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Two brothers; Laust and Peter grow up poor but happy in the Danish countryside. Both boys fall in love with the adorable Inge, a local Proprietor's daughter, who in turns loves Peter for his sensitivity and intellect, and Laust for his strength and drive. Following victories in the First Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848-50 and in utter disregard of a treaty signed with the major powers of Europe, Denmark's political powers spark a Second ..
One of the bloodiest battles in Danish history and a precursor to World War I. In 1864 the lives of brothers Laust and Peter are changed forever, as Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, and they are called to serve their country on the battlefields. It is there they encounter the true horrors of war, with the brothers fighting alongside thousands of soldiers at the slaughter at Dybbol, in a war that changed Denmark and modern Eur..
February 17, 1992: The arrest of Italian politician, Mario Chiesa, on charges of corruption, sets in motion a series of large-scale investigations and trials that go under the name of "Clean Hands". At the heart of the story are six ordinary people whose lives are shattered by the socio-political earthquake set in motion by this judicial operation of unprecedented scope and power. These six interwoven storylines compose an engrossing ta..
As one of the richest men in the Netherlands, Alfred 'Freddy' Heineken was a prime target for kidnappers. Snatched one evening by a team of inexperienced, hot headed, young criminals and held for 21 gruelling days in a cold, cramped cell, Freddy finds himself rendered powerless for the first time in his life. The situation is exacerbated by the gang's youngest member, an individual who takes special pleasure in humiliating and frighteni..
As one of the richest men in the Netherlands, Alfred 'Freddy' Heineken was a prime target for kidnappers. Snatched one evening by a team of inexperienced, hot headed, young criminals and held for 21 gruelling days in a cold, cramped cell, Freddy finds himself rendered powerless for the first time in his life. The situation is exacerbated by the gang's youngest member, an individual who takes special pleasure in humiliating and frighteni..
Maverick filmmaker Robert Altman continued a stunning run of celebrated work that included McCabe & Mrs Miller, The Long Goodbye and Nashville with 3 Women, a dreamy masterpiece that would fend off the titanic Star Wars as Roger Ebert's best film of 1977. Shy and impressionable Pinky (Sissy Spacek, Badlands, Carrie) strikes up a friendship with her fellow nurse 'Thoroughly Modern' Millie (Shelley Duvall, Nashville, Thieves Like Us). As ..
Leaving the cold and snow of Scandinavia for the warm, sandy beaches of Thailand in the dead of winter is more than a dream, more than a holiday for a handful of Swedes. It's the beginning of a life-changing adventure, a fresh start, a new life. For the long-suffering wife of an abusive ex-pilot, it's a chance to be treated with dignity and to taste the joys of freedom. For a lonely engineer who always dreamed of a loving family with se..
In 1986, John Frankenheimer - the director of The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds and French Connection II - made the unlikely career move of working with schlockmeisters Cannon Films. Adapting Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name, 52 Pick-Up's union brought about the perfect blend of high calibre thrills and Cannon-grade trash. Roy Scheider (Jaws, Cohen and Tate) plays a successful businessman whose life quickly falls apart when a com..
Rainer Werner Fassbinder had been making feature films for three years and already amassed a filmography that would satisfy most careers - when he decided to take on a bigger challenge. Teaming up with West German television channel WDR, he conceived of Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, a series that would extend to five feature-length episodes to be broadcast at monthly intervals. Centring on the Kruger family, as well as their lovers, in-..
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See the film that set the Slasher movie blueprint! Can you handle the terror of Mario Bava’s Giallo classic A Bay of Blood? When a rich countess is murdered, it’s a race to see who’ll inherit her estate and you can bet that the body count is going to rise rapidly in the process as the plot twists spin wildly out of control. The pile of bloodied corpses is going to get higher and higher as one by one the mangled victims are hung, speared..
"The funniest movie I have seen in a long time" - Roger Ebert. In 1988, John Cleese, former Python and the mastermind behind Fawlty Towers, teamed up with the veteran Ealing Comedy director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) to produce another classic of British comedy. Cleese plays Archie Leach, a weak-willed barrister who finds himself embroiled with a quartet of ill-matched jewel thieves - two American con artists played by Jam..
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel (Pilou Asaek, Borgen) and the engineer Jan (Roland Moller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Soren ..
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbaek, Borgen) and the engineer Jan (Roland Moller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Soren..
Woody Allen's first period piece since Love and Death seven years earlier is set in the early 1900s, and revolves around six characters getting together in a country house in upstate New York to celebrate the upcoming wedding of the distinguished philosopher Leopold (Jose Ferrer) and his much younger fiancee Ariel (Mia Farrow, in the first of thirteen appearances in Allen's films). The hosts are Leopold's cousin Andrew (Allen himself), ..
In post-war Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market...
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George Segal plays married insurance executive Steve Blackburn, who can't seem to avoid bumping into divorced fashion designer Vicki Allessio (Glenda Jackson) wherever he goes. Finally bowing to the inevitable, Steve and Vicki fall in love. He suggests a romantic rendezvous in Spain...but nothing, absolutely nothing, goes as planned. A brilliant comedy of errors, A Touch of Class was nominated for four Academy Awards, and earned Glenda ..
A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel, A Woman's Life is a timeless story of anguished love set in the repressive world of early 19th century Normandy. Jeanne (Judith Chemla) is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. Yet little by little her illusions are stripped away when she marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare (Swann Arlaud), who ..
A powerful adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's first novel 'Une vie', A Woman's Life is a timeless story of love, betrayal and anguish set in the repressive patriarchal world of early 19th century Normandy. Jeanne (Judith Chemla) is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. Yet little by little her illusions are stripped away when she marries a local Viscount, J..
Anne (Sides Babett Knudsen - Borgen) is married to Ask (Nicolas Bro - The Killing II), and they have everything you could ever want.; good careers, lovely children, an apartment in a fashionable area of Denmark, and each other. Everything appears to be just as it should be in a modern family faced with juggling work schedules, child rearing, and not least of all love. But one morning, Anne learns that Ask wants to take a break. Why? Is ..
Small-town waitress, Alice, (Jessica Biel), accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head as her boyfriend James Marsden) attempts his marriage proposal. Her predicament leads her on a journey to Washington DC, where she meets a dashing but clueless congressman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who might be able to help her unusual case. Will their blossoming romance survive the cut-throat politics of the Capital? With an all-star cast that also include..
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson (Sofie Grabol) are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life..
Internationally celebrated filmmaker, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (I Wish; Like Father, Like Son; Our Little SIster) latest film is possibly his most personal yet. Prompted to the write the script after his own father died and seeing how his mother was coping, After The Storm follows a young father trying to return to the good garces of his family. Author turned private detective, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), struggles to make ends meet as he flitters ..
Internationally celebrated filmmaker, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (I Wish, Like Father, Like Son, Our Little Sister) latest film is possibly his most personal yet. Prompted to the write the script after his own father died and seeing how his mother was coping, After The Storm follows a young father trying to rekindle his relationship with his family. Author turned private detective, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), struggles to make ends meet as he flitte..
Aftermath, from Paprika Steen (Festen), continues the trend of brilliant Scandinavian film and television. Starring Sofie Grabol (The Killing) and Mikael Birkkjaer (The Killing II) this drama from the writer of Perfect Sense tells the story of Britt and Claes, a couple in their mid-thirties who have lost their only child in a car accident. They struggle in seperate ways; Britt cannot talk about it, Claes ca hardly talk about anything el..
A delightful return to the romantic-comedy territory that Woody Allen last explored in such classics as Annie Hall and Manhattan, Alice was also Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay, but departs from the earlier films in its embrace of out-and-out fantasy to the point where it becomes a contemporary fairytale. Alice Tate (Mia Farrow) is trapped in a loveless marriage to Doug (William Hurt), to the point where a chance encounter ..
Diana (Claudia Koll) and Paolo (Paolo Lanza) are happily married despite her much greater sexual appetite: he's content to simply listen to the stories of her various adventures. But when she has an affair that's much too close to home, he throws her out, and she moves into a Venetian flat to embark upon an erotic voyage of discovery, while at the same time trying to win him back. Loosely inspired by the Mozart opera Cosi fan tutte (the..
When Dennis (Paul Giammati Sideways, Saving Mr. Banks) is released from prison just before the Christmas holidays, he's intent on getting his life back on track. But he soon realises going straight doesn't come easy. Not only has his estranged wife told his young daughter he is dead, but he finds out she's now shacked up with his ex-partner in crime Rene (Paul Rudd, Ant Man, Anchorman 2). Determined to turn things around and buy his dau..
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Continuing its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of US independent genre moviemaking, Arrow Video is proud to present the long-awaited second volume in its American Horror Project series co-curated by author Stephen Thrower (Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents). Starting off with a little-seen 1970 offering from underrated cult auteur John Hayes (Grave..
Loosely based on the actual double suicide of the celebrated German author Heinrich von Kleist and Henriette Vogel in 1811, this beautiful period film is an austere, yet humorous take on mortality and love. Mournful young poet Heinrich (Christian Friedel, The White Ribbon) tries in vain to convince his cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. Whilst coming to terms with her refusal, Heinrich meets Henriette (Birte Schnoink), the wife..
Based on his own hugely successful novel of the same name, Marc Dugain's debut feature, An Ordinary Execution, is an encounter between the ageing Joseph Stalin (Andre Dussollier) and a young doctor. Anna (Marina Hands) has extraordinary healing powers, brought in to treat the escalating physical woes of the dictators old age after his own doctor has been "purged." Seen entirely through Anna's eyes, he lays bare his philosophy of terror-..
Troubled youth Ron Decker (Edward Furlong, American History X) is sentenced to a ten-year stint in the notorious San Quentin State Prison for a drug-dealing conviction. Inexperienced in the ways of prison life, he’s taken under the wing of Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe, To Live and Die in LA), an experienced con with the entire prison in the palm of his hand – inmates and guards alike. But as Ron grows increasingly cocky in his privileged ro..
Troubled youth Ron Decker (Edward Furlong, American History X) is sentenced to a ten-year stint in the notorious San Quentin State Prison for a drug-dealing conviction. Inexperienced in the ways of prison life, he’s taken under the wing of Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe, To Live and Die in LA), an experienced con with the entire prison in the palm of his hand – inmates and guards alike. But as Ron grows increasingly cocky in his privileged ro..
Anno 1790 is an innovative take on the Nordic Noir crime drama genre in which the hero, Daadh, is a controversial surgeon and police commissioner who uses unconventional means to solve murder cases during the Age of Enlightenment. It is Stockholm, 1790, and Europe is in turmoil after the French Revolution – a beacon of hope to the freethinkers across Europe, and a great threat to the reactionaries and those in power. Daadh observes the ..
Middle-aged philosophy professor Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) would appear to have every advantage. After all, she has a rock-solid professional reputation, an equally secure marriage and enough spare cash to be able to rent a separate flat in which to write her latest book without interruption. But she is interrupted, thanks to an accident of ventilation, by the therapy sessions going on in the psychiatrist's office next door next door...
Emily Watson stars as Dr. Yvonne Carmichael, a smart, successful woman with a conventional and contented life, married to husband Gary, mother to two grown up children. When a chance encounter builds to a passionate affair, fantasy and reality soon start to overlap; finally everything she values is put at risk as a life-changing act of violence leads to a Crown Court trial... Joined by Ben Chaplin (Cinderella, Mad Dogs) and Mark Bonnar ..
All the episodes from the British television drama adapted from Louise Doughty's novel. Emily Watson stars as Yvonne Carmichael, a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down however, when a chance meeting with alluring stranger Mark Costley (Ben Chaplin) leads to a passionate affair. Despite her best attempts to keep her home life and career separate from her affair, Yvonne beg..
WAS IT MAGIC, MURDER, OR MADNESS? In early twentieth-century Pennsylvania Dutch Country, young Billy Kelly (Chad Lowe, Highway to Hell) falls in with a charismatic “powwower” or folk magic healer, Dr John Reese (Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now), shunned by the rest of the community for his non-conformist beliefs. Together, they investigate the mysterious sickness that is blighting the area, which Reese believes to be the work of a sin..
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, constructed in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighbouring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death..
Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, constructed in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighbouring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death..
Army Of One is the (mostly) true story of Gary Faulkner (Nicolas Cage), an unemployed, ex-con, handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who sets out on the unlikeliest of missions. Armed only with a Samurai sword, purchased from a home-shopping network, and the belief that he is following the express command of God (Russell Brand), he travels to Pakistan in order to capture Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice. Gary is joined on his jou..
Army Of One is the (mostly) true story of Gary Faulkner (Nicolas Cage), an unemployed, ex-con, handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who sets out on the unlikeliest of missions. Armed only with a Samurai sword, purchased from a home-shopping network, and the belief that he is following the express command of God (Russell Brand), he travels to Pakistan in order to capture Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice. Gary is joined on his jou..
Three of Stockholm’s top business executives have been brutally murdered in as many days - and that’s only the beginning. CID inspector Jenny Hultin is assigned the task of quickly putting together a special team of police officers to apprehend the ”Fat Cat Killer”. This leads to the creation of the A-group, a group of six carefully selected police officers with varied backgrounds from all over the country. The cases that the A-group ha..
One-time talented golfer, Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is struggling with a life from which he longs to escape. Faking his own death, he acquires a forged passport and a new identity, that of a golfer named "Arthur Newman". "Arthur" heads out for Indiana to start a new life and a promise of a new job as a resident golf-pro at a prestigious club. Along the way, he meets the beautiful but troubled Charlotte (Emily Blunt), who is also trave..
One of the most notorious J-horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film would catapult Miike to the international scene and pave the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and The Happiness of the Katakuris. Recent widower Shigharu Aoyama is advised by his son to find a new wife, so he seeks the advice of a collea..
One of the most notorious J-horror films ever made, Takashi Miike’s Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film would catapult Miike to the international scene and pave the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and The Happiness of the Katakuris. Recent widower Shigharu Aoyama is advised by his son to find a new wife, agreeing Shigeharu seeks the advi..
Psychologist Peter Bower's (Adrien Brody) life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that the patients he has been seeing are the ghosts of people who died twenty years ago. Risking his own sanity and with the help of his colleague Duncan (Sam Neill), Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret which only he can put right. Backtrack is a spine-chilling story from the acclaimed writer-director, Michael Petroni. Special ..
Sex and shooting assault the senses in Baise-moi [literally Fuck Me or Kiss Me ], a bloody buddy movie that's like Thelma and Louise on acid. Banned on release in France, the film has provoked as much horror as it has debate. Manu a part time porn star - and Nadine a hooker set out to leave their town for Paris after witnessing and being subject to rape and violence. They rage against societal expectations in a fury of robbery, orgiasti..
Baise-Moi (literally 'Fuck Me' or 'Kiss Me'), adapted by Virginie Despentes from her own novel tells the story of Manu (Raffaella Anderson), a part time porn actress, and Nadine (Karen Lancaume), a hooker, as they set out to leave their town for Paris after witnessing and being subjected to rape and violence. They rage against societal expectations in a fury of robbery, orgiastic lust and murder. One of the most controversial movies of ..
Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star takes parody to the extreme with a brilliant send-up of everything from relationships to dictatorships. An early example of what Allen called his 'slapdash' approach to comedy, Bananas' broad, fast humour and rapid-fire witticism from a dazzling kaleidoscope of "inspired ingenuity and comic artistry" (Look Magazine). When bumbling product tester Fielding Mellish (Allen) is jilt..
In the ancient Sufi language, Baraka translates as 'the thread that weaves life together'. In the pantheon of modern cinema, it remains one of the most unique and acclaimed motion picture events of our time. Shot in breathtaking 70mm in 24 countries on six continents, Baraka is a transcendent global tour that explores the sights and sounds of the human condition like nothing you've ever seen or felt before. These are the wonders of a wo..
One of the horror giant Mario Bava's biggest hits, Baron Blood returns to the all-stops-out Gothic atmosphere and the central theme of a witch's curse that fuelled his breakthrough film Black Sunday twelve years later. This time, the curse was placed on Baron Otto von Kleist, Austria's legendarily murderous 'Baron Blood', whose corpse is inadvertently revived when an ancient incantation is read out as a joke by a descendant and his girl..
Battle Royale is back. It’s time to return to the island and kill your friends, because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now, see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island, arm them and then give them a simple choice...
ONE DEAD. 41 TO GO Battle Royale is back. It’s time to return to the island and kill your friends, because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now, see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island, arm them and then give ..
Based on the characters of the hugely popular Martin Beck detective series of novels by Swedish husband-and-wife writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Beck - The Series sees the much-loved detective brought to life on the small screen. This collection of five feature-length films sees detective Martin Beck investigating a serial killer who buries his victims alive, the shocking death of a young woman found strangled in a hotel room, a g..
