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As It Is In Heaven
Kay Pollak

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Sometimes, inspiration is where you least expect it... Daniel Daréus is a successful international conductor at the top of his game, but he is lonely, miserable and exhausted by the demands of his high profile life style...

Once: Limited Edition
John Carney

$44.95 (Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution )

How often do you find the right person? Exquisitely simple and pure of heart, this Audience Award-winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival is a musical gem from Ireland about a Dublin street musician and his collaborati...


The Home Song Stories
Tony Ayres

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Tom (DARREN YAP), a Chinese Australian man in his early forties, writes about his childhood. We see the story unfold as he does. It is 1964. Tom's mother, Rose Hong (JOAN CHEN), a beautiful and glamorous Shanghai nightcl...

La Vie En Rose: Limited Edition
Olivier Dahan

$44.95 (Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution )

The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf Critically-acclaimed biopic about the legendary international singing icon Edith Piaf, whose voice and talent captivated the world. Starring award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long En...


The Manual Of Love
Giovanni Veronesi

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Palace Films )

Tommaso and Giula are falling in love. Barbara and Marco are falling out of love. Ornella's husband is with another love. Geffredo has been abandoned by his love. A box-office smash in Italy, The Manual of Love is a char...

Under The Skin
Carine Adler

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

Iris is nineteen, beautiful, impetuous, has a steady boyfriend, a cloying sister and a sick mother. When a family death shatters her precarious world, Iris - brilliantly played by Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (Minority ...


Jack Kerouac: King Of the Beats
Jack Kerouac

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road, with its revolutionary, stream-ofconsciousness style, changed the face of American popular culture. This is both a detailed documentary and moving chronicle of the great beat poet’s li...

Sicko
Michael Moore

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Reel Dvd )

Opening with profiles of several ordinary Americans whose lives have been disrupted, shattered, and-in some cases-ended by health care catastrophe, the film makes clear that the crisis doesn't only affect the 47 million ...


Tales Of Ordinary Madness
Marco Ferreri

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

The great Ben Gazzara (The Big Lebowski, Happiness) brilliantly plays Charles Bukowski’s lowlife alter-ego, Charles Serking, in this gritty adaptation of Bukowski’s groundbreaking novel, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibiti...

The Notorious Bettie Page
Mary Harron

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

GOOD GIRL. BAD GIRL. SINNER. SAINT. WHO IS ... THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE? In this provocative exploration of sexuality, religion and pop culture, director Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho) takes us into t...


Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Sam Dunn

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

From high school through graduate studies, Sam Dunn has a passion for screaming guitars, blinding pyrotechnics and blown-out eardrums. In this acclaimed doco, Dunn is joined by co-directors Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy ...

Alpha Dog: Limited Edition
Nick Cassavetes

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution )

One Crime. 38 Witnesses. No Way Back. They grew up together in the suburbs of LA, living their own version of the American dream, with every day a blur of partying and looking for the next thrill. Johnny (Emile Hirsch, L...


Bad Timing
Nicolas Roeg

$49.95 (Digital video disc / Criterion Collection )

Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). When their all-consuming pass...

Bartali The Iron Man
Alberto Negrin

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

All-time bicycle star Gino Bartali nearly abandons the sport at a young age, when his brother Giulio dies in a race. Fra' Leone, for whom Gino will carry out clandestine missions during the war, convinces him not to give...


Beast
Walerian Borowczyk

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Umbrella Entertainme )

Having passed the sensors for the first time in Australia, Umbrella proudly release Walerian Borowczyk’s Directors Cut of his controversial masterpiece. A black comedy of sexual manners set around an arranged wedding in ...

Black Sheep
Jonathan King

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Icon Film Distribution )

Get Ready For The Violence Of The Lambs Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister) returns to his family farm to sell out to his older brother, Angus (Peter Feeney), unaware that somethin...


Breakfast On Pluto
Neil Jordan

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

Set in the 1970's, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Murphy), an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown and aware from a very early age that h...

Cocaine Cowboys
Billy Corben

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Miami, once a modest, coastal, melting-pot city, was transformed almost overnight into a glitzy metropolis when it became the main point of entry for cocaine into the USA. Chronicling the drug influx of the 70s and 80s a...


Angel A: Director's Suite
Luc Besson

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Madman )

Luc Besson, the director of The Big Blue, Nikita and The Fifth Element, presents his first film in seven years the romantic fable Angel-A. Down on his luck, and up to his neck in debt, Andr (Am lie's Jamel Debbouze) deci...

The Art Of Travel
Alain De Botton

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Abc Dvd )

Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams e tragi-comic disappointments are well-known: the disorientation, the mid-afternoon despair, the...


Days That Shook The World

$149.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )

These are the seismic moments in world history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs or era-defining events - that have profoundly affected how the world thinks and acts. Events that people remember where they were...

Fateless
Lajos Koltai

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

Director Lajos Koltai stunned the 2005 Berlin Film Festival with this Second World War drama based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Imre Kertész, a quasi-autobiographical work about his experiences as a 14-year-old de...


Italian Romance
Carlo Mazzacurati

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

Set in Tuscany in 1936, this is the story of two lovers, Giovanni (Stefano Accorsi) and Maria (Maya Sansa). Their first meeting, as teenagers, was a brief infatuation in the seaside town of Livorno, but it isn’t until a ...

Lady Chatterley
Pascale Ferran

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment )

Drawing on the most scandalous summer romance in English literature, French director Pascale Ferran (Purely Coincidental; The Sentinel) has beautifully adapted Lady Jane & John Thomas, the second version of D.H. Lawr...


Line Of Beauty

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )

Adapted by award-winning writer Andrew Davies from Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel, this three-part saga is set during the hedonistic 1980s and stars a mix of new, young talent and established names. A sto...

Time Life's Lost Civilizations

$49.95 (Digital video disc / Time Life )

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Buddha Of Suburbia

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )

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My Left Foot: 20th Anniversary Edition
Christy Brown

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Time Life )

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La Piovra: Octopus: Series 5
Michele Placido

$49.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

Superintendent Corrado Cattani is dead. After his lover, the beautiful judge Silvia Conti, recovers somewhat from the shock of his death, she decides to take vengeance and carry on his long standing battle against the Ma...

Michael Palin's New Europe
Michael Palin

$79.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )

Join Michael Palin on his new adventure, through a Europe reborn - countries to the east of the continent, full of unexpected and forgotten delights. Michael starts his journey high in the Julian Alps on the border betwe...


Tideland
Terry Gilliam

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

Director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas) takes us on a wild and surreal adventure with his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's cult classic novel. After her mother dies from a heroin overdo...

Time To Leave
Francois Ozon

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

From acclaimed French director François Ozon (8 Femmes, The Swimming Pool, 5x2) A TIME TO LEAVE stars Melvil Poupaud as Romain - a selfish, self-absorbed fashion photographer who is suddenly diagnosed with terminal cance...


Turbo: Volume One
Roberto Farnesi

$39.95 (Digital video disc / Aztec Film )

While the whole world knows about Inspector Rex, Italy's own canine detective is lesser known...until now! Travel with us to Arezzo in Tuscany, the home town of Detective Inspector Luca Sepe, and his border collie named ...

Two Fat Ladies: Series One
Dickson Wright Clarissa

$24.95 (Digital video disc / Kaleidoscope Film )

A tantalising blend of cookery and comic exploits, the awardwinning Two Fat Ladies television programme presents traditional cooking and hearty meals for a generation tired of restrictive diets and supermarket blandness....


U Carmen
Georges Bizet

$34.95 (Digital video disc / Magna Pacific )

One of the most celebrated and acclaimed operas of all time, Georges Bizet's Carmen, is revisited in this contemporary version set in a modern-day township in South Africa. In a thrilling synthesis of African culture and...

The Vicar Of Dibley: Wholly Happy Ending
Dawn French

$29.95 (Digital video disc / Abc Dvd )

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Walking With Dinosaurs

$19.95 (Digital video disc / Bbc Video )

Journey back to prehistory to walk, race, swim and fly with mankind’s distant ancestors - and see evolution unfold before your eyes! This popular series is available for the first time as condensed 90 minute versions.

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