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• Cinema Paradiso (Subtitled) (Box Set) (Deluxe Edition) (Four Discs) (DVD) | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £39.89   |  Saving you £-14.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A celebration of youth friendship and the everlasting magic of the movies. Salvatore a successful film director returns to his native Sicilian village for the funeral of his old friend Alfredo. He was the projectionist at the local Cinema Paradiso where Salvatore spent the happiest times of his childhood and developed his love of film. To the fatherless young boy Alfredo became a father figure who guided and loved him. His return also brings back poignant memories of his teenage love Elena whom he had to leave in order to pursue his dream.

• Murphy's War | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Directed by Peter Yates and starring Peter O'Toole Sian Phillips Philippe Noiret Murphy's War is a classic war-time adventure. Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew that has been decimated by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He lands on a forgotten island and begins to plot his vengence. He wishes to sink the U-Boat that has floated up by means of any method imaginable to him and sets about to make the courageous attempt assisted by Louie the islands Government Admistrator.

• Jacquot De Nantes | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's the story of a child and his obsession of pursuing his dream to become a film-maker. How he buys his first camera shoots his first amateur film which marks the beginning of one of the most prestigious careers of any French director Jacques Demy. The story is told with emotion by Agnes Varda who shared his life for years.

• Three Brothers | Blu Ray | (04/04/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A wonderful film that moves on waves of feeling. Francesco Rosi, who has one of the greatest compositional senses in the history of movies, keeps you in a state of emotional exaltation. A simple image has the kind of resonance that most directors never achieve. (Pauline Kael, New Yorker) Francesco Rosi established himself as one of the greatest chroniclers of Italy's stormy postwar history with such riveting classics as Salvatore Giuliano, The Mattei Affair and Illustrious Corpses. Three Brothers (Tre fratelli) explores similarly knotty social and political territory through the seemingly straightforward story of three siblings returning to their native southern Italy to pay homage to their late mother. However, their various professions a judge in Rome (Philippe Noiret), a spiritual counsellor in Naples (Vittorio Mezzogiorno), a factory worker in Turin (Michele Placido) have a profound effect on their response to this reunion. Although Oscar-nominated at the time, Three Brothers has never previously been released on any video format in the UK. Arrow Academy is proud to present it here in a brand new 2K restoration. Special Edition Contents: Brand new 2K restoration from original film materials High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional newly translated English subtitles Archival interview with Francesco Rosi Original theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin Booklet featuring an essay by Professor Millicent Martin, a 1981 interview with Rosi and a selection of contemporary reviews (first printing only)

• Eric Rohmer | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Eric Rohmer is one of France's most celebrated directors. This collection brings together eight of his most influential works including all six of his Comedies and Proverbs. The Aviator's Wife: Francois loves Anne. However his night-job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous ima

• Lips Of Blood | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £11.70   |  Saving you £6.28 (72.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  There's no director like Jean Rollin, the French horror fantasist who mixes the poetry of Jean Cocteau with the emotionless performances of Robert Bresson in his erotic vampire films. Lips of Blood is one of his best, an Oedipal tale of a young man haunted by visions of a forgotten childhood when he spies a poster of a coastal castle at a party. Jean-Louis Philippe, a hopelessly bland and flat performer, wanders through the deserted piazzas and fountains of his suddenly odd and alien hometown, eerily lit up in the dead of night. He's a man lost in a world where a woman in white silently materialises like a supernatural muse, gunmen appear from the inky-black night, and four naked vampire girls prowl the streets for blood and watch over him like dark angels. It's a tale of blood, sex, and haunting desire full of nudity and death and told in an austere, surreal style born of forced budgetary austerity. Rollin is slipshod with his action scenes and stiff with performers, but once he leaves the confines of the "real" world (where he's oddly uncomfortable) his style creates a trancelike mood to complement the beauty of his poetically macabre vision. The film our hero watches early in the picture is Rollin's own Shiver of the Vampires. --Sean Axmaker

• Cinema Paradiso | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £26.14   |  Saving you £-6.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater--and the finale all the more powerful. --Tom Keogh

• Monsieur Hire | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from the George Simenon novel 'Les Fiancailles De M. Hire' it tells the story of old Monsieur Hire who lives a lonely existence in an apartment block. He spies on a woman called Alice who also lives there and he knows everything about her until one evening he sees something he shouldn't and his life changes for ever.

• Le Trou | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Influential director Jacques Becker's final film, Le Trou is also amongst his very best. Hailed as a masterpiece by Truffaut, it remains a compelling work, superbly directed and photographed with a remarkable attention to detail. 1947. A young man, Gaspard Claude (Marc Michel), is convicted for the attempted murder of his wife, although he is innocent of the crime. He is sent to the notorious Santé Prison in Paris and is placed in a cell with four hardened criminals. The latter have decided to escape from the prison by digging their way out of their cell. Reluctantly, they take Gaspard into their confidence and labour digging their way out of their cell. Then, just when escape appears certain, Gaspard is called away to see the prison governor

• Molière | DVD | (14/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Wonderful Crook | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Wonderful Crook (aka Pas si merchant que 'a)

• La Gloire de Mon Père & Le Château de Ma Mère Blu Ray Box Set | Blu Ray | (19/11/2012) from £18.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (59.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on the childhood memoirs of Marcel Pagnol, author of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, Yves Robert's La Gloire de Mon Pre and its sequel Le Chteau de Ma Mre are two of the most loved and successful French films ever made.An adult Marcel nostalgically recalls idyllic retreats with his family to the hills of Provence. A love affair with the country began and during those perfect days he found new respect for his school-teacher father as he adapted to life away from the city, while the long journey there would soon bring its own adventures.Together these timeless classics stand as one of cinema's greatest celebrations of childhood, filled with warmth, love and a poignant nostalgia for bygone days they continue to captivate audiences.

• L'Appartement | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £9.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (115.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Max the romantic protagonist is planning a marriage investigating a murder chasing after a lost love and getting bizarrely hooked up with a mystery girl. Switching between time women chic cafes and beautiful Parisian apartments Mimouni's film makes the most of its deliriously romantic setting whilst effortlessly unravelling an intricate and unpredictable plot which playfully ties its lovelorn characters up in knots as it races along to a heady conclusion.

• The Hairdresser's Husband | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the age of 12 Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous middle-aged local hairdresser who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. Antoine reaches middle age with his passion undiminished: upon meeting shy hairdresser Mathilde he is so taken by her that he proposes marriage. She accepts and he moves into her salon where they pursue their romance with an intensity that blind

• Fiesta | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A compelling study of the seductive powers of fascism and violence directed by Pierre Boutron. The film looks at the deeply disturbing world of the Spanish Civil War and follows a young military cadet who is ordered to join the firing squad.

• L'Humanite | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruno Dumont's (Life Of Jesus) visionary and hauntingly powerful film tells the story of Pharaon De winter (Emmanuel Schotte) a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work. His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it strug

• The Hairdresser's Husband | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the age of 12 Antoine's life is dominated by twin passions dancing to Arabic music and getting his hair cut by the voluptuous middle-aged local hairdresser who inadvertently provides him with his first experience of the opposite sex. Antoine reaches middle age with his passion undiminished: upon meeting shy hairdresser Mathilde he is so taken by her that he proposes marriage. She accepts and he moves into her salon where they pursue their romance with an intensity that blinds them to the mundane realities of the outside world.

• Requiem for a Vampire | DVD | (27/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two women on the run seek shelter in an ominous castle where they fall prey to a sadistic vampire... With its dark cemetery a gallery of hooded skeletons bizarre rooms and slithery vaults the picture comes close to Lovecraft - except that its sexual components are more graphically presented. With long periods devoid of dialogue this is one of Jean Rollin's most lyrical films.

• Essential Opera Collection | DVD | (11/10/2013) from £84.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tango | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Available for the first time on DVD!!! Vincent a stunt pilot is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However a few years later the judge in the case comes to blackmail him. The judge's nephew is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The judge a confirmed bachelor takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie... Patrice Leconte's outrageously fun black comedy is available for the first time on DVD!