Rome, Open City (UK) (DVD)
Rome Open City (Roma, Citta Aperta) Arrow Films are proud to announce the definitive DVD release of this giant of World Cinema history. Winner of the Cannes Grand Prize Winner in 1946, Roberto Rossellini’s seminal Rome, Open City was filmed in the aftermath of World War II on the ravaged streets of Italy. Due to the scarcities of War, scraps of film from photographers were added to hand...

Amos and Andrew (DVD)
welcome to America! Home of the free. Life in the city ain’t so trouble-free. I went to an island. Brought me crib. Supposed to fit in because I’m straight legit. My name is Andrew a well-educated maker of revenue rollin’ in a black BMW. The rich hocky liberals never saw a brother with wealth. Accuse me of robbin’ myself (‘he’s steeling the stereo’). Cops got my house surrounded. Even in the ‘burbs...

Cinema Paradiso (Blu-ray)
An internationally famous film director, Salvatore, returns home to the Sicilian village where he grew up to attend the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend, mentor and father figure who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout Salvatore's childhood. The visit, his first in 30 years, sparks sentimental memories, both good and bad, of friendship, his discovery of the joys of cinema, and...

The Naked City (DVD)
The vicious murder of beautiful blonde Jean Dexter drives the tabloids crazy. Detectives Dan Muldoon and young Jimmy Halloran (Barry Fitzgerald and Don Taylor) go to work with an army of detectives and police forensic professionals to help. They locate Dexter's shifty boyfriend Frank Niles (Howard Duff), who has a bad habit of telling lies. His fiancée Ruth Morrison (Dorothy Hart) doesn't realize...

Brute Force (DVD)
At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe Collins. Most of all, Joe hates chief guard Captain Munsey, a petty dictator who glories in absolute power. After one infraction too many, Joe and his cell-mates are put on the dreaded drain pipe detail;...

Sirens (DVD)
A young English priest (Hugh Grant) and his wife Estella (Tara Fitzgerald) are visiting an Australian parish. Before they arrive the bishop asks them to visit an eccentric artist prone to sexual depictions and requests that he voluntarily withdraw a controversial work called "Crucified Venus", which depicts a naked female from his show. Upon their arrival at the studios the young couple become...

The Cheerleaders Box Set (DVD)
The Cheerleaders Boxset If you liked the shower scene in Porkys, here's a whole two movies' worth, in this beautifully presented boxset featuring all of the cheerleaders you could ever hope to feast your eyes on. In these erotic 70's movies, sexy, naughty and mostly naked cheerleaders get up to mischief, seduce all the guys and have sex everywhere you can think of. They just don't make movies...

I Served the King of England (DVD)
Young provincial waiter Jan Dite may be short in height but his aspirations are nothing but high when it comes to ambition. For Jan is determined to become a millionaire and he knows just how to do it. Continually watching and listening to his superiors and his high-flying, big-spending customers, Jan learns how to succeed by pleasing others. His progress sees him leaving his first job in a bar...

Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (UK) (DVD)
On a turn-of-the-century farm in Italy, various families work for the farm owner and are paid according to their productivity. One particular family has a gifted young boy, who they decide to send to school rather than force into manual labour. However, the child has to walk many miles to get to the nearest school, and when his shoes break one day on his journey home, the family are too poor to...

Stolen Children, The (UK) (DVD)
After a mother is arrested for forcing her daughter to work as a prostitute, Antonio (a policeman) must take her children from Milan to a Sicilian orphanage.

Padre Padrone (UK) (DVD)
This powerful true tale of one boy`s struggle out of isolation and silence is perfectly captured on film. Based on the autobiography by Gavino Ledda, who at the age of six was taken from school into the mountains where his father enslaved him as a shepherd. Gavino eventually broke free discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.

Dream Life of Angels, The (UK) (DVD)
A story of the friendship between two women with very different personalities. Isa is a free spirit, travelling around and getting work where she can. When she gets a temporary job in a factory she makes friends with Marie whose pessimism is diametrically opposed to Isa`s general optimism.

Fiorile (UK) (DVD)
While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon`s Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean - but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta`s brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in motion. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt and...

Ashes & Diamonds (UK) (DVD)
Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II.

Pervert! (UK) (DVD)
A word. What is the pervert? Sex freak, deranged degenerate, disturbed diabolical psychotic subversive embracer of things both erotic and erratic. What is to pervert? The twist of an object, phrase or ideal in such a way it was never intended or even imagined. Who is the pervert? Why, that`s another story altogether...

Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe Collection, The (UK) (DVD)
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe Bernard Milan covets Louis Toulouse`s job - director of a secret service. To get rid of his overly ambitious assistant, Toulouse sends Milan off on a wild goose chase after a dangerous spy who is in fact just an ordinary Joe. So Milan starts shadowing François Perrin, an absent-minded violinist. This odd game of espionage entraps the three men in a web of...

Cinema Paradiso: Deluxe Edition Box Set (UK) (DVD)
This fantastic deluxe edition of the timeless Cinema Paradiso features both the original theatrical version as well as Giuseppe Tornatore`s Director`s cut, plus a glut of extra`s and a bonus CD featuring the award winning score from Ennio Morricone! A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies. Salvatore, a successful film director, returns to his native...

Erik The Viking (Special Edition) (UK) (DVD)
Once apon a time there was a viking called Erik(Tim Robbins) who lived in the ledendary Age of Ragnarok when murder and pillage were quite the done thing. But Erik knew that there must be more to life than this, so he sets off with his band of unruly men to reach Asgaard, the City of the Gods, to bring this evil Age to an end. But the journey is full of danger, as Erik and his motely crew must not...

Viridiana (UK) (DVD)
Winner of the Palme D`Or at Cannes in 1961, Bunuel`s film is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) is a young religious novitiate who visits her last remaining relative, the wealthy Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), before she takes her vows. Don Jaime secretly harbours a desire for Viridiana, based on her striking resemblance to his wife - who died thirty years ago on their wedding...

The Exterminating Angel (DVD)
The surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel delivered another satirical swipe at bourgeois conventions with his film about a group of dinner guests who find themselves trapped in a hell of their own making when, inexplicably, they are unable to leave the sitting room after a dinner party. One guest dies and is stuffed into a cupboard; a pair of lovers commit suicide; a witchcraft believer conjures up...

Elvira Madigan (UK) (DVD)
Directed by Bo Widerberg and inspired by the famous John Lindstrom Saxon ballad, this classic Swedish film centres on circus performer Elvira Madigan (Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren). Both have run away from their lives - Elvira from her family`s circus, Sixten from the army, his wife and his children. Meeting in a forest, they instantly fall in love and the outside...

Aviator`s Wife, The (UK) (DVD)
Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivière). However, his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day, he sees her leaving home with her ex, Christian (Mathieu Carrière), who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news, Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may have...

Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra Vixens (UK) (DVD)
An all out assault on today`s sexual mores, and more... an end-around attack against women`s lib... blasting through the male machismo syndrome... kicking the crap out of convictions, hang-ups, obsessions... the whole bag... sexually aggressive females, willing clutzy men, petroleum jelly, gingham and gossamer, tax-sheltered religion, black socks, bedroom prowess, bunko artists, big breast...

Rome, Open City (UK) (DVD)
Based on the true story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Roberto Rossellini`s first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, film bought from street photographers, and a largely non-professional cast, Rome, Open City still...

Official Story, The (UK) (DVD)
In the mid 1970s, Argentina`s military dictatorship carried out a brutal campaign of toture and murder against thousands of its own citizens. The Official Story follows Alicia (Norma Aleandro), the sheltered wife of a wealthy businessman (Hector Alterio), who begins to unravel the horrifying legacy of her country`s past when she looks into the background of her own daughter, adopted at birth, to...

Russ Meyer`s Up! (UK) (DVD)
Russ Meyer`s tried and tested formula is on-target again... outrageously buxom women and dumb, muscular men laying their sexually aggressive prowess on the line. Yes, it`s all here in Russ Meyer`s Up!.

Boy And His Dog, A (UK) (DVD)
Cult dystopian sci-fi based on the Harlan Ellison story. The year is 2024 and after a fourth World War the Earth is a desolate wasteland. Vic (Don Johnson) is a nomadic loner, wandering hungrily across the bleak desert landscape in search of cans of food buried deep in the radioactive ash. His telepathic dog, Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire) depends on Vic for food, but Vic needs Blood to find him...

Nasty Girl, The (UK) (DVD)
A German high school student, Sonja (Lena Stolze) enters a school essay writing contest on the subject of her town`s history during the Third Reich. During her research, what she finds to her surprise and dismay is that the Catholic clergy and businessmen who she was raised to respect and admire, and who she fervently believed defied the Nazis, did just the opposite. She decides to write a book on...

Black Angel (UK) (DVD)
Italy - 1945. The war and fascism is coming to an end. Livia (Anna Galiena), the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz (Gabriel Garko), an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny. Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but...

Les Miserables (UK) (DVD)
Based on Victor Hugo`s classic novel, this is an epic tale of love, honour and obsession set against the dramatic background of the French Revolution. Jean Valjean (Gerard Depardieu) lives a life on the run for stealing a loaf of bread. Settling in a remote town, he devotes himself to the care of the poor, including the beautiful, young, poverty stricken Fatine, When Fantine (Charlotte...