Eureka! unveils dazzling September 2025 line-up featuring a collection of martial arts gems, postwar German classics, and a Chow Yun-fat crime epic

Film fans are in for a cinematic feast this autumn as Eureka! announces a spectacular September line-up, headlined by a gripping Hong Kong thriller, five landmark works from postwar Germany’s DEFA studio, and a collection of exciting martial arts films.

Wrack and Ruin: The Rubble Film at DEFA

A major highlight of the line-up is a historic UK Blu-ray debut of five defining films from DEFA, the first film studio established in postwar Germany. These haunting works, often referred to as Trümmerfilme or “rubble films,” explore the scars—both physical and psychological—left by Nazism and war.

The set includes:

• The Murderers Are Among Us, a concentration camp survivor return home to Berlin only to find a stranger living in her apartment.
• Somewhere in Berlin, a group of children who spend their days playing in bombed-out buildings and a returning prisoner-of-war seeking a new sense of purpose.
• Police Raid, a determined detective leads a crackdown on black marketeers who aim to exploit the chaos of the post-war period to their own advantage.
• Marriage in the Shadows, charts the tragic life of an actor and his Jewish wife as they attempt to survive the Third Reich.
• The Blum Affair, recounts the true case of a Jewish industrialist who was tried for murder in the 1920s.

This Masters of Cinema Limited Edition (2,000 copies) will be available in the UK from 15 September 2025, featuring a hardbound slipcase and an extensive collector’s book.

Flaming Brothers: Chow Yun-fat Heats Up the Screen

Adding a shot of adrenaline to the lineup is Flaming Brothers (1987), a blood-soaked Hong Kong crime saga starring the legendary Chow Yun-fat and Alan Tang. Released during the golden era of heroic bloodshed films, Flaming Brothers combines explosive action with emotional gravitas, thanks to a screenplay penned by a young Wong Kar-wai.

Eureka Classics brings the film to Blu-ray for the first time in the UK (15 September) and North America (16 September), newly restored in 2K. Each edition (limited to 2,000 copies per territory) comes with an exclusive O-card slipcase and collector’s booklet.

Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: The Heroic Cinema of Chang Cheh

No Eureka! announcement would be complete without a deep dive into martial arts—and this month we deliver in style. Ten films from the legendary Chang Cheh, the so-called “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema,” will be released in a career-spanning box set.

Highlights include:

• Wuxia staples like King Eagle, Trail of the Broken Blade, and Wandering Swordsman.
• Shaolin cycle classics including Men from the Monastery, Shaolin Martial Arts, and New Shaolin Boxers.
• Genre-bending works such as the supernatural The Weird Man, the opera The Fantastic Magic Baby, and Iron Bodyguard.
• Anthology piece Trilogy of Swordsmanship, co-directed with Yueh Feng and Cheng Kang.

This epic collection, all from Chang’s prolific tenure at Shaw Brothers Studio, will be released on 22 September (UK) and 23 September (North America), limited to 2,000 copies per region. Each set includes a slipcase and a collector’s booklet.

From the war-torn streets of Berlin to the neon-drenched back alleys of Hong Kong, and into the mythic world of martial arts heroes, these releases offer film lovers on both sides of the Atlantic an unforgettable season of discovery.

We will have a dedicated site for our North American titles in due course, but in the meantime these titles will be available from all good home entertainment retailers including the following online outlets:

Diabolik | MVD | Oldies | Orbit DVD | Grindhouse |  Unobstructed View | Amazon US | Amazon CA