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The Adventures Of Mark Twain (DVD Details)
The Adventures Of Mark Twain is an amazing journey of imagination, humour and heart, and a must for fans of Aardman Studios. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn stow away with Mark Twain on an incredible...

The Kremlin Letter (DVD Details)
In this star-studded, black-hearted spy thriller directed and co-written by the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen), a potentially catastrophic diplomatic letter from the CIA must be recovered at all costs. Drafted in is Rone (Patrick O'Neal), a young agent with a photographic memory, to make his way through a treacherous maze of shadowy cities and shady characters....

Junebug (DVD Details)
When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a dealer in “outsider” art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George (Alessandro Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family: his prickly mother Peg; his taciturn father Eugene; his angry younger brother Johnny, who has always suffered in the shadow of his...

City Girl: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago, innocent farmer’s son Lem falls for and weds Kate, a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time, the...

Brain Dead (DVD Details)
Two escaped convicts, two very attractive lost hikers, a televangelist and his pretty, young assistant all find themselves in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being trapped in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba controlled zombies at their doorstep. A random meteorite falls to earth and accidentally hits Bill, a small town fisherman, in the...

La signora di tutti: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
With the Nazi terror on the ascent, master filmmaker Max Ophuls fled to Italy in 1934 and made La signora di tutti Everybody’s Lady] — an exuberant, desperate melodrama that, although arriving early in Ophuls’ body of work, ranks comfortably alongside Letter from an Unknown Woman, Madame de…, or Lola Montès in the hierarchy of the director’s achievements. Isa Miranda, one of Italy’s greatest...

Shogun Assassin: Limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray Details)
Censored, banned, bootlegged, mistreated, but ultimately unstoppable, this breathtaking high-definition special edition is the release Shogun Assassin fans have been waiting for. Unquestionably the most popular samurai film in the West since the days of Akira Kurosawa, this chanbara classic was lifted from a hugely popular comic book saga and, still wet, transferred glistening to the screen. After...

Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (Blu-ray Details)
All the excitement of the Arabian Nights is orchestrated in this thrilling tale of romance, revenge and high drama. Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, the now-grown Ali Baba (Jon Hall) sets out to avenge his father's murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his childhood love Amara (Maria Montez) from the clutches of his treacherous enemy.  A lavish adventure...

Temptation (DVD Details)
After a heavy night trawling the nightspots of the City with the girls, Isabel (Caroline Haines) gets more than she bargained for when she takes an illegal mini cab home. Raped and left for dead, Isabel is saved by Aurelie who dispatches the cabbie and revives Isabel with a drop of her own, immortal blood. However, Isabel’s ordeal is far from over as she spirals into a nightmare from which she may...

Make Way For Tomorrow: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: ‘Oh my God that’s the saddest movie ever made." Leo McCarey’s personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as cathartic affirmation of the dignity of human feeling, and In the testament of such achieves a subtle complexity of characterisation on par...

The Human Centipede [First Sequence] (Blu-ray Details)
Two pretty American girls on a road trip across Europe end up alone in the woods at night when their car breaks down in rural Germany. As they search for help they find an isolated house. Offering to call them a taxi, the house's owner Dr. Heiter, a retired surgeon, invites the girls inside with the promise of a drink and dry place to wait until help arrives. However they realise that there is...

The Burmese Harp: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
A rhapsodic celebration of song, a brutal condemnation of wartime mentality, and a lyrical statement of hope within darkness; even amongst the riches of 1950s' Japanese cinema, The Burmese Harp, directed by Kon Ichikawa (Alone Across the Pacific, Tokyo Olympiad), stands as one of the finest achievements of its era. At the close of World War II, a Japanese army regiment in Burma surrenders to...

Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (DVD Details)
All the excitement of the Arabian Nights is orchestrated in this thrilling tale of romance, revenge and high drama. Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, the now-grown Ali Baba (Jon Hall) sets out to avenge his father's murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his childhood love Amara (Maria Montez) from the clutches of his treacherous enemy.

Paranoiac! (DVD Details)
A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios, available for the first time on home video in the UK, this sinister classic spins a gruesome where the unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed), a brutish alcoholic, and Eleanor (Jannette Scott), a nervous wreck, are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister...

Paranoiac! (Blu-ray Details)
A forgotten gem from the legendary Hammer Studios, available for the first time on home video in the UK, this sinister classic spins a gruesome where the unhappy families. It is three weeks before the Ashby siblings Simon (Oliver Reed), a brutish alcoholic, and Eleanor (Jannette Scott), a nervous wreck, are to come into their late parents' inheritance. While Simon plans to have his sister...

The War Lord (DVD Details)
Charlton Heston (Ben Hur, Touch of Evil, The Ten Commandments) stars as Chrysagon, an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy to strengthen his duke's authority. But his struggles to maintain power in the face of Pagan villagers, barbarian attackers and his brother's jealous counsel are shaken by his growing weariness with bloodshed in a cruel world. Never...

Profound Desires of the Gods: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
The culmination of Shôhei Imamura’s extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Gods was an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time of its release, but has since risen in stature to become one of the most legendary — albeit least seen — Japanese films of recent decades. Presenting a vast chronicle...

Le grand jeu: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
A marvellous rediscovery from the golden age of French cinema, Jacques Feyder's Le grand jeu is a tragic doppelgänger romance, steered by the fate of the tarot card, and set against the dizzying exoticism of 1930s Morocco.When scandalous Parisian playboy Pierre Martel is forced by his family to leave France and his adored lover Florence (Marie Bell), he begins a new life in the Foreign Legion as...

Wizards (DVD Details)
One of the most ambitious and inventive films from legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Wizards is a dazzling fantasy adventure. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where technology has been outlawed after nuclear disaster, the film follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar’s evil brother Blackwolf dominates...

Tammy and the Bachelor (DVD Details)
After Tammy (Debbie Reynolds – Singin’ in the Rain) and her Grandpa (Walter Brennan – To Have and Have Not) find Peter Brent (Leslie Nielsen – Forbidden Planet) alone and unconscious near their Mississippi home, they take him in and restore him to health. But when Grandpa is arrested for bootlegging, Tammy is forced to leave their riverside shack and goes to stay with Peter and his family in...

Wizards (Blu-ray Details)
One of the most ambitious and inventive films from legendary animator Ralph Bakshi, Wizards is a dazzling fantasy adventure. Set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where technology has been outlawed after nuclear disaster, the film follows the story of Avatar, the kindly, eccentric sorcerer-ruler of Montagar, a rainbow paradise inhabited by elves and fairies. Avatar’s evil brother Blackwolf dominates...

Prince Valiant (DVD Details)
The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table! With thrilling action, romance, courtly intrigue, Franz Waxman's rousing score, and a magnificent cast of...

Sous le soleil de Satan: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
Positioned somewhere between Bresson’s immortal Journal d’un curé de campagne and Dieterle’s The Devil and Daniel Webster, Maurice Pialat’s staggering Sous le soleil de Satan Under the Sun of Satan] addresses the torrent of spiritual and intellectual turmoil unloosed among the denizens of a little country parish. It is a film by turns calm and violent, buoyant upon the tears of mercy and gurgling...

À nos amours: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family’s dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Maurice Pialat’s serene, perilous masterwork provides the movie romance a definitive check and eminently deceptive balance — the X scratched on top of the O. In one of the astonishing film debuts, Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost...

The Clouded Yellow (DVD Details)
This action-packed thriller ranks alongside Hitchcock’s great British thrillers. When ex-spy David Somers takes a low-profile job in the country cataloguing a butterfly collection, he finds that dangerous work continues to pursue him. David grows fond of his employer’s niece, a fragile, fey young woman named Sophie. When Sophie is framed for the murder of Hick – the spiteful handyman, he becomes...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (DVD Details)
Boasting a star studded international cast of Academy Award Winners, nominees and BAFTA recipients including Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther, Dr Strangelove, The Goon Show) as the March Hare,  Michael Crawford (Some Mothers Do Ave ‘Em, Hello Dolly!) as the White Rabbit,  Dudley Moore (10, Arthur, Bedazzled) as Dormouse,  Spike Milligan (The Goon Show, Adolf Hitler-My Part in his Downfall),  Sir...

M: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
Of all Fritz Lang’s creations, none have been more innovative or influential than M, the film that launched German cinema into the sound era with stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Peter Lorre gives a legendary performance as the murderer Hans Beckert, who soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. From cinema’s...

There's Always Tomorrow: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
Disregarded and neglected by his family, executive toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) is unexpectedly reunited with his former co-worker Norma Miller (Barbara Stanwyck). As the old friends catch up on lost time, his children’s suspicions and hostility to the new relationship threaten to push their father away permanently and throw into disarray the lives of all concerned. With...

City Girl: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago, innocent farmer’s son Lem falls for and weds Kate, a hard-bitten but lonely waitress. Upon bringing her home at the start of harvest time, the...

Lubitsch in Berlin: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
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 its tone as it was sophisticated in its measure of man and woman. This box set collects six recently restored works from the silent phase of Lubitsch's...