Cinema Paradiso DVD Rental

Don't love Lovefilm? Bored of Blockbuster? Cinema Paradiso is worth a look.

In the past few years the site has grown from wilting world cinema specialist to rival the big boys and, sometimes, to outdo them.

Cheap deals

CinemaParadiso DVD Rental's pocket friendly prices are now neck and neck with the mainstream sites, though they're still a few pennies off the super-cheap sites Tesco DVD rental and Lidl DVD rental.

There are 7 DVD rental packages available: 3 unlimited and 4 limited.

We are increasingly becoming fans of the limited package model (where you pay less per month, but can only watch a certain number of films) as it becomes obvious that unlimited rentals are - in our busy lives - quite difficult to make the most of.

CinemaParadiso's unique selling point here is that if you don't watch your allowed quota each month, the remainder are carried over to the next month.

That means you'll get what you paid for even if you're having a busy month or the posties have gone on strike again.

Good-looking, well-organised site

It's not quite as swish as Lovefilm's but Cinema Paradiso's site is increasingly good-looking, simple to use and well-organised.

Every film has a well-written review and many have trailers to help you to decide what to add to your queue.

Cinema Paradiso also offer multiple profiles - there are now five available per household and each one can have its own queue with age restriction, if necessary, to keep younger viewers safe.

With over 67,000 titles available to rent, CinemaParadiso DVD rental is almost managing to creep up on the DVD rental juggernauts selection-wise too.

All the great world cinema titles that CinemaParadiso DVD rental was famous for are still there but, in addition, there's a huge choice of new and popular titles too.

Got six friends?

CinemaParadiso DVD rental has just launched a loyalty scheme where, if you recommend the service to 6 of your friends and they all go on to sign up, you will get free membership for as long as 6 of your friends remain CinemaParadiso customers.

If you can't persuade six friends - or if you dont have six friends period! - you'll still receive a 1/6th discount for each friend you do manage to sign up. Read more about Cinema Paradiso's 'Friends for Films' scheme.

Another new addition to the CinemaParadiso DVD rental site is their 'shop' section where you can buy ex-rental DVD's for a fraction of the RRP price.

All the DVD's for sale are 100% guaranteed quality, include DVD artwork and DVD case as well as free first class delivery. What's more, when we looked, most of the titles were selling for under £3!

Small army of fans

Being a smaller company, CinemaParadiso has built up a small army of fans who are hooked on the company's excellent customer service.

Title turnaround is fast - and in many cases faster than its rivals. Long may it continue!

CinemaParadiso gets two-thumbs up for:

Allowing you to carry unused rentals over from month to month if you do not use up your monthly DVD rental allowance from one of CinemaParadiso's limited monthly rental packages.