Art House & World Cinema DVDs

*"Tony Jaa is the long overdue answer to Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan" -Time Magazine.* To fight for the honour of his village, he must unleash the ancient art of Muay Thai. In a poor village in rural Thailand the Nong Pra-du temple houses the sacred statue of Ong Bak. The villagers believe that ...

42 students, three days, one survivor, no rules. In the near future, Japan is in a state of collapse. With high unemployment and a generation of youth out of control, the government enacts the Battle Royale programme. Each year, a randomly chosen school class is pitted against itself on an abando...

Now available in this deluxe widescreen director's cut, one of the most loved films ever to grace the screen can now be enjoyed on DVD. The story of a lifelong love affair with the movies, Cinema Paradisco tells of a young boy in a small Itilian village, where the only past time is a visit to the m...

Set deep on the lush Samoan island of Upolu, The Orator tells of a love woven by fate, parted by an unforgiving past, to be restored with courage. It draws on universal themes of love, honour and forgiveness in a fresh and evocative glimpse into a world never before seen in cinema. Marginalised a...

A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it's too late for the mistake to be clarified. **Cover Artwork Not Final**

Set in London in 1818, Bright Star is the tender story of first love between John Keats, the romantic English poet and the girl next door, the stylish, headstrong Fanny Brawne. Inspired by the actual love letters between the couple and Keats' sublime poetry, Bright Star reveals one of the world'...

Contains all 3 Librarian movies! The fate of the world is in my hands? That's so sad. The utterly charming Noah Wyle stars as Flynn Carsen an uber geek who has been employed as the Librarian at the New York Metropolitan Library. He discovers that this is no quiet desk job; his task is to prote...

A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. She embarks on a search to find the "perfect couple" to take on parenting responsibilities only to find life isn...

Set in modern Rome this is a Kung Fu story of how a country boy outsmarts big-city gangsters. A new optimum bit-rate transfer will further enhance your viewing experience of the only motion picture to be written, directed, co-produced and action-choreographed by leading man Bruce Lee. Featurin...

Set in the turbulent world of 19th-century China, as Westerners begin their dishonorable encroachment into China, Master Wong Fei-Hung, a medical doctor, finds himself in conflict with not only Westernization, but also his countrymen's place in the future of China. Martial arts expert Jet Li stars a...

Hailed for its epic scale and masterful battle sequences, this is europe's biggest and most expensive film production ever. Featuring an extraordinary cast bringing to life one of the most heroic and horrific struggles of world war 2 - the battle for Stalingrad - a battle in which more than 1 millio...

Sometimes the Past Can Unlock the Future... Based on the best-selling novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key is a touching, gripping and beautifully told drama featuring Kristin Scott Thomas in a Cesar-nominated performance. Paris, 1942. The Starzynski family - Wladyslaw, Rywka, ten-year-old ...

Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, ...

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO BRUCE LEE'S FIST OF FURY... While China is traumatized by military cliques during the Warlord Era in the 1920s, Japan has grown into the most powerful foreign national group there, taking over much of Northern Shanghai. Although the city is being torn by international s...

Darren McGavin stars as Carl Kolchak, a headstrong investigative reporter on the trail of the paranormal: zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, succubi and even aliens. No matter how unnatural or unbelievable, Kolchak is there to undercover the truth one supernatural threat at a time. One of the mo...

It's Initial D. It's a world of car drifting where the battlefield is the mountain road. First created by Shigeno Shuichi in comic form in 1996, and then adapted into a smash hit anime, Initial D has finally been adapted into a live-action motion picture - and it's now available on DVD! Directed ...

Ever wish you could have all 24 “Weird Al” Yankovic music videos on one DVD, complete with a Photo Gallery, On-Screen Lyrics, 5.1 Surround Sound, and more? Well, my friend, sometimes dreams do come true. Track Listing: * Fat * Amish Paradise * It's All About The Pentiums * Smells ...

Now available totally uncut and digitally remastered for the first time since 1986, Fist of Fury: Special Collector's Edition is the version fans have been eagerly awaiting over the last 14 years. Now at last Hong Kong Legends can deliver! Completely reinstated are the incredible nunchaku battle seq...

As a conceited scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Yangsheng believes in pursuing the ultimate sexual pleasure as life is short. One day, Yangsheng encounters Tie Yuxiang, the daughter of a Tao priest, and it's love at first sight. However, it doesn't take long for Yangsheng to discover that his perfor...

Based on Steig Larsson's literary phenomenon, the trilogy follows the unlikely heroine Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, first as they unite to solve the case of a missing girl and then as they fight to uncover the truth about Salander's past. A past full of secrets that a mysterious...

Under attack from invaders, the Emperor issues a decree that all families must defend the country in a nationwide draft. In a noble sacrifice to save her aging father from war, MULAN (Wei Zhao) disguises herself as a male soldier and enlists in the army. Spurred by loyalty and honour, she leads her ...

**The Storm Riders** Lord Conquer (Sonny Chiba) is a great and mighty warlord who wants to take over the world. To do so, he must defeat another warrior named Sword Saint (Anthony Wong); but the battle is prophesized to take place in ten years. **The Storm Warriors** The ruthless Lord Godless ...

The legendary Spanish actress Carmen Maura is magnificent as the beautifully aging Pilar, who brought her three young daughters to France at a young age. Now, thirty years later, Nuria (Seigneur), is a famous but lonely screen actress, Aurelia (Dreville), is a waspish stage actress prone to panic at...

Unleash the Freaks! Action, comedy and splatter: times three! For the first time ever, Japanese cult filmmakers Noboru Iguchi (ROBO-GEISHA, THE MACHINE GIRL), Yoshihiro Nishimura (TOKYO GORE POLICE, VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL) and Tak Sakaguchi (DEATH TRANCE, VERSUS, SAMURAI ZOMBIE) have ...

Her story touched the hearts of millions Based on her best-selling autobiography, DESERT FLOWER follows the life of supermodel Waris Dirie. Raised a nomad in Somalia, Waris flees her clan when she is betrothed to an elder at 13. Finding herself an illegal immigrant in London, Waris finds work in a t...

An elite force of secret agents the Jinyi Wei devote their lives and lethal prowess to the service of the Emperor alone. When the Imperial Court is taken over by an evil eunuch Qinglong (Donnie Yen) is assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. However during the mission ...

My Name is Khan is the triumphant story of an unconventional hero and the obstacles he must overcome to regain the love of his life. Rizvan Khan, a Muslim man who has Asperger’s Syndrome, moves to San Francisco and falls in love with the beautiful Mandira. They marry and have a happy life;...

Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon and those who were forced to stay behind, Journey From The Fall follows one family's struggle for freedom. April 30, 1975 marked the end of Vietnam's two-decade-old civil war and the start of the exo...

The second part of Steven Soderbergh’s epic biopic on the life of the iconic revolutionary. In 1965 Ernesto Che Guevara resigns from his role in the Cuban government to take up the struggle against Bolivia’s militarist government. But with Bolivia Che has bitten off more than he can ...

Away From Her is a beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and tribulations of a long marriage. Together for fifty years, the union between Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This facade of sere...

Rarely has such a bold subject met with such acclaim as Boy A, an eloquent film, which boasts a stirring title turn by newcomer Andrew Garfield (Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter). Garfield is Jack, a young man just released from prison for a crime committed when he was just a boy. Jack ma...

Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of th...

Oskar, a 12-year-old fragile and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends, who moves into his building.   When Oskar discovers that Eli is a vampire it does not deter his increasing feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent.&nbs...

They were done with playing it safe. When Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillps) leave their rich suburb for a joyride through East LA they witness a frightening landscape of drugs, violence and gang brutality. But as their fear turns to infatuation, the friends find themselves seduced by...

Thomas Skepphult (Mads Mikkelsen) is a man who has it all. He lives with his wife and daughter in a beautiful house by the water and his career is at its peak. Thomas has made a fortune with his finance company Nova Investment, a company which is about to finalise its most important and most lucrati...

When a fight breaks out between rival Martial arts schools in the marketplace, retaliation is heavy. After the students are banished they return to China, and start their own school, setting out on good-will visits to the other martial arts schools, only to find that everybody in their neighbourhood...

'Eastern Condors' is regarded by many enthusasts as one of the crowning achivements of Sammo Hung's celebrated career. In a powerful high-energy tribute to 'The Dirty Dozen', ten soldiers condemned to life-term prison sentences are offered an amnesty if they go behind enemy lines in Vietnam to destr...

Based on the Legend of Crying Freeman, Dragon from Russia is a spectacular, visually flamboyant ‘Manga in motion’ concept adventure from the director of ‘Naked Killer’. The Crying Freeman is the most skilled assassin of the Secret Chinese Society, ‘The 108 Dragons&rsquo...

One City. 10 Million Hearts. One Love Story. One Film. Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. A stunning line-up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love. S...

The most terrific triple act in action cinema history takes sunny Spain by storm in this martial arts comedy classic! International superstar Jackie Chan (Rush Hour, New Police Story), burly brawler Sammo Hung (Martial Law) and acrobat extraordinaire Yuen Biao (The Prodigal Son, Dragons Forever) bri...