"Director: Gabriele Salvatores"

• I'm Not Scared | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (70.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Secrets. Betrayal. Murder. Who can you trust when everyone's a suspect? Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10-year old Michele's idyllic summer. While the days in his remote southern Italian village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation. Now suddenly beyond the point-of-no-return Michele digs further to find that even his own parents may be involved in a monstrous crime...

• Mediterraneo | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set during World War II the story follows eight Italian soldiers sent to guard a small Greek island. After their ship is sunk and their radio breaks down it seems as if they no longer exist. Eventually a small Italo/Greek community is formed and the locals forget why they came. The soldiers' characters and beliefs start to change and they have no desire to return to the war. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film 1992.

• Mediterraneo | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mediterraneo, the 1991 comedy by Gabriele Salvatores, was knocked for not being deep enough but it is what it is; and it is actually an easygoing, sunny movie about eight Italian soldiers who manage to strand themselves on a tiny Greek island paradise during World War II. The sort of mutts who would shoot a donkey for not knowing the proper password, these clumsy warriors become a comic variation on the Lotus Eaters of myth, their fighting spirit evaporated in the midst of so much beauty and sexual availability among the local women. There are also sundry opportunities for the men to find another purpose for their lives (one particularly artistic fellow works on the restoration of a church, for example). Amid the sometimes coarse jokes and gratuitous nudity, there are subtle themes about the contrast between what men are truly like in their natural state versus what they are like as killers. (The Thin Red Line this isn't but Salvatores does, in his own way, touch on some of the same themes.) Watch this one on a cold winter's day and vicariously enjoy the tans as well as the antiwar sentiment. --Tom Keogh

• I'm Not Scared | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (46.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A nine-year-old boy living in a remote Italian village befriends another boy whom he discovers imprisoned in a hole underneath an abandoned house.

• Siberian Education | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £7.91   |  Saving you £8.08 (102.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John Malkovich is among the actors to star in this tale of two youngsters growing up in a remote area of Siberia with its own rules and values. The film is based on the memoirs of Nicolai Lilin, who was part of the Urka community in Transnistria, a tiny independent state on the boundary of Russia. Kolima (Arnas Fedaravicius) and Gagarin (Vilius Tumalavicius) grow up in this unique environment, where many of the values and beliefs are influenced by the area's history as a place where criminals...

• Quo Vardis, Baby | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Giorgia a short-tempered but quick-witted investigator works in her father's private detective agency in Bologna. She spends most of her time trailing cheating spouses with a telephoto camera. One day she receives a box of video cassettes - taped diaries of her younger sister Ada sixteen years after her mysterious death. The tapes show a happy extroverted girl fully involved in her future - struggling to start an acting career and keeping an affair secret from her boyfriend. As she negotiates the twists and turns of the mystery and her own complex love life Giorgia finds herself descending deeper and deeper into her sister's past...and ultimately her own. Soon Giorgia begins to suspect that Ada's death was something far more sinister... Making atmospheric use of its Bologna locations and effective and subtle use of music Quo Vadis Baby? is one of the most distinctive European thrillers of recent years.