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• Legionnaire | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £11.35   |  Saving you £-5.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Exiled to a video-only release when its distributor balked after the flop of Jean-Claude Van Damme's previous film Knock Off, this lavish adventure deserved a chance at theatrical success. Action icon Van Damme recasts himself as a tragic romantic hero in this entertaining old-fashioned adventure with a modern sensibility. "The Muscles from Brussels" is no Brando, but he acquits himself nicely as a cocky boxer who double-crosses a Marseilles mobster and joins the French Foreign Legion when his half-baked plan backfires with tragic consequences. Surrounded by a better than usual cast (including Steven Berkoff as a Teutonic drill sergeant, Jim Carter as the ruthless ganglord, and Nicholas Farrell as a gentleman soldier with a taste for gambling and a dark past), Van Damme's dour performance sometimes gets lost in the colourful characters around him. But that's okay--there's adventure enough to go around and he's willing to share it. The Marseilles scenes evoke a quaint movie past with their smoky bars and shadowy streets, but the film is reborn as an ambitious, stoic platoon drama in the sands of French Morocco. Legionnaire alludes to classic films from Beau Geste to Casablanca to Lawrence of Arabia, but ultimately marches its own macho course, revelling in testosterone-driven heroics and bonding-under-fire while acknowledging the irony of its colonial mission ("We're the intruders", realises one soldier). It's a calculated risk for Van Damme (who also co-wrote and co-produced), but if Legionnaire never quite grasps the epic scope it's reaching for, it remains one of his best films, an handsome, exciting and surprisingly grim desert adventure. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Les Visiteurs - Parts 1 And 2 | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £19.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (25.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Les Visiteurs (1993): Les Visiteurs is the smash hit time-travelling romp that everyone's talking about. When knights were bold in days of old there could never have been anything quite like the wild and wacky adventures of Count Godefroy and his grotesque vassal Jacquoville who are accidentally zapped from the 12th century to the present day with hilarious consequences. Toilets telephones cars and clingfilm are just some of the new fangled inventions that baffle our olde-world heroes - not to mention people who look just like them - as they try to get back their own time and the destiny that awaits them. But will it be alright for the knight? Les Visiteurs 2 - Les Couloirs Du Temps (1998): The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent the effete Jacquart present-day owner of the chateau further complicates the matter.

• Les Enfants Du Paradis | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £16.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (17.87%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film which regularly charts high in critics' polls of the best films of all time, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert's masterpiece Les Enfants du Paradis is as solid a landmark in French film history as the Eiffel Tower is on the Parisian landscape. And at 187 minutes running time, it's a massy edifice indeed, built from a rambunctious cast of characters--ranging from pickpockets and prostitutes to aristocrats and actors--whose lives intersect around the Theatre des Funambules, a popular Parisian theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, during the 1840s. (The title refers to the poor who can only afford seats in the upper galleries of the theatre.) The heart of the plot is a love story between mime artiste Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and streetwalker Garance (the magnificent, sand-paper-voiced Arletty). When Garance is falsely accused of pickpocketing, Baptiste provides a mimed alibi for her to the police (one of the film's most famous set pieces). The rose she later throws him in gratitude sets off a romantic obsession, one of several that structure the film, as do love triangles, duels, and tortured confessions of feeling. Thematically, Les Enfant du Paradis gnaws over typically French cinematic preoccupations: illusion and reality, the nature of performance, the indomitable spirit of the proletariat and so on, all made the more charged and poignant when you know the film was shot during the Nazi occupation. (One actor, Robert Le Vigan, was reportedly a Nazi collaborator and disappeared during the filming under mysterious circumstances and so had to be replaced by Pierre Renoir.) --Leslie Felperin

• Waiting for Anya | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £6.77   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the novel by War Horse author, Michael Morpurgo, Waiting for Anya tells the powerful and authentic true story of a young shepherd-boy who risks everything to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain from German-occupied France. Filmed in the town of Lecsun, France in which the true to life story also originated, the film boasts an all-stellar cast including; Stranger Things star, Noah Schnapp, Academy Award Winner Anjelica Huston (Ever After, The Addams Family), Jean Reno (Leon, The Big Blue, Ronin), Frederick Schmidt (Mission: Impossible Fallout), Thomas Kretschmann (The Pianist, Central Intelligence) and Nicholas Rowe (Riviera, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).

• Armored | Blu Ray | (31/05/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Vacancy" director Nimrod Antal helms the crime thriller "Armored", starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends.

• Crimson Rivers 2: Angels Of The Apocalypse | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £14.72   |  Saving you £5.27 (35.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  French sensation The Crimson Rivers was a serial killer thriller with a difference--it was genuinely thrilling. It was also pretty disturbing, but Jean Reno (The Professional) brought some light to the darkness with his sly performance as dog-phobic detective Niémans. Fortunately, Reno has returned in this highly stylized Luc Besson-penned sequel. Vincent Cassell has not, but Benoît Magimel (The Piano Teacher), as new partner Reda, makes for a decent replacement. Alas, Olivier Dahan isn't in the same league as Matthieu Kassovitz and the story line, which has something to do with the Last Supper, the Maginot Line, and gravity-defying killer monks, is even more convoluted than before. Then there's Johnny Hallyday (The Man on the Train) as a mysterious one-eyed man and Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings) as a bad German dude. It's all a little ridiculous, but entertaining nonetheless, and the chase sequences are a treat. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Crimson Rivers | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £20.08   |  Saving you £-14.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The same day 300km apart two policemen are given two very distinct cases. Pierre Niemans (Reno) is a man of experience who has an infallible instinct in criminal affairs but hides painful fears. He travels to Guernon a university town in the Alps where a violent murder has taken place. Max Kerkerian (Cassel) young sharp and a loner is a former car thief who entered the police force through a love of danger. He is investigating a desecrated graveyard and in particular the grave of a child who disappeared twenty years before. The two investigations soon crash head on and the murder count begins to grow. The truth will outdo all theories taking the two policemen to high altitudes caught between icy heights and deaths door.

• The Pink Panther 1 and 2 Double Pack | DVD | (15/10/2012) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (20.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pink PantherWhen a star soccer coach is murdered and his priceless Pink Panther diamond stolen, France is in an uproar. Fortunately, Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin - Bowfinger, Cheaper by the Dozen) is on the case. He doesn't have a clue, but for Clouseau, that's just a minor detail. With his partner, Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno - The Da Vinci Code, The Professional), he careens from one misadventure to the next, leaving mayhem in his wake from the boulevards of Paris to the streets of New York. Will he seduce the pop diva, Xania (Beyonce Knowles - Austin Powers: Goldmember)? Will he push Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Oscar Winner Kevin Kline - 1988 Best Supporting Actor, A Fish Called Wanda) over the edge? Will he catch the killer and recover the diamond? With Inspector Clouseau, anything is possible. Pink Panther 2Steve Martin returns to the scene of the fun as the brilliant bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in this side-splitting slapstick comedy for the whole family! When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther diamond Clouseau is assigned to a dream team of international detectives who are under pressure to bring the master thief to justice before he strikes again.

• Les Visiteurs | DVD | (07/02/2000) from £18.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Les Visiteurs is the smash hit time-travelling romp that everyone's talking about. When knights were bold in days of old there could never have been anything quite like the wild and wacky adventures of Count Godefroy and his grotesque vassal Jacquoville who are accidentally zapped from the 12th century to the present day with hilarious consequences. Toilets telephones cars and clingfilm are just some of the new fangled inventions that baffle our olde-world heroes - not to mention pe

• 22 Bullets | Blu Ray | (31/01/2011) from £11.83   |  Saving you £8.16 (68.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After a long brutal and successful career in the Marseille mafia Charly Matte'' (Jean Reno) has turned a new leaf and gone straight. For three years he has lived a quiet life devoted to his wife and two young children. Then one winter morning he is left for dead on the docks of the old port with 22 bullets in his body. Somehow he survives. And goes looking for Tony Zacchia the only man who would dare to try to kill him. Zacchia made just one mistake: he failed.

• Singin' In The Rain | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (122.42%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

• Armored | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £3.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (276.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Vacancy" director Nimrod Antal helms the crime thriller "Armored", starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends.

• Cash | Blu Ray | (30/01/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this slick, densely plotted thriller. Cash (Jean Dujardin) is a suave and well-mannered outlaw who specialises in grand-scale heists When Cash's brother and partner in crime Solal (Clovis Cornillac) is killed by members of a rival outfit who try to force their way into a carefully planned heist, Cash joins forces with Maxime Dubreuil (Jean Reno), a gifted veteran thief who brings along his beautiful protege Garance (Alice Taglioni).

• The Round Up | Blu Ray | (18/07/2011) from £11.88   |  Saving you £5.11 (43.01%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A faithful retelling of the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup and the events surrounding it.

• Leon (20th Anniversary Steelbook Edition) | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with this stylised thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno and Portman. Rather than cave in to the cookie-cutter look and feel of American action pictures, Besson brings a bit of his glossy style from French hits La Femme Nikita and Subway to the production of The Professional, and the results are refreshing even if the bullets and explosions are awfully familiar.--Tom Keogh

• Mission: Impossible Collector's Edition | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £7.03   |  Saving you £12.22 (211.79%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Expect the Impossible. Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. ""This tape will self-destruct in five seconds.""

• Jean Renoir - La Bete Humaine, La Grande Illusion, Le Crime De Monsieur Lange | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Includes the classic Renoir films La Bete Humaine La Grande Illusion and The Crime Of M. Lange. La Bete Humaine A mad train driver falls in love with a married woman. They plot to kill the wife's husband... La Grande Illusion One of the very first prison escape movies Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece of French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp and Erich von Stroheim as the unforgettable Captain von Rauffenstein. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange Told in flashback this dramatic story revolves around the author Lange who is exploited by his ruthless boss who eventually may cause the downfall of his publishing house but disaster is averted by Lange's talent and the political will of the workforce who form a cooperative...

• Tom Cruise 5 Movie Boxset | DVD | (10/05/2021) from £6.81   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Top Gun: In the role that made him one of the world's biggest stars, Tom Cruise rides into the Danger Zone in the smash-hit film that defined the modern-day blockbuster! Cruise plays Maverick, a hotshot flyer who is sent to the Navy's prestigious Top Gun program. But in order to become the best of the best, he'll need the help of his wingman (Anthony Edwards) and new-found love (Kelly McGillis). Co-starring Val Kilmer, this high-octane hit will take your breath away! War of the Worlds: An earth-shattering adventure that both rivets and amazes (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune),War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of the most awe-inspiring cinematic experiences of all time! A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells˜ classic, the sci-fi thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family. Fleeing from an extraterrestrial army of killer Tripods that annihilate everything in their path, Ray Ferrier (Cruise) races to keep his family safe. War of the Worlds is an action-packed adventure that explodes with spectacular special effects! Mission: Impossible: Tom Cruise ignites the screen in the hit big-screen blockbuster that launched one of today's biggest, and still-growing, action movie franchises. Ethan Hunt (Cruise), is a top secret agent, framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt races like a burning fuse to stay one step ahead of his pursuers... and draw one step closer to discovering the shocking truth. Days of Thunder: From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with some of the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race car driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award®winner Robert Duvall*) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live Jack Reacher: Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol) leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in the explosive thriller that critics are calling a superior thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defence: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.

• The Dead List | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £4.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (236.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  French gangster drama starring Jean Reno as the godfather of a powerful criminal family. Milo Malakian (Reno) is the patriarch of a merciless gangster family who control much of Southern France.His son and - so, at least, Milo thinks - heir to the criminal empire, Anton (Gaspard Ulliel), feels ill at ease in the family and hopes to escape it. This will be far from easy; Milo is used to obedience and is in the midst of planning a major criminal scheme that will grant the family yet more power.The scheme has attracted the attention of Inspector Saunier (Sami Bouajila), Milo's nemesis. As the police close in on the family's crime empire, Anton may find himself facing increasingly difficult choices as loyalties become pushed to the limit.

• Empire Of The Wolves | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £15.28   |  Saving you £7.70 (62.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you can't remember your past... you can't save your future. Anna Heymes (Arly Jover) the wife of a senior government official is experiencing the loss of memory and terrifying hallucinations. In the Turkish neighborhood of Paris two police officers Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin) and Schiffer (Reno) are trying to solve the mystery of the sadistic murders of three women all clandestine Turkish laborers. While the upright Nerteaux is determined to stop the killings Schiffer