| "The Green Man DVD" |
| "Alastair Sim appears as a timid clockmaker with a part-time job - International Assassination Expert He finds himself in real trouble when he stalks the wrong target blowing up a boring politician instead And now he must pay the price"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Color Of Pomegranates DVD" |
| "Director Sergei Paradjanov made a practice of making highly idiosyncratic films based on the folklore of regions in the former Soviet Union In 1969 he made this film based in part on the life of the 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova ('The King of Song') Renowned for his writings and his religious lifestyle Sayat Nova became a martyr when he grew too influential for the authorities to control Seriously out of favor with Soviet governmental bureaucrats this film was not seen in the international arena until 1977 Then THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES was widely acclaimed for its poetic and non-narrative blending of historical and biographical Armenian imagery"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Waiting For God - Series 4 DVD 2-Disc Set" |
| "The fourth in the award winning British Comedy TV series featuring two elderly residents at the 'Bay view Retirement Village' who refuse to succumb to old age and the lifestyle that expectedly goes with it"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Offside DVD" |
| "In a country where women are forbidden to attend football matches a group of Persian girls disguises themselves as boys in order to see an all-important world cup qualifier With soldiers roaming the stadium and parents becoming suspicious will the girls manage to fool those that stand between them and a dream ticket?"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Foyle's War - Series 4 - Complete DVD 4-Disc Set" |
| "The complete fourth series of this terrific atmospheric British TV series stars Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle a detective in a small town in World War II-era England who finds himself dealing with murder spies and treason on the home front Includes the episodes 'Invasion' and 'Bad Blood'"
Price: 12.99 |
| "The Angelic Conversation DVD" |
| "Derek Jarman takes fourteen of Shakespeare's sonnets (read by Judi Dench) as a basis for a visual celebration of the senses"
Price: 22.49 |
| "Victoria: The Complete Series One & Series Two DVD" |
| "WHITE OLEANDER is the tale of an intense and toxic mother-daughter relationship coupled with a look at the fundamentally skewed US foster care system When the beautiful photographer Ingrid Magnusson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is imprisoned for allegedly murdering a philandering boyfriend her daughter Astrid (Alison Lohman) does her best to survive a string of foster homes where natural adolescent mistakes turn into land mines Her first stop is the home of a born-again Christian Starr (Robin Wright Penn who is so good in this part she's physically unrecognisable) Next she is sent to the home of a clinically depressed actress Claire Richards (Renee Zellweger whose natural effervescence is delightfully disturbing here) Claire uses Astrid to fill the void left by a roaming husband (Noah Wyle) Astrid juggles her list of changing homes with visits to Mummy Dearest in prison while suffering flashbacks of the alleged murder"
Price: 21.99 |
| "Home And Away - Romances DVD" |
| "Presented by Beau Brady this compilation encompasses some of the most romantic moments from the Austarlian soap favourite - featuring footage culled from both classic and contemporary episodes"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Taxi 3 DVD" |
| "Crazy taxi driver Daniel and stressed copper Emilien return in this high-speed actioncomedy from producer Luc Besson (LEON THE FIFTH ELEMENT) The usual blend of high octane car chases and comedy ensues when Daniel and Emilien are reluctantly thrown back together in order to apprehend a gang of criminals"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Anna Karenina DVD 3-Disc Set" |
| "Nicola Pagett takes the title role in this 1977 adaptation of Tolstoy's novel of high drama amongst the members of the 19th century Russian aristocracy This production originally ran in US on PBS Masterpiece Theatre"
Price: 19.49 |
| "Learners DVD" |
| "Bev (Jessica Hynes SPACED) is a downtrodden wife and learner driver who has failed her driving test eight times Bev decides to no longer be taught by her impatient husband and enrols in a driving school leading to Bev developing a crush on her driving instructor (David Tennant DR WHO)"
Price: 13.49 |
| "City Of Lost Children DVD" |
| "In THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN an imaginative fantasy from the creators of DELICATESSEN a prematurely aging mad scientist named Krank (Daniel Emilfork) kidnaps children so he can steal their dreams However Krank runs into trouble when his henchmen grab Denre (Joseph Lucien) a little boy whose adopted brother One (Ron Perelman) is a circus strongman One desperately tries to find Denre and begs for help from Miette (Judith Vittet) a 9-year-old girl who heads up a gang of orphans Together One and Miette finally find Krank's castle meeting along the way the lost identical brother--the original--of the three clones (each played by Dominique Pinon) who serve as Krank's assistants French directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet once again prove their technical prowess with this dark fairy tale which features outstanding performances from its youthful cast (most notably Vittet) As is the case with DELICATESSEN however their genius in constructing a highly artificial beautiful believable world threatens to overshadow the story But even the fantastic sets cannot compare to the bizarre spectacles that Jeunet and Caro dream up In one unforgettable scene a pair of evil Siamese twin sisters prepare dinner their four arms working perfectly in sync--one holding vegetables for another to chop while a third stirs the soup and a fourth scratches their collective itches Frequent David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti creates the chilling circusy musical score that adds to the film's magic"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Counterfeiters DVD" |
| "Set in a Nazi concentration camp this drama centres on history's biggest counterfeit operation In THE COUNTERFEITERS prisoners must choose between aiding the Third Reich in their money-making scheme and their own well-being"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Kidnapped - Series 1 - Complete DVD 2-Disc Set" |
| "Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson book KIDNAPPED sees David Balfour sold as a slave and sent to the colonies Fortunately he becomes friends with Alan Breck Sewart and the two escape and set out on a dangerous trek back to Edinburgh Features all 13 episodes of the series"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Camille Claudel DVD" |
| "The true story of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and his apprentice Camille Claudel Their stormy love affair lasted for 15 years but Camille's passion for Rodin and her work were at odds with each other Bruno Nuytten's debut feature French dialogue with English subtitles"
Price: 10.99 |
| "The Concert DVD" |
| "Twenty-five years after losing his position as the conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra for his refusal to fire the Jewish musicians a once-famous musical director attempts to stage a late-career comeback Andrei Semoinovitch Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was at the top of his game when the Soviet regime ended his career More than two decades later he's working as a janitor in the same theater where he once conducted In his spare time Andre and his wife stage mock communist demonstrations to entertain the locals When Andre happens across an invitation to Paris' famed Theatre du Chatelet he contacts his old orchestra friends in hopes of staging a performance that will bring the crowd to their feet for a standing ovation"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Mother DVD" |
| "A woman devoted to her son struggles to keep him from spending his life in prison in this drama from director Bong Joon-ho Do-jun (Weon Bin) is a man in his mid-twenties who isn't especially bright and is easily led Do-jun lives with his elderly mother (Kim Hye-ja) who loves him fiercely even though she has no illusions about his abilities or his bad habits Do-jun spends much of his spare time with Jin-tae (Jin Gu) a borderline criminal who takes advantage of Do-jun's credulous nature much to his mother's annoyance When Do-jun is arrested by police and accused of the murder of a young woman his mother is certain he couldn't have done it and sets out to prove her son's innocence to police detectives who seem more interested in closing the case than researching other possible leads At first mother feels certain that Jin-tae has framed her son to avoid being punished himself but as she digs deeper she suspects the truth is more complicated"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Lawn Dogs DVD" |
| "Youngster Devon (Mischa Barton) is transplanted by her parents into an uptight gated community Camelot Gardens The lonely and imaginative ten-year-old girl escapes the confines of her new 'community' and makes friends with an isolated eccentric Trent (Sam Rockwell) who lives in a trailer on the outskirts of town Trent mows the lawns of Devon's family and is looked down upon by the upper-class denizens of Camelot Gardens When their secret friendship is revealed the community explodes unable to understand the innocent bond between the two outcasts"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Breathless DVD" |
| "Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made On the run after killing a cop a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg) After she betrays him he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled on his hero Humphrey Bogart BREATHLESS is the arguable cornerstone of the French New Wave exhibiting the trademark documentary shooting style natural sound design and thematic interest in the detritus of American popular culture (Rereleased theatrically in April 2000)"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Four Lions DVD" |
| "A handful of young men set out to take on the decadent West but are more of a threat to themselves than anyone else in this black comedy from teh creator of BRASS EYE Chris Morris Omar (Riz Ahmed) is a devout Muslim living in the United Kingdom who has decided to form a terrorist cell to bring forth a jihad against a culture he believes is dominated by the sinful and ignorant However Omar isn't much of leader and he's assembled an unimpressive team of fellow terrorists among them Waj (Kayvan Novak) who lacks the brainpower to come up with ideas or direction on his own; Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) who is shy and doesn't have much to say; and Barry (Nigel Lindsay) a recent convert to Islam who tries to make up for his lack of practical knowledge with fierce passion As Omar and his comrades debate both doctrine and methods they ponder such notions as using birds as explosive devices creating video communiqus with a hip-hop flavor and attacking mosques in an effort to provoke non-violent Muslims But are Omar and his partners a legitimate threat to the safety of Great Britain or just four half-bright twenty-somethings with more bluster than imagination?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Weeds - Series 5 DVD 3-Disc Set" |
| "Nancy Botwin is a recently widowed mother of two who finds herself in difficult financial straits Her ingenious solution is to become the local pot dealer Nancy's business really takes off but she struggles to maintain her normal life and keep her secret from best friend and PTA president Celia Includes all the episodes from the show's fifth series"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Wuthering Heights 2011 DVD" |
| "Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold directs this raw and unique adaptation of Emily Bronte&39;s WUTHERING HEIGHTS Kaya Scodelario (SKINS) stars as Catherine with James Howson as her Heathcliff; marking the first time a black actor has portrayed the role Adopted into the wealthy Earnshaw family Heathcliff forms a powerful romantic bond with his new stepsister Cathy When he returns to the moors years later to find her married his realisation that he can never be with his one true soul mate has tragic consequences"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Music Box DVD" |
| "Ann Talbot is a criminal lawyer When her father is accused of being a Nazi war criminal she agrees to defend him But during the trial she discovers things about him that she never knew"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Ikiru DVD" |
| "IKIRU tells the tale of a lowly clerk who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is spirited away from his dull unfulfilled existence into a more rewarding way of life He experiences deep self-pity when he first hears of the news folowed by a bout of pure hedonism but his real vocation lies in his construction of a children's playground"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Tiger Woods - Heart Of A Champion DVD" |
| "An unauthorized documentary chronicling pro-golf superstar Tiger Wood's career from amateur to the Masters and finally legendary status Includes interviews with Stanford University coach Wally Goodwin current coach Butch Harmon his caddie parents and colleagues to help further investigate the man and his game Narrated by sports commentator Jack Whitaker"
Price: 13.49 |
| "I Do DVD" |
| "Life is great for conformed bachelor Luis; he loves his job and indulges the pampering offered by his mother and five sisters but they have other ideas and decide that the time has come for him to seek out a bride In an attempt to foil his family's plans Luis decides to find his perfect mate all by himself"
Price: 10.99 |
| "The Dangerous Brothers - Dangervision DVD" |
| "Contains every ultraviolent and perverted sketch by The Dangerous Brothers played by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Carry On Collection Vol.1 DVD 4-Disc Set Box Set" |
| "Four cracking CARRY ON comedies Includes CARRY ON SERGEANT CARRY ON TEACHER CARRY ON NURSE and CARRY ON CONSTABLE"
Price: 13.99 |
| "Julie Christie - Screen Icons DVD 4-Disc Set Box Set" |
| "A collection of four films featuring one of Britain's most versatile actresses Julie Christie This set includes THE GO-BETWEEN BILLY LIAR FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD and DARLING"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Dancing At Lughnasa DVD" |
| "A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland Their lives are interrupted by the arrival of two men - the boy's long-lost father who is off to Spain to fight the war against Franco and an elderly uncle who has come home to die after a lifetime in America Although life goes on as before for the boy and five sisters something will happen that will destroy their peaceful existence as they once knew it"
Price: 7.49 |
