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• At Home With The Braithwaites - Series 1-4 - Complete | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Written by the acclaimed screenwriter Sally Wainwright (Children's Ward Coronation Street) and starring Amanda Redman (Sexy Beast New Tricks) as Alison Braithwaite head of the dysfunctional family that lurches from disaster to crisis and back again this second series of At Home with the Braithwaites was a huge commercial and critical success for ITV1 when it was first broadcast in 2001. Also starring Peter Davison (Black Beauty Dr Who) Lynda Bellingham (All Creatures Great & Small Second Thoughts) and Sylvia Syms (Ice Cold in Alex Victim) this emotional roller-coaster of a series was nominated for a number of awards and won the TV Quick Awards 2000 for Best New Drama as well as receiving an Emmy-nomination for Best Drama Series in 2002. Featuring all episodes from each series!

• Victim | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Banned on its original theatrical release in the United States and highly controversial in Britain, this BAFTA-nominated story of deception, blackmail and revenge stars Dirk Bogarde in a brave, career-best performance as a prosperous young barrister with a dark secret. With powerful direction from Basil Dearden and strong supporting performances from both Sylvia Syms and Dennis Price, Victim is featured here in a High Definition transfer made from original film elements in its as-exhibited th.

• Lady Chatterley's Lover | DVD | (19/12/2002) from £20.13   |  Saving you £-7.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rich lady who becomes bored by her sexless marriage and seeks satisfaction with her husband's gamekeeper oblivious of the social scandal she is creating... D.H. Lawrence's controversial novel transformed into a sensual masterpiece from the makers of 'Emmanuelle'.

• Lost In America (1985) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (29/03/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by ALBERT BROOKS (Modern Romance), a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Airplane's JULIE HAGERTY) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and follow their Easy Rider fantasies of freedom and the open road. When a stop in Las Vegas nearly derails their plans, they're forced to come to terms with their own limitations and those of the American dream. Brooks's barbed wit and confident direction drive Lost in America, a high point in the string of restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humour. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New conversation with director Albert Brooks and filmmaker Robert Weide New interviews with actor Julie Hagerty, executive producer Herb Nanas, and comic writer and director James L. Brooks Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Scott Tobias

• Women Of Twilight (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £11.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of the 1952 film directed by Gordon Parry. Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by Nellie Alistair, a ruthless woman with sinister motives, who takes pleasure exploiting her vulnerable tenants. Product Features Melanie Williams on Women of Twilight From Stage to Screen: Interview with Marc David Jacobs Stills gallery

• Crossing Delancey | DVD | (17/05/2016) from £20.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Story Of Adele H | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Story of Adele H is Francois Truffaut's dramatisation of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer. It's a cinematically beautiful and emotionally wrenching portrait of a headstrong but unstable young woman. Adele (Isabelle Adjani, whose pale face gives her the quality of a cameo portrait) travels under a false name and spins half-a-dozen false stories about herself and her relationship to Lieutenant Pinson (Bruce Robinson), the Hussar she follows to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pinson no longer loves her, but she refuses to accept his rejection. Sinking further and further into her own internal world, she passes herself off as his wife and pours out her stormy emotions into a personal journal filled with delusional descriptions of her fantasy life. Beautifully shot by Nestor Almendros in vivid colour, Truffaut's re-creation of the 1860s is accomplished not merely in impressive sets and locations but in the very style of the film: narration and voiceovers, written journal entries and letters, journeys and locations established with map reproductions, and a judicious use of stills mixing old-fashioned cinematic technique with poetic flourishes. The result is one of Truffaut's most haunting portraits, all the more powerful because it's true. --Sean Axmaker

• The Tamarind Seed | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £7.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (28.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A captivating romantic drama unfolds against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia in this acclaimed feature by multi-award-winning director Blake Edwards. Featuring an outstanding score by multiple Oscar winner John Barry and presented here in a brand-new transfer from original film elements The Tamarind Seed stars Julie Andrews as a Home Office minister's assistant and Omar Sharif as the Paris-based Soviet attache with whom she falls in love; among an outstanding support cast are Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms whose performance earned her a BAFTA Award in 1974. Holidaying in Barbados in the hope of overcoming the unhappiness of a broken love affair Englishwoman Judith Farrow meets debonair Russian Feodor Sverdlov. As they explore the island paradise together and their mutual feelings grow so too do the suspicions of the intelligence agencies in both London and Moscow. In a world where no-one is to be trusted and appearances can be fatally deceptive every move they make is being watched... Bonus Features: Soundtrack suite featuring score and musical arrangements by John Barry Song suite featuring music by John Barry Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Archive interviews with Omar Sharif and Blake Edwards Film and Soundtrack Notes by Geoff Leonard and Pete Walker

• Thunderbirds Are Go / Thunderbird Six | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.32

  Stand by for another action-packed adventure from the amazing international rescue team! Thunderbirds Are Go: The excitement begins as Zero X a 21st Century spacecraft is leaving the earth's atmosphere bound for Mars with five men on board. The craft is suddenly blasted by a mysterious explosion. Sabotage! Can the Tracy team uncover the perpetrators and save the next launch? Thunderbird Six: The trouble begins when rescue team member Alan Tracy sets out on a holida

• Ice Cold In Alex | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (112.29%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The title Ice Cold in Alex refers to the beer the heroes of this 1958 British World War Two classic plan to drink in Alexandria, once they have escaped from the Germans, negotiated minefields and survived both mechanical failure and the killing heat of the North African sands. The setting is Libya in 1942, at the height of the campaigns featured in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and a disparate group in a military ambulance--which include a Nazi agent to add tension of one kind and a beautiful nurse to add tension of another--must make an epic journey to safety. Staring John Mills, Sylvia Sims, Anthony Quayle and Harry Andrews the terror and poignancy comes from our certainty that not everyone will survive, such that the suspense sometimes reaches near unbearable levels. Director J Lee-Thomson was clearly inspired by the then recent French masterpiece, The Wages of Fear (1952) and handles both the character drama and set-pieces with great skill. He would go on to make another great war adventure, The Guns of Navarone (1961), also starring Anthony Quayle, who then returned to the desert for the ultimate British war classic, Lawrence of Arabia (1962). --Gary S. Dalkin

• At Home With the Braithwaites: The Complete Series | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £40.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Originally transmitted in the early 2000s, At Home with the Braithwaites received a number of award nominations, including ones at BAFTA, the British Comedy Awards and the International Emmys, and won the TV Quick Award in 2000 for the Best New Drama. This complete set brings all four series together.

• Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome To The Videos | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £7.26   |  Saving you £2.73 (37.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Welcome to the Videos provides a baker's dozen of Guns 'n' Roses' most explosive and memorable music videos from 1987 to 1993, and what a lesson they provide in the early evolution of visual style on MTV. Looking back, it seems Guns n' Roses embraced almost every type of music-video setting: "Welcome to the Jungle", for instance, finds rapid images of the band's stage performance interspersed with a semi-narrative featuring Axle Rose as a newcomer to the big bad city; "Paradise City" is set against an arena sound check, while "Sweet Child O' Mine" is structured around the now-threadbare idea of a video documentary about a video production. A couple of obsessive themes emerge from this anthology, the starkest involving love and watery deaths ("Don't Cry" and "November Rain"). Most interesting are the opiate-like distortions of "The Garden" and the surreal "Since I Don't Have You", starring Gary Oldman as a grinning devil. --Tom Keogh

• No Trees In The Street (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (05/08/2024) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Then it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with impoverished unemployed people with little or no hope. He relates the story of attractive young Hetty who desperately tried to stop her younger brother descending into crime while her mother was endlessly urging her to take up with Wilkie, a smooth local racketeer, in the belief this would get the family out of poverty.

• Watch Me When I Kill | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just as some of Brian De Palma's most entertaining films have been tributes to Hitchcock's finest so director Anthony Bido (The Bloodstained Shadow) pulls off a brilliant homage to the early giallos of Dario Argento with this razor-sharp thriller that's also known as The Cat's Victims. When Mara (Paolo Tedesco) stops by at the chemist to pick up some painkillers she's unwittingly signed up for a prescription in terror and a world of pain for those around her! Told to come back another day little does Mara realise that the chemist is lying dead in the back of the shop and she's bought herself a stalker determined to wipe her out now that she's a witness. Bido weaves a web of one nod and a wink after another to any fan of Argento's most baroque thrillers with skilful murder set-pieces of his own and a soundtrack that could easily have been performed by Goblin. Intricate suspenseful and satisfying Bido applies his own visceral vision to the art of giallo film-making and pulls off a stunning bloodied gem.

• No Time for Tears | DVD | (21/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anna Neagle, George Baker and Anthony Quayle take leading roles in this star-studded medical drama, with an early film role for Sylvia Syms as a beautiful young nurse at the very beginning of her career. Presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance.The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness. When we take a closer look at the rich patterns formed by these lives, we can trace individual threads emerging...SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• Long Day's Journey Into Night | Blu Ray | (13/04/2020) from £9.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow, the film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father's funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat, and searches for lost love Wan Qiwen, who continues to haunt him. Sculpting time and space through virtuosic technical feats, Bi's film yields successive visual and aural delights. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected its first half recast in the second through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take in 3D. A hushed, hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight and featuring the formidable Sylvia Chang as Wildcat's mother Long Day's Journey Into Night leads the viewer on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue.

• Woman In A Dressing Gown | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £8.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (90.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A middle aged women who is content with her marriage is shocked when she finds out her husband has fallen in love with a beautiful younger woman and plans to leave their marriage to continue his passionate romance with her. Special Features: Interview with Sylvia Syms Introduction by Author Restoration comparison Stills gallery

• Asylum - Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (29/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Doctor Martin arrives for a job interview at a secluded asylum for the incurable insane, he must prove himself by listening to the macabre tales of four inmates and deducing which is the former head of the facility who suffered a breakdown. One of the most chilling anthologies of terror from Amicus starring Peter Cushing, Robert Powell, Herbert Lom and Britt Ekland. Special Features: Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney 'Two's a Company': 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky 'Inside The Fear Factory' Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve subtitles for the hearing impaired

• Thunderbirds: Volume 4 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £7.01   |  Saving you £8.98 (56.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR--[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]--and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "Vault of Death", "The Mighty Atom", "City of Fire" and "The Imposters". Amazon.com

• Thunderbirds: Volume 5 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £9.17   |  Saving you £6.82 (74.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Filmed in VIDECOLOR [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here.As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines--the real stars of the show--while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catch phrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company.) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood.On this DVD: The four episodes are: "The Man from MI5", "Cry Wolf", "Danger at Ocean Deep" and "Move and You're Dead".