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10,000km
Alex and Sergi put their plans for a baby on hold when Alex receives an offer for an artistic residency in Los Angeles. Realising this may well be Alex's last chance to re-launch her photography career, Sergi stays in Barcelona while Alex relocates. With a continent between them they must rely on virtual communication to keep their relationship alive – but with their realities no longer shared and the touch of one another gone, the technology that has supposedly brought the world closer together may just tear them apart. A romantic drama from multi-award-winning writer/director Carlos Marques-Marcet, 10,000km features touchingly poignant performances from Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer as the couple discovering that a long distance relationship is more challenging than they could ever have believed. Tena won Best Actress at the Malaga Film Festival - one of five wins for 10,000km, including Best Director, Best First Screenplay and Golden Biznaga for Best Film. -
X500
An emotional drama which evocatively explores the themes of identity, migration and transformation, X500 is the second feature from Colombian-Canadian writer-director Juan Andres Arango. It features memorable performances from Jembie Almazan, Bernardo Garnica Cruz and Jonathan Diaz Angulo as three teenagers living in different areas of the Americas yet going through the same experiences, thousands of kilometers apart. Maria: newly arrived in Montreal following the death of her mother, she is alienated and isolated both at home and at school. Alex: has returned to Colombia after being deported from the US, carrying with him the secret of his brother's death. David: following his father's death he leaves his indigenous Mazahua village to find work in Mexico City. Can they survive the violence of their new worlds? -
Heat Wave
A modern drama inspired by real events, Heat Wave (Apres le sud) is the feature directorial debut of writer/actor/producer/director Jean-Jacques Jauffret. Deftly exploring the divide between the adolescent and adult worlds, it powerfully juxtaposes amusement, carelessness and passion with ideas of authority, consequence and responsibility.A sweltering afternoon in Marseilles. Four lives intersect: those of Stephane and Luigi, two cousins barely out of adolescence, Georges, a retired worker, Amelie, Luigi's girlfriend, and Anne, Amelie's mother. Four mundane lives full of pain, humiliation, fear and fatigue that converge on a series of tragic events. -
A Master Builder
Un architetto di successo, ego-maniacale, che ha passato una vita a maltrattare la moglie, i dipendenti e le amanti, vuole fare pace mentre la sua vita si avvicina all'atto finale.A Master Builder riunisce il regista premio Oscar Jonathan Demme con due dei più geniali provocatori del teatro e del cinema americano: Andre Gregory e Wallace Shawn. Si basa sulla quasi leggendaria produzione teatrale di Gregory dell'adattamento di Shawn del Maestro costruttore Solness di Ibsen; una produzione a cui si è lavorato per un periodo di 14 anni. Intenso, intimo e doloroso, A Master Builder è un'interpretazione spiritosa, mistica e psicologicamente complessa del capolavoro di Ibsen. -
The Paranoids
Luciano Gauna, a wannabe screenwriter reduced to working at children's parties, bumps into his old friend Manuel, who is now a huge success in Spain as star of television series The Paranoids. While out of the country Manuel asks Luciano to help out his beautiful girlfriend Sofia – who confides in Luciano that Manuel's successful television character is, in fact, based on Luciano himself. With nowhere to go, Sofia spends the night in Luciano's apartment – and she seems to be attracted by the same qualities that Manuel rejects as weaknesses...An award-winning romantic comedy and the first feature film from director Gabriel Medina, The Paranoids (Los Paranoicos) features a memorable performance from Daniel Hendler as the hapless Luciano. A highly personal film for Medina, most of the incidents are based on real events that either happened to himself or his friends. -
Terri
A moving and often funny film from director Azazel Jacobs, Terri tells the story of a big kid in a small town that doesn't seem to have room for anyone who is different. Deftly combining dark, even uncomfortable elements with wry humour and compassion, it features a memorable performance from Jacob Wysocki as the teenage misfit and Oscar-nominated John C. Reilly as his unconventional high school vice principal. Resigned to outsider status, Terri is surprised when his tough-talking vice principal, Mr. Fitzgerald, takes an interest in him. Although his efforts are sometimes clumsy and at times dubiously professional, under Fitzgerald's tutelage, Terri befriends a pair of fellow misfits. The three teenagers, different on the surface but outcasts all the same, find an unexpected, imperfect bond that reflects the tenuousness, poignancy and pathos of the adolescent experience. -
Watchtower
Girato nella regione occidentale turca del Mar Nero, Watchtower è un dramma emotivo del premiato regista turco Pelin Esmer. Con le potenti interpretazioni di Olgun Simsek e Nilay Erdönmez, è una struggente storia di colpa, coscienza e speranza che ha vinto diversi premi nel circuito dei festival, tra cui quelli per la migliore regia e la migliore attrice all'Adana Golden Boll Film Festival.Ossessionato da un tragico incidente, Nihat si è isolato come guardiano antincendio di una remota torre di osservazione. In una stazione di autobus rurale della regione, Seher ha accettato un lavoro come hostess. Gli eventi li fanno incontrare e creano una connessione personale, scegliendo a malincuore la compagnia piuttosto che l'isolamento nel tentativo di sviluppare nuovamente la compassione nelle loro vite e lavorare attraverso il loro dolore personale. -
Billy Liar: The Complete Series
Eterno sognatore, Billy Fisher è un simpatico ragazzo del Nord con l'abitudine di perdersi nella sua immaginazione iperattiva. Questi voli di fantasia non gli fanno bene all'impresa di pompe funebri dove lavora e il suo sognare ad occhi aperti a casa si rivela una costante fonte di fastidio per suo padre!Adattato dal romanzo/gioco/film di grande successo del team di scrittori Keith Waterhouse e Willis Hall, Billy Liar è una sitcom bizzarra e unica, con interpretazioni memorabili di Jeff Rawle nel ruolo di Billy, George A. Coope r nel ruolo di suo padre continuamente apoplettico e Colin Jeavons nel ruolo del mortificante signor Shadrack. Probabilmente lo spettacolo più divertente di uno dei team di scrittura più importanti della Gran Bretagna, questo set contiene tutti i 26 episodi.CARATTERISTICHE SPECIALI:Our Kid: un episodio della serie comica di Waterhouse e Hall del 1973The South Bank Show: sullo scrittore Keith Waterhouse dal 1983 -
Mr Rose: The Complete Series
The sequel to Granada Television's cult '60s crime series The Odd Man and It's Dark Outside, Mr. Rose sees Scotland Yard's acerbic Chief Inspector Rose emerging from a restless retirement to take on a further series of cases. With a memorable central performance from William Mervyn as Rose, this complete series set includes guest appearances from Terence Alexander, Nicola Pagett, John Le Mesurier, Judy Geeson, Barrie Ingham, Barbara Shelley, Tenniel Evans, Robert Urquhart, Geraldine Newman and Derek Newark.Mr. Rose has retired from the force to cultivate his cottage garden and concentrate on writing his memoirs. A number of people have good reason to fear Rose's vast personal collection of case files, however, which contain a wealth of incriminating detail that villains and former colleagues alike would rather remain unpublished...SPECIAL FEATURES:Image galleries (discs 1, 6 and 8)Promotional and Script PDFs (disc 8) -
Lady Killers: The Complete Series
This compelling anthology series recreates some of Britain's most notorious criminal trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of murder if convicted, all faced the gallows. Introduced by Robert Morley, these dramas reconstruct fourteen sensational trials and feature powerful performances from an outstanding cast which includes Elaine Paige, Joan Sims, Rita Tushingham, George Baker, Peter Sallis, Michael Kitchen, Hannah Gordon, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Charleson, Michael Jayston, Kenneth Haigh, John Fraser, Gayle Hunnicutt and Phyllis Calvert. Lady Killers looks at crimes which shocked and scandalised a nation: from the horrifying case of Victorian 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer suspected of strangling hundreds of infants in her care and the trial and execution of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, to Neville Heath, the sex attacker whose savage crimes attracted international coverage. -
The Cedar Tree: The Complete Series
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popCreata da Alfred Shaughnessy di Upstairs, Downstairs, questa grande serie racconta le mutevoli fortune di una famiglia aristocratica fittizia, i Bournes di Larkfield Manor, attraverso gli anni turbolenti del 1930 che portano alla seconda guerra mondiale, uno sconvolgimento che cambierà il loro mondo per sempre. Le sorelle Elizabeth, Anne e Victoria Bourne dipendono dai loro genitori per il reddito e sono legate dai resti del codice di comportamento sociale del secolo precedente. La grande speranza delle ragazze è quella di trovare un marito adatto, e le loro aspettative sono alte, ma chi può sapere cosa le aspetta quando le nuvole di tempesta cominciano ad addensarsi sull'Europa...Un enorme successo per ITV, questo set contiene tutte e tre le serie. -
The Rag Trade: The Complete LWT Series
Another huge comedy hit from On the Buses creators Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, The Rag Trade stars Peter Jones and Miriam Karlin – as Harold Fenner, the much put-upon proprietor of Fenner Fashions, and Paddy, his ever-so-militant trade union shop steward – in a sitcom that's designed to get you laughing! Originally a successful BBC sitcom from the early 1960s, a decade later both cast and writers reunited for two further hilarious series – this time made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. As well as Jones and Karlin reprising their roles as the series main antagonists, new additions to the cast included In Loving Memory's Christopher Beeny, On the Buses' Anna Karen and early role for Eastenders' Gillian Taylforth. This set contains all 22 LWT episodes, including the 1977 Christmas special. -
Please Sir! - The Complete Fenn Street Collection
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popUna delle grandi sitcom televisive di tutti i tempi, Please Sir! ha come protagonista John Alderton nel ruolo di Bernard Hedges, un insegnante appena qualificato che si trova in una situazione difficile quando gli viene assegnato il compito di sistemare una classe di adolescenti indisciplinati alla Fenn Street Secondary Modern School. Aiutato (e a volte ostacolato) dai suoi colleghi insegnanti, deve combattere le astuzie del subdolo custode della scuola così come l'intera potenza della classe 5C!Creata dai giganti della commedia John Esmonde e Bob Larbey, che avrebbero avuto ulteriore successo con Get Some In!, The Good Life e Ever Decreasing Circles, questa collezione contieneCaratteristiche:Per favore signore, tutti i 55 episodi della serie originalePer favore, signore, il film del 1971 The Fenn Street Gang tutti i 47 episodi del sequel di Please Sir!Bowler tutti i 13 episodi dello spin-off di Fenn Street -
Executive Stress - The Complete Series
La leggenda delle sitcom Penelope Keith si riunisce con il produttore di The Good Life John Howard Davies in questa commedia abilmente scritta e immensamente popolare dallo scrittore/attore George Layton. Co-protagonisti Geoffrey Palmer di Butterflies e Peter Bowles, co-protagonista di To the Manor Born di Keith, questo set contiene tutte e tre le serie.Caroline Fairchild ha ripreso la sua precedente carriera nell'editoria molto contro i desideri del marito Donald, che lavora anche lui nella stessa industria. Quando la società madre del suo editore assume anche il datore di lavoro di Donald, vengono a sapere che il loro direttore megalomane adotta una linea dura nei confronti delle coppie sposate che lavorano insieme. Subdolamente escogitano una soluzione poco ortodossa e diventano una coppia sotto copertura! Lo stratagemma sembra funzionare, ma c'è un aspetto spiacevole per Donald: ora si trova a prendere ordini da sua moglie... -
Miss Leslie's Dolls
A rare specimen from the more deranged end of the Grindhouse spectrum, Miss Leslie's Dolls is a memorably demented tale of possession and transvestitism from director Joseph G. Prieto (who, under the name Joseph P. Mawra, directed the outrageous 1965 lesbian sexploitation documentary Chained Girls). Believed lost for decades, it has been remastered from original film elements especially for this release. Stranded in the backwoods during a thunderstorm, a beautiful teacher and her three promiscuous students take refuge at a lonely house owned by the middle-aged Miss Leslie. Miss Leslie, however, is less a mild-mannered spinster and more an axe-wielding, homicidal cross-dresser intent on transferring his spirit into the nubile body of any girl foolish enough to come visiting... -
Ffizz - The Complete Series
Richard Griffiths and Benjamin Whitrow give hilarious performances as Jack and Hugo the co-directors of an upmarket wine merchants that is decidedly on its uppers! Congenitally work-shy, the two perpetual partygoers get a considerable shock when the company accountant unexpectedly dies and they discover that they're completely strapped for cash! When the bank installs a troubleshooter to save them from bankruptcy they're faced with the ghastly realisation that they may well have to stop partying and start working for a living...Written by BAFTA-nominated writing team Richard Fegen and Andrew Norris who had just finished their highly successful run on Chance in a Million and who would go on to even greater success with Woof! and The Brittas Empire this set contains all twelve episodes from both series. -
The German Doctor (Wakolda)
1960. A travelling Doctor strikes up a relationship with a local Argentinian family, in particular their daughter Lilith, a lonely 12-year-old girl who unknowingly becomes close friends with one of the world's most terrifying Nazi war criminals, Josef Mengele A.K.A. The Angel Of Death, who is on the run for his crimes in Auschwitz. Based on true events, this dark, intense dramatic thriller from acclaimed writer- director Lucia Puenzo (XXY, THE FISH CHILD) is adapted from her novel, WAKOLDA, exposing the hidden identity of the 'German Doctor'. -
Anyone For Dennis?
Written by actor, best-selling author and noted satirist John Wells and based on his and Richard Ingrams' hilarious Dear Bill letters for Private Eye Anyone for Denis? was a major West End hit in the early 1980s and remains an unequivocally high watermark of British farce. Starring Wells himself as the much-put-upon Denis and Angela Thorne in an arguably career-best performance as The Iron Lady, a remarkable supporting cast includes Robert Stephens, Joan Sanderson, Alfred Molina, Roy Kinnear, Nicky Henson and John Cater. This television adaptation for Thames Television one of the hits of the ITV network's 1982 Christmas season was directed award-winning writer/director (and comedy legend in his own right) Dick Clement. While Maggie is away at a Euro-Conference, Denis invites two of his drinking chums for a weekend of mischief at Chequers. Things start to go seriously wrong, however, when she returns unexpectedly and mistakes her husband's friends for EEC Commissioners! -
The Kit Curran Radio Show
Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit reigns as the undisputed king of small-time Radio Newtown; but sparks start to fly when a new boss arrives and Kit finds that his days of egocentric scheming may soon be numbered!A creative force in comedy for four decades, BAFTA-winning writer/director/novelist/comedian Andy Hamilton has scored numerous successes in television, radio and film in shows such as Drop the Dead Donkey, Shelley, Old Harry's Game and What We Did On Our Holiday. Following his work on Shelley and Smith & Jones in the early 1980s, Hamilton crafted one of television all-time-great likeable rogue characters in Kit Curran an inventively delusional narcissist, played to perfection by BAFTA-nominee Denis Lawson.This set contains all twelve episodes from both series. -
Keep It in the Family
A Resounding Success With The Viewing Public, This Thames Television Comedy – Created By Sitcom Veteran Brian Cooke (Man About The House, George And Mildred) And Starring Robert Gillespie And Black Beauty Star Stacy Dorning – Is Set In The Delightfully Chaotic Home Of Dudley And Muriel Rush, Whose Daughters Jacqui And Susan Occupy The Family'S Basement Flat. Dudley, A Gifted Cartoonist And Illustrator But An Inveterate Procrastinator, Finds It Hard To Concentrate Amid An Ever-Increasing Number Of Distractions – To The Despair Of His Long-Suffering Boss, Duncan! Co-Starring The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin'S Pauline Yates Alongside Memorable Character Actor Glyn Houston, This Set Contains All Five Series And Includes Guest Appearances From Roy Kinnear, Pat Coombs, Burt Kwouk, Barbara Flynn, Garfield Morgan, George Layton, Karl Howman, Hetty Baynes, William Lucas And Robbie Coltrane. Starring Robert Gillespie, Pauline Yates, Glyn Houston, Stacy Dorning, Jenny Quayle And Sabina Franklyn