Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Stephen Dorff stars alongside Sarai Givati & Khalid Benchegra in The Passage a Moroccan thriller in which an American man falls in love with a Moroccan woman but they are soon to discover their love is forbidden & if they embark on a relationship it could cost them their lives Actors Stephen Dorff Sarai Givaty Neil Jackson Khalid Benchagra Abdel Ghani Benizza & Neil Fluellen Director Mark Heller Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a group of young backpackers learn of a ghost said to appear in the rear-view mirror of a speeding car they set out to discover if the urban legend is true Speeding down the infamous road miles from anywhere their jubilation turns to terror as one by one each passenger begins to disappear The tourists soon find themselves at the mercy of a malevolent force much more heinous than the local myth ...

The untold story of the crises & compromises that united a continent As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders & global markets it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union hold it together & drive it forward This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states & between their leaders Drawing on long experience working behind the scenes Luuk van Middelaar captures the dynamics & tensions shaping the European Union from its origins until today It is a story of unexpected events & twists of fate bold vision & sheer necessity told from the perspective of the keyplayers
- from de Gaulle to Havel Thatcher to Merkel Van Middelaar cuts through the institutional complexity by exploring the unforeseen outcomes of decisive moments & focusing on the quest for public legitimacy As a first-hand witness to the day-to-day actions & decisions of Europe's leaders the author provides a vivid narrative of the crises & compromises that united a continent By revisiting the past he sheds fresh light on the present state of European unification & offers insights into what the future may hold
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IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING I DIDN'T DO ITI DON'T HAVE AN ALIBI SO YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR ITWith her husband's dead body still warm Tanya Dubois has only one option run When the police figure out that she doesn't officially exist they'll start asking questions she can't answer Desperate to keep the past buried she adopts & sheds identities as she flees Along the way she meets a cop with unknown motives & a troubled woman who sees through her disguise-and who may be friend or foe But ultimately she is alone & the past can no longer be ignored ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Antonioni&s suspenseful & haunting portrait of David Locke (Jack Nicholson) a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa Spain Germany England Spain Possibly one of the greatest road movies of all-time ...

GH a well-to-do Rio sculptress enters the room of her maid which is as clear & white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed' There she sees a cockroach
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- crawling out of the wardrobe & panicking slams the door on it Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis in which she questions her place in the universe & her very identity propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression Clarice Lispector's spare deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly & is one of her most unsettling & compelling works Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist & short story writer Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown References to her literary work pervade the music & literature of Brazil & Latin America She was born in the Ukraine in 1920 but in the aftermath of World War I & the Russian Civil War the family fled to Romania & eventually sailed to Brazil She published her first novel Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three & the next year was awarded the Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature After living variously in Italy the UK Switzerland & the US in 1959 Lispector with her children returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The Passion According to GH She died in 1977 shortly after the publication of her final novel The Hour of the Star

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play On a windswept barren island Andreas lives simply & quietly until he becomes entangled with Anna a beautiful mysterious widow & a neighbouring couple harbouring their own sorrows & illusions But soon secrets from Andreas & Anna&s pasts threaten to destroy everything Actors Max Von Sydow Liv Ullman Bibi Andersson & Lars-Owe Carlberg Director Ingmar Bergman Certificate 12 years & over Year 1969 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages Swedish
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Additional Languages Italian Subtitles English ; Dutch ; Greek Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx)
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I know nothing I am a tabula rasa a blank sheet of paper an unhatched egg I have not yet become a woman although I possess a woman's shape Not a woman no both more & less than a real woman Now I am a being as mythic & monstrous as Mother herself ' New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve ...

A dramatisation of the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ Following a betrayal by his close friend Judas Jesus is arrested There follows a chain of events in which a man who claimed he was the son of God is persecuted by the will of Jewish high priests & at the hands of occupying Roman forces Aramaic dialogue with subtitles ...

Mel Gibson&s controversial depiction of the final hours & subsequent crucifixion of Jesus Filmed using original elements of Aramaic Latin & Hebrew languages & The Passion Of The Christ& is by turns spiritually uplifting historically contentious & narratively horrifying but remains essential viewing An emotional epic which deeply moved audiences worldwide regardless of their faith or beliefs the most talked about film of the year & The Passion Of The Christ& is a dramatic film which everyone should see & experience for themselves ...