Crime Thriller

• 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 £12.80   |  Saving you £-2.81 (N/A%)   |  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 £5.86   |  Saving you £12.13 (207.00%)   |  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

• Impact/Serena | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise:Impact: Jack Moir (Conrad Phillips of William Tell fame), a newspaper reporter, is framed by 'The Duke' (George Pastell), a Soho racketeer against whom he has written a series of articles. Moir serves a two year sentence and then, with the help of his cell-mate, Charlie (John Rees), he lures 'The Duke' and his gang into Charlie's warehouse... A very good Butchers B feature that Conrad Phillips also co-wrote. Its also nice to see that Mike Pratt of Randall and Hopkirk is the detective in charge of the case. The film has good quality picture and sound following extensive restoration.Serena: Scotland Yard Inspector Gregory (Patrick Holt) strives to solve the mystery of an artist's wife found shot dead at an isolated Surrey cottage. The victim's husband, suave Howard Rogers (Emrys Jones), becomes the chief suspect. The mystery takes a complex turn when Rogers goes to identify her, but due to the gunshot wound her face is unrecognisable.However, when he inspects her body for an acknowledged birthmark he realises the body is not that of his wife... This 1962 Butchers production demonstrates again how Butchers were able to put together a good British B movie with a modest budget. The cast is the reliable Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones and Honor Blackman already enjoying success in The Avengers and two years later was Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.Shot on location and at Shepperton Studios its a story of death and deception nicely directed by Peter Maxwell with some 'newsy' type pan and zooms. The Director of Photography was Stephen Dade who created some good stark atmospheres he went on in 1964 to be D.O.P. on Zulu. Serena is a good British b flick with picture and sound of good quality.

• Bloodlust | DVD | (12/08/2024) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Australian horror written and directed by Jon Hewitt and Richard Wolstencroft. Roaming the streets of Melbourne, three vampires (Jane Stuart Wallace, Robert James O'Neill and Kelly Chapman) allow their urges to dictate their lives. Growing weary of all the sex, drugs and killing, the trio decide to rob the underground casino of mobster Steig (Paul Moder) for a major payday. Invoking Steig's wrath, the vampires find themselves fighting an army of gangsters, as well as the police and a wild preacher (Phil Motherwell) who is on a mission from God to rid the world of undesirables.

• Trust | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £8.25   |  Saving you £14.74 (178.67%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.

• Midsomer Murders - Written In Blood | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £10.50   |  Saving you £6.49 (38.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Another investigation into homicidal happenings in Midsomer. Gerald Hadleigh secretary of the Midsomer Worthy's writers circle had never wanted to invite best-selling novelist Max Jennings to one of their meetings. When Gerald is found dead the next morning from a brutal battering the other members of the circle wish they had heeded his reluctance. Slowly Gerald is revealed as a man of mystery. He has no national insurance number no relatives and no marriage certificate to match th

• Avalanche | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the peaks above Alaska's Eagle Ridge a dedicated avalanche forester warns that a mine has undermined the glacier's stability. No one listens until an avalanche kills a group of ski tourists. But it's too late to stop the white killer.

• Midsomer Murders - Garden Of Death | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £12.03 (242.54%)   |  RRP £16.99

  More murderous goings on in Midsomer for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to solve...The Inkpen-Thomas family owners of Inkpen Manor in Midsomer Deverett announce that their memorial garden will no longer be open to the public. The villagers are furious however are any of them angry enough to kill? When members of the Inkpen family are found murdered closure of the garden looks like a positive motive. However Barnaby and Troy uncover many family secrets during the course of t

• The Exorcism Of Emily Rose | Blu Ray | (08/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.

• Midsomer Murders - the Animal Within | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £4.66   |  Saving you £12.33 (264.59%)   |  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 scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. Retired society photographer Rex Masters disappears as his niece Faith Alexander arrives on a visit from America. Miles King Rex's gardener is shocked when he meets Faith as Rex told everyone that Faith and her entire family had died in a plane crash a year before. The following morning Rex's body is discovered in Crofter's Weir. Barnaby and Jones delve into the village's past to uncover the truth.

• Dead Fish | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £4.70   |  Saving you £9.55 (277.62%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Harry Potter The Book Of Eli) is at his dark best in the action-packed and sharply written Brit-Flick Dead Fish. Accompanying Oldman on this hilarious and thrilling rollercoaster ride of gangster life gone wrong is a legendary line up including Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting The Full Monty The Beach) Jimi Mistry (The Guru 2012 Blood Diamond) Terence Stamp (Wanted Yes Man Get Smart) and Billy Zane (Titanic). Dead Fish tells the story of Lynch (Oldman) an obscure but charming hit man sent to London for what should be a routine job. The hit becomes anything but straightforward as Lynch finds his world turned upside down when his phone is switched with a strangers'. Cut off from his employer's instructions Lynch goes on a manic rampage across London to recover his phone - and find its owner the girl of his dreams. He soon has bigger problems when he discovers he is being hunted by a rival assassin sent by his employers to take him out.

• Circus | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Circus is a modern crime thriller of cross, double cross and triple cross.

• Taggart - Flesh And Blood | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £14.35   |  Saving you £-8.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Traffik | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is the original award-winning drama which inspired the Oscar-winning film Traffic. Powerful gripping and compelling viewing Traffik explores the murderous business of the heroin trade from opium fields in Pakistan to our very own front door. This spiderlike tale of creeping intensity revolves around Jack Lithgow a government minister whose engagement in tempering the drug trade flowing from Pakistan is affected by the discovery that his young daughter is a heroin addict and the realisation that his efforts are empty politics with little result. Parallel to this runs the story of Fazal an opium farmer who when his crop is destroyed enslaves himself to a ruthless drug-dealer Tariq Butt crossing one line after another until everything he cares for is at risk.

• Lord of War - Händler des Todes - 2-Disc Steelbook (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) (Deutsche Version) | Blu Ray | (27/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dragnet | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99