"Director: Michael Noer"

• Northwest | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Eighteen-year-old Casper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) who lives in the infamous Nordvest suburb of Copenhagen with his mother brother Andy and sister Freya is a talented housebreaker who makes ends meet committing burglaries for neighbourhood boss Jamal. When a rival gangster Bjorn makes Caspar an offer of more lucrative terms and perhaps the promise of advancement through the ranks of his very white Danish family the enraged Jamal is not prepared to tolerate defection; things violently escalate placing the teenager and his family at the centre of a toxic conflict. What could be a predictable genre tale is elevated far above the ordinary by director Noer s fresh script and restrained approach and by Gustav Dyekjær Giese s natural and powerful performance. His remarkable stillness only serves to intensify Casper s inner turmoil.

• R: Hit First, Hit Hardest | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Multi-award winning prison drama R: Hit First Hit Hardest is as gritty punishing and intense as a stint in Denmark's toughest penitentiary. That's where prisoner R finds himself serving a sentence for violent assault. It's his first conviction but he ends up with the hard-core lifers in a world filled with rules honour and debts to be paid. A world in which bars cover the windows and blood stains the floor. He must find his place in the system learn to navigate and fight for his survival.