Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Desius Heiss is the French-born owner of an antique shop on Sly Corner who bears a grudge against society His imprisonment & torture on Devil s Island has left the scars of repeated whippings down his back With little care for the authorities Heiss has allowed his shop to become a centre of criminal activity & has a secret career as a receiver of stolen goods His beloved daughter Margaret knows nothing of her father s criminal activities But when the antique shop s assistant Archie Fellowes (Kenneth Griffith) discovers the trade in stolen goods he blackmails Heiss Desperate to keep his criminal activities a secret from his daughter Heiss decides to silence his blackmailer ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play " All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" Edmund Burke Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Feature in 1965 Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is one of the cornerstones of World Cinema & perhaps the most internationally renowned film of the Czech New Wave Antonin Tono Brtko is a poor carpenter appointed by his Nazi brother-in-law to be & Aryan controller& of an old Jewish widow s sewing shop in a Nazi-occupied Slovakian town in 1942 The widow Rozalie (Yiddish theatre legend Idá Kaminská nominated here for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance) is near deaf isolated & partially sighted Barely even registering there is a war going on she fails to fully realize the implications of the context in which she lives Believing Tono is simply her new assistant the two develop a tentative friendship that sees him maintaining that fiction as he attempts to protect her from the encroaching Nazi horror Moving effortlessly from drama to humour to tragedy THE SHOP ON THE HIGH STREET is a complex political morality tale of common lives disturbed & destroyed by war A story of loyalty betrayal cowardice & heroism it is a scathing exploration of how minor compromises can lead to complicity in the horrors of a totalitarian regime It asks every spectator & If it had been you what would you have done?& ...

Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket for protection There are several shady characters about who are offering to lighten the load of the basket by helping themselves to his provisions! Stephen's having none of it & with the help of some of the city's less attractive sights he outsmarts all of them & makes it home in time for tea With the pictures telling as much of the story as the text children & adults alike will appreciate the humour & observations from this well known children's author ...

When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years Robert Peace Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s with his father in jail & his mother earning less than 15000 a year But Robert was a brilliant student & it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale where he studied molecular biochemistry & biophysics But it didn't get easier Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence "fronting" in Yale & at home Through an honest rendering of Robert's relationships-with his struggling mother with his incarcerated father with his teachers & friends & fellow drug dealers-The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peaceencompasses the most enduring conflicts in America race class drugs community imprisonment education family friendship & love It's about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds-the ivy-covered campus of Yale University & Newark New Jersey & the difficulty of going from one to the other & then back again It's about trying to live a decent life in America But most all the story is about the tragic life of one singular brilliant young man His end a violent one is heart-breaking & powerful & unforgettable ...

I turned off my brain It was time to hunt I took a deep breath drawing in the scent of the blood inside the humans below They weren't the only humans around but they were the closest Who you were going to hunt was the kind of decision you had to make before you scented your prey It was too late now to choose anything Bree Tanner can barely remember life before she had uncannily powerful sense superhuman reflexes & unstoppable physical strength Life before she had a relentless thirst for blood life before she became a vampire All Bree knows is that living with her fellow newborns has few certainties & even fewer rules watch you back don't draw attention to yourself & above all make it home by sunrise or die What she doesn't know her time as an immortal is quickly running out Then Bree finds an unexpected friend in Diego a newborn just as curious as Bree about their mysterious creator whom they know only as her As they come to realize that the newborns are pawns in a game larger than anything they could've imagined Bree & Diego must choose sides & decided whom to trust But when everything you know about vampires is based on a lie how do you find the truth? In an irresistible combination of danger mystery & romance Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan in the Cullens following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion ...

The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how why & when of modern art
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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 This documentary traces the history of the Short Sunderland Flying Boat from its introduction to service in the RAF in 1938 it was to become one of the longest serving careers of any front-line aircraft The Sunderland was one of the very few types to remain in operational service through the Second World War & the only RAF aircraft to perform front-line duties for the whole of the Korean War When it finally retired in 1959 it had served for a total of twenty-one years & had built up a reputation as a tough & reliable workhorse ...

He hunts He kills He burns Vicky Lewis is a force to be reckoned with not yet thirty & already crew manager in the London Fire Brigade she's destined for great things But when she enters a burning building to save a man's life & leaves it with catastrophic injuries all that changes She's shunted over to the Fire Investigation Unit where she's forced to team up with cantankerous veteran Des Farmer aka the Grouch When Vicky stumbles across the Grouch's off-the-books investigation into the fiery deaths of a series of young blonde women she decides to join him in his search for the truth The answer is close
- perhaps too close Vicky's already been burnt once & now she's playing with fire ' The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express
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A standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather that takes us into the world of the London Fire Brigade's elite Investigations Unit 416 pages Leather Stephen ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Oscar nominee Alan Bates turns in one of his most forceful performances as an asylum inmate with supernatural powers in a film that is both highly unsettling & deeply compelling a perfect companion piece to Nicolas Roeg&s &70s masterpiece Don&t Look Now Also featuring strong performances from Susannah York & John Hurt & employing a distinctive narrative style employed by Palme d& Or-nominated director Jerzy Skolimowski The Shout is presented here in a br&-new High Definition transfer made from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio During a cricket match at an insane asylum between the inmates & the local villagers Crossley & Graves keep themselves entertained by telling stories Crossley tells of how he came to possess supernatural powers enabling him to kill with a single shout & although his companion dismisses the tale as an insane fantasy as the match continues the proceedings take a sinister turn Special Features Exclusive interview with producer Jeremy Thomas Audio commentary with horror film experts Kim Newman & Stephen Jones Booklet by Kim Newman & Dr Karen Oughton Original theatrical trailer Textless material Image gallery Original press material PDFs ...