Drama

• Jet Pilot (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.69   |  Saving you £3.30 (49.33%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Exploding with all the power of the jet age... with all the passion of a daring love story! A corps of silver jets soar across the majestic blue American skies while a beautiful lady waits faithfully for her hero. John Wayne and Janet Leigh star in this military romance: a classic Howard Hughes production! Anna a Russian MIG pilot escapes the USSR and lands on a US Airforce base in Alaska. There she meets Colonel Shannon and after he debriefs her the two become romantically involved and move to Palm Springs. Trouble arises when the US authorities discover that Anna is not really a defector but a Soviet spy. Army honchos decide to turn the tables by letting Shannon follow her back home and do some of his own espionage. But once there Soviet forces endanger Shannon's life - and Anna has to choose between her country and the man she has come to love...

• Mohabbatein | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Mohabbatein ("Love Stories") is, as the title suggests, thoroughly concerned with love and romance; it's a hugely popular Bollywood blockbuster about three young men at an exclusive boarding school who fall in love with three local young women. Opposition comes from the head of the school (Amitabh Bachan) and support from the violin teacher, who introduces an element of Dead Poets Society into a story which references both Grease (1978) and West Side Story (1961). Actually this is Aditya Chopra's follow-up to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), which also starred Shahrukh Khan. The rest of the featured players are almost all new, and inject a vitality into every scene so that even at three-and-a-half hours Mohabbatein rarely drags. The soundtrack sweeps all before it in the seven big production numbers, which add a Western pop-video gloss to the complex, exhilarating musical arrangements. Likewise the choreography fuses traditional Indian elements with contemporary Western dance, and while the men are handsome and charming, the girls are stunningly beautiful, breathtakingly sensual, and scantily clad in a thoroughly modern fashion. Mohabbatein is a colourful, humorous though haunting romantic drama, which even those unfamiliar with Indian cinema should find highly enjoyable. On the DVD: The feature is in Hindi with subtitle options for English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Malay. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is often atmospheric, though only really comes into its own in the dynamic musical numbers. The anamorphically enhanced presentation of the original 2.35:1 cinema image is NTSC; while colours are excellent and the detail level well above VHS there is a slight lack of sharpness compared to the best PAL transfers. The second disc contains 64 minutes of English language interviews, 11 TV trailers and an anamorphic theatrical trailer, a scored stills gallery, 18 minutes of deleted scenes, including one musical number, with optional English language director's commentary, plus a 44-minute "making-of" documentary. The attractive packaging puts all but the most lavish US releases to shame. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Firm | Blu Ray | (01/02/2010) from £14.83   |  Saving you £12.16 (82.00%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Humorous, heart warming and set to a killer jazz funk 80's soundtrack, "The Firm" is a classic coming of age story set amongst one of England's most revered tribes.

• Alan Bleasdale Collection | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £69.96   |  Saving you £-9.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A collection of Alan Bleasdale's finest work. Includes: GBH: Penned by the mighty hand of Alan Bleasdale GBH tells the story of two men; Michael Murray an ambitious and charismatic politician; and Jim Nelson a respected headmaster at a school for disturbed children. Both are citizens of a northern city lifelong supporters of the Labour party and undergoing an intense period of stress. Both believe that they're being driven insane. Nelson accidentally defies a Murra

• Masculin Feminin (1966) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (17/05/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Masculine/Feminine was Jean-Luc Godard's first (but not the last) foray into the burgeoning Children of the Sixties generationor, as Godard described it, the children of Marx and Coca-Cola . Impressionable teenager Jean-Pierre Leaud tries to make sense of the world by working as an interviewer for a research firm. Meanwhile, Leaud cohabits with aspiring singer Chantal Goya, with two additional young ladies joining the nocturnal festivities. Leaud jumps or is pushed from a window, leaving a pregnant Goya to move on to the next aimless youth she meets. While the nominal hero has failed to find fulfillment in personal relations, another male protagonist (Micheal Deborb), a political activist, is luckier an indication that the director favored revolutionary politics over simple emotionalism at this point in his career. Though Godard's free-form style is usually opposed to linear storytelling, Masculine Feminine has solid literary roots, having been inspired by two Guy de Maupassant.

• Department S - Series 1-2 - Complete | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £36.77   |  Saving you £23.22 (63.15%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Handling cases that are too baffling to be solved by normal police routine - It's all in a day's work for Department S - a shadowy Interpol department that specialises in the inexplicable and the illogical. Its small core of operatives include flamboyant novelist Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) who uses his overactive imagination and droll wit to help solve the most difficult of cases Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) a man of action who's not afraid to get his hands dirty and Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nicols) as the gorgeous computer expert with an eye for detail. This box set contains all 28 episodes.

• Ali & Nino | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ali Khan Shirvanshir, the male descendant of a royal Muslim family, falls in love with the beautiful Nino Kipiani, a Georgian princess who is Christian, while he is in Azerbaijan during World War I.

• Apostasy | DVD | (17/09/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, a former Jehovah's Witness, APOSTASY is a remarkable and authentic debut film, providing rare insight into the complex nature of faith, family, duty and love.

• Quiz Show | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £13.13   |  Saving you £1.86 (14.17%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This vigorously entertaining film, sharply directed by Robert Redford fr om Paul Attanasio's brilliant screenplay, is based on the game-show scandals of the 1950s, when TV quiz shows were rigged to attract higher ratings and lucrative sponsorships. The fact-based story focuses on the quiz show Twenty-One and popular contestant Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), a charming, well-bred intellectual who agreed to win the game by using answers supplied by the show's producers. This unfair advantage turned Van Doren into a prototypical media darling at the expense of reigning Twenty-One champion Herbie Stempel (John Turturro, in a bravura performance), a working-class Jewish contestant who, according to the show's sponsors, had worn out his welcome in the public eye. When a congressional investigator (Rob Morrow) catches on to the scam and Stempel blows the whistle on this backstage manipulation, Quiz Show becomes a smart, political exposè about the first generation of television, the corrupting effect of celebrity and success, and the ongoing loss of innocence in American society. Bristling with superior dialogue and energized by an excellent cast including Paul Scofield as Van Doren's morally upstanding father, Quiz Show succeeds as history lesson, intelligent thriller, and morality tale, setting the stage for the countless scandals that would follow in a nation addicted to television. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Things We Lost In The Fire | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

• Before The Devil Knows You're Dead | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £6.77   |  Saving you £14.48 (262.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewellery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that threatens to tear the family apart once and for all.

• La Dolce Vita | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £22.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society in this classic Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)...

• An Affair To Remember | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.27   |  Saving you £6.72 (107.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this legendary tearjerker the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true

• Requiem for a Dream (4K UHD & BD WITHOUT DC) | Blu Ray | (30/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 4K Ultra HD™¬release, Darren Aronofsky's¬Requiem¬ for a Dream with a screenplay by Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr., based on Selby's novel stars Oscar®¬winners* Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Ellen Burstyn, along with Marlon Wayans, in a hypnotic film about four people pursuing their visions of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. UHD Special Features: On Set: 1999 Transcendent Moments: The Score Of Requiem For A Dream Ellen Burstyn On Requiem For A Dream Through Their Eyes: Revisiting Requiem For A Dream Blu-Ray Special Features: Commentary With Director Darren Aronofsky Commentary With Director Of Photography Matthew Libatique The Making Of Requiem For A Dream Memories, Dreams And Addictions - Ellen Burstyn Interviews Hubert Selby Jr. Hubert Selby Jr. Reads To Ellen Burstyn Deleted Scenes With Optional Director'S Commentary

• Last Tango In Paris | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £7.77   |  Saving you £8.22 (105.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Penetrate the moody sensual world of Last Tango in Paris and prepare yourself for 'the most controversial film of its era'. Nominated for two Academy Awards and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation and 'altered the face of an art form'. He (Brando) is a 45-year-old American living in Paris haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is 20 year old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heights - and depths - beyond anything they could ever have imagined.

• Ran | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £17.50   |  Saving you £2.49 (14.23%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' magically mixes Japanese history Shakespeare's plot and Kurosawa's own feelings about loyalty in this epic masterpiece. Set in 16th century Japan an aging ruler Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) announces his intention to divide his land equally among his three sons. This decision to step down unleashes a power struggle between the three when Hidetora falls prey to the false flattery bestowed upon him by the two older sons and banishes the youngest when he speaks the truth. The ruthless betrayal ultimately drives Hidetora insane destroying his entire family and kingdom. Deep human emotion and outstanding acting combine to create one of the most acclaimed foreign films of all time.

• Blue Collar (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £7.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After writing Taxi Driver for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this profane and profound drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. With explosive performances from the great Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy), Harvey Keitel (The Border, Pulp Fiction) and Yaphet Kotto (Live and Let Die, Alien), Blue Collar presents one of the most authentic portraits of working-class life in all American cinema, and is one of the finest films of the 1970s. Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with writer-director Paul Schrader and author Maitland McDonagh Paul Schrader BFI Masterclass (1982, 106 mins): the filmmaker presents a fascinating summary of the many issues and ideas he explores in his screenwriting class, recorded at the National Film Theatre, London 'Visions': Interview with Paul Schrader (1982): archival interview, presented in two versions the broadcast cut with its original Tony Rayns introduction (21 mins), and the complete interview rushes with a newly recorded introduction by Tony Rayns (58 mins) Keith Gordon on ˜Blue Collar' (2018, 12 mins): a new filmed appreciation by the filmmaker and actor Original theatrical trailer Josh Olson trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): a short critical appreciation. Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Red Road | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £9.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (104.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A CCTV operator has to confront a man she thought she would never see again.

• The Help | Blu Ray | (12/03/2012) from £10.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (129.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Help is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behaviour is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.

• Marple - Series 4 | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £12.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (48.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Miss Marple (New): Series 4 (4 Discs)