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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Directors Suite)
Frank Tashlin

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Starring sex-pot Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a kooky and colourful comedy treat! Rock Hunter is the advertising copywriter whose job is on the line. By chance he comes across perky... Buy or find out more 


Interlude (Directors Suite)
Douglas Sirk

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

While working for America House in Munich Helen Banning is seduced by a famous symphony conductor the charming Tonio Fischer. But as their relationship blossoms Helen realises that there is much more to Tonio than his mu... Buy or find out more 



Mr Hobbs Takes A Vacation (Directors Suite)
Henry Koster

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

All Roger Hobbs (the incomparable Jimmy Stewart) wants is a quiet holiday by the seaside with his wife Peggy. But Mrs Hobbs has a different idea: she rents a big ramshackle house on the seafront and invites their four ch... Buy or find out more 


The Lady Vanishes (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The perfect Hitchcockian combination of intrigue, suspense and droll humour, The Lady Vanishes is one of the finest films from the great director's British period. Iris Henderson is a rich playgirl who has spent her summ... Buy or find out more 



Young And Innocent (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Hitchcock's oft-overlooked thriller Young and Innocent is a strikingly photographed and tautly-plotted thriller which preempts later hits The Birds and North by Northwest both narratively and visually. Following the stor... Buy or find out more 


The Man Who Knew Too Much (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Made during Hitchcock's prolific British period, The Man Who Knew Too Much is a taut, stylish, edge-of-your-seat thriller from the unrivaled Master of the genre.

While holidaying in Switzerland with their daughter, Betty... Buy or find out more 



The 39 Steps (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Considered the best of Alfred Hitchcocks pre-Hollywood films, The 39 Steps displays the knack for cloak and dagger, tension and sharp wit for which the Master of Suspense has become renowned. Richard Hannay meets the mys... Buy or find out more 


 

The Lodger (Directors Suite)
Alfred Hitchcock

$34.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

One of Hitchcocks classic early silent films, The Lodger is aesthetically influenced by German Expressionism, a movement the great auteur came to love during his time in Germany. Based on the story of Jack the Ripper, Th... Buy or find out more 



Pepe Le Moko (Directors Suite)
Julian Duvivier

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Arguably one of the most influential films of all time, Julien Duvivier's masterpiece Pepe le Moko is a triumph of classical French cinema, and the break out role for superstar Jean Gabin.

Notorious gangster Pepe le Moko... Buy or find out more 


Eva (Directors Suite)
Joseph Losey

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Starring Jeanne Moreau (Diary of a Chambermaid, The Immortal Story) as the man-eating title character, Eva is the story of one man's downfall at the hand (and body!) of a poisonous femme fatale.

Set in the glorious surro... Buy or find out more 



Cronos (Directors Suite)
Guillermo Del Toro

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The directorial debut from Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth), Cronos combines a surreal and distincitve take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations.

Cronos concerns elderly an... Buy or find out more 


 

Still Walking (Directors Suite)
Kore Eda Hirokazu

$34.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking is a touching and gentle drama about a family, the grown-up children of which journey to visit their elderly parents on one long summer day. The rare family reunion has been organised to... Buy or find out more 



La Ronde (Directors Suite)
Max Ophuls

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Max Ophuls’ La Ronde is an irresistibly sly take on the vicissitudes of love and romance.

Set in a Viennese winter during the last years of the Hapsburgs, La Ronde charts the sexes and classes through their illicit lia... Buy or find out more 


 

Eden is West (Directors Suite)
Costa-Gavras

$34.99$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Legendary Greek director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, The Ax) returns with perhaps his most personal film, a playful fairy tale which tackles both the hardships suffered by illegal immigrants to Europe, and the magical natu... Buy or find out more 



Une Partie de Campagne (Directors Suite)
Jean Renoir

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Jean Renoir's heralded masterpiece Une Partie de Campagne almost never saw the light of day. Now, Renoir's adaptation of Guy Maupassant's short story is recognised as one of the filmmaker's finest creations.

On an idylli... Buy or find out more 


French Cancan (Directors Suite)
Jean Renoir

$34.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Jean Renoir takes a look back at the formation of Paris' iconic Moulin Rouge dance hall in this colourful and light-hearted romp. French superstar Jean Gabin plays Henri Danglard, a theatre producer burdened with a flail... Buy or find out more 



Elena and Her Men (Directors Suite)
Jean Renoir

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Renoir's classic comedy of spectacle and political hijinks stars the gorgeous Ingrid Bergman as Elena, a Polish princess who drives the men wild.

Elena believes she was born to be the guardian angel of great causes and g... Buy or find out more 


The Films of Jean Vigo (Directors Suite)
Jean Vigo

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The life of masterful French auteur Jean Vigo was cut tragically short at the age of 29, leaving him with a filmography of only four films. All four of these films are collected here, and together they represent a unique... Buy or find out more 



Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Directors Suite)
Jacques Becker

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Jacques Becker's tough-guy flick Touchez Pas au Grisbi or Hands Off the Loot is a thrilling, hard-boiled adventure starring some of France's biggest stars.

The great Jean Gabin resurrected his career with the role of Max... Buy or find out more 


The Young One (Director's Suite)
Luis Bunuel

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Luis Buñuel's rarely-seen gem The Young One takes his oft-expressed themes of morality and sexual perversity and relocates them to the South of the United States. Evvie is a young girl on the brink of womanhood who live... Buy or find out more 



Lo Scopone Scientifico (Directors Suite)
Luigi Comencini

$29.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The Countess (Bette Davis), a wealthy American with an addiction to card games and a large real estate portfolio, has become an expert on the card games of all the countries where she owns houses. The regional favourite ... Buy or find out more 


La Bete Humaine (Directors Suite)
Jean Renoir

$14.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Based on a story by the great French writer Émile Zola, Jean Renoir's classic La Bête Humaine is the story of a murderous love triangle set on the Paris-Le Havre mainline.

When station master Roubaud discovers his brid... Buy or find out more 



Le Corbeau (Directors Suite)
Henri-Georges Clouzot

$34.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

A whodunnit of the highest order from the 'French Hitchcock', Le Corbeau is a gripping film noir in which small-town society cowers under an unseen hand. In the fictional St Robin, a poison-pen letter-writer is terrorizi... Buy or find out more 


Le Plaisir (Directors Suite)
Max Ophuls

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

One of Max Ophuls most successful films - and a favourite of Jean-Luc Godard and Stanley Kubrick - Le Plaisir is a portmanteau film adapted from three short stories by the father of modern short-story writing, Guy de Mau... Buy or find out more 



 

Le Gai Savoir (Directors Suite)
Jean Luc Godard

$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student... Buy or find out more 


Happy-Go-Lucky (Directors Suite)
Mike Leigh

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is an unmarried primary school teacher who lives in London, cannot drive and is constantly questioned about her unrelenting optimism. Her outlook on life baffles her more cynical friends: even when ... Buy or find out more 



The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice (Directors Suite)
Yasujiro Ozu

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Takeo, a bored and flighty socialite, is sick of her dull husband: an uninspiring yet reliable company executive who was raised in the country. Cruelly referring to him as 'Dull-chan', Takeo leaves for a giggly weekend a... Buy or find out more 


Ohayo (Directors Suite)
Yasujiro Ozu

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Yasujiro Ozu is an artist, his exceptional dramas topping 'best of' lists from diverse critics worldwide. But one of his rarely-documented talents is for comedy: in Ohayo Ozu demonstrates his comedic skills, creating a l... Buy or find out more 



Late Spring (Directors Suite)
Yasujiro Ozu

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

27-year-old Noriko lives with her beloved father in the suburbs of Tokyo. Recently recovered from an illness which developed during World War II, Noriko has no interest in marriage, enjoying the quiet, comfortable life s... Buy or find out more 


Ashes of Time Redux (Directors Suite)
Kar Wai Wong

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Based on Louis Cha's celebrated novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes and directed by the legendary Wong Kar-Wai, Ashes of Time Redux is a remastered version of his earlier film, which was his first foray into the martial arts... Buy or find out more 



 

The Naked City (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

The artistic eye of Jules Dassin turns to the mean streets of Manhattan in The Naked City, one of the first films ever to be shot on location. When an attractive blonde model is murdered in her apartment, homicide detect... Buy or find out more 


 

Brute Force (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

For the men of Westgate Penitentiary, life is lived on a knife's edge, ruled by violence and fear in a war fought between the guards and the toughest prisoners. Warden A.J. Barden is a weak man who is powerless compared ... Buy or find out more 



Lancelot du Lac (Directors Suite)
Robert Bresson

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Master filmmaker Robert Bresson turns his unique artistic style on the middle ages in this beautifully melancholy film.

When a group of King Arthur's knights are eluded in their search for the Holy Grail, they are reveal... Buy or find out more 


Night and the City (Directors Suite)
Jules Dassin

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers star in Jules Dassin's Night and the City, a hard-boiled drama boasting all the benchmarks of a classic film noir.

Harry Fabian is a fast-talking hustler who is always on ... Buy or find out more 



Family Life (Directors Suite)
Ken Loach

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Ken Loach mercilessly tackles themes of British traditionalism and parental control in the award-winning Family Life. When 19 year-old Janice falls pregnant, her horrified parents force her to have an abortion, which thr... Buy or find out more 


Dov'e la Liberta ...? (Directors Suite)
Roberto Rossellini

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Italy's favourite comic son, Totò, stars as Salvatore Loicano, a convict who has just been released from prison after 22 years behind bars. The former barber had committed a crime of passion, killing a friend who had off... Buy or find out more 



I Married a Witch (Directors Suite)
Rene Clair

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

She's a witch who gets what she wants with her hex appeal! In 16th century Salem, Jennifer and her father Daniel are about to be burned at the stake, accused of witchcraft by the puritan Judge Wooley. Enraged, they put a... Buy or find out more 


Madame De... (Directors Suite)
Max Ophuls

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

Max Ophuls’ Madame De... was, according to film critic Andrew Sarris, ‘the most perfect film ever made.’ Nominated for an Oscar® in 1955, Madame De... displays the romance, irony and tragedy prevalent in so may of... Buy or find out more 



Une Femme Mariee (Directors Suite)
Jean Luc Godard

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite

InUne Femme Mariee Godard turns his socio-political lens on the dehumanising institution of marriage in his examination of an adulterous woman. The original title,The married Woman, caused outrage in France, where it was... Buy or find out more 


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