"Director: Darren Aronofsky"

• Noah | Blu Ray | (28/07/2014) from £8.95   |  Saving you £18.04 (201.56%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.

• Black Swan (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• Black Swan | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £3.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

• Requiem For A Dream | Blu Ray | (05/10/2015) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Emotional drama set in Coney Island, New York about the lives and aspirations of four people compromised by drug abuse. Stars Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto as mother and son.

• Noah | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £4.94   |  Saving you £15.05 (304.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Darren Aronofsky the Academy Award winning director behind 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'Black Swan' takes the helm of this epic re-telling of the biblical tale Noah. Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage sacrifice and hope. Supporting cast features Jennifer Connelly Ray Winstone Emma Watson Anthony Hopkins and Logan Lerman.

• The Fountain | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £9.15   |  Saving you £10.84 (118.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, "The Fountain" is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

• Pi - 15th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (12/08/2013) from £13.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (81.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From acclaimed film-maker Darren Aronofsky director of Requiem for a Dream The Wrestler and Black Swan comes the fifteenth anniversary edition of his debut feature Pi (winner of Best Director at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival). Number theorist Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) has an obsession with numbers that causes him migraines. When Max's computer crashes after predicting a stock market collapse and spitting out a 216-digit number Max initially dismisses it until the prediction comes true and he realises that it could be the key he has been searching for in this surreal psychological drama.

• The Fountain | Blu Ray | (28/05/2007) from £12.55   |  Saving you £7.44 (59.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, "The Fountain" is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

• MOTHER! | DVD | (22/01/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in Oscar® nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. The film shattered audiences and critics around the world. It's been called gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding (Empire) and Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work (Time Out). Experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown! Bonus Features: mother! The Downward Spiral The Makeup FX of mother!

• Pi | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the 216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max. This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world, venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. Pi is complex--occasionally toocomplex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. Pi won the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. --Jenny Brown

• The Wrestler | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £6.19   |  Saving you £13.80 (222.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An ageing wrestler (Mickey Rourke) is forced to retire from the ring and must fight his toughest battles yet - overcoming his demons, reconnecting with his estranged daughter and building new found relationships.

• Black Swan - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £2.84   |  Saving you £23.41 (1,481.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• Requiem For A Dream | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £3.96   |  Saving you £16.03 (404.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A harrowing tale of drug addiction and lost dreams, set in 1978 New York.

• Black Swan | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £12.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (99.12%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) this provocative psychological thriller exhilarated audiences and critics on its way to becoming the must-see film of the year. Portman gives the performance of a lifetime as Nina a stunningly talented but dangerously unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to breaking point by her driven artistic director (Vincent Cassel) and the threat posed by a seductive rival dancer (Mila Kunis) Nina's tenuous grip on reality starts to slip away. As the pressure builds Nina's all-consuming obsessions spin out of control plunging her into a waking nightmare that will threaten not only her sanity but her life.

• MOTHER! | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in Oscar® nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. The film shattered audiences and critics around the world. It's been called gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding (Empire) and Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work (Time Out). Experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown! Bonus Features: mother! The Downward Spiral The Makeup FX of mother!

• Mother! (4K UHD + Blu-Ray) | 4K UHD | (22/01/2018) from £18.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar® winners Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem deliver unforgettable performances in Oscar® nominated Darren Aronofsky's praised opus. The film shattered audiences and critics around the world. It's been called gorgeous, distressing and utterly confounding (Empire) and Darren Aronofsky eclipses even his own darkest work (Time Out). Experience the visually arresting psychological thriller that will leave your heart pounding and your mind blown! Bonus Features: mother! The Downward Spiral The Makeup FX of mother!

• The Wrestler | Blu Ray | (01/06/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An ageing wrestler (Mickey Rourke) is forced to retire from the ring and must fight his toughest battles yet - overcoming his demons, reconnecting with his estranged daughter and building new found relationships.

• Requiem For A Dream | DVD | (05/10/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Emotional drama set in Coney Island, New York about the lives and aspirations of four people compromised by drug abuse. Stars Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto as mother and son.

• Requiem for a Dream | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £8.56 (47.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut Pi with this gritty, emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr., the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans).Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall.

• Requiem For A Dream Blu-Ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fantasy mixes with the harsh reality of addiction and the desire for hope in Requiem for a Dream. Beginning at the dawn of a new summer in Coney Island, the film charts the relationship of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her son Harry (Jared Leto)--two characters who are lost with in a world of the self-absorbed desire to feed their addictions at the cost of hope and love. With a sublime score (performed by the Kronos Quartet) accompanying some intense visual imagery, the film sets up an almost fairy-tale wash over the characters' lives, with every hit of their chosen drug turning them into beautiful people surrounded by a haze which enhances all their features. However, unlike films such as Trainspotting which turn the dream into a nightmare then end with a huge dose of hope, Requiem for a Dream forces the viewer through all loss of hope and the descending madness of reality, as winter begins. Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Pi is a movie which exposes not only the terror caused by addiction of any kind--be it TV or Heroin--but also offers a powerful insight into the destruction caused by the desire to achieve "the American Dream". Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr, the film sacrifices dialogue in favour of imagery and movement: the editing and cinematography are reminiscent of MTV, however the movie takes this very aggressive style and moulds it to its own needs, adding a beautifully haunting narrative and powerful performances by its four main characters (Burstyn just missing out on an Oscar for Best female lead to Julia Roberts). Ultimately the viewer is left with a sense of desperation and despair: Requiem for a Dream exposes drugs and addiction in the most powerful and truthful way a film has ever managed, leaving no stone unturned. On the DVD: This disc is bursting with excellent special features. The anamorphic widescreen picture makes the most of the film's stylish visuals, and the soundtrack offers choice of either Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0. As well as offering the obligatory theatrical trailer, scene selection and a fantastic director's commentary, there's also a "making-of" featurette, TV trailers charting the reviews and success of the film, an "Anatomy of a scene", and a wide range of deleted scenes. By far the best feature is Hubert Selby Jr's interview with Ellen Burstyn, which offers the writer a chance to put across not just his opinions on his work but also on life as a whole. All these features are placed within an impressively formatted menu. --Nikki Disney