"Director: Bent Hamer"

• Factotum | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £9.70   |  Saving you £9.29 (95.77%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Bukowski. The story of a man living on the edge of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry. 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live'. Henry Chinaski (read Charles Bukowski) works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink bet on the horses take up with women as rootless as he is and above all write stories that no one wants t

• Kitchen Stories | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in post war Sweden the Home Research Institute have become pre-occupied by the behaviour of single men in the kitchen. Folke Nilsson is assigned the task of observing the kitchen habits of a 'subject' named Isak Bjornsson a single man who lives alone in Norway. The rules of this experiment are such that Folke is not allowed to communicate in any way with his subject and vice versa. However the conditions of the experiment lead to a number of amusing incidents between the two

• Factotum | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Bukowski. The story of a man living on the edge of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry. 'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live'. Henry Chinaski (read Charles Bukowski) works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink bet on the horses take up with women as rootless as he is and above all write stories that no one wants to publish.

• O'Horton | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a night time drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!