and formal banquet outdoors. Nemec documents the process of self-deception and rationalization which lead to an acceptance of constrant; free will and freedom are seen as difficult to maintain and easily discarded. The affair is bizarre and ends when one of the guests (played by film director Evald Schorm) chooses not to remain and escapes. His compatriots agree that he must be recaptured and so the group arms themselves ready to hunt him down...