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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...

Mad Detective: The Masters of Cinema Series (Blu-ray Details)
2007’s largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office – the smash-hit Mad Detective – is one of the freshest and most satisfying films from that country in a decade. The traditional Hong Kong police film is turned on its head: the imaginative twist being our hero – Detective Bun (a role created for Lau Ching Wan) – who has the ability to ‘see’ people’s inner personalities or “hidden ghosts”....

Mad Detective: The Masters of Cinema Series (DVD Details)
Detective Bun was recognised as a talented criminal profiler until he sliced off his right ear to offer as a gift at his chief's farewell party. Branded as 'mad' and discharged from the force, he has lived in seclusion with his beloved wife May ever since. Strangely, Bun has the ability to 'see' a person's inner personality, their subconscious desires, emotions, and mental state. When a missing...

Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari (UK) (DVD Details)
In the little village of Holstenwall on the Dutch border, fairground hypnotist Dr Caligari (Werner Krauss) puts on show a somnambulist called Cesare (Conrad Veidt) who has been asleep for twenty-three years. At night, dressed in a black body-stocking and with a ghostly white face, he slithers through the town murdering people on the doctor`s orders. A student (Friedrich Feher) has his suspicions...

Brittas Empire, The (The Complete Series 4) (UK) (DVD Details)
Brittas (Chris Barrie) is back inflicting manic mayhem on his long suffering team. Despite Brittas` efforts, the Leisure Centre is making progress. Sebastian Coe (OBE) even pays a visit, only to end up manacled while the Leisure Centre is under siege. Includes all the episodes from Series 4 of The Brittas Empire. Episode titles: Not A Good Day ..., The Christening, Biggles Tells A Lie, Mr Brittas...

Brittas Empire, The (The Complete Series 3) (UK) (DVD Details)
Whitbury Leisure Centre is preparing to celebrate its first anniversary, but as usual where Brittas (Chris Barrie) is concerned, things go far from smoothly. Brittas gets sent to the dock accused of murder, sent to Coventry by his staff and sent a mysterious parcel containing a large dead spider. This release features all the episodes from Series Three of The Brittas Empire. Episode titles: The...

Brittas Empire, The (The Complete Series 7) (UK) (DVD Details)
All the episodes from Series Seven of The Brittas Empire starring Chris Barrie as Gordon Brittas, hapless manager of the Whitby Leisure Centre. Episodes titles: The Elephant`s Child, Reviewing the Situation, http://etc., Wake Up the Lion Within, The Disappearing Act, Gavin Featherly RIP, Exposed, Curse of the Tiger Women, Surviving Christmas.

Brittas Empire, The (The Complete Series 6) (UK) (DVD Details)
All the episodes from Series Six of The Brittas Empire starring Chris Barrie as Gordon Brittas, hapless manager of the Whitby Leisure Centre. Episodes titles: Back With A Bang, Body Langauge, We All Fall Down, A Walk On The Wild Side, At The Double, Mr Brittas Falls In Love, Snap Happy.

2 Point 4 Children (UK) (DVD Details)
On the surface, the Porters are a normal family – even the series` title 2 Point 4 Children alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet, though the individual members` (central–heating engineer Ben, his wife, catering worker Bill, and their teenage children David and Jenny) are unexceptional, the situations in which the family...

Sunrise (UK) (DVD Details)
F.W. Murnau, Germany`s finest director, was imported to Hollywood in July 1926. William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation promised and gave him complete artistic freedom. Fox told Murnau to take his time, spend whatever he had to, and make any film he wished to make. The film that resulted was Sunrise, made entirely without studio interference. In 1927-28, Sunrise was awarded a special Oscar for "Uni...

M (Special Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
Sinister, dark and foreboding, Fritz Lang`s M tells the story of Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), child molester and murderer. Gangsters, beggars and petty criminals, incensed by both the crimes and the police crackdown, track the killer themselves. Cornered, caught and dragged off to face an equally barbaric form of justice, Beckert endures his own personal torment. Allegedly based on the story of...

Brittas Empire, The (The Complete Series 1) (UK) (DVD Details)
The Brittas Empire centres around the disaster-prone Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie). As manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre, Brittas seems to have a natural talent for total chaos. Far from implementing his ideals, the staff and members of the leisure centre find themselves faced with a series of riotous mishaps. First broadcast in 1991, this release features all 6 episodes from Series One...

Japan Organised Crime Boss (UK) (DVD Details)
The Yakuza is in turmoil when Osaka`s ruthless Danno Organisation has ambitions to take over and control the entire Japanese underworld. After staging a series of successful territorial battles, they make their way to Yokohama`s busy port district with the intention of ruling that too. An alliance is formed between the remaining Yakuza clans to take on the might of the Danno organization.

Cops vs Thugs (UK) (DVD Details)
It is 1963, and the police of Kurashima City have spent seven years eradicating the Yakuza gangs which have caused so much strife in the city. The last two remaining gangs, Ohara and Kawade, are in tatters, with the Ohara boss in prison. But with the police force full of corrupt officers, the gangs begin to flourish once again. The Kawade gang, sensing the opportunity to strike their enemies while...

Graveyard Of Honour (UK) (DVD Details)
Rikio Ishikawa is a brutal street thug who is drawn into the powerful Kawada gang in 1946 Tokyo. His insubordination and rebelliousness encourage him to start his own Yakuza family, but he decides the easiest way would be to challenge his own Godfather, whom he brutally attacks. This disrespect to his boss brings the ultimate form of disgrace upon himself and his "family". For his own safety,...

Street Mobster (UK) (DVD Details)
Street mobster Isamu Okita likes fighting and girls, and is just out of prison for killing a rival in a bath-house. On release, he finds things have changed: the old gangs no longer have the power they once enjoyed. So he teams up with Kizaki, an aspiring gangster who suggests he revive his old gang to take on existing mobs and claim their territory. They challenge the Yato gang and end up...

Geisha House, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Japan, 1958. The Japanese Government is about to introduce and enforce the Anti-Prostitution Act, effectively outlawing prostitution. But the new laws do not have any effect on the Fujinoya Geisha House, still run in the traditional centuries-old manner. The Geisha treat their wealthy patrons with honour and respect and in return they are handsomely rewarded with companionship, and in some cases,...

Yakuza Papers (UK) (DVD Details)
This nihilistic chronicle of the gang-wars that ravaged Hiroshima in post-war Japan centres around the character Sugawara. Based on the prison diary of a yakuza involved in the wars (Kozo Mino), Sugawara is distinguihed through extreme, callous brutality. The villainous godfather Yamamoru initiates him into his ruthless gang, which inevitably wins the power struggle through titanic, gruesome...

Phantom Of The Opera, The: Special Collectors Edition (UK) (DVD Details)
The original version of Gaston Leroux`s legendary book `The Phantom Of The Opera` is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring "The Man of a Thousand Faces", Lon Chaney. In the film, Chaney is Erik, the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna (Mary...

Blue Angel, The: Special Edition (UK) (DVD Details)
The austere and authoritarian Professor Rath discovers some of his students passing round seductive photographs of a sexy cabaret singer singing at the local nightclub. That evening he visits the club, but instead of catching the mischievous students, he is mesmerised by the provocative singer Lola-Lola. After her hypnotic performance, he finds his way to her dressing room and eventually the two...

Lost World, The (UK) (DVD Details)
The Lost World` created a worldwide sensation when it opened in 1925. When romance threw down the gauntlet to Edward Malone, not only did he realise another young woman`s dreams and open the door to Professor Challenger to take a party deep into the unforgiving Brazilian jungle, he found himself in terrifying danger, in a pre-historic time, with no hope of escape. Professor Challenger -...

Little Shop of Horrors, The (UK) (DVD Details)
The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man, Seymour (Jonathan haze), working for $10 a week in Mushnick`s flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent, bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant `Audrey Junior` and as it grows, it demands human meat for substenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable...