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• And then there were None (1945) DVD | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Agatha Christie novel Ten Little Indians. Ten strangers are invited to a lonely mansion on a remote island. One by one they are accused of past murders and one by one they die. From one of the world's best-selling crime novels by the world's best-selling author Agatha Christie this is the critically acclaimed original screen adaptation of the quintessential who dunnit.

• Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends - Vol. 1 | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Porn: Louis strips off and plunges into the world of porn. From the glossy high end productions to the sleazy gonzo flicks he gets intimate with the men and women who bang for kicks. But is it all as fun as it seems? And what happens if you can't get wood? Survivalists: Louis travels to the American North West a place where survivalists white seperatists and paranoid freedom fighters are arming themselves against the New World Order. Meet the radical nuts and noodles who shoot first and ask questions later...

• Walk a Crooked Mile (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The FBI team up with Scotland Yard to crack an espionage ring in Walk a Crooked Mile, starring Louis Hayward (House by the River), Dennis O'Keefe (Chicago Syndicate), and Raymond Burr (Abandoned). When a government agent is killed investigating communist spies who have infiltrated a top-secret nuclear laboratory, FBI agent Dan O'Hara (O'Keefe) must team up with British detective Scotty Grayson (Hayward) to track down the culprits. Directed by Gordon Douglas (Between Midnight and Dawn), Walk a Crooked Mile is a tense and timely Cold War film noir. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946, 23 mins): short film following the day-to-day work of a Scotland Yard detective in the pursuit of a case The March of Time: 'Policeman's Holiday' (1949, 20 mins): dramatised instalment of the famed newsreel series, featuring an American detective who assists Scotland Yard while in the UK, echoing but reversing the plot of Walk a Crooked Mile Dunked in the Deep (1949, 17 mins): the Three Stooges inadvertently find themselves mixed-up with a foreign spy ring and smuggling top-secret material out of the country Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Successive Slidings of Pleasure (DVD) | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young woman is questioned by a detective (Jean-Louis Trintignant Trans-Europ-Express The Conformist) a repressed judge (Michael Lonsdale Moonraker) a curious nun a sexually-obsessed priest and her lawyer all of whom suspect her of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead bound to the posts of her bed a pair of scissors impaled in her heart. Does the woman have the powers to make all around her fall prey to her spell forcing them to slide progressively into desire lust and ultimately the unknown? This erotic drama from one of the most ground-breaking and daring of the post-war French filmmakers Alain Robbe-Grillet (writer of the classic Last Year in Marienbad) is presented here in a beautiful High Definition transfer complete with revealing and comprehensive exclusive extra features including a richly detailed audio commentary by Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas. Features: Fully uncut and uncensored version Video introduction by Catherine Robbe-Grillet (2013 6 mins) Filmed interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet by Frederic Taddei (2013 33 mins) Exclusive full-length audio commentary by cult film authority Tim Lucas

• My Night with Maud | DVD | (11/10/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Among the late Rohmer's finest films the fourth in the 'Moral Tales' series tells the story of a chaste and conservative thirty-something (Jean-Louis Trintignant Three Colours Red) who unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the worldly and spirited divorc''e Maud (Fran''oise Fabian) throwing the moral certainties of his life into question.

• Election 2 | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £14.90   |  Saving you £6.08 (51.05%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Even a criminal can serve his country. As a new election time approaches Triad Boss Lok attempts to seek re-election for himself while Jimmy tries to build a legitimate business empire on the mainland and escape the Triads...

• Jean Renoir Collection | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  La Grande Illusion (1937): During WWI three French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds as Rosenthal son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... One of the very first prison escape movies La Grande Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Le Crime De Monsieur Lange (1936): A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard swindling every one seducing female workers of Valentine's laundry... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front. La Bete Humaine (1940): Severine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them but doesn't tell the police because he's in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her... Boudu Saved From Drowing (1932): Michel Simon stars as Boudu a vagabond who attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Seine grieving over the loss of his dog. But Eduaord Lestingois (Charles Granval) a humane bookseller rescues him and takes him into his home hoping to reform the shaggy bum. Shortly thereafter anarchy reigns as the household is turned upside down by the antics of this large three-year-old. Spitting in first editions using silken sheets to polish his shoes sleeping in the hallway and similar breaches of etiquette do little to endear Boudu to Lestingois. However once Boudu has had a bath and shave in order to please the maid Mrs. Lestingois (Marcelle Hainia) becomes surprisingly responsive to his overtures. The maid (Severine Lerczinska) who is Lestingois's mistress also seems to feel the tramp's mysterious charm. Granval an exemplary bourgeois now has more than one reason to envy the man he saved from drowning.

• The Gate | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £90.17   |  Saving you £-84.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1987 The Gate was at the forefront of what came and went as a purely 80s genre: Kiddie Horror. Just like The Lost Boys or The Monster Squad of the same year, the idea was to let a couple of younger-than-teenage kids loose in a well-worn horror scenario and play it for as many laughs as scares. Its 15 certificate (PG-13 in the States) meant The Gate had an enormous opening weekend, and a considerable shelf life. The kids in question here are a very young Stephen (Blade) Dorff as Glen and his best friend Terry. After some tree felling in Glen's seemingly miles-square back yard they discover a hole full of precious rock. This is of course the Gate to a demonic dimension. As things start levitating, Glen's dog dies and moths get into the most awkward of places, it becomes obvious that the Gate is open! A teenage sister does little to help early on, but naturally the story develops into one about banding together under extreme circumstances. The make-up and stop-motion animation effects remain impressive in scope and there are a couple of frights still just on the right side of cliché. Since it was so successful, the writer and director went on to make an inferior sequel some years later. On the DVD: Viewers should note this is a very murky transfer that's in an unspecified widescreen ratio. There's also an unspectacular (equally unspecified) sound mix. But a gallery of 10 photos and the theatrical trailer makes up for that, right? --Paul Tonks

• Gia | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gia is a made-for-TV HBO film that stars Angelina Jolie as supermodel model Gia Carangi, who went from high school to the cover of British Vogue in less than two years. Carangi appeared on many more covers of Vogue (French, British, Italian, and American) and Cosmopolitan before dying of complications from AIDs (she was an IV heroin user) in 1986. Jolie comes by her talent honestly: she's the daughter of veteran actor Jon Voight, and her own training as a model serves her well here--she has the moves. Throughout, she's heartbreaking--as no doubt the real Carangi was--effective, and stunning. With good source material (Stephen Fried's A Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia), Jolie's stunning performance, and strong directing by Michael Cristofer, the movie goes beyond the merely sensational. The script was co-written by Cristofer and novelist Jay McInerney, whose Bright Lights, Big City covers similar territory. As a cautionary tale, Gia works. But to watch Jolie in her character's tragic self-destruction is utterly compelling. --NF Mendoza, Amazon.com

• AKA Cassius Clay | DVD | (18/05/2002) from £6.20   |  Saving you £9.79 (157.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Made in 1970, just as he was reaching the end of a three-year exile from boxing, AKA Cassius Clay is a documentary about Muhammad Ali's life and career. Produced by Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton--who would go on to manage Mike Tyson--it includes reams of Jacobs' vast collection of fight footage, some of it familiar, some quite rare, such as flickery images of his earliest bouts. The film intersperses an account of Ali's career with good natured, if combative, sections to camera featuring Ali and future Tyson trainer Cus D'Amato, who plays devil's advocate, arguing with the ex-champ that he would never have beaten Joe Louis in his heyday, or (more dubiously) his own protégé Floyd Patterson. Watching footage of his 1967 bout against Cleveland Williams here, it's hard to believe any champion before or since could have beaten Ali at his height. Ali's familiar story is competently related here (though narrator Richard Kiley has the mildly disconcerting air of a Bond villain): his 1960 Olympic triumph; his defeat of Sonny Liston who was expected to annihilate the young 22-year-old blowhard in 1964; his conversion to the Nation of Islam; and the plainly vindictive decision on the part of the authorities to revise his draft status and call him up for service in Vietnam. Ali refused and faced the possibility of a five-year jail sentence as well as being stripped of his title. The principle pleasure of AKA Cassius Clay is watching Ali in full verbal flow. His maniacal teasing of Liston was a psychological knockout blow. "The man's too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty, like me!" On the DVD: extras comprise scene selections and the original trailer. The reproduction is visually adequate, with the sepia tones of the fight footage holding up well; but the dubbing in places is poor. --David Stubbs

• The Paradine Case | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £12.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This minor 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock beats a familiar Hitchcockian drum: an attorney (Gregory Peck), in love with the client (Alida Valli) he is defending on a murder charge, implicates himself in her guilt by trying to put the blame on another man. The no-one-is-innocent theme may be consistent with Hitchcock's best films and world view, but this is one of the movies that got away from his crucial passion for the plastic side of creative directing. Stuck in a courtroom for much of the story, the film is fit to burst with possibility but is pinned down like a freshly caught butterfly in someone's airless collection. --Tom Keogh

• Price Of Glory | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Price of Glory a promising young boxer is knocked out of contention thanks to a sleazy manager who cashed out on his potential by pushing him into a big-money fight before he was ready. Thirteen years later that very same boxer, Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), has three sons whom he's training to be boxers too. His schoolteacher wife wants to make sure they get good grades, but Arturo is sure that boxing is their best chance to get out of the barrio. Flash-forward another 10 years, and the training is paying off. The three boys, Jimmy (Clifton Collins Jr.), Sonny (Jon Seda), and especially Johnny (Ernesto Hernández) have grown into smart and talented boxers. Obviously, Arturo is a good and a tough trainer, but the question of whether he's got his own or his sons' best interests at heart arises when a slick promoter (Ron Perlman) offers him big money first for his sons' contracts and then for a series of title fights. Price of Glory does an admirable job of riding that conundrum throughout, offering no easy answers. There is solid acting throughout and it's nice to see such a Latino-heavy cast, but at just over two hours the pace lags and the central themes are repeated one or two too many times. Aside from a late subplot about corruption and violence that comes across as a bit contrived, this is a good family film about boxing. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• The Marsh | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £11.61   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young beautiful but stressed out children's writer seeks out a holiday in the country but becomes the lead character in a supernatural mystery she must solve to save her life...

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Limited Edition Blu-ray Digibook) | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This 1930 film, No 54 on the AFI's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagy acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War I, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) by a zealously inspirational college professor. Once in uniform and on the front lines, however, he quickly discovers that the glory of the Fatherland is of little concern to a soldier dodging bullets and explosions, whose comrades are dying in his arms. As powerful in its way as Platoon almost 60 years later, All Quiet on the Western Front remains a classic tale of young soldiers' confrontations with the possibility of imminent and arbitrary death. Director Lewis Milestone shows a surprising range of techniques in this film from the formative years of moviemaking with sound. --Marshall Fine

• Repeat Performance | Blu Ray | (18/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gigi | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £10.59   |  Saving you £2.40 (22.66%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A scruffy tomboy is transformed into a radiant high society beauty in this glorious musical from MGM. Scored by the talented team of Lerner and Lowe the movie features splendid musical numbers like ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" and ""I Remember It Well."" Directed by the great Vincent Minnelli (The Band Wagon) this award-winning classic is not to be missed.

• Ismael's Ghosts | Blu Ray | (24/09/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (Ma vie en rose), Mathieu Almaric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) team up for the latest feature from acclaimed writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale). Filmmaker Ismael (Almaric) lives with his wife Sylvia (Gainsbourg) but remains obsessed with his ex-wife (Cotillard), who disappeared 20 years ago and is believed to be dead. When she suddenly reappears, Ismael's life already complicated by a film project he is unable to finish takes a strange turn. Complex, playful and humorous, Ismael's Ghosts is a wonderful showcase for some of French cinema's finest acting talent. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of the Director s Cut and the Theatrical Cut [Limited Edition Exclusive] DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Optional English subtitles Interview with director Arnaud Desplechin Interview with star Marion Cotillard Interview with star Charlotte Gainsbourg Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring two artworks FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau and Phil Concannon

• World War II Classics 2 - We Dive At Dawn / Reach For The Sky | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two examples of British Second World War films, We Dive at Dawn (1943) and Reach for the Sky (1956), are here stylishly packaged as a World War II Classics pack. We Dive at Dawn tells of the encounter between a British submarine and a German warship in the Baltic Sea. John Mills gives a dependable performance as the submarine commander, with Eric Portman the pick of a strong supporting cast. Director Anthony Asquith finds the balance between action sequences and "in situ" dialogue, and there's an evocative score from Louis Levy. The movie was an underrated film that deserves reappraisal, whereas Reach for the Sky (1956) was a box-office hit and remains a fondly regarded classic. Kenneth More is ideally cast as Douglas Bader, the gifted pilot who loses both legs in a pre-war air crash, only to play a major role in the Battle of Britain, rise to the rank of Group Captain and become a war hero. Based on Paul Brickhill's biography, this is an "official" history maybe, but Lewis Gilbert's screenplay and direction are historically accurate and informed by that very British humour of which More was a natural. The film is graced by a decent supporting cast, and a typically "widescreen" score from John Addison. On the DVD: The black and white prints look and sound excellent. Whereas We Dive at Dawn has 4:3 video aspect ratio, 15 chapter points and no subtitles, the later Reach for the Sky has vivid 16:9 anamorphic reproduction, 20 chapter points, subtitles and detailed biographies of More, Gilbert and Barder. The original theatrical trailer is included, but it would also have made sense to include an interview or documentary footage of Bader himself. Even so, this is an excellent starting-point for investigating a key area of British cinema.--Richard Whitehouse

• The World At War - Vol. 3 | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £16.16   |  Saving you £8.83 (35.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself. Originally shown as 26 one-hour programmes, The World at War set out to tell the story of the Second World War through the testimony of key participants. The result is a unique and unrepeatable event, since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long left to live. Each hour-long programme is carefully structured to focus on a key theme or campaign, from the rise of Nazi Germany to Hitler's downfall and the onset of the Cold War. There are no academic "talking heads" here to spell out an official version of history; the narration, delivered with wonderful gravitas by Sir Laurence Olivier, is kept to a minimum. The show's great coup was to allow the participants to speak for themselves. Painstaking research in the archives of the Imperial War Museum also unearthed a vast quantity of newsreel footage, including on occasion the cameraman's original raw rushes which present an unvarnished and never-before-seen picture of important events. Carl Davis' portentous main title theme and score underlines the grand scale of the enterprise. The original 26 episodes were supplemented three years later by six special programmes (narrated by Eric Porter), bringing the total running-time to a truly epic 32 hours. Now digitally remastered The World at War looks even more of an impressive achievement on DVD. Available in five volumes, each handsomely packaged double-disc set comes with a detailed menu that places the individual programmes along a chronological timeline. Better yet, chapter access is laid out to allow you to select key speeches or maps or newsreel footage. The World at War was a landmark television event; its DVD incarnation underlines its importance as an historical document. --Mark Walker

• Flash Point | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Maverick Detective Jun Ma (Donnie Yen - Dragon Tiger Gate Hero Seven Swords) is a man under serious pressure. His city has been taken over by three Triad brothers led by a vicious smuggler (Collin Chou - Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions Jet Li's Fearless) he's been demoted as punishment for beating up a suspect and he's starting to loose the respect of his team. But when Ma's indecision over withdrawing a young undercover officer (Louis Koo - Rob B Hood) from the Triad gang leads to the rookie being badly hurt Ma finally snaps and embarks on a one man killing spree that will not cease until the brothers are dead his city is safe and the team is avenged. Packed with real contact fighting manic John Woo style gun-play and incredible mixed martial arts action including a breathtaking 20 minute final'' Flashpoint is the kick-ass movie of the year!