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What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The true story of John Reginald Christie who turned his backyard into a burial ground.Special Features 4K Restoration, 1080p Presentation, Restored Mono Audio, Original Theatrical Trailer, New And Improved English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing..
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The true story of John Reginald Christie who turned his backyard into a burial groundSpecial Features 4K Restoration, Audio Commentary With Actress Judy Geeson And Film Historians Lem Dobbs And Nick Redman, Audio Commentary With Acclaimed Actor Sir John Hurt, Introduction By Sir Richard Attenborough (2004, 2 Mins): An Appreciation By The Great Actor, Interview With Sir Richard Attenbo..
After the international firestorm of Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci went on to create one of the grandest and most legendary epics in modern cinema, 1900 (Novecento). A stunning five-hour saga following the intertwined fates of two childhood friends born on the same day in 1900 at opposite ends of the social scale through five decades of class struggle. Described by Pauline Kael as making most other films “look like something ..
All 16 episodes of the 1970s drama looking at life in the future year of 1990. Led by a corrupt government, Great Britain is in turmoil, with free speech and basic human rights completely abolished and replaced with strict laws on rationing, censorship and personal surveillance. As journalist and rebel Jim Kyle (Edward Woodward) frequently goes against the establishment to get his message heard, Public Control Department head Herbert Sk..
Argent Films presents the definitive collection of Tinto Brass' art-house Erotica. Acknowledged by film critics and fans worldwide as the "Maestro of European Erotica". Brass is at his most kinky abd the girls spectacularly gorgeous in these - his most controversial - films on the very edge of hard-core! This classic must-have collector's set brings together for the first time these three pivotal cinematographic works of this unique fil..
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-..
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..
Painstkingly recreated on actual World War II Battlefield locations, and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford and Laurence Olivier, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind Operation Market Garden - one of the biggest military gambles in history.Special Features A Bridge Too Far Trailer, Platoon Trailer..
Richard Attenborough's star-studded account of the failed 1944 Arnheim assault. Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Robert Redford and Sean Connery are among those battling against insurmountable odds - foul weather, bad luck, negligence on the part of intelligence officers - to secure one of the bridges essential to the Allied advance into Germany. Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Anthony Hopkins also star. The screenplay is by William Goldman ('..
An epic film that re-creates in stunning detail one of the most disastrous battles of World War II, A Bridge Too Far is a spectacular war picture. Painstakingly recreated on actual battlefield locations and boasting a remarkable cast that includes Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Laurence Olivier and Robert Redford, A Bridge Too Far accurately recaptures the monumental scope, excitement and danger behind one of the biggest military ga..
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and..
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director awards and..
The old ultra-violence is back, as ultra-brilliant as anything Stanley Kubrick ever directed. Demonic gang-leader Alex -Malcolm McDowell's defining performance - goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". Then he finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the stre..
The award-winning play is now on the screen.Special Features High Definition Remaster, Original Mono Audio, Audio Commentary With Director Peter Medak And Film Historian Sam Dunn, From Stage To Screen: Peter Nichols On 'Joe Egg' (2017, 20 Mins): A New Interview With The Celebrated Playwright, Remembering The Day: Janet Suzman On 'Joe Egg' (2017, 18 Mins): A New Interview With The Acclaimed Actor, Original Theatrical Trailer, New And I..
A Doll's House was the first of Henrik Ibsen's plays to create a sensation within society and Joseph Losey's film adaptation transcends thegenerations from when it was first seen on stage . Nora (Jane Fonda), who appears to be the model wife and mother, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her overbearing husband, Torvald (David Warner). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out and the sha..
From Sergio Leone, the acclaimed director of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West comes his final Western, A Fistful of Dynamite (aka Duck, You Sucker! and released in some territories as Once Upon A Time... the Revolution). Starring acting giants Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night) as Juan Miranda, an amoral peasant-turned-outlaw, and James Coburn (Pat Garret..
Stanislas, a young sociologist researching a book on women criminals, travels to a prison to interview Camille, an inmate incarcerated for murdering her lover, husband and supposedly her father. Upon meeting, Stanislas discovers Camille to have a surprising air of innocence and soon finds himself becoming enraptured by her charms. But all that glitters isn’t gold – and sometimes it’s actually cold, hard steel... A rare foray into pitch-..
Stanislas, a young sociologist researching a book on women criminals, travels to a prison to interview Camille, an inmate incarcerated for murdering her lover, husband and supposedly her father. Upon meeting, Stanislas discovers Camille to have a surprising air of innocence and soon finds himself becoming enraptured by her charms. But all that glitters isn’t gold – and sometimes it’s actually cold, hard steel... A rare foray into pitch-..
Available on DVD for the first time, Roy Russell's A House In Regent Place is a collection of four gripping ITV dramas set around a grand Regency property in Brighton. Sweeping from 1914 to 1974, the series reveals the changing face of Britain through the eyes of four very different couples... The Barrier: The house has been loaned to the Red Cross to tend to officer casualties of the Great War - and the privileged and headstrong daught..
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th century. When an English Lord (Harris) is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief’s aging mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe’s way of life and falls in love with the chief’s sister. But before he can be accepted with honour, as an equa..
Richard Harris stars in this carefully documented epic that attempted to realistically portray the life of the American Sioux in the early 19th Century. When an English Lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the Chief's ageing mother (Dame Judith Anderson) as a servant. Gradually, he embraces the tribe's way of life and falls in love with the Chief's sister. But before he can be accepted with honour as an equal member ..
Elaine May writes, directs and stars in this romantic comedy alongside Walter Matthau. Having spent his entire inheritance, wealthy playboy Henry Graham (Matthau) is desperately searching for a new way to make more money. With no apparent skills to fend for himself, Henry vows to marry a wealthy woman so she can support him and makes a bet with his Uncle Harry (James Coco) that he can do so within six weeks. But if he fails to do so Hen..
The penultimate film from acclaimed Indian director Ritwik Ghatak is a study of the changes brought about in East Bengal since his childhood. Telling the story of the decline of a fishing community on the River Titas, the film traces the effects of the river's drying up and the influence of city dwellers who turn the community's land into paddy fields...
When barely into his twenties, Jimmy Boyle was Scotland’s most feared gangster – a Gorbals ‘hard man’ notorious for his extreme violence. Then he got a taste of his own medicine when he was sentenced to life in a Scottish prison where the regime, with its punishment beatings and solitary confinement, was every bit as brutal as that on the street. Yet out of this bleak and seemingly dead-end system of crime and punishment came an extraor..
A severed head is not a horror story...It's something else!Special Features High Definition Remaster, Original Mono Audio, Audio Commentary With Director Dick Clement And Film Historian Sam Dunn (2018), Guise And Dolls (2019, 8 Mins): Artist And Sculptor Saskia de Boer Discusses The Figurines She Created For The Film’s Arresting Title Sequence, Slightly Saucy (2019, 7 Mins): Production Manager Timothy Burrill Recalls The Making Of A S..
Starring sitcom legends David Jason and Richard Wilson, this sharply scripted series details the multifarious difficulties involved in 'Getting Things Done' – as experienced by young married couple Peter and Sheila Barnes. From trying to book a holiday to being a best man, life seems to hand Peter Barnes more than his fair share of frustration. The only certainty is that whatever it is he's trying to arrange, it will entail an encounter..
Released originally in France as L'Evenement le plus Important depuis que l'Homme a Marche sur la Lune (The Most Important Event Since Man Walked On The Moon), this robust farce demonstrates director Demy's (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) ability to make a workable comedy out of the least likely of source. Marcello Mastroinni (La Dolce Vita) plays Marco, a male Parisian driving school owner who goes to see his doctor and complains of feeli..
Italian cinema's most iconic screen couple, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - here cast against glamorous type - deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their career in this rarely seen masterpiece finally presented, restored and remastered in 4K - with striking desaturated colours - as originally created by its multi-awarded director Ettore Scola. On this special day in 1938, all of facist Rome has been mustered to a ..
The evergreen Oscar winner ablaze with music and stardust. The fire of Barbra Steisand. The magnetism of Kris Kristofferson. The Reckless world of big-time rock 'n' roll. All three bring a new passion and timeliness to A Star is Born, one of the screen's classic love stories (previously filmed in 1937 and 1954) and winner of five Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture, Actress and Actor (Musical/Comedy). Paul Williams, Kenny Loggin..
Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson as two music superstars in a stormy romance in rock-'n'-roll's high-pressure world. Academy Award(R) Winner/Best Song: "Evergreen"Year: 1976Director: Frank PiersonStarring: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey..
A police sergeant discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his daughter, so confronts the other woman to try and resolve the situation. Unfortunately, he accidently kills her and when assigned to the case, tries to pin the blame on a derelict..
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?..
Sophie Thompson stars in this five-part children's fantasy series based on the novel by Alison Uttley. When teenager Penelope Taberner (Thompson) goes to stay with her aunt and uncle (Elizabeth Bradley and Gerald James) on their secluded farm in Derbyshire, she suddenly finds herself being transported back to Tudor times where she discovers her ancestors are responsible for a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I…..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
Arguably John Cassavetes' most successful and influential film, A Woman Under the Influence stars Gena Rowlands (Gloria, Faces) and the legendary Peter Falk (Columbo) as Mabel and Nick Longhetti, a blue-collar couple struggling to cope with Mabel's slide into mental illness. Featuring a central performance of awe-inspiring conviction from Gena Rowlands, this critically acclaimed film is as powerful today as it was upon its original rele..
Hilarious, cringe-inducing and shocking - Mike Leigh takes aim at suburban life in the 1970s. Shown on Play for Today in 1977, this "cocktail party from hell" wickedly took apart the tastlessness, pretensions and pomposity of England's aspiring suburban classes. As a get-together of neighbours turns from social embarrassment, to personal antagonism to crisis, the audience is manipulated into squirming and laughing but is ultimately shoo..
Thou shalt not kill...Special Features 2K Restoration, Original Mono Audio, Alternative Presentations Of The Main Feature: The Original 1978 Theatrical Version And The 2018 Director's Cut, Audio Commentary With Kevin Lyons, Editor Of The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Film And Television, On The Original Theatrical Version, The Devil To Pay (2018, 12 Mins): New And Exclusive Interview With Director Anthony Page In Which He Relects On The P..
All surviving episodes - comprising the entire third and final season - of the 1970s ITV family drama series following the exploits of Tarot the Magician (Michael MacKenzie) and his assistant Lulli (Judy Loe), as they solve a series of mysteries, both natural and supernatural. Assisting them is Mr. Sweet, an antiquarian bookseller with a remarkable store of scientific knowledge. Episodes are: 'The Meddlers (Part 1)', 'The Meddlers (Part..
Aces High is a World War One film from 1976 directed by Jack Gold and starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. Croft (Peter Firth), a public school boy turned RFC officer, arrives in France to take over as Second Lieutenant of a British detachment. He has deliberately manoeuvred his way into this particular position in order to be with Gresham (Malcolm McDowell), an old boy from his school who has beco..
New airforce recruit Peter Firth takes an instant dislike to his embittered squadron leader, Malcolm McDowell. But as the young pilot experiences the tensions and stresses of warfare, his dislike turns to admiration. The film features excellently photographed aerial dogfight sequences. Also starring Christopher Plummer and John Gielgud. An airborn remake of the 1930 trench-bound 'Journey's End'...
Little Bo Peep, Old King Cole, Little Tommy Tucker, Snow White, and many others, have all grown up and are ready for action! These enchanting characters from beloved nursery rhymes sing, dance, lust, and romance their way through this hilarious, naughty, and twisted tale where music, mirth, and merriment are the rule of the day. In a clothing optional land of make believe where everything is possible. See “Scream Queen” Linnea Quigley s..
Elegant, all-star production introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. A no-good American Tycoon lies dead with twelve dagger wounds, but which of the passengers is the guilty party? Includes an Oscar winning performance from Ingrid Bergman.Special Features Making Of, Interview With Producer Richard Goodwin, Behind The Scenes Stills Gallery..
Elegant, all-star production introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. A no-good American Tycoon lies dead with twelve dagger wounds, but which of the passengers is the guilty party? Includes an Oscar winning performance from Ingrid Bergman...
Sidney Lumet directs this classic British drama adapted from Agatha Christie's novel. Set in 1935, the film follows Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) as he travels back to London aboard the Orient Express. Heading into heavy weather, it's not long before the train becomes stuck in snow while travelling through Yugoslavia. When one of the passengers, millionaire Ratchett (Richard Widmark), is murdered overnight, Poirot fac..
Werner Herzog directs this study of megalomania, set in 16th Century Peru. In the year 1560, a Spanish expedition crosses the Peruvian Sierras in search of the legendary Inca city of El Dorado. A power struggle within the group leads to its deputy (Klaus Kinski) seizing control in bloody fashion, his desire to set up his own kingdom threatening to destroy them all. Cast and crew apparently endured hardships comparable to those suffered ..
AirportA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.Airport 1975A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.Airport 1977Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.Airport 1979..
AirportA bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.Airport 1975A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.Airport 1977Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.Airport 1979..
Based on Ronald Blythe's acclaimed oral-history book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Peter Hall's extraordinary, long-unseen film offers a lyrical yet authentic depiction of British pastoral life. Akenfield tells the story of a farming family who have lived for generations in the bucolic Suffolk village of the film's title. Real-life local farmer Garrow Shand gives a compelling naturalistic central performance, in three roles..
Alan Bennett is one of Britain’s most popular and prolific authors and playwrights. He initially wrote for the stage, but found that with his observant eye for the absurdities of modern life and sharp ear for dialogue, his work transferred easily and effectively to the small screen. This collection brings together many of Alan Bennett’s previously unreleased BBC productions dating from 1972 through to 1994. It includes his first televis..
Collection of BBC dramas from film-maker Alan Clarke. The collection includes 'George's Room' (1967), 'The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel' (1969), 'Sovereign's Company' (1970), 'The Hallelujah Handshake' (1970), 'To Encourage the Others' (1972), 'Under the Age' (1972), 'Horace' (1972), 'The Love Girl and the Innocent' (1973), 'Penda's Fen' (1974), 'A Follower for Emily' (1974), 'Diane' (1975), 'Funny Farm' (1975) and 'Scum' (1977)..
Second collection of BBC dramas from film-maker Alan Clarke. The collection includes: 'Nina' (1978), 'Danton's Death' (1978), 'Beloved Enemy' (1981), 'Psy-Warriors' (1981), 'Baal' (1982), 'Stars of the Roller State Disco' (1984), 'Contact' (1985), 'Christine' (1987), 'Road' (1987), 'The Firm: Director's Cut and Original Broadcast' (1989) and 'Elephant' (1989)...
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
When a wealthy woman unwittingly hires a con man and a phony psychic to find her missing heir, the results are diabolically funny in Alfred Hitchcock's tongue-in-cheek mystery thriller. Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris star as a conniving couple plotting to bilk an old lady out of her fortune by pretending to find her long-lost nephew (William Devane). Meanwhile, Devane, a larcenous jeweler and his beautiful girlfriend (Karen Black) have k..
All 50 episodes of the '70s Western TV series following the adventures of outlaws Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) and Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) as they try to go straight with the help of the local governor. Having to stay out of trouble to achieve amnesty, the two men change identity to avoid detection but can't seem to kick the habit. Season 1 episodes are: 'Alias Smith and Jones', 'The McCreedy Bust', 'Exit from Wickenburg', 'Wrong Train to ..
When ten-year-old Karen (Brooke Shields – in her first screen appearance) is killed in church on the occasion of her first communion, her seemingly innocent older sister Alice (Paula Sheppard) becomes the prime suspect. Matters become complicated as more of Alice’s family members are attacked, along with residents of her apartment building. Can a twelve-year-old girl be capable of such mayhem, or is someone else with a vicious plan dest..
Alien - The terror begins as the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a desolate planet, only to discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts.Aliens - After drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years, the only survivor from the first Alien encounter accompanies a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426... and this time it's war.Alien 3 - Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak w..
All six films in the 'Alien' franchise. In Ridley Scott's 'Alien' (1979) the crew of the Nostromo starship are on their way back to Earth after completing a mission when they are diverted to a planetoid to investigate a cryptic message. While exploring an abandoned spacecraft on the planet, they come across a store of unhatched eggs. When one of the eggs releases a mysterious creature that leeches on to a crew member's face, the others ..
The one that started it all! Experience the terror - from the beginning - with the first chilling chapter of the Alien saga, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout performance as Ripley. When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a mysterious life form that breeds within human hosts. The acid-blooded extraterrestrial proves to be the ultimate ..
The time is the future. The crew aboard a massive commercial space vehicle is enroute to earth with a load of extraterrestrial ore when they are sidetracked by mysterious signals from a nearby planet. The signals seem to be calls for help and when the space ship arrives they find a ruined, moldering spacecraft and within it egg-like living organisms...
Ridley Scott directs this sci-fi horror starring Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt. When Kane (Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which will hatch out through his stomach and proceed to hunt down the crew..
This special 4-disc set includes two cuts of all four Alien films - eight electrifying versions in all. It's a one-of-a-kind experience, enhanced by the unmatched clarity and pure digital sound of Blu-ray. Featuring cast and crew commentaries, isolated scores and deleted and extended scenes, this is a must-own collection for every Alien fan.Special Features Audio Commentaries By Directors Ridley Scott, James Cameron And Jean-Pierre Je..
In the first chapter of the terrifying Alien saga, the crew of the spaceship Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, only to discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts. Now the crew members must fight not only for their own survival, but for the survival of all humankind.Special Features Audio Commentary By Director Ridley Scott, Cast And Crew, Audio Commentary By Ridley Scott (theatrical Version On..
Alien: In the first chapter of the terrifying Alien saga, the crew of the space-tug Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, only to discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts. Now the crew members must fight not only for their own survival, but for the survival of all mankind in this spectacular and ground-breaking sci-fi masterpiece starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt and Tom Skerritt.Aliens: Sigo..
All the episodes from the first three series of the British drama which follows events at James Herriot (Christopher Timothy)'s rural veterinary practice in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 1 episodes are: 'Horse Sense', 'Dog Days', 'It Takes All Kinds', 'Calf Love', 'Out of Practice', 'Nothing Like Experience', 'Golden Lads and Girls', 'Advice and Consent', 'The Last Furlong', 'Sleeping Partners', 'Bulldog Breed', 'Practice Makes Perfect' a..
All eleven surviving episodes (of the thirty-three episodes made) from classic 1960/70s BBC sitcom. Episodes featured include the critically acclaimed Comedy Playhouse pilot, 'The Bishop Rides Again', and the first episode of the series proper, 'The Bishop Gets the Sack'...
A second film version (the first was made in 1930) of Erich Maria Remarque's story about a group of idealistic young Germans recruited to fight on the Western Front in 1914. Amongst their number is the patriotic Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas), whose preconceptions are rapidly shattered upon witnessing the horror of life at the front...
Collection of the two surviving variety shows broadcast as ITV Christmas specials in 1972 and '73. Both shows are comprised of comedy sketches from the most popular sitcoms on the network at the time. These sketches, unseen since their original broadcast, feature characters from shows such as 'Love Thy Neighbour', 'On the Buses' and 'Man About the House'...
All That Jazz is actually a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award winner who brought home a combined total of eight trophies.Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the Academy Award winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business, played by Roy Scheider. Dazzl..
Italian celluloid icon Edwige Fenech (The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh, Top Sensation) is at her most beguiling as Jane, the housewife plagued by nightmarish visions of her own bloody murder! To cure her hellish fantasies her bewitching neighbour Mary initiates Jane into a Satanic coven, but there, the price for this brand of diabolical cure is murder - committed as a ritual sacrifice during an orgiastic black mass! Jane’s chilling repulsi..
1970s Italian horror directed by Sergio Martino. After losing her unborn child in a car accident, Jane (Edwige Fenech) slowly begins to lose her grip on reality and becomes convinced she's being stalked by a knife-wielding killer. Her sister Barbara (Susan Scott) suggests she seek professional help but when that fails Jane's neighbour introduces her to a satanic cult that practices black magic and proposes that its Black Mass ritual can..
The children of a bootlegger are left orphans after the death during childbirth of their mother and their father falling off the roof of the house. Rather than give up their lifestyle, the orphans decide to recruit new parents, with chilling consequences for those who do not make the cut.....
In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from office. Washington reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the story and stayed with it through doubts, denials, and discouragement. All the President's Men is their story. Directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on the Woodward/Bernstein book, the fil..
Originally sold with the provocative tagline 'Is 15 and a half too young for a girl? Is one wife enough for one man?', this time-capsule of a film is the story of a young married man who has an affair with a teenage girl. Starring Olivia Hussey, in her first post-Romeo and Juliet role, and the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room), this is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O'Hara, better known for his assistant-..
Maestro of mayhem Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Oasis Of Fear) takes you on a tour of Italy's mean streets in this hyper-violent 1970s crime classic. For the first time ever on Blu-ray, Shameless proudly presents Almost Human…restored, uncut and unhinged! Tomas Milian gives a career-topping, barnstorming performances as Sacchi, a mains, violently sadistic hoodlum who aspires to criminal greatness. With his gang of impressionable weirdo..
Collection of short films and documentaries directed by Martin Scorsese. The films ar: Italian American (1974) American Boy (1978) The Big Shave (1967) It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964) What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)..
This Academy Award nominated classic, directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, features the coming of age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college. Rediscover drag racing, drive-ins and Inspiration Point in this nostalgic look back at the early 60's that also brings you an incredible soundtrack with the most memorable rock'n'roll tracks of the era. Starring Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Ho..
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..
Double DVD set of two classic Amicus titles. Tales from the Crypt Five strangers go with a tourist group to view old caves. Separated from the main group, they find themselves in a room with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who details how each of the strangers will die drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with Shane, his Belgian Malinois. Vault of Horror Five unsuspecting hote..
Crime drama starring Robert Mitchum as Quinlan, a washed-up police officer, hired by DEA agent Odums (Bradford Dillman) to help plug up a security leak. With only one clue, the word 'Juliana', Mitchum flies off to Amsterdam, where he mingles with the city's drug culture before his final showdown with the villains...
All six episodes from the first series of the ITV comedy variety show starring comedian, actor and singer Jasper Carrott...
An Englishman's home may well be his castle, but it would be a very different castle indeed if Germany had won WWII. Set in an alternate 1970s on an Earth where Germany won the Second World War and is now occupying England, Peter Ingram (Kenneth More) is the lead writer of a popular soap opera set in Blitz-era London. Ingram's life sees little adventure. He knowingly turns a blind eye to the realities of local Nazi rule, opting for the ..
And Hope To Die is a 1972 crime drama directed by Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Purple Noon). A French fugitive (Jean-Louis Trintignant, Z, The Conformist) heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping. However, things don’t go quite as planned when the crime lords daughter they plan to kidnap accidentally dies...
This duo of sparkling Thames comedies provided an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig, showcasing her talents as a harassed, well-meaning but scatterbrained young widow doing her best to bring up two rambunctious sons. ...And Mother Makes Three sees Sally Harrison not only keeping an eye on sons Simon and Peter but also conducting an on-off romance with antiquarian bookseller David Redway; ...And Mother Makes Five hilario..
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust? Extras: Interview with Kim Newman..
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?Extras: Interview with Kim Newman..
A group of ten people, strangers to one another, have all travelled to a hotel located deep in the deserts of Iran. Upon arrival they discover that their host is mysteriously absent. Though some find this odd; they decide to make the best of the situation and settle into the isolated-but-luxurious hotel. But soon they are accused by a tape recording of having committed various crimes in the past which went unpunished by the law. Then on..
The groundbreaking realistic portrayal of the lives of NHS nurses. Created by Paula Milne, the series chronicled the personal and professional lives of six student nurses, and controversially, tackled issues such as contraception, alcoholism and promiscuity as part of the nurses' lives. Grittily authentic each actress taking part was required to work on a real hospital ward to gain experience and thus contribute to the realism of the pr..
The hard-working nurses of St Angela's Hospital are back, in the second series of Paula Milne's ground-breaking medical drama. After the huge success of the first series, the student nurses return to face a new set of challenges, both in their working hospital lives and at home. The show continues to tackle the real-life issues that face the medical profession, and is not afraid to deal with the hard-hitting aspects of hospital care or ..
Animerama is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films originally conceived and initiated by Osamu Tezuka and made at his Mushi Production animation studio from the late 1960s to early 1970s, perhaps intended as animated counterparts to the then-emergent pink films. As well as the erotic themes, they are also defined by mixing more typical traditional animation with sequences of UPA and Yoji Kuri-influenced experimental..
Animerama is a series of thematically-related adult anime feature films originally conceived and initiated by Osamu Tezuka and made at his Mushi Production animation studio from the late 1960s to early 1970s, perhaps intended as animated counterparts to the then-emergent pink films. As well as the erotic themes, they are also defined by mixing more typical traditional animation with sequences of UPA and Yoji Kuri-influenced experimental..
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..
Considered to be "Woody Allen's breakthrough movie" (Time), Annie Hall won four Oscars, including Best Picture and established Allen as the premier auteur filmmaker. Thought by many critics to be Allen's magnum opus, Annie Hall confirmed that Allen had, "completed the journey from comic to humourist, from comedy writer to wit (and) from inventive moviemaker to creative artist" (Saturday Review). Alvy Singer (Allen), is one of Manhattan'..
Antony and Cleopatra is the 1972 film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, directed by and starring Charlton Heston.After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius...
Jon Scoffield directs this television adaptation of William Shakespeare's epic drama starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman as the titular characters...
Following the failure on yet another peace treaty between the Apache nation and the United States government, a troop of cavalrymen attacked and massacred a sleeping camp of Indian men, women and children. Unbeknown the them, they left several survivors, including a women and an Indian leader who were some of the few who had upheld the treaty. A once peaceful man has now become a feared and hated warrior, the scourge of the white-man kn..