"Actor: Michel Robin"

• White Oleander | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (55.44%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

• Merci pour le Chocolat | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford

• Cruel Intentions/Cruel Intentions 2/Cruel Intentions 3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Cruel Intentions: Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are two gorgeous filthy rich manipulative stepsiblings from Manhattan's upper east side. Bored of the girls he has so easily seduced in the past Sebastian has set his sights on the ultimate challenge - the beautiful virginal headmasters daughter Annette Hargrove. Kathryn sees the perfect opportunity for a wager. If Sebastian fails to lure Annette into his bed he will have to surrender his priceless vintage Jaguar; if he succeeds he will win the most tempting prize of all - Kathryn. Sparks fly in this wickly sexy tale of seduction as Kathryn and Sebastian play a dangerous game of sex and betrayal... Cruel Intentions 2: School has never been more captivating - or challenging - than when a pair of unscrupulous siblings set out to teach each other a lesson in this deliciously tantalising prequel to Cruel Intentions. When the rougish Sebastian (Robin Dunne) is despatched to New York to live with his father and stepmother after being kicked out of yet another private school he may have finally found his match in his equally manipulative and beautiful stepsister Kathryn (Amy Adams). Meeting the stunningly innocent Danielle (Sarah Thompson) makes Sebastian plan to put his past behind him and become a one-woman man. However Kathyrn has other ideas: after being crossed by Sebastian she vows to make things as difficult as possible for the couple by throwing a few curves (namely hers) at her step-brother. Everything is up for grabs and nothing is what it seems in this provocative tale of deception temptation and revenge... Cruel Intentions 3: Two students at Prestridge College set out to seduce the 'coldest' woman at the college; Cassie Merteuil.

• Toto The Hero | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Formerly a trained circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his debut behind the camera in this wonderfully crafted drama about the human condition as a bitter old man looks back on his life. Toto was a fictional super-sleuth idolized by Thomas. All he ever wanted was to be just like him. Alfred was one of the few friends he had born around the same time. However a dramatic event in their lives sowed the seeds of bitterness that would remain with Thomas... A fire in their nursing h

• Down With Love / One Fine Day | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £11.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (34.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Down With Love: When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor) the sparks they generate will fly you to the moon and back! Set in the early sixties every frame pops with 60's technicolour. One Fine Day: In this charming romantic comedy three-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Pfeiffer and ""ER"" star George Clooney find that opposites attract whether they like it or not... Melanie Parker (P

• I Pierre Riviere | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £17.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (15.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault I Pierre Riviere a unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835 when a young man Pierre Riviere murdered his mother sister and brother before fleeing to the countryside. With a cast made up of real-life villagers from the area where the events took place the detailed re-enactments and careful attention to the gestures of their ancestors serve to create an intense and sometimes disturbing atmosphere of hyper-realism. Details of the crime and of the trial that followed are told from varied perspectives including the written confession of Pierre himself and form a rich and complex narrative that interrogates the concepts of 'truth' and 'history'. Radical bold and uncompromising director Rene Allio's extraordinary work is at one and the same time an ethnographic enquiry an historical reconstruction and an unflinching portrait of psychopathology and its aftermath.

• Cinema Verite - Defining The Moment | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Peter Wintonick whose Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is one of the bestselling documentaries of all time has directed this unique 'documentary of documentaries' shot with lightweight equipment in vrit style in widescreen digital video. Rich in footage from classics such as Primary (J F Kennedy) Lonely Boy (Paul Anka) Jane (Jane Fonda) Don't Look Back (Bob Dylan) Nanook of the North and the Blair Witch Project

• Color Me Perfect | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £6.51   |  Saving you £-1.52 (-30.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Dina Blake is a mentally challenged middle-aged woman who plays with the kids in the park and lives under the care of her nephew. Then two medical researchers offer Dina a radical chance to change her life by taking an experimental intelligence-enhancing drug. The drug's effects are spectacular raising Dina's mental capabilities to near-genius level. But when scientists play God the results can prove shattering and as the effects of the drug begin to wear off it has profound consequences for all concerned.

• Various Composers - Notes Personnelles Vol. 3 (Chapuis) | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £23.24   |  Saving you £-6.25 (-36.80%)   |  RRP £16.99