Crime Thriller

• Serpico | DVD | (23/12/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Sidney Lumet's tense thriller based on real events featuring an outstanding Al Pacino as an undercover officer who incurs the wrath of cop colleagues for exposing corruption within the force...

• Gator - 88 Vault #11 | Blu Ray | (22/04/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When fresh-out-of-jail con artist Bobby Gator McKlusky is approached by Federal agent Irving to dish the dirt on his one-time associate and local crime boss Bama McCall, he at first refuses. But when he witnesses Bama's corruption and dirty dealing first-hand, he reconciles to bring the villain down. In this sequel to White Lightning, Burt Reynolds not only reprises his role as Gator he also directs this witty and action-packed follow-up.

• The Maze Runner | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £3.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (472.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling young adult thriller, THE MAZE RUNNER is set in a post-apocalyptic world, where Thomas is deposited in a community of young men after his memory is erased.

• Spy Game | DVD | (13/05/2002) from £5.50   |  Saving you £6.49 (118.00%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Robert Redford and Brad Pitt star in this thriller set in 1991, the dying days of the Cold War. Redford is the veteran agent who discovers, on the day of his retirement, that his young protege has been taken prisoner by the Chinese.

• The Wolf of Wall Street BD | Blu Ray | (01/05/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  MORE IS NEVER ENOUGH. Few filmmakers depict greed and amorality on screen like Martin Scorsese. Thrilling, glamourous, seductive: his unflinching eye sees all and refuses to look away. Nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is a monstrous masterpiece, equal parts hilarious and horrifying. Leonardo DiCaprio is on dazzling form in the frenetic true life tale of New York stock-broker Jordan Belfort and his rise from boiler room brokerage firm to a decadent life of obscene wealth, stratospheric drug-use, and rampant corruption. Spiralling out of control as government investigators close in, Belfort's fall is as spectacular as his meteoric rise. Arrow Video is proud to present a director-approved 4K transfer of this extraordinary ode to American excess, in a special edition as sleek and sharp as the Wolf himself. Product Features BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of a director-approved 4K transfer Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of artwork DISC ONE: FEATURE & EXTRAS Audio commentary by film critics Glenn Kenny and Nick Pinkerton Introduction by film historian Ian Christie, editor of Scorsese on Scorsese Theatrical trailer DISC TWO: EXTRAS Interview with screenwriter Terence Winter Interview with production designer Bob Shaw Wall Street After Hours, a visual essay by film critic Simon Ward on the dark humour of Martin Scorsese Planet Hollywolf, a visual essay by film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain on Jordan Belfort's lesser known career as a low budget movie producer The Wolf Pack, an archival featurette exploring Martin Scorsese's take on the story and the characters involved Running Wild, an archival featurette taking a closer look at the filmmaking process and key creative team The Wolf of Wall Street Roundtable, an archival featurette with director Martin Scorsese, writer Terence Winter and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in conversation Behind the Scenes, documentary footage shot during filming TV spots Image gallery

• Venom (2018) (Amazon Excl.) | DVD | (01/11/2021) from £5.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tower Block | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £6.88   |  Saving you £9.11 (132.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One tower block. Fifteen tenants. One sniper. With career-defining performances from Sheridan Smith, Jack O'Connell, Russell Tovey, Kano and Ralph Brown, this fantastically gripping British thriller is a movie not to be missed. Special Features: Interviews with Cast and Crew

• Knife Of Ice | Blu Ray | (03/07/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When the mute Martha Caldwell (Carroll Baker) discovers her famous cousin Jenny Ascot (Evelyn Stewart) has been brutally murdered, apparently by a strange man who had been stalking them, her world becomes one of nightmare and disturbing revelation. Directed by Italian legend Umberto Lenzi, (So Sweet, So Perverse, The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist, Cannibal Ferox) Knife of Ice (1972) is a quintessential piece of early 70s Gialli creepiness. Dreamlike, brutal and beautifully presented Lenzi's movie delivers a wonderfully creative mystery replete with a typically European twist in the tail. Product Features Remastered 2K Transfer in 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio from the Original Negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation 2.0 English LPCM Mono 2.0 Italian LPCM Mono with newly-translated English Subtitles Audio Commentary by Giallo Expert Troy Howarth and Critic Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo-Digital.com 'Yellow is the Colour of Fear' - An Interview with Critic Marcus Stiglegger 'Dressing to Kill' - An Interview with Costume Designer Silvio Laurenzi Il Cinema Kriminal Di Umberto Lenzi - Part 1 Italian Credits Sequence English Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original poster

• Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance | DVD | (25/12/2023) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Hands Of Orlac | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mesmerising expressionist thriller starring Conrad Veidt. Eureka Entertainment to release THE HANDS OF ORLAC, Robert Wiene's triumphant work of sinister German Expressionism starring Conrad Veidt, on Blu-ray for the first time on home video in the UK as part of The Masters of Cinema Series from 14 June 2021. The first print run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase. Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac's Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man's hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Hands of Orlac for the first time on home video in the UK in a special Blu-ray edition. Special Features Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a restoration of the original film elements by Film Archiv Austria LPCM 2.0 audio Original German language intertitles with optional English subtitles Brand new feature length audio commentary with author Stephen Jones and author / critic Kim Newman Brand new video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns Alternate presentation of The Hands of Orlac [SD, 110 minutes] Courtesy of the F. W. Murnau Foundation, a presentation of the film struck from a different print source, featuring alternate takes of certain scenes. Includes a musical score by Paul Mercer. Scene comparisons highlighting some of the differences between the two versions of the film A Collector's Booklet featuring new writing by Philip Kemp, and Tim Lucas

• Last Night In Soho | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

• Law Abiding Citizen | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Law Abiding Citizen" is a tense, edge of your seat thriller that will make you question the lengths a good man will go for justice.

• Stalker | Blu Ray | (24/07/2017) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Andrei Tarkovsky's hypnotic sci-fi masterpiece, a visually astonishing journey The final Soviet feature by ANDREI TARKOVSKY (Solaris) is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guidethe Stalkerleads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumoured to fulfil one's most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky Interview from 2002 with set designer Rashit Safiullin Interview from 2002 with composer Eduard Artemyev New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu Click Images to Enlarge

• The Bank Job | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £5.85   |  Saving you £14.14 (241.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The Bank Job" is inspired by an extraordinary true event, a daring, unsolved robbery, which took place more than 35 years ago in London.

• Blacklight | DVD | (04/07/2022) from £6.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Travis Block (Liam Neeson), a shadowy government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed, uncovers a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.

• Memento | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Guy Pearce stars in this innovative thriller that begins with a crime and then goes back through time to trace its origins.

• American Beauty | Blu Ray | (14/02/2011) from £8.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (124.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From its first gliding aerial shot of a generic suburban street, American Beauty moves with a mesmerising confidence and acuity epitomised by Kevin Spacey's calm narration. Spacey is Lester Burnham, a harried Everyman whose midlife awakening is the spine of the story, and his very first lines hook us with their teasing fatalism--like Sunset Boulevard's Joe Gillis, Burnham tells us his story from beyond the grave. It's an audacious start for a film that justifies that audacity. Weaving social satire, domestic tragedy and whodunit into a single package, Alan Ball's first theatrical script dares to blur generic lines and keep us off balance, winking seamlessly from dark, scabrous comedy to deeply moving drama. The Burnham family joins the cinematic short-list of great dysfunctional American families, as Lester is pitted against his manic, materialistic realtor wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening, making the most of a mostly unsympathetic role) and his sullen, contemptuous teenaged daughter, Jane (Thora Birch, utterly convincing in her edgy balance of self-absorption and wistful longing). Into their lives come two catalytic outsiders. A young cheerleader (Mena Suvari) jolts Lester into a sexual epiphany that blooms into a second adolescence. And an eerily calm young neighbour (Wes Bentley) transforms both Lester and Jane with his canny influence. Credit another big-screen newcomer, English theatrical director Sam Mendes, with expertly juggling these potentially disjunctive elements into a superb ensemble piece that achieves a stylised pace without lapsing into transparent self-indulgence. Mendes has shrewdly insured his success with a solid crew of stage veterans, yet he has also made an inspired discovery in Bentley, whose Ricky Fitts becomes a fulcrum for both plot and theme. Cinematographer Conrad Hall's sumptuous visual design further elevates the film, infusing the beige interiors of the Burnhams' lives with vivid bursts of deep crimson, the colour of roses--and of blood. --Sam Sutherland

• Mission: Impossible 6 - Fallout 4K UHD + Blu-ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Some missions are not a choice. On a dangerous assignment to recover stolen plutonium, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) chooses to save his team over completing the mission, allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of a deadly network of highly-skilled operatives intent on destroying civilisation. Now, with the world at risk, Ethan and his IMF team (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson) are forced to become reluctant partners with a hard-hitting CIA agent (Henry Cavill) as they race against time to stop the nuclear fallout. There's never been a threat more destructive or stunts more jaw-dropping than in this film that critics are calling the best Mission yet (Jamie Graham, TOTAL FILM). Product Features Disc 1: 4K UHD and Disc 2: Blu-ray Special Features Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Editor Eddie Hamilton Commentary by Composer Lorne Balfe Disc 3: Blu-ray Bonus Disc Behind the Fallout Deleted Scenes Montage with optional Commentary by Director Christopher McQuarrie and Editor Eddie Hamilton Foot Chase Musical Breakdown The Ultimate Mission Storyboards images Theatrical Trailer

• 24: Series 1 | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £14.93   |  Saving you £35.06 (234.83%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes place over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you extract the ad breaks). Everything to take place in real time--on-screen and off-screen time the same--which means no flash-backs, no flash-forwards, no nice handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked to make sure that things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy. Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done a pretty impressive job in putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as Federal Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) hares around LA trying to stall an assassination attempt on a black Presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It’s not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?) and the final twist, once you start thinking back, makes no sense whatsoever. There are altogether too many huggy family moments ("I love you, Dad." "I love you, son"); and as for überbaddie Dennis Hopper’s "Serbian" accent… Even so, this is undeniably mould-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed--we gain a real sense of LA’s splayed-out geography--and Sean Callery’s score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series future TV thrillers will have to measure themselves against. On the DVDs: 24 is released in a six-disc box set. On discs 1- 5 there are no extras, but disc 6 includes the "alternative" ending and a preview of Series 2, presented by an urbane Kiefer Sutherland, that tells us precisely nothing. The transfer, in 16x9 widescreen and 2.0 Dolby Digital sound, does the high production values of the original every justice.--Philip Kemp

• The Alto Knights | Blu Ray | (02/06/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Alto Knights follows two of New York's most notorious organised crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, and how their separate paths to power place them on a deadly collision course.