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• Shoeshine | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £23.69   |  Saving you £-3.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Vittorio De Sica Shoeshine (known in its native Italian language as Sciuscia a Sicilian corruption of the English word ""shoe-shiner"") was filmed on location in postwar Rome using non-professional actors. It was inspired by the real stories of those struggling to overcome the oppressive forces of a corrupt and ineffective political system. De Sica's film depicts the troubled lives of two young boys caught up in the chaos of a world plagued by poverty and unemployment. Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi) work on the street where they shine the shoes of American troops. They dream of a better life seeking solace in a horse that they ride to escape their harsh reality. When the boys are implicated in a petty crime they are punished by the society that has robbed them of their innocence resulting in tragic consequences. Shoeshine is widely regarded as one of the finest films to have emerged from the Italian neo-realist cinema and became the first foreign language film to receive an Oscar; available for the first time ever on DVD!

• Tetro | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seventeen year old Italian-American Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his prodigal brother poet Tetro. On finding him the pair reflect on their troubled past with composer father Carlo.

• The Bible - Mary Magdeline | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £7.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (2.57%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Describe by many as a seductress or witch this magnificent film from 'The Bible' series tells how Mary Magdalene was also a mystic healer and politician. Her life story is graphically depicted as she confronts Herod Herodius the powerful Roman occupiers and eventually a man who is to change her life forever... Mary must choose where her life journey will go as she searches to give love and receive love she finds Jesus.

• Maria Ewing - Dido And Aeneas | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Purcell''s much-loved tragic masterpiece is an intense tale of heroism passion betrayal and ultimate tragedy played out against a backdrop of fiery rituals evil spells and pageantry. This film was first shown on television in 1995 to celebrate the tercentenary of Purcell''s death. The American soprano Maria Ewing stars as Dido with Karl Daymond as Aeneas. They head an excellent British cast including Rebecca Evans as Belinda Sally Burgess as the Sorceress Patricia Rozario as the First Enchantress and James Bowman as the Voice of Mercury. The Collegium Musicum 90 is conducted by Richard Hickox and the film was directed by Peter Maniura. This production of Dido & Aeneas was filmed entirely on location at Hampton Court House in 1995 where spectacular settings were created in the house and grounds by the Dutch designer Niek Kortekaas. Director Peter Maniura said of the production ''Purcell''s masterpiece is a miracle of dramatic compression. Inspired by the paintings of the 17th Century I have tried to recreate a rich filmic world which places a classical love story with its heroes and heroines magic and intrigue in a Baroque setting''.

• Amer | Blu Ray | (31/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three key moments all of them sensual define Ana's life. Her carnal search sways between reality and coloured fantasies becoming more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her?

• Attila - Arena Di Verona | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An early Verdi work set in the 5th century Italy during the age of the Huns and the Ostrogoths. It tells the story of the fall of the infamous king of the Huns which proved popular with the Italians in the 1800's. This production was filmed in 1985 with Nello Santi conducting.

• Who Killed Pixote? | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1980 impoverished working-class child actor Fernando Ramos da Silva was chosen from 1300 other boys to play the lead role in Hector Babenco's Pixote a film that showed the plight of Rio De Janerio's street urchins forced into criminal lives. The film earned great acclaim and Ramos da Silva received fame and fortune. Unfortunately fate and the rigidity of Brazil's social system had other more tragic plans...

• Macbeth - Verdi | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £34.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Carlos Alvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production first staged at London's Royal Opera House.

• The Buddy Holly Story | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.55   |  Saving you £-4.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Buddy Holly laid the foundations for a generation of popular music with his ground-breaking combination of country music and rhythm and blues. This film tells his story from it's explosive beginning to its tragic end with Gary Busey giving an electrifying Oscar nominated performance (Best Actor 1978) as the young genius from Lubbock Texas who changed the tune of rock 'n' roll history. Young Buddy's studious appearance gave no hint of the 'new music' which was about to take the world by storm. His unique brand of rock 'n' roll catapulted him and the Crickets to national stardom in just three short years with hits such as 'That'll Be The Day' and 'Peggy Sue'. Despite opposition from the mainly redneck Texas community his mother who nagged him to get a proper job and his girlfriend who wanted to tame him - by the age of 22 Holly had it all but the trials and tribulations of fame began to take it's toll and his brilliant career ended in tragedy all too quickly. 'The Buddy Holly Story' is one of the best biopics ever produced for the cinema and features 12 of his greatest hit songs as well as winning the 1978 Academy Award for Best Adaptation Score. It's a dynamic tribute to one of the most influential rock 'n' rollers of all time and his legacy.

• Charlotte's Web 2 - Wilbur's Great Adventure | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wilbur the pig knows how important friendship is - he learned that from a spider named Charlotte. So when Wilbur meets Cardigan an unloved little lamb the pair are set for a great adventure! With colourful new characters four brand-new songs and important messages about friendship and individuality Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure is timeless family entertainment.

• Bar Mitzvah Boy | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Eliot Green is turning 13 and about to undergo one of the great rituals of Judaism: the Bar Mitzvah, when a boy becomes a man, and the party that celebrates it is the event of a lifetime. To Eliot’s mother, Rita, it’s a grand stage on which to present the accomplishments of her family to a waiting world. To her husband Victor, it’s an expensive party, getting more expensive every day. To Lesley, his sister, it means endless responsibility and pouring oil like a troubled daughter. To Grandad Wax it’s tradition. And to Rabbi Sherman it’s another Shabbat, another Bar Mitzvah over and time to put his feet up - or so he thinks... Witty, insightful, rich in irony and human observation, Bar Mitzvah Boy stands as one of Jack Rosenthal’s most famous and most popular plays, rich in universal humour and creating, in young Eliot and his mother, their friends and relatives, some of his most memorable characters.. Special Features: Introduction by Maureen Lipman Subtitles

• Mozart - Requiem | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £21.49   |  Saving you £-4.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Involuntary | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's summer in Sweden... A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they'll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking male bonding to a new level. And as day turns to night a coach driver decides enough is enough and won't drive his passengers any further. Showered with International awards and praised by critics the world over Involuntary is a dazzling and highly original comedy from the new enfant terrible of Scandinavian cinema Ruben stlund.

• The Dead Next Door | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £8.91 (52.40%)   |  RRP £16.99

  After an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses the government sets up a crack unit known as the Zombie Squad . Raimi Mercer Kuller and others head off to Ohio to try and find a cure to the epidemic but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the zombies and letting a new world be born because they believe that it's God's will. When Mercer gets infected with the zombie virus Raimi and the others must work quickly to find a cure an

• Golden Balls | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ruthless stud Benito Gonzalez (Javier Bardem wants wealth women and to erect a skyscraper in his own honour. In order to achieve this he marries a sophisticated daughter of a rich banker Marta (Maria De Medeiros) but keeps mistress Claudia (Maribel Verdu) on the side. When Marta and Claudia realise they are both victims of Benito's greed things for Benito begin to crumble. Has Benito's luck finally left him?

• Chaplin | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £7.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (63.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Chaplin, Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of the famous comic, is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving that it's hard to worry about the deficits. Robert Downey Jr does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over the years of triumph, defeat, scandal, official persecution, exile and inner peace. A huge cast portray the allies, friends, lovers and enemies in Chaplin's life, including Moira Kelly as his final, long-time wife Oona, Kevin Kline as Douglas Fairbanks, Geraldine Chaplin as Charlie's mother and James Woods as a prosecutor working hard to nail Chaplin for anti-American sentiments. Attenborough declines to tell the story in a flat, linear way, employing such clever techniques as detailing one chapter in Chaplin's life as a silent comedy. The climactic scene set at an Oscar tribute for Chaplin will get the tears flowing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Laissez Passer | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bertrand Tavernier directs this epic film set in 1942 Paris during the country's occupation by Germany. The French film industry during that period is the focus of the story told from the point of view of two characters: an actor and a director.

• White Fang | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.80   |  Saving you £4.19 (35.51%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Saving Christmas | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £6.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this fun family tale starring comedy legend Edward Asner, Danny and his brainy buddies launch an investigation to discover the truth about Santa. But they have no clue that St. Nick (Asner) is real and he's making toys right in their hometown! Join Danny, his gang and a loveable pup on their adventures as they unravel the funny, festive truth that's out there.

• The Cooler | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love which throws the situation into reverse.