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Dogtooth
Giorgos Lanthimos

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Winner of the Un Certain Regard award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Dogtooth is a macabre, surreal and inventive drama which pushes parenting extremes to the very edge. Terrified that their children will become conta... Buy or find out more 


Amreeka
Cherien Dabis

$34.99 – Digital video disc / Madman

A mid-level bank employee in Palestine, Muna daily has to negotiate military checkpoints just to get to work. When she is advised that she has received a Green Card to live in the US, she realizes she can give herself an... 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 


 

Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson

$34.95$29.95 – Digital video disc / Asylum

A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy's wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door t... Buy or find out more 



Séraphine
Martin Provost

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Dv1

This is the moving true story of a simple housemaid who painted to appease the voice of heaven.

In 1913, German art collector Wilhelm Uhde, the first Picasso buyer and discoverer of acclaimed naïve primitive painter Le D... Buy or find out more 


 

I Am Love
Luca Guadagnino

$34.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

I Am Love tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr., the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, sur... Buy or find out more 



The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke

$39.95 – Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures

The story of the children of a choir run by the village schoolteacher and their families: the baron, steward, pastor, doctor, midwife, and tenant farmers. Strange accidents occur and gradually take on the character of a ... Buy or find out more 


Yasujiro Ozu (Directors Suite Box Set)
Yasujiro Ozu

$149.95 – Boxed set / Directors Suite

Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu. Of the three master filmmakers who introduced Japanese cinema to the West, Ozu is often considered the most Japanese. Focussing on the conflict between old and new values, a... Buy or find out more 



 

The Hedgehog
Mona Achache

$29.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Based freely on the best-selling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, The Hedgehog is a heart-warming story about love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships.

Rene (Josiane Balasko) is the concie... Buy or find out more 


I've Loved You So Long
Philippe Claudel

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films

Academy Award®-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient, Gosford Park) gives the performance of her career in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed I've Loved You So Long.

Scott Thomas stars as Juliette, a... Buy or find out more 



Wild Grass
Alain Resnais

$39.95 – Digital video disc / Sony Pictures Home Entertain

From Alain Resnais, director of Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima mon amour.

A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to Georges and Marguerite's romantic adventure. After finding a red wallet and examining... Buy or find out more 


Last Year In Marienbad
Alain Resnais

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid

Considered by many to be Renais' magnum opus, Last Year In Marienbad is a work of fantasy and experiment in line with the French New Wave films of the 50's and 60's. Renais and co-writer, Alain Robbe-Grillet seem less co... Buy or find out more 



Le Cercle Rouge
Jean Pierre Melville

$19.95 – Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid

Master thief Corey (Alain Delon) is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing paths with a notorious escapee (Gian... Buy or find out more 


Father Of My Children
Mia Hanson-Løve

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Palace Films

Grgoire Canvel (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) has it all a wife and three delightful daughters he adores and a stimulating job that he's devoted to; he's a film producer. Discovering new talent and developing projects is wha... Buy or find out more 



Broken Embraces
Pedro Almodovar

$39.95 – Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures

Famed director Pedro Almodovar’s first foray into film noir territory since Bad Education half a decade ago, Broken Embraces stars long-time collaborator Penelope Cruz as a beautiful actress who owes her career to her ... Buy or find out more 


Gomorrah
Matteo Garrone

$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Power, money and blood: these are the 'values' that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the 'System', the Camorra. ... Buy or find out more 



Silent Wedding
Horatiu Malaele

$0.00 – Digital video disc / Vendetta Films

Romania, 1953. In a small village, a young couple is about to get married.Guests arrive, the banquet is ready and everything is prepared for the ceremony. Unexpectedly, the Russian Army shows up - Stalin is dead, a natio... Buy or find out more 


New French Cinema: Thrilers

$39.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Three sinister thrillers; 36 Quai Des Orfevres starring Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil in a compelling story of competing Paris detectives, The Page Turner with the luminous Emanuelle Beart and Tell No One, a twisti... Buy or find out more 



New French Cinema: Comedies

$39.99 – Digital video disc / Madman

Three fabulous farces collected together in a single box; OSS 117, The Valet, and Priceless.

DVD Special Features

OSS 117

Alternative and deleted scenes

Making Of Gag reel

Original French trailer

DTS surround sound

THE V... Buy or find out more 


New French Cinema: Drama

$49.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

Features Hunting and Gathering, The Secret of the Grain and After Him.

DVD Special Features

HUNTING AND GATHERING

62 SLEEPS: a short film by Erin White

Original theatrical trailer

AFTER HIM

Original theatrical trailer

Do... Buy or find out more 



 

Jacques Tati: Director's Suite (Box Set)
Jacques Tati

$99.95$69.95 – Digital video disc / Madman

JACQUES TATI Jacques Tati is one of the great comic icons of French cinema, a Gallic equivalent of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. This exclusive box set brings together his four masterpieces available for the first ti... Buy or find out more 


The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck

$29.99 – Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks stunning directorial debut The Lives of Others is both an intense human drama and a political thriller which examines life under the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Set in East ... Buy or find out more 



The Young Girls Of Rochefort
Jacques Demy

$29.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film

In The Young Girls of Rochefort, the follow up to the revolutionary Umbrellas of Cherbourg(1963), director Jacques Demy continues his experiments with narrative and the musical form, as well as his collaboration with com... Buy or find out more 


Transylvania
Tony Gatlif

$29.95 – Digital video disc /

The latest musical odyssey from Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Exils, Swing) sees Zingarina, played by the magnetic Asia Argento, arrive deep in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, ... Buy or find out more 



13 Tzameti
Gela Babluani

$29.95 – Digital video disc /

22 year-old Sébastien leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbours house, he overhears a conversation about a forthcoming package which promis... Buy or find out more 


 

As It Is In Heaven
Kay Pollak

$29.95$14.95 – 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... Buy or find out more 



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