NEW CHINESE RELEASES 2011
24 CITY (U)
2009 CHINA JIA, ZHANGKE £19.99
Part-drama,
part-documentary based on the closure of a factory in the Chinese city
of Chengdu. The result is an intimate and emotional portrait of ordinary
Chinese people living in an evolving economy and rapidly changing
society.
ASHES OF TIME REDUX (15) 2008 CHINA KAR WAI, WONG £19.99
Based
on the novel by Louis Cha, this film follows a lone swordsman as time
passes.
AWAY WITH
WORDS (15) 1999 CHINA DOYLE, CHRISTOPHER £19.99
Captivating
tale of a drifter who finds himself in a bar orbited by a an eclectic
group of patrons.
AXIS OF
WAR: THE FIRST OF AUGUST (15) 2008 CHINA MANDARIN £15.99
The
first part in the epic Chinese war trilogy. In 1927, China's fate hangs
in the balance as the Communist Alliance wages an epic and bloody civil
war campaign against the uprisings of local warlords and feudal barons.
AXIS
OF WAR: MY LONG MARCH (15) 2008 CHINA MANDARIN £15.99
The second part of the epic Chinese trilogy set during the Nanchang
uprising of the Chinese Civil War in 1927.
AXIS OF WAR: NIGHT
RAID (15) 2008 CHINA MANDARIN £15.99
The third
and final installment of the Chinese war trilogy.
BATTLE OF WITS
(15) 2006 CHINA CHEUNG, CHI LEUNG £17.99
Based on a popular
manga series from Japan titled Bokko.
BLACK SNOW (15) CHINA
1990 FEI, XIE IN MANDARIN £12.99
Politically daring tale of
urban alienation and despair.
BODYGUARDS
AND ASSASSINS (18) 2009 CHINA CHAN, TEDDY
MANDARIN £12.99
Hong Kong martial arts action thriller starring Donnie Yen.
BLU RAY - £19.99
CAPE NO. 7 (15) 2008
TAIWAN WEI , TE-SHENG IN MANDERIN £12.99
Feelgood Taiwanese
drama about a failed rock musician who returns to his hometown
CAVE OF
THE YELLOW DOG (U) 2005 MONGOLIA DAVAA, BYAMBASUREN £16.99
Six-year-old
Girl set off to find her missing dog goes and encounters an old nomad
woman who tells her the legend of the cave of the yellow dog.
CHUNGKING
EXPRESS (12) 1994 HONG KONG KAR WAI, WONG £19.99
Two
stories revolving around cops, drugs and dreams.
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (18) 2009 CHINA LU
CHUAN MANDARIN £15.99
Historical drama based on the
invasion of Nanking - the then-capital of the Republic of China - by the
Japanese army in 1936. BLU RAY - £19.99
CONFUCIUS (TBA) 2010
CHINA MEI HU MANDARIN £17.99
Biographical
drama about Chinese philosopher Confucius. BLU RAY - £24.99
DEATH
NOTICE: IKIGAMI (15) 2008 JAPAN TAKIMOTO, TOMOYUKI £15.99
Japanese sci-fi drama based on the manga series by Motoro Mase.
END
OF
LOVE (18) 2009 CHINA CHUNG, SIMON MANDARIN £19.99
A
young gay man recalls his past life as a drug addict and rent boy, and
finally confronts the dark secrets of his past.
GADA MEILIN (12)
2002 CHINA XIAONING, FENG £12.99
Epic about Gada Meilin who
struggles against the forces of greed and injustice too becomes a hero
and legend of the Mongolian people.
HAPPY TOGETHER (15) HONG KONG
1997 MANDARIN & SPANISH. KAR WAI, WONG £19.99
Award
winning director Wong Kar-Wai’s film about ga l overs who move to
Argentina
and drift apart, till one goes in search of the other.
LAST
TRAIN HOME (E) 2009 CHINA LIXIN FAN MANDERIN £14.99
Documentary portraying the devastating personal toll paid by China's
150 million-plus rural migrant workers who are forced by economic
circumstance to go away to work in far-flung cities.
MAD
DETECTIVE (18) 2007 HONG KONG TO, JOHNNIE/FAI,WAI KA £12.99
The
line between reality and fantasy bends in this surreal thriller that
redefines the detective genre.
MILAREPA
(TBA) 2006 TIBET CHOKLING,NETEN £19.99
Captivating story of
Milarepa, the man who would become Tibet s greatest yogi and saint.
MULAN (18)
2009 CHINA MA, JINGLE MANDARIN £17.99
Epic story
of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who defies her father and tradition
by joining the army disguised as a boy. BLU RAY £23.99
POSTMEN
IN THE MOUNTAINS (12) 1999 CHINA HUO JIANQI £12.99
Rural postman
passes his route on to his son, whom he takes on his final trip.
PURPLE
SUNSET (15) 2001 CHINA XIAONING, FENG £12.99
Final film in a
trilogy -an Eastern adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace. Set
just after the devastating atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the tale follows
the lives and loves of three World War II survivors.
RED CLIFF
(15) 2009 CHINA WOO, JOHN £19.99
Historical action epic based
on one of Asia's most popular novels, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'
by Guanzhong Luo. Mandarin with English subtitles BLU RAY £24.99
RED
SORGHUM (15) 1997 CHINA YIMOU, ZHANG £19.99
An award-winning
Chinese melodrama, marking the directorial debut of internationally
acclaimed director Zhang Yimou, which follows the fortunes of a young
girl sold into marriage with a leprosy-ridden brandy-maker.
SHE, A
CHINESE (18) 2009 CHINA GUO, XIAOLU MANDARIN £15.99
Drama
following a young woman on a soul-searching journey from native village
in China. Longing for escape and adventure to London, where a heady
combination of alienation and freedom draw her into a new kind of
entrapment as she continues her search for a place to belong.
WOMEN
FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (TBA) 1993 CHINA FEI XIE. XIANG £14.99
A
woman finds that money can't buy everything, in this understated drama.
WONG
KAR-WAI COLLECTION (15) CHINA £34.99
Collection of three
cinematic masterpieces from visonary film director Wong Kar-Wai.
Contains -
ASHES OF TIME REDUX, HAPPY TOGETHER and CHUNGKING EXPRESS
NEW JAPANESE RELEASES
2011
5
CENTIMETRES PER SECOND (U) 2007 JAPAN MAKOTO SHINKAI £17.99
Japanese anime feature, told in three segments, about the unrequited
love between two school friends. BLU RAY - £19.99
AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (U) 1962 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRÔ
£19.99
Drama following the tender story of a widower with a
young daughter.
CONFESSIONS OF A DOG (15) 2006 JAPAN
TAKAHASHI,
GEN £14.99
Political crime drama delineating set within the Japanese
police force.
DEPARTURES (12
JAPAN 2008 TAKITA, YOJIRO £17.99
Japanese
comedy drama starring Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi, a professional
cellist who loses his job when his orchestra disbands.
BLU RAY
- £24.99
EARLY KUROSAWA (12) 1943-7
JAPAN £39.99
Contains - Sanshiro Sugata (Sugata Sanshiro),
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Zoku Sugata Sanshiro), The Most Beautiful
(Ichiban utsukushiku), Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu
otokotachi), No Regrets For Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi), One
Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki nichiyobi).
EARLY
SUMMER (BAKUSHÛ) (U) 1951 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO
£19.99
When family, friends and colleagues pressure Noriko to
marry they provoke a surprising decision with wide-reaching
consequences.Also includes What Did the Lady Forget?, Ozu's pre-war
comic classic. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
EQUINOX
FLOWER (U) 1958 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Japanese comedy drama. 2 disc combo pack
with DVD & Blu-ray
FIREFLY DREAMS
(15) JAPAN £17.99
Naomi a teenagers who spends more time
thinking about her possessions than the people in her life. When her
mother leaves the family, however, her father decides to take her to the
country, to work in her aunt and uncle's restaurant.
GETTING
ANY? (15) 1995 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Hilariously surreal
farce follows the exploits of Asao, a guy who is desperate for a girl
and comes up with one crazed scheme after another in the hope of
achieving his goal.
GIRL WHO
LEAPT THROUGH TIME (12 ) 2006 JAPAN HOSODA, MAMORU £17.99
Animated
film in which a 17-year-old girl has the ability to leap backwards
through time.
GOOD MORNING (U) 1959 JAPAN
OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Comedy set in a suburban
community in the 1950s two brothers, Minoru and Isamu, are frustrated
and disappointed when their parents will not buy them a television 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
HOUSE (MASTERS OF CINEMA) (15) JAPAN 1977 OBAYASHI,
NOBUHIKO £17.99
This deranged fairy tale is startling debut
feature by Nobuhiko Obayashi.
INSTANT
SWAMP (12) JAPAN 2009 MIKI, SATOSHI £14.99
Young
woman sets out to retrieve some lost possessions, a quest which
reacquaints her with her estranged father, now a hippie working at a
junk shop.
KAKERA - A PIECE OF OUR LIFE (15) JAPAN 2009 ANDO,
MOMOKO £14.99
Momoko Ando's debut film is a modern
coming-of-age drama based on the manga series 'Love Vibes' by Erika
Sakurazawa.
KAMIKAZE GIRLS (12) 2004 JAPAN NAKASHIMA, TETSUYA
£14.99
Charming, unique, and very funny film
based on the hit Japanese novel Shimotsuma Story by Novala Takemoto.
KITARO
(PG) 2007 JAPAN MOTOKI, KATSUHIDE £17.99
Live action adaptation
of the manga series by Shigeru Mizuki.
KIDS RETURN (15) 1996 JAPAN
KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school
to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time
boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang.
KUROSAWA SAMURAI COLLECTION
(12) JAPAN £39.99
Features - SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), THE HIDDEN
FORTRESS
(1958), YOJIMBO (1961), SANJURO (1962)
LATE MIZOGUCHI - EIGHT
FILMS 1951-1956 (12) £48.99
A collection of eight films from
the last decade in the career of celebrated Japanese auteur Kenji
Mizoguchi. 'Oyu-Sama (Miss Oyu)' (1951), 'Ugetsu Monogatari' (1953), .
'Gion Bayashi (A Geisha)' (1953), 'Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)'
(1954), 'Uwasa No Onna (The Woman in the Rumour)' (1954), 'Chikamatsu
Monogatari ('The Crucified Lovers)' (1954), . 'Yokihi' (1955) and
'Akasen Chitai (Street of Shame)' (1956).
LATE SRING (BAKUSHÛ)
(U) 1949 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
Late Spring is a
tender meditation on family politics, sacrifice and the status quo.,
Also includes The Only Son, a powerful tale of sacrifice and hope. 2
disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
LOVE EXPOSURE (18) 2008
JAPAN SONO, SION £14.99
Black-comedy drama which captures a
year in the life of a 17
MEMORIES OF MATSUKO (15) 2006
JAPAN NAKASHIMA, TETSUYA
£14.99
When the body of a female tramp is found in the park,
her nephew is called upon to clean out her abandoned apartment. In
doing so, he unwittingly embarks upon a surprising journey through the
extraordinary life of his aunt.
OCEAN
WAVES (PG) 1993 JAPAN MOCHIZUKI,TOMOMI £19.99
Taku is
travelling to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip,
he recalls the memories of the days in high school.
PONYO (U)
JAPAN 2008 MIYAZAKI, HAYAO £17.99
Animated adventure by
the Japanese anime studio Studio Ghibli, loosely based on Hans Christian
Andersen's story.
PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS (MASTERS OF
CINEMA) (TBA) JAPAN 1968 IMAMURA, SHOHEI BLU RAY ONLY £22.99
Presenting a vast
chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the
disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer
sent to supervise the creation of a new well — an encounter which leads
to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.
THE
PROMISE (15) 2005 JAPAN KAIGE, CHEN £17.99
A sweeping martial
arts epic.
SAKURAN
(15) 2006 JAPAN NINAGAWA, MIKA £17.99
A rebellious young woman
whose mother sells her to a brothel.
SEA IS
WATCHING (15) 2001 JAPAN KUMAI, KEN £15.99
Based on a screenplay
by the late filmmaking legend Akira Kurosawa, the film follows the
lives of women residing and working at a brothel in Edo-era Japan.
SHOGUN'S
SAMURAI (15) 1976 JAPAN FUKASAKU, KINJI £7.99
Prequel to a
popular Japanese television series.
SONATINE
(18) 1990 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Ruthless
gangsters take refuge by a remote beach in this slow, poignant and
violent film.
SILENCE
(15) 1971 JAPAN TANBA, TETSURO £17.99
Adapted from the novel by
Shusaku Endothe, the film follows the trials and tribulations of two
Portuguese priests, as they arrive in Japan to re-establish the
Christian church.
STILL WALKING (U) 2008
JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £15.99
Japanese family drama
adapted by Hirokazu Koreeda from his own novel
TOKYO! (15) 2008
JAPAN £19.99
Three renowned filmmakers--Michel
Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho--each direct an imaginative
featurette about the city.
TOKYO
SONATA (12) 2008 JAPAN KUROSAWA, KIYOSHI £19.99
A
Japanese businessman, husband, and father of two, who unexpectedly loses
his job. Unable to break the news to his devoted wife, he dresses up
every morning and pretends to go to work, instead wasting the days away
with a former classmate who is also unemployed.
TOKYO
STORY (U) 1953 JAPAN OZU, YASUJIRO £19.99
A beautifully
nuanced exploration of filial duty, expectation and regret. From the
simple tale of an
elderly husband and wife’s visit to Tokyo to see
their grown-up children. Also includes, Brothers and Sisters of the
Toda Family. 2 disc combo pack with DVD & Blu-ray
VIOLENT
COP (18) 1989 JAPAN KITANO, TAKESHI £19.99
Rogue cop
dispenses his own justice.
NEW RUSSIAN/EASTERN EUROPEAN
RELEASES 2011
ADELHEID (15) CZECH 1970 FRANTIŠEK
VLÁCIL £12.99
An emotional tale of two lovers trapped
in the march of history.
ANDREI
TARKOVSKY COLLECTION (15) RUSSIA £59.99
Complete collection of directed works by the acclaimed Russian
film maker - Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Sacrifice, Nostalgia,
Solaris and The Mirror.
ARSENAL (PG)
1929 RUSSIA DOVZHENKO,
ALEKSANDR £12.99
Silent war drama about a soldier
who makes his way back home to Kiev. Here he and his fellow Bolshevik
soldiers
revolt against the authorities and end up at a munitions
base, preparing to fight for their city against the approaching
nationalist
White Army.
BOOGIE (15) 2008 ROMANIA MUNTEAN, RADU £14.99
Comedy
drama about Bogdan 'Boogie' Ciocazanu, who finds himself caught between
family obligations and the temptation of a night out with the boys.
CHEKHOV
COMEDY SHORTS (PG) 2010 £12.99
Four one-act comic plays
based on the works of Anton Chekhov. Screened by Sky Arts to coincide
with the 150th
anniversary of Chekhov's birth, the plays feature the
talent of comic actors including Steve Coogan, Julia Davis, J
ulian
Barratt, Sheridan Smith, Mathew Horne, Philip Jackson, Mackenzie Crook
and Johnny Vegas. Plays are: 'The Proposal',
'The Dangers of
Tobacco', 'The Bear' and 'A Reluctant Tragic Hero'
THE DAWNS HERE
ARE QUIET (12) 1972 RUSSIA ROSTOTSKY, STANISLAV £19.99
Oscar-nominated
drama set during World War Two, based on the book by Boris Vasilyev.
DIAMONDS
OF THE NIGHT (12) 1964 CZECHOSLOVAKIA NEMEC, JAN £12.99
Jan Nemec, enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave, directs this starkly
surrealist drama telling the brutal story of two Jewish boys who escape
from a train transporting them from one Nazi death camp to another.
DIARY
FOR MY CHILDREN (15) 1984 HUNGARY MESZAROS, MARTA £13.99
Orphaned
teenager Juli returns to Budapest after World War II. Unfortunately
hopes of happiness in her homeland are gradually eroded by the
strictures of a disciplinarian society.
EARTH (PG) 1930 RUSSIA
DOVZHENKO, ALEXANDER £12.99
One of the last silent classics
commissioned to promote the collectivisation of the Soviet rural
economy, but its story of rural prosperity through technical progress
takes a back seat to the incredible images that fill the screen in this
great film poem, which is as much a paean to a pagan past as a depiction
of the march of progress
EISENSTEIN COLLECTION VOLUME 1 (15)
RUSSIA 1925-7 £59.99
Features Strike, Battleship
Potemkin and October.
EISENSTEIN COLLECTION: VOLUME 2 (PG)
RUSSIA 1937-58 EISENSTEIN, SERGEI £59.99
A second
collection of films by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. 'Bezhin
Meadow' (1937) , . 'Alexander Nevsky' (1938), 'Ivan the Terrible Part
I' (1944) and 'Ivan the Terrible Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958).
FIREMAN'S
BALL (PG) 1967 CZECH FORMAN, MILOS £15.99
Forman's allegorical
comedy about bureaucracy was his last Czech film before he left for
America.
FRANTISEK VLACIL COLLECTION (15) CZECHOSLOVAKIA FRANTISEK
VLACIL £24.99
Three films by
Czech master director Frantisek Vlacil. ‘Marketa Lazarova’ (1967), ‘The
Valley of the Bees’ (1968)
and ‘Adelheid’ (1970).
HUNGARIAN
MASTERS BOX SET (3 FILMS) (15) £24.99
Features -
Love / My Way Home / Diary of My Children.
KATALIN VARGA (15)
ROMANIA 2009 STRICKLAND, PETER £15.99
The directorial debut
of British filmmaker Peter Strickland, this Romanian-language drama is
based on a traditional Transylvanian ballad.
KATYN
(15) 2007 POLAND WAJDA, ANDRZEJ £19.99
Bleak portrayal of the
massacre of Polish officers, intellectuals and professionals carried out
by Soviet troops in Katyn forest at the outset of World War Two.
KING
LEAR 1971 RUSSIA KOZINTSEV, GRIGORIO £19.99
Possibly
one of the greatest screen adaptation of Shakespeare.
LARKS
ON A STRING (15) 1990 CZECHOSLOVAKIA MENZEL, JIRI £15.99
Comedy drama set in a labour camp in 1950s Communist-run Prague. The
film tells the stories of the various characters interned in the labour
camp-cum-scrapyard, who have been deemed counter-revolutionary and
'bourgeois' by the Czech government and are now forced to spend their
days sorting out piles of scrap metal for the purposes of
're-education'.
MORGIANA (15) 1972 CZECHOSLOVAKIA HERZ,
JURAJ £12.99
Extravagantly hallucinatory Gothic horror
story is often described as the last film of the Czech New Wave. Based
on a short story by Aleksandr Grin.
NEWSMAKERS (18) RUSSIA 2009
BANKE, ANDERS £17.99
Following a shoot-out with a powerful
armed gang, the Moscow police force attempts to restore its damaged
reputation by re-editing the footage of their clash with the criminals
and broadcasting it to the entire nation in the form of a live reality
show. BLU RAY £24.99
PARADOX SOLDIERS
(TBA) 2010
RUSSIA OLEG POGODIN, O/VORONKOV, D £15.99
Russian sci-fi war drama sequel. During a recreation of one of
World War II's bloodiest battles, a group of young men suddenly find
themselves transported back in time to the very real horrors of the
Russian front.REBELLION:
THE LITVINENKO CASE (E) 2007 RUSSIA NEKRASOV, ANDREI £15.99
Documentary looking at the events leading up the
death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian ex-spy who passed away under
suspicious circumstances in 2006.A
ROOM AND A HALF (12) 2009
RUSSIA ANDREY KHRZHANOVSKIY £15.99
Semi-fictionalised
account of the childhood and early life of Russian poet and Nobel
Laureate in Literature, Joseph Brodsky
TREASURE ISLAND (PG) 1971
RUSSIA FRIDMAN,YEVGHENY £12.99
Russian version of the Robert
Louis Stevenson adventure story. TULPAN (12) 2008 KAZAKHSTAN DVORTSEVOY,
SERGEI KAZAKH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES £15.99
First
feature from award winning director Segei Dvortsevoy is an astonishing
ethnographic drama-cum-wildlife movie.
ZVENIGORA
(PG) 1928 RUSSIA DOVZHENKO,
ALEKSANDR £12.99
Silent fantasy drama in which an elderly man tells his grandson about
the legend of the Scythian treasure. Believing
the tales to be true,
the boy searches for the treasure throughout the remainder of his life.
Building on this theme of folklore, the film also deals with historical
facts, covering industrialisation and the Ukranian Steppe, as well as
criticising the European bourgeoisie.
SCANDINAVIAN
FILMS ON DVD- NEW RELEASES 2011
A SWEDISH LOVE STORY (15) 1970 SWEDEN ANDERSSON,
ROY £15.99
The debut feature of Swedish director Roy
Andersson, this deceptively simple romantic drama tells the story of the
relationship that develops between two Stockholm teenagers.
FROSTBITE
(15) 2006 SWEDEN BANKE, ANDERS £19.99
Swedish
vampire comedy horror set in Lapland.
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
(18) 2010 SWEDEN OPLEV, NIELS ARDEN £19.99
Swedish
thriller based on the bestseller by Stieg Larsson. In 1966, 16-year old
Harriet disappeared without a trace and 40 years later a journalist sets
out to find out what happened to her. BLU RAY £23.99
THE
GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (15) 2009 SWEDEN ALFREDSON, DANIEL
£17.99
This Swedish mystery thriller marks the second
installment in the trilogy of films based on the bestselling
'Millennium' novels by Stieg Larsson. BLU-RAY £19.99
THE
GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST (15) 2010 SWEDEN ALFREDSON, D £17.99
Third and final part of the Swedish thriller trilogy based on the
best-selling 'Millennium Trilogy' novels by Steig Larsson. BLU-RAY
£19.99
JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (18) 2007 DANISH BORNEDAL, OLE
£14.99
Identity-switch thriller.
INVOLUNTARY (18) 2008
SWEDEN OSTLUND, RUBEN £15.99
Swedish comedy drama
exploring the nature of group behaviour and peer pressure through
various intertwining storylines.
THE KILLING (18) 2007
DENMARK £59.99
Hit Danish crime series in 20
episodes which had a large following on BBC 4.
LET THE RIGHT ONE
IN (15) 2008 SWEDEN ALFREDSON, TOMAS £17.99
Swedish romantic
horror film based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. BLU RAY
£24.99
MAMMOTH (15) 2009 SWEDEN MOODYSSON, LUKAS
£17.99
Successful couple Leo (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Ellen
(Michelle Williams) lead busy lives and have little time to spend with
their young daughter, Jackie (Sophie Nyweide), who is cared for by her
Filipino nanny, Gloria (Marife Necesito). When Leo
goes to Thailand
to do a business deal, Ellen becomes envious of Gloria because of her
closeness to her Jackie.
MORKE (15) 2005 DENMARK JOHANSEN,
JANNIK £15.99
Psychological thriller about a brother's search
for the truth behind his sister's death.
PRODUCING ADULTS (18)
2004 FINLAND SALMENPERA, ALEKSI £14.99
Longtime have
reached an impasse in their relationship. One wants to start a family,
but the other is worried that fatherhood will get in the way of his
career as a professional speed skater.
SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR
(15) 2002 SWEDEN ANDERSSON, ROY £15.99
Andersson's
deadpan vision of a society coming apart at the seams has been compared
to 'Twin Peaks' and Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil'.and won the Special Jury
Prize-winner at Cannes in 2000.
WALLANDER: COLLECTED FILMS 1-7(15)
2005 SWEDEN £49.99
Contains the opening seven 90 minute
episodes of the acclaimed Swedish crime drama series based on the novels
by Henning Mankel.
NEW
INDIAN RELEASES
2011
A FLAT (15) 2010
INDIA MADHUKAR, HEMANT IN HINDI £13.99
Bollywood supernatural thriller.
AAKROSH
(15)
2010 INDIA PRIYADARSHAN IN HINDI £13.99
Bollywood action thriller from
director Priyadarshan. Three friends
have reportedly gone missing in Jhaanjhar, a small
village in New
Dehli.
CBI officers Sidhant Chaturvedi (Akshaye Khanna) and Pratap Kumar (Ajay
Devgn) are sent to
investigate the disappearances but the local
authorities are corrupt and willing to do anything to keep the truth
hidden
PEEPLI
[LIVE] (15) 2010 INDIA
HINDI RIZVI A/FAROOQUI, F £15.99
Anusha
Rizvi's debut
feature is a satirical political drama portraying the tragicomic plight
of two poor
farmers in an Indian village.
THREE IDIOTS (12)
2009 INDIA HINDI RAJKUMAR HIRANI £15.99
Bollywood comedy. When two
former college friends Farhan
(Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman) set out on a journey
to track down
their
lost friend, the free-spirited Rancho (Aamir), their college memories
unfold in flashback as they
journey into the mountains having all
kinds
of present-day mishaps and adventures along the way.
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ARE IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES UNLESS STATED
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