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• Beaufort | DVD | (01/02/2011) from £15.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (14.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces in 2000. Based on the novel by Ron Leshen.

• Coco | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £3.39   |  Saving you £12.60 (371.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A self made millionaire pushes his luck when he tries to become part of the French Royal family.

• Swoon | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tom Kalin directed this black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case a case told before in two previous films -- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock 1948) and Compulsion (1959 starring Orson Welles). In 1924 in Chicago Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb two 18-year-olds kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body up a culvert. The motive for the crime was simply that they wanted to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The previous film versions downplayed Leopold and Loeb's homosexuality but Kalin's version explores their possible psychosexual motivations. Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) is calculating intellectual while Leopold (Craig Chester) the amateur ornithologist is emotional and weak. In love with Loeb Leopold is willing to do anything for him and when Leob uses the withholding of sex as a prompt Leopold is even willing to commit murder to have his sexual desires satisfied by Loeb. Swoon is a chilling yet fascinating film.

• Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mussorgsky's loveless and brutal drama of the transformation of Russian society, which led to the rule of Peter the Great within the epic history of Russia, is powerfully modernised through Stein Winge's dramatic and uncompromising production. Performing the version completed by Shostakovich, the outstanding Russian-dominated cast and the orchestra and chorus of the Liceu are led by Michael Boder.

• L'Amore In Citta | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £10.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (73.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  L'Amore in Citta is a portmanteau film composed of six different segments each with a different writer or director. These feature Paid Love written and directed by Carlo Lizzani Attempted Suicide by Michelangelo Antonioni Paradise For Four Hours by Dino Risi Marriage Agency by Federico Fellini Story of Caterina by Cesare Zavattini and Umberto Maselli and Italians Stare written and directed by Alberto Lattuada.

• Foreign Land | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Where love and danger meet After the unexpected death of his mother Paco (Fernando Alves Pinto) an aspiring actor from Sao Paulo longs to leave his native Brazil. Tired of living in squalor he accepts a ""delivery job"" from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds. But when the exchange goes bad he finds himself on the run from an underworld thug and in the arms of Alex (Fernanda Torres) a beautiful woman caught up in the Portuguese black-market.

• Divine Gate Standard Edition | DVD | (25/02/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Reach the gate; remake the world. No one knows exactly how the gate was created or what it does. In fact, no one can even see it, touch it, or open it, except for a chosen few. These chosen ones are called Adapters, girls and boys with special elemental abilities like water or fire, who have been deemed fit by the World Council to pursue the gate. The World Council, established to bring order to the world, find these Adapters, then urge them to join a special academy to train for their ultimate destiny: to reach the gate. While they train, the Adapters disagree on the true nature of the gate. Some believe that the gate will grant a wish to anyone who reaches it. Others believe that those who reach it can remake the world. What will they find if and when they reach the gate? What lies beyond this secret door? Contains the complete 12 episode series with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• Miracle in Milan (+II Tetto) | Blu Ray | (26/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After his earth shattering Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica and long time screenwriter Cesare Zavattini turned their neo-realist ideas to something much more like a fable yet retaining the core ideas behind the revolutionary cinema movement. Miracle in Milan went on to wow critics and audiences, winning the Grand Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 1951.Always in the shadow of the ever more popular Bicycle Thieves, this largely unsung masterpiece tends toward magic realism to imagine a place where society’s most downtrodden can find purchase and possible escape from misery. Set within a fantastically theatrical shantytown, Miracle in Milan constructs an alternate world from De Sica and Zavattini’s fascination with marginalised perspectives. The unusual use of deliberate artifice and spectacle rekindles the Meliesian magical aura of early cinema.Arrow Academy is pleased to present a new HD transfer of the film along with De Sica’s Il Tetto in this deluxe edition.Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the film Full length feature: Il Tetto [The Roof], Vittorio De Sica’s 1956 film also written by Zavattini, made available for the first time in the UK on DVD Newly translated and more complete optional English subtitles on both features Interview with Manuel De Sica Interview with star Brunella Bovo Rome Premiere Newsreel Footage Original Trailer Comprehensive booklet including writing on Miracle in Milan and Il Tetto, a re-print of John Maddison’s 1951 article The Case of De Sica, illustrated with original stills and artwork.

• Blessed By Fire | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £17.53   |  Saving you £2.46 (14.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man

• Profound Desires of the Gods - Dual Format (Blu-ray+DVD) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The culmination of Imamura's extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Gods was an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time of its release, but has since risen in stature to become one of the most legendary - albeit least seen - Japanese films of recent decades.Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well - an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.A tragic view of a passing epoch that teeters on the edge of grotesque farce, Imamura's merciless gaze combines with spectacular colour 'Scope photography to create a mythic saga convulsing with earthly impulses.

• Black Butler - Season 3 Collectors Edition BD | Blu Ray | (12/06/2017) from £41.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ciel and the demon butler Sebastian are summoned by the Queen to investigate multiple reports of missing children. When their underworld contacts reveal the disappearances increase when the mysterious Noah's Ark Circus comes to town the demonic duo must impress an enigmatic ringmaster in order to go undercover as performers, to Sebastian's delight and Ciel's disgust. At the core of the circus is a troupe of unique performers from Dagger the knife thrower to Beast, the beautiful tiger tamer. All are connected by someone who changed their lives, someone who raised them from the gutters of London to the heights of the big topbut at a price. Contains the full series with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles. Presented in collectors packaging. Extras: Complete series episodes 1-10 Collectors packaging Episode Commentaries Trailers

• Peach Girl Volume 1 | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £8.23   |  Saving you £10.75 (205.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Looks are everything for most High School girls.. The same goes for Momo Adachi! With a dark tan an athletic build and golden hair most of her classmates just assume she is a party loving freewheeling beach bunny. But beneath the skin of this 'peach' really lies a shy insecure teenage girl who wants nothing more than to turn the head of Toji her secret crush since Junior High. With a jealous 'best friend' dogging her heels and a lecherous playboy from her past watching in the wings things just get even more confusing. Will she ever be able to confess her feelings for the boy of her dreams.... or will she just end up caught in the middle of a wild and crazy love hurricane? Fans Of Dawson's Creek and The O.C. will love this tale of teenage love drama and angst

• Bollywood Classics Vol.15 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This box set features: Swarg Narak: This story is about 3 married couples:Tripathi and Mary who are happily married; Geeta and Vinod who have an unhappy marriage and Shobha and Vicky who have a seemingly happy marriage but all is not what it seems... Nanha Farishta: Three thieves break into a house and are confronted by the owners of the property they kill the owners and then find a baby girl realising they just killed the girls' parents the thieves take in the young child. Ek Phool Do Mali: This film looks at the struggle for a child between his biological father and the father who raised him.

• Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad - In guten wie in schweren Tagen: Best of Bollywood | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fuse (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hamaji, a young huntress from the mountains, stumbles into the middle of a shogun's vendetta against a group of human and dog hybrids - the Fuse. Rumors of Fuse murdering innocent people in the bustling city of Edo have sparked a bounty for their heads. Hamaji joins the hunt for this dangerous quarry along with her brother, but after accidentally befriending one of them, Hamaji is torn between two worlds: her life as a self-reliant huntress, and the young woman her new friend has helped her to uncover. Japanese audio with English subtitles.

• Keep The Lights On | Blu Ray | (28/01/2013) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (-28.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's 1997 and filmmaker Erik Rothman (Lindhardt) meets closeted lawyer Paul Lucy (Booth), through an anonymous phone sex line. What starts as casual sex becomes a more permanent relationship as they start to build a life together, whilst each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. Their greatest challenge is down to Paul's increasing drug use, which threatens to pull them apart and over the years destroy the relationship. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, Keep The Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times. Ira Sachs, director of 40 Shades of Blue and Married Life returns with his Teddy Award winning gay drama set in New York City, Keep The Lights On. Starring Danish actor, Thure Lindhardt (Angel & Demons, Into The Wild) and Zachary Booth (Dark Horse, Damages) and featuring stunning music from the late Arthur Russell. Special Features: Four deleted scenes. Behind The Scenes. Audition video with Zachary Booth and Thure Lindhardt. Documentary in search of Avery Willard.

• Sleeping Dogs | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £9.45   |  Saving you £6.54 (69.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Amy is a seemingly normal young girl adored by her parents and golden-boy fianc. Her future looks bright until her fianc suggests they tell each other their darkest secrets - things they have never told anyone. When Amy finally relents and reveals her secret everything falls apart.

• La Boheme | DVD | (30/11/1999) from £37.20   |  Saving you £-18.74 (-101.50%)   |  RRP £18.46

  One way to use the DVD format for opera is to provide a video format with a clear picture and sumptuous sound and let a good performance speak more or less for itself. Severini's La Boheme comes with a minimum of trimmings--subtitles in English, French and German; even a short account of the performance history is relegated to text in a booklet. The live performance has real theatrical presence, even to the extent that, at times, the vocal and orchestral subtleties get lost in wild applause. Pavarotti's Rodolfo was, in 1988, as plangently lyrical as ever and Freni's care-worn Mimi is a deeply touching and musical performance; Pacetti is a beefy full-blooded no-nonsense Musetta--the waltz song and ensuing duet with Marcello is for once the Broadway show-stopper it ought to be. Of the supporting roles, though, perhaps the most moving is Ghiaurov's Colline--his farewell to his old coat is a short passage of deep pathos which he has rarely sung as well as he does here. --Roz Kaveney

• Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club - Season 1 (Collector's Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £42.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nijigasaki High School is known for their diverse subjects and the freedom they give to students. Second-year student Yu Takasaki has been turned on to the charms of school idols, so she knocks on the door of the School Idol Club with her friend, Ayumu Uehara. Sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, the members of this club each contribute their own thoughts and motivations to the group. Product Features Collector's Slipcase Set of 10 Art Cards 28 Page Booklet Contains: Episodes 1-13

• Fairy Tale Killer | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £13.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (8.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A series of gruesome murders resembling fairy tales puzzle a hard-nosed detective. Inspector Wong (Lau Ching Wan) arrests a seemingly disturbed man who has confessed to a brutal murder reminiscent of a children's fable. After the supposed victim turns up alive and unharmed the perpetrator is dismissed as a crank and let free. Days later the victim turns up dead with his stomach cut open and stuffed with rocks. Wong realizes he has let a dangerous killer go free and becomes obsessed with tracking him down whilst covering up his mistake. While Wong's family life is neglected more and more grizzly and bloody murders are committed laying reference to Cinderella The Red Shoes and Hansel and Gretel. Special Features: Director Intro Cast Interviews