John Woo's first film has all the hallmarks of his later brand of violent, choreographed gunplay. A revenge actioner with Chow Yun Fat as Mark, who teams up with his imprisoned friend's brother, a cop, to defeat his previous bosses, the notorious yakuza crimelords. Action packed. find out more...

Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

Precinct 13 is facing its last night as an active police station, only a skeleton staff is kept on, but then nobody is expecting any trouble, and as a blizzard rages outside everyone settles down for an uneventful evening. A prison bus, no longer able to cope with the weather conditions pulls up to the precinct, and discharges a motley selection of prisoners, one of them a recently convicted high profile ganglord. What follows is a lethally one sided siege, convicts and cops forced into an uneas find out more...

The year is 1964. The place is Brighton. A once quiet seaside town is suddenly overrun by gangs of sharp suited Mods and greasy Rockers looking for a riot. Amongst the chaos lurks top Mod and gangster Pinkie Brown. Ruthless, ambitious and horrifically violent, Pinkie will stop at nothing in his brutal quest to make a name for himself within the criminal underworld. But when a cold bloodied killing links him to a waitress named Rose, he uses seduction to secure her silence; But Pinkie’s world is find out more...

One of the classic thrillers of the late sixties as a copper is assigned to protect a key state witness in a gangster trial. When the witness is killed the hunt is on for who knew where he was. A tense action packed thriller with one of the great car chases of all time. find out more...

It's 2010 and a wall has been built around Paris's most criminally inclined neighbourhood, a prison of sorts but run by the inmates, all of whom answer to the lord of it all, Taha. However when Taha kidnaps the sister of heroic loner Leito his days immediately become numbered. I fear I've over complicated the plot being as this makes Taxi look overly wordy, but 'District 13' is all about the action and the ‘Free Running' set pieces have to be one of the most mesmerising expressions of physical a find out more...

This DVD features both of Rodriguez's take on the bandito movie. El Mariachi is a tremendously entertaining debut from Rodriguez. A young musician arrives in town looking for work. He is mistaken for a similarly dressed hitman, who has a beef with the local gang boss. The ensuing confusion is beatifully and stylishly filmed, despite the low budget. A must! Rodriguez's remake of his cult hit "El Mariachi" strikes the perfect balance between arthouse and mainstream entertainment. On a one-man mis find out more...

Four adopted brothers set out to avenge their mother's death, but they soon realise that what seemed, at first, to be a random grocery store robbery was no accident. For those who are expecting a film with the incite and acutely observed characters of Singleton's groundbreaking Boyz N the Hood, Four Brothers, a film rooted firmly in the 'let's kick some serious butt' and 'take no prisoners' territory, may disappoint. If you are looking for a solid, high adrenalin, action movie then Four Brothers find out more...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

'Happiness' tracks the bittersweet transition as an innocent, simpler lifestyle slowly fades to the seduction of technology and progress in the village of Laya, nestled deep in the Himalayan mountainside of Bhutan. Told through the eyes of Peyangki; a captivating and dreamy nine year old boy, who is sent by his mother to study at the local monastery because she cannot afford to raise all six of her children. Beautiful, sad and... inevitable.

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