Drama

• Carrie's War | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.85   |  Saving you £9.14 (116.43%)   |  RRP £16.99

  During World War 2 Carrie and Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh town to live with the strict Mr Evans and his sister Auntie Lou and find they've entered a world of curses witches and druids; a world where nothing is quite what it seems...

• Shallow Grave | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £5.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (277.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the creators of Trainspotting comes a masterpiece of terror. Starring Kerry Fox Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor this hermetically sealed shocker will take you on a fantastic ride thats riddled with hairpin turns. Juliet David and Alex find that their new reclusive roommate has not left the bedroom for days. After kicking in the door they discover this drug overdosed corpse...and a suitcase full of cash. Fatefully choosing to keep the money they know they have to get rid of the body. But the remains wont stay buried and a careless trail from the shallow grave leads the police and two money-hungry thugs -back to the trio. As the stakes get higher so does the body count not to mention their paranoia which is quickly putting their friendship in jeopardy...forever!

• Lady Chatterly's Lover | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sylvia Kristel is beautiful as the lonely young wife of a wealthy aristocrat in this scintillating tale of love lust and forbidden fantasies. Adapted from D.H. Lawrence's famously erotic novel this ""truly sumptuous production"" captures the ""splendor of the English countryside"" (The Hollywood Reporter) and the torturous conflict between duty... and desire. Paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury Sir Clifford Chatterley (Shane Briant) urges his wife Constance (Kristel) t

• A Mind To Kill - Series 2 | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £39.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In this gritty and darkly authentic detective thriller Philip Madoc (The Life and Times of David Lloyd George) is the memorably charismatic Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain - a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which even the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Bain is a widower and alongside the complex and frequently disturbing cases that come his way he must also face the challenges of caring for his teenaged daughter Hannah.

• Late Spring | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tokyo Story director Yasujiro Ozu's hugely influential and award-winning masterpiece Late Spring is a tender meditation on family politics sacrifice and the status quo. Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her father Professor Somiya (Chishu Ryu) live together in perfect harmony but old certainties are put at risk when an interfering aunt raises the question of marriage. Introducing Ozu's popular Noriko character Late Spring poignantly examines the gradual compromise between modernity and tradition and is now available for the first time on Blu-ray from the BFI.

• Love For Lydia - Complete | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Set in the late 1920s heiress Lydia Aspen has several young men who are all competing for her attentions. She sends mixed signals to them all as she plays with their affections - with disastrous results. This box set contains all thirteen episodes.

• Certain Women | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £9.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of Best Film at the London Film Festival and Best Supporting Actress / Breakthrough Artist for Lily Gladstone at the Boston Society of Film Critics' Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and the Indiewire Critics' Poll. From award-winning director, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Meek's Cutoff) comes CERTAIN WOMEN, winner of Best Film at the London Film Festival. Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and Lily Gladstone star as four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest. Laura (Dern) is a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation. Gina (Williams) is a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life. And Beth (Stewart) is a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand (radiant newcomer Lily Gladstone). As their stories intersect in subtle but powerful ways, a portrait emerges of flawed yet strong-willed individuals in the process of defining themselves. Click Images to Enlarge

• Rushmore | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  "Rushmore" tells the story of Max Fischer, a 10th grader at Rushmore Academy and an overachiever. When his plans to be the perfect student go awry, he plots his revenge.

• My Own Private Idaho | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £8.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Wherever whatever have a nice day... River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in director Gus Van Sant's haunting tale of two young street hustlers: Mike Waters (Phoenix) a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him and Scott Favor (Reeves) wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies thieves and johns Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways to the Pacific Northwest in search of an elusive place called 'home'. Groundbreaking and visually dazzling 'My Own Private Idaho' is a stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.

• A Thousand Acres | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer are quietly dazzling in this underrated adaptation of Jane Smiley's best-selling modern version of King Lear. The two play sisters of a stubborn, alcoholic Iowa farmer (Jason Robards), who decides to leave his fertile farm to them and their youngest sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). It is a decision that rends the family, setting siblings against one another and forcing long-held secrets out of their guilty closets. The family dynamics become ever more destructive, and the refuge of sanity the two older sisters have created may be their only salvation. It's a tragedy not quite on a Shakespearean scale, but anyone who appreciates the difficulties of a dysfunctional family will relate to the heartbreak--and the promise of redemption. Pfeiffer especially is breathtaking as the good housewife Rose, whose rage at her father and her husband is never far from her placid surface. --Anne Hurley

• WHITE DOG (Masters of Cinema) (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (31/03/2014) from £12.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (45.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  One of the most controversial American films of the 1980s Samuel Fuller's White Dog was originally withheld from release in the USA and has been rarely seen since. This head-on examination of racism remains a riveting and startlingly powerful film experience with superb performances and a brilliant score by the great Ennio Morricone. When a young actress (Kristy McNichol) adopts a stray white Alsatian she hit with her car she soon discovers that the dog has been conditioned to attack any black person on sight. Its only chance is Keys (Paul Winfield) an animal trainer focused on breaking the dog's behaviour and finding a way to eradicate its vicious instincts. An acclaimed and daring late-career highlight for its director White Dog amply demonstrates Fuller's clear-eyed intelligence impassioned humanity and filmmaking dynamism. Unavailable in the UK for decades The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present its premiere in a new Dual Format (Blu-ray and DVD) edition. Special Features: New high-definition 1080p uncut presentation supervised by producer Jon Davison Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired More to be announced! A booklet featuring the words of Samuel Fuller rare imagery and more!

• Evelyn | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Pierce Brosnan stars in this true-life Irish drama as a father whose children are taken from him by the state when his wife abandons her family.

• Brideshead Revisited | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £22.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (55.58%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Fill a bowl with alpine strawberries, break out the Château Lafite (1899, of course) and bask in Brideshead Revisited, the 1981 miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, adapted for the screen by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey). In his breakthrough role, Jeremy Irons stars as Charles Ryder, a disillusioned Army captain who is moved to reflect on his "languid days" in the "enchanted castle" that was Brideshead, home of the aristocratic Marchmain family, whose acquaintance Charles made in the company of an Oxford classmate, the charming wild-child Sebastian. Anthony Andrews costars as the doomed Sebastian, whose beauty is "arresting" and "whose eccentricities and behaviour seemed to know no bounds". The "entitled and enchanted" Sebastian takes Charles under his wing ("Charles, what a lot you have to learn"), but vows early on that he is "not going to let [Charles] get mixed up with [his] family." But mixed up Charles gets. He becomes a friend and confidante, not to mention a lover, to Sebastian's sister Julia (Diana Quick). Meanwhile, the self-destructive Sebastian's life spirals out of control. Brideshead Revisited boasts a distinguished ensemble cast, including Laurence Olivier in his Emmy Award-winning role as the exiled Lord Marchmain, Claire Bloom as Lady Marchmain, and the magnificent John Gielgud as Charles's estranged father. Grand locations and a haunting musical score make this a memorable revisit of an irretrievable bygone era. --Donald Liebenson

• Patrik, Age 1.5 | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Patrick Age 1.5 is a funny affectionate and unpredictable gay family comedy. After a seemingly endless wait long-term gay couple Goran and Sven have had their adoption papers approved - and infant Patrick age 1.5 is on his way! Everything would have been perfect too had it not been for just a little error at the adoption agency. It seems one decimal point had been misplaced and when a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past shows at their door the perfect home quickly becomes the setting for the perfect storm. Devoid of a single false note Patrick Age 1.5 is a satirical and frequently touching film that boldly redefines what a family is.

• Amadeus -- Director's Cut 2-Disc Special Edition | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A note-perfect cinematic event whose immortality was assured from its opening night, Amadeus is an unlikely candidate for the Director's Cut treatment. Like one of Mozart's operas, the multiple Oscar-winning theatrical version seemed perfectly formed from the outset--ideal casting, costumes, sets, cinematography, lighting, screenplay, music, music, music--so the reinstatement of an extra 20 minutes simply risks adding "too many notes". Yet though this extended cut can hardly be said to improve a picture that needed no improvement, it does at least flesh out a couple of small subplots and shed new light on certain key scenes. Here we learn why Constanze Mozart bears such ill-will towards Salieri when she discovers him at her husband's deathbed: he has insulted and degraded her after she came to him for help. We also see deeper into the reasons why Mozart has no pupils: not only has Salieri poisoned the Emperor's mind against him, but the only promisingly lucrative teaching job he can find ends disastrously when he realises that the master of the house just wants music to quiet his barking dogs. In a humiliating coda to that episode, a drunk and desperate Wolfgang returns later to beg for money only to be coldly rejected. The structure of the picture is otherwise unaltered. On the DVD: Amadeus--The Director's Cut finally accords this masterful work the DVD treatment it deserves. The handsome anamorphic widescreen picture is accompanied by a choice of Dolby 5.1 or Dolby stereo sound options, and it's all contained on one side of the disc (the original single-disc DVD release was that crime against the format, a "flipper"). Director Milos Forman and writer Peter Shaffer provide a chatty though sporadic commentary, but they're obviously still too mesmerised by the movie to do much more than offer the odd anecdote. Disc 2 contains an excellent new hour-long "making of" documentary, with contributions from Forman, Shaffer, Sir Neville Marriner and all the main actors, taking in the scriptwriting, choice of music, casting and problems involved in filming in Communist Czechoslovakia with half the crew and extras working for the Secret Police. --Mark Walker

• Extraordinary Measures | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £5.24   |  Saving you £14.75 (281.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Extraordinary Measures", starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser is inspired by a Wall Street Journal article recounting one man's remarkable efforts to save his children from a life threatening disease.

• Little House On The Prairie - Series 2 | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £10.29   |  Saving you £19.70 (191.45%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete second season of Little House On The Prairie the beloved television series based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's novels about the trials and tribulations of a young family that settles on the wild Minnesota frontier. With no cowboys indians or feisty town saloons this isn't your typical western; instead it is a story of a loving family in search of a future in a young and growing community. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Richest Man In Walnut Grove 2. Four Eyes 3.

• My Summer Of Love | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £6.40   |  Saving you £13.59 (212.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona (Press) meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin (Blunt). Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together

• Topsy-Turvy (1999) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £12.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The world of GILBERT AND SULLIVAN comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado from MIKE LEIGH (Naked, Secrets and Lies). JIM BROADBENT (Moulin Rouge, Iris) and ALLAN CORDUNER (Yentl, Vera Drake) brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, respectively, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production. A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar-winning costume design and makeup, Topsy-Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists. Special Features: Director-approved digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dick Pope, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition Audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh New video conversation between Leigh and the film's musical director, Gary Yershon A Sense of History, Leigh's 1992 short film written by and starring actor Jim Broadbent Deleted scenes Featurette from 1999 including interviews with Leigh, stars Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other cast members Theatrical trailer and TV spots PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Amy Taubin

• Mandy (65th Anniversary Digitally Restored) | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught and enroll her with a special teacher.