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• Massenet: Cendrillon | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £3.26   |  Saving you £15.99 (799.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  With Joyce DiDonato as Cinderella capturing all hearts – not just Prince Charming’s – Massenet’s enchanting, sophisticated retelling of the classic fairytale makes its debut at Covent Garden in a charming and witty production by Laurent Pelly. The Cinderella story seen through the eyes of the belle poque, Massenet’s Cendrillon was first performed at the Opra-Comique in Paris in 1899 and its gorgeous score embraces pathos, pastiche, broad humour, subtle eroticism and sheer magic.

• Sound Euphonium! - Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (16/11/2020) from £30.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the disappointment of defeat in a major competition during her final year in middle school, brass band music has lost its lustre for Kumiko as she enters high school. Despite vowing to leave music behind and make a fresh start, peer pressure from her new-found friends sees Kumiko once again taking up the Euphonium for Kitauji High School s band club. With an ambitious new club advisor at their helm the pressure is on for the club to qualify for the national tournament, but this lofty goal only serves to highlight the fractured relationships between cliques within the group s existing members. As Kumiko struggles to make sense of this unrest, her attention is inexorably drawn towards former classmate and current club mate, the enigmatic Reina. Love, friendship and rivalry collide against a musical backdrop as Kumiko searches for a passion or purpose to define her, in this stunning series from Kyoto Animation. Contains the complete 13-episode series and OVA on Blu-Ray in the original Japanese with English subtitles. Extras/Episodes: Complete 13-episode series plus OVA on Blu-Ray Bonus Episodes (7 total) Textless Opening Title Sequence Textless Closing Title Sequence Commercials and Trailers

• The German Doctor (Wakolda) | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1960. A travelling Doctor strikes up a relationship with a local Argentinian family, in particular their daughter Lilith, a lonely 12-year-old girl who unknowingly becomes close friends with one of the world's most terrifying Nazi war criminals, Josef Mengele A.K.A. The Angel Of Death, who is on the run for his crimes in Auschwitz. Based on true events, this dark, intense dramatic thriller from acclaimed writer- director Lucia Puenzo (XXY, THE FISH CHILD) is adapted from her novel, WAKOLDA, exposing the hidden identity of the 'German Doctor'.

• K-ON! Complete Collection Blu-ray Limited Edition (incl. Season 1, Season 2 and The Movie) | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the new reworked version of the previously recalled release. Welcome to the Light Music Club! The Japanese anime phenomenon! When Yui Hirasawa enters high school, she wants to join a club but can't decide which one is right for her. Fortunately, the Light Music Club is desperate to find another member or they'll be disbanded! So, with the enticement of delicious snacks and assurance that no musical experience is necessary, Yui joins the Light Music Club. She becomes the guitarist in this all-girl high school rock band with Mio Akiyama on bass, Tsumugi Kotobuki on keyboard and Ritsu Tainaka on drums. Together, they're going to rock the school and someday make it to the Budokan! The complete collection contains 2 seasons and the movie over 9 discs. Limited Edition Contents: 1x 5 Panels soft digipack containing 9 discs 6 x Artcards 1x 40 pp Art Book All packaged in a rigid box

• Celia | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £16.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in mid 1950s Australia, with the fear of communism in the air, Ann Turner's refreshingly unsentimental debut feature depicts a long hot summer seen through the eyes and over-active imagination of nine-year-old Celia. Shaken by the death of her beloved Grandmother, Celia finds herself adrift between the cruel games and rituals of childhood and the incomprehensible world of grown-ups. With monstrous creatures stalking her dreams by night, those imagined terrors blur by day with the banal brutality of the adult world and lead to tragic and shocking consequences.

• Under The Volcano by John Huston | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £10.65   |  Saving you £2.34 (21.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Under the Volcano follows the final day in the life of a self destructive British Consul Geoffrey Firmin (Albert Finney in an Oscar nominated tour de force) on the eve of World War II. Withering from alcoholism Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amid the 'day of the dead' festival. Attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife (Jacqueline Bisset) and set against the ominous background of war breaking out in Europe coupled with the unsettling fiesta we are taken through one day in a life of alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in the small town in 1939. Firmin's self-destructive behaviour (perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization) is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic idealistic half-brother Hugh and his ex-wife Yvonne. John Huston's ambitious tackling of Malcolm Lory's towering novel was compared with his greatest works such as the Maltese Falcon The African Queen The Asphalt Jungle and Key Largo. This film also gave the incomparable Finney on of his most legendary roles.

• Cyber City Oedo 808- Collector's Edition (with CD) | Blu Ray | (18/01/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The year is 2808. The place: Oedo, a cybernetic megalopolis of the future where the dreams of a brighter tomorrow are drowning in a tide of violence, vice and villainy. Driven to breaking point, the forces of law and order are left with no choice but to use the very criminals they capture to help hunt their own kind. Enter hardened cyber criminals Sengoku, Gogul, and Benten. Presented by Police chief Hasegawa with a stark choice, they must decide to either rot in jail for the rest of their lives, or join a special force of the Cyber Police and possibly get one more chance at freedom. With their less than subtle blend of extreme violence and excessive swearing, some hard justice is coming to Oedo. With each criminal apprehended and each successful mission completed, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. But with each of them serving a 300-year stretch, and Hasegawa keeping them in line with explosive collars, will they survive long enough to be free men once again? On-disc extras: Inside Cyber City Oedo documentary Episode 1 & 2 commentary with Masao Maruyama (Producer) & Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Director) UK VHS Trailer US DVD Trailers Physical extras: Original UK Soundtrack CD 52 Page Booklet

• The Killing of Sister George | DVD | (01/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character Sister George, a loveable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft (Coral Browne) is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

• School For Seduction | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The humdrum lives of four Newcastle women are transformed by the arrival of Italian femme fatale, Sophia Rosselini and her School for Seduction.

• Holy Spider | DVD | (24/04/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Story of Sin | Blu Ray | (13/03/2017) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The life of a beautiful, young and pious woman is thrown into chaos when her parents takes in a dashingly handsome lodger. Having embarked on a torrid affair, the lodger goes off to Rome to seek a divorce from his estranged wife. Unable to live apart from her beloved, our hero leaves home only to fall prey to the infatuations and lusts of a band of noble admirers, unsavoury criminals and utopian do-gooders The only feature Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne) made in his native Poland, Story of Sin transforms Stefan Zeromski's classic melodrama into a deliriously surrealistic meditation on l'amour fou.

• Rent-A-Girlfriend (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (01/04/2024) from £35.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Kinoshita Kazuya's new girlfriend brutally dumps him, he discovers a surprising new alternative - renting a girlfriend instead! However, while this does let Kazuya avoid the embarrassment of explaining to his friends and family why he's suddenly partner-less, he's unprepared for what happens when Mizuhara Chizuru arrives to fulfill his rental contract. Not only is she completely not what he expected, but her real life has a frightening number of cross-overs with his own! When it turns out that his grandmother is just crazy about Chizuru, it's not like he can just swap her out for a different model! Or can he? Will Kazuya and Chizuru's relationship progress beyond a goods purchased mode? And what happens if Kazuya's ex-girlfriend decides to re-enter the picture? Find out when love and romance are delivered on an installment plan in RENT-A-GIRLFRIEND! BONUS Clean Opening Clean Closing Contains: Episodes 1 - 12

• Aquarius | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Girl From Recife Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighbouring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death, and will engage in a cold war of sorts with the company, a confrontation which is both mysterious, frightening and nerve wracking. This tension both disturbs Clara and gives her that edge on her daily routine. It also gets her thinking about her loved ones, her past and her future. Sonia Braga delivers a tour-de-force performance as Dona Clara in Kleber Mendonça Filho's follow up to his audacious 2012 debut, Neighbouring Sounds, where, once again, the Brazilian film critic, turned director, examines human life in urban spaces in his home town of Recife. Clara's eclectic collection of LP's and her vintage French 3-sheet poster of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, the latter item belonging to the director, will delight lovers of packaged media and memorabilia, items that Clara herself calls 'special objects'.

• Manon | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel 'Manon Lescaut', updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from villagers who want to lynch her for collaborating with the Nazis. They move to Paris, but their relationship quickly turns stormy after they get involved in profiteering, prostitution and murder.

• Identification Marks: None & Hands Up! | Blu Ray | (24/04/2023) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Identification Marks: None (1965): A day in the life of student Andrzej (played by Skolimowski himsef) who, between the morning and late afternoon, gives up on his studies, breaks up with his partner, and decides to join the army. Before his departure, Andrzej tries to straighten out his life, and encounters Barbara, who he sees as the woman he has always waited for. Hands Up! (1981): The fourth of a series of semi-autobiographical films in which Skolimowski plays his alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc Hands Up! was made in 1967 but was banned for 18 years by Poland's then Communist regime. After Poland's liberation, Skolimowski was invited to revisit the film which he duly did, adding a 20 minute sequence that explains why the film was so withheld by the censors. Product Features Newly recorded audio commentaries on both films by Michel Oleszczyk Archive interview with Jerzy Skolimowski (1983) Video essay by Polish film expert Michael Brooke Illustrated booklet with new writing on the films by Ewa Mazierska Other extras TBC

• Food Wars - Season 1 (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (13/05/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mysterious Object At Noon | Blu Ray | (25/04/2016) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The extraordinary films of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (BLISSFULLY YOURS, TROPICAL MALADY, SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY, Cannes Palme d'Or-winner UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR) have defined him as one of contemporary cinema's most unique voices. Apichatpong's hallucinatory debut feature MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand. A film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchair-bound young boy and his teacher. The resulting stories are later re-enacted by non-professional actors in dramatic re-creations of the freely associated narrative strokes supplied. The daisy-chain structure of interlocking vignettes is inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpses, and its formal strategies are aligned with both documentary realism and the avant-garde, but this boldly original debut looks and feels like nothing else. Second Run present the film from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation and includes exclusive extra features. SPECIAL FEATURES ¢ Presented from a new 3K restoration by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. ¢ Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Meteorites (Nimit, 2007) ¢ New and exclusive filmed interview with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. ¢ Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by film historian and author Tony Rayns. ¢ Original Thai soundtrack in DTS-HD master audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM on the Blu-ray / 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Stereo on the DVD.

• Hit the Road | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Driving across endless miles of rugged landscape, a family navigates a long road trip alongside a range of conflicting emotions. Dad's got a broken leg and a mood to match whilst Mum fusses over her two children and their pet dog. And when he's not drawing on the car windows, their energetic youngest son couldn't be louder as he sings along to the car radio whilst his elder brother tries to concentrate on the road ahead. As the journey twists and turns and their destination draws ever closer, the chaotic claustrophobia in the car grows as does the love and affection they have for each other. Accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack, Panah Panahi's thrilling debut feature is a treasure; tender, quirky, and laugh-out-loud funny. Get ready to take an unmissable journey along the dusty road of life.

• Point Blank | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £3.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (300.86%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Everything is going well for Samuel (Gilles Lellouche; Tell Know One Sherlock Holmes Mesrine Little White Lies) and his beautiful wife Nadia (Elana Anaya; The Skin I Live In Sex and Lucia Van Helsing Talk to Her Mesrine). But everything changes when Nadia is kidnapped right in front of Samuel who is knocked out cold trying to stop the kidnapper. When he comes to his phone is ringing; he has just three hours to get Startet (Roschdy Zem; Just Like a Woman The Cold Light of Day) a man who is under police surveillance out of the hospital in which Samuel works. His destiny now lies in the hands of a man who is wanted by the police but if he wants to see his wife again he must act fast...

• Kemono Michi: Rise Up - The Complete Series Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (28/12/2020) from £28.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Professional wrestler and animal lover Shibata Genzo is suddenly summoned to another world. Greeted by a princess, she requests to get rid of the evil beasts roaming in this world. Outraged that he was asked to kill monsters, Genzo German suplexes the princess. Unable to get back to Earth, he decides to live a peaceful life and manage a monster pet shop.