Box set features: Martial Arts Fist Of Honor Revenge has no loyalty... This action packed film centres around three people who face a non-stop hard-hitting family feud. As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancee's death the streets become a real life battle. Expect No Mercy Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the Virtual Arts Academy in search of another operative Eric. In this high-tech facility controlled by Warbeck a new generation of assassins trains for actual killings in a virtual reality arena. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit Justin finds Eric and joins forces with the idealistic Vicki. Together they must bring down Warbeck before another assassination is committed. Combatting holographic programs of limitless power Justin and Eric combine their skills to escape the computer generated world and confront Warbeck in an explosive battle where the pain is very real. Back in Action An undercover drug bust in L.A goes badly wrong. The most notorious drug smuggling ring in Los Angeles is duped into making a deal with undercover cops. When the ruse goes astray Los Angeles police detective Rossi witnesses his partner brutally murdered. Billy a martial arts expert is also after the gang. The stage is set for all out confrontation. One Arm Hero Orphaned as a young child Baxter was placed in Master Huang's Kung Fu academy where he was trained in the ancient martial art with patience and respect. This one armed wonder kid is given three years intensive training and is soon encouraged by his master to enter the National Martial Arts Championships. Expert Talons Of The Eagle Two cops each trained in martial arts investigate the murder of fellow agents... Lethal Ninja Deep in the heart of the Dark Continent something evil is taking place. Someone is poisoning the water and many innocent people may die. A ninja power is at work... But who controls this evil force? Guardian Angel Tough & Deadly Timecop
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
T3 - Rise Of The Machines (Dir. Jonathan Mostow 2003): A decade has passed since John Connor (Nick Stahl) helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 22 Connor lives off the grid - no home no credit cards no cell phone and no job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until... ...out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X (Kristanna loken) Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor the T-1000 this machine is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) his mysterious former assassin. Together they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgment Day...or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it. The 6th Day (Dir. Roger Spottiswoode 2000): Superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger is Adam an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An illegal corporation illegally cloned him and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement. From the director of Tomorrow Never Dies The 6th Day also stars powerhouse actors Robert Duvall and Michael Rapaport. Prepare for a high-tech sci-fi blast with twice the Arnold and twice the action! Last Action Hero (Dir. John McTiernan 1993): Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) a young cinema fan is crazy about his all-time great movie hero L.A. cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenneger). Having received a magic golden cinema ticket Danny is blasted through the big screen and into the action alongside his celluloid hero who is more than a little puzzled by his presence. Fasten your seatbelt as the dare-devil duo dodge bullets bombs and bad guys in a whirlwind world where anything is possible! But. ..disaster strikes when the baddies grab half the magic ticket and make their escape into the real world where they find life a doddle for two rogues intent on madness and mayhem.With Jack and Danny in hot pursuit hold your breath as the action addicts discover that real life can be even more exciting than the movies.
After an F-11 gets shot down over the Mediterranean Sea the US government cannot afford to lose the top-secret laser-tracking device that was on board. But unfortunately the KGB team lead by the infamous Andrei are beating the CIA in the race to find it. The CIA has no choice but to call in their best man martial arts master Ken Tani code name Black Eagle. In response the KGB resorts to an all-out war with the powerful Andrei matching Ken blow for blow.
Antoine Doinel has married Christine Darbon. He's working for a florist tinting flowers in the courtyard of the building where they live. Their neighbours are an eccentric bunch including an opera singer and his wife a man in voluntary confinement a waitress in love and a mysterious man nicknamed ""the strangler"". Antoine begins working for an American company and shortly afterwards finds that Christine is to have a baby. But here Antoine and Christine's happiness ceases as Antoine become obsessed with Kyoko a beautiful exciting Japanese girl he meets at work and becomes more and more distant from Christine.
The final film in François Truffaut's autobiographical 'Antoine Doinel' series which follows the director's screen alter ego from adolescence (in 'Les Quatre Cents Coups') to the complications of married life here. Separated from his wife novelist Antoine is having an affair with Sabine (Dorothee). When seeing off his son at a train station he spots his first love Colette (Marie-France Pisier) and jumps into her carriage. Colette is now seeing Sabine's brother Xavier (Daniel Mesguich) and soon all four protagonists are back in Paris attempting to reconcile their lives.
In Hell: Kyle Lord (Van Damme) is arrested and convicted for the vigilante killing of his wife's murderer. Kyle must survive life in a maximum-security prison where inmates are made to battle to their death in a brutal no holds barred fight called ""The Shu"" for the warden's entertainment and profit. Kyle fights his oppressors and is quickly sent to ""The Shu"" where his unbridled rage catapults him to the victor's circle. Kyle has become one of the monsters he despises and must now battle within himself to survive... (Dir. Ringo Lam 2003) Wake Of Death: Action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme is back and at his hard-hitting best as Ben Archer an ex-mob enforcer seeking revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triads... Hong Kong favourite Simon Yam faces off against the Muscles From Brussels in this pulse-pounding action thriller! (Dir. Philippe Martinez 2004) The Order: Unleash The Power. Action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme (Nowhere To Run Universal Soldier) is back in The Order a fast-paced high-octane thriller set in the Middle East. From the director of Double Impact and featuring screen legend Charlton Heston (Planet Of The Apes Any Given Sunday) Ben Cross (First Knight Chariots Of Fire) and sexy newcomer Sofia Milos The Order is an exciting adventure packed with extreme fight choreography exotic locations and non-stop action. Journey to a turbulent world under siege as reformed artifact smuggler Rudy (Van Damme) travels to Jerusalem to rescue his museum-curator father who's been kidnapped by ruthless fanatics and recover a sacred scroll believed to hold dangerous secrets of an underground sect. Framed for murder by a scheming police chief (Cross) Rudy enlists the aid of a mysterious beauty (Milos) to clear his name and wages a one-man battle to recapture the prized manuscript before the ultimate Holy War breaks out and all hell breaks loose! (Dir. Sheldon Lettich 2001)
Early performances from Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani in Andre Techine's labyrinth thriller set in the seedy red light district of Amsterdam and combining moody film noir with aspects of German expressionism. Samson is a petty thug who has potentially incriminating evidence against an electoral candidate. He plans to sell it to a tabloid newspaper for a payoff enabling him to start a new life with his girlfriend Laura but the couple are forced to flee when an accomplice is murdered.
Hard Target (1993): The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug and the more intense the rush the higher the price. International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller that WGN Radio hails as 'Easily one of the year's best films!' Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the 'amusement' of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man. Laced with dark humour and slam-packed with electrifying action Hard Target is a must see for action fans. Nowhere To Run (1993): Action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme has nowhere to run and nothing to lose! An escaped prisoner hiding from the authorities Sam Gillen (Van Damme) always manages to be in the wrong place at the right time. Risking his hard-fought freedom he aids a beautiful young widow Clydie (Rosanna Arquette) and her children against a ruthless developer who's trying to drive them off their land. Hunted by both the police and the developer's hired killers Sam pulls no punches in his furious fight for survival - he'll do anything to protect the family who are protecting him. The result is more hard-hitting high kicking Van Damme action than you've ever seen! Knock Off (1998): Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in an explosive thriller set in Hong Kong's shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China. When a shipment of jeans to the US proves counterfeit Marcus Ray the ""King of the Knock-Offs"" (Van Damme) finds himself at the centre of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States' security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs disguised within other manufactured goods are schedules for departure from Hong Kong to America. When Ray's company's jeans are found to be the housing for the explosives he's the one man the CIA can count on to prevent certain disaster! In a territory where loyalty can change hands overnight Marcus Ray's survival will depend on him knowing the fakes from the real thing!
Ada (Helen Bonham Carter) is an English fashion designer living a vaguely dissatisfied life with screenwriter Paul in a new home which is a bit above their means. Guido Paul's writing partner is having relationship problems of his own with Stephanie. And Guido and Paul are seriously late in delivering their script to Alphonse a young director with diminishing patience. Into this comes Lise an up and coming fashion designer who derails Ada's career by snagging a major assignment and making romantic advances at Paul. The lives loves deceptions triumphs and tragedies of this circle of self-absorbed over-achieving Parisians becomes more confusing convoluted and entangled leading to a surprising finale that blurs fiction and reality in a very Woody Allen way.
12 Action DVD MoviesThe Lawnmower Man:Stephen King's virtual reality thriller stars Pierce Brosnan as a scientist with a dangerous vision.Grand Theft Auto:Ron Howard's directorial debut sees teenage carnappers go wild in the funniest car movie ever!Who Dares Wins:Lewis Collins stars as an undercover SAS officer infiltrating a deadly terrorist organisation.Year Of The Gun:Sharon Stone plays a photographer caught up in the violent turmoil of terrorist-threatened Rome.Fire On The Amazon:Sandra Bullock is an activist helping a photojournalist investigate the assassination of an environmentalist.Kickboxer:One of Jean-Claude Van Damme's signature roles as a vengeance-crazed martial arts champion.The Jigsaw Man:Michael Caine as a spy given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB.Train To Hell:Hugh Grant and Malcolm McDowell as mysterious passengers on board the Orient Express.Revelation:Is the new supreme leader of Earth the true messiah or The Antichrist?Total Reality:A deadly mission to travel back in time and prevent the destruction of the Earth!The Last Patrol:Dolph Lundgren stars as a soldier determined to restore order in the aftermath of a huge earthquake.I'm Still Waiting For You:A psychiatrist has spent 13 years keeping a killer behind bars but now he's escaped!
Les Pianos De La Nuit' is a collection of piano recitals performed live in the heart of Provence during the International Piano festival of La Roque d'Antheron. Conceived specifically for DVD release these virtuoso performances by contemporary artists can claim authoritative status as classic 21st-century archival footage.'Tracks Include:FRANZ SCHUBERT - Eight Variations on a French song in E minor D. 624- Grand Rondo in A major D. 951- Allegro in A Minor 'Lebenssturme' D. 947- Fantaisie in F minor D. 940
First Family Of The Piano - Bell Telephone Hour Of 1967
A home for the physically handicapped. And next to it a highway. Rene is 50 and nearly finished. Bitter aggressive loathed by patients and carers alike. The victim of a terminal wasting disease. But his rage filled cynicism is no match for the simple compassion of his young nurse Julie. Rene confides in her his one desire: To make love before the disease destroys him. Julie finds him a lover from the prostitutes who work the highway and Rene is transformed! His newly awakened hum
The opening of Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's second feature film, is one of the signal moments of the French New Wave--an inspired intersection of grim fatality and happy accident, location shooting and lurid melodrama, movie convention and frowzy, uncontainable life. A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching over his shoulder for pursuers, the running man charges smack into a lamppost. The figure that helps him to his feet is not one of the pursuers (they've oddly disappeared) but an anonymous passer-by, who proceeds to escort him for a block or two, genially schmoozing about the mundane, slow-blooming glories of marriage. The Good Samaritan departs at the next turning, never to be identified and never to be seen again. And the first man--who, despite this evocative introduction, is not even destined to be the main character of the movie--immediately resumes his helter-skelter flight from an as-yet-unspecified and unseen menace. At this point in his career--right after The 400 Blows, just before his great Jules and Jim--the world seemed wide for Truffaut, as wide as the Dyaliscope screen that he and cinematographer Raoul Coutard deployed with unprecedented spontaneity and lyricism. Anything might wander into frame and become part of the flow: an oddball digression, an unexpected change of mood, a small miracle of poetic insight. The official agenda of the movie is adapting a noir-ish story by American writer David Goodis, about a celebrated concert musician (Charles Aznavour) hiding out as a piano player in a saloon. He's on the run as much as the guy--his older brother--in the first scene. But whereas the brother is worried about a couple of buffoonish gangsters, Charlie Koller is ducking out on life, love and the possibility that he might be hurt, or cause hurt, again. Decades after its original release, Shoot the Piano Player remains as fresh, exhilarating, and heartbreaking--as open to the magic of movies and life--as ever. --Richard T Jameson
Versatility, thy name is Van Damme! So Arnold cries in End of Days? Hah! In this relentless revenge actioner, Jean-Claude not only cries, but has a drunk scene, suffers suicidal despair, does a little slapstick, and still manages to flash his ubiquitous butt. Which, of course, is what his legion of fans want to see him kick plenty of (other people's butts, that is; not his own). Van Damme may no longer generate any box-office heat (like 1998's Legionnaire, this bypassed cinemas to go straight to video), but he at least gives his fans what they want. Originally titled Coyote Moon, Desert Heat recalls that guilty pleasure Road House, as Eddie Lomax (Van Damme) comes to the rescue of a gallery of colourful characters terrorised by slobbering, drug-dealing bikers and rednecks in a dilapidated desert town. And this time, it's personal. As one denizen ominously observes, "There's trouble on the hoof and it's coming this way" for the three ill-fated bullies who beat up and shot Eddie and left him for dead. Despite its desert setting, Heat is an oasis for great character actors who pick up Van Damme's considerable slack. They include Danny Trejo (Con Air) as Eddie's Native American friend Johnny Sixtoes, Pat Morita (The Karate Kid), Larry Drake (Darkman), Vincent Schiavelli (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ghost), Bill Erwin (Candy Stripe Nurses), and luscious Jaime Preslly as Dottie the waitress. The director is credited as Danny Mulroon, a pseudonym for John Avildsen, the Academy Award-winning director of Rocky. His career, too, seems to be on the ropes, but he keeps punching with some welcome eccentric touches. At one point Johnny gives the recuperating Eddie a foot massage (didn't he see Pulp Fiction?). And the script offers such goodies as a lovelorn bus driver (Tom's brother, Jim Hanks) inviting Dottie to see Yojimbo, and one biker's plea for mercy from a local tough: "Jessie, we were in high school together. I signed your yearbook". --Donald Liebenson, Amazon.com
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