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World Cinema Thrillers Sale

World Cinema Thrillers Sale

Thriller: Noun. A book, film, or play depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense.
Hollywood believes in a slightly different definition (one that requires explosions) whereas this selection of superlative international cinema holds to the true definition and is all the better for it!

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George Sluizer, 1988

£10.49

The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)

The original version of George Sluizer’s masterpiece. A Dutch couple are on a dr...

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Guillaume Canet, 2006

£16.99

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Tell No One

A marvellous suspense thriller that keeps the audience guessing until the very end with twists an...

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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006

£6.99

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The Lives of Others

This superb Oscar-winning film from a first time director has proved to be a massive internationa...

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Michael Haneke, 2005

£5.99

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Hidden

Described as "the first great film of the 21st Century", this acclaimed French thriller from writ...

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Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981

£12.99

Diva

A stylish, fast moving and very hip thriller in which a courier who records an opera singer who o...

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953

£9.99

The Wages of Fear

Clouzot's excellent film is set in a seedy Latin-american outpost, a freelance world of ex-pat oi...

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Olivier Marchal, 2004

£7.49

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36 Quai des Orfevres (Marchal, 2004)

A hugely entertaining French thriller starring two of France's greatest actors, ...

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Cristian Mungiu, 2007

£6.99

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4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days

The winner of 2007's Palme d'Or, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days forms part of the rece...

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Denis Dercourt, 2006

£6.99

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The Page Turner

With her musical ambitions thwarted by the thoughtless behaviour of the chairwoman of the jury at...

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Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954

£9.99

Les Diaboliques

After the success of The Wages of Fear, Henri-Georges Clouzot cemented his reputation with his ma...

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Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 2004

£12.99

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Bon Voyage (Rappeneau, 2004)

Set against a backdrop of the Vichy Government, this is an entertaining and sophi...

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Akira Kurosawa, 1949

£17.99

Stray Dog

This long-neglected early work is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set in the swe...

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2000

£9.99

Amores Perros

Voted best film by the critics at Cannes 2000. Amores Perros explodes onto the screen with a bone...

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Bob Swaim, 1983

£16.99

La Balance

A tough, exciting police thriller set in the underworld area of Marseilles, the film was a huge s...

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Marcel Carne, 1939

£12.99

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Le Jour se Leve

Icon of French fatalism, Jean Gabin, plays Francois, who sits locked in his room, a gun in his ha...

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Claude Chabrol, 1969

£17.99

Le Boucher

Possibly Chabrol's best known and most critically acclaimed film, it is consistently taut with en...

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Luc Besson, 1990

£6.99

Nikita

Anne Parillaud plays Nikita, a nihilistic young junkie who is given a life sentence for killing a...

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Kaneto Shindo, 1963

£12.99

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Onibaba (Masters of Cinema)

Kaneto Shindo, the prolific director of 48 films (The Naked Island, Kuroneko) who...

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