Drama

• The Bill - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The old lady of UK crime-drama finally makes its way to DVD with this box set of series. Bringing hard-hitting storylines and gritty acting The Bill was something of a revolution when it first hit our screen courtesy of ITV. Now in it's 21 year the Bill continues to march on to TV legend status. Episodes comprise: 1. Funny Ol' Business - Cops & Robbers 2. A Friend In Need 3. Clutching At Straws 4. Long Odds 5. It's Not Such A Bad Job After All 6. The Drugs Raid 7. A Dange

• Immaculate Conception (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/08/2024) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Western couple (played by Melissa Leo and James Wilby) working in Pakistan visit an unconventional holy shrine to harness its spiritual powers to help them conceive a child. There, they are lavished with the attentions of the shrine's leader (an exceptional performance from Zia Mohyeddin - Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum) and her followers, but their methods and motives are not all that they seem, and the couple's lives are plunged into darkness. This ravishing, unsettling film from director Jamil Dehlavi (Born of Fire, Jinnah) is a deeply personal work which raises questions of cultural and sexual identity, religious fanaticism and the abuse of power. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES New 2K restoration by Powerhouse Films from the original negative, supervised and approved by director Jamil Dehlavi and cinematographer Nic KnowlandOriginal stereo audioAlternative original mono mixSaints and Sinners (2019, 6 mins): a new interview with writer, producer, director Jamil DehlaviA Dangerous Picture (2019, 20 mins): celebrated actor James Wilby recalls the difficulty and good fortune involved with the production of the filmLeap of Faith (2019, 22 mins): actor Ronny Jhutti remembers the experience of working on his feature-film debutExotic Warmth (2019, 17 mins): Nic Knowland reflects on the challenges of making the film on locationOriginal trailerNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• The Lotus Eaters - Complete Series 1 | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  To eat the fruit of the lotus is to lose the desire to return home. But everyone who does has a reason. Shepherd's bar is a focal point for a group of expatriates living in and around a small town on the isle of Crete. Run and owned by reformed Alcoholic Erik Shepherd the bar is a temptation that is never far from Erik's mind and his faltering marriage to Ann (Wanda Ventham) provides little respite from his addiction. When Donald Culley (James Kerry) arrives on the island the populace are drawn to this charming handsome stranger. However Culley knows something about Ann that could prove far more devastating that Erik's drinking. Featuring the complete series 1 of the BBC's The Lotus Eaters.

• A Raisin In The Sun | Blu Ray | (01/10/2018) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The classic film version of Lorraine Hansberry's revelatory dramastarring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Deenewly restored. LORRAINE HANSBERRY's A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to the screen, directed by DANIEL PETRIE. The original starsincluding SIDNEY POITIER (In the Heat of the Night) and RUBY DEE (Do the Right Thing)reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry's intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie's film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America. Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on the reallife events on which the play is based Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From A Raisin in the Sun to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, editor of Poitier Revisited Trailer PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon

• David Copperfield | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £12.73   |  Saving you £7.26 (57.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Like a fine gourmet meal, the BBC's 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield has something to suit every taste: a well-paced screenplay that keeps the tale bowling along without losing the delights of some of Dickens' most sparkling dialogue; a rich gallery of characters; and a cast which features many of Britain's favourite actors. There is, of course, plenty of high comedy but some very tight direction checks any tendencies to over-ripe performance. The whole production is tightly integrated: from David's idyllic if cloistered childhood with his beloved mother and their devoted servant Peggotty, through the shattering arrival of a sadistic stepfather, rescue by his eccentric Aunt Betsey Trotwood and a journey into maturity where his very innocence makes him the unwitting agent of tragedy before all is resolved. Ciaran McMenamin is the mature David, his youthful face increasingly clouded by the gathering of experience. Trevor Eve oozes evil as his stepfather Mr Murdstone, ultimately neutralised by Maggie Smith's Aunt Betsey, a comic performance of true genius that gives frequent flashes of the vulnerable human being beneath. In other inspired pieces of casting, Nicholas Lyndhurst's incubus-like Uriah Heep haunts every scene he's in, and Pauline Quirke's Peggotty exudes the motherly warmth that sustains David during his darkest moments. Three hours of classic drama heaven. --Piers Ford

• Bad Education / Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down / Live Flesh / All About My Mother / Talk To Her | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £19.98   |  Saving you £30.01 (150.20%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Bad Education (aka La Mala Educacion) (2004): Acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's serio-comic examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (aka Atame!) (1990): A love story with strings attached! Recently released from a mental institution Ricky (Banderas) sets in motion his grand plan. Hunting down the porn star with whom he once had sex Ricky tries to convince her t

• The Descendants | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £3.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (433.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Only Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would think to cast the famously handsome George Clooney as a dishevelled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate attorney with a propensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, ends up in a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt must learn to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, including scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition worsens, Matt contacts friends and relatives, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), so that they'll have the chance to say goodbye. In the process, he finds out she was having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, effectively cast against type), so he and the girls, including Alex's hilariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping trip, ostensibly to add Brian to the mix, but Matt really wants to find out what his wife saw in the guy. His journey from naiveté to knowledge brings out Clooney's soulful side, creating a believably flawed, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his characters, including Judy Greer as Matt's female counterpart, results in his most emotionally satisfying movie to date. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• T2 Trainspotting | 4K UHD | (05/06/2017) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.49

  First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal.Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same.Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.Click Images to Enlarge

• Escape from Sobibor | DVD | (01/04/2019) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Few stories of triumph have emerged from the Holocaust, but Escape from Sobibor is one such story - depicting the events that led to a mass escape from one of the Nazi's most notorious death camps. Oscar-winner Alan Arkin, Golden Globe-nominated Joanna Pacula and cult favourite Rutger Hauer head an outstanding international cast in this acclaimed story of overwhelming courage under harrowing conditions. Expertly directed by Jack Gold, this Golden Globe-winning drama is featured here as a brand-new remaster from the original film materials.

• The Man In Grey | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.28   |  Saving you £1.71 (20.65%)   |  RRP £9.99

  At an estate auction in WWII England two strangers meet and muse about their families' history and possible connections. Flashbacks reveal the story of the sweet rich and beautiful Clarissa Richmond and her friendship with bitter impoverished Hesther Snow. Their fates are intertwined even as their paths diverge. Clarissa marries the handsome but cruel Marquis of Rohan while Hesther becomes an actress. Eventually the two women meet again and Clarissa brings the scheming Hester into her household. As Clarissa searches for true love Hesther plots to take away everything that belongs to her.

• Body Of Evidence | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (86.37%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Seductive gallery owner Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is accused of a unique crime - using violent sex to murder a wealthy businessman. Frank Dulaney (Willem Dafoe) is the lawyer trying to defend her helpless to resist her extraordinary brand of lovemaking...

• Dumb and Dumber To | DVD | (20/04/2015) from £5.20   |  Saving you £14.79 (284.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play.  Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their signature roles as Lloyd and Harry in the sequel to the smash hit: Dumb and Dumber To. The original film’s directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, take Lloyd and Harry on a road trip! 20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search to find a child Harry never knew he had and the responsibility neither should ever, ever be given.

• Showing Up | DVD | (26/02/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Six Four | DVD | (22/05/2023) from £14.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Eye Of The Killer | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Seeing is believing. After ten years silence a notorious serial killer is back and it's up to detective Michael Hayden to catch him. Hayden realises all too soon that he has a psychic connection with the killer and if he is going to catch him before the next murder he's going to have to get inside the killer's mind.

• Chicago Med: Seasons 1-7 | DVD | (14/11/2022) from £52.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Primetime Emmy Award-winning executive producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) comes all sevenbr/seasons - 151 episodes - of Chicago Med. The doctors, nurses and staff of the city's most cutting-edgebr/trauma center take on critical medical cases and their ethical dilemmas. Woven into this high-intensitybr/environment are engrossing personal dramas where life or death is always on the line. Along with familiarbr/faces from Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., this powerhouse ensemble cast includes Oliver Platt (The Big C),br/S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order), Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless), Yaya DaCosta (The Kids Are All Right), Colinbr/Donnell (Arrow), Brian Tee (Jurassic World) and Torrey DeVitto (The Vampire Diaries).

• Bombshell | Blu Ray | (18/05/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman, Academy Award® nominee John Lithgow and Academy Award® nominee Margot Robbie, based on the real scandal, BOMBSHELL is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it. Directed by Emmy® Award winner Jay Roach and written by Academy Award® winner Charles Randolph. BOMBSHELL also stars Emmy® Award winner Kate McKinnon, Golden Globe® nominee Connie Britton, Emmy® Award winner Mark Duplass, Emmy® Award nominee Rob Delaney, Golden Globe® nominee Malcolm McDowell and Academy Award® winner Allison Janney.

• The Passion Of The Christ | Blu Ray | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Director Mel Gibson's controversial retelling of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus Christ.

• Husbands (1970) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The trailblazing independent auteur JOHN CASSAVETES (Opening Night) pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins BEN GAZZARA (Anatomy of a Murder) and PETER FALK (Mikey and Nicky)both of whom would become key collaborators of the director'splaying a trio of middle-aged Long Island family men who, following the sudden death of their best friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive. By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this self-described comedy about life, death, and freedom stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2009 featuring critic Marshall Fine New interviews with producer Al Ruban and actor Jenny Runacre New video essay featuring audio recordings of John Cassavetes in his own words exploring the actor director's spirited approach to acting The Story of HusbandsA Tribute to John Cassavetes (2009), a half-hour program featuring Ruban, actor Ben Gazzara, and cinematographer Victor J. Kemper Episode of The Dick Cavett Show from 1970 featuring Cassavetes, Gazzara, and actor Peter Falk Trailer PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

• Catherine Cookson - The Fifteen Streets | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £7.96   |  Saving you £-2.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A powerful drama set against the harsh and turbulent background of poverty and class distinction in Tyneside at the beginning of the century. A young docker John O'Brien falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn the daughter of a local shipbuilder. Their love unites them but the fifteen streets which separate poverty from wealth threaten to stand in their way.