War epic set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a devastating drought takes hold of Henan province in China, a wealthy farmer named Fan (Guoli Zhang) manages to beat the struggle and maintains enough food to feed his family and the village. But that all changes when bandits rob and burn his village to the ground, murdering his son as they do so.
Fan and his family are forced to flee with some of their fellow villagers, but more troubles follow as Fan's money and food supplies are stolen by army officials. This leads the starving and helpless family to make some tough decisions in order to acquire the necessities they so desperately need. Meanwhile an American journalist (Adrien Brody) examines the Government's policy on giving aid to refugees such as Fan, with serious consequences.
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By: BFICaptured - Bluray
21,95 €John Krish writes and directs this war drama which was originally only shown to high-ranking military officers. The film depicts the brutality faced by British prisoners of war at the hands of their enemies during the early 1950s Korean conflict. -
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By: BFIGregory's Girl - Bluray
22,95 €Newly restored from the original camera negative the BFI are excited to announce a new Blu-rayreleaseof Bill Forsyth’s much-loved coming-of-age comedy Gregory’s Girl. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) and his friends are starting to notice girls – particularly Dorothy(Dee epburn), not least because she’s on the football team and is a better player than all the boys. With counselling from his younger sister, Gregory finally asks Dorothy out, but turns up to the date only to discover that the girls at school have other plans for him. A huge breakout hit on its original release in 1981, Gregory’s Girl was nominated for four Bafta’s, winning for Best Original Screenplay. -
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By: BFIBack To 1942 (aka Yi Jiu Si Er) - DVD
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By: BFIBeat Girl
27,95 €Gillian Hills stars in the title role of this cult British drama that delves into the youth culture of the late 1950s. After wealthy architect Paul Linden (David Farrar) returns from Paris with his new wife Nichole (Noelle Adam), his wayward teenage daughter Jenny (Hills) rebels by throwing herself headlong into the London Beatnik scene. Jenny mixes with her hop-head friends in the coffee houses, bars and clubs of Soho, where smarmy strip club owner Kenny King (Christopher Lee) tries to seduce her into the glamorous dancing business. When an old friend of Nichole's reveals her dubious past to Jenny she uses the information to blackmail her new stepmother and embarrass her father.
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By: BFIBeautiful Thing
24,95 €Hettie MacDonald directs this drama based on the play by Jonathan Harvey. Ste (Scott Neal), a popular sporting hero at school, is being bullied mercilessly by his drunken father and so he decides to seek refuge with Sandra (Linda Henry), the single mother of Ste's classmate Jamie (Glenn Berry). One night, Jamie and Ste end up sharing a bed in Sandra's flat and from these beginnings a romance develops between the two boys. -
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By: BFIGetting It Back: The Story of Cymande
24,95 €Tim MacKenzie-Smith directs this documentary about British band Cymande. Formed in south London in the early 1970s, their music fused jazz, funk and soul and their talent was recognised in America where they became the first British band to headline the Apollo Theatre in New York. However, in Britain they fell into obscurity and disbanded in 1975, but when their music was sampled by hip-hop DJs and rap artists in the 1980s and 90s, they found a new generation of fans and ultimately reformed after nearly four decades. -
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By: BFIWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
22,95 €Thomas von Steinaecker directs this documentary about the life and career of German film-maker Werner Herzog. von Steinaecker explores Herzog's cinematic highlights including 'Even Dwarfs Started Small' (1970), 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972) and 'Fitzcarraldo' (1982) and his later documentary work such as 'Grizzly Man' (2005). Archival footage, movie clips and interviews with Herzog and collaborators including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and Carl Weathers are featured. -
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By: BFIThe Eternal Daughter
24,95 €Joanna Hogg writes and directs this gothic drama starring Tilda Swinton in a dual role as both middle-aged film-maker Julie and her elderly mother, Rosalind. Soon after the death of Julie's father, the two women visit a seemingly deserted country hotel shrouded in fog. While Julie tries to write a film about her mother, Rosalind recounts painful memories from her wartime childhood spent in the hotel, which was then a family home.As Rosalind's birthday approaches, Julie must come to terms with her complex feelings regarding her mother. -
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By: BFIEye Of The Needle (Dual Format Edition)
21,95 €British thriller in which Nazi spy Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) poses as an Englishman when he is shipwrecked on a Scottish island en route to Germany. Befriending the beautiful Lucy (Kate Nelligan) whose marriage to a crippled, embittered pilot is faltering, Faber sets about seducing her as he intends to use her to help carry out his mission and prevent the D-Day invasion. -
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By: BFISeven Samurai
24,95 €Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a group of 17th-century warriors recently detached from the powerful masters who once paid them. Veteran Samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) is the leader of the group who are hired by the residents of a village suffering at the hands of a marauding band of thieves. Five of his cohorts are trained warriors, but the sixth, Kikuchiyo (Toshirô Mifune), is actually the son of a farmer, desperate to earn his spurs on the battlefield. -
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By: BFIIs Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger
22,95 €Double bill of Diana Dors comedies from the early 1950s. In 'Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?' (1953), Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) is looking forward to a romantic honeymoon in London with his new bride Gillian (Diana Decker). Unfortunately for him, however, his ex-wife Candy (Dors) chooses this moment to question the legality of their divorce.
