European 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**

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Copenhagen, 1944. Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany. Flame and Citron are two legendary resistance fighters charged with liquidating Danish informers. By order of their commander, they now consent to kill Germans as well. But when Flame is asked to execute his girlfriend Ketty, an enigmatic Stockh...

A Return to Childhood in Provence In this companion to My Father's Glory, renowned French author Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of childhood continue to captivate. Devastated at having to leave the wondrous hills of Provence where his family had spent the summer, Marcel is elated when they return for...

A Childhood in Provence Based on the childhood memoirs of Marcel Pagnol, author of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, La Gloire de Mon Pére and its companion Le Château de Ma Mére are two of the greatest and most successful French films ever made. An adult Marcel fondl...

Love might be closer than you think From Oscar-winning director Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE, TESS) comes Hunting and Gathering, a delightful drama starring the lovely Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) and the equally charming Guillaume Canet (TELL NO ONE). Filmed fittingly in the city of love, this Pa...

For just about everyone, adolescence means having to confront a number of choices and life decisions, but rarely any as monumental as the one facing 15 year-old Alex (Ines Efron), who was born an intersex child. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to...

Two masterpieces of modern French cinema in one DVD collection! Based on the classic novel by Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are timeless tales of passion, greed and revenge with beautiful imagery and brilliant performances from the greatest French actors of their generatio...

Monica Vitti plays an engineer's wife adrift in the stark industrial landscape of Northern Italy - she has a nervous breakdown, attempts suicide and starts a tentative affair. In this key work - and his first film in colour - Antonioni deploys colour to extraordinary emotional effect, suggesting the...

The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organised counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of...

Every village has it's band of fools trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled punks are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy...

Internationally renowned filmmaker and auteur, Aki Kaurismaki, has given us the funny and amusing second installation of his Finland Trilogy. "The Man Without a Past's hero, M, is a solemn leather-jacketed man (Peltola) who arrives in Helsinki, sits on a bench and promptly gets beaten within...

Passion at Ten. Envy at Eleven. Murder at Noon. Particia Highsmith's thrilling novel The Talented Mr Ripley is given its first screen outing in PLEIN SOLEIL. The smoldering Alain Delon plays Tom Ripley, who is employed by the wealthy Mr Greenleaf to travel to Europe to fetch his playboy son, Phil...

In the controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film “Decameron” you have lusty nuns who perform sexual “miracles,” a cheating wife with a head for business, dying con artist attempting a heavenly swindle, young lovers caught with their pants down, a servant...

Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moments peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to reca...

Considered by many to be one of, if not the most important Russian film-makers of the 20th Century, Andrei Tarkovsky was a filmic visionary whose body of work stands as a realisation of his notion of ‘sculpting in time’. This concept was characterised by extremely long takes and shots of...

The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen, Ethiopia, Iran and Nepal - form a rich, exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayrals, demons and, most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing, mys...

Adria (Rei Rasmussen) is a half Serbian and half Albanian illegal immigrant with a painful past. Her story is told in non-linear fashion, interweaving her past and present in war-torn Belgrade and Europe’s underworld. Held prisoner and trained in a violent, predominantly male-run ‘huma...

One summer can change everything Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the countryside. But, this trip is no summer camp and the first problems soon arise....