Movie and TV (Fiction) DVDs

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Contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 X 25 Y 26 Z 27 {Numbers}

A

• Abigail's Party
• The Abyss
• The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. (B+W 1964) (4/5; watched 15-Jul-07; highly nostalgic, particularly the death of Dick (the dog), but I'd forgotten about the flashback scenes.)
• African Queen, The x 2
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Airplane
• Airplane II
• Alice in Wonderland (Miller)
• Alice in Wonderland (in colour)
• Alien
• Aliens
• All The President's Men
• Almodovar Collection, Pedro: Bad Education, Talk to Her, All about my Mother, Live Flesh, 'Tie me up! Tie me down!
• Almost Famous
• Amadeus
• Amelie
• America, Alistair Cooke’s
• American Beauty
• Angel Heart
• Angels Fear to Tread, Where
• Annie Hall
• Antz
• Apocalypse Now
• Apocalypse Now Redux (5/5; watched 5-Jul-08; undoubtedly one of the greatest films of all time, despite the dodgy synthesiser soundtrack. The extra footage does not always help: the French plantation scenes are too long, and Brando loses some mystique because of the daylight scene outside Willard's prison.)
• Apollo 13
• Armageddon
• The Armando Iannucci Show
• Ask a Policeman
• Assault on Precinct 13
• Austin Powers—The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Avengers—'67 Set 3
• Avengers—'67 Set 4

B

• Babe
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future—Part II
• Back to the Future—Part III
• Badlands
• Bananas
• Band of Brothers
• Barbarians at the Gate
• Barry Lyndon
• Basic Instinct
• Batman and Robin
• Bean
• A Beautiful Mind
• Being John Malkovich
• Belleville Rendez-Vous
• Betty Blue
• Bewitched
• Big
• Big Blue, The
• Big Chill, The
• Big Fish
• Bilko, Sgt
• Billy Elliott
• Birdy
• A Bit of a Do – 1st and 2nd Series
• Blackadder 1
• Blackadder 2
• Blackadder 3
• Blackadder Goes Forth
• Blackadder's Christmas Carol
• Black Beauty Series Two
• Black Books – 1
• Black Books – 2
• Black Books – 3
• Black Hawk Down
• Black Widow
• Blade Runner
• Blair Witch Project, The
• Blazing Saddles
• Bleak House
• Blott on the Landscape
• Blow
• Blow-Up
• Blue Velvet
• Body Heat
• Boot, Das
• Bound
• Bounty, The
• Bouquet of Barbed Wire & Another Bouquet
• Box of Delights, The
• Boys Will Be Boys
• Brady Bunch Movie, The
• Brass
• Brassed Off
• Brass Eye
• Brazil
• Brideshead Revisited
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The
• Bridget Jones's Diary
• Brighton Rock
• The Brittas Empire - Series One
• The Brittas Empire - Series Two
• The Brittas Empire - Series Three
• Broadway Danny Rose
• Bullitt (2/5; watched 26-Aug-07; good car chase stuck in a rather dull movie. Frisco looks cool and hilly!)
• Buster
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

C

• Cabaret x 2
• Calendar Girls
• Caligula
• Camberwick Green
• Cambridge Spies
• Camomile Lawn, The
• Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
• Carry On Camping
• Carry On Regardless
• Carry On up the Khyber
• Casablanca
• Casino De Niro, Stone, Pesci (4/5; watched 13-Jun-07; vile characters, excellently played, in an awful city; often great soundtrack)
• Casino Royale Niven etc
• Casino Royale Craig
• Cast Away
• Catch-22
• Catweazle - The Complete First Series
• Catweazle - The Complete Second Series
• Chain, The
• Charge of the Light Brigade
• Chariots of Fire
• "Charley Says"
• Charlie’s Angels
• Chicken Run
• Children of the New Forest
• Chinatown (watched 31-May-07; 3/5—good widescreen photography; mediocre story)
• Cinema Paradiso
• Citizen Kane
• Citizen Smith – Series 1 & 2
• Citizen Smith – Series 3 & 4
• Clockwork Orange
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• More Great Comedy Moments
• Cock and Bull Story, A
• Comic Strip Presents
• Coming Home
• Con Air
• Conan the Barbarian
• Conan the Destroyer
• Confessions
• Conspiracy Theory
• Contact
• Conversation, The
• Convict 99
• Coogan’s Run
• Cook, Peter and Moore Dudley – The Best of
• Cooks Christmas, Gordon Ramsay
• Cook, the Thief, the Wife and her Lover, The
• Cracker - The Complete Collection
• Cries and Whispers
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

D

• Damage
• Dance to the Music of Time, A
• Dances with Wolves
• Day After Tomorrow, The
• Day of the Jackal, The
• Day Today, The
• Dead Ringers Series One
• Deer Hunter, The
• Defence of the Realm
• Deliverance
• Descent, The
• Desperate Housewives First Season
• Devil Wears Prada, The
• Dinosaur
• Dinosaurs
• Dirty Harry
• Disclosure
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
• Donnie Darko
• Don’t Look Now
• Downfall
• Dracula
• Dressed to Kill
• Drop the Dead Donkey
• Dr. Strangelove
• Dune

E

• Easy Rider (3/5; watched 9-Jun-07; little plot or narrative, but a graveyard drug-taking scene that set the standard for many album covers)
• Educating Rita
• Ed Wood
• Elephant Man, The
• Elizabeth
• Elizabethtown
• Enemy at the Gates (4/5; watched 13-Mar-08; panoramic and epic, particularly at the start; if it had spent longer with the key historical figures—e.g. Kruschev—it would have been even better.)
• Enfants du Paradis, Les
• English Patient, The
• Enigma
• Eraserhead
• Eureka
• Excalibur
• Extras - The Complete First Series
• Eyes Wide Shut

F

• Fabulous Baker Boys, The x2
• Falcon and the Snowman, The
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – 1
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – 2
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – 3
• Family Guy – Season One
• Family Guy – Season Two
• Family Guy – Season Three
• Family Guy – Season Four
• Fanny and Alexander
• Far From Heaven
• Fargo
• Fast Show, The – Series One
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Father Ted – 1st Series
• Father Ted – 2nd Series Part 1
• Father Ted – 2nd Series Part 2
• Father Ted – 3rd Series
• Fawlty Towers
• Feldman, Marty – The Best of
• Fever Pitch
• Few Good Men, A
• Field of Dreams
• Fifth Element, The
• Filthy, Rich & Catflap
• Fistful of Dynamite
• Fitzcarraldo
• Flashdance
• Forrest Gump
• Fortunes of War
• Four Feather Falls
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s
• Frasier – First Season
• Frasier – Second Season
• Frasier – Third Season
• French Lieutenant’s Woman, The
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Fry & Laurie, A Bit Of. The Complete First Series
• Fry & Laurie, A Bit Of. The Complete Second Series
• Fry & Laurie, A Bit Of. The Complete Fourth Series
• Friends – Series 1 Episodes 1-8
• Fugitive, The
• Futurama. Season 1
• Futurama. Season 2
• Futurama. Season 3
• Futurama. Season 4

G

• Galaxy Quest
• Game On – Series One
• Game On – Series Two
• Game On – Series Three
• Gandhi
• Gangs of New York
• GBH
• General, The
• Genevieve
• Ghostbusters
• Gladiator
• Glengarry, Glen Ross
• Go-Between, The
• Godfather Collection, The
• Goldeneye
• Goldfinger
• Gold Rush
• Goodbye Mr. Chips
• Goodfellas
• Goodies … At Last, The
• Good Morning Boys
• Goodness Gracious Me, The Ultimate
• Gormenghast
• Gosford Park
• Graduate, The
• Grease
• Great Comedy Moments
• Great Escape, The
• Great Expectations
• Green Wing
• Groundhog Day
• Guerre du Feu, La

H

• Hancock – Very Best of
• Handful of Dust, A
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Heat and Dust
• Heimat
• Heimat 2
• Hercules
• Hero
• Hideous Kinky
• High Fidelity
• Hippies. (4/5; watched 15-Mar-08; great fun, and great characters. The early 1970s were a bit like this.)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (movie)
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
• Honest
• Hostel
• Hot Fuzz (watched 11-Jun-07; 2/5; probably more fun to make than to watch—very few decent jokes)
• Hours, The
• House—Season One
• House—Season Two
• House of Cards, The
• House of Flying Daggers
• Howards End
• How to Get A Head in Advertising
• How to Irritate People
• Howerd, Frankie – Up Pompeii + Up the Chastity Belt

I

• I Claudius
• if.... (4/5; watched with James 29-Jul-07; good fun. Although much of the ethos seems so familiar to me, the violence and hierarchy seems more alien than on previous watchings, admittedly likely to be 10 or more years ago.)
• I’m Alan Partridge
• I’m Alan Partridge – Series 2
• Importance of Being Earnest, The
• Indiana Jones
• The Iron Giant
• Italian Job
• It’s a Wonderful Life'

J

• Jabberwocky
• Jacob’s Ladder
• Jaws
• Jean de Florette
• Jeeves & Wooster – 1 Series
• Jeeves & Wooster – 2 Series
• Jeeves & Wooster – 3 Series
• Jeeves & Wooster – 4 Series
• Jerry Maguire
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Jewel in the Crown
• JFK
• Jungle Book, The
• Jurassic Park

K

• Kagemusha
• Kath & Kim – Series One
• Kath & Kim – Series Two
• Kentucky Fried Movie
• Killing Fields, The
• Kind Hearts and Coronets x 2
• Kingdom of Heaven
• King Kong
• Knowing Me Knowing You
• Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi
• KYTV - The Complete First Series
• KYTV - The Complete Second Series

L

• L.A. Confidential
• Lady Chatterley
• Lady and the Tramp
• Ladykillers, The
• Last Emperor, The
• Last Samurai, The
• Last Tango in Paris
• Last Temptation of Christ, The
• Last Waltz, The
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Legend
• Life on Mars - the complete series one
• Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The
• Little Britain – First Series
• Little Britain – Comic Relief Special
• Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Live and Let Die
• Look Around You
• Look Around You 2 (3/5; watched 23-Nov-07; not as good as the first series, but the extras are nice. Synthesizer Patel is the highlight.)
• Lord of the Flies
• Lord of the Rings (animated movie)
• Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring
• Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring
• Lord of the Rings – Two Towers
• Lord of the Rings – Return of the King
• Lost Series 1 (8-disc boxed set)
• Lost in Translation
• Lost World, The
• Love Actually
• Love and Death
• Luzhin Defence, The

M

• Macbeth
• Madeleine
• Mad Max 2
• Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome
• Madness of King George, The
• Malcolm in the Middle – First Season
• Man About the House (movie)
• Man About the House – Series One
• Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Manhattan
• Manon des Sources
• Man who Fell to Earth, The
• Map of the World, A
• Mapp & Lucia – 1st Series
• Marathon Man
• Marion & Geoff – Series One
• Mars Attacks!
• Mary Mungo and Midge - The Complete
• Mary Poppins
• M*A*S*H (movie)
• M*A*S*H - Season One
• M*A*S*H - Season Two
• M*A*S*H - Season Three
• M*A*S*H - Season Four
• M*A*S*H - Season Five
• Master and Commander
• Matrix, The
• Matrix Reloaded
• Men Behaving Badly – Series 2
• Men Behaving Badly – Series 3
• Men Behaving Badly – Series 4
• Men Behaving Badly – Series 5
• Men Behaving Badly – Series 6
• Men Behaving Badly – Last Orders
• Men Behaving Badly – Jingle B***s!
• Men in Black
• Men in Black II
• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (3/5; watched 29-Jun-07; slow-moving; very unconvincing violence; prisoners look too healthy; set pieces seem forced now.)
• Metropolis
• Middlemarch
• Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
• Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A
• Mike Bassett England Manager (2/5; watched 4-Jan-08; lovable though Tomlinson is, there is little that is original here. The football matches feature little, and in the World Cup, the writer seems to give up after the Argentina game.)
• Minority Report
• Missionary, The
• M:i-2
• Mission Impossible - TV Series 1
• Moby Dick
• Moll Flanders
• Mona Lisa
• Money Pit, The
• Monk
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• Monty Python – And Now for Something Completely Different
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian
• Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
• Monty Python Set 1
• Monty Python Set 2
• Monty Python Set 3
• Monty Python Set 4
• Monty Python Set 5
• Monty Python Set 6
• Monty Python Set 7
• Monty Python – The Best of + Live at Aspen
• Monty Python’s Flying Circus – Vol. 1
• Mood for Love, In the
• Morecambe and Wise Movie Collection
  • That Riviera Touch
  • The Magnificent Two
  • The Intelligence Men
• Moulin Rouge
• Mr. Bean
• Mr. Bean's Holiday (2/5; watched Aug/Sep-07; the last ever Mr B?)
• Mr. Men and Little Miss
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Munich (3/5; watched 9-Aug-07; poses some ethical dilemmas, but the Munich flashbacks are annoying as they become increasingly confusing. Production values very low key for Spielberg.)
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mulholland Drive
• Mummy
• Munsters – First Season
• Munsters – Second Season
• Murder by Numbers
• My Name is Earl - Season One

N

• The Name of the Rose
• Narc + Serpico + The Untouchables
• Narnia, The Chronicles of
• New Statesman, The – First Series
• New Statesman, The – Second Series
• Night of the Hunter
• Nikita
• Nixon
• North by Northwest
• Notorious
• Not the Nine O'Clock News – Volume One
• Not the Nine O’Clock News – Volume Two
• Notting Hill
• Nuts in May

O

• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Odd Couple, The
• Odessa File, The
• Office, The – First Series
• Office, The – Second Series
• Office, The – The Christmas Specials
• Office, The (American) – Season One
• Oh, Mr. Porter + Convict 99
• Oliver Twist
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• One Foot in the Grave – Series 1
• One Foot in the Grave – Very Best of
• Only Fools and Horses – Series 3
• Only Fools and Horses – Series 4
• Only Fools and Horses – Series 6
• Open Your Eyes
• Others, The

P

• Pan's Labyrinth
• Paper Chase, The
• Papillon
• Paradise Postponed (six-DVD set) (3/5; watched 5-Sep-08; flawed plot, hopeless make-up, 70s production values, but nostalgic.)
• Paris, Texas
• Passport to Pimlico
• Peep Show — Series 1, 2 and 3 (4/5; watched Aug-08; Innovative use of the interior monologue, where most of the humour lies. Crude.)
• Pennies From Heaven
• People Like Us
• Performance (3/5; watched May-07; overrated; Pallenberg better than could possibly have expected)
• Peter’s Friends
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Pixar Collection
  • The Incredibles
  • Monsters, Inc
  • A Bug’s Life
  • Finding Nemo
• Planet of the Apes
• Planet of the Apes (remake)
• Platoon
• "Play it Again, Sam"
• Please Sir! (movie)
• Please Sir! Volumes One-Four
• Porridge (movie)
• Porterhouse Blue
• Poseidon Adventure, The
• Predator + Predator 2
• Pride and Prejudice
• Pride and Prejudice (movie)
• Princess Mononoke
• Prison Break (complete first season)
• A Private Function
• Pulp Fiction
• Purple Rose of Cairo

Q

• Quatermass and the Pit
• Queen, The

R

• Rabbit-proof Fence
• Radio Days
• Rambo x 3
• Raising Arizona
• Rebecca
• Red Shoes, The
• Remains of the Day, The
• Reservoir Dogs
• Rich Man, Poor Man
• Right Stuff, The
• Ripping Yarns
• River Runs Through It, A
• Rollerball
• Romance
• Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The
• Rome
• Room with a View, A
• Rutles, The (5/5; watched 1-Sep-07; kicked off the entire tribute band phenomenon. Sheer genius by Eric Idle even if his verbal humour isn't very funny today!)

S

• Saturday Night Fever
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler’s List
• Secret Agent, The
• Secret Garden, The
• Secret Policeman’s Ball, The
• Se7en
• Seinfeld – Seasons 1, 2 & 3
• Sense and Sensibility
• Seventh Seal, The
• Sex and the City (18-disc boxed set)
• Shakespeare in Love
• Shaun of the Dead
• Shawshank Redemption, The
• Sherlock Holmes – Casebook, Memoirs
• Sherlock Holmes – Adventures, Return
• Shining, The
• Shirley Valentine
• Sideways
• Simpsons, The – First Season
• Simpsons, The – Second Season
• Simpsons, The – Third Season
• Simpsons, The - Fourth Season
• Simpsons – Fifth Season
• Singing Detective, The
• Sixth Sense, The
• Sleeper
• Sliding Doors
• Solaris
• Some Like It Hot
• Sopranos, The – Complete Series 1 (4/5; finished 14-Sep-07. Brilliantly photographed.)
• Sopranos, The – Complete Series 2
• Sorcerer
• Southern Comfort
• South Park – Bigger, Longer, Uncut
• South Park – Series 1
• Spaced – First Series
• Spaced – Second Series
• Spellbound
• Spinal Tap, This is
• Spirited Away
• Stand Up, Nigel Barton & Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton
• Starship Troopers
• Star Wars - Episodes 4, 5 and 6
• Star Wars – Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith
• St. Elmo’s Fire
• Stepford Wives, The
• Sting, The
• Straw Dogs
• Strictly Ballroom
• St. Trinian’s (boxed set)
• Swann in Love
• Swimming Pool
• Sword of Honour

T

• Take the Money and Run x2
• Tall Guy, The
• Tarzan
• Taste of Honey, A
• Taxi—Season One
• Taxi Driver
• Terminator, The
• Terminator 2 Judgement Day
• Terminator 3
• Thelma & Louise
• Therese Raquin
• Thin Blue Line (Complete)
• The Thin Red Line
• The Third Man
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Three Colours Red
• Three Colours White
• Thunderball
• Time Bandits
• Time Regained
• Tintin
• Tiswas
• Titanic
• Tom Brown's Schooldays
• Tommy
• Tootsie
• To Serve Them All My Days – Part One
• To Serve Them All My Days – Part Two
• To Serve Them All My Days – Part Three
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Traffic
• Traffik
• Tripods Series One
• Troy
• Truman Show, The
• Trumpton
• Twin Peaks – First Season
• Twin Peaks – Fire Walk with Me
• Twister

U

• Unbearable Lightness of Being, The

V

• The Vampire Collection – Hammer house of Horror
  • Twins of Evil
  • Countess Dracula
  • Vampire Circus
• Vampire Lovers, The
• Vanilla Sky
• Vanity Fair
• Vertigo
• Very Peculiar Practice, A

W

• Wallace & Gromit – 3 Cracking Adventures
• Wallace & Gromit' – The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• War of the Worlds
• Warning to the Curious, A
• West Wing, The – Seasons 1 and 2
• When Comedy was King
• Whoops Apocalypse
• Wild Geese, The
• Wild Things
• Withnail and I
• Women in Love
• Victoria Wood as seen on TV – The Best of

X

• X-Men
• X-Men 2

Y

• Yes Minister - complete
• Young Frankenstein
• The Young Ones – Series One
• The Young Ones – Series Two
• Young Visiters
• Ytu Mama Tambien

Z

• Zelig
• Zulu

{Numbers}

• 101 Dalmatians
• 1984
• 20th Century Epics
  • Ben Hur
  • Doctor Zhivago
  • Gone with the Wind
• 2001: a space odyssey
• 24
  • Season One
  • Season Two
  • Season Three
  • Season Four
  • Season Five
  • Season Six (1/5; finished 21-Mar-08; awful; this series has not moved on since the innovative first season; nothing is credible now. Acting serious and being at work all the time do not equal depth of character. It must end now.)
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• 39 Steps, The
• 8½, Fellini's