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• Perfect Blue - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (02/02/2015) from £15.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (13.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima", until she collapses into madness as her co-workers are brutally slain around her. Director Satoshi Kon, adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime", there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylised (if somewhat stiff and jerky by Disney standards). --Sean Axmaker

• Berlin Alexanderplatz | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £29.85   |  Saving you £25.14 (84.22%)   |  RRP £54.99

  Franz Biberkopf is an unforgettable man: his tender good natured side contradicted by moments of shocking violence. Released from prison following a four year sentence for the manslaughter of his girlfriend he plans to make a new start and a decent life for himself. But a chaotic decadent Berlin of the 20s is not the easiest place for an ex-con to go straight and work is hard to come by. When Franz becomes fascinated by Reinhold a psychotic small-time crook he is soon drawn back into a world he cannot escape. Fassbinders staggering 15 1/2 hour epic is a monument of late 20th-century filmmaking and considered to be the directors masterpiece. Following a massive restoration project overseen by the original editor it is now available for the first time on DVD.

• Human Lost | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  We're all MONSTERS inside From the director of Afro Samurai and Basilisk In 2036, a revolutionary medical treatment conquers death, but only for the rich. Yozo Oba makes a trip to see how they live but learns that life without death has awful side effects. Now he faces the monsters plaguing the world, including himself.

• Festen | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rich family patriach Helge Klingelfeldt is particularly anxious that thier three grown children Christian Michael and Helene support the party's festive mood by making a display of happy unity of the clan. Even downstairs staff are expected to somehow join in the general ambience. Dusk Falls and the master of ceremonies introduces himself and announces that dinner is served. Helge is met by spontaneous outbursts of applause and song. The Guests are in a merry mood indeed. While everyone's being seated the kitchen staff add their finishing touches to the evening's festive meal. Fish steam venison broil. The banquet begins. When Christian eventually clears his throat and calls for silence only he knows what is to come. A speech to shock a speech to shatter. The most heart-breaking night in living memory is about to descend on the unsuspecting Klingenfeldts. However irrespective of skeletons being mercilessly ripped out of the family closet stiff upper lips prevail and in a highly macabre way the party just keeps going on.

• Kill la Kill - Collector's Edition Part 2 of 3 | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £51.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (16.37%)   |  RRP £59.99

  As they enter the final stages of the great King of the Hill battle Ryuko must face Uzu Sanageyama again after defeating the other three members of the Elite Four. But the combat is brought to a sudden halt when a mysterious girl clad in a gothic Lolita outfit and an eye patch suddenly appears... Her name is Nui Harime and she claims to have killed Ryuko’s father Dr. Matoi! What will Matoi do and why does Satsuki seem so unconcerned? Find out in the second part of Kill la Kill! Contains 10 episodes (Eps 10-19) across 2 Blu-Rays in deluxe packaging with artbook. Japanese with English subtitles AND English dub included on disc. Bonus Features: Collector’s packaging Clean opening and closing Artbook

• Blonde Animal (Blu ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (16/12/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• DARLING in the FRANXX - Part One Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/05/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a battle against the klaxosaurs only the children, classified as parasites, are humanity's hope in this dying world. Fighting in mechanised suits known as FRANXX, parasites are grouped up in male and female pairs to face the monstrous creatures. Hiro was once a prodigy FRANXX pilot. But when he gives up the fight, he meets Zero Two, the girl with the horns, and finds a new reason to keep going.

• Spiral - Series 4 | DVD | (18/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Parisian police and lawyers return for a fourth series of the acclaimed and riveting crime drama. Police Captain Laure Berthaud and her lieutenants, Gilou and Tintin, investigate when a student is abandoned by his accomplices in a forest near Paris after being blown asunder by their homemade bomb. Lawyer Josephine Karlsson is getting herself into dangerous waters defending undocumented immigrants; her colleague, Pierre Clment, surprisingly finds himself representing crime boss, Johnny Jorkal; while Judge Roban returns to the Palais De Justice, sidelined and on the warpath. As the story unfolds to reveal a group of extremist’s intent on waging a war against the Parisian Gendarmerie and a dangerous arms-trafficking operation, the police and the lawyers begin to turn on each other in another tense and gripping series.

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | DVD | (08/12/2008) from £9.03   |  Saving you £8.96 (99.22%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is an animated feature film based on a Japanese novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui. When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to quite literally leap backwards through time she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems and eventually will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £9.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brittany, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly.

• Sword Art Online Alicization Part 1 - Standard Edition | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  13 episodes from the third season of the animated series based on the light novel by Reki Kawahara about a group of gamers competing in an immersive virtual world that has consequences in the real world. When Kirito (voice of Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) finds himself in the Underworld he cannot recall how he got there and when he meets with best friend Eugeo (Nobunaga Shimazaki) the pair have no memory of ever having known one another. Meanwhile, the motives behind the construction of a more advanced virtual reality may have more sinister origins than first thought. The episodes are: 'Underworld', 'The Demon Tree', 'The End Mountains', 'Departure', 'Ocean Turtle', 'Project Alicization', 'Swordcraft Academy', 'Swordsman's Pride', 'Nobleman's Responsibilities', 'Taboo Index', 'Central Cathedral', 'The Sage of the Library' and 'Ruler and Mediator'.

• Stromboli, Land of God (DVD) | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £8.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (138.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Stromboli Land of God follows Karen (Ingrid Bergman) a young woman from Lithuania who marries fisherman Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape from a prison camp after being promised a great life on his home island of Stromboli. Karen soon discovers the island is harsh and barren with the locals acting in a hostile manner towards this strange foreign woman Karen increasingly becomes despondent looking for ways to escape this new life. This Italian neorealist classic is famously the result of a letter from Bergman to Rossellini in which she spoke of her admiration for his work and how she wanted to make a film with him. The letter also sparked the infamous affair between Rossellini and Bergman which began during the production of the film. This digitally remastered edition also contains Francesco Patierno’s 2012 documentary The War of the Volcanoes which explores through the use of rich archive footage the intense and dramatic love story which took place during the production of Stromboli Land of God.

• The Seventh Seal | Blu Ray | (01/11/2021) from £20.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As the plague tears through medieval Europe, a knight (Max von Sydow), returning from the crusades, challenges Death to a game of chess in order to postpone his demise. An allegorical masterpiece asking big questions about faith and superstition, Ingmar Bergman's iconic The Seventh Seal remains one of cinema's most important and influential films. Presented here for the first time on 4K Ultra HD the BFI's first ever UHD release experience Bergman's timeless classic like never before. Special Features Presented on 4K UHD Blu-ray and High Definition Blu-ray Audio commentary on The Seventh Seal by film critic and editor-in-chief of Diabolique magazine, Kat Ellinger Other extras TBC

• Close your eyes | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eric Rohmer - Moral Tales | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £22.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (73.95%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A former editor of the ground-breaking magazine Cahiers du Cinema Eric Rohmer (1910-2010) became one of the leading figures of the French New Wave. Working well into his eighties his hugely influential body of work is celebrated for its originality economical visual style and witty and articulate dialogue. Rohmer's reputation was established with his ambitious 'Moral Tales' series of films five of which are presented in this box set - each based around the theme of a man's sexual temptation. Includes Suzanne's Career The Girl at the Monceau Bakery La Collectioneuse My Night at Maud's Claire's Knee. Films Comprise: Suzanne's Career The Girl at the Monceau Bakery My Night at Maud's Claire's Knee La Collectioneuse

• Plunderer - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (23/08/2021) from £17.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alcia is a world governed by Count : numbers engraved on a person's body, representing any number related to their life. These Counts determine a person's social status and power in Alcia. If a Count reaches zero, the person is sent to the Abyss, a place rumored to be worse than death.

• Funeral Parade of Roses (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (17/02/2025) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Trans actor Peter gives an astonishing performance as Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet where she's ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda for the attentions of club owner Gonda. One of Japan's leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time, and freely mixes documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons. Funeral Parade of Roses is a celebration of youth and subcultures, a condemnation of intolerance, and a one-of-kind cinematic experience. A kaleidoscopic masterpiece, and one of the most subversive, intoxicating films of the 60s. Extras ¢ 4K digital restoration, presented in High Definition ¢ Feature-length commentary by Chris D, punk poet, singer, actor, film historian and author of Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film ¢ Original Japanese trailer (1969) ¢ US theatrical trailer (2017)

• BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (12/08/2024) from £72.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Maple's unorthodox strategies might've made NewWorld Online seem easy so far, but as her team levels up, the developers take their monsters to the next level, too. To finish the final battle alive, the guilds will have to work together this time!64-page Art Book, 6 Art Cards, Joystick Covers

• One Last Night Of You | DVD | (09/12/2024) from £8.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale (2015) (DVD) | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  mountains with his son. But with the arrival of Japanese soldiers determined to find a legendary great tiger, Man-duk finds himself pulled into one final hunt for his own personal redemption and closure. Set during the Japanese occupation of Korea, a period when Korean tigers are being hunted to extinction, The Tiger is a breathtaking action adventure from one of Korea's finest writer-directors, Park Hoon-jung (New World, I Saw the Devil [Writer]). Features: 5.1 audio Optional English subtitles Theatrical trailers