European DVDs

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...

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...

Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court. (Part 3 of the Millennium Trilogy) *Cover artwork not final.

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...

Actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet follows up his critically-acclaimed debut MON IDOLE (WHATEVER YOU SAY) with the conspiracy thriller TELL NO ONE. Eight years after his wife's brutal murder, paediatrician Alexandre Beck receives an unsettling email from an anonymous sender. The message contains ...

A desperate man is a dangerous thing! Samuel is a nurse's aide, studying for his final nursing exams and leading a quiet kind of life. Blissfully happy in his marriage and with a baby on the way, Samuel's life is pleasantly mapped out. But one night, he saves the life of a mysterious car-accident...

In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, Galia and Eleanor share two things: an adjoining wall and a need to escape. Galia is an assassin, forced against her will to kill for the Mafia. Eleanor is a grocery store cashier who dreams of winning the lottery and running away from he...

Dumitru Costa (Razvan Vasilescu), a young trainee Public Prosecutor, is given his first investigation - the suspicious death of a miner in the Jiu Valley, in modern Romania. Accident or crime? Two other miners are killed in a gallery that has been closed for a long time and the relentless enquiry le...

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment-even a beautiful girlfriend. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion, and communicate only in super...

When Anna, George and their son Schorschi arrive at their lakeside villa for a week's holiday, their idyll doesn't last long. While father and son sail the lake in their yacht, Anna is asked by a neighbour's houseguests for a handful of eggs. But the neat, educated appearance of these young men betr...

The TV series, Inspector Rex (a.k.a Kommisar Rex) originated in Austria in 1994. A simple enough concept - a handsome young male detective, a female off-sider, a team of earnest detectives, but the key is the canine assistant - Inspector Rex! Running to 8 series, the programme has screened in only a...

Tony (Jean Servais), a veteran Parisian thief who's just been released from prison, is approached by two of his underworld friends, Jo (Carl Mohner) and Mario (Robert Manuel) who are planning a smash-and-grab raid on a jewellery store. At first Tony is reluctant to get involved. But after discoverin...

The story of THE MACHINIST turns the very nature of fright inside out, and exposes its inner workings, drop by drop, bit by bit, until a startling mystery is solved. Joining a tradition of psychologically probing thrillers such as Vertigo, Repulsion, Peeping Tom and Memento, this dreamlike story...

In the slums of Rio, corruption is a way of life. Captain Nascimento is commander-in-chief of Rio de Janeiro's Elite Squad, a special task force police militia tasked with the most difficult and dangerous cases. After a disastrous operation on a prison riot, Nascimento gets caught in a bloody pol...

Cronos concerns elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris who, with his eight-year-old granddaughter Aurora, discovers an ancient artifact that once belonged to a 16th century alchemist. Unbeknownst to Gris, the device—which resemble an ornate mechanical beetle—houses an immortal parasite that will grant et...

Following the rape and suicide of his sister an enraged stevedore seeks vengeance and encounters a mysterious woman who turns his life upside down.

The Last Deadly Mission... Inspired by the real-life experiences of writer/director-and former police officer-Olivier Marchal, MR 73 stars Daniel Auteuil as Louis Schneider, a renegade cop teetering on the edge. Jaded, alcoholic, aggrieved and discredited, Detective Schneider is all but dumped...

Beauty is by no means rare on the lush, tropical isle de Reunion. Yet when Island resident and tobacco tycoon Louis Mahe (Jean Paul Belmondo) first meets Julie Rouselle (Catherine Deneuve) his mail order fiance he's completely enraptured by her radiance. But it soon becomes clear that Julie is hidin...

A TRIP BACK IN TIME…FROM PRESENT TO CRIME. What happens when you accidentally travel back in time by just one hour? Hector (Karra Elejalde) is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what ...

A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control.

Breaking box office records in its native Iceland, and winner of the Crystal Globe for Best film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the premier Eastern European festival Jar City is a taut thriller that turns on the famously homogeneous gene pool of the tiny Nordic nation. When an el...

"In 3 days you're dead!" At first, Nina and her clique think this SMS is just a stupid joke. But no one is laughing when Nina's boyfriend is found tied to a concrete block at the bottom of a lake the next day. When another member of the group is savagely attacked everyone is paralyzed ...

Diego is a thug, admired by his mates, feared by his enemies. His girlfriend Asia is the most beautiful girl in the neighbourhood, and Diego adores her. He thinks he has the guts that his father lacked, his father who died, shot like a dog, in the cold, hard back streets of Rome; Diego won’t e...

Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) is an American sociopath who sells forged paintings in West Germany. Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz) is an idealistic art restorer dying from a rare blood disease. But when Ripley arranges for the desperate family man to carry out a high-paying mob hit, the two form an une...

Putting a collar on crime. The TV series, Inspector Rex (a.k.a Kommisar Rex) originated in Austria in 1994. A simple enough concept - a handsome young male detective, a female off-sider, a team of earnest detectives, but the key is the canine assistant - Inspector Rex! Running to 8 series, the prog...

From director Francois Ozon comes the seductively sinister Swimming Pool. Sarah (Charlotte Rampling) is a best-selling murder-mystery writer, tired of London life. Looking for fresh inspiration for her next novel she accepts an invitation from her publisher John (Charles Dance) to stay in his rural ...

Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories. Meanwhile gung-ho police officer Hoffman loses his wife and partner in a pitched gun battle with an escaped thug. Wh...

A tale of love. A story of horror. The Orphanage centers on a Laura (Belén Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens ...

As international terrorism and organised crime become more and more intertwined, Western nations find themselves increasingly threatened by violence and lawlessness on an unimaginable scale. In Denmark, a special unit is set up to fight cross-border crime throughout Scandinavia and to establish op...

Esteban Espinoza is an introverted taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are unexpectedly made reality with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to be a...

Acclaimed French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) set the international cinema scene abuzz with his debut feature aninnovative cult thriller about a hapless messenger surviving a farrago of missteps and misadventure over his obsession for a beautiful American opera singer. When young mess...

He just wanted a bit of excitement... Meet Jonas, a crime photographer and reliable family man... that is until the day his life is thrown upside-down when he is involved in an explosive car accident. Jonas is compelled to visit the stranger, Julia, who is left in a coma following the crash. J...

A value packed box including the very finest of Louis Malle's early cinema Les Amants, Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud, Zazie dans la Metro. These three films all made in a 2 year period 59/60 sparkle with vitality and skill.

Arguably one of the most influential films of all time, Julien Duvivier's masterpiece Pépé le Moko is a triumph of classical French cinema, and the break out role for superstar Jean Gabin. Notorious gangster Pépé le Moko is a criminal mastermind. Having eluded the Fren...

A soccer player is suddenly ripped from the field and finds himself on the floor of a horrific detention centre. What follows is a living hell of interrogations and relentless mental and physical abuse. Alongside other young detainees, he battles to survive while awaiting his fate to be decided....