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• Graduation | Blu Ray | (15/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young girl is set to leave her Romanian homeland for a prestigious English university when she is physically assaulted just before her final exam. Her father now tries to get to the bottom of who the culprit is and how he convince bureaucratic powers to reconsider this life changing exam for this daughter. Another brilliant drama that plays with thriller-like tension from the acclaimed director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.

• To Die For | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Cult Spaghetti Westerns Box Set | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Episodes Comprise: Django: Banned in UK until the 90s Sergio Corbucci's influential western stars Franco Nero as Django the mysterious lone gunfighter who arrives in a bleak muddrenched town. Caught in the middle of a violent feud between two gangs of sadistic bandits Django will need to fight for his life armed with his devastating revolving Gatling gun. A Bullet For The General aka QUIEN SABE? During the Mexican Revolution a gang of bandits led by the charismatic El Chuncho (a mesmerising Gian Maria Volont'' - of the DOLLARS films) are stealing weapons for the rebel General Elias. During a raid on a train a mysterious gringo Tate assists the bandits by killing the train driver. Tate infiltrates the gang which also includes the crazed priest El Santo (Klaus Kinski) and the beautiful Adelita (007's Martine Beswick). But Tate is in fact a covert US assassin sent to kill the rebel General Elias. Featuring music by Oscar Winner Ennio Morricone. Keoma is director Enzo G. Castellari 's (The Bronx Warriors; the original Inglorious Bastards) acknowledged masterpiece. Franco Nero stars as Keoma a gunslinger who on his return to his hometown finds his half brothers have joined the evil gang of a sadistic local villain. Intent on restoring law and order Keoma aided by the banjo-playing (Woody Strode) must fight this horde of ruthless killers to the bitter deadly end.

• Rome, Open City | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Open City' Roberto Rossellini's startling depiction of Nazi-occupied World War II Rome and one of the most prominent examples of his neorealist cinematic style is the story of a tenaciously held underground resistance against the Germans. When its leader Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) and a priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi) are captured the resistance collapses with disastrous personal results to all. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay; Fellini collaborat

• Offenbach - La Vie Parisienne (Rouland) | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  OFFENBACH: La vie parisienne - Sebastien Rouland/ Laurent Pelly.

• The Night Of San Lorenzo | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £12.95   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The night of the shooting stars is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. After hearing rumours of an impending Nazi plot to blow up their town a group of Italians flee...

• Treasure Island | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £6.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of dastardly pirates swashbuckling heroes buried treasure and a young boy's courage during the adventure of a lifetime!

• Justice League - Justice On Trial | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £4.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (195.77%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Two two-part episodes from the first season: 'In Blackest Night' and 'The Enemy Below'. In Blackest Night the hard nosed combative Green Lantern is put on trial for destroying the planet by a group of indestructable android enforcers call the Manhunters. Unable to save himself even with the help of his laser-projecting power ring the Green lantern has to rely on the powerful Justice League who comes to his aid to uncover the real perpetrator of the crime. In the second episode s

• House of 1000 Dolls | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Umberto D | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Retired civil servant Umberto struggles to survive on his rapidly dwindling pension in the harsh environment of post-World War II Rome a city plagued by its society's total disregard for the plight of the elderly the poor and the downtrodden. His only companions are his loyal dog Flag and a pregnant housemaid named Maria (Maria-Pia Casilio). Facing eviction from his humble home by his tyrannical landlady (Lina Gennari) Umberto's desperate failed attempts to raise money lead him

• Sex Traffic | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Elena and Vara believe they are leaving their home in Moldova one of the poorest countries in Europe for a better life in London. However they soon realise that they have in fact been sold to traffickers and are being taken to the dark and seedy side of the capital to work as sex slaves. Daniel Appleton (Simm) is a researcher and investigator for London-based charity Speak For Freedom investigating the plight of girls sold into sexual slavery. A chance meeting with Elena changes Daniel's life forever as he uncovers a potentially explosive corruption scandal involving Kernwell a private US contractor supplying troops to the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. When the girls' story reaches Madeleine Harlsburgh (Wendy Crewson) the wife of Kernwell's chief she starts to suspect that Kernwell employees may themselves be trafficking women. As she seeks out the truth she finds herself forced to choose between her husband's reputation and her family's happiness. The interweaving strands of this story combine in a single explosive narrative that exposes the shocking and all too real network of sex trafficking. Winner of 8 BAFTAs including Best Drama Serial and Best Actress for Anamaria Marinca.

• Callas - 30th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  There are so many astonishing facts about Maria Callas... First she was born not in Greece but in Manhattan and went to school there. Second considering her colossal influence and in contrast to the pumped-up preposterous overpaid pipsqueak divas of today her actual international career was tiny - 18 years at most. Third and in spite of her reputation her cancellation record was the lowest of any great singer of her day. Fourth she rarely looked at the conductor during an opera simply because she could not see him - she was very short-sighted and often appeared (partly as a result) to be in a trance while on stage. Fifth she was betrayed by most of those intimate with her throughout her life and eventually abandoned by many of those who should have known better and who claimed to have loved her. Sixth she died almost penniless - even her grotesquely rich long-time lover Onassis whose marriage to Jackie Kennedy she only discovered by watching the 6 o'clock news had invested her money in half a cargo boat which sank. Paradoxically although she died 30 years ago her records today outsell every other recorded classical artist and single handedly keep EMI Classics afloat. Last hers was not the most beautiful voice of her time as she frequently admitted. Some days it worked; other days it just didn't. In the end those who met her in Paris in the seventies agree that she was one of the loneliest most desperate of women they had ever encountered slowly drugging herself to death. Every day thank God is one day less she told Di Stefano. A summons to tea (for half an hour at most) often lasted until the early hours with the guest or guests pleaded with not to leave. It was pathetic and horrible but it was Callas. It was always Callas and that was the secret and the magic. We witness on stage a broken woman who sings nakedly from her heart about herself and her life who acts with such incredible power and unashamed truth that we stagger back before what we know in our hearts is all of her. No artifice here; no vulgar posturings to which her absurd imitators - and there are many - aspire. Gheorghiu Battle Garrett - they cannot touch her hem. Maria - just a woman who often spoke of Callas in the third person in trouble asking begging sometimes for our understanding and our love. She deserves it because there was no greater singing actress in our time. And she was only 53 when she died.

• Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beneath the veneer of glamour occupied Parisian high-society has become a rotten core of corruption and hate capable of producing Helene - a young woman intent on bringing about the pain and humiliation of her ex-lover.

• Moscow On The Hudson | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robin Williams is in his fuzzy, sensitive-with-bittersweet-touches mode in Moscow on the Hudson. Playing a musician in a Russian circus who gets talked into defecting by a pal and does so in the middle of Bloomingdale's. A great concept, to be sure, but writer-director Paul Mazursky doesn't seem to know where to go from there. Williams winds up living in the same kind of poverty that he did in Russia, casting about for a way to make a living while both wallowing and drowning in the sudden tidal wave of freedom. Mazursky wants to make a point about how little we appreciate what we have, but he fails to entertain in the process--or at least to engage in a consistent way. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Blind Dead Box | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Four cult classics from Amando de Ossorio! They are called 'Blind Dead' heretic horsemen whose eyes were burned out to prevent them from finding their way back from Hell. Over the course of 4 unforgettable films writer/director Amando de Ossorio created what fright fans worldwide consider to be one of the most startling series in horror history. This unique quartet of shockers delivers a relentless onslaught of creepy atmosphere shocking violence forbidden sexuality and the stil

• Amer | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gialli fans will absolutely not want to miss co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani's immaculately executed flawless valentine to the 70s thriller genre popularized by Dario Argento Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci. Recreating the motifs clichs and visual codes from the vintage Italian back catalogue (including A Lizard in a Woman's Skin Suspiria and Black Sabbath) the Belgian-based duo unfold a virtually dialogue free tale of frightening obsession sexual sensation and stunning black-gloved murder as the three faces of fear throughout an enigmatic woman's life unfold in dazzling style. Scored to recycled Italian soundtrack selections in the grand Tarantino tradition the hypnotic and ethereal allure of the classic gialli lives again in this boldly imaginative cult phenomenon.

• Justice League - Paradise Lost | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £4.71   |  Saving you £6.28 (133.33%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Paradise Lost: Wonder Woman returns home to Themyscira to find that the evil sorcerer Felix Faust has turned her mother Hippolyta and the rest of her Amazon sisters to statues of stone. Faust promises to free Themyscira from his evil enchantment if Wonder Woman agrees to help him find the lost fragments of a mysterious ancient relic. War World: In the second superhero episode Superman is captured by the warlord Mongul and plunged into a gladiator-style fight to t

• The World Is Not Enough | Blu Ray | (23/03/2009) from £64.12   |  Saving you £-44.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pierce Brosnan returns as sexy super-spy James Bond. The agent's assignment is as follows: he must protect Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) the sole heir of a British oil tycoon from the influence of terrorist Renard (Robert Carlyle). Unfortunately she double-crosses him and the world's oil supply is put in peril. Now he must take on Renard a villain who feels no physical pain with the help of do-gooder scientist Christmas Jones (Denise Richards)...

• Verdi: La Traviata -- Venice | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £19.07   |  Saving you £-1.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This performance of Verdi's La Traviata comes from the Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice in 1992. The intimacy and social realism of the story make it one of the most dramatically successful of all operas, while the score contains some of the finest music of the 19th century. Despite the strong production values and well-staged party scenes, any production of La Traviata stands or falls on the performers in the vital roles of the lovers Violetta and Alfredo, and that of Alfredo's father, Giorgio. Here Giorgio Zancanaro is suitably decent and morally serious as Giorgio, and Neil Shicoff makes a strong impression as an ordinary man suddenly overwhelmed by love. The drawback is that--and there is no polite way to say this--Edita Gruberova is not only too old to play the sparkling young society girl, Violetta, but she is a much better singer than she is an actress. She comes into her own in the tragic last act, but is otherwise awkward and uncomfortable when the part requires her to demonstrate confidence and sensuality. This remains a production with considerable merits, but overall a more dramatically, not to say visually, compelling version is that originally broadcast world-wide live from Paris in 2000 starring Eteri Gvazava and José Cura.On the DVD: The production is presented at 4:3 with above average picture quality for a live opera DVD, and with excellent PCM stereo sound. The disc and booklet both offer a synopsis, but other than the option to watch with or without subtitles there are no special features. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Agoraphobia | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: An agoraphobic inherits her father's house in a remote part of the Florida Keys. When weird things start happening, she discovers that there's something far more terrifying trapped inside the house with her. ...Agoraphobia ( Agora phobia )