British Retailers, Importers, Producers and Distributors You've Maybe Never Heard of

[Nitroes]

IMPORTERS OF FINE GOODS:

Strange Vice https://www.strangevice.co.uk

Film Treasures https://www.filmtreasures.co.uk / eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/filmtreasures

Cult Media https://www.cult-media.co.uk

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DISTRIBUTORS:

Plumeria Pictures https://plumeriapics.co.uk/shop/ols/products
Blu-ray.com thread

Panamint Cinema https://www.panamint.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

New Wave Films https://www.newwavefilms.co.uk https://x.com/NewWaveFilms
Blu-ray.com thread

Other Parties Film Company https://otherparties.co.uk https://x.com/theotherparties
Blu-ray.com thread

Fractured Visions https://www.fracvis.co.uk https://www.facebook.com/FracturedVisionsUK/
Blu-ray.com thread

D&D Productions Kickstarter.com
Founders Dave Glass and the late Dave Wyatt. Kickstarter-based distributor of silent films.
Blu-ray.com thread

Matchbox Films https://www.facebook.com/matchboxfilmsUK
Blu-ray.com thread

Altitude Film Distribution https://www.altitudefilment.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Lightbulb Film Distribution https://lightbulbfilmdistribution.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Video 125 https://www.video125.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Mediumrare Entertainment
Blu-ray.com thread

AntiWorlds Releasing https://anti-worldsreleasing.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Final Cut Entertainment https://www.facebook.com/FinalCutEnt/
Blu-ray.com thread

Nucleus Films https://www.nucleusfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

TLA Releasing https://tlareleasing.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Mr. Bongo https://www.mrbongo.com/collections/film
Blu-ray.com thread

Old Gold Media @ Amazon UK
Blu-ray.com thread

Black Bear https://blackbearpictures.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Entertainment in Video
Blu-ray.com thread

Entertainment Film Distributors https://www.entertainment-film.com

Eueka! / Masters of Cinema https://eurekavideo.co.uk/
Blu-ray.com thread

AX1 Films (formerly Axiom Films) distributors https://www.ax1entertainment.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Fabulous Films https://fabulousfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Radiance Films https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Transmission Video Distributio https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/pages/transmission
Blu-ray.com thread

Peccadillo Pictures https://shop.peccapics.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Cult Films (owned by Shameless Screen Entertainment) https://cultfilms.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Treasured Films https://www.treasuredfilms.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Indicator / Powerhouse Films https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk https://x.com/indicatorseries
Blu-ray.com thread

Dogwoof Films https://shop.dogwoof.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Dazzler Media https://www.facebook.com/Dazzlerfilms
Blu-ray.com thread

Second Run https://www.secondrundvd.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Second Sight https://secondsightfilms.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Third Window Films https://thirdwindowfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Terracotta Distribution https://shop.terracottadistribution.com https://www.facebook.com/TerracottaDistribution

Screenbound Pictures (formerly Odeon Entertainment) https://screenbounddirect.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Arrow Films https://www.arrowfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Signature Entertainment (distribution & production) https://signature-entertainment.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Shameless Screen Entertainment https://www.shameless-films.com
Blu-ray.com thread

88 Films https://88-films.myshopify.com
Blu-ray.com thread

101 Films https://101-films-store.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Capelight Pictures https://shop.capelight.de/en/UK-RELEASES
Blu-ray.com database (UK & Germany)

Refuse Films https://www.refusefilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Spirit Entertainment (also hold the UK Criterion distribution contract)
Blu-ray.com thread

Modern Films https://www.modernfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Severin Films https://severinfilms.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

MUBI https://mubi.com/specials/mubi-releases-us
Blu-ray.com thread

Signal One Entertainment https://www.signal1entertainment.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Picturehouse Entertainment https://www.picturehouses.com/entertainment
Blu-ray.com thread

Edsel (through Demon Music Group) https://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/ca...oogie-blu-ray/
Blu-ray.com thread

True Brit Entertainment https://www.instagram.com/truebritent
Blu-ray.com thread

Verve Pictures https://vivaverve.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Revolver Entertainment https://www.revolvergroup.com
Blu-ray.com thread

Hollywood Classics International https://www.hollywoodclassics.com

BFI https://www.bfi.org.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

John Gore Studios https://johngorestudios.com/labels/
private owner of:
*Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment https://kaleidoscopehomeentertainment.com
Blu-ray.com thread

*Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD) https://kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com

*Icon Film Distribution https://iconfilmdistribution.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

*Hammer Films https://hammerfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

*Silver Salt Restoration https://www.silversaltrestoration.co.uk


Vertigo Releasing https://www.vertigoreleasing.com
Blu-ray.com thread
*Vertigo Films https://vertigofilms.com


Enterntainment One / eOne / Momentum Pictures / Alliance Films (Electric Pictures) / Contender https://www.entertainmentone.co.uk / https://www.youtube.com/@eOneUK/videos
They seem to have shut up shop in the UK since late 2023 but are still doing the paperwork so not quite defunct. I assume Lions Gate UK control most of their catalogue as Entertainment One was bought by them.

Vetical https://www.vert-ent.com

High Fliers Films https://highfliersfilms.co.uk

Curzon Films (formerly Artifical Eye) https://film.curzon.com/
Blu-ray.com thread

Handmade Films https://www.handmadefilms.com

Sovereign https://sovereignfilms.square.site / https://www.sovereignfilms.co.uk

Park Circus https://parkcircus.com

Independent Cinema Office https://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk

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SHOPS:

Limelight https://limelightcollection.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Anime Blu-ray https://www.animebluray.co.uk

Anime On Line https://www.anime-on-line.com

Hit https://hit.co.uk/ (formerly base.com)

Brown's Books https://brownsbfs.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

Planet of Entertainment https://planetofentertainment.com eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/planetofentertainment

Deff https://www.deff.com / eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/deff
Blu-ray.com thread

Hive https://www.hive.co.uk

Rarewaves https://www.rarewaves.com
Blu-ray.com thread

HMV https://www.hmv.com eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/hmvofficialstore
Blu-ray.com thread

Zavvi https://www.zavvi.com
Blu-ray.com thread



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INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS & DIRECTORS:

Canal Cat Films/Jon Spira
*The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024) https://www.christopherleefilm.co.uk
*Elstree 1976 (2015)
*Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman (2021)
*Reel Britannia (2022)
*Crying Forest (2022)



Pull Back Camera Ltd. https://pullbackcamera.com
*Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5686112/reference
Blu-ray.com thread



Life After Movies
*Life After Grease (in production)
*Life After the Goonies (in production)
*Life After Goodfellas (in production)
*Life After the NeverEnding Story (2024)
*Life After the Navigator (2020)
*Life After Flash (2017)


Hank Starrs / producer https://www.instagram.com/hank.starrs
*The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024) https://www.christopherleefilm.co.uk
*Elstree 1976 (2015)
*Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman (2021)
*Reel Britannia (2022)
*Welcome to the Darkness (2023)
*RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (2023-2023)
*ICON: The Robert Englund Story (2022)


Deadmouse Productions / Cult Screenings Limted https://www.cultscreenings.co.uk
* RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (2023-2023) Blu-ray.com thread
* Pennywise: The Story of IT
* Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story Blu-ray.com thread
* What An Institution! The Story of Police Academy
* You're So Cool Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
* Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellhound: Hellraiser II
* Art Attacks: The Dissection of Terrifier 3


Voltage Films https://www.voltage-films.com
*Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster Blu-ray.com thread
*Leslie Howard-The Man Who Gave a Damn (Completed)
*Boris Karloff- The Rest of the Story (Completed)
*Horror Icons: Vincent Price
*Horror Icons Series (in production)
*Horror Icons: The Chaneys
*The Enigma of Flight 777


Mark Cousins https://www.pbjmanagement.co.uk/artists/mark-cousins
*The Story of Film
*My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
[more to follow]


Tigon British Film Productions [defunct] Wikipedia.org
Blu-ray.com thread


White Raven Films https://whiteravenfilms.wixsite.com/whiteravenfilms


Dinu Pass Productions/Stewart Buck https://www.facebook.com/wwiifairytale
*A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'


Complete list of Blu-ray studios and distributors



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R.I.P.-gone, but not forgotten

Network distributors networkonair.com @ archive.org / https://www.facebook.com/networkdistributing
Blu-ray.com thread

Malombra Films https://malombrafilms.com / Facebook [company has been defunct since June 2025]
Blu-ray.com thread for The Sex of Angels
Blu-ray.com thread for The Road to Fort Alamo

Soda Pictures sodapictures.com
Metrodome metrodomegroup.com
Parasol Pictures parasolpictures.co.uk
Optimum Releasing optimumreleasing.com (consumed by StudioCanal)
Nouveaux Pictures @Blu-ray.com
G2 Pictures https://x.com/G2Pictures Blu-ray.com database



Thanks to the people for starting, maintaining and adding to these forum threads, including: JackyJacquard cooey FantasticMrFox CelestialAgent OceanBlue samdvd1 UncleBuckWild rapta moviegeek1992 Eidolon BigNickUK ProfQuatermass KJones77 king1001 filmlover22 bigdavehopes SimBelm the blob Yami saltysam kndy MuckyMuckMan pro-bassoonist BarnDoor bizarre_eye Oscar Rothman Akijama Mr Kite kndy fatboyslim142 dublinbluray108 raphph Katatonia


[18-09-25]

[drush9999]

Hive used to be quite good for odd OOP titles at normal prices, these days no.
Also RIP deff.com with their sublime classy packing.

[T4ffer]

Amazing timing... I was just trying to recollect one of them this morning, but couldn't find it.

[JackyJacquard]

https://planetofentertainment.com/
https://www.animebluray.co.uk/
https://www.anime-on-line.com/ think this is MVM’s one
https://hit.co.uk/
https://brownsbfs.co.uk/
https://shop.terracottadistribution.com/

[Deadend45]

Do any in the OP list have sales that match a Label's own sales or rarewaves?

[JackyJacquard]

Originally Posted by Deadend45

Do any in the OP list have sales that match a Label's own sales or rarewaves?

Planet of Entertainment nearly always have a deal on. They’ve got a very similar 2 for £40 4K Steelbook offer to Zavvi right now, and a 2 for £30 4K which usually had some overlap with HMV’s before they stopped doing that. But often was better - I got some very recent Steelbooks like Deadpool & Wolverine and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes . Had all the Radiance standard editions for £9 in April!

https://limelightcollection.co.uk/ - one for the OP maybe? Although they have their own thread - currently match Indicator’s bundle offer for new releases (iirc Powerhouse is one of the main backers of the site, I think I found out about it in their email updates) and have a mix and match with 30% off 3 items that is a mix of Indicator, Radiance, Limewood (mostly appears to be old blu-rays but also Apocalypse Now 4K), and Peccadillo’s DVDs. Free postage is >£50 though.

Brown’s Books were an absolute bargain two months ago but now its a mix - some very cheap blu-rays, and the boutique stuff and 4Ks are a bit like Rarewaves in that some stuff is well over RRP and some is close to the HMV 20% discounts. Again free postage is >£50. Idk if they do sales though, I’ve not been aware of them long enough

[Deadend45]

I am quite familiar with sites not in the Op's list.

[T4ffer]

Since there are quite a few of us here from mainland Europe, I wonder if we should make a similar thread for EU retailers and importers? But that would feel like it should belong in another sub-forum, but which one?

Maybe there should be another sub-forum for English-friendly EU?

[cooey]

Deadmouse Productions comes under the umbrella of Cult Screenings UK LTD

* Pennywise: The Story of IT
* RoboDoc
* Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
* What An Institution! The Story of Polic Academy
* You're So Cool Brewster! The Story of Fright Night
* Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellhound: Hellraiser II
* Art Attacks: The Dissection of Terrifier 3

Great at what they do; but rely far too heavily on further investments and distribution deals. Took me almost 7 years to finally get my backed copy of RoboDoc (granted, I will also get the rest of the seasons when they are releases), but I'm still waiting on the Police Academy doc and that's coming on to 7 years since I backed that...

[FantasticMrFox]

Refuse Films who do Troma
https://www.refusefilms.com

[Eidolon]

White Raven Films.
They sell the films they make direct from their website. As far as I'm aware they're not available anywhere else.

https://whiteravenfilms.wixsite.com/whiteravenfilms

[Nitroes]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

White Raven Films.
They sell the films they make direct from their website. As far as I'm aware they're not available anywhere else.

https://whiteravenfilms.wixsite.com/whiteravenfilms

Axel Falcon Trailer 4K - YouTube

I have made the necessary referrals this morning to their local mental health team


Seriously, that's what we all benefit from: independent folk doing what they love.

[Nitroes]

Anyone have experience with https://www.boutiquehomevideo.co.uk ?

[Spiderwalk]

It's worth pointing out that Strange Vice, Film Treasures and Boutique Home Video are pretty much always more expensive than ordering through WOW HD. Sometimes by more than a tenner. You're paying extra for the convenience of not having to import.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by Spiderwalk

It's worth pointing out that Strange Vice, Film Treasures and Boutique Home Video are pretty much always more expensive than ordering through WOW HD. Sometimes by more than a tenner. You're paying extra for the convenience of not having to import.

Terror Visions upcoming Gator Bait set costs $91 including shipping, taxes etc from Diabolik. I'm not paying that for two films. I'm really hoping there's a UK based supplier that can do this without all the extra costs.

[blurayrat]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

Terror Visions upcoming Gator Bait set costs $91 including shipping, taxes etc from Diabolik. I'm not paying that for two films. I'm really hoping there's a UK based supplier that can do this without all the extra costs.

Should have taken advantage of their shipping promo. Got a bunch of stuff and got free shipping to the UK.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by blurayrat

Should have taken advantage of their shipping promo. Got a bunch of stuff and got free shipping to the UK.

Not really, as this is the only title of interest to me.

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by Eidolon

Terror Visions upcoming Gator Bait set costs $91 including shipping, taxes etc from Diabolik. I'm not paying that for two films. I'm really hoping there's a UK based supplier that can do this without all the extra costs.

I paid $69.99 including shipping through Terror Visions own website.

[PondaBaba]

Originally Posted by Nitroes

Anyone have experience with https://www.boutiquehomevideo.co.uk ?

Came to report on first order with these guys (more likely ‘this guy’) not having realised/remembered they’d already been mentioned:

Came across their selling slip’d versions of KL’s releases of Ronin and Leviathan 4Ks on their eBay store for £40 each, messaged them to ask if whether if they’re looking to sell sooner than later and given I was otherwise intending to order both for about £14 (no slip) as part of my large order (22 other titles, so shipping cost barely factoring into final price when split per title) they’d be willing to accept an offer of £20 for each. Never got a reply which I don’t blame them for given I was admittedly chancing it, but coincidentally that same evening or day after I came across a Reddit comment linking to their website shop where yes like filmtreasures things are much cheaper than the eBay store.

With a 5% ‘bundle’ discount code that you can apply to any order of two or more titles and free delivery, yes it’s obviously pricier than preferred but personally I was happy to pay the £27 (one was £27.07..the other £27.08) for each title slip’d.

Their FAQ/info page mentions that product listings/pictures are normally always accurate re: slips and (like filmstreasures, which I mentioned in my previous post

[Show spoiler][eta..I can’t see said previous post ITT at all..so I must have made it elsewhere, but can’t think where in these forums it would have been and swear I remember posting it on here..maybe it was on reddit though..]

where they ended up doing it in the case of one of my orders with them, but BHV state it as an explicit commitment) in the instance where that turns out to be not the case they say they’ll always contact you to confirm you want your order to continue to be shipped or cancelled and refunded.

Packaging wasn’t the best but not the worst, thin cardboard mailer but were bubble wrapped inside and arrived all fine and undamaged. Not sure why the OP wasn’t updated to include them after already being mentioned but they have my vote to be listed as an ‘importer of fine goods’ alongside the others there

[Nitroes]

I see John Gore now owns:

*Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment https://kaleidoscopehomeentertainment.com
Blu-ray.com thread

*Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (KFD) https://kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com

*Icon Film Distribution https://iconfilmdistribution.co.uk
Blu-ray.com thread

*Hammer Films https://hammerfilms.com
Blu-ray.com thread

https://johngorestudios.com/labels/


He seems to have some very deep pockets hopefully he can buy some old Hammer produced stuff.