Adventure

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22 BULLETS

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Rated : MA15+
Actors : Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Director : Richard Berry
Distributor : Roadshow
Release Year : 2011
Runing Time : 112 mimutes
Region 4 - In French with English subtitles
For the past three years Charly Mattei has led a peaceful life, devoting himself to his wife and children. Then one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesnt die. Now this former member of the Marseille mafia is hell bent on revenge, and will stop at nothing to destroy all those involved in his attempted assassination. Many more than those destructive 22 Bullets will fly before Charly finally settles the score.

LATCHO DROM

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latcho drom
Rated: G
Director: Tony Gatlif
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Label: Directors Suite
Feature: Original Theatrical trailer
Release Year: 1993
Running Time: 97 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French and Romanian, with English subtitles

Celebrating a way of life over 1000 years old, Tony Gatlif's visually ravishing chronicle is an adventurous and unforgettable cinematic experience. A musical journey through the eyes and ears of Romany's nomadic culture, Latcho Drom , or "Safe Jouney", transcends language and culture, spanning the four seasons as told through the musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain. For these people, music, song and dance are food for the soul: the narratives in which they express their joy and suffering, chronicle their histories, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution. An enchanting film with passionate dance sequences and dramatic music it is sure to bring out the gypsy in everyone.

DANTE 01

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Rated: MA15+
Actors: Linh Dan Pham, Dominique Pinon, Lambert Wilson
Director: Marc Caro
Distributor: REEL
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2008
Running Time: 79 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles
At the edge of the galaxy drifts Dante 01, a hellish space station designed to contain and study the worst of the criminally insane. After an unidentified mute inmate arrives on the ship, he begins to reveal frightening alien powers, and both captives and crew must decide whether he's monster or messiah. From acclaimed co-director of the post-apocalyptic The City of Lost Children, Dante 01 is a "visually riveting" (lisa Nesselson, variety) epic that takes sci-fi films to a whole new dimension.

DISTRICT B13

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Encoding: Region 4 - Suitable for Australia, New Zealand
Rated: MA15+
Actors: David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli
Director: Pierre Morel
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Audio: English, French
Subtitles: English
Format: PAL
Release Year: 2004
Running Time: 85 minutes

Paris 2013. An isolation wall surrounds the ghetto cities. Without effective law reinforcement, within these walls, gang rule is absolute. Damien is a member of an elite police squadron, a special unit highly trained in martial arts and the precise physical skills necessary to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of Paris' future. He is now given the most vital and dangerous task of his career: to retrieve a loose nuke stolen by the most powerful gang of Barrio 13.

Leïto, a vigilante criminal whose only goal is to save his sister form the clutches of the same gang, knows Barrio 13 like the back of his hand. Assigned to infiltrate the sector and defuse the bomb, Damien must convince Leïto to join his cause. Yet everything is not quite as it seems. Who exactly works for whom? Who is really pulling the strings? Above all, who profits from the use of this bomb?

TAXI 1

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Rated: M
Actors: Marion Cotillard, Frederic Diefenthal, Samy Naceri
Director: Gerard Pires
Distributor: Umbrella Entertainment
Format: NTSC
Release Year: 1998
Running Time: 93 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

The original French action classic recently re-made by Hollywood (starring Queen Latifa), now available on DVD!

Speed crazy Daniel, a pizza delivery driver, is embarking on a new career as a taxi driver. When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer Emilien, he is forced to accept a deal to keep his licence: a stint as Emilien's personal police car driver. Now on the other side of the law, Daniel becomes the unlikely mastermind behind an investigation into a gang of German bank robbers.

THE TIGER BRIGADES

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Rated: MA15+
Actors: Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer, Clovis Cornillac, Olivier Gourme
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Label: SBS Independent
Release Year: 2006
Running Time: 125 minutes
Region 4 DVD - in French with English subtitles

What is the link between a fatal bank heist, an ambitious prince, an opera première, the Chief of Police and the Triple Alliance between England, France and Russia?
Set in Belle-Epoque Paris against a backdrop of political and international intrigue, Tiger Brigades is the modern adaptation of a legendary TV series which tells the story of Inspector Valentin and his Tiger Brigade men as they battle against corrupt civil servants, anarchist gangsters and the manipulative Constance, the seductive wife of a Russian prince.
Amidst a chaotic and murderous web of deceit and greed, their jobs and very lives are on the line as they race against the clock to protect national security, and perhaps even prevent war.

LES BRIGADES DU TIGRE

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Director : JEROME CORNUAU
With : EDOUARD BAER, CLOVIS CORNILLAC, DIANE KRUGER
Release Date : 2005
Genre : POLICIER / VIDEO
Label : TF1 VIDEO
Distributor : TF1 VIDEO
Region 2 DVD - in French with French or English subtitles
En 1907, une vague de crimes sans précédent ensanglante la Belle Epoque. Face aux bandits d'un nouveau siècle, le Ministre de l'Intérieur Georges Clemenceau crée une force de police à leur mesure : les Brigades Mobiles. En 1912, la France entière les connaît sous un autre nom : les Brigades du Tigre.

CADFAEL

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cadfael
(INTEGRALE SAISONS 1, 2, 3 ET 4 - COFFRET 8 DVD)
Region 2 DVD - In French or English, with French subtitles

 Au XIIeme siècle, après une vie mouvementée, dont une partie fut consacrée aux croisades et un long séjour à Antioche, Cadfael prononce ses voeux et devient moine herboriste à l'abbaye de Shewbury. Grâce à son intelligence, son sens de la déduction et ses connaissances de la nature humaine, il sera appaelé à résoudre nombre de mystères et de meurtres.

Retrouvez l'ambiance médiévale chère à son auteur, Ellis Peters, dans treize enquêtes choisies de son célèbre moine détective, connu dans le monde entier. Avec l'un des acteurs anglais les plus talentueux Sir Derek Jacobi (Gladiator, Hamlet, Henry V...)

PLEIN SOLEIL

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Rated: PG
Actor: Alain Delon
Director: René Clément
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Feature: Original theatrical trailer
Format: PAL
Release Year: 1905
Running Time: 112 minutes
Region 4 DVD - In French, with English subtitles

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, Philippe. In the warm sun of the Mediterranean the two become firm friends, idling away the hours in luxury with Philippe?s fiancée Marge and his friend Freddie. But soon, Greenleaf Sr decides the mission was a failure, cutting Tom off from his inexhaustible supply of funds and forcing him to take drastic action to maintain his new-found lifestyle...

The Mediterranean coastline has never been more beautiful, Delon has never been sexier or more sinister and the stakes have never been higher than in PLEIN SOLEIL.