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La Femme Nikita
[ Directors Suite DVD / DVD - released 12/Aug/2010 ] When drug-addicted teen, Nikita (Anne Parillaud), shoots a cop in a robbery gone wrong, her sentence is death. But behind prison walls, she is given a secret ultimatum: harness her penchant for violence, or face her executioner... After three years... |
The Last Battle
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] Shot in striking black-and-white, the seminal first feature from acclaimed director of The Fifth Element and Leon: The Professional;, Luc Besson, is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where only the strong survive... In the near-future, a global... |
Transylvania - Tony Gatlif / Directors Suite
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Feb/2009 ] The latest musical odyssey from Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Exils, Swing) sees Zingarina, played by the magnetic Asia Argento, arrive deep in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a... |
Dead Man
[ Directors Suite / Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Jun/2011 ] R18 - Contains violence. |
Eva
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] Starring Jeanne Moreau (Diary of a Chambermaid, The Immortal Story) as the man-eating title character, Eva is the story of one man's downfall at the hand (and body!) of a poisonous femme fatale. Set in the glorious surrounds of 1960s Venice, Eva... |
The Fifth Element
[ Directors Suite DVD / DVD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] New York cab driver Korben Dallas didn't mean to become a hero, he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years: a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now, together they must save the world. Bruce... |
Head-On (Directors Suite) (German/Turkish)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 29/Mar/2006 ] A sexually-explicit drama about second-generation Turkish immigrants ("guest-workers" or gästarbeiter) in Germany, Head On is an exploration of love and anguish in culturally-repressive worlds. Numbed by drugs, alcohol and a deep depression, Cahit... |
Imitation Of Life (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 22/May/2008 ] A Film by Douglas Sirk. The final masterpiece from Hollywood's king of melodrama, Imitation of Life is among the most admired films the American film industry has produced. Screen siren Lana Turner stars as Lora Meredith, an aspiring actress and... |
Master of the House (Directors Suite)
[ Madman / DVD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] Since the failure of his small business, Victor has become a household tyrant, constantly complaining and criticising his long suffering family. The saintly forbearance of his wife Ida seems only to drive Victor to ever more vindictive acts of... |
Melancholia (Directors Suite)
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 26/Apr/2012 ] From acclaimed director Lars von Trier comes the most stunning and compelling film of the year. Winner of the European Film Award for Best Film and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress (Kirsten Dunst), 'Melancholia' is a beautiful film... |
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin / Directors Suite)
[ Madman Films / DS / DVD - released 14/May/2009 ] M - Contains nudity. Starring B-movie goddess Ann Savage (Detour) and filmed in stunning black and white, Guy Maddin's dreamlike homage to his home city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is one of his finest, with a visionary aesthetic which is sure to... |
Pépé Le Moko
[ Directors Suite / Studio Canal / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] 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.... |
Soul Kitchen (Director's Suite)
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] From Fatih Akin, the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven comes a comedy about family and friends, about love, trust, loyalty, and catering. Zinos' restaurant, Soul Kitchen, has certainly seen better days-more of a greasy spoon with its... |
Subway
[ Directors Suite / DVD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] Forging ahead with his unique and visually creative style, director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional) breaks new ground in the stylish urban odyssey, Subway... |
The Testament of Orpheus
[ Directors Suite / Studio Canal / DVD - released 2/Dec/2010 ] The third and concluding episode of surrealist Jean Cocteau's renowned Orphic trilogy is a panegyric to life as an artist. Returning to the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Cocteau looks back over his career as a poet, painter, playwright,... |
Workingman's Death (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 12/Dec/2007 ] Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the heroes in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out ghosts among the sulfur... |
Double Indemnity - A Film By Billy Wilder (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 7/Dec/2006 ] Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a smoothtalking but naïve insurance salesman, falls for the seductive charms of his beautiful client Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck). The couple are immediately drawn to each other... |
Billy Wilder (director)
The Major and the Minor (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 10/May/2007 ] A classic screwball comedy replete with improbable scenarios and acerbic wit, Billy Wilder's first film as director was a hit that kick-started his long and hallowed career. Is She A Kid - Or Is She Kidding? In New York for only one year and... |
Cronos
[ Directors Suite DVD / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] The directorial debut from Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth), Cronos combines a surreal and distinctive take on the classic vampire yarn with an allegory about US/Mexican relations. Cronos concerns elderly antique dealer Jesus Gris... |
Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr (Directors Suite)
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 11/Oct/2006 ] A study in job satisfaction. From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line, comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by... |
