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• High Hopes | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High Hopes by award-winning Writer and Director, Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Secrets Lies) depicts a slice of the lives of Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a working-class couple in London. Cyril finds it hard to cope with his family; especially when his elderly Mum (Edna Dore) locks herself out and must ask her yuppie neighbours for help, and his social-climbing sister Valerie and her crass husband decide to throw a surprise party for their mum's 70th Birthday which has disaster written all over it. On top of all of this, Shirley wants a baby but how does this fit in with Cyril's Marxist ideals of a perfect world?

• Mr Turner | DVD | (02/03/2015) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed director Mike Leigh comes the beautiful and untold story of the great painter J.M.W Turner (Timothy Spall) who in the last 25 years of his life has to make his way through love loss and the struggles of being both celebrated and reviled by the British public and the royal family.

• River | Blu Ray | (30/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.00

  John River (Stellan Skarsgärd The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Insomnia) is a gifted police officer with a secret. As a man haunted by manifestations of the dead, including a tormenting killer, Thomas Cream (Eddie Marsan - Ray Donovan) and the murder victims whose secrets he must unlock, he walks a tightrope between maintaining respectability at work and managing his own fragile state of mind. His colleague and confidant, Detective Sergeant Jackie Stevie Stevenson (Nicola Walker - Last Tango in Halifax) lends River the emotional support he so badly needs, whilst his boss, Chief Inspector Chrissie Reid (Lesley Manville - An Adventure In Space and Time) is conflicted between River s obvious talents and his evident problems. Adrift in a London full of other exiled souls, River s own isolation helps him connect with the troubled victims who crash into his world, and to see the truth in ways his colleagues are drawn to admire and question, in equal measure. But as his long-held defences are eroded by love and loss, River is torn between the living and the dead; will he have to choose once and for all?

• Harlots Series 1&2 | DVD | (17/06/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featuring an award-winning creative team and all-star cast, Harlots is a powerful drama set against the vibrant, cosmopolitan backdrop of 18th century Georgian London, offering a bold new take on the city's most valuable commercial activity sex. Inspired by the stories of real women, and the men who surround them, this provocative character-driven series centres on the formidable Margaret Wells (Samantha Morton) and her daughters (Jessica Brown Findlay and Eloise Smyth) as she struggles to reconcile the role of mother with brothel owner. Collects the First two series.

• Rupture | DVD | (09/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Young mother Renee (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has her life thrown into chaos when she is randomly abducted, drugged and taken to a secret lab facility. As her captors traumatically experiment on her, Renee must discover why she was chosen and fight to escape her prisom.

• Mum Series 1 | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £3.47   |  Saving you £5.78 (261.54%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Cathy is attempting to move on with her life after the death of her husband. Through a year of new beginnings she rebuilds her life surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.

• High Hopes | Blu Ray | (06/04/2020) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High Hopes by award-winning Writer and Director, Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Secrets Lies) depicts a slice of the lives of Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a working-class couple in London. Cyril finds it hard to cope with his family; especially when his elderly Mum (Edna Dore) locks herself out and must ask her yuppie neighbours for help, and his social-climbing sister Valerie and her crass husband decide to throw a surprise party for their mum's 70th Birthday which has disaster written all over it. On top of all of this, Shirley wants a baby but how does this fit in with Cyril's Marxist ideals of a perfect world?

• All Or Nothing | DVD | (15/11/2021) from £8.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From BAFTA winning director Mike Leigh with stunning performances from Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen and Marion Bailey, All or Nothing is an incredible tale of the intertwining lives of several families on a housing estate in London. Following different tales of melancholy, alcoholism, a violent abusive boyfriend and a frustrated unemployed youth - there seems to be no hope for a brighter future and no chance of escape yet glimmers of joy and humour still prevail. Boasting first time screen performances from Sally Hawkins, Daniel Mays and James Corden this brand new restoration is an authentic and deeply enjoyable Mike Leigh classic. Extras: Love thy Neighbour: Interviews with Cast from All or Nothing Interview with Mike Leigh Interview with Dick Pope

• A Bunch of Fives - The Complete Series | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Typically filled with tips on how to eke out one's pocket money, reports on the dangers of cigarettes and alcohol, wickedly accurate personality profiles, creative prose, poems and reviews, the school magazine offered a uniquely adolescent perspective on life during the 1970s. This ATV drama series for teenagers follows the progress and pitfalls of a group of fifth-formers at Oxford Lane Comprehensive School who, appalled by the blandness and timidity of their school's official effort, decide to launch a punchier alternative...A Bunch of Fives, starring Jamie Foreman and Lesley Manville, was devised by John Sichel with Colin Rogers and mostly written by BAFTA-winning writer Paula Milne. Every bit as hard-hitting and humorous as its BBC contemporary Grange Hill (which debuted inbetween series one and two of A Bunch of Fives) this release comprises both series, originally screened in 1977 and 1978.Pupil Chris Taylor is accused of something he didn't do and, in exasperation, writes about the incident for the school magazine. When games master Mr Buck refuses to print the article, Chris and some of the other fifth-formers decide to pool their journalistic talents: putting together their own magazine, 'A Bunch of Fives', they begin to seek out more relevant stories from the community in which the children live.

• Rupture | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Young mother Renee (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Prometheus) has her life thrown into chaos when she is randomly abducted, drugged and taken to a secret lab facility. As her captors traumatically experiment on her, Renee must discover why she was chosen and fight to escape her prison.

• Save Me Too | DVD | (22/06/2020) from £17.54   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Created and starring Lennie James, 'Save Me Too' is the second series of the critically acclaimed drama, 'Save Me'. It's been seventeen months since Nelly Rowe rescued a vulnerable young woman, Grace, while searching for his missing daughter Jody. Could Grace provide clues to Jody's fate, or will she derail Nelly's desperate quest to find his daughter - with potentially terrible consequences for him and those around him? Also starring Stephen Graham, Leslie Manville and Ade Edmondson.

• Mum Series 2 | DVD | (02/04/2018) from £5.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Holding On | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (24.95%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring David Morrisey this is a tapestry of interwoven personal stories featuring more than 25 characters. All are united by their efforts to survive in London in the 1990s. Starkly contemporary fast-paced and unsentimental occasionally shocking and often funny the tales build towards climaxes that are sometimes cataclysmic sometimes healing.

• Save Me - Series 1-2 Box Set | DVD | (22/06/2020) from £25.31   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Created and starring Lennie James, 'Save Me Too' is the second series of the critically acclaimed drama, 'Save Me'. It's been seventeen months since Nelly Rowe rescued a vulnerable young woman, Grace, while searching for his missing daughter Jody. Could Grace provide clues to Jody's fate, or will she derail Nelly's desperate quest to find his daughter - with potentially terrible consequences for him and those around him? Also starring Stephen Graham, Leslie Manville and Ade Edmondson.

• Mayday | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £9.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (115.18%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pulse-poundingly breathtaking, Mayday Mayday, as seen on ITV1, follows the fearless men and women of the RNLI. These volunteers, operating lifeboats around Britain's rough and weather-beaten coastline, must be ever-ready to come to the aid of those in trouble at sea. Using footage from state-of-the-art helmet and boat cameras, this unique view of lifeboat crews on active duty takes you to the heart of the danger, the risk, and the reward. On holiday at Torbay, Keith Wilkinson from Yorkshire slips on the rocks and wakes up in the sea seriously wounded. Two miles out to sea, David and Anne Brumitt realise that their motor cruiser is rapidly and irreversibly filling with water. In Dunbar, Scotland, Susie Donnelly and her three daughters go for a seaside picnic, but soon discover they have been cut off by the highest tide of the year. With true-life events like these - filmed as they happen - the endings are never certain, but one thing is. It's all about saving lives and what happens when the call comes in: Mayday Mayday. Special Features: History of the RNLI Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Ashes | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £10.94   |  Saving you £2.05 (18.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jamie (Jim Sturgess), after many months of searching, finally tracks down his estranged father (Ray Winstone), and together they embark on a dangerous road trip. However, with Frank becoming more unstable and Jamie's motives unclear, the journey gradually unravels their dark and sinister pasts. With a supporting cast including Luke Evans (Immortals), Jodie Whittaker (Attack the Block) and Lesley Manville (Vera Drake), Ashes is a gripping crime thriller with a grimly satisfying twist.

• Phantom Thread | 4K UHD | (18/06/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis. Bonus Features Camera Tests: with Commentary by Writer/Director/Producer Paul Thomas Anderson For the Hungry Boy House of Woodcock Fashion Show

• The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £8.45   |  Saving you £7.54 (89.23%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three teenage boys are led into violence and temptation on a journey that will shock their sleepy community yet also express its deepest jealousies and divisions. The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is a brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of life in a post-9/11 world. Filmed in long stylised takes the narrative is elliptical and poetic yet infused with a dark and ironic wit.

• Promoted to Glory | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ken Stott Lesley Manville Kevin Whately and Adrian Scarborough are among the stars of this powerful highly original drama of love and redemption originally screened at Christmas in 2003. Mike is an ordinary man who finding life and failure too difficult to handle has slipped into alcoholism and finally homelessness. Then one day amongst Christmas shoppers and revellers he sees Salvation Army Captain Annie Walsh. He lurches across the street towards her and into the path of a bus... Annie runs to his side and comforts him; a crowd assembles and an ambulance is called. Miraculously Mike recovers from the injuries sustained in the accident but has no memory of who he is. One day he turns up on the doorstep of the detox centre that Annie runs and she takes him in despite the reservations of her superior and fiancé Major Hurst. Seeing in Annie his last chance to live and love Mike decides he must go through the agony of detoxification to make himself worthy of her.

• The Firm: Director's Cut (DVD) | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £9.15   |  Saving you £10.84 (118.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gary Oldman is Clive ˜Bex' Bissell, an intelligent family man with a good job, who also happens to be the leader of the notorious East London hooligan firm, the Inner City Crew. Bex plans to unite rival gangs into a national firm to take to the European Championships, but that will mean defeating Oboe's Birmingham crew and the South London Buccaneers led by arch rival Yeti (Phil Davis). As Bex's craving for violence becomes an obsession, events spiral out of control. Alan Clarke's unflinching drama courted much controversy when it was first broadcast in a toned down version on the BBC. Now, it is rightly considered a masterpiece, due in no small part to the brilliance of Oldman's central performance one of the finest of his career. Newly transferred in HD, The Firm is presented here in two versions: the never-before-seen Director's Cut, which re-instates a number of bold sequences previously considered too controversial for audiences; and the original BBC TV broadcast version. The complete Alan Clarke at the BBC is also available in DVD and Blu-ray box sets from the BFI.