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• A Jester's Tale | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary visionary Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman has been a profound influence on whole generations of filmmakers from Jan Svankmajer to Tim Burton the Quay Brothers to Terry Gilliam. His ground-breaking innovations in the use of live-action and animation mark him as one of the great masters of 20th Century fantasy cinema. A Jester's Tale is one of his most renowned and celebrated achievements. Described by Zeman as a pseudo-historical film it is a bold anti-war black comedy following the adventures of a plowboy and a mercenary press-ganged into service on the battlefields of the Thirty Years War of 1618 - 1648. Co-scripted by Pavel Juracek (Ikarie XB1 Daisies Josef Kilián) Karel Zeman's brilliant comic film with its melding of live-action and animation extraordinary matte work along with Escher-inspired impossible constructions anticipates Gilliam's Monty Python animations (not to mention 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and Gilliam's own 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'). It also emerges as a sharp satire of war human nature and of our very understanding of history itself. This dazzling feature is presented for the first time ever in the UK. Special Features: Documentary Booklet Essay

• Future Boy Conan - Part 1 (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (20/05/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Twenty years ago, a terrible war fought with magnetic weapons caused the earth's axis to tilt, and earthquakes and tidal waves destroyed civilization. Conan is born into this new world, raised by his adopted grandfather on an isolated island. But his life is forever changed when a mysterious girl named Lana washes ashore, pursued by shadowy operatives who seek to use her in a new scheme to control what's left of the world. The directorial debut of Academy Award®-winner Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) is a landmark in animation history. This delightful sci-fi adventure series, beloved worldwide but never before released in the United Kingdom, features a new English language version and 4K digital restoration.

• Eastern Boys | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Campillo the celebrated writer of Palm D or winner The Class, creator of The Returned and director of 120BPM comes his highly acclaimed debut feature film EASTERN BOYS. Daniel cruises the Gare du Nord where Eastern European Boys hang out. One afternoon he plucks up his courage to speak to Marek, one of the boys and invites him to his home. However, next day when the doorbell rings, Daniel hasn t the faintest idea that he has fallen into a trap.

• Hit So Hard | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991 the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation. Grunge took over MTV and radio overnight… but just three years later the drug-related deaths of several musicians and the suicide of Kurt Cobain closed the books on an all too brief era. Patty Schemel the acclaimed drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole was in the middle of all of it. The openly gay woman who always felt different never dreamed she would be in a multi-platinum band touring with legends… or that thanks to drug addiction she could lose it all. Given a video camera just before Hole's infamous Live Through This world tour Patty filmed everything; the shows the parties and startlingly intimate footage of Kurt and Courtney. This footage has never been seen... until now.

• The Third Part Of The Night | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £12.99   |  Saving you £1.26 (10.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II Andrzej Zulawski's debut feature is a visionary tale of an apocalytic world. The film centers around a young man whose family we're massacred by the Nazi's and his own coming to terms with the guilt that he feels for still being alive.

• Naked Desire | DVD | (11/02/2019) from £9.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Akane is a chaste and conservative nun who is charged with caring for an elderly man who is severely ill and barely conscious. The two live alone in the man s beach house after his family abandon him. One day their ordered life is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Kayoko, a sexually crazed woman who is mentally unstable, and a female school teacher and a young male student who have run away together in order to have sex before they are caught by the police who are in hot pursuit. As the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly depraved and sexual so Akane must decide if she can remain true to her faith or give into her desires. UK Premiere. Extras: Stills gallery, Original trailer, Salvation trailers

• After The Storm | Blu Ray | (19/02/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Japanese drama written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The film follows Shinoda Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a former writer now working for a private detective agency and struggling to move on with his life. When his wife Kyoko (Yôko Maki) leaves him and his father passes away, Shinoda develops a serious gambling addiction and is forbidden from seeing his son Shingo (Taiyô Yoshizawa) until he catches up on missed child support payments. However, with his life spiralling out of control, Shinoda is given an unexpected second chance to reconnect with his family when a typhoon forces him to stay over at his mother's house with his ex-wife and son. The cast also includes Kirin Kiki, Satomi Kobayashi and Sosuke Ikematsu.

• Girls Lost | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £7.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kim, Bella and Momo are three geeky fourteen year old girls struggling within the high school world of teenage angst and sexual confusion. They discover a curious plant growing in their greenhouse hideaway that has mysterious magical qualities that transforms the girls temporarily into boys. Not only does their gender change, the world around them, and their response to it, is profoundly altered. Kim, as a boy, becomes infatuated with Tony, a rough petty criminal that lives on the edge, and at the same time Momo falls in love with Kim. This entanglement of confused sexuality asks us who loves who and why and does gender really matters when it comes to love?

• Hanagatami | Blu Ray | (06/07/2020) from £15.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi, the director of the cult Japanese film HAUSU was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. Despite not much time left, for what was supposed to be his final film he adapted Kazuo Dan s 1937 novella HANAGATAMI, his passion project 40 years in the making. In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his aunt Keiko cares for his ailing cousin Mina. Immersed in the seaside s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town s other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war s inescapable gravitational pull. With his memories as a survivor of World War II echoing in the uncertainty of world events unfolding today, director Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. In dazzling, full-bloom Obayashi style, Hanagatami captures the passion, innocence, and struggle of the end days of youth in a country consumed by the flames of war. Features: Making Of Interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi Trailer

• The Senator | DVD | (21/10/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Beach Volleyball Detectives | DVD | (05/07/2021) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Haruka and Wakana are hot young female Tokyo Police detectives. Together, they foil international conspiracies that threaten the free world! A group of terrorists plot to set off a nuclear device in Tokyo, posing as sexy female beach volleyball players. Haruka and Wakana must wear their bikinis and pose as beach volleyball players too, in an attempt to apprehend the terrorists and save the world! Extras: Stills Gallery Original trailer Salvation trailers

• The Fifth Horseman is Fear | DVD | (30/08/2021) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in Prague, this powerful tale is informed as much by Czech resistance to Soviet impositions as it is by the torments of the Nazi era. A Jewish former doctor is compelled to work cataloguing the confiscated homes and possessions of fellow Jews. When asked to secretly treat a wounded resistance fighter he is plunged into a moral dilemma, and begins a nightmarish odyssey to save the man. Focussing on the intense anxiety, paranoia and terror prevalent in any totalitarian system, Zbynek Brynych's The Fifth Horseman is Fear subverts its historical context, creating a frighteningly relevant portrait of a society ruled by fear.

• Fill the Void | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community where religious law tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.

• Noce Blanche | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Francois is a happily married fifty year old teacher. Concerned that rebellious student Mathilde is going to be expelled he sets out to help her but is soon drawn into a passionate relationship with the enigmatic teenager. Realising it cannot go on he tries to end the affair with devastating consequences... A haunting tale of obsessive love that won Vannesa Paradis a Cesar award for Most Promising Actress. Available on DVD for the first time.

• The Sacrifice | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a typical visionary style, Tarkovsky's depiction of the dawn of WWII and its effects on an isolated family group is awash with breathtaking cinematography and resounds with a deep, mythical profundity. BAFTA Winner (Best Foreign Language Film 1988). Winner of 4 awards at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

• Beyond The Boundary The Movie: I'll Be Here - Past Chapter/Future Arc Blu-ray Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (16/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Beyond the Boundary: I ll Be Here s Past Chapter recaps the anime s first season in which half-human, half youmu Akihito strikes up an unlikely companionship with Spirit World warrior Mirai - the sole survivor of a family with the power to employ their blood as weapons. Born of enemy clans, Akihito and Mirai end up forging a powerful bond in their fight against a common foe, but all-new work Future Arc sees their friendship falter. Unable to remember the events of Past Chapter following the film s finale, Mirai is disconnected from her friends but is also offered something that had previously been beyond her reach the chance to live a normal life.

• Terror in Resonance | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £16.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (32.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Legendary director Shinichiro Watanabe and famed composer Yoko Kanno are back with a suspense-filled intellectual thriller! In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children children who shouldn't even exist masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form Sphinx, a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber and pull the trigger on this world.

• El Sur (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/01/2017) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Recalling her youth in 1950s northern Spain, Estrella revisits her relationship with her beloved father Agustin, raised in the south, and realises how little she knew of him and his secrets. Victor Erice's delicate and mysterious film reveals his abiding fascination with memory and loss, missed opportunities and the links between private dreams and political realities. The performances, like the meticulously lit compositions and evocative soundtrack, are superb; Omero Antonutti is a charismatic Agustin, while Sonsoles Aranguren and Icíar Bollaín shine as, respectively, the young and teenaged Estrella. Exquisitely beautiful, profoundly moving. Special Features: Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition Haunted Memory: The Cinema of Victor Erice (Adrian Martin, Cristina, Álvarez López, 2016, 13 mins): a video essay celebrating the great Spanish director Victor Erice interviewed by Geoff Andrew (2003, 83 mins, audio only) Theatrical re-release trailer Fully illustrated booklet featuring essays by Geoff Andrew and Mar Diestro-Dópido and full film credits

• When The Boat Comes In - The Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £84.95   |  Saving you £35.04 (41.25%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Ex-Sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War One. It is a time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world. Contains every episode made from all four series.

• Fragile | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Calista Flockhart stars in this atmospheric ghost story from director Jaume Balaguero.