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Chukiat Sakveerakul writes and directs this Thai suspense thriller. Pusit (Krissada Terrence) is having the worst day of his life: he has lost his job, his home and his girlfriend. When he gets a mysterious phone call telling him that he has won the right to become a contestant on a game show offering huge cash prizes, Pusit agrees to play. He is told he must complete 13 tasks, and will be paid a sum of money after each one - but if he ..
Six hundred years ago, during the Ming Dynasty, China possessed a secret intelligence agency. The Jinyiwei. trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades. Above the law and with a license to kill, they devoted their lives to their Emperor. When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch Jia, the best of the Jinyiwei, Qinglong (Donnie Yen) is assigned to identify those still loyal to the Em..
Six hundred years ago, during the Ming Dynasty, China possessed a secret intelligence agency, The Jinyiwei. Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades. Above the law and with a license to kill, they devoted their lives to their Emperor. When the Imperial Court is taken over by evil eunuch Jia, the best of the Jinyiwei, Qinglong (Donnie Yen) is assigned to identify those still loyal to the Em..
French police drama. In Paris, within the space of a year, a gang of vicious armed robbers has committed seven violent robberies. Detectives Klein (Gerard Depardieu) and Vrinks (Daniel Auteuil), once close friends but now bitter professional rivals, are each heading up different departments and are charged with bringing the gang to justice. Whoever does so will become the new Chief of Police, but the competition forces the two men to gr..
Sex and love. Pain and pleasure. Art and culture. The lines between all blur forever when three promising students engage in a passionate and physical relationship where jealousy and anger slowly destroys the ties that bind them together. Salvador Garcia Ruiz's powerful film is an intense study of human sexuality and desires, and the price we have to pay to satisfy them. Set against the intense beauty of Spain aspiring artist Maria (Adr..
Experience a masterpiece of World Cinema with incredible hyper-realistic full-scale battle sequences to rival 'The Pacific' and 'Saving Private Ryan'... On August 11th, 1950, 71 boy soldiers of the South Korean army singlehandedly held back the elite North Korean 766 Commando Brigade for a full 11 hours. Most were still in their school uniforms and had only fired a single bullet in training! their astonishing bravery under fire enabled ..
From Toshiaki Toyoda (Blue Spring, Day of Destruction)Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways. They make it to the site where the money is supposed to be hidden, and then one by one, each seeks out the place he wants to be, a version of home, somewhere to..
"A Better Tomorrow" is now remade under the patronage of the master himself. "A Better Tomorrow 2012" consistently follows the story of its predecessor and takes the action and fighting scenes into the new millennium. Again it is the fight between brothers, again they are seperated as children and again destiny puts them in the position of the hunter and the hunted. "A Better Tomorrow 2012" leads the audience through 118 minutes of acti..
A subtle and beautifully observed social satire that deftly balances hope and despair, A Blonde in Love is widely celebrated as one of the great films of the 1960s. This bittersweet romance from Milo Forman, the multiple Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, unfolds as a sweetly seductive tale of young love, but also provides a wry critique of life under totalitarianism. Aided by grgeous cinematography a..
Pavel Juracek's free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Gulliver's Travels channels Kafka and Lewis Carroll to create one of Czech cinema's most audacious and disturbing works. Lost on a country road, a man finds himself trapped in a nightmare world that mirrors communist-era Czechoslovakia. This transgressive film greatly provoked the authorities and its release was severely curtailed. Juracek, co-writer of Czech masterworls Daisies..
Pavel Juracek's free-form and darkly surreal adaptation of Gulliver's Travels channels Kafka and Lewis Carroll to create one of Czech cinema's most audacious and disturbing works. Lost on a country road, a man finds himself trapped in a nightmare world that mirrors communist-era Czechoslovakia. This transgressive film greatly provoked the authorities and its release was severely curtailed. Juracek, co-writer of Czech masterworls Daisies..
No Slipcase on this version.The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Swharz (David L. Thompson), uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes..
Lucio Fulci co-writes, directs and stars in this Italian horror.Dr. Lucio Fulci (Fulci), a horror film director, begins to be plagued by visions of his gory films.Fantasy and reality blur as the film-maker starts to believe he may be a killer.After discovering his neighbour Professor Egon Swharz (David L.Thompson) is a psychiatrist, Fulci seeks his help to discover if he really is a blood-soaked murderer or whether his movies ha..
Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa from Cold Fish) and Shigehiko (novelist Yuji Kotari) are a strange couple, whose physical mismatch (she a lithe beauty, he an overweight, balding, obsessive-compulsive neurotic) is reflected in the complete lack of intimacy between them. They connect as human beings, but they live more like friends than as lovers and lead nearly independent lives. Both seem comfortable with this coexistence, but the desires that lu..
Gaspard (Melvil Poupard), a bored young man on holiday in Brittany, is invited to a party by Margot while he is waiting for his classmate Lena, with whom he believes he is in love. At Margot's party Gaspard meets another girl, Solène, who is also attracted to him. When Lena arrives too, Gaspard is forced to choose between the three girls...
Following the death of their mother, sisters Su-mi and Suyeon are sent to convalesce in a mental hospital. On their first night home, disturbing and seemingly unexplainable events - footsteps on the stairs, doors opening of their own accord - begin to occur, and strange hallucinations plague the family. It soon becomes impossible to tell whether it is the sisters' unstable mental health, the cruel mind games played by their step-mother,..
Following the death of their mother, sisters Su-mi and Suyeon are sent to convalesce in a mental hospital. On their first night home, disturbing and seemingly unexplainable events - footsteps on the stairs, doors opening of their own accord - begin to occur, and strange hallucinations plague the family. It soon becomes impossible to tell whether it is the sisters' unstable mental health, the cruel mind games played by their step-mother,..
Taiwanese martial arts feature. The film follows the painter Ku (Shih Jun) as he tries to protect a female fugitive, Yang (Hsu Feng), from being captured by an evil eunuch. After the eunuch arrives with an army of East Chamber guards, the artist and the warrior fortify Ku's mother's supposedly haunted mansion and set ghostly traps in preparation for the soldiers' arrival. Will the pair survive the inevitable battles?..
Three veteran Riot Squads cops have had enough of a society ruled by hatred, where no one follows the rules anymore. All they want to do is restore order, which they will, by any means necessary. A young rookie joins their team and is shown the ropes. He soon starts to question the cops brutally violent form of justice and begins to question if this is a life he wants...
Three veteran Riot Squads cops have had enough of a society ruled by hatred, where no one follows the rules anymore. All they want to do is restore order, which they will, by any means necessary. A young rookie joins their team and is shown the ropes. He soon starts to question the cops brutally violent form of justice and begins to question if this is a life he wants...
The debut feature of Italian filmmaker-novelist-poet-provocateur Pier Paolo Pasolini (Salò, or: The 120 Days of Sodom; The Gospel According to Matthew; The Decameron), Accattone rocked the cinema world with its depictions, at once raw and elegant, of the underside of Roman street life – and, in the process, seemed to announce a new direction for Italian films: a neo-neorealism.On the mean streets of Rome, Accattone’s eponymous pimp (pla..
Márta Mészáros is without doubt one of the most significant female directors from Central Europe, with the majority of her outspoken work dealing frankly with issues of gender, politics and society.Adoption, one of her best-known works, is a story about the hushed rebellion of two strong women, one in her forties and one in her teens.43-year-old Kata longs to have a child of her own. Rejected by her married lover, Kata looks into ad..
Addicted to speed, and oblivious to the rules of the road, courier Kim finds himself with a shipment that's delivery is a matter of life and death. An unwitting piece in a sick game, Kim is trapped on his motorcycle with a time sensitive bomb that threatens to kill him at every turn, forcing him to follow the instructions of a mystery phone voice, making him decide if he is prepared to become a murderer or murdered. Kim has two choices ..
Brazilian coming-of-age drama written and directed by Heitor Dhalia. Set in the 1980s, the film 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) and her two younger siblings. Sensing that her parents' relationship is deteriorating, Filipa looks for clu..
When a group of popular kids at St. Mary's College play a cruel prank on the unattractive school weirdo, Kathy, they leave the poor girl in a permanent coma. When beautiful new girl Eva (Lara Lamberti, A Blade in the Dark) arrives at the school she's given Kathy's old room and it isn't long before strange occurrences are afoot and bodies are piling up. Kathy has possessed Eva and is using her as a pawn in her quest for bloody revenge. F..
Joachim Lafosse co-writes and directs this French family drama starring Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn. The film follows married couple Marie and Boris (Bejo and Kahn) as they decide to separate and get a divorce after 15 years together. But Boris can't afford to move out so he is forced to remain living with his wife and their twin girls. Although Marie owns the house, Boris believes he is entitled to his share of its value due to all o..
In this psychological romantic drama from Ingmar Bergman, theatre director Henrik Volger (Erland Josephson) is struggling to stage a play by August Strindberg. Staying behind after rehearsals to work, Henrik talks with aspiring actress Anna (Lena Olin), who he has just cast in the production. It transpires that Henrik was once involved with her late mother, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin), and Anna's visit causes him to reminisce about their doom..
Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional bond forms between the pair, Nozomi is gra..
Surreal Japanese drama about a latex doll which becomes human. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) lavishes affection upon his doll, Nozomi (Doona Bae), and seems to appreciate her silently passive nature. Unbeknownst to him, however, one day Nozomi comes to life and sets out in search of human experience. On her wanderings she happens upon a video rental store, where she meets Junichi (Arata). As an emotional bond forms between the pair, Nozomi is gra..
The deadpan wit of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki has made him a cult sensation. This collector's edition features digitally remastered presentation of three of his most acclaimed features.Drifting Clouds: Among Kaurismaki's finest films, 'Drifting Clouds' follows the dwindling fortunes of restaurant hostess Ilona and her tram driver husband Lauri, who find themselves unemployed at the same time. Embarking on an unforgiving search ..
Aloys Adorn is a middle-aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the massive collection of surveillance tapes he organises and obsessively watches at home. But when his father dies, Aloys is left on his own and his sheltered existence begins to fall apart. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public ..
When the ancient King of a proud Chinese Kingdom is killed, the throne passes to his only daughter, Yan Feier (Kelly Chen - Infernal Affairs). Ill-prepared for the rigours of leadership that lie ahead, she relies heavily on her father's most trusted General, Muyong (Donnie Yen - Hero). But when she is poisoned by her envious cousin, (Leon Lai - Seven Swords), she flees, choosing love over duty, and leaving the ever-loyal Muyong to stand..
When the ancient King of a proud Chinese Kingdom is killed, the throne passes to his only daughter, Yan Feier (Kelly Chen - Infernal Affairs). Ill-prepared for the rigours of leadership that lie ahead, she relies heavily on her father's most trusted General, Muyong (Donnie Yen - Hero). But when she is poisoned by her envious cousin, Wu Ba (Leon Lai - Seven Swords), she flees, choosing love over duty, leaving the ever-loyal Muyong to sta..
PRE-ORDERS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONFIRMED LIMITED EDITION CONTENTSLIMITED EDITION CONTENTS (FIRST PRINT RUN) - IF LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ARE REQUIRED PLEASE CHECK WITH CUSTOMER SERVICES THAT THIS IS STILL AVAILABLE BEFORE ORDERINGEureka Entertainment to release ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI: THREE FILMS (The Third Part of the Night / The Devil / On the Silver Globe), three films from an uncompromising visionary and a true maverick of European..
Pushing Hands: Master Chu, a retired Chinese tai-chi master, moves to Westchester, New York to live with his son Alex, his American daughter-in-law Martha, and their son Jeremy. However Martha's second novel is suffering from severe writers' block brought on by Chu's presence in the house. Alex must struggle to keep his family together as he battles as inner conflict between cultural tradition and his modern American lifestyle. The Wedd..
Alix Delaporte directs this French drama chronicling the uneasy relationship that develops between two very different people. Recently released from prison, the beautiful but troubled Angèle (Clotilde Hesmé) answers a personal ad on a whim, and soon finds herself caught up in the life of recently-bereaved middle-aged fisherman Tony (Grégory Gadebois), who lives with his mother in a small village on the Normandy coast. Despite a tricky b..
A sweeping tale of ill-fated romance and cross-channel relationships, Anne & Muriel is the second Truffaut adaptation of a Pierre Roche novel (after Jules & Jim). Jean-Pierre Leeaud plays Claude, a young Parisian who meets two English girls – Anne, a sculptress, and Muriel, a schoolteacher – on a turn-of-the-century trip to Wales. This meeting will spark a menage-a-trois spanning over 20 years, during which time alliances will be formed..
April 26th, 1945. The Russian Army has encircled Berlin and now draws the noose tight, marching towards the Reichstag and destroying the German's last lines of defence, tank by tank, man by man as the city falls into Soviet hands. It is also on this day that a woman begins a most extraordinary fight for survival against the city's new occupiers that reveals the shocking realities faced by civilians during the explosive last days of war...
In the 1970s & '80s the Nikkatsu Roman porno genre, which allowed directors wide latitude if they included a certain number of sex scenes in their films, was the launching pad for many now-prominent Japanese filmmakers. In 2016, Nikkatsu brought the series back with the "Roman porno reboot project", with director Sion Sono (Cold Fish) making antiporno. Pacing a vibrantly colored art studio celebrity novelist, artist and enfant-terrible ..
Three-part drama from film-maker Miguel Gomes in which he reinvents the 'One Thousand and One Nights' stories and sets them in modern-day Portugal. In 'Volume 1 - The Restless One', playing himself, Gomes is wrought with anguish at the destruction of Portuguese industry as a result of economic sanctions and austerity in 2013. His wife, the Arabian Queen Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate), tries to comfort him and save herself by telling him..
One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May's Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced Ufa classic of Weimar cinema. A well-dressed lady thief (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. She tries to seduce the policeman (Gustav Frohlich) who arrests he..
Echoing the sentiments of Schindler's List, Auschwitz is a hard-hitting but respectful war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp. Including documentary footage, controversial German director Uwe Boll (Rampage, Darfur) says "50% of the German population doesn't know anything about the Holocaust. When I realized that there were many people who deny the Holocaust, or who had a distorted point of view about it, I decided ..
The second part of the epic Chinese trilogy set during the Nanchang uprising of the Chinese Civil War in 1927. After his father is killed in a bombing raid, Rui enlists with a group of revolutionary forces and joins them as they march on the capital with scant resources and little ammunition...
On the brink of World War II came one of the most decisive moments in military history: a true account of honour, heroism and the soldiers who dared to take destiny into their own hands. A desperate nation is suffering under the hands of advancing Imperial troops, bent on the intimidation of civilians, destruction of property and spreading of panic. With no hope of salvation in sight, all seems lost. To combat this threat a small regime..
War epic set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a devastating drought takes hold of Henan province in China, a wealthy farmer named Fan (Guoli Zhang) manages to beat the struggle and maintains enough food to feed his family and the village. But that all changes when bandits rob and burn his village to the ground, murdering his son as they do so. Fan and his family are forced to flee with some of their fellow villagers, but more tro..
Sexually explicit French crime movie which stirred up some controversy on release. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is on the run after shooting a man with his own gun and stealing his money. She soon meets Nadine (Karen Bach), also on the run having recently strangled her roommate. The pair team up and are soon involved with lots of sex, violence and a trail of dead men, with the police following closely behind...
With spectacular battle sequences on a gigantic scale, a cast of thousands and a gripping tale of one nation's incredible victory against all the odds, Battle of Warsaw has been a phenomenal UK box office smash hit and nominated for numerous awards. The true events of how the population of Poland bravely rallied to defend their nation against the invading Russian army are told through the eyes of a Polish cavalryman, a happy newlywed w..
Featuring a spectacular, death defying action, from the genius behind Jet Li's 'Hero' comes the multi award winning, international box office sensation 'Battle Of Wits'. Set during the harrowing, hell-ravaged era of the infamous warlords, the small city state of Liang lies defenceless against terrifying hordes of the Zhao nation. Their salvation lies in one man, Ge Li ('Infernal Affairs' super-star Andy Lau). A mysterious, nomadic warri..
Hitoshi Ohne directs this Japanese comedy which explores the intertwined love lives of nine twenty-somethings. Koji throws a small party at his house and invites his girlfriend Tomoko and her friend Kaori, his brother Naoki and his girlfriend Satomi, his three friends Yutu, Osamu and Takashi as well as the unknown Yuko. Although the boys are initially disappointed with the girls' effort to impress them and the mood of the party falls fl..
Nominated for an Academy Award (2008), Beaufort tells the true story of a barely-of-age Israeli outpost commander and his troops, who are left to defend the mythological 12th Century Crusader fort of Beaufort prior to Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. Under a relentless aerial bombardment of Hezbollah rockets, the commander's authority is challenged on both sides: by strained soldiers who increasingly become weary of their missi..
Emilie (Audrey Tautou) puts all her heart into running her busy hairdressing salon in sunny South of France. Meanwhile, her mother (Nathalie Baye), has had her heart broken, and needs love. When Emilie starts receiving anonymous love letters, she decides to send them on to her mother, sparking confusion, complications and dilemmas when the secret admirer (Sami Bouajila) is revealed. A delightful comedy of errors from the director of Pri..
Following The 400 Blows, Antoine & Colette (a 32-minute short also included on this disk) and Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board is the fourth installment in the ‘Antoine Doinel Series’. Here, Antoine is entering into full adulthood, now that he has married and is expecting a child. However his life is far from stable, as steady employment remains at arm’s length and an affair with a beautiful Japanese woman threatens to destroy his marriage. D..
This spectacular, award-winning drama is a breathtaking portrait of the courageous young men who were ripped from their innocence and thrown into the explosive chaos of World War Two. In the summer of 1942, as the brutal Nazi regime extended its reach throughout Europe, an idealistic sixteen-year-old defies his father and leaves home to join the fight for his country. There, in a disconcerting world dominated by intense combat and harsh..
Set entirely in a nightclub in a mountain ski resort over one eventful evening, Peter Solan’s Before Tonight is Over brings together an exceptional cast as they drink, dance, flirt, and fight in a delightful, kaleidoscopic character study.Highly improvised and experimental in its approach, the film achieves a remarkable, intimate naturalism, offering a sharp critique of then-contemporary life as the characters gradually reveal their d..
Experimental South Korean docu-drama directed by Je-yong Lee. The film follows Lee as he attempts to direct an upcoming film without ever being present on set. When the cast and crew arrive at the studio to begin work on their latest project, they are surprised to find the director has decided to up sticks for LA and direct the film remotely through video-calling software. All those involved then begin to feel the pressure when the set ..
You've never said anything like Belleville Rendez-vous, a wildly inventive and highly original animated feature crowded with colourful characters and fantastic imagery. Kidnapped by mysterious square-shouldered henchmen, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teeming metropolis of Belleville. His grandmothher and faithful dog follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas. Th..
Historical sports drama. Threatened with a boycott of their 1936 Olympic Games unless they allow Jewish athletes to take part, Nazi Germany are forced to let international high jump champion and German Jew Gretel Bergmann (Karoline Herfurth) represent them in the games. Fearful that any achievement by her might undermine the German ideology of the time, they conspire to replace her with another woman, Marie Ketteler (Sebastian Urzendows..
A dark, compelling thriller adapted from crime scribe Ruth Rendell's The Tree of Hands, Betty Fisher and Other Stories sees internationally renowned French director Claude Miller (An Impudent Girl, La Petite Voleuse) returning to the tense, nail-biting style of the recent Class Trip. Stylishly executed, Betty Fisher and Other Stories is an intricate tale of kidnap and fraud that inventively interweaves the lives of its three disparate..
War drama following a group of Swedish-speaking troops fighting in the Continuation War, a conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that took place during World War II. The film is based on the diaries of platoon leader Harry Järv, played onscreen by Tobias Zilliacus, and endeavours to remain faithful to his memories of the war - to the extent that genuine photographs taken during the battles by Järv are intercut with the live acti..
Two best friends who grew up together in an orphanage are emotionally reunited after years apart. Voichita has taken religious orders while Alina wants them to both relocate to a new life of freedom in Germany. While staying together in Voichita’s remote and austere nunnery their relationship and sexuality begin to tear apart the tight-knit fabric of the sect, resulting in a terrifying act that would send a shockwave through the church...
A massive Japanese hit, acclaimed by One Cut of the Dead director Shinichiro Ueda as a worthy successor to his continuous one-take sensation, it’s the time travel suspense comedy of the decade.Café owner Kato discovers that his PC monitor shows what will happen two minutes in the future. Another screen downstairs in his café shows the past of two minutes ago. His friends decide to place the two mysterious devices opposite each other, ..
A massive Japanese hit, acclaimed by One Cut of the Dead director Shinichiro Ueda as a worthy successor to his continuous one-take sensation, it’s the time travel suspense comedy of the decade.Café owner Kato discovers that his PC monitor shows what will happen two minutes in the future. Another screen downstairs in his café shows the past of two minutes ago. His friends decide to place the two mysterious devices opposite each other, ..
Beyto is a terrific swimmer and everybody’s cool buddy. But as the young Swiss man with Turkish roots falls in love with his handsome coach Mike, his perfect world seems to fall apart. For Beyto’s parents there is only one solution to maintain the tradition and honor of their family: He has to marry a woman as soon as possible! They lure their son into their Turkish home village and organize a wedding with Beyto’s childhood friend Seher..
Mummified dead bodies of various dignitaries from around the world are being discovered, a mysterious tarot card left beside them at the scene. The world is headed towards chaos... Kiyoharu is the young head of the Genpo noble family, owners of a massive toy manufacturing enterprise. He also functions as a secret watchdog for the Queen, a service that his family has provided for generations. The Queen orders Kiyoharu to solve the mummif..
When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist "Black" needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a working vacation that involves a little sightseeing and a lot of mayhem. Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab'1 as a villain in District B-13, but with "Black", he takes centre stage and delivers a n..
Prepare for the thrill ride of your life! A student's life turns upside down when he discovers the battered old car his father gave him can fly... After his entire world falls apart he makes a choice and shoots from zero to hero as crime fighter known as "Black Lightning." Little does he know that evil forces are watching... they want the incredible car and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means killing him and destroying the ..
Black Peter is the debut feature from Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus). A wry comedy set in 1960's Czechoslovakia, the film explores the passions and confusions of teenage life. With a cast of mainly non-professional actors, Forman conjures up a naturalistic and witty portrait of everyday life under totalitarianism. Full of charming performances, youthful spontaneity and a rock n roll soundt..
Black Peter is the debut feature from Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus). A wry comedy set in 1960's Czechoslovakia, the film explores the passions and confusions of teenage life. With a cast of mainly non-professional actors, Forman conjures up a naturalistic and witty portrait of everyday life under totalitarianism. Full of charming performances, youthful spontaneity and a rock n roll soundt..
Between Couscous, winner of three Cesar Awards, and the Cannes triumph of Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche made Black Venus, a stark portrait of the life of Saartjie Baartman, also known as the ‘Hottentot Venus’. Baartman was taken from South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as a freak show. Presented semi-nude, her physique – especially her large buttock..
Blade of the Immortal is the thrilling, action-packed 100th feature from the Japanese master of genre films, Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins). Based on the Manga series of the same name by Hiroaki Samura, Blade of the Immortal stars Takuya Kimura (Love and Honour) as Manji, a highly skilled samurai, who becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fight..
Arrow Video is proud to present Blade of the Immortal, the thrilling, action-packed 100th feature from the Japanese master of genre films, Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins).Based on the Manga series of the same name by Hiroaki Samura, Blade stars Takuya Kimura (Love and Honour) as Manji, a highly skilled samurai, who becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows ..
An incredible tale of deadly rivalries and bload-soaked battles, Blades of Blood is a heart-pounding martial arts epic that is already being hailed as a modern classic. As a kingdom faces an invading army the court splits into two rival factions, both vying for the king's trust. Frustrated with the lack of action this leads to, one courtier splits away, forming a rebel army that hacks and slashes its way to power, leaving a trail of bet..
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Historical action sequel following on from the events of the 2000 film 'Bang Rajan'.In Siam (modern day Thailand) in 1767, the Yantric Warriors are still fighting the Burmese invaders who threaten their native village life.This time around, they come upon a platoon of Siamese troops, cut off from their base in the former capital.When the two groups arrive back at the village, rivalries begin to emerge as both camps argue on the be..
A peaceful household is disturbed by the return of a mother’s (Youn Yuh-Jung – The Housemaid, Behind the Camera) three grown children one after the other. The first is eldest, an unemployed freeloader Han-mo (Yoon Je-Moon – Mother, The Good The Bad The Weird), second is failed film director In-mo (Park Hae-Il – The Host, Memories of Murder), and last is double divorcee Mi-yun (Kong Hyo-Jin – Guns & Talks, Volcano High). Having come back..
War drama directed by Alper Caglar and starring Ufuk Bayraktar and Caglar Ertugrul. Bekir (Bayraktar) and Oguz (Ertugrul) have survived their incredible ordeal and emerged as fast friends. Together they enroll with the Turkish special forces and begin their lengthy and arduous training. Their very first mission as a part of the elite unit known as 'Storm Bringer' comes after six years of hard training and preparation, and they will need..
Collection of action films starring martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. In 'The Big Boss' (1971) Lee stars as immigrant worker Cheng Chao-an who takes a job with his cousins in an ice factory and discovers all manner of suspicious activities. When he begins to investigate a series of disappearances - the latest of which has seen his own cousin go missing - he can't help but display his formidable martial arts skills. Taking on one oppon..
Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some, his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office, drinks after work, an equally busy girlfriend, Kiriko, who he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars surrounding the entrance to his apartment building and he's told that Kiriko has committed suic..
Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office, drinks after work, an equally busy girlfriend, Kiriko, that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars surrounding the entrance to his apartment building and he's told that Kiriko has co..
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Blistering, epic-scale action from the director of New Police Story and Shaolin, with the action director of Ip Man. Call of Heroes thrills throughout in its tale of skilled martial artists, who take a stand to protect their village against a ruthless army. In 1914, after the collapse of China's Qing dynasty, Yang Kenan (Sean Lau-Mad Detective) is appointed as guardian to defend the rural village of Pucheng. When a lone man enters the v..
from the award-winning director of Pixote & Kiss of the Spider Woman. Murderers, rapists, stool pigeons , drug addicts. They were the feared ones, the criminals who really ran Carandiru, Brazil's largest correctional facility: Ebony, an honorable thief and respected leader; Highness, a smooth operator with two families to support; Ezequiel, an ex-surfer turned crack addict; Dagger, a brutal killer with God on his side. They were among t..
Winner of the Sutherland Trophy at the 2002 London Film Festival, this debut feature from writer-director Delphine Gleize is an example of 'un film chorale' - a film telling several interrelated stories. In Spain, a young matador is critically injured in the bullring, and the offending bull is quickly killed and its various body parts dispatched to various places in Europe. The film then follows the stories of those whose lives the dead..
From Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain’s most famous and successful designer Javier Mariscal, Chico & Rita is an epic animated story of love and heartbreak, set against the colour and bustle of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early ’50s. Featuring an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdes with music by Thelonious Monk, Cole ..
From Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Spain's most famous and successful designer Javier Mariscal, Chico & Rita is an epic animated story of love and heartbreak, set against the colour and bustle of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early '50s. Featuring an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer Bebo Valdes with music by Thelonious Monk, Dizzy..
From the makers of Ong-Bak and Warrior King comes the new no stunt-doubles action sensation! Zin was once a prominent member of the most feared mafia gang in Thailand and mistress to its notorious leader, Number-8. Now suffering from leukaemia, the only way to raise money for treatment is for her daughter, Zen, to seek out her old underworld contacts and collect aged debts. Blessed with an incredible ability to mimic the fighting moves ..
From the makers of Ong-Bak and Warrior King comes the new no stunt-doubles action sensation! Sin was once a prominent member of the most feared mafia gang in Thailand and mistress to its notorious leader, Number-8. Now suffering from leukaemia, the only way to raise money for treatment is for her daughter, Zen, to seek out her old underworld contacts and collect outstanding debts. Blessed with an incredible ability to mimic the fighting..
A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE EVERLASTING MAGIC OF THE MOVIESA winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards including Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Score, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and many more.Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Al..
A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE EVERLASTING MAGIC OF THE MOVIESA winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards including Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Score, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and many more.Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Al..
A CELEBRATION OF YOUTH, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE EVERLASTING MAGIC OF THE MOVIESA winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards including Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Score, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and many more.Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Al..
Nanjing, China 1937. Japanese forces invade this once-capital of the Republic of China on December 9th. Throughout the following six weeks, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians - with mass executions; crowds mown down by firing squads, and victims digging their own graves. Few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of what has become known as the 'Rape of Nanking'. Direc..
In the final days of World War Two, a young Czech widow is abducted by two deserting German soldiers and forced to ferry them to the Austrian border. Unbeknown to them, she is plotting a brutal revenge for the recent killing of her husband by Wehrmacht forces.Banned even before its release (and remained unseen for over twenty years), Karel Kachyňa’s powerful and often harrowing film takes a humanist approach to war. Controversially, i..
Inspired by and loosely based on the real-life exploits of serial killer couple Gen Sekine and his ex-wife Hiroko Kazama (the perpetrators of Tokyo's notorious 1993 "Saitama serial murders of dog lovers" killings), 'Cold Fish' is a psychotic cavalcade of sex, violence and comedy. Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this worries him. One day Mitsuko is caught..
From the acclaimed producer of John Woo's Red Cliff and Jet Li's Warlords, comes this powerhouse biopic of the legendary Chinese philosopher, Confucius. Showcasing a commanding and captivating performance from screen icon, Chow Yun-fat, this epic masterpiece balances breathtaking spectacle, visceral action and heart-wrenching drama to deliver one of this year's most unforgettable movies. In 500 B.C., during China's famed 'Spring and Aut..
From the acclaimed producer of John Woo's Red Cliff and Jet Lis Warlords, comes this powerhouse biopic of the legendary Chinese philosopher, Confucius. Showcasing a commanding and captivating performance from screen icon, Chow Yun-fat, this epic masterpiece balances breathtaking spectacle, visceral action and heart-wrenching drama to deliver one of this years most unforgettable movies. In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn..
