Crime Thriller

• Gravity | Blu Ray | (12/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  GRAVITY, directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuaron, stars Oscar winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone.

• The Cat O Nine Tails | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £19.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the success of his debut feature, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, distributor Titanus tasked writer / director Dario Argento with delivering a follow-up in short order. The resulting film, granted a greatly enhanced budget and heralded in its US marketing campaign as nine times more suspenseful than its predecessor, was The Cat O' Nine Tails. When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco Arnò (Karl Malden, Patton, One-Eyed Jacks), who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute's scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth. And worse still, Lori (Cinzia De Carolis, Cannibal Apocalypse), Franco's young niece, may also be in the killer's sights This second entry in the so-called Animal Trilogy found Argento further refining his distinctive style and cementing his reputation as the master of the giallo thriller. Co-starring Catherine Spaak (Il Sorpasso) and Rada Rassimov (Baron Blood), and featuring another nerve-jangling score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), The Cat O' Nine Tails remains one of Argento's most suspenseful and underrated films.

• Jack The Ripper | Blu Ray | (20/05/2024) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Restored EditionMichael Caine heads a star-studded cast in this acclaimed, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning dramatisation of the hunt for the notorious serial killer who preyed on the prostitutes of London's East End. Made for the 1988 centenary of these infamous murders, the production team were granted unprecedented access to Home Office files on the Ripper case the resulting two-part miniseries winning Caine a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of the dogged Scotland Yard detective Frederick Abberline. Jack the Ripper is presented here using original film materials, in its original aspect ratio.In the autumn of 1888, Chief Inspector Abberline is sent to investigate the murder and mutilation of a prostitute. Others soon meet the same fate, and a press frenzy ensues. With Jack the Ripper terrorising London and both police and outraged public clamouring for a swift conclusion, Abberline and his partner, Godley, work doggedly through their list of suspects more than one of whom has royal connections. SPECIAL FEATURESFeature-length widescreen version with brand-new 5.1 mixRushes Barry Foster version Image gallery

• The Recruit | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £6.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (177.62%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A brilliant young CIA trainee (Colin Farrell) is asked by his mentor (Al Pacino) to help find a mole in the Agency.

• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Visually beautiful, Stanley Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to, and the standout performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: Eyes Wide Shut on DVD is presented in lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score, and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Steven Spielberg, to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• Run! Bitch Run! | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £9.96   |  Saving you £3.02 (43.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Run! Bitch Run! tells the story of Catherine and Rebecca two innocent teenage Catholic schoolgirls selling religious paraphernalia door-to-door in order to pay for their education. Things go horribly wrong when they knock on the wrong door in the wrong neighborhood and are confronted by evil Marla psychotic Clint and sociopath Lobo. Rebecca is tortured and killed and after she is brutally raped and left for dead Catherine awakes with only one thing on her mind REVENGE!! Run! Bitch Run! is a throw-back to the old school Rape & Revenge films of the 1970's and is loaded with classic Grindhouse characters. It has its fill of sex violence and dark humour that warrants multiple viewing for any fan of the Exploitation genre.

• Jeepers Creepers | Blu Ray | (26/10/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens (Gina Philips, Chained and Justin Long, Drag Me to Hell) are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck... and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. But when they stop to investigate, they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than they could have ever suspected... and that they are now the targets of an evil far more unspeakable (and unstoppable) than they could have ever imagined!

• Sin City | DVD | (21/07/2014) from £3.63   |  Saving you £12.36 (340.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez's stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller's pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight's (Clive Owen) attempt to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three of Miller's immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it's almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman's red lips, a villain's yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller's gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller's copious nudity is absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers who aren't already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition, it's a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller's stories are riveting, and the huge cast--which also includes Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Brittany Murphy, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Elijah Wood, Nick Stahl, Michael Clarke Duncan, Devin Aoki, Carla Gugino, and Josh Hartnett--is just about perfect. (Only Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, while very well-suited to their roles, seem hard to separate from their established screen personas.) In what Rodriguez hopes is the first of a series, Sin City is a spectacular achievement. --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• The Italian Job (2003) 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious, Straight Outta Compton), The Italian Job gets a stylish and non-stop high octane upgrade in 4K Ultra HD™ with Dolby Vision and HDR-10. Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) pulled off the crime of a lifetime, but he didn't plan on being double-crossed. Now he wants more than the job's payoff... he wants payback. Along with an expert safecracker (Charlize Theron), Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles. Product Features Pedal to the Metal: The Making of The Italian Job Putting the Words on the Page for The Italian Job The Italian Job - Driving School The Mighty Minis of The Italian Job High Octane: Stunts from The Italian Job Deleted Scenes

• Trauma | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £7.96   |  Saving you £9.02 (181.49%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Chilling thriller starring Colin Firth as a bereaved widower haunted by visions of his dead wife.

• Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani | Blu Ray | (24/07/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The most American of directors according to celebrated critic Paolo Mereghetti, Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) nevertheless surveyed his own country's mafia history unlike anyone before him, to critical and box office success. Three such classic films are collected in this Blu-ray box set, presented from new restorations. The Day of the Owl stars Franco Nero as a police chief who, while investigating the death of a construction worker, goes up against corrupt officials and a ruthless mafia boss (Lee J. Cobb). Adapted from the celebrated novel by Leonardo Sciascia (Illustrious Corpses, Todo Modo), The Day of the Owl was the first book to openly deal with organised crime in Sicily. A prestigious production, it was in the running for best film at the Berlin Film Festival and found wins at home in the David di Donatello Awards for Claudia Cardinale, Nero, Damiani, and Best Production. Nero portrays a simple man thrown in jail for a misdemeanour in The Case is Closed: Forget It. Inside, he sees the grim reality of life behind bars, where the mafia controls everything. A powerful production with Nero in top form and supported by a strong cast including Riccardo Cucciolla (Rabid Dogs) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), the intensity of Damiani's film places it among the finest prison dramas. Presented in Italian and for the first time with the original English dub. In How to Kill a Judge, Nero plays filmmaker Giacomo Solaris, whose latest film features a judge corrupted by the mafia and who is later found murdered. The real judge the character is based on seizes the footage, but is later killed in the same way. Feeling a degree of responsibility, Solaris investigates, but as the assassinations increase around him, will he reach the source of the conspiracy? Full of twists and a fascinating meta-commentary on cinema, Damiani points the camera at himself and the genre as he investigates the social impact of mafia violence, a fitting end to this survey of Damiani's Cosa Nostra. Limited Edition Features 2K restorations of The Day of the Owl, The Case is Closed: Forget It and How to Kill a Judge New and archival extras for each film Limited edition perfect bound book featuring new writing on the film by experts on the genre Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in a rigid box with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings The Day of the Owl 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero Archival interview with Franco Nero, writer Ugo Pirro and production manager Lucio Trentini Archival interview with Claudia Cardinale from French TV in which she discusses her long and storied career Identity Crime-Sis: filmmaker and Italian crime cinema expert Mike Malloy discusses The Day of the Owl in the context of the formation of the Italian crime film genre Filmmaker Howard Berger looks at the late Italian career of actor Lee J. Cobb Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters The Case is Closed: Forget It 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and, for the first time, English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero Archival documentary on the making of the film featuring actor Corrado Solari, assistant director Enrique Bergier and editor Antonio Siciliano Video essay on the career of Damiani Damiani by critic Rachael Nisbet Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters How to Kill a Judge 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in Italian and English audio options Original uncompressed mono PCM audio New interview with star Franco Nero New interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano Damiani New video essay on the film by filmmaker David Cairns Trailer Optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters

• Bulletproof | DVD | (14/09/2020) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Savage Justice | DVD | (13/02/2023) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Nocturnal Animals | Blu Ray | (10/07/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award® nominees Amy Adams* and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this haunting romantic thriller from acclaimed writer/director Tom Ford (A Single Man). Susan (Amy Adams) is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was lost. Also starring Armie Hammer and Michael Shannon, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS is a thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension. Product Features The Making of Nocturnal Animals

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Set 1 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £15.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (36.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's enigmatic eccentric and extremely intelligent detective Hercule Poirot.From England to the Mediterranean accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks Captain Hastings Chief Inspector Japp and Miss Lemon Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.Includes the following:The Adventure of Clapham Cook Murder in the Mews The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly Four and Twenty Blackbirds The Thir

• Wallander: Collected Films 1-7 | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The opening seven episodes of the acclaimed Swedish crime drama series based on the novels by Henning Mankell. Krister Henriksson stars as Kurt Wallander a jaded police detective ground down over the years by difficult events in his personal life. As he investigates a string of grisly crimes in the cheerless town of Ystad Wallander is accompanied in his work by his troubled daughter Linda (Johanna Sallstrom). Episodes are: 'Before the Frost' 'The Village Idiot' 'The Brothers' 'The Overdose' 'The African' 'Mastermind' and 'The Tricksters'.

• Cannibal Ferox | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £11.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A decade on from starting the cannibal genre, director Umberto Lenzi has the final word, pushing the vomit envelope beyond the sick with his utterly nasty, nihilistic apotheosis that is CANNIBAL FEROX. So unredeemable that its own makers denounced it as barbaric..! An academic, Gloria (Lorraine De Selle), journeys to the Amazon jungle where things go awry when her party encounters sadistic druggy villain Mike (Giovanni Lombardo Radice aka John Morghen), as the travellers venture further into the heart of darkness, they soon discover what it means to be the hunted prey. CANNIBAL FEROX aka 'Make Them Die Slowly', topped the official Video Nasty list for its raw graphic scenes of torture, mutilations, murder and cannibalism. This new 2K restoration of the film in full duration additionally features new grading which revives, for the 1st time, the original edgy look of the 16mm film stock it was shot on  finally presenting the film as it was first created by director Umberto Lenzi, on location in the Amazonian green inferno.

• Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Series | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.91

  Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected comes to you as a collection of every episode from each series. Although widely-regarded as one of the greatest children's authors of all-time Roald Dahl also wrote chilling adult fiction taking the twisted ideas used to entertain children and thrilling adults with similar themes. Much-gossiped about in its day the surprising stories - usually with a sting in the tale - enthralled a nation the moment the iconic titles started. Sinister and with a touch of the macabre Tales of the Unexpected holds at its heart a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit - Series 4 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Law And Order: Special Victims Unit the highly successful spin-off from the original series returns to DVD. Starring Christopher Meloni (HBO's Oz) and Mariska Hargitay (nominated for two Emmy Awards for her work on the show) as Detectives Stabler and Benson SVU focuses on sex crimes.

• Renegades | DVD | (06/02/2023) from £7.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A