![]() |
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
||
Tearjerker drama produced by and starring Richard Gere. Based on the true story of Hachiko, a dog in 1920s Tokyo who entered Japanese folklore for his incredible loyalty to his master, the film is a remake of the 1987 film 'Hachiko Monogatari' by Seijiro Koyama. When college professor Parker Wilson (Gere) takes in an abandoned dog, Hachi, an unbreakable bond develops between the pair. At the same time every day, Hachi waits for the professor at the station to welcome him home from work. After the professor dies while away from home, the dog continues to wait at the station for his master for almost a decade.
A prequel to the 2008 British gangster film 'Jack Says', this instalment - which is also based on the comic series by Paul Tanter - details the circumstances leading up to the events of the earlier film. Simon Phillips reprises his role as Jack, an undercover police officer infiltrating one of London's most notorious gangs, who is drawn into a power struggle between rival gangs while also dealing with the ruthless gang boss (David O'Hara) and his psychotic daughter Natasha (Rebecca Keatley).
Bryan Singer directs this blockbuster superhero sequel based on the characters from the Marvel comic strip. With a storyline that alternates between the past and present, the film acts as a direct sequel to three separate films, 'X-Men: The Last Stand' (2006), 'X-Men: First Class' (2011) and 'The Wolverine' (2013). When the survivors of the battle in 'X-Men: The Last Stand', led by Magneto (Ian McKellen), Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Storm (Halle Berry), discover that total annihilation now awaits humans and mutants alike, they send the ageless Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back in time to try and change the course of events. In the past, Wolverine must team up with the younger incarnations of the X-Men seen in 'X-Men: First Class', Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), to avert disaster. Will he succeed?
Collection of erotic films by French director Alain Robbe-Grillet. 'The Immortal One' (1963) stars Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Françoise Brion as a sad man and a beautiful woman who meet unexpectedly and persue a passionate affair. 'Trans-Europe Express' (1967) tells the story of a film director, Jean (Robbe-Grillet), his producer and his assistant as they ride the Trans-Europe Express train from Paris to Antwerp. In 'The Man Who Lies' (1968), Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as Boris, a man who is believed to have betrayed his country during World War II. After he is taken in by the family of a dead rebel, he witnesses the lesbian affair between the man's sister and a servant and must decide whether to continue down the path of deception or get back on the straight and narrow. 'Eden and After' (1970) is an erotic horror starring Catherine Jourdan and Lorraine Rainer as students who take part in a series of games in a quiet café. In 'N. Rolls the Dice' (1971), a young man who makes a living playing dice becomes haunted by the image of two women with short hair. 'Successive Slidings of Pleasure' (1974) examines the story of a young woman believed to be a witch. When her partner Nora (Olga Georges-Picot) is found dead, stabbed through the heart with a pair of scissors, she is incarcerated in a convent prison where her sexual fantasies are perceived as the devil's work.
Stravinsky's masterwork, created for La Fenice in Venice in 1951, is based on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by a series of 18th century prints by William Hogarth. This 2007 production from La Monnaie-De Munt 'jazzifies' the setting by replacing Hogarth's sin city, London, with 1950s Las Vegas, turning it into a glittering, cinematic gallery of tableaux vivants inspired by the early days of television. The conductor is Kazushi Ono while the stage direction comes from the celebrated Robert Lepage.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and Best Picture at the Academy Awards, acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho returns with this black comedy about wealth, greed and class discrimination. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. (Winner of 4 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature Film. Also nominated for Best Production Design, Best Film Editing)
All 14 episodes from the first three series of the BBC crime thriller series starring Idris Elba. Brilliant but flawed murder detective John Luther (Elba) sees it as his personal crusade to track down the depraved killers it is his job to identify. But as he struggles with personal demons, his strong moral code cannot always be relied upon to protect him from the dangerous violence of his own emotions and passions. The cast also includes Warren Brown, Dermot Crowley and Ruth Wilson.
All ten episodes from the third series of the TV drama starring Mark Williams as the eponymous character created by English writer G.K. Chesterton. Set in the 1950s in the fictional village of Kembleford, the series follows Roman Catholic priest Father Brown who has a knack for solving crimes. He is assisted by parish secretary Bridgette McCarthy (Sorcha Cusack) and is often a source of frustration for the local police. The episodes are: 'The Man in the Shadows', 'The Curse of Amenhotep', 'The Invisible Man', 'The Sign of the Broken Sword', 'The Last Man', 'The Upcott Fraternity', 'The Kembleford Boggart', 'The Lair of the Libertines', 'The Truth in the Wine' and 'The Judgement of Man'.
Thomas Hengelbrock conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester in this performance of symphonies by Johannes Brahms. Recorded live in Laeiszhalle, Hamburg in 2016, the orchestra performs 'Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68', 'Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73', 'Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90' and 'Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98'.
Collection of four short stories, each directed by one of Italy's most famous directors, focusing on women taking back control of their lives. Mario Monicelli's tale 'Renzo and Luciana' concerns two lovers, played by Germano Gilioli and Marisa Solinas, who must keep their wedding secret from their employers to avoid the sack. Anita Ekberg stars in Federico Fellini's story 'The Temptation of Dr. Antonio', about a prudish censor who tries to ban a huge billboard of the star, only to be haunted by its alluring gaze. In Luchino Visconti's 'The Job', a countess (Romy Schneider) decides to get a job after the scandalous exposure of her husband's infidelities. Finally, in 'The Raffle', Vittorio De Sica tells the story of Zoe (Sophia Loren), who offers herself in a lottery to help pay her pregnant sister's taxes, but who decides to call off the deal when she falls for a local stable boy.
Taiwanese martial arts feature. The film follows the painter Ku (Shih Jun) as he tries to protect a female fugitive, Yang (Hsu Feng), from being captured by an evil eunuch. After the eunuch arrives with an army of East Chamber guards, the artist and the warrior fortify Ku's mother's supposedly haunted mansion and set ghostly traps in preparation for the soldiers' arrival. Will the pair survive the inevitable battles?
Orson Welles writes, directs and stars in this French adaptation. In 19th-century Macau, the rich and ageing merchant Charles Clay (Welles) decides to use his power to make an old seafaring legend come true: that of the wealthy old man who hires a young sailor to make his beautiful wife pregnant. To this end, Clay gets his assistant Levinsky (Roger Coggio) to hire his former business partner's daughter Virginie (Jeanne Moreau) to portray his wife and sends him to find a suitably destitute sailor to complete the tale.
Kate Beckinsale reprises her role as vampire warrior Selene in this, the fourth part of the fantasy thriller franchise. When humans discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, Selene must escape imprisonment and lead the battle to protect both species from the threat of extermination by the forces of humanity. Scott Speedman and Charles Dance co-star.
Jean-Luc Godard writes and directs this French crime drama starring Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey. Streetwise Parisians Franz and Arthur (Frey and Brasseur) team up with the shy Odile (Karina) to plan a robbery. As the trio's overdeveloped fantasies are worked out whilst visiting the Louvre, cafés and even play-acting shootouts, it soon becomes apparent that the robbery is not going to go according to plan...
Jess Franco directs this German horror about a woman intent on avenging the wrongs suffered by her husband. After his controversial research into human embryos is terminated, young scientist Dr. Johnson (Frederick Williams) kills himself. Devastated, his wife vows to take revenge on the three female doctors she feels are responsible for his death, by first seducing and then killing them.
Paolo Carignani conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in this production of Puccini's opera, recorded at the 2015 Bregenz Festival. Mlada Khudoley stars in the lead role with the rest of the cast including Manuel von Senden, Michail Ryssov, Riccardo Massi and Guanqun Yu.
Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in this performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4, recorded in Amsterdam in 1986. The soprano solo is sung by Maria Ewing.
Live performance of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi conducted by Mark Elder. Recorded at Glyndebourne Manor House in East Sussex the cast includes Venera Gimadieva, Michael Fabiano and Tassis Christoyannis.
Sam Taylor-Johnson directs this unseen edition of the erotic drama based on the best-selling book of the same name by British author E. L. James. Dakota Johnson stars as demure literature student Ana Steele, who, as a favour to her friend Kate (Eloise Mumford), meets up with the handsome and enigmatic businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for an interview. Very quickly, an attraction grows between the pair and Ana realises a need to become close to Grey. However, with Grey's need to maintain complete control over everything in his life including his sexual partners, Ana finds there is much more to him than meets the eye...
All episodes from the Japanese anime show adapted from the light novel series by Ryohgo Narita. Fed up with his uneventful life, Mikado Ryuugamine (voice of Darrel Guilbeau) jumps at the opportunity to move to a new school in the city of Ikebukuro. While there, he is re-acquainted with his friend, Masaomi Kida (Bryce Papenbrook), who warns him about some strange characters living in the city that would be best avoided. Soon Mikado sees one of these characters, the Headless Rider, travelling on his black motorcycle, and thereafter further supernatural happenings plague the city.
Kevin Tancharoen directs this updated version of Alan Parker's phenomenally successful 1980 musical. The story centres on a group of highly talented students at the New York Academy of Performing Arts as they prepare for professional careers in dance, music and drama, while also undergoing a full programme of academic learning and dealing with the ups and downs of life and love. As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight, they will discover who among them has what it takes to succeed and finally achieve the fame they crave.
Teen comedy starring Rob Schneider and Jenna Dewan. After involuntarily over-indulging and becoming drunk for the first time in her life, a freshman college girl (Dewan) discovers her sinful shenanigans have been caught on camera by a shoddy video producer (Schneider). With her scholarship for college coming from an abstinence group which believes in no sex before marriage, it is a race against time and across country as she and her friends attempt to retrieve the potentially damaging footage before it is exposed. |
You may like...
Fantastic Beasts 3 - The Secrets Of…
Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, …
Blu-ray disc
(1)R346 Discovery Miles 3 460
Alien: 6-Film Collection - Alien…
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Fassbender, …
Blu-ray disc
Avengers 4: Endgame - 4K Ultra HD…
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, …
Blu-ray disc
R622
Discovery Miles 6 220
Avatar - 3-Disc Extended Collector's…
James Cameron
Blu-ray disc
(1)
Heat - 2-Disc Director's Definitive…
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, …
Blu-ray disc
(2)R309 Discovery Miles 3 090
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny…
Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, …
Blu-ray disc
R622
Discovery Miles 6 220
Titanic - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Blu-ray disc
R622
Discovery Miles 6 220
|