Items Matching Tag 'French'

Bleach The Movie 2: The Diamond Dust Rebellion (Blu-ray Details)
When a caravan transporting the King's Seal is attacked, Toshiro Hitsugaya and Squad 10 are on the ready. As they prepare to protect the treasure that holds immeasurable power, Hitsugaya suddenly abandons the scene alongside the thieves and becomes one of the accused. In response, the Soul Society calls for his capture and execution. Upon hearing the edict, Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo...

Bleach The Movie: Memories Of Nobody (Blu-ray Details)
Ichigo Kurosaki has never been an average teenage boy. For as long as he can remember, has been able to see and communicate with the spirits of the recently departed. Now, Ichigo is a Soul Reaper, one whose duty it is to send lost souls off to the world of the dead while fighting malevolent spirits known as Hollows. Ichigo's already weird existence gets even weirder when he and fellow Soul...

Bubblegum Crisis: Vol. 2 (UK) (DVD Details)
Megatokyo 2033 A.D. Like a Phoenix, the city of MegaTokyo is rising from the ashes of a devastating earthquake. In the twisted canyons of the mega-lopolis, the Knight Sabers, a small band of high-tech mercenaries, fight a lonely battle against the evil GENOM Corporation and its sinister android "Boomers". Largo (Episodes 4-6) A mysterious black car is hunting down motorcycle gangs, but when...

Lucky Luke (DVD Details)
Jean Dujardin (Oscar and BAFTA winning star of The Artist) stars as Lucky Luke, a crack-shot gunslinger with a lightning fast draw and a conscience to boot. After witnessing the savage murder of his parents at the hands of the vicious Cheater Gang, Luke dedicates his life to bringing the very wildest in the west to justice, that is with a non-lethal twist. Years later, when the President of the...

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Blu-ray Details)
To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the unkillable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best... his last victim! Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg Balot exists for only one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to...

Special Forces (Blu-ray Details)
Amidst the savage battlegrounds, Afghanistan war correspondent Elsa Casanova (Diane Kruger, Unknown) is willing to risk everything to get her story, even her life. Taken hostage by the feared Taliban she faces imminent execution. As the news reaches government officials an elite commando force is despatched. But when all their radio equipment is destroyed during conflict, Elsa and her rescuers...

Tekken: Blood Vengeance (DVD Details)
The stage for a final showdown is prepared as Anna Williams and the G Corporation set a trap for her sister Nina, who works for Jin Kazama, head of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Both Jin and his father, Kazuya Mishima of the G Corporation, seek to possess and control the M Cell that will unlock the destructive supernatural powers buried within the Mishima bloodline. Kazuya dispatches Ling Xiaoyu to a...

Verdi: Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Carignani) (DVD Details)
Les Vêpres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opéra for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Netherlands Opera the action is transposed to a 1940s world of sudden violence and shadowy double-dealing....

Samurai Girls (DVD Details)
Muneakiru Yagyu is a gifted student of the samurai way, but until he arrived at his dojo, he never knew just how gifted he truly was. There, beautiful girl Jubei falls naked from the sky and right into his arms, and when they kiss, he magically transforms her into a powerful master samurai. So, naturally, every beautiful girl at the dojo can't wait to kiss him now! And some, like the sexy Gisen,...

Appleseed: Ex Machina (Blu-ray Details)
Following the non-nuclear war that killed half the world's population, the city-nation of Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos and conflict. The utopian metropolis is governed by Gaia, a vast artificial intelligence, and administered by genetically engineered humanoids known as Bioroids, whose designer DNA suppresses strong emotions. With Bioroids being half of its population,...

Delibes: Coppélia (Paris Opera Ballet) (DVD Details)
Premiered in Paris in 1870, and inspired by the fantastical writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Coppélia tells the story of a young man who becomes besotted with an exquisite automaton and is finally brought to his sense by his fiancée. In their production from the magnificent Palais Garnier, choreographer Patrice Bart and designer Ezio Toffolutti explore the story's darker side while doing full...

Van Helsing (DVD Details)
Legendary monster hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is summoned to mysterious Transylvania on a mission that will thrust him into a sweeping battle against the forces of darkness! With non-stop action and electrifying special effects, Van Helsing is an adrenaline-powered motion picture event Roger Ebert calls "Spectacular."

The Dead List (DVD Details)
Masterfully balancing the power struggles within the family and the sheer brutality of the world they inhabit, this explosive action-thriller is set to re-ignite the genre. Starring JEAN RENO (LEON, RONIN, 22 BULLETS) as a patriarch of a violent criminal underworld, THE DEAD LIST weaves a powerful portrait of the inner machinations of the ruthless mafia with staggering magnitude.  Keeping...

The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec (Blu-ray Details)
Legendary director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon) transports us to the wild days of early Twentieth Century Paris, where feisty young writer Adele Blanc-Sec embarks on thrilling missions to find exciting material for her book and a cure for her sick sister. She sails to Egypt to raid a tomb that supposedly hides the cure, but what will she do when an army of resurrected mummies get in the...

Hiroshima Mon Amour (DVD Details)
Alain Resnais’ groundbreaking first feature, Hiroshima Mon Amour, was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering, which Resnais’...

Lethal Weapon 4 (US) (DVD Details)
Pure dynamite! The Lethal Weapon team has done it again, putting the match to the fuse and putting the wow! back on screen for `Lethal Weapon 4`. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh, with Joe Pesci riding comedy shotgun as chatterbox Leo. Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the gonzo loose cannon and - what`s this? - family man. His will he/won`t he...

Night and Fog (DVD Details)
Ten years following the Holocaust, Alain Resnais documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz while reflecting on the rise of Nazi ideology and the harrowing lives of the camp prisoners using haunting wartime footage. Night and Fog was one of the first films made about the Holocaust and remains one of the most important commentaries about this topic. François Truffaut had high praise for Night and...

The Round Up (DVD Details)
A gripping story ignored until relatively recently, THE ROUND UP also features a prestigious cast including Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code) Gad Elmaleh (Comme ton Pére) and Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds). Based on meticulous research and told through the story of several Jewish families who find themselves taken unawares by the ferocious turn of events, the film portrays the few weeks in...

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (19 Discs) (DVD Details)
Dive beneath the waves with the pioneer of underwater filmmaking, as the legendary Jacques Cousteau comes to DVD at last! Discover some of Cousteau's greatest adventures aboard the world-famous research ship Calypso as they circle the globe seeking new understanding of the natural world in the 36-part TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Together, these fantastic new releases are...

The Tourist: Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray Details)
Starring Golden Globe nominee Johnny Depp alongside Angelina Jolie The Tourist revolves around Frank (Depp), an American on an impromptu visit to Italy to mend a broken heart. He unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise (Jolie), an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly...

Les Diaboliques: Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray Details)
After the success of The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) Henri-Georges Clouzot cemented his reputation with his masterpiece, Les diaboliques. Based on a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (who also wrote the novel on which Hitchcock’s Vertigo is based), Les diaboliques tells the story of a sadistic headmaster (Paul Meurisse) who brutalises his wife and mistress (Véra Clouzot and...

IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix - Season 2 (3 Discs) (DVD Details)
It is now the year 2050, after the end of the first season of IGPX, Team Satomi and its fearsome leader, Takeshi Jin emerged victorious in a season full of twists. The team thought that they could rest on their laurels however they will soon discover that the price of victory is higher than they could have imagined. Now they must deal with their old rivals - with much better equipment and raging...

IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix - Season 1 (3 Discs) (DVD Details)
The year is 2049 and the ultimate in mechanical sports is the Immortal Grand Prix (IGPX), a competition where high-tech robot-combatants battle it out over courses at speeds upwards of 350 mph. IGPX has become so popular that an entire city, "IG City", has been built, complete with its own 60 mile track. After a dazzling competition, Team Satomi has swept away the first place in the minor league,...

Black (Blu-ray Details)
When an armed raid on a security van in Paris goes horribly wrong, one of the gunmen, Black (MC Jean Gab’1), decides to lie low until the dust settles. That is until he receives a call from his cousin in Senegal supplying information about a stash of uncut diamonds being stored in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar. Eyeing the opportunity to make one final score that would set him up for life, Black...

22 Bullets (DVD Details)
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...

Amer (Blu-ray Details)
Recalling the captivating cinematic style, recurring themes and bold visual motifs seen in the works of directors such as Dario Argento, Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci, Cattet and Forzani’s highly original and visionary tribute to the Italian masters is a virtually dialogue-free, Freudian tale of sexual awakening, obsession and murder. The story unfolds in three parts as Ana (played, respectively,...

Crying with Laughter (DVD Details)
Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young...

The Other Guys: Extended Cut (Blu-ray Details)
Misfit NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz (Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) are sentenced to life behind the desk. They hate each other and the monotony of their meaningless jobs, as they’re forced to live in the shadow of the two biggest and most badass cops on the force (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson). But when those guys go down for the count, opportunity knocks for Gamble and Hoitz....

White Material (Blu-ray Details)
The regular army is preparing to reestablish order In the country. To clean up. To eliminate the rebel officer also known as The Boxer and rid the countryside of roving child soldiers. All the expatriates have gone home, getting out before things turn nasty. Of the Vials — a coffee planting family, who have lived there for two generations — Maria (Huppert) stands firm. She’s not about to give...

The Exorcist (Blu-ray Details)
Controversial, haunting and popular from the moment it opened, William Friedkin's masterpiece "The Exorcist" now marks its historic Blu-ray premiere in a 2 disc Edition featuring stunning Hi-Def presentation of the original 1973 Theatrical Version and the 2000 Extended Director's Cut. The terrifying and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother's frantic...