"Actor: Tom Conti"

• The Haunting of Julia (aka Full Circle) | Blu Ray | (05/05/2023) from £34.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Beyond Therapy | DVD | (19/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Neurotic New Yorker Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) is a manic bisexual who enjoys a good cry. Equally insecure Prudence (Julie Hagerty of Airplane!) is the uptight writer he meets through the personal ads. Bob Christopher (Christopher Guest of Iby Goes Down A Mighty Wind) is Bruce's roommate and former lover who is insanely jealous of Prudence. Prudence is also sleeping with her lecherous therapist Stuart (Tom Conti of Reuben Reuben) while Bruce's therapist Charlotte (Oscar - winner Glenda Jackson of A Touch Of Class and Women In Love) may be crazier than any of her patients. Add an extremely overprotective mother and a very odd French restaurant and you have a one-of-akind comedy about life love and the happy endings that lay Beyond Therapy.

• Slade - Slade in Flame | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Slade embarked upon their one and only movie in 1974 fans and critics alike were expecting something akin to a Glam rock update of The Beatles `A Hard Days Night released a decade earlier. After all in the dark days of a Britain beset by strikes power cuts and a collective musical identity crisis Slade were the ultimate good time band: irreverent loud and armed with a terrific set of singalong stompers.

• Heavenly Pursuits | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sometimes all you need is a wing and a prayer. Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) loves two things in life, teaching the remedial class at Glasgow’s Blessed Edith Semple School and beautiful colleague Ruth Chancellor (Helen Mirren). When the school authorities decide to pursue full canonization of their namesake, little miracles begin to occur and Vic has to reassess his beliefs. Reunited in The Tempest, Conti and Mirren, first created an electrical storm in Scottish writer/director Charles Gormley’s charming and quirky comic drama. Featuring an exclusive score by Scottish composer BA Robertson and containing Ewen Bremner’s first screen appearance as little Stevie Deans, Heavenly Pursuits is a wee revelation. Extras include: Image Gallery

• Dangerous Parking | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £5.00   |  Saving you £14.99 (299.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A successful, hard living British film director, decides to defeat the many addictions that are destroying him. But Mother Nature has other tests of strength and character in store for him.

• The Treasure Houses Of England | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £10.68   |  Saving you £8.31 (43.80%)   |  RRP £18.99

  This is an opportunity to explore the treasures and histories of ten of England's most splendid houses; and to meet the aristocrats whose families have for centuries made them their homes. The Treasure Houses Of England are set in magnificent landscapes created in the most beautiful parts of the English countryside. This DVD opens their doors in a way they have never done before. to reveal to us some of the finest collections of paintings antiques furniture gold s

• American Dreamer | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  She was an ordinary housewife until her trip to Paris turned into an extraordinary adventure. A bored housewife with writing aspirations enters a mystery writing contest to win a free trip for two to Paris. When she unexpectedly wins her officious and neglectful husband refuses to go with her so she leaves alone. Once there she falls in front of a car driven by the Spanish ambassador and awakens thinking she is Rebecca Ryan the heroine in a series of pulp mysteries. As Reb

• The Norman Conquests | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Garden Living Room Dining Room: the three centrepieces of Middle England's social arena and the three backdrops in Alan Ayckbourn's incisive and scathingly funny trilogy. These renowned interconnected plays epitomise and riotously send up the cosseted values of Britain in the late seventies. Eavesdropping on a series of events entwining the same six characters between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning the simple turn of events in ""Table Manners"" ""Living Together"" and ""Round a

• First Wives Club / Shirley Valentine - Double Pack | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! The First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared.

• Out Of Control | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.49   |  Saving you £-3.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  One Of Them Is Destined To Die. 50 year old Eddie begins a relationship with a young woman when she shows up at his diner. He doesn't realise that she's running from a sinister past...

• Rosamunde Pilcher: Four Seasons (Summer/Autumn) | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four feature length episodes of Rosamunde Pilcher featuring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring.

• Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Japanese auteur Nagisa Oshima's (In the Realm of the Senses) BAFTA winning English language dbut, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence unites two classic cult figures- rock legend David Bowie (in one of his finest roles) and the inimitable actor/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano (Zatoichi). Adapted by Paul Mayersberg (The Man who Fell to Earth) from the novel by Laurens Van der Post, the film is a riveting exploration of racism, brutality and the sparks that fly when cultures collide, concentrating on a war of wills between enigmatic and rebellious POW Jack Celliers (Bowie) and camp commandant Capt Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also contributes the film’s bewitching score). Intelligently exploring the psychology of its characters, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence also hints at a sexual attraction between Celliers and Yonoi, and as such is an audacious and original addition to the POW genre. Special Features: The Oshima Gang: 30 Minute Making Of Documentary Exclusive Interviews With Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jeremy Thomas Theatrical Trailer

• A Closed Book | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £9.77   |  Saving you £6.22 (38.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Academy Award nominee Tom Conti and Kill Bill's Daryl Hannah are at their thrilling best in this twisted tale of murderous revenge, dark secrets and psychological mind games.

• Parents | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Jenny Pope (Sally Phillips) loses her job house and savings after getting 'punchy' with a colleague she and her family are forced to move back in with her parents Len (Tom Conti) and Alma (Susie Blake). Along for the upheaval are hubby Nick (Darren Strange) a struggling self-proclaimed entrepreneur and kids Sam and Becky. Three generations living under the same roof isn't ideal but beneath the spats and squabbles are some home truths. One that your parents are never too old to completely utterly annoy you. And two that you're never too old to learn from them.

• Dennis Potter At London Weekend Television | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £34.88   |  Saving you £-14.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dennis Potter has long been acknowledged as one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Though he had considerable successes with the series format (such as The Singing Detective and Casanova) it is generally accepted that his strongest work is the single play of which he did many for both the BBC and ITV. In celebration of both Potter's body of work and the fiftieth anniversary of ITV this collection celebrates three of his most signif

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A highly unusual war movie with as many detractors as fans, this first English-language feature directed by Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) stars David Bowie as a silent, ethereal POW in a Japanese camp. In the face of the camp's brutal conditions and treatment of prisoners, Bowie's character earns the respect of the camp commandant (played by Japanese pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also wrote the score) through his own enigmatic rebellion. While the two seem locked in an unspoken, spiritual understanding, another prisoner (Tom Conti) engages in a more conventional resistance against a monstrous sergeant (Takeshi). The film has a way of evoking as many questions as certainties, and it is not always easy to understand the internal logic of the characters' actions. But that's generally true of Oshima's movies, in which the power of certain relationships is almost hallucinatory in self-referential intensity. The cast is outstanding, and Bowie is particularly fascinating in his alien way. --Tom Keogh

• DNA | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (18.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• That Summer of White Roses | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £13.87   |  Saving you £2.11 (19.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Andrija (Tom Conti) stars as a likeable and good-natured lifeguard at a tranquil Yugoslavian summer resort. It's the last summer of the German occupation, and he has yet to save a life. However the calm is disturbed when a platoon of Nazis set up camp on the opposite bank. Then a young widow (Susan George) and her son ask him for a place to hide from the Germans. Andrija falls in love and then saves the life of a drowning man. But whose life has he saved?This unique and gripping World War II drama captures the warmth of this idyllic land, and the evils of war that affect all of their lives. That Summer of White Roses premiered in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain. It won the Grand Prix and Tokyo Golden Dragon for 'Best Film' and 'Best Director' at the Tokyo Interntional Film Festival. It also won the Golden Arena and the European Kodak Awardat the Pula Film Festival.

• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Blu Ray | (11/02/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima's 1983 Palme d'Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II.This powerful prisoner-of-war drama features a stunning cast - including David Bowie in one of his greatest roles - and is the first English-language film by acclaimed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses).Set in Java at a Japanese POW camp in 1942, a war of wills - and unspoken erotic attraction - unfolds between a rebellious prisoner, David Bowie, and camp commandant Ryuichi Sakomoto, who is impressed by Bowie's defiance while bilingual prisoner Tom Conti (Mr. Lawrence) engages in a more adversarial relationship with sadistic sergeant Takeshi Kitano (Hana Bi), who finally offers Lawrence a sinister 'Christmas' present.Fine performances by Conti, Kitano (his first dramatic role), Sakamoto (his acting debut, he also contributed the memorable score) and Bowie, combined with stunning cinematography and brilliant direction by one of Japan's finest filmmakers, make this a memorable and compelling war drama.The Oshima Gang Featurette (The Making Of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)An Interview With producer Jeremy ThomasAn Interview With actor/composer Ryuichi SakamotoAn excerpt from Scenes by the Sea: The Life and Cinema of Beat Takeshi Kitano Theatrical Trailer

• Risk | DVD | (16/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world of insurance hasn't exactly inspired a wealth of memorable cinema, but Australian film Risk is a feisty, funny, clever and, yes, insurance-related movie. Drawing on a range of cinematic themes (good cop/bad cop, the young newcomer and his guiding light, a love triangle) the film offers a fresh insight by virtue of its unusual setting. Ben Madigen (Tom Long) finds himself working in the business by default and is soon taken under the wing of the charismatic John Kreisky (Brown). While trying to undertake his job without compromising his principles, Madigen is unwittingly lured into a scam by Kreisky and his girlfriend, lawyer Louise Roncaldi (Claudia Karvan). The burgeoning and later unravelling relationship between the three is the film's key story, as Long finds himself torn between the other two. Brown is excellent as the scheming Kreisky, once again proving that his failure to move into a more major acting league is little short of baffling--but then, this type of imaginative film offers him more scope than Cocktail or FX ever could and serves as a welcome advertisement for the growing Australian movie industry. This is a highly intelligent film that keeps its plot-cards closely to its chest, keeping the viewer guessing throughout. On the DVD: the usual scene selection is coupled with the trailer, which presents the film (slightly misleadingly) in pulsating, high-action tones. The "making of" featurette offers the viewer an insight into not very much happening (look, there's a man pushing something) and gives the cast an opportunity to take themselves a little too seriously. --Phil Udell