Crime Thriller

• Ipcress File | DVD | (24/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  James Bond was not the only British secret agent who in the sixties made an impact on the film world. Harry Palmer, a creation of writer Len Deighton thriller, made his first appearance in this dark and thrilling espionage thriller. Palmer, cool and laconic played by Michael Caine, investigates the disappearance of some British nuclear scientists. The trail leads to a secret organization called Ipcress, the scholars who abduct and brainwash. Harry suspects that.

• L.A. CONFIDENTIAL STEELBOOK - EXCL HUT | Blu Ray | (02/10/2017) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This beautiful Steelbook is available for the first time with this exclusive artwork and six collectable artcards. The disc is also a new version. Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce star in this classic thriller directed by Curtis Hanson. In 1950s Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Pearce), Bud White (Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Spacey) are three very different cops: Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed earns the enmity of Bud and Jack when he testifies that they were involved in the beating of a group of Mexicans in police custody, but all three men become involved after a mass-murder takes place at the Nite Owl cafe. Initially, it seems that a group of drug addicts are responsible, but further investigation leads to evidence of blackmail, prostitution and a police cover-up. Kim Basinger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

• MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS - ZAVVI STEELBOOK EXCL | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £28.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all-star cast, including Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe and Judi Dench, in this stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mystery based on the best-selling novel by Agatha Christie. Everyone's a suspect when a murder is committed on a lavish train ride, and a brilliant detective must race against time to solve the puzzle before the killer strikes again.

• Ken Follett's the Third Twin | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Adapted from Ken Follett's novel available for the first time on DVD! Dr Jeannie Ferrami has a career in genetics research. Her pioneering programme studies identical twins who have been raised apart hoping to advance the nature versus nurture argument. What long-buried secret is the Ferrami programme on the verge of uncovering?

• The Trap | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A chance meeting with an ex-lover turns into a nightmare when Michael comes face to face with Marie the woman he jilted sixteen years ago. After dinner that evening the couple realise whilst making love that the feelings and emotions they share are as strong as they used to be. Michael awakes the next morning to find that he has been drugged and tied to the bedposts. Marie admits to drugging him and has tied him up so that he can never leave her again. Realisisng the woman's desperate insanity Michael shouts and struggles about his imprisonment. He is beaten for rebelling and stabbed when he attempts to escape. Between beatings and forced love making he realises that his only way of escape is to seduce Marie's sixteen year old daughter who has witnessed the violent ordeal he has endured. However the daughter is as mad as her mother and wants the leading role in the delirious sexual game....

• Mayhem | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mayhem (2017). Import from The Netherlands with English soundtrack. A Dangerous Virus, one that prevents the infected from controlling their inhibitions, is discovered in a corporate law building, the very same firm that recently cleared an infected man on murder charges. When a quarantine is issued and the building goes on lock down, al hell breaks loose inside, while a disgruntled employee and an irate client must fight and even kill their way to the top to have a word with the corrupt executives who wronged them before time runs out.

• The Darkest Day | Blu Ray | (11/03/2013) from £24.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sherlock Holmes - The Secret Weapon | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The inventor of a secret weapon and its prototype are abducted leaving the wartime Allies in dire need of assistance. Sherlock Holmes is called and begins to do battle with Professor Moriarty who will later become his arch-enemy...

• Murk | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jacob has ostensibly taken time off work to write a book but in reality he's still coming to terms with his sister Julie's attemted suicide she is now seriously disabled and wheelchair bound. Jacob feels somehow responsible and his guilt has robbed his life of direction. Meanwhile Julie has struck up a romance on the internet with the slightly odd yet seemingly decent and kind Anker and announces their intention to marry. After some initial doubts Jacob accepts Anker pleased that Julie has managed to find some kind of happiness. But on her wedding night Julie commits suicide and the family is devastated. The tragic answers to the questions raised by her suicide are found In the silent streets of a town called Murk.

• The Ipcress File | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The tense spy thriller by Len Deighton that turned Michael Caine into a superstar! Cynical and rebellious ex-army sergeant Harry Palmer has been blackmailed into working for Britain's security service. Hot on the trail of a kidnapped scientist Palmer finds himself enmeshed in a sinister conspiracy involving horrifying brainwashing techniques murder and treachery that reaches up to the highest levels of the security service itself... Often hailed as Len Deighton's finest spy story

• La Balance | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the dark and dangerous streets of Paris lurks an underworld full of lowlifes pimps and hookers. The elite undercover cops turn a pimp (Philippe Leotard) into an informer in order to crack the crooked world he inhabits... This gritty realistic slice of the Parisian underbelly has been much copied but never bettered!

• True Crime | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Once in a while, studio heads actually make sensible decisions. Kudos to whoever at Trimark screened the embarrassing True Crime, an overwrought, under thought, "mystery" and decided, "You know, we really don't need to let the American public see this," and immediately sent it straight to video. Probably the one most pleased by the decision was Alicia Silverstone, who didn't need this type of thing getting a theatrical distribution and hurting her blossoming career. As for Kevin Dillon? Well, he was probably happy just to get paid. Silverstone plays the teen Nancy-Drew-meets-Encyclopedia-Brown protagonist who teams up with fresh-faced police cadet Dillon to try to bag a serial killer who's been butchering teenage girls at travelling carnivals in various cities. Writer-director Pat Verducci packs his thriller with implausible detective work and numerous plot twists, all visible 20 minutes away. The "shock" ending can pretty much be worked out within the first act, leaving viewers another hour to watch Verducci concoct several amateur dream sequences, and explore a disgusting sexual relationship between Silverstone and Dillon. By the end, the question isn't so much "Whodunit?" as "Who cares?" --Dave McCoy, Amazon.com

• The Darkest Day | DVD | (11/03/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Reservoir Dogs - Special Edition -Mr Pink | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities even from each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception and betrayal.As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson

• Not Forgotten | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Soon after exchanging wedding vows with his second wife, a haunted man becomes obsessed with discovering the true fate of the missing daughter from his first marriage. Later, when the man and his new wife consult with a mystic, it quickly becomes apparent that some things are better left forgotten. Paz Vega and Simon Baker star in a supernatural thriller directed by BASIC co-producer Dror Soref.

• Sherlock Holmes - Dressed To Kill / Terror By Night | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-33.30%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Terror By Night (1946): A precious jewel 'The Star Of Rhodesia' is stolen from a train. The master detective is forced to use all his powers of deduction with the help of his trusty aid Dr. Watson in this fast paced thriller. Dressed To Kill (1946): A beautiful woman and her gang of criminals attempt to match their wits with Sherlock Holmes in this murder/mystery set in Dartmoor and London's antique auction rooms. Rathbone and Bruce gave the screen's greatest interpr

• Order Of Chaos | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sherlock Holmes - In Washington / Faces Death | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £14.95   |  Saving you £-5.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Two installments from the super sleuth with Basil Rathbone taking up the reigns of Holmes. In Washington:Top-secret documents are missing and a British secret service agent is dead. Holmes and Watson go to Washington to recover the documents before they fall into the wrong hands. Faces Death:Holmes and Watson are summoned to Musgrave Manor to investigate a murder. Holmes solves a complicated puzzle of an ancient family ritual to expose the murderer.

• Sherlock Holmes - Voice Of Terror / Secret Weapon | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £-3.97 (-44.20%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Two more installments from the super sleuth. Secret Weapon:The great detective must stop the Nazis from getting their hands on a new bombsight wrapped in a code of dancing men. Voice Of Terror:When taunting saboteurs warn of a Nazi invasion of the British Isles through a horrific radio menace the British Intelligence's Inner Council calls in Sherlock Holmes to help in the crisis.

• Ten Dead Men | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ten Dead Men a violent hard edged British revenge story that will blow you away! Betrayed repaying an old blood debt and left for dead former gun for hire Ryan returns to enact a violent bloody revenge on the ten men who killed his wife and forced him back into a life he thought he'd left behind years ago. Ten men took away his life. Now ten men will pay.