"Actor: Pierre Laur"

• The Disappearance | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £13.98   |  Saving you £19.00 (172.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  All eight episodes from the French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon. With the grieving family pressing for answers, it's not long before Molina uncovers a number of shocking secrets which could push them to breaking point.

• Private Fears In Public Places | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between playwright Alan Ayckbourn and filmmaker Alain Resnais.

• Heading South | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £13.38   |  Saving you £6.61 (49.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies who are on the wrong side of forty.

• 400 Blows | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Truffaut's first feature-length film met with great approval from his critics. A somwhat autobiographical story of Truffaut's own childhood The 400 Blows tells the story of Antoine Doinel a 14-year-old schoolboy. Antoine is not a good student and always seems to be in trouble at school. At home he is disregarded by his parents who have better things to do. He starts to play truant and spends a lot of his time in cinemas. But he soon finds that his parents will not tolerate this behaviour.

• The Crimson Rivers | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £7.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (63.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases.

• The Disappearance | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £12.49   |  Saving you £2.51 (20.10%)   |  RRP £15.00

  All eight episodes from the French drama series starring Francois-Xavier Demaison as Bertrand Molina, a detective sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young teenager at a music festival in Lyon. With the grieving family pressing for answers, it's not long before Molina uncovers a number of shocking secrets which could push them to breaking point.

• Killing Salazar | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the centre of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.

• Story Of O | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £14.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (25.02%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This film is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of 'O' to his stepbrother Sir Stephen. In the film which produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices. The film was refused certification when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the BBFC.Also available in a Box Set together with the novel.

• The Pornographer | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (135.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An art house movie that asks questions about the morality of art both on and off screen, The Pornographer is a hard-hitting yet strangely unmoving film. Very much a product of the French school of intellectual cinema, the filmmaker of the title is Jacques Laurent (played by Jean Pierre Leaud), a one-time director of adult films who, finding himself down on his luck, is forced to return to his old medium. Far from being a gaudy Boogie Nights style exposé of an unknown world, the film focuses on Laurent's inner turmoil and his rapidly disintegrating relationship with his wife, as well as his restored one with his son Joseph (Jeremie Renier). Director Betrend Bonello handles this material well, if overdoing the art house clichés a little, but the problem with the film (or for some its strong point) comes with the fairly hardcore sex scenes, presented as part of Laurent's movie. While intended to reflect the emptiness of the character's soul, it is hard to see past them as just an attention-grabbing device. Then again, can a film about pornography legitimately not feature sex? One suspects that this debate will run and run and, in its way, The Pornographer has much to say on the subject. On the DVD: The Pornographer's intended release fell foul of the BBFC, who objected to one particularly explicit scene, a continuing argument that provides much of the material for the DVD's extra features. There is a reproduction of the BFFC ruling, a statement in reply from Bonello (which demonstrate the similarities he shares with his fictional counterpart, certainly when it comes to a vision of erotica) and an excellent essay from critic Pierre Perrene. In addition there are biographies, the cinematic trailer and an option to view the film with or without English subtitles. Whatever the moral questions involved, Bonello's film is a visual treat and his stylish eye is well represented by this format. --Phil Udell

• Look At Me | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £5.58   |  Saving you £14.41 (258.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quite unlike the models in her magazines, French girl Lolita struggles with her self-esteem and tries to win her father's affection.

• King of Escape | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A film about tractors aphrodisiacs and forbidden love from Alain Guiraudie the Cannes Award Winning director of Stranger By The Lake. Armand is a gay tractor salesman and not the sharpest tool in the shed. When he rescues Curly the daughter of his greatest rival the two embark on a mad chase through the forest pursued by a very angry father with a gun. Totally unknown to Armand however is the bizarre sexual frenzy he's ignited in the other men in town with him as the object of their desire... Hilarious daring and outrageously controversial King of Escape is a riotous French sex comedy about raising cocks in rural France.

• Under The Sand | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years. During their summer holiday he vanishes. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue she acts as if he is still alive.

• Story Of O | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Box Set complete with DVD and Novel STORY OF 'O' is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of 'O' to his stepbrother Sir Stephen. In the film which produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices. The film was refused certification when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the BBFC.Also Available as a DVD only version.

• Piano Mania | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Pianomania is an award winning documentary that takes the viewer along on a humorous journey into the secret world of sounds, and accompanies Stefan Knpfer at his unusual job with world famous pianists like Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel, Rudolf Buchbinder, Till Fellner and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, among others. The tone isn't breathing - complains pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, distraught. This is a typical sentence in Steinway & Sons' chief technician and Master Tuner Stefan Knpfer's normal work day. Each piano has its own personality, each piece demands its own timbre, and every interpretation has a particular temperament. To find the right instrument with the necessary qualities, compatible with the vision of the virtuoso, to tune it to perfection and to finally get it on the stage, needs nerves of steel, boundless passion, and the extraordinary competence in translating words into sounds. This unusual film by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis tells - with love and humor - of moments of absolute love of attention to detail and perfection. Pianomania observes, from unique angles, the suspenseful search for the perfect tone. Pianomania is a documentary about love, perfection and a little bit of madness...

• Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Not Just One Truth (Bach, Beethoven, Benjamin, Carter) from the Legato - The World of Piano series | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £3.72   |  Saving you £20.53 (834.55%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Legato - World Of Piano:Pierre-Laurent Aimard

• Cezanne Et Moi | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guillaume Canet and Guillaume Gallienne star in this French drama written and directed by Danièle Thompson. The story focuses on the friendship between 19th century post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne (Gallienne) and novelist Émile Zola (Canet). Coming from a poor family, Zola soon gains notoriety as a successful writer, while Cezanne, who comes from a wealthy background, struggles to gain acceptance for his work as an artist. Despite their differences, the pair form a strong bond and both move to Paris to continue their careers. However, when a character in Zola's latest book seems to be based on Cezanne's struggles as a painter, the pair clash and their relationship soon becomes strained. The cast also includes Alice Pol, Déborah François and Sabine Azéma.