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• Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water - 4K Part 1 (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £58.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1889 and people from around the globe are flocking to Paris to see scientific achievements at the Exposition Universelle despite rumors of dangers lurking in the oceans. While attending the fair, teenaged inventor Jean meets Nadia, a mysterious girl who possesses a highly sought-after crystal called Blue Water. Pursued by nefarious forces, the pair journey by sea and by sky to escape their would-be captors and to discover the secret of the crystal. NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER is a sci-fi adventure on the high seas from Hideaki ANNO. The classic series is a preview into ANNO's early directorial vision before creating NEON GENESIS EVANGELION and returns with an all-new 4K restoration. Contains: Episodes 1-20 Audio: Japanese, English Subtitles: English Product Features Limited Edition Slipcase

• Konosuba Season 2 - Standard | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kazuma Sato's life is looking less than blessed in this far from wonderful world. On trial for treason having accidentally destroyed a noble's mansion, all he can rely on for salvation is his fellow party members, who will surely support him and do all they can to ensure his name is cleared so that he can be safely released from incarceration... On second thoughts, it seems that maybe he's on his own. With a crippling debt and a desperate need to pay for the damages to mansion, it's going to take all of Kazuma and company's skills and bravery to venture out into the world and fix these problems - although given their track record and the troubled personalities of his otherwise talented comrades, it's unlikely that any of their schemes are going to go as planned...

• The Innocent aka L Innocente (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (10/04/2017) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Visconti is one of World Cinema s greats, the multi-awarded Italian director literally created Neo-Realism with OBSESSION, his adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice. Visconti returns to the stunningly lavish 19th Century sets of his Cannes Winner, THE LEOPARD, in this, his last film; a deplorably overlooked brooding masterpiece... Presented here from restored HD materials, for the very 1st time doing justice to the film's cinematography, rich sets and story. Finishing where THE LEOPARD left off, we follow the disintegration of the aristocracy into moral decadence and sexual taboos, personified by a career-defining, powerhouse performance by Giannini (Mathis in Bonds CASINO ROYALE & QUANTUM OF SOLACE) whose antihero displays hitherto uncharted monstrosity. Giannini is the aristocrat who leaves his wife for his latest mistress Jennifer O'Neil, but his morbid need for domination makes him want his wife back when she becomes pregnant by another man...

• Das Boot Season 4 | Blu Ray | (05/02/2024) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sauvage (DVD) | DVD | (03/06/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  22-year-old Leo sells his body on the street for cash. Men come and go but he remains; stuck in the same place and longing for love. Uncertain of what his future may bring, Leo hits the road. Sometimes reckless, sometimes savage, sometimes tender but always with a pounding heart - Leo is ready for change. Camille Vidal-Naquet s arresting debut is also one of quiet introspection and disarming fragility. Starring 120 BPM s Félix Maritaud, whose raw and vulnerable central performance is nothing short of devastating.

• Patlabor - Film 2 (Collector's Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/01/2024) from £34.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lubitsch In Berlin | Blu Ray | (18/09/2017) from £17.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before he arrived in Hollywood to leave his indelible (and inimitable) mark on timeless comedies like Trouble in Paradise and The Shop Around The Corner, Ernst Lubitsch created an expansive body of work in Germany that proved to be as varied in tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This set collects six restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch s career, and casts new light on the director both as a fully-formed comic master, and as a virtuoso of cinematographic technique. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present these six works by Ernst Lubitsch for the first time ever on Blu-ray. BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: High-definition restored transfers of all six films Original German intertitles with optional English subtitles Robert Fischer s 2006 feature-length documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood Exclusive concertina score for Die Puppe, by Bernard Wrigley PLUS: A booklet containing liner notes for all six features by film-writers David Cairns, Anna Thorngate, and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

• Force Majeure DVD | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A model Swedish family are on a skiing holiday at a high-end resort in the French Alps. Following an avalanche at a mountainside restaurant, handsome businessman Tomas makes a decision that will shake his marriage to its core.

• Benedetta | DVD | (29/08/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From renowned provocateur Paul Verhoeven (Elle, Basic Instinct), Benedetta is a subversive erotic drama based on the true story of a 17th century nun entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair. Virginie Efira stars as the titular Benedetta, a nun whose religious fervor begins to manifest in increasingly sensual and violent visions of Jesus. These hallucinations arouse the suspicions of Charlotte Rampling's shrewd abbess, Sister Felicita, whose distrust grows when a farm girl called Bartolomea (Daphné Patakia) enters the convent seeking refuge, and quickly develops an attraction to Benedetta. Premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Verhoeven's intoxicating latest is a transgressive and alluring look at faith, power and religion, and is every bit as scandalous as you would expect from the controversial filmmaker.

• Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero DVD Steelbook - Amazon Exclusive | DVD | (12/06/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (03/06/2024) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the 1970s. Searing critiques of colonialism, political corruption, patriarchal arrogance, and religious indoctrination, his three features from this decadethe radical call to resistance Emitaï, the wickedly subversive satire Xala, and the controversial historical epic Ceddoconfirmed his standing as a fearless truth-teller for whom the camera was the ultimate weapon in the fight against oppression in all its forms. Emitaï (1971)With revolutionary outrage, Ousmane Sembène chronicles a period during World War II when French colonial forces in Senegal conscripted young men of the Diola people and attempted to seize rice stores for soldiers back in Europe. As the tribe's patriarchal leaders pray and make sacrifices to their gods, the women in the community refuse to yield their harvests, incurring the French army's wrath. With a deep understanding of the oppressive forces that have shaped Senegalese history, Emitaï explores the strains that colonialism places upon cultural traditions and, in the process, discovers a people's hidden reserves of rebellion and dignity. Xala (1975)An adaptation of Ousmane Sembène's own 1973 novel, Xala is a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. On the night of his wedding to his third bride, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent and begins to suspect that one of his other wives has placed a curse on him. After seeking a cure from a local marabout, El Hadji must face the possibility that he deserves the infliction for his part in embezzling public funds and for helping to keep Senegal under French control. Adeptly combining elements of African folklore and popular cinema, Sembène indicts the hubris, entitlement, and opportunism of male authority figures. Ceddo (1977)In precolonial Senegal, members of the Ceddo (or outsiders) kidnap Princess Dior Yacine (Tabata Ndiaye) after her father, the king, pledges loyalty to an ascendant Islamic faction that plans to convert the entire clan to its faith. Attempts to recapture her fail, provoking further division and eventual war between the animistic Ceddo and the fundamentalist Muslims, with Christian missionaries and slave traders from Europe also playing a role in the conflict. Banned in Senegal upon its release, Ceddo is an ambitious, multilayered epic that explores the combustible tensions among ancient tradition, religious colonization, political expediency, and individual freedom. THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks New conversation between Mahen Bonetti, founder and executive director of the African Film Festival, and writer Amy Sall The Making of Ceddo, a 1981 documentary by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra New English subtitle translations PLUS: An essay by film scholar Yasmina Price New cover by Ify Chiejina

• La Bete Humaine | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Severine and her husband Roubaud kill their former employer in a train. Engineer Jacques watches them but doesn't tell the police because he's in love with Severine. But in an epileptic attack he kills her.....

• Food Wars! Season 2 (Episodes 1-13) | DVD | (28/08/2017) from £13.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Food Wars! ~ The Second Plate contains episodes 1-13. At the Tohtsuki Culinary Academy, the first rule is survival of the fittest, and if you don't have what it takes to become a master chef, you need to get out of the kitchen before you get burned. With the wheat of first-year students separated from the chaff, cocky former diner cook Yukihira Soma is one of the handful of kitchen whizzes still standing. As the next round of the Autumn Elections gets underway, can he survive a brutal bento boxing match with the chemistry-obsessed granddaughter of the Academy's director? And which of the other contenders; Megumi, Ryo, Akira, Hisako, Takumi or sinister dark-horse Subaru; will advance to fight for the gold medal? Get ready for another cut-throat season of eat, beat, and defeat!

• Night is Short Walk On Girl - Standard Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (25/06/2018) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Let director Masaaki Yuasa (The Tatami Galaxy) walk you through an eccentric, colourful journey of love, life and youthful exuberance unlike anything you've seen before. Senpai is a man smitten with his inscrutable junior, The Girl with Black Hair. Although he plans to woo her by engineering a series of coincidental encounters, he reckons without the exploratory nature of this girl as she roams through an abstract, bustling night in Kyoto. From pub crawls to festivals, book fairs to impromptu musical performances, the night is short and there's much to take in - how can Senpai possibly grab the attention of the apple of his eye? Contains the film on Blu-Ray in Japanese with English subtitles.

• Yojimbo & Sanjuro (2 Blu-ray Set) | Blu Ray | (17/03/2025) from £24.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  YojimboLike Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo was Kurosawa's tribute to the widescreen action Westerns of John Ford and was itself remade as a Western by Sergio Leone as A Fistful of Dollars (1964). Played by the great Toshiro Mifune, the film's enigmatic samurai is a scruffy and itinerant warrior who wanders into a strange town and right into the middle of a war between two clans. Showing his skills with the sword within minutes of his arrival, he soon has the town's rival factions competing for his services.Kurosawa's genius for storytelling combines with thrilling swordplay, a healthy dose of black humour, a soundtrack every bit as atmospheric and amusing as Ennio Morricone's, and a towering performance from Mifune, to make Yojimbo an irresistible widescreen action adventure.SanjuroIn response to the huge critical and commercial success of Yojimbo, Kurosawa and Mifune re-teamed a year later to make Sanjuro, a hilarious comedy of manners altogether more light-hearted than its predecessor.The story has Sanjuro (Mifune) running lazy rings around nine naïve and clean-cut samurai and two genteel ladies, whilst also cleaning up a spot of corruption in local government. Whilst Kurosawa plays most of it for laughs, expertly parodying the conventions of Japanese period action films, he stages a startling switch of mood with an intense finale which may well be the briefest, and most breathtaking duel in all cinema.Extras¢ Newly restored in 4K and presented in High Definition¢ Newly recorded interview with Jasper Sharp (2024)¢ Audio commentary on Yojimbo by film critic Philip Kemp¢ Introduction to Sanjuro by filmmaker Alex Cox (2003, 5 mins)¢ Interview with filmmaker Alex Cox (2003, 9 mins)¢ Original trailers for both films¢ **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new and archival essays on both films, original reviews and full film credits¢ Other extras TBC

• Saint-Narcisse (DVD) | DVD | (05/05/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Drifter | DVD | (29/04/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• "Blue Exorcist (Season 2) Kyoto Saga Volume 1 Blu-ray (Episodes 1-6) | Blu Ray | (26/03/2018) from £9.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Assiah, the realm of humans, and Gehenna, the realm of demons. Normally, these two dimensions would never intersect, but having possessed all material substances, the demons are now intruding on the material world. But among the human race, there are those who can confront such demons - the Exorcists. Born the spawn of Satan, Rin Okumura decides to hide his origins, and become an exorcist. He enrolls at the Exorcism Cram School, a training institute for exorcists located on the True Cross Academy grounds. But, his cover is blown during an attack by Amaimon, the King of Earth, and he is revealed to be the son of Satan. Terrified of Satan s blue flames, his friends start to distance themselves from Rin... It is then that someone steals the Left Eye of the Impure King, sealed away in the deepest part of the academy, and Rin and the others find themselves embroiled in an unexpected crisis...

• That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime: Season 2: Part 1 | Blu Ray | (16/05/2022) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Taking a break from his time as a teacher, the powerful slime Rimuru Tempest returns to his kingdom. When trying to return, Rimuru is stopped by a mysterious figure who is somehow able to constrain Rimuru's magical abilities.

• Celine and Julie Go Boating (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £18.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Jacques Rivette's surreal and fascinating masterpiece eccentric magician Celine (Juliet Berto) meets curious librarian Julie (Dominique Labourier). Their friendship soon sends them down a fantastical rabbit hole and into an apparently haunted house. With the aid of magical candy, they return time and again to the mansion to spy on and eventually play parts in a gothic murder mystery. A playful investigation of the boundary between life and art, and illusion and reality. Celine and Julie Go Boating was co-written by Eduardo de Gregorio and the film's actresses (including Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier). It was influenced by Lewis Carrol, Henry James and Proust, and in turn influenced the likes of David Lynch and Susan Seidelman. It remains Rivette's most enduring, self-reflective and popular film. Extras: Presented in High Definition Jonathan Romney on Rivette (2006, 19 mins) Tout la mémoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956, 21 mins) The Haunted Curiosity Shop (R W Paul, 1901, 2 mins) Illustrated booklet featuring an essay by Susan Seidelman, and full film credits