Crime Thriller

• Se7en - Premium Collection Steelbook (Blu-ray + UV Copy | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die. Two Cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher(Fight Club Zodiac The Social Network) guides the action which looks razor sharp and brutally clear on Blu-ray as the improved sound and picture quality take you in to the heart of the horror. The suspense driven plot line is brought to life in dramatic detail and heart-stopping clarity letting you feel the fear and experience the thrilling twists in a whole new world of sin.

• Red Sands | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £6.64   |  Saving you £13.35 (201.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators of the cult hit Dead Birds comes the psychological horror film Red Sands which follows the story of a group of U.S. soldiers who face a deadly supernatural force after they destroy an ancient statue. Present-day Afghanistan. As continuing battles rage in the war-torn country a unit of U.S. soldiers are dispatched to seize and control a strategic road that runs past an abandoned stone house. En route the soldiers discover an ancient stone statue hidden deep within an ancient ravine. Using the relic for target practice they destroy it unwittingly releasing a vengeful supernatural force that is about to wage a horrifying war on them in this taut action-packed psychological thriller.

• Taggart - Double Exposure | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Firewall/The Fugitive | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Firewall (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2006): Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is an average family man in Seattle who heads up the hi-tech security team at his local bank. But following a seemingly trivial case of identity theft Jack's life is turned upside-down when he discovers that his wife (Virginia Madsen) and two kids have been kidnapped. The ransom? A mere $100 million which the kidnappers led by Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) want Jack to obtain for them via his expert computer skills. Initially compliant Jack is soon irked by Cox and his cronies to the point where he decides to risk everything to get his family back and bring the bad guys to justice... The Fugitive (Dir. Andrew Davis 1993): Catch him if you can. The Fugitive if on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of an U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. The non-stop chase has one exhilarating speed: all out.

• Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £4.90   |  Saving you £12.09 (246.73%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets. Joyce Barnaby has enrolled in an art class that takes her to the village green in Midsomer Florey. The village is also under surveillance by Barnaby and Troy who are busy with 'Operation Pondlife' an initiative designed to combat street crime. When Joyce finds the body of one of her fellow

• Final Contract | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David is in love with Jenny a girl he works with at a courier company. But he can't bring himself to tell her. He doesn't have much time left; Jenny is packed to leave for Barcelona. So David decides to tell her how he feels over a candle lit dinner....but things don't go to plan. On his last delivery run of the day the gorgeous Lara suddenly jumps into David's car-and the next thing he knows he's dodging bullets. Lara on a mission for the BKA is hunting a notorious professional killer. With David's help she makes it to safety and she thanks him by spending the night with him....with dangerous consequences. David wakes next morning to find himself on the BKA's Most Wanted list.

• Midsomer Murders - Midsomer Life | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.40   |  Saving you £11.59 (214.63%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Midsomer Life magazine and the Morecroft Hotel in Midsomer Sonning become the latest setting for DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones to solve a case.

• Lucifer: Staffel 5 | DVD | (28/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sieben - Limited Steelbook (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (16/01/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Death Dimension | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Detective Ash (Jim Kelly) must protect a woman who has the secret to a destructive weapon in a microchip implanted in her forehead. When ""The Pig"" creates an ""Ice Bomb"" that destroys people but leaves property intact Ash goes on a mission to stop him before he can use the weapon.

• Betrayed | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £8.16   |  Saving you £5.83 (41.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  After a six month suspension for reckless disregard of police protocol Detective Max Garret (Stephen Baldwin) is assigned to robbery-homicide and sent downtown to investigate the apparent suicide of a junkie. Teamed with Lieutenant Eddie Fulton (Charles Malik Whitfield) the case quickly unfolds as one in a string of serial murders. The search leads them to the studio of Laura Cross (Kristy Swanson) a sultry wise cracking photographer whose focus is bondage and domination. Max soo

• Bullet Ballet | DVD | (30/12/2013) from £5.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (60.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.

• Go Fast | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recalling such prior efforts as Police (1984) and La Balance (1982) Gallic director Olivier van Hoofstadt's relentlessly tense and violent action thriller Go Fast plunges into the violent and dangerous world of French metropolitan police. Roschdy Zem stars as Marek a cop involved in a risky sting operation against a drug trafficking ring. In the process his best friend and partner dies which prompts his transfer to an undercover division of the force. He soon learns that his new mission will involve infiltrating a gang involved in smuggling cannabis from southern Spain to small-town France.

• Dead Or Alive 2 | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £8.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (43.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An off-the-cuff Japanese gangster movie with an absurdist streak that shades into surrealism, Dead or Alive 2 isn't thrown by its brief to sequelise a film that ended not only with the deaths of its lead characters but the destruction of Japan. Takashi Miike--the prolific auteur whose best-known film is the atypically considered Audition--brings back his lead actors in different roles and spins off another strange shaggy dog tale. The film starts out with a Yakuza vs Triads gang war in the offing, then sidesteps into "'Beat"' Miike territory as a couple of hit-men who meet when they turn up for the same assassination turn out to be childhood friends and enjoy a nostalgic wallow as they return to the orphanage where they met, re-encounter other old pals and even stand in for some injured actors putting on a play for the children. White-suited and terminally ill Sawada (Riki Takeuchi) and bleached blond and Hawaiian-shirted Otamoko (Sho Aikawa) get back to gunplay, committing contract murders and funnelling the profits into third world charities, which earns them occasional angel-wings or transformations back into innocent children. In constant danger of collapse, the film keeps pulling surprises: txt msg-addicted killers, an animated diagram of bullet trajectories through an unfortunate dwarf's brain. The first film blew up the country because it couldn't think of an ending, and this also has a lot of trouble signing off, with protracted deaths and redemptions for the heroes. Miike alternates clumsiness and confusion with exciting and powerful cinema. --Kim Newman

• Children of Men - Mediabook - Motiv B | Blu Ray | (09/06/2022) from £23.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Thirteen | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Killers Are Not Born ... They Are Made A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage...

• Hierro | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (61.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emotionally devastating, visually stunning and truly terrifying, a Spanish genre thriller, Hierro depicts one woman's desperate journey into a nightmare vortex of horror and loss.

• Die in a Gunfight | DVD | (14/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Leon Morin, Pretre | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (80.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of an unfulfilled love affair set against the troubled backdrop of the French Occupation. Barny is a young widow she is also a militant communist and atheist who one day enters a church and randomly picks a priest to taunt. Leon Morin is a Catholic priest: he is also young handsome and unconventional in his religious approach. The two begin a platonic relationship but soon Barny's admiration for Morin turns to desire and he becomes the object of her romantic obsession

• Betty Fisher And Other Stories | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £2.79   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Betty Fisher and Other Stories, writer-director Claude Miller follows the examples of Claude Chabrol and Pedro Almodóvar in adapting a Ruth Rendell novel to the screen. In this case the original novel, The Tree of Hands, has been translated seamlessly and stylishly to a Parisian setting. The plot interweaves a complexity of characters and stories, but the central thread concerns the eponymous Betty, a novelist whose young son dies while her disturbed mother Margot is staying with her. Margot, with terrifying directness, calmly abducts another child of similar age to replace the dead boy. From this loopy act there stems a whole series of consequences and side-effects involving a widening and socially diverse circle of people across the city. Miller lucidly traces his way through the intricate story with cool, ironic humour and a sure touch for the different social milieus. Once or twice the plot strains credulity--bringing three major characters together by chance for the showdown at Charles de Gaulle airport is just a little too convenient--but most of the time the social and emotional cross-currents are deftly navigated. As Betty, Sandrine Kiberlain gives an almost painfully vulnerable performance, as if she lacks several layers of skin, while Nicole Garcia makes her mother Margot into a monster of overriding, self-pitying egomania. Their scenes together carry the weight of a whole lifetime of ill-suppressed mutual aversion. As with Rendell's novels, it's endlessly fascinating to watch these people, but you feel very glad you don’t know them. --Philip Kemp