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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..
A seedy, small town, bar-owner hires a mysterious hit-man to bump-off an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but a planned double-crossing backfires and an innocent waitress suddenly becomes embroiled in a dangerous cat and mouse game. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate measures for survival. A suspenseful chain of events builds to a blood-curdling and unforgettable climax.Spe..
The second feature film from German provocateur Jorg Buttgereit, director of Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking ("The King of Death") depicts seven suicides across seven days of the week. As a chain letter from the self-proclaimed Brotherhood of the Seventh Day circulates, encouraging its recipients to end their lives, a series of grim vignettes unfold. In one, a young woman massacres a room of concert-goers before turning the..
Brian De Palma’s inspired rock’n’roll fusion of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray boasts an Oscar-nominated score by Paul Williams, who also stars as an evil record producer who not only steals the work of composer/performer Winslow Leach (William Finley) but gets him locked up in Sing Sing – and that’s not the worst that happens to him along the way. Few revenge scenarios have ever been so amply justified, ..
Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largely funded by the Canadian taxpayer), Shivers is an intensely claustrophobic, subversive masterpiece and an essential entry in the oeuvre of one of the horror genre's most gifted auteurs, David Cronenberg. Some 40 years after its release, it still retains its power to shock. Starliner Island is an idyllic community. Cut off from the rest of th..
A horse-drawn carriage pulls up on a deserted beach. A sombre figure dismounts and gazes up towards his destination - a foreboding cliff-top castle perched high above the crashing waves. Thus the perfect Gothic scene is set for Pit and the Pendulum, the second of Roger Corman's celebrated Poe adaptations once again starring the ever-reliable Vincent Price (The Fall of the House of Usher, Theatre of Blood) alongside the bewitching Barbar..
Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is an affable loner who hangs out at his flat above a disused bowling alley chatting to his pet cat, Mr. Whiskers, and loyal dog Bosco - whose voices he hears. Eager to socialise, Jerry asks Fiona from accounts (Gemma Arterton) out on a date, but when she stands him up he later accidentally stabs her to death, repeatedly, in the woods. Covering his tracks, under strict advice from Mr. Whiskers, Jerry is now beyond ..
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..
A crew of miners becomes trapped 600 feet below the surface after the ground above them collapses. As the air grows increasingly toxic and time begins to run out, they slowly descend into madness and start to turn on each other. Inspired by true events.Special Features Behind The Scenes, Short Featurette, Bonus Clip..
Rebecca (Eva Green) and Thomas (Matt Smith) had a winning formula. Reunited childhood sweethearts, they overcame every obstacle which stood in their way but now comes their biggest challenge; can they overcome death? When Thomas dies suddenly, Rebecca struggles to live in a world without him. Consumed by desperation she even contemplates the idea of cloning. Can she bring Thomas back once more? Will she be able to live with the conseque..
A seedy, small town, bar-owner hires a mysterious hit-man to bump-off an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but a planned double-crossing backfires and an innocent waitress suddenly becomes embroiled in a dangerous cat and mouse game. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate measures for survival. A suspenseful chain of events builds to a blood-curdling and unforgettable climax.Spe..
Django the drifter returns in this classic Sixties Spaghetti Western from Ferdinando Baldi (Texas Addio, Comin' At Ya!), starring Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) as the wandering gunslinger, hired as executioner to a corrupt local politician who is framing innocent men, sending them to hang in an evil scheme to take hold of their land. But Django has other ideas and, cleverly faking the deaths of the condemned men, he assembles them..
Stalin is terrorizing the people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov has miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge and is now fighting in the front lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land...
One of the sunniest of Tinto Brass’s erotic comedies, Frivolous Lola sets its breezy tone from the opening scene in which Lola (Anna Ammirati) cycles around a small Po Valley town in a flapping skirt that leaves nothing to the imagination. But it’s the 1950s, and her baker fiancee Masetto (Max Parodi) is determined that Lola remains a virgin until their wedding night. However, she is equally set on establishing whether or not he’s a goo..
When Shae (Danielle Panabaker), a naive college student, is tormented by several men in a matter of days, she reaches her breaking point, and is drawn into co-worker Lu's (Nicole LaLiberte) twisted plan for revenge. Together, the two embark on a gruesome killing spree, terrorizing and brutally murdering not just their attackers, but any man who gets in their way. However, after a wild weekend of retaliation, the friendship between the g..
Mickey (Philip Seymour-Hoffman) makes ends-meet by partaking in petty crime and gambling, with his friend Arthur (John Turturro), and then spending most of it in the local flea-pit bar before stumbling home to his long-suffering wife Jeanie (Christina Hendricks). When his mentally unstable step-son, Leon, is killed by a co-worker on a construction site - a crime that is quickly covered up and explained away as an 'accident', nobody in t..
Hot-tempered Marybeth (Danielle Harris, Halloween I & II) is in a small boat in the Louisiana swamps, screaming for her life as she tries to free herself from the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, Friday the 13th). Crowley has murdered Marybeth's family and other fellow vacationers who had come together on tourist excursion in the swamplands outside of New Orleans. Marybeth escapes from Crowley..
In The Name Of The King - Two Worlds DVD..
Alfred Hitchcock turned to the work of Daphne Du Maurier a number of times throughout his career. When he made the move to Hollywood, he adapted her novel Rebecca, the end results securing the Academy Award for Best Picture. When he needed to follow up the groundbreaking horror of Psycho, he adapted her short story The Birds and created another milestone of the genre. But before these came Jamaica Inn, based on Du Maurier's classic tale..
Main Street focuses on the dreams and aspirations of the everyday people of a close-knit North Carolina community who have their lives changed by the arrival of a stranger (Colin Firth) with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of challenging economic times, each of the colourful citizens – from its Mayor to a local police officer (Orlando Bloom), to a once-wealthy tobacco heiress (Ellen Burstyn) – will sea..
Woodburrow Prison: A near-derelict institution that once incarcerated the criminally insane is now a bona fide paranormal hot-spot, rumoured to be the very location from which an FBI Paranormal team never returned a decade or so earlier. Special Agent Watts, and his own elite FBI team, gather at the infamous Woodburrow to undertake a 'Demo Op', but there is something dark and sinister going on inside the blood-streaked wall that is even..
After enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea a corporate battle ensues between competing diving teams to win the lucrative contract to lay the pipeline deep on the ocean bed. Norwegian diver Petter (Aksel Hennie - Headhunters) is obsessed with reaching the depths necessary to lay the pipeline and, along with his brother, take on the Americans, who have an equally ambitious diver in Mike (Wes Bentley - The Hunger G..
Based on the true story of Spain’s most gruesome Werewolf murders. In 19th Century Spain, a travelling seller with a woman in every town is the keeper of an ancient secret. This handsome, charming ladykiller may also be leaving a trail of bloody murder in his wake that the locals attribute to “The Werewolf of Allariz”. Barbara lives with her sister, isolated in the deep forest. Her happiness comes when the mysterious seller comes to cal..
Fearsome swordplay abounds in this 16th Century epic chronicling the time-tested loyalty of two friends during the notorious Inquisition. As children, Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Headhunters, Game of Thrones) and Georg (Peter McDonald, Wreckers) developed a strong bond, both orphans growing up in a monastery. Following a 15 year absence, neither could have predicted the devastating circumstances which cause their lives to collide onc..
A year has passed since the official end to the hostilities of World War I, yet the Latvian capital still finds itself under threat from a renegade German unit positioned just outside the city. In this rousing dramatisation of their battle for independence, a team of loyal and impassioned Latvian collide with a better-trained, better-equipped forces of German and Russian mercenaries in their fierce battle for freedom...
Snowmen is a heartfelt coming-of-age story about three unlikely heroes and the winter that changed their lives forever. When best friends Billy, Howard and Lucas hatch a plan to be remembered by setting a Guinness World Records title to build the most snowmen ever they face their toughest challenge yet, with snowball battles threatening to thaw their dream. Ultimately uniting their community, they discovers that, while fame may be fleet..
14 year old Maria (Lea Van Acken) is a member of a strict branch of Catholicism that rejects all the reforms that were made in the Church since the 1960s. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet yearns to follow Jesus fully, to become a saint and go to heaven. Christian, a boy she meets at school, almost draws Maria away from her goal with an invite to join the school's gospel choir, but her strictly pious mother (Franzis..
A year after the New South Wales government suddenly scrapped their plans to utilise water in the disused underground train tunnels beneath Sydney, investigative journalist Natasha Warner led a crew of four into the underground labyrinth. Driven by rumours of a cover up and the ever-surmounting urban legends surrounding the tunnels they went looking for a story - until the story found them...Special Features Alternate Ending, Behind T..
Arrow Academy's third Woody Allen collection spans 1986-91 and the bulk of his work with Mia Farrow, who is featured in all seven of these films. They start with the much-loved family saga Hannah and Her Sisters, a warm and witty return to Allen's beloved Manhattan, and the nostalgic Radio Days, a collection of stories from the time of Allen's own 1930s/40s childhood. More sombre fare comes with the Chekhov-influenced ensemble piece Sep..
It's the Time of Troubles and the Tsar of Russia has died and the struggle for power has begun. There are many impostors who lay claim to the throne but only one true heir, Czarina Kseniya Godunova. Her Polish husband wants her throne so he can rule Russia, while Andrei, a lowly serf truly loves Kseniya and he attempts to save her from her brutal husband as the battle for Russia is fought...
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..
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 ..
2-3 DaysRainer 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-..
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..
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), ..
Since her teenage years, Ah Too has worked as a servant for the Leung family. Now after 60 years of service, she is looking after Roger, the only member of the family still resident in Hong Kong. He rushes her to hospital, where she announces that she wants to move permanently into a nursing home. Increasingly giving more and more time and attention to Ah Tao's needs, Roger comes to realise how much she means to him.Special Features T..
Rebecca (Juliette Binoche - The English Patient) is one of the world's top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber group, she gets too near, and is badly hurt in an explosion. Back home, another bomb drops. Her husband, Marcus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Game of Thrones) and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying on assignment in some faraway land. Rebecca is given an ultimatum: choose be..
2-3 DaysGeorge 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 ..
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 ..
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..
Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings) stars as the swashbuckling hero in 17th Century Spain during the reign of Philip IV, an easily manipulated monarch dominated by a corrupt court. Hooded figures hire the famed soldier to assassinate two men, impressed by their fighting spirit Alatriste joind them on an important mission and finds himself caught between warring factions. Betrayal, duels, battles and hatred are the stage for the adve..
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 ..
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..
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..
Berlin, the Romantic Era, Young poet Heinrich (Christian Friedel, White Ribbon) wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his sceptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousin's insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette (Birte Schnoink), the wife of a business acquaintance, Hen..
Sixteen-year old Tess has suffered a tough upbringing. She's been diagnosed with an assortment of mental ailments first discovered when her mother, Jessica, found Tess banging her head against the wall when she was just five. Now, the latest medication Tess has been taking seems to be working and Jessica chooses to move them to a new town for a fresh start. But just as Tess begins to find comfort and hope in her new surroundings, halluc..
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..
