"Actor: Jean Claude"

• Barocco | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £29.22   |  Saving you £-16.23 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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 / Knock Off / Nowhere To Run | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  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!

• Portraits Chinois | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  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 Movies | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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!

• Wake Of Death | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

• John W. Walter - How To Draw A Bunny | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  How To Draw A Bunny [Ntsc]

• Christian Ivaldi/Jean-Claude Pennetier-Les Pianos De La Nuit | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-7.66 (-51.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  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

• Christo And Jeanne Claude - Five Films - A Maysles Films Production | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £68.83   |  Saving you £-18.84 (-37.70%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The vision of environmental/conceptual artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude creates a whirlwind of controversy in many of the communities where they install their work. Known for projects as seemingly incomprehensible as surrounding islands around Miami in flamboyantly pink fabric and using fabric to disguise the Pont-Neuf in Paris the pair aim to change the way people view their surroundings - both natural and manmade. In a series of films spanning their creations from 1974 to 1995 le

• Second In Command | UMD | (01/01/1980) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• First Family of the Piano - Bell Telephone Hour of 1967 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £22.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (3.00%)   |  RRP £22.99

  First Family Of The Piano - Bell Telephone Hour Of 1967

• Asterix Conquers America | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Uneasy Riders - Nationale 7 | DVD | (01/01/1900) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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

• Tirez Sur Le Pianiste | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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

• This Earth is Mine (Esta Tierra ES Mía) Spanish Import, Plays in English | DVD | (01/06/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Desert Heat | DVD | (20/03/2000) from £10.87   |  Saving you £-4.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  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

• Stolen Kisses | DVD | (24/08/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.77

• Love on the Run | DVD | (11/05/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice: Opera in 3 Acts | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

• Knock Off/Double Team/Desert Heat/Nowhere to Run | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Knock Off (1998): 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! Double Team (1997): Though he's the nation's top counter-terrorist Jack Quinn (Jean-Claude Van Damme) wants to get out of the spy game. But on his final mission he misses his target and wakes up in a place they call the Colony a think tank for spies who are too dangerous to roam the world but too valuable to be killed. With his target the dangerous enigmatic terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke) still on the loose and out to get his family. Quinn's only hope is the flamboyant but deadly gun dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman). Desert Heat (1999): Desperate to flee the inner demons raging inside him mysterious loner Eddie Lomax (Van-Damme) rides to the last outpost of an abandoned desert highway prepared to end it all. But when a savage gang steals his prized cycle and leaves him for dead Eddie's life is saved by a soulmate from his past. Burning with a new reason to live Eddie sets off on a one-man search-and-destroy mission against his attackers. Fuelled by Van Damme's powerful performance Desert Heat is an explosive and sensational adventures from first to last. 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!.

• Cyborg | DVD | (19/06/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jean-Claude Van Damme, aka "the Muscles from Brussels", had only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame post-apocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague that is threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you are probably a founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: don't say you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screen writing. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com