Drama DVDs

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...

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'...

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...

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, ...

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...

Alice, a photographer, was a golden child tailored for perfection by her ambitious parents until a ski accident left her with a limp and an enduring sense of disgrace. Mattia is a mathematical prodigy, marginalised at an early age by the responsibility he’s given for his mentally challenged sister. ...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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 ...

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...

One hundred and fifty spears, ten canoes, three wives...trouble. Set centuries ago in tribal times, Ten Canoes is a surreal tragi-comedy. Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpilil, son of the great David Gulpilil) covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a sto...

Based on the true story of a remarkable champion. From a poor rural Thai village comes a great champion with a very unusual secret. Based upon the incredible true story of Nong Toom - a champion Kickboxer who became a woman. Knowing he was different, Nong must overcome poverty, prejudice and fie...

Tune in. turn on. Psych out! Take the ultimate in psychedelic trips with Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern. When a deaf runaway (Strasberg) visits swinging San Francisco in search of her brother, she teams up with the aptly named Stoney (Jack Nicholson complete with p...

Teenaged Anna comes home from her Catholic boarding school to discover that her father has left. Her mother, devastated, has confined herself in the company of the local priest, while Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. Amidst her grief, Anna also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited - and ath...

Unleash your desire. From the director of SEX & ZEN 2 comes a tale of lust, love and chopsticks across TWO films. Based on a classic Chinese erotic novel The Plum in the Golden Vase. In 12th century China, Simon Qing has been raised by his father, a wealthy merchant and famed sexologist, i...

The multi award-winning new film from writer/director Philippe Lioret, WELCOME is a compassionate and inspiring drama about the hope of new beginnings and the power of true love, centred on two couples contending with issues of separation and dislocation. 17-year-old Bilal has spent the last thr...

Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble when one of their foreign workers is killed in a suicide bombing. Accused of inhumanity by the press, the bakery's HR manager must make things right by accompanying the woman's body back to her family. First in the mystical streets of Jerusalem and then in fr...

Carlo and his friends are each at various crossroads in their lives. Now in their forties, they have left behind the heady days of casual affairs and unrealistic dreams. Now there are children to get to school on time, separations to negotiate and routines to follow. Reuniting this group of friends ...

5150 Elm’s Way is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick falls off his bike, he knocks at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he can clean the blood off his hands. But Jack Beaulieu and his family have other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and f...

After an absence of over a decade, OUTRAGE signals Takeshi Kitano's triumphant return to the gangster genre. In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favour of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and ma...

By day, a child’s beloved companion… by night, a rooftop-roaming thief! Meet Dino, a common house cat who lives a double life. He’s the loyal pet of Zoe, a lonely little girl who lives with her busy single mother Jeanne, a police detective. But after sundown when Zoe goes to sleep, Dino sneaks o...

Paul Exben is a success story. He has a great job and is about to take over the running of the business from his boss Anne. His glamorous wife and two wonderful sons adore him, but this is not the life he has always wanted. A moment of madness changes his life forever, forcing him to assume a new id...

A story of one of those improbable encounters that can change the course of one’s life. In a small public garden, Germain (Gerard Depardieu) meets Margueritte (Gisele Casadesus), a little old lady who is passionate about reading. Germain discovers new life as Margueritte introduces him to the magic ...

Cinema is a Journey. Vishnu longs to escape his fate as a hair-oil salesman like his father. So when a 1943 Chevy truck-cinema needs delivery to the seaside from Rajasthan, Vishnu takes the job. Driving through the desert, he collects a motley crew of hitchhikers - a chai-wallah, a handy old mech...

June, 1982. The first Lebanon War has begun. A lone tank holding four 20-something novices is dispatched to search a hostile town which has already been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. But what should have been a simple mission gradually spirals out of control when the four soldiers are pushed t...

The most successful Chinese movie ever, with digital effects by Weta Workshop. This dramatic account of the devastating earthquake that hit the industrial city of Tangshan in northern China in 1976, causing some 240,0000 people to perish, is more than just another disaster movie. Set during one o...

Nothing tests faith more than a miracle. Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The Leader o...

While out collecting bottle tops at the beach, a boy discovers an enormous, bizarre and lonely creature that nobody else appears to notice. Feeling a sorry for it, he decides to find a home for this new friend, even as others warn that ‘some things don't belong anywhere’. But is this really true? Ca...

Love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships 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. Renée (Josiane Balasko) is the concierge of a grand...

Best-selling author Judith Ralitzer is researching unlikely places to find characters for her next bestseller. As luck would have it, a serial killer with a penchant for magic tricks has just escaped from a high-security prison … providing the perfect source material for an intricately plotte...

If you only have one day, make it count. Daniel lives in a motel, managed by his parents, in Northern Ontario. People come, people go, Daniel hardly notices. Until one day a girl arrives and changes his world. ONLY is a glimpse into the heightened impressions and dreams of two unlikely 12-year-ol...

Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to...

From the director of Coneheads, Choking Man is an intense blend of psychological drama and magical realism that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America. Jorge (Octovio Gomez Berrios) is a shy Ecuadorian dishwasher toiling away in a shabby New York diner run by Rick (Mandy P...