Crime Thriller

• The Long Good Friday Steelbook | Blu Ray | (04/05/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-11.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.24

  Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London’s derelict Docklands area years before the Thatcher government he tries to broker a deal with his American counterpart (Eddie Constantine) that will make them both millions. But who is killing Harold’s other associates and blowing up his businesses - and why? Universally regarded as one of the greatest British gangster films ever made The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom. He’s given sterling support from Helen Mirren (as his upper-crust mistress) Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Derek Thompson (Casualty) and there’s even an early appearance from future James Bond Pierce Brosnan. But it’s Hoskins’ film through and through his towering performance taking on a Shakespearean intensity as he’s forced to resort to the down-and-dirty methods that he thought he’d put behind him in order to find out who’s muscling in on his territory on what should be the best day of his life. He quickly finds out that this will be a very long Good Friday indeed… Special Edition Contents: Limited Edition SteelBook™ Packaging featuring original artwork. High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray and Standard Definition DVD presentation of a brand new restoration sourced from the original camera negatives and approved by cinematographer Phil Meheux. Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound. Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Audio commentary by director John Mackenzie. Bloody Business a documentary about the making of the film including interviews with John Mackenzie stars Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Pierce Brosnan producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux. Brand new interviews with Barry Hanson writer Barrie Keeffe and Phil Meheux. Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and BFI curator Mark Duguid illustrated with original production stills. More to be announced!

• 5 Against the House (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Guy Madison (The Beast of Hollow Mountain) and Kim Novak (Pushover) head an all-star cast in the film noir caper 5 Against the House, briskly directed by Phil Karlson (Scandal Sheet). A group of college students join with Novak's nightclub singer to rob Reno's famous Harold's Casino. As technical mastermind Ronnie (Kerwin Matthews, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) analyses the high-tech security system, traumatised war veteran Brick (Brian Keith, Tight Spot) threatens blow the whole plan apart. A classic of the heist genre, 5 Against the House was an influence on Ocean's 11 and Martin Scorsese's Casino, and forced the real-life Harry's to change the design of its security systems for fear of copycat robbery attempts. Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features High Definition presentation Original mono audio Audio commentary with film critic David Jenkins (2020) The Guardian Interview with Kim Novak (1997, 67 mins): archival video recording of the celebrated actor in conversation with David Robinson at the National Film Theatre, London Sweet and Hot (1958, 17 mins): comedy starring the Three Stooges, in which the trio team up with a female singer in the hope of finding fame and fortune in the big city Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• True Crime | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Not enough people went to see True Crime in cinemas. Wasn't Clint Eastwood too old to be playing a guy who a variety of glorious women, from the middle-aged Diane Venora and Laila Robins to the young Mary McCormack and Lucy Liu, find attractive? Could the onetime Man with No Name credibly play a brilliant crime reporter, Steve Everett, with an ironic turn of phrase and an incurable habit of screwing up both his personal and professional lives? The respective answers to those questions are: hell no and hell yes. True Crime features one of Eastwood's best and most entertaining performances--and his work as director is utterly assured. The story (from Andrew Klavan's bestselling novel) gives Everett the last-minute assignment of interviewing a condemned man (Isaiah Washington) on the eve of his execution. The prisoner, a born-again Christian and exemplary family man, has everything the reporter lacks except a shot at seeing the next sunrise. Everett sets out to get him that, yet far from making a beeline to the exculpatory evidence that will save the life of his "client," this very tarnished hero has to spend a lot of the next 24 hours contending with the baggage he's accumulated through drinking, wenching and familial neglect. (A Pirandellian note: Everett's daughter is played by Eastwood's own daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, and her mother, Frances Fisher, returns for a feisty cameo as a prosecutor.) This is a good one that got away. Don't let it happen again. --Richard T Jameson

• Come to Daddy | DVD | (02/03/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Bronx Tale | Blu Ray | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When his son is befriended by a dangerous local gangster, a father will stop at nothing to ensure his son isn't dragged into the cruel and dangerous underworld of New York.

• Duel Collector's Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (13/11/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TERROR IN YOUR REAR-VIEW MIRROR Steven Spielberg directs this high-velocity thriller about a motorist terrorised by an evil truck. Spielberg's first full-length movie, Duel, helped jumpstart the director's big-screen career, with a gripping, action-packed story hailed by critics as a film that belongs on the classics shelf reserved for top suspensers (Daily Variety). Dennis Weaver stars as the travelling salesman waging a desperate battle for survival after he is mysteriously singled out. Praised for its deft use of relentlessly mounting psychological tension, Duel features one of the most uniquely terrifying characters in movie history: a massive, roaring, 40-ton truck with sheer menace. A few years later, the action of Spielberg's blockbuster hit Jaws would echo Duel's tale of a lone hero in a heart-stopping fight to the finish against a monstrous, inhuman foe. Product Features INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED EDITION (Limited to 3,000) INCLUDES 4K Gloss Steelbook Motion Lenticular Slipcase Road Map Storyboard Booklet 6x Lobby cards Double-Sided Poster Also includes original TV Movie version of Duel in 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio (HD)

• Jagged Edge | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jagged Edge was one of a series of entertaining if porous thrillers crafted by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas before he wrote the ridiculous Showgirls. This 1985 movie is a taut mystery about an attorney (Glenn Close) who defends a newspaper publisher (Jeff Bridges) accused of murder. The fact that Close's character falls for him is more convenient than plausible, but it is a necessary emotional bridge for Eszterhas and director Richard Marquand (Eye of the Needle) to build toward a powerful finale. Scary, fun as courtroom dramas go, the film is well serviced by the two lead stars and has impressive support from co-star Peter Coyote and especially from Robert Loggia, who plays Close's cop buddy. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Killing - Season 1 and 2 | DVD | (19/12/2011) from £27.99   |  Saving you £32.00 (114.33%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Featuring every episode of the BAFTA Award-winning seriesSarah Lund is looking forward to leaving the Copenhagen Police Department to move to Sweden with her fiance until everything changes when a 19-year-old girl is found raped and brutally murdered. Along with Detective Jan Meyer they stay ahead of the investigation as it becomes clear they are following an intelligent and dangerous murderer.In the gripping return of the BAFTA Award-winning series, Sarah Lund returns to Copenhagen to investigate a savage murder when an ex-soldier who served in Afghanistan is savagely killed. Parallel to Lund, both the Minister of Justice and an escaped convict are also desperately searching for the murderer. They are the protagonists of a twisting tale of top-level cover-ups, betrayals and lies set in a time of fear.

• Untraceable | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £5.43   |  Saving you £4.56 (83.98%)   |  RRP £9.99

  FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is tasked with hunting down a serial killer who posts images of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out the cat and mouse chase becomes more and more personal.

• Hitchcock Vol. 1 | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Volume 1 of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films including Psycho (1960) Rope Saboteur Rear Window Shadow of a Doubt The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Saboteur (1942)Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of a fire that killed his best friend. Special Features: Saboteur: A Closer Look Storyboards: The Statue of Liberty Sequence Alfred Hitchcock's Sketches Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Shadow of a Doubt (1943)A young woman discovers her visiting Uncle Charlie may not be the man he initially seemed to be. Special Features: Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film Production Drawings by Art Director Robert Boyle Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Rope (1948)Two young men strangle their classmate hide his body in their apartment and invite his closest friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the perfection of their crime. Special Features: Rope Unleashed Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Rear Window (1954)A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his window and becomes convinced one of them has committed a serious murder. Special Features: Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary A Conversation with Screenwriter John Michael Hayes Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of The Master Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts Masters of Cinema Feature Commentary with John Fawell author of Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Re-Release Trailer Narrated by James Stewart The Trouble with Harry (1955)The trouble with Harry is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body. Special Features: The Trouble with Harry Isn't Over Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)A family holidaying in Morocco stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering. Special Features: The Making of The Man Who Knew Too Much Production Photographs Trailers Psycho (1960)A young woman steals $40 000 from her client and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor who has been too long under the presence and domination of his mother. Special Features: The Making of Psycho Psycho Sound In The Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho The Shower Scene: With and Without Music The Shower Scene: Storyboards by Saul Bass The Psycho Archives Posters and Psycho Ads Lobby Cards Behind-the-Scenes Photographs Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Re-release Trailers Feature Commentary with Stephen Rebello (author of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho)

• Gothic Fantastico | Four Italian Tales Of Terror | Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £49.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While groundbreaking director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Black Sabbath) remains the most well-known purveyor of Italian Gothic horror, many other filmmakers tried their hand at the form throughout the 1960s as part of a hugely prolific and popular cycle. Gothic Fantastico presents four off-the-beaten path titles from this classic period, all of which demonstrate Italy's ability to expand genre beyond the classic literary monsters that dominated elsewhere. Gaslighting abounds in Massimo Pupillo's Lady Morgan's Vengeance - a delicate tale of romance and mystery, with a sprinkling of sadism and the supernatural - as newlywed Sir Harold Morgan (Paul Muller, Nightmare Castle) attempts to destroy his new bride (Barbara Nelli, Double Face) with help from his sinister maid (Erika Blanc, Kill, Baby Kill!). Meanwhile, the perverse influence of Poe is used to great effect in Alberto De Martino's The Blancheville Monster - a tale of family curses and madmen in the attic, as Emilie de Blancheville (Ombretta Colli, Gladiator of Rome) returns home to her brother Rodéric (Gérard Tichy, Hatchet for the Honeymoon) and discovers her own family may be out for her blood. Mino Guerrini's The Third Eye features not only a very early role for Italian cult film icon Franco Nero, but a plot that borrows several elements from Hitchcock, layered with a whiff of necrophilia. Finally, Damiano Damiani's The Witch takes a more avant-garde approach, when a young historian (Richard Johnson, Zombie Flesh Eaters) is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter (Rosanna Schiaffino, The Killer Reserved Nine Seats). Madness, obsession and messed up families are the order of the day in these four lesser-known monochrome gems from Italy's peak Gothic period, fully restored in 2K from their original negatives and presented alongside an array of in-depth extras. Product Features 2K restorations from the original camera negatives of all four films High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each film Original Italian and English front and end titles on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch Original lossless mono Italian soundtracks on all four films Original lossless mono English soundtracks on The Blancheville Monster, The Third Eye and The Witch Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracks Video introductions to each film by Italian film devotee Mark Thompson Ashworth Image galleries Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch Disc One: Lady Morgan's Vengeance Audio commentary by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Video essay on the film by author and producer Kat Ellinger Video interview with actress Erika Blanc Video interview with actor Paul Muller Audio interview with director Massimo Pupillo The complete original cineromanzo, published in Suspense in April 1971 Trailer Disc Two: The Blancheville Monster Audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Paul Anthony Nelson Video essay on the film by writer and pop culture historian Keith Allison Video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori Opening credits for the Us release of the film Trailer Disc Three: The Third Eye Audio commentary by author and critic Rachael Nisbet Video essay on the film by author and filmmaker Lindsay Hallam Video interview with actress Erika Blanc Disc Four: The Witch Audio commentary by author and producer Kat Ellinger Video essay on the film by author and academic Miranda Corcoran Video interview with author and filmmaker Antonio Tentori

• Crimson Rivers 2: Angels Of The Apocalypse | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £14.72   |  Saving you £5.27 (35.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  French sensation The Crimson Rivers was a serial killer thriller with a difference--it was genuinely thrilling. It was also pretty disturbing, but Jean Reno (The Professional) brought some light to the darkness with his sly performance as dog-phobic detective Niémans. Fortunately, Reno has returned in this highly stylized Luc Besson-penned sequel. Vincent Cassell has not, but Benoît Magimel (The Piano Teacher), as new partner Reda, makes for a decent replacement. Alas, Olivier Dahan isn't in the same league as Matthieu Kassovitz and the story line, which has something to do with the Last Supper, the Maginot Line, and gravity-defying killer monks, is even more convoluted than before. Then there's Johnny Hallyday (The Man on the Train) as a mysterious one-eyed man and Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings) as a bad German dude. It's all a little ridiculous, but entertaining nonetheless, and the chase sequences are a treat. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Magnum P.I: Season 1 | DVD | (31/07/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Read My Lips | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £8.44   |  Saving you £11.55 (136.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

• Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made | DVD | (26/10/2020) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Canadian horror co-directed by David Amito and Michael Laicini. A documentary crew find a 1970s film about teenage siblings Oralee (Nicole Tompkins) and Nathan (Rowan Smyth) who attempt to revive their pet dog which they believe is suffering in Hell and their efforts result in a portal being opened to the underworld. However, when the film is screened the audiences are confronted by evil and the blurring of fiction and reality could be the difference between life and death.

• Snowden | Blu Ray | (03/04/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From three-time Oscar-winner, Oliver Stone, SNOWDEN is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarising figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in U.S. intelligence history. Click Images to Enlarge

• Devil Beneath | DVD | (29/05/2023) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Rover | Blu Ray | (05/01/2015) from £12.74   |  Saving you £3.25 (25.51%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ten years after a global economic collapse cold-blooded drifter Eric (Guy Pearce) traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who took everything he had. After losing their trail he soon crosses paths with Rey (Robert Pattinson) a badly wounded member of the gang who was left for dead by his own brother. Vulnerable and naïve Rey joins Eric as his unwitting accomplice and together they cross this new world to exact revenge on those who took everything from him.

• Giallo Essentials | Blue | Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (24/04/2023) from £29.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the early 1970s, when the giallo boom was at its peak, producer-turned-director Luciano Ercoli helmed three standalone but thematically linked examples of the genre, each featuring a memorable star turn by Spanish born actress and model Nieves Navarro (billed under her adopted stage name of Susan Scott). Accompanied by a rogues' gallery of familiar and recurring faces, this trilogy of terror represents the giallo at its most playful and unpredictable.In The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Minou's (Dagmar Lassander, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire) dull but pampered life is upturned by a mysterious sadist (Simón Andreu, Death Carries a Cane) who blackmails her into submitting to his every perverted whim. Desperate to escape his clutches, Minou confides in her libidinous best friend Dominique (Navarro)... but is she more involved than she's letting on? Then, in Death Walks on High Heels, Navarro stars as exotic dancer Nicole, daughter of a murdered jewel thief, who finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined to procure her father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris and her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in London, only to discover that death stalks her at every corner. Finally, in Death Walks at Midnight, Navarro stars as Valentina - a model who, in the midst of a drug-fueled photoshoot, witnesses a brutal murder in the apartment opposite hers. But when the authorities refuse to believe a crime has been committed, Valentina is forced to assume the role of amateur sleuth.With glamor, perversity and narrative twists and turns aplenty, each of these giallo delights is fully restored from original elements and presented alongside an array of all-encompassing bonus features.Product Features2K restorations from the original 35mm camera negatives for The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion and Death Walks on High Heels2K restoration from an original 35mm internegative for Death Walks at MidnightHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of each filmOriginal Italian and English front and end titlesOriginal lossless mono Italian and English soundtracksOptional English subtitles for the Italian soundtracksOptional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtracksRigid box packaging with newly designed artwork by Gilles Vranckx in a windowed Giallo Essentials Collection slipcoverReversible sleeves for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil and Gilles VranckxDisc One: The Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above SuspicionAudio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique MagazinePrivate Pictures, a documentary featuring interviews with actress Nieves Navarro, director Luciano Ercoli and writer Ernesto GastaldiThe Forbidden Soundtrack of the Big Three, an appreciation of the music of Forbidden Photos and 70s Italian cult cinema by musician and soundtrack collector Lovely JonThe Forbidden Lady, a Q&A with actress Dagmar Lassander at the 2016 Festival of Fantastic FilmsOriginal Italian and English theatrical trailersImage galleryDisc Two: Death Walks On High HeelsAudio commentary by film critic Tim LucasIntroduction to the film by screenwriter Ernesto GastaldiFrom Spain with Love, featurette with director Luciano Ercoli and actress Nieves Navarro, interviewed at their home in BarcelonaMaster of Giallo, screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi on Death Walks on High Heels and how to write a successful gialloDeath Walks to the Beat, a career-spanning interview with High Heels composer Stelvio CiprianiOriginal Italian and English trailersDisc Three: Death Walks At MidnightAudio commentary by film critic Tim LucasIntroduction to the film by screenwriter Ernesto GastaldiExtended TV version of the featureCrime Does Pay, screenwriter Gastaldi reflects on his career in the crime film-writing business, including a look at Death Walks at MidnightDesperately Seeking Susan, visual essay by Michael Mackenzie exploring the distinctive giallo collaborations between director Luciano Ercoli and star Nieves Navarro

• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £6.24   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse. Click Images to Enlarge