Start from the very beginning of Season One if you can as this show rewards the long-term viewer. Wonderful acting, amazing writing and direction. Truly inspirational and authentic. It is quite simply the best thing I have seen on any screen anywhere. Enjoy!
Wire, The - Season 4
(5 discs)
on DVD
(2006) Starring:Dominic West, Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams Director:Joe Chappelle, Christine Moore, Seith Mann Certificate:
Acclaimed HBO series THE WIRE centers on the drug culture of inner-city Baltimore. The series' storyline unfolds from the viewpoints of both the criminals lording the streets and the police officers determined to bring them down. In the show's fourth season, which is included here in its entirety, ..read more »
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Werckmeister Harmonies / Damnation
Slow, but never tedious. This excellent meditation on life from Bela Tarr rewards the patient viewer. Also enriched with a superb score from Mihaly Vig. A film that lives long in the memory.
Werckmeister Harmonies / Damnation
on DVD
(2001) Starring: Peter Fitz, Janos Derzsi, Hanna Schygulla Director: Bela Tarr Certificate:
A 2-DVD set containing Hungarian director Bela Tarr's tour de force WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES alongside 2000's DAMNATION. In a nameless, frozen, Eastern European village cloaked in fog, Janos (Lars Rudolph) choreographs three grizzly drunks in a pantomime of the earth circling the sun and the moon ..
Werner Herzog Box Set 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring:Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Eva Mattes Director:Werner Herzog Certificate:
A boxset containing all the collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski.AGUIRRE, THE MAN OF GOD: Widely considered to be Herzog's finest film, is the tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in 16th-century Peru. NOSFERATU: PHANTOM DER NACHT: Stark,..read more »
Werner Herzog Box Set 2
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring:Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer Director:Werner Herzog Certificate:
A box set collecting together five key works by the great Werner Herzog: Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), Fata Morgana (1971), The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart Of Glass (1976) and Stroszek (1977).
Together
on DVD
(2000) Starring:Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyquist, Sam Kessel Director:Lukas Moodysson Certificate:
Set in 1975 Stockholm at a communal living house called "Tillsammans" or "Together," this bittersweet comedy revolves around the members of a radical hippie commune as they fight, fall in love, and struggle to stay together. Director Lukas Moodysson perfectly captures the youthful idealism and ..read more »
Bleak and downright depressing but truly forces you to accept the inhenrent evil of the human race.
Lilya 4 Ever
on DVD
(2002) Starring:Oksana Akinshina, Artiom Bogucharski, Elina Benenson Director:Lukas Moodysson Certificate: Watch now:Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
From the acclaimed director of the fantastic TOGETHER and SHOW ME LOVE comes this searing tale of a contemporary Russian teenage girl. Lilya (played by Oksana Akinsha) lives in a small poor town but is on her way to a better life in America with her mother and her boyfriend. But she is shockingly ..read more »
As good as British TV has ever got. It is pretty hard to imagine the BBC commissioning a show today that contains the same amount of intelligence and lack of gimmicks. A treat for all true espionage fans.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979) Starring:Alec Guinness, Joss Ackland, Michael Aldridge Director:John Irvin Certificate:
One of the UK's most popular TV programmes of all-time. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the story of a retired spy called back for one last job; to find the killer of a Soviet general who is also a British agent.
Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982) Starring:Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins Director:Simon Langton Certificate:
John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
"Alll my life I wanted to be a gangster". Every right thinking school boys dream on screen!
Goodfellas
on DVD
(1990) Starring:Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci Director:Martin Scorsese Certificate:
Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »
Sideways
on DVD
(2005) Starring:Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen Director:Alexander Payne Certificate:
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the altar.