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Unknown (DVD Details)
A man claiming to be Dr Martin Harris awakes in Berlin hospital with severe head injuries and very little knowledge as to how he got there. The doctors inform him that he has been in a coma for four days after surviving a near fatal car crash. Attempting to piece together the incidents leading up to the accident, he discovers that his wife no longer recognises him and another man has assumed his...

I Saw The Devil (Blu-ray Details)
Kyung-Chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure, his victims ranging from young women to children. The police have chased him for a long time, but have been unsuccessful. One day Joo-Yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Dae-Hoon, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He will do everything...

Laputa: Castle In The Sky - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
The beauty of Studio Ghibli can now be enjoyed on both the original DVD and Blu-ray with this all new Blu-ray Double Play edition! Available for the first time in high definition on Blu-ray Double Play courtesy of Studio Ghibli and master animator Hayao Miyazaki Laputa: Castle In the Sky is an imaginative tale full of mystery and adventure. The high-flying journey begins when Pazu, an engineer's...

The Doors (Blu-ray Details)
2011 is the 40th Anniversary of the death of legendary Doors front man Jim Morrison. With their legend intact and music as popular as ever, Oliver Stone’s biopic has been restored and is released here for the first time on blu-ray. Val Kilmer was born to play Jim Morrison, and is supported by a cast that includes Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Billy Idol and Michael Madsen. Featuring music from The...

The Door (DVD Details)
A festival acclaimed fantasy thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen, and an intriguing immersion in parallel worlds. David, a formerly successful painter, distressed by his daughter’s death and his divorce from his wife, finds a mysterious door that allows him to take up his life at the point where it began to go awry. However what initially seems like a wonderful chance for a new beginning soon turns...

My Neighbours The Yamadas - Double Play: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
Available for the first time in high definition on Blu-ray Double Play courtesy of Studio Ghibli, My Neighbours The Yamadas invites you to join the adventures of the quirky Yamada family brilliantly presented in an unique, visually striking comic-strip style. Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko, who has no talent for housework, navigate their way through the ups and downs of work,...

Biutiful (DVD Details)
From the director of Amores Perros, 21 Grams & Babel BIUTIFUL “Bardem is magnificent and brave” ***** TOTAL FILM “A shattering portrait of life, death and redemption” **** LITTLE WHITE LIES Out To Own On DVD, Blu-ray & EST 16th May 2011 Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor for Javier Bardem’s towering performance, Biutiful is directed...

Rubber (Blu-ray Details)
RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to prey on small desert creatures and various discarded objects, his...

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Blu-ray Details)
Crash landing on Earth from his dying planet, an alien humanoid traveling by the name of Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) uses his superior intelligence to build a vast business empire. As he takes on, and beats, every major US corporation, people can only guess his true purpose – to save his dying world from drought.

Caged (DVD Details)
In war torn Eastern Europe a young nurse named Carole saves valuable lives as part of a humanitarian aid group. Soon her mission will be over and it will be time to return home. But what seems like a short cut to freedom soon turns into a journey of agonising, torturous pain beyond the human threshold… Just like Martyrs before it, Caged is gaining notoriety as a stylish, unforgettable and...

And Soon The Darkness (Blu-ray Details)
Bored during a group cycling holiday in Argentina, best friends Stephanie (Heard) and Ellie (Yustman) decide to head off on their own for the final days of the trip hoping to find a bit more fun before having to head back home to the US. They wind up in a pretty rural village and spend the evening getting drunk in a bar, where Ellie picks up a handsome local while Stephanie heads back to their...

Brighton Rock (Blu-ray Details)
Brighton Rock stars Richard Attenborough (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park, Elizabeth) in perhaps his most iconic onscreen role as Pinkie: a small time hoodlum running a protection racket at a Brighton racecourse. Following the murder of a visiting journalist, Pinkie becomes involved with Rose (Carol Marsh) a cafe waitress and potentially dangerous witness. Marrying her seems to ensure her silence,...

Bedevilled (Blu-ray Details)
A film with excruciating suspense leading to a gore leaden whirlwind of violence starts with Hae-won (Ji Sung-won), a middle management woman who with the increasing pressures of work and home situation decides to take a break from it all and return to the pleasant, remote island that she spent happy summers with her grandparents. Arriving she finds her childhood friend Bok-nam (Yeong-Hie So)....

The Long, Hot Summer (DVD Details)
Directed by Martin Ritt, THE LONG HOT SUMMER is based on three William Faulkner stories, and marks the first on-screen teaming of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Featuring an all-star cast including Newman, Woodward, Orson Welles and Lee Remick, this smoldering story from the Deep South is filled with sexual tension, bawdy humor and powerfully clashing personalities. When suspected barn-burner...

Splice: Double Play (Blu-ray Details)
Splice is the story of two brilliant young scientists who have engineered a brand new species within the confines of their laboratory. Rebel superstars of the scientific world, the pair revel in their success as the new creature continues to gain them attention and notoriety. However, unbeknown to their peers, the scientists introduced human DNA into the experiment and the creature they have...

Splice (DVD Details)
Splice is the story of two brilliant young scientists who have engineered a brand new species within the confines of their laboratory. Rebel superstars of the scientific world, the pair revel in their success as the new creature continues to gain them attention and notoriety. However, unbeknown to their peers, the scientists introduced human DNA into the experiment and the creature they have...

The Hammer and Tongs Collection (DVD Details)
The first ever DVD short films collection from the team behind Son of Rambow & some of the most memorable music videos ever Featuring music videos and audio commentaries from Vampire Weekend, Pulp, Supergrass, Blur, Fatboy Slim, special Hammer & Tongs postcards and more!

A Town Called Panic (DVD Details)
Even animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems too. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures ensue as the trio travel to the centre of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe where pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures live. Each...

Peeping Tom: 50th Anniversary (Blu-ray Details)
By day, Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Böhm) works as a modest focus-puller in a film studio. But he also shoots glamour photographs for a seedy Soho newsagent, and by night he seeks victims for his most gruesome obsession - filming the face of mortal fear, moments before death.

The Concert (DVD Details)
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was the celebrated conductor of the renowned Bolshoi Orchestra. But during the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish musicians, which included his best friend Sasha. Now demoted to the position of cleaner at the Bolshoi, he learns by chance that the Chatelet Theatre in Paris...

The Loved Ones (DVD Details)
After a freak car accident, high school student Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel, Twilight: Eclipse)’s flame goes out. He was behind the wheel when a random figure ran into the road and there was nowhere to turn. The car ended up around a tree and his father ended up dead. His home, now reduced to just him and his mother, is a muted shell filled with grief and silent despair. The only bright point of...

Breathless: StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
 A small time crook, Michel Poiccard, chased by the police after stealing a car, shoots one of them and flees. Back in Paris he finds an American girlfriend and succeeds in seducing her. He convinces her to go to Italy with him. But the police have discovered the murderer’s identity and are on his trail…

Breathless: 50th Anniversary (DVD Details)
Celebrating 50 years of cool, Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS: 50TH Anniversary premiered at Berlin before receiving a digital re-release in UK cinemas June 25th. Based on a story by François Truffaut and photographed by New Wave legend Raoul Coutard, with no less a crime specialist than Claude Chabrol as technical advisor, Godard’s jazzy riff on American Film Noir features iconic performances from...

Road Train (DVD Details)
Four young friends on a camping adventure in outback Australia are run off the highway by a “road train”, a massive diesel truck hauling two large trailers. Seemingly preying upon them, the monstrous vehicle had come up behind their SUV and seemed to intentionally push them off the road. With their own vehicle wrecked, and the road train stopped, the friends march off to seek help from the drivers....

Perrier's Bounty (DVD Details)
Michael (Cillian Murphy, Inception, Batman Begins, 28 Days Later) owes money to Dublin’s meanest gangster, Darren Perrier. (Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges) When the debt is called in Brenda (Jodie Whittaker, Venus), Michael’s recently “dumped” and suicidal best friend, accidentally shoots dead one of his goons. To make matters worse Michael’s estranged father, Jim, (Jim Broadbent, Harry Potter, Hot...

Chloe (Blu-ray Details)
Catherine (Julianne Moore) is married to David (Liam Neeson) and at first glance they are the perfect couple, with respected careers and a talented teenage son, they appear to have an idyllic life. However, Catherine suspects that David has been unfaithful and after a chance encounter with the alluring Chloe (Amanda Seyfried), Catherine decides to hire her as an escort to seduce her husband....

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (DVD Details)
Cameraman illuminates a unique figure in British and international cinema, Jack Cardiff, a man whose life and career are inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema, spanning nine decades of moving pictures. In this unique insight into Jack’s life and work, the master himself explains how he helped elevate cinematography to an art form and made history with his groundbreaking vision and...

Baseline (Blu-ray Details)
A fierce and contemporary urban drama, Baseline tells a story of love, loss and loyalty. Charting the rise and fall of Danny (Freddie Connor) as he tries to build an empire for himself on the East End club scene, it’s a provocative insight into the brutal realm of gang rivalry. Working as a bouncer at The Baseline, the popular grime club, Danny is used to breaking up fights and managing drunken...

Ponyo Blu-ray + DVD: The Studio Ghibli Collection (Blu-ray Details)
The daughter of the king of the ocean, PONYO is no ordinary goldfish - she has all the magic of the sea at her disposal. But when five-year-old Sosuke finds her near his seaside home, a special connection sparks between the two children, and PONYO becomes determined to become human. Transforming into a little girl, PONYO shows up on Sosuke's doorstep, delighted to make herself at home with her new...

Razor's Ring (DVD Details)
Scott is a mild-mannered businessman, who finds himself abducted by two thrill-seeking killers and taken on a hell-ride into the bowels of a "family" consisting of rapists, murderers and modern day cannibals. Held prisoner with two unfortunate others, he is sent to "Red", an elderly woman and head of the "family", who promises them all freedom. As time passes and the abuse at the hands of their...