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• Lucia | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Made in Cuba Lucia tells three stories of three periods of Cuban history from the vantage point of three women each called Lucia. Directed by the world famous Humberto Solas (Manuela Simparele) this tri-partite feature melds Cuban revolutionary fervour with feminist and social politics catapulting Solas into the international spotlight. Focussing on women from different classes - aristocracy the bourgeoisie and peasantry - with each participating in the struggle for Cuba's liberation this political allegory is segmented into three episodes with each set in seminal historical periods during Cuba's beleaguered history - the independence war against Spain the Machado dictatorship and post-Revolution. As each woman confronts the specific historical dilemmas - personal liberation in the face of class and sex discrimination and the decolonisation and reformation of Cuba - their stories provide an accurate and illuminating historical survey of an emergent national consciousness leading up to and following the Revolution. With a unique and stunning documentary style that insists on showing rather than telling the filmmaking itself bears testament to the struggle detaching itself from imposed styles of Western filmmaking to become a pioneering piece of Latin American cinema. It is easy to see why critics site Lucia as a landmark in Cuban cinema as well as the most important film in the nascent feminist cinema of the period.

• Xxy | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From Luca Puenzo (The Fish Child) comes the highly acclaimed XXY, an intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood. Starring Ines Efron (Glue, The Headless Woman, The Fish Child) and winner of the Best New Director Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, XXY has drawn comparisons to Celine Sciamma’s Tomboy, Julia Solomonoff’s The Last Summer of La Boyita and Alain Berliner’s Ma Vie En Rose.

• Aoharu x Kikanjuu - Standard DVD | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £24.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Hotaru Tachibana storms into a host club to avenge the honour of a wronged female student, the last thing Hotaru expects is to duel the club's most popular host with airsoft guns instead of fists. When Masamune Matsuoka's experience wins out over Tachibana's brawn, he realises that he can use his victory (and the large bill for damaging the club) to make Tachibana join his struggling Survival Gaming team. However, what ladies' man Masamune totally misses is that his unwilling new guy isn't a guy at all!Under the boy's clothing and strong need to defend justice, Tachibana is all-girl, but, for a number of complicated reasons, she absolutely CAN'T expose that fact to Masamune or his teammate, the erotic manga artist Toru Yukimura. Blood will boil both on and off the airsoft arena, but it's not over until the last round is shot! Contains the series on DVD with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Episodes 1-12 + 1 special

• PK - Andere Sterne, andere Sitten (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Heal The Living | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-sup- port in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.

• The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Vol. 3 | Blu Ray | (13/06/2022) from £75.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, wrote, directed, produced and starred in over 40 films in his short but prolific life, before passing away of a drugs overdose in 1982 aged just 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder vol. 3 brings together a collection of his lesser seen works from various stages in his career, featuring high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. The American Soldier sees Fassbinder continue to pursue the cinephilic homage to classic Hollywood crime films of his feature debut, Love is Colder than Death, in a tale of a German-American Vietnam vet turned small-time hoodlum who finds himself on the wrong side of the law in Munich, where he grew up. Unseen between its first television broadcast in 1970 and its rediscovery in 2002, The Niklashausen Journey chronicles the journey of a young peasant in the 15th century and his quest to overcome social injustice, in Fassbinder's allegorical critique of the student movement. Gods of the Plague portrays a newly released ex-con as he reacquaints himself with Munich's criminal underworld to plan the robbery of a supermarket. In Rio Das Mortes, two feckless young friends, Michel and Günther, embark on a hare-brained scheme to look for lost treasure in Peru, against strong opposition from Michel's fiancée. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven stars Brigitte Mira (Fear Eats the Soul) as a middle-aged housewife who is roused into revolutionary activity after her husband dies in an industrial accident. Based on a story by Asta Scheib, Fear of Fear features Fassbinder favourite Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) as the young mother plagued with feelings of anxiety and depression as she is left to spend her hours alone surrounded by her judgemental in-laws while her husband spends his days at work. Satan's Brew sees Fassbinder foray into riotous comedy, with Kurt Raab starring as a once famous poet stricken with writer's block who inadvertently assumes the persona of the prewar symbolist Stefan George. Product Features High definition digital transfers of The American Soldier, Gods of the Plague, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and Satan's Brew prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of The American Soldier, Gods of the Plague, Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and Satan's Brew Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound for all films Optional English subtitles for all films Exclusive 140-page collectors booklet containing archive articles and new writing by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Eric Rentschler, David Jenkins, Margaret Deriaz and Earl Jackson. DISC ONE The American Soldier & The Niklashausen Journey Audio commentary by critic Tony Rayns on The American Soldier Audio commentary by critic Olaf Möller on The Niklashausen Journey Fassbinder Shoots Film No 8, a 1971 television documentary by Michael Ballhaus and Dieter Buchmann on Rainer Werner Fassbinder filming The American Soldier Man in the Shadow, an exclusive new in-depth interview with Fassbinder's collaborator Michael Fengler Freedom or Death!, an exclusive new interview with Michael König on The Niklashausen Journey DISC TWO Gods of the Plague & Rio Das Mortes Alter Ego: Harry Baer on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a 40-minute interview with the star of Gods of the Plague Taking Off, an exclusive new interview with Michael König on Rio Das Mortes Original theatrical trailer for Gods of the Plague DISC THREE Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven & Fear of Fear Audio commentary by critic Olaf Möller on Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven alternate ending New interviews with Renate Leiffer, assistant director on Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and Fear of Fear New interview with writer Asta Scheib on Fear of Fear Play It Again, Rainer! Fassbinder's Musical Obsessions, a new video essay by Margaret Deriaz on the use of music in Fassbinder's films. DISC FOUR Satan's Brew Audio commentary by critic Tony Rayns The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me: Views of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a 1976 documentary portrait of the director by Gert Ellinghaus Fassbinder: Love Without Demands, Christian Braad Thomsen's feature-length 2015 documentary portrait of his friend Fassbinder and the people who worked with him. Original theatrical trailer

• Avril | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-27.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When Avril is given the chance to explore the world outside her convent before taking her vows she immediately accepts mostly because she wants to meet her fraternal brother with whom she was separated at birth. An attractive friendly man offers to give Avril a lift and the pair eventually come across her brother and his boyfriend. The unlikely foursome form a tight bond during a secular vacation by the beach realizing that God works in mysterious ways.

• Next Door | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £12.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  ""An homage to Roman Polanski with nods to David Lynch"" - Variety John has recently been dumped by his girlfriend Ingrid. His beautiful neighbours Anne and Kim seduce him and take him to a mystical and frightful world where he isn't able to tell reality from fantasy.

• Curling | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A unique voice in contemporary French-Canadian cinema, the genre-blending films of Denis Cote combine low-budget ingenuity with daring formal experimentation. Often concerned with relationships between marginal and marginalised characters, Cote s work is consistently imaginative and invigorating. Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor (Emmanuel Bilodeau) awards at the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival, Curling is set on the fringes of society, in a remote part of rural Québec. The film examines the unusual private life of Jean-François, a single father, who works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day, and his daughter, Julyvonne, who he insists never leaves their home. Their isolation, and the fragile balance of their relationship, is jeopardised by Julyvonne s encroaching adolescence and her curiosity about the outside world that Jean-François so fears. Blu-ray Special Edition Contents Curling (2010) presented from a brand new HD transfer of the film, approved by the director New filmed interview with director Denis Côté. May We Sleep Soundly (Que nous nous assoupissions, 2015) - Côté s acclaimed short film. Booklet featuring writing by film critic Adam Nayman and Robert McSorley, Executive Director of the Canadian Film Institute. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C) Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM (16-bit) World premiere on Blu-ray

• Dare | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (-26.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A stellar cast headline this sexy and captivating John Hughes-esque story about three sexually ambivalent high school seniors at a crossroads in their adult lives. Prissy drama student Alexa is told by a pompous actor that she must dare to try new experiences in order to breathe life into a role. Mysterious and handsome loner Johnny seems like the perfect person to shake up her vanilla existence so she embarks on a mission to get him into bed. Problem is best friend Ben succeeds in ensnaring the confused Johnny. As the love triangle closes in Johnnys sexual identity becomes unhinged leaving Alexa and Ben to face up to their desires and accept that it takes more than just a truth a dare and a threesome to get what you really want from life. Starring Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow The Phantom of the Opera) Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Ashley Springer (Teeth) Alan Cumming (Burlesque X Men 2) Sandra Bernhard (The L Word The King of Comedy) and Ana Gasteyer (Mean Girls)

• Big Order (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/03/2022) from £23.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dominate the world in order to save it. Ten years ago, Eiji Hoshimiya destroyed the world. Or close enough, anyway. Eiji is what they call an Order: someone whose wish, their innermost desire, has been given form. Money, immortality--whatever it might be, an Order has the power to make it real. And the most terrifying part? Orders look like any normal human, with no way to tell one from the other. Yet, as the destroyer of the world, that's how Eiji has managed to live since the disaster, alone but safe, and terrified to use his power again. But he might not have a choice when his class gets a new transfer student, one who has too keen an interest in a supposedly anti-social boy like him. Includes episodes 1-10 in Japanese with English subtitles. Product Features Interactive OVA Textless Opening Song Textless Closing Song

• Down in Paris | DVD | (28/03/2022) from £9.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brother's Conflict | Blu Ray | (06/03/2017) from £21.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After Ema's dad decides to marry a woman by the name of Miwa Asahina, Ema discovers that she has 13 step brothers!

• Swedish Erotica Exposed | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Christina Lindberg stars as Lena Svensson, a 17 year-old living a double life of fantasy and reality. Her young boyfriend, Jan, is weak and unable to meet her salacious appetite for sex, whilst displaying an unhealthy oedipal relationship with his mother. In order to satisfy her wild side, Lena becomes involved with an older man named Helge, a brutal figure who hosts drug and sex-fuelled parties and who forces the young Lena to be photographed in uncompromising positions. When Lena tries to run away, Helge uses the photographs to blackmail her into remaining under his sadistic control. Directed by Gustav Wiklund, Exposed is a complex and twisted Lindberg classic. Banned in 36 countries, the film explores themes of sadomasochism and sexual oppression, showing the dark side of sex and human nature.

• Arabian Nights | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-1.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen Ethiopia Iran and Nepal - form a rich exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings potions betrayals demons and most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing mysterious profound and liberating this is an exquisitely dreamlike sensuous and adult interpretation of the original folk tales presented here in a beautiful new high definition restoration.

• The Shepherd (El Pastor) | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anselmo, a middle age shepherd, lives a poor but happy life in a small, run down house in a middle of the Spain plains, near a small, but growing village. His dog Pillo and his sheep are his only company. A life bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers he receives from a construction company who wants to buy his house and land to build a new residential complex. Conflicting against Anselmo s unwillingness to sell is Julian and Paco s greed, the owners of the neighbouring lands, who only answer to their own interests. A bloody metaphor of the greed to corrodes these who do not answer to reason in their quest to get what they want, and the inevitable, but violent consequences of their actions.

• Wasp | DVD | (28/09/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Olivier and James' romantic break in the South of France is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Caroline. Friendships are questioned; sexuality tested.

• Tomboy | Blu Ray | (05/03/2012) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laure is 10 years old. Laure is a tomboy. On her arrival in a new neighborhood, she lets Lisa and her crowd believe that she is a boy. Truth or dare? Dare.

• Henri-Georges Clouzot Collection | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £22.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (8.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Quai Des Orfevres (1947): Blacklisted for his daring ""anti-French"" masterpiece Le Corbeau Henri-Georges Clouzot returned to cinema four years later with the provocative 1947 crime fiction adaptation Quai des Orfevres. Set within the vibrant dancehalls and historic crime corridors of 1940s Paris ambitious performer Jenny Lamour her covetous piano-playing husband Maurice Martineau and their devoted confidante Dora Monier attempt to cover one another's tracks when a sexually ogreish high-society acquaintance is murdered. Enter Inspector Antoine whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path in this classic whodunnit murder mystery. Le Corbeau (1943): An anonymous series of poison-pen letters spread suspicion and fear amongst the population of a small French town. The author of the letters who signs himself ""The Raven "" has enough defamatory information to provoke tension and suicide... Wages of Fear (1952): The film that continues to serve as the benchmark for Clouzot's magnificent career. The Wages of Fear established the writer-director on a truly international level after carrying off major prizes at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals. Part road movie part suspense thriller the plot is high-tension simplicity itself. In the South American jungle supplies of nitro-glycerine are urgently needed at a remote oil field. The unscrupulous American oil company pays four out-of-work men (Yves Montand Charles Vanel - the creepy cop in Les Diaboliques Folco Lulli and Peter Van Eyck) to deliver the supplies in two sets of drivers: a tension magnified thousand fold by the unforgiving heat the lure of filthy lucre and the rough and rocky roads where the slightest jolt can result in agonising death. Which of the disparate desperate desperadoes will survive the white-knuckle journey and claim the loot and the glory?

• The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Masters of Cinema) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cinematic anthropologist extraordinaire Shohei Imamura won his first Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival for The Ballad of Narayama [Narayama bushiko], his transcendent adaptation of two classic stories by Shichiro Fukazawa. In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday -- the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first. Creating a vividly realised inverse image of civilised society with typical directness and black humour, Imamura presents a bracingly unsentimental rumination on mortality and an engrossing study of a community's struggles against the natural elements. Handled with a masterful control and simplicity, moving effortlessly between the comic and the horrific, The Ballad of Narayama is one of the legendary director's deepest, richest works, and ranks among the finest films of its decade.