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• The Innocent aka L Innocente | DVD | (10/04/2017) from £13.46   |  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...

• Farewell My Concubine (Dual Format Edition) | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The panorama of 20th-century Chinese history swirls past two men, celebrated actors with their own decidedly specialised view of things. We first observe their lives as children at the Peking Opera training school, a brutal and demanding arena for future actors. While still in training, the effeminate Douzi is chosen to play the transvestite role and the masculine Shitou is chosen to play the royal role in a ritualised play about a king and a concubine. The actors are so good at this performance that they become identified with these roles for their entire careers; through World War II, through the takeover by the Communists, through the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, they are known for their famous parts. Leslie Cheung and Zhang Fengyi are powerful as the two men, and Gong Li (the beautiful leading lady of Raise the Red Lantern) plays the wife of the latter. The movie may be stronger on good old-fashioned melodrama than on profound conclusions, but boy, does it fill up the eyes. The director is Chen Kaige, one of the most talented members of China's "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers, whose daring subject matter (and sometimes bald international ambitions) have often irked the Chinese government. Indeed, though Farewell My Concubine shared the top prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and snagged two Oscar nominations, it had difficulty gaining official approval from China. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• End of the Century | DVD | (23/03/2020) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucio Castro writes and directs this gay drama which follows two men who have a chance encounter in Barcelona, but soon realise it could be more than serendipity that led them to find each other. When Ocho (Juan Barberini) and Javi (Ramon Pujol) realise their attraction for one another they begin to wonder whether a strange feeling of deja vu could be a genuine recollection from the past.

• Tokyo Sonata | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa — the hugely acclaimed Japanese director famous for his groundbreaking, existential horror films such as Cure and Kairo [Pulse] — set Cannes alight in 2008 with this highly topical film: an eerie, poignant reflection on the mass uncertainty sweeping the world. When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his ‘safe’ company job, his family's happy, humdrum life is put at risk. Unwilling to accept the shame of unemployment, the loyal salaryman decides not to tell anyone, instead leaving home each morning in suit and tie with briefcase, spending his days searching for work and lining up for soup with the homeless. Outstanding performances; serene, elegant direction; and Kurosawa's trademark chills are evident as he ratchets up the unsettling atmosphere and the grim hopelessness of Sasaki's unemployment. Special Dual Format Edition includes: 1080p Blu-Ray transfer in the original aspect ratio Making of documentary Q&A, Tokyo, September 2008 Premiere footage, Tokyo, September 2008 DVD discussion UK Trailer 28 page colour booklet

• Boys On Film 21: Beautiful Secret (DVD) | DVD | (08/03/2021) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Collection of short films from all over the world centred around the lives of gay men. The films are: 'My Dad Works The Night Shift' (2018), 'My Sweet Prince' (2019), 'A Normal Guy' (2019), 'Pretty Boy' (2020) and 'L'homme Jetee' (2019).

• The Skin I Live In | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her.

• Dragons Forever | Blu Ray | (19/02/2024) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

   Hotshot lawyer Jackie Lung (Jackie Chan) is hired to defend the owner of a factory which, unbeknownst to him, is the centre of a clandestine narcotics syndicate. He enlists resourceful acquaintances Wong Fei-Hung (Sammo Hung) and Dung Dak-Biu (Yuen Biao) to assist in the case, but loyalties begin to falter when romance blossoms between both sides.Product Features Blu-ray presentation of the Hong Kong Version [94 mins] in original 1.85:1 Aspect RatioCantonese-language options in Dolby Atmos and mono with newly translated subtitles and SDHEnglish Mono Hybrid Dub2002 Remixed English 5.1 Blu-ray presentation of the CYCLONE Z Version [98 mins] [Produced exclusively for the Japanese market, this Cantonese-language version includes two extra scenes and an ending with outtakes] ¢ Cantonese language options in Dolby Atmos and mono with newly translated subtitles and SDH ¢ English Mono Hybrid Dub Blu-ray presentation of the International Version [94 mins] [Commissioned by Golden Harvest for international audiences outside Asia] with the English Dub and optional English SDH ¢ Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng and FJ DeSanto [Japanese Cut] ¢ Audio Commentary with Mike Leeder and Arne Venema [Hong Kong Cut] ¢ Elite Stuntman: Interview with Chin Kar-Lok ¢ Writing for the Dragons: Interview with Szeto Cheuk-Hon ¢ Benny Forever: Interview with Benny ˜The Jet' Urquidez ¢ Discussing Dragons Forever: Interview with David Desser ¢ Hong Kong Cinema Forever: Interview with Mike Leeder ¢ Working with the Dragons: Interview with Jude Poyer ¢ The Legacy of Dragons Forever Featurette with today's actors & martial artists including Troy Sandford, Chris Jones, Ross Boyask, Maria Tran, Mike Leeder, Jean-Paul Ly, Mark Strange, Mike Moeller, George Clarke, Jude Poyer & Steve Lawson ¢ Double Jeopardy: An Interview with Brad Allen ¢ Beyond Gravity: An Interview with Joe Eigo ¢ Thai Breaker: An Interview with Billy Chow ¢ Kick Fighter: An Interview with Andy Cheng ¢ Out-takes & Behind the Scenes ¢ English Trailer ¢ Hong Kong Trailer ¢ Music Video (English) ¢ Music Video (Cantonese) ¢ Additional Cantonese Dialogue ¢ Double-sided artwork featuring new art by Sean Longmore & original Hong Kong poster

• Magnificent Bodyguards - Deluxe Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (31/12/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jackie Chan leaps out of the screen in Magnificent Bodyguards, the first Hong Kong movie shot in 3D! The icon joins a team of guards who are escorting an ill man across a land filled danger and possible death, a land known as Stormy Hills, but does the man hold a deadly secret? Directed by Wei Lo, the person who gave the world the Bruce Lee classics The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, this is prime mandarin madness with a score which will be familiar to lovers of a certain successful sci-fi saga.

• A Man Escaped | Blu Ray | (03/09/2018) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the memoirs of André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance held in Montluc prison by the occupying Germans during World War II.

• Le Chevalier D'Eon - Vol.1 | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by Tow Ubukata (Pilgrim Jager) and produced by Production I.G. (Otogi Zoshi Ghost In The Shell) the supernatural anime series Le Chevalier D'Eon injects historical drama into its horror-fantasy hybrid. Set in 18th-century France just before the revolution the series follows young nobleman D'Eon as he sets out to solve the murder of his beloved sister Lia de Beaumont and uncovers a connection to a secret society with supernatural powers and sinister motives.

• Immortal Story | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £11.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A story of lost lives and lost souls, writer/director Yonfan delivers one of his strongest studies of human fragility. The movie focuses on the relationship between a chanteuse and her Japanese lover from the time they first meet to the present day where she is now at rock bottom and he's a washed-up drug addict. With incredible performances from Sylvia Chang and Shingo Tsurumi, we act as a voyeur, dipping into their bleak, fragmented existences where others control their choices and the only the only light in their lives is their unbroken love.

• Solaris | Blu Ray | (08/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which grips the attention over spans of typically Tarkovskian stasis. Donatas Banionis is sympathetic as the cosmonaut sent to investigate disappearances on the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to be confronted by his past in the guise of his dead wife, magnetically portrayed by Natalya Bondarchuk. The ending is either a revelation or a conceit, depending on your viewpoint. On the DVD: Solaris reproduces impressively on DVD in widescreen--which is really essential here--and Eduard Artemiev's ambient score comes over with pristine clarity. There are over-dubs in English and French, plus subtitles in 12 languages. An extensive stills gallery, detailed filmographies for cast and crew, and comprehensive biographies of Tarkovsky and author Stanislaw Lem are valuable extras, as are the interviews with Bondarchuk and Tarkovsky's sister and an amusing 1970s promo-film for Banionis. It would have been better had the film been presented complete on one disc, instead of stretched over two. Even so, the overall package does justice to a powerful and disturbing masterpiece. --Richard Whitehouse

• Mobile Fighter G Gundam - Part 2 (Limited Collector's Edition) | Blu Ray | (18/12/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Battle Royale begins! Domon must defeat his friends and face the Four Evil Kings. But with the fate of his brother still fresh on his mind, Domon and the rest of the Shuffle Alliance must face the ultimate test as they rocket into space to save the Earth. Beside them stands all of the Gundams from all of the nations of Earth. The Gundam Federation has been formed to prevent the destruction of the Earth from the Ultimate Gundam. But is it too late?Contains: Episodes 25 - 49Audio: Japanese, EnglishSubtitles: EnglishProduct Features60 Page BookletClean Opening & Closing

• Kid From Kwangtung | Blu Ray | (28/10/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio, here's something a bit funnier than their usual fare: after an evil martial arts master (played by the very great Hwang Jang-li (Snake in the Eagle's Shadow) kills their own teacher, Wong Yu (The Shadow Boxing) and Chiang Kam (The Young Master) realise that they're next. But can the squabbling duo put their differences aside long enough to defeat him?With spirited slapstick, supernatural silliness and some jaw-dropping fights that really have to be seen to be believed, Kid From Kwangtang is gravity-defying treat from the glory days of Hong Kong cinema. 88 Films are proud to unleash this classic kung fu comedy on Blu-ray.

• All Quiet on the Western Front 4K UHD & Blu-Ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (29/01/2024) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All Quiet on the Western Front tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. Winner of 4 Oscars, including Best Cinematography and Best International Film Winner of 7 BAFTAs, including in the categories of Best Film , Best Director , Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Adapted Screenplay Product Features Making-of Featurette Theatrical trailer Teaser

• Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest - Season 2 | Blu Ray | (22/05/2023) from £15.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Left behind in another world, Hajime rose from nothing thanks to his will to survive and his beautiful allies. After saving the classmates who abandoned him, he begins an escort mission to Erisen. To find a way home, he'll fight anyoneincluding a god!

• Tokyo Gore Police | DVD | (04/11/2013) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Sexy katakana-wielding cop Ruka (Eihi Shiina) is part of a special paramilitary squad that maintains order in the tough streets of futuristic Tokyo by squashing violence with ultraviolence and merciless executions. Her latest mission is to hunt down a mad scientist known as the Key Man who has developed a virus that mutates humans into hideous killing machines. These monstrous man-creatures might be able to sprout wacky weapons from their wounds but they're no match for Ruka who's been on a vengeful bent ever since her father was murdered. The case turns bloody personal when Ruka discovers that Key Man may be linked to her father's death. Living up to its billing with eye-popping gore comically over-the-top perversions and thoroughly entertaining madness Tokyo Gore Police is a must-watch for fans of gore and extreme cinema.

• Tokyo Ghoul:re Part 1 - Standard | Blu Ray | (06/07/2020) from £29.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two years have passed since the CCG carried out their raid on Anteiku, marking an unmistakable change to the atmosphere across Tokyo because of this show of strength. However, rather than eradicating ghouls, the city's supernatural denizens have simply become more cautious in going about their lives, while terrorist organisation Aogiri Tree seeks to grow in strength with the aim of rising to combat the CCG s growing threat to the very existence of ghouls. In a final push to investigate and exterminate Tokyo's unwanted elements, the CCG has created a special unit - the Quinx Squad, an unruly team of humans who use the special abilities of ghouls to fight. At the head of this squad is an oddly familiar face: Haise Sasaki, a young man struggling with both a new identity and the difficult nature of his new teammates. It's a problem made all the more difficult as his investigations begin to stir long-lost memories that could change everything for him... Contains Episodes 1-12 on Blu-Ray with both the English dub and the original Japanese with English subtitles.

• DER MÜDE TOD (Destiny) | Blu Ray | (24/07/2017) from £11.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before directing numerous genre defining masterpieces such as Metropolis, M, and Spione, Fritz Lang was already defying cinematic conventions with Der müde Tod (literally, The Weary Death). A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiancé (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begin three exotic scenarios of ill-fated love, in which the woman must somehow reverse the course of destiny: Persia, Quattrocento Venice, and a fancifully rendered ancient China. Rich in expressionist imagery and featuring innovative special effects work, Der müde Tod has often been overlooked amongst Lang s early work, but has been hugely influential, with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Buñuel citing it as a direct influence on their work. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in the UK in a new Dual-Format edition. DUAL FORMAT FEATURES: High definition presentation from the superb 2K restoration Original German intertitles with optional English subtitles Score by Cornelius Schwehr, performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Frank Strobel Feature length audio commentary by film critic Tim Lucas A new video essay by David Cairns A booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp and more!

• Boys On Film 13: Trick And Treat | DVD | (13/07/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.  Time for a trick & a treat! BOYS ON FILM surprises and delights with 10 new, award-winning short films, exploring relationships, dark desires and confronting hidden secrets. An American teenager fantasises over his school bully, a miscommunication threatens to end an entire relationship, at the end of the world the desolate English countryside sets the scene for a group of men trying to cheat death, and an elderly woman sees a vision of Jesus on the swimming shorts of a young African man.