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• Happy End | Blu Ray | (25/03/2024) from £21.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Leviathan | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £10.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (99.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man employs a lawyer to help claim the land he lives on from the corrupt grasp of the town Mayor. But this begins a series of events that throw him into a whirlwind of problems infusing every area of his life from his family to his home. Leviathan is a Russian critically acclaimed domestic drama with epic themes. Nominated for the Palme D or at Cannes and winner of their Best Screenplay competition. Also won Best International Film at the Munich Film Festival.

• Witchhammer | DVD | (13/11/2017) from £10.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the midwife Groerová to heal her ailing cow. The young priest declares her a witch and convinces the Sumperk countess De Galle to summon the inquisitor Boblig from Edelstadt. This failed student of law sees the offer as a great opportunity. He uses torture and threats to force the women from the to testify to their meetings with the devil and learn by heart the lies he has made up for the inquisition tribunal. Boblig accuses the wealthy burghers of witchcraft as well, and so wants to seize their possessions.

• Boris Godunov - Mussorgsky | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £17.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The legendary Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky helmed his one and only opera in 1983 with this famed production of Mussorgsky's 'Boris Godunov'. Staged at London's famed Royal Opera House the staging features Robert Lloyd giving a masterful performance in the title role. Conductor Valery Gergiev known primarily for his fine work leading St. Petersburg's Kirov Opera takes the baton.

• Kiri Te Kanawa - My World Of Opera | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Sleeping Beauty - The Kirov Ballet | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Choreography by Marius Petipa and featuring the 19th century ballet performed in 1982 to mark the company's bicentenary year. Three of the Kirov's finest dancers head the cast of this recording. Irina Kolpakova takes the title role of Princess Aurora Sergei Berezhnoi dances Prince Desire and Lubov Kunakova is the Lilac Fairy

• All My Good Countrymen | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  " Winner of both the Best Director and the Jury Prizes at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, Vojtěch Jasný's auto-biographical All My Good Countrymen is one of the wonders of the Czech New Wave - but also one of the least-known films from that miraculous era of Czech filmmaking. Completed barely before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 it was immediately banned and never shown. It's deceptively simple narrative weaves a complex tapestry around the interwoven lives and stories of a group of Moravian villagers immediately following the socialization of Czechoslovakia in 1948. Director Vojtěch Jasný, hailed ""the spiritual father of the Czech New Wave"" by Miloš Forman, fled Czecholslovakia following the completion of this film and went into exile rather than recant. A pronounced influence on later films like Edgar Reitz's Heimat and Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Jasný's film remains a potent reminder of lives and idealism lost under totalitarianism. ""The film and the milieu it so precisely evokes are not so much nostalgic as they are powerfully remembered and irrevocably lost.... All My Good Countrymen reflects the curdled fury of a former true believer"" J. Hoberman, The Village Voice ""A work of great lyricism, humour and originality"" Gary Tooze, DVD Beaver ""Extraordinary poetic... the masterpiece of Vojtěch Jasný - father of that brilliant flowering of Czechoslovak cinema"" The New York Time s ""Jasný’s lyrical masterpiece"" Radio Praha ""A bitter-sweet, affectionate and pointed picture of a life many Czechs would have recognised. A key film from the Prague Spring"" Time Out"

• The Hop-Pickers | Blu Ray | (25/11/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first ever Czechoslovak film musical, Ladislav Rychman's sumptuous The Hop-Pickers was a sensation upon release. Its popularity has since endured for generations of Czech viewers with its sympathetic portrayal of youthful rebellion, romance, flamboyant production numbers, and catchy songs. Tapping into the Swinging 60s with a uniquely Czech perspective on the big-screen musical, The Hop-Pickers vibrantly fuses music, dance, and a New Wave-style authenticity with an untypical attitude to prescribed norms and sexual freedoms.

• The Magnificent Seven (Collector's Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/02/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Return | DVD | (16/04/2018) from £8.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev makes his feature debut with this haunting, poignant family drama. Teenage brothers Andrei (Vladimir Garin) and Ivan (Ivan Dobronravov) have lived with their mother (Natalya Vdovina) and grandmother (Galina Petrova) for as long as they can remember when their long-lost father (Konstantin Lavronenko) suddenly turns up after a twelve-year absence. While Andrei seems happy to see him, the younger Ivan is reluctant and suspicious of his father's motives. The three take a boat to a deserted island in a remote lake in the north of Russia - a trip which turns into an endurance test as the boys struggle to come to terms with their father's presence and cruel, mysterious ways

• Leviathan | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £7.69   |  Saving you £8.30 (107.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A man employs a lawyer to help claim the land he lives on from the corrupt grasp of the town Mayor. But this begins a series of events that throw him into a whirlwind of problems infusing every area of his life from his family to his home. Leviathan is a Russian critically acclaimed domestic drama with epic themes. Nominated for the Palme D or at Cannes and winner of their Best Screenplay competition. Also won Best International Film at the Munich Film Festival.

• Ken Loach Collection (3-disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/09/2017) from £29.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  KEN LOACH COLLECTION (3-disc Blu-ray Set) This new collection brings together three of Ken Loach's finest films from the 1990s, titles linked by the director's career long drive to tackle social injustice and contemporary political issues. In Riff Raff Glaswegian jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) heads to London to find work but discovers a world of corruption and degradation. Inner-city poverty is brought to the fore in Raining Stones, as unemployed Bob's (Bruce Jones) desperate attempts to afford a communion dress for his daughter results in a succession of disasters. Inspired by real events, Ladybird Ladybird is an emotional and harrowing story of a woman's fight to keep her children and relationship intact in the face of bureaucratic interference. Special Features: Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full credits Other extras TBC UK | 1991 - 1994 | colour | 90 + 90 + 102 mins | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | cert 18

• Behind Enemy Lines / Tigerland / Thin Red Line | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Behind Enemy Lines On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed Burnett must struggle to survive in unfamiliar hostile territory with a cold-blooded assassin and hundreds of enemy troops on his heels. Meanwhile on an American battleship in the Adriatic Sea Burnett's commanding officer Admiral Reigart (Gene Hackman) attempts to negotiate his soldier's return amidst tense political and military maneuvers. Soon Burnett discovers exactly why he's being hunted making his situation and Reigert's actions even more perilous... Tigerland Roland Bozz after being conscripted into the US army joins a platoon of other young soldiers preparing to fight in Vietnam. He has no interest in fighting for his country and tries to get sent home as a trouble maker but his superiors mistake his defiance as intelligence and he soon gets a chance to try his hand at leadership... The Thin Red Line A powerful front line cast including Sean Penn Nick Nolte Woody Harrelson and George Clooney explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick) 'The Thin Red Line' is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece.

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

  During WWII, Joseph Stalin receives intelligence reports on top secret genetic experiments performed by Nazi doctors who were trying to create a super soldier. It was reported that German doctors carried out their experiments in the territories Germany occupied during the war - France, Spain, Poland and USSR. Meanwhile, United States intelligence reported that there are traces of super humans in the States. Stalin has no choice but to create Patriot - a super-secret defiance and research organization so combat the potential threat from the German experiments. The Soviet experiments continued after Stalin's death and During the Cold War, Patriot succeeded in altering the DNA of selected individuals, and created a team with super human powers known as GUARDIANS, to defend the homeland from any threats. Now, for the first time, the superheroes gather to prevent a nuclear disaster that could destroy the entire world.

• Night Watch | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Good and evil do battle in this epic Russian tale of Witches, Vampires and Shape-Shifters.

• Viking | DVD | (18/09/2017) from £6.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the death of his father, Svyatoslav I, ruler of Kievan, the young Viking prince Vladimir of Novgorod is forced into exile across the frozen sea to escape his treacherous half-brother Yaropolk, who has murdered his older brother Oleg and conquered the Viking territory of Kievan. The old warrior Sveneld convinces Vladimir to assemble a Varangian armada, hoping to reconquer Norvgorod from Yaropolk.

• Strawberry & Chocolate (Fresa Y Chocolate) by Alea | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £12.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (2.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Groundbreaking and hugely celebrated for numerous reasons Cuba's greatest director Thomas Guiterrez Alea's (Memories Of Underdevlopment) Strawberry And Chocolate (Fresa Y Chocolate) was the first Cuban film ever to receive an Academy Award nomination thanks to its revelatory plot masterful direction and phenomenally crafted performances. Diego a cultivated apolitical sceptical young artist living in Havana initiates a friendship with fiercely communist homophobe David with the intention of seducing him. David knowing this allows the relationship to build so he can spy on a person he sees as aberrant and dangerous to the communist cause. Despite their conflicting sexualities and political ideologies the two slowly build a relationship out of their differences proving that camaraderie and friendship can overcome the most divisive superficialities. An exploration into the seduction of the mind Strawberry And Chocolate shows how politics can shape lives opinions and relationships. Hugely controversial in Cuba even now the film was the first to feature a gay man as the hero while openly criticising the Government and its widespread intolerance. It was this picture that started the dialogue that has only last year allowed Brokeback Mountain to be shown in Havana. Charming nuanced groundbreaking and thought provoking Strawberry And Chocolate is a clear-cut declaration that even in spite of politics love for your fellow man will always triumph if allowed to.

• The Last Matinee | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TERROR! SCREAMING! DEATH! COMING SOON TO THIS CINEMA! A trip to the movies takes a deadly turn in this stylish neo-giallo love letter to classic slashers that will send your popcorn flying and have you diving behind your seat! A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn't expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there's a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience members one by one. Can Ana and the few remaining survivors escape the murderous madman, or will they be victims of his matinee massacre? Uruguayan director Maxi Contenti marks himself out as a talent to watch with a film that Rue Morgue calls Visually stunning indulgently violent! Arrow Video is proud to present The Last Matinee. It's a killer time at the movies! Limited Edition Contents High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio sound Optional English subtitles Audio Commentary with director Maxi Contenti VFX featurette exploring the special effects of the film Interview with director Maxi Contenti Killer Attractions: Maxi Contenti & Ricardo Islas in Conversation, discussion between the film's director and star Ricardo Islas, director of Frankenstein: Day of the Beast At the Premiere, featurette on the film's premiere Music video for ˜Espada' by Phoro, directed by Maxi Contenti Puppet Pal V, Contenti's first feature film Six short films by director Maxi Contenti: The Plastic Kingdom (2011) Popping Eyes (2009) Hobby Metal (2006) Les Escaliers Fruitiers (2005) La Galleta aka The Cookie (2003) Miedo aka Fear (2001) Deleted and extended scenes Trailers and teasers Image galleries including behind-the-scenes and promo stills, concept artwork, storyboards and posters Fan artwork image gallery Double-sided fold-out poster Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach

• Brief Encounters (Vintage World Cinema) | DVD | (18/09/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Blonde in Love | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £10.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Blonde In Love