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Stranded on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:05 +0100

Set in the Algerian desert in 1960, Stranded sees a unit of elite soldiers sent on a rescue mission in search of a missing aircraft. They are not alone. Under constant attack by Algerian rebels, no one anticipates that another, more deadly threat lies silently in wait.When a violent sandstorm fo...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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A Blonde in Love on DVD

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:45:06 +0100

Milo Forman's second full-length feature, A Blonde in Love, was a major breakthrough both for him and for Czech cinema. A commercial blockbuster at home, it garnered Forman his first Oscar nomination a decade before he made One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But this was no cynically calculated inter...

Released 24th January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Late Mizoguchi Eight Films 1951-1956 on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:05 +0100

Eight films from the revered Japanese director Kenzo Mizoguchi Sansho Dayu, Gion Bayashi, Oyu-sama, Ugetsu Monogatari, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Uwasa No Onna, Akasen Chitai and Yokihi.Kenji Mizoguchi looms over the history not only of Japanese cinema but of world cinema altogether. These eight fi...

Released 24th January on DVD for 38.99 ukp

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22 Bullets on DVD

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:45:03 +0100

Jean Reno stars in this taut French gangster thriller set in Marseille. Charly Mattei Reno, a once-feared mobster, has lived a peaceful life with his family for the past three years since retiring from his criminal career and handing over his businesses to childhood friend Tony Zacchia Kad Merad...

Released 31st January on DVD for 12.99 ukp

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22 Bullets on Blu-ray

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:45:04 +0100

Peepli Live on DVD

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:45:05 +0100

An Indian satirical political drama portraying the tragicomic plight of two poor farmers in an Indian village, Peepli Live is set in the village of Peepli, where farmers Natha and Budhia face losing their land over an unpaid government loan. Desperate, they seek help from an apathetic local politici...

Released 31st January on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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Amer on DVD

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:45:04 +0100

Three key moments, all of them sensual, define Ana's life in Amer. Her carnal search sways between reality and coloured fantasies that become more and more oppressive. A black laced hand prevents her from screaming. The wind lifts her dress and caresses her thighs. A razor blade brushes her skin, wh...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Amer on Blu-ray

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:45:04 +0100

Ajami on DVD

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:45:03 +0100

A gritty urban drama, Ajami takes its name from a blue-collar neighbourhood in the Israeli city of Jaffa where Muslims, Jews and Christians live side by side. With both Palestinian and Israeli directors at the helm, the film takes a non-partisan approach to life in the city it's short, it sucks b...

Released 31st January on DVD for 8.99 ukp

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Shock Labyrinth 3D on DVD

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:45:04 +0100

Shock Labyrinth follows a group of teenagers dealing with the disappearance of one of their number, Yuki, at an amusement park's ghost house. One rainy day 10 years later, Yuki inexplicably returns. However, no sooner is she united with her former friends than she collapses, and the group rushes her...

Released 31st January on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Legend of the Fist The Return of Chen Zhen on DVD

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:45:04 +0100

Martial arts action drama set in Japanese-occupied 1920s Shanghai. Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen portrayed by Bruce Lee in the 1972 film 'Fist of Fury' and played here by Donnie Yen, the avenging hero returns. When he is not courting sultry nightclub singer Kiki Qi Shu, Zhen ...

Released 31st January on DVD for 13.99 ukp

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Legend of the Fist The Return of Chen Zhen on Blu-ray

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:45:05 +0100

Bare Behind Bars on DVD

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:45:04 +0100

Filmed in South America, Bare Behind Bars is a prime piece of 'chicks-in-chains' grindhouse.See sex-crazed inmates come up against twisted lesbian prison guards in this camp expose of the steamy, seamy life behind the grim walls of an all women penitentiary. Beware the blonde bombshell doctor, w...

Released 31st January on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Adrift on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:45:06 +0100

A Brazilian coming-of-age drama, Adrift is set in the 1980s and follows 14-year-old Filipa Laura Neiva as she spends a formative summer in a beach house at the Brazilian resort of Buzios with her family her famous writer father Mathias Vincent Cassel, her alcoholic mother Clarice Debora Bloch...

Released 7th February on DVD for 11.99 ukp

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Police, Adjective on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:45:04 +0100

Police, Adjective is the acclaimed new film from Corneliu Porumboiu, the director of the award-winning 1208 East of Bucharest'. On orders from his superiors, a plain clothes officer is asked to investigate the case of a cannabis smoking teenage boy. Realising that he is just a kid who occasionally...

Released 14th February on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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The Stoning of Soraya M on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:45:05 +0100

Based on an incredible true story, The Stoning of Soraya M is the powerful tale of a village's persecution of an innocent woman. Starring Academy Award nominee Shohreh Agdashloo in the heroic role of Zahra, an Iranian woman with a burning secret. When a journalist Jim Caviezel is stranded in her r...

Released 14th February on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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Cinema Sewer Collection on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:45:04 +0100

Contains Rectuma Pirro, 2004, The Vampires' Night Orgy Klimovsky, 1972, Murder in a Blue World Iglesia, 1973 and The Coming of Sin Larraz, 1977.Rectuma Gross out comedy about Waldo Williams, who on returning from a holiday in Tijuana finds that he has been infected by the Mexican Butthu...

Released 14th February on DVD for 24.49 ukp

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Arsenal on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:45:06 +0100

The second part of his 'Ukraine Trilogy', between Zvenigora and Earth, Arsenal is Alexander Dovzhenko's remarkable, action-packed account of the effects of World War I on his Ukrainian compatriots, and is remarkably vivid even today. It is set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of World War 1, t...

Released 14th February on DVD for 9.99 ukp

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In Their Sleep on DVD

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:45:06 +0100

A psychological thriller that sees Anne Parillaud's nurse - a woman still hurting from the death of her son - run down a young man one night. With her maternal instincts taking precedence over common sense, she takes the injured boy home - and is soon involved in a standoff with a bloodthirsty stran...

Released 14th February on DVD for 10.99 ukp

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The Beyond on DVD

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:45:04 +0100

In The Beyond, a woman inherits a rundown Louisiana hotel and decides to restore it to its former glory. But the renovation work gets held up by a series of bizarre murders involving killer dogs and zombies, which leads her to suspect that all is not well with the site. Aided by her friend Doctor Jo...

Released 14th February on DVD for 13.99 ukp

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