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• Her Own Rules | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £5.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (101.17%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Now in her thirties and head of a giant hotel empire Meredith Sanders (Melissa Gilbert) returns to the English village where she was born to visit Agnes (Ginny Holder) her childhood friend from their harsh days in the orphanage. She also meets Lucas (Jeremy Sheffield) who has experienced his own devastating losses. But Agnes is now dying and Meredith's return is soon to unlock an incredibly emotional chain of events that begins with the startling discovery that Meredith's mother is still alive. Soon the inevitable confrontation and a shocking revelation are to propel Meredith on a heart-wrenching journey that finally enables her to release her true feelings and find the courage to love again.

• Thank You For Smoking | DVD | (08/01/2007) from £6.91   |  Saving you £11.08 (160.35%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A tobacco spin doctor tries to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son in this satirical comedy.

• Frank And Jesse | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £4.79   |  Saving you £-0.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  With the Civil War over Frank and Jesse James (Bill Paxton and Rob Lowe) retreat to the family farm where they witness the murder of their younger brother while Yankee soldiers turn their backs. The James boys feel they have no choice but to seek their own justice. They join the younger brothers to form a gang of rebels that wage a bloody war against its corrupt enemies in robbing their banks stagecoaches and train. In retaliation their adversaries hire famed detective Allan Pinkerton (William Atherton) to stop them. When his nephew is gunned down by the James Gang Pinkerton vows he will not rest until the day the notorious brothers are brought to justice at the end of a rope.

• Moscow on the Hudson (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Vladimir, a musician with the Moscow circus, defects to the US and must navigate a new life in New York. An early dramatic role for star Robin Williams, the actor undertook a crash course in Russian and learned to play the saxophone in order to play the part. Extras 4K restoration Audio commentary with director Paul Mazursky (2001) The Guardian Interview with Paul Mazursky (1984): the filmmaker in conversation at London's National Film Theatre Maria Conchita Alonso on ˜Moscow on the Hudson' (2020): new interview with the actor Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography Original theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Monica Castillo, a contemporary account of the making of the film, Paul Mazursky's research visit to Moscow, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies Extras subject to change

• My Brother is a Dog | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (69.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Lighthearted German drama about a ten-year-old girl whose wish for a pet dog leads to havoc within the family. Marietta (Maria Erich) wants nothing more in the world than a pet dog, but her parents keep refusing. Little wonder when she receives a magical stone for her birthday she retreats to her room and wishes upon that stone her desire to have a dog. To her delight and amazement the wish is granted and she is soon playing with friendly schnauzer Tobi, but there is a catch. Marietta's four-year-old brother Tobias (Hans-Laurin Beyerling) has disappeared and her new dog shares certain physical characteristics with Tobias which convinces her that her brother has been transformed. Will Marietta be able to get her human brother back? And will little Tobias even want to come back to the human world after his adventures as a canine?

• The Bloody Judge | Blu Ray | (19/06/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  If you thought the Witchfinder General was a wrong 'un, wait until you meet The Bloody Judge!Charged by the king to sniff out witchcraft and treason, Judge Jeffries the legendary Christopher Lee is a man who enjoys his work, especially the opportunities it affords for torture and sexual violence. But his brand of legal sadism creates enemies: His Honour cannot escape justice forever... Filled with the sort of depravity you might reasonably expect from director Jesus Franco, the law-abiding lads at 88 Films are proud to present English language blu-ray premier of this classic of seventies Euro horror, beautifully restored and completely uncut. Extras High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation in 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio Lossless 2.0 English Mono Optional English Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Audio Commentary with Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw Deleted and Alternative Scenes Theatrical Trailer More TBC

• Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Peter Hall's lavishly staged L'Incoronazione di Poppea celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Glyndebourne in 1984 with a performance of Monteverdi's most celebrated and also most controversial opera. The score is conductor Raymond Leppard's "enhanced" edition, which he had premiered at Glyndebourne back in 1962, fully scored for a large orchestra. Much debate circles around the forces appropriate for performing Monteverdi's decidedly minimalist work, but one thing at least is certain: it didn't sound anything like this in the 17th century! Never mind, however inauthentic it may be, Leppard's big and beefy orchestral updating--including a fulsome continuo group with pairs of harpsichords, organs and cellos, as well as lute, guitar and harp--supports the weighty melodrama nicely. The singers, too, are full-bodied, led by a fruity Maria Ewing as Poppea (in various revealing outfits) sounding suitably seductive, and Dennis Bailey, oddly lovely of voice as Nero (one of the opera's controversial aspects is the heroic central role accorded to these two thoroughly wicked characters). Perhaps best of all is Robert Lloyd as Seneca, who not only boasts a profound, reverberant bass, but also looks the part under beard and toga. With an onstage chorus to lament him, Seneca's death scene is the most moving in the opera. Peter Hall's clever staging keeps the Olympians--Love, Fortune and Virtue--permanently watching from above as the venal humans below act out this tragedy of poisoned love. The no-frills DVD has subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish. --Mark Walker

• Last Tango in Paris | Blu Ray | (16/04/2012) from £9.59   |  Saving you £0.40 (4.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brace yourself for the uncut, uncensored version of the most controversial film of its era. As scandalous as it scintillating, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris still resonates as a landmark in cinematic history, featuring an Oscar- Nominated performance by Marlon Brando that ranks among the best of his career. He (Brando) is a 45-year-old American living in Paris, haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is a 20-year-old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other, these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark, tragic lives.

• Face Of An Angel | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £7.42   |  Saving you £-1.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  She was everything America wanted a movie star to be...except white Actress dancer singer. Here was a woman with talent beauty and ambition. Dorothy Dandridge owed it to herself to make it to the top. And make it she would. An acclaimed stage performer Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved abused cheated glorified undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.

• The Sect | Blu Ray | (27/12/2016) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michele Soavi directs this '70s Italian horror. In Frankfurt, schoolteacher Miriam Kreisl (Kelly Leigh Curtis) is inducted into the Sect of the Faceless Ones, seduced by the charisma of its leader Moebius Kelly (Herbert Lom), and faces a series of terrifying ceremonies and ritualistic killings. After nearly running over the old man and innocently offering him a place to stay, Miriam has no idea what the satanic cult has lying in store for her...

• Cavalli - La Calisto | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• History Of Violence | Blu Ray | (09/05/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Viggo Mortensen stars in this stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg.

• Tancredi | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £6.85   |  Saving you £19.90 (390.96%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Warrior And The Sorceress | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £14.14   |  Saving you £-6.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The mighty warrior Kain (David Carradine) crosses the barren wastelands of the planet Ura where two arch enemies Zeg (Luke Askew) and the evil degenerate Balcaz (William Marin) fight incessantly for control of the village's only well. Kain sees his opportunity and announces that his sword is for hire... but his eyes stay clearly on the beautiful captive sorceress Naja (Maria Socas) and his newly awakened purpose.

• The Passenger | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting portrait of David Locke (Jack Nicholson) a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa Spain Germany England Spain. Possibly one of the greatest road movies of all-time.

• Nabucco - Verdi | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £14.38   |  Saving you £5.60 (49.17%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Verdi - Nabucco

• Rossini: Tancredi | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tancredi was the work on which Rossini's reputation as a composer of tragic operas rested, just as L'Italiana in Algeri ("The Italian Girl in Algiers") had been his first comic masterpiece. Inevitably, given the opera seria conventions within which he was working, it can seem terribly static nowadays--this is a work whose stage action consists almost exclusively of entrances and exits, and of characters emoting in various combinations--but when the emotions are as powerful as those here it hardly matters. The breeches part of Tancredi is one of Rossini's most powerfully lyrical: Bernadette Manca de Nisa is especially moving in the famous aria "Di Tanti Palpiti". The heroine Amenaide, wrongfully accused of treason, has the most to do emotionally, and Maria Raul is suitably touching, collapsing decorously to the floor as a way of conveying extremes of shame or incredulous hurt. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo does what he can with the stiff villain, Orbazzano. In some ways, the star of the performance is Raul Giménez in the unpromising role of Amenaide's much-deceived father Argirio, combining authority with pain and making both highly musical. Throughout, Gianluigi Gelmetti's intelligent conducting of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra makes the delicate sides of the scoring matter most:he has learned from original instrument performances how to bring out the plangency of Rossini's woodwind writing.On the DVD: The DVD has no additional features except for subitles in Italian, French, German, English and Spanish and menus in French, Spanish, German and English. The sound is presented perfectly adequately but unexcitingly in PCMstereo and the picture ratio is 4:3. --Roz Kaveney

• Les Enfants Du Paradis (2 discs, limited edition packaging) | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Voted 'The Best French Film ever made' by the French Film Academy. Les Enfants du Paradis is a film of such dazzling proportions it has been labelled the French Gone With The Wind.Set amidst the glittering theatre world of 19th century Paris, the story revoles around the beautiful and free-spirted courtesan, Garanace, and the four men who compete for her affections; a mime-artist, an actor, an aristocrat and a criminal. As the melodrama unfolds, we are treated to one of cinema's greatest love stories, a captivating tale of passion, deception and murder.

• We Still Kill the Old Way | Blu Ray | (08/12/2025) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After two men are killed on a hunting trip a lonely professor (Gian Maria Volonté, The Working Class Goes to Heaven), takes it upon himself to investigate what he believes was not a simple honour killing. As his search intensifies, politics and the Church become implicated in a complex conspiracy orchestrated by a powerful criminal organisation. Elio Petri's We Still Kill the Old Way, based on the novel by Leonardo Sciascia (The Day of the Owl), is a tense paranoid thriller that features Volonté in one of his finest performances and a superb score by Luis Bacalov (Django). Winner of awards for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Actor at the Italian Golden Globes, the film is made available on home video for the first time in the UK.Press & AwardsWinner: Best Screenplay, Cannes Film FestivalWinner: Best Actor: Golden Globes (Italy) It's impossible to resist and hard to shake off even long after you step out of his unsettling, expressive world. - Electricsheep.comThis tense, unusual thriller directed by Elio Petri has a nightmare realism that suggests Kafka Volonté is a powerful actor who draws you inside his character, and the film is marvellously well sustained. - Pauline KaelBLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES2K restoration of the film by Movietime in association with Museo Nazionale del Cinema TorinoAlternate presentation with English language title sequence and audioOriginal uncompressed mono PCM audioArchival documentary featuring interviews with writer Ugo Pirro, composer Luis Bacalov and Paola PetriInterview with make-up artist Pierantonio MecacciInterview with Roberto Curti, author of Elio Petri: Investigation of a FilmmakerInterview with Fabrizio Catalano, grandson of author Leonardo SciasciaTrailerNewly translated English subtitles for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio

• Geostorm | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrongthe system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it's a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything...and everyone along with it.