Drama

• Come And See | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Elem Klimov's powerful mesmerising and dynamic award winning feature has been deservedly hailed as one of the greatest war films ever produced. Set in Soviet Belarus during the Second World War the story follows Florya a newly enlisted and innocent partisan as he staggers dazed and petrified through the merciless horror of the struggle against a cruel German aggressor. Essentially the film is a rite of passage and Florya's face physically ages during the progression of the film a

• My Week with Marilyn | Blu Ray | (16/03/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Anyone doubting the layered, nuanced, and heartbreaking acting abilities of Michelle Williams will find My Week with Marilyn a tremendous revelation. And Williams fans will enjoy it even more. In My Week with Marilyn Williams takes on the formidable challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe, and does so with depth and assuredness, and without resorting to caricature. Williams's Marilyn commands the screen with pain and delicacy, and doesn't let go until the final credits. My Week with Marilyn focuses on a small time frame in Monroe's life, right after her marriage to Arthur Miller. Monroe, already "the world's most famous woman," still feels the need for validation as an actress. What better way to achieve that, she believes, than committing to costarring with Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl, a film she firmly believed would finally cement her reputation as a serious actress. My Week with Marilyn is based on the short memoir of Colin Clark, a crew member on The Prince and the Showgirl, who quickly became the confidant of the wildly insecure Monroe and watched a train wreck of egos--mostly Olivier's and Monroe's--collide in a fiery near-disaster. Kenneth Branagh gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as the exasperated Olivier, resentful of the "new blood" in Hollywood that the young Monroe represents, and disdainful of her cult-like devotion to Method acting. (And of Monroe's chronic tardiness, which threatens to undermine the veddy, veddy strict British work schedule.) Eddie Redmayne plays Clark with a sweet, gentle veneer, someone who grows to care genuinely about the complex Monroe. Julia Ormond is clipped and proper as Olivier's then-wife, Vivien Leigh, and Emma Watson shows a lovely gravitas as Lucy, Monroe's acting coach. But it's Williams who gives the revelatory performance, capturing with painful intensity the insecurity that begins to seep out of Monroe like a fearful sweat. "Excuse my horrible face," she blurts out, while looking nothing less than her usual radiant self. Where does this tragic insecurity come from? My Week with Marilyn doesn't attempt to answer the unanswerable, but instead shines a light on the very real woman who became lost in the giant shadow of legend. --A.T. Hurley

• Ganges | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (56.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Ganges River (Gang Ma or Great Mother) is the holiest river in the world. Rising from the pure glacial meltwaters of the Himalayas it flows down onto India's Northern Plain then heads eastwards into the swamplands of Bangladesh finally discharging a 500-km (310-mile) tongue of red silt into the Bay of Bengal. As well as filling wells and irrigating crops to sustain the cities and villages along its banks it is the spiritual life-blood for India's primary religion Hinduism. B

• Moby Dick | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Huston's 1956 classic, Moby Dick, is one of the great epic adventure movies. Adapted from the novel by Herman Melville and starring Gregory Peck and Orson Welles, this is the tale of Capt. Ahab who has a vendetta against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for taking his leg. He sets out on a treacherous sea voyage aboard The Pequod, along with a crew including Starbuck (Leo Genn), Father Mapple (Orson Welles) and Ishmael (Richard Basehart), to hunt down the elusive beast. With reckless abandon, Ahab leads the crew on his obsessive and suicidal quest, anxious for a final showdown with the legendary white whale. Extras: Interview with Script Supervisor to Moby Dick and many more John Huston films - Angela Allen Audio commentary with film historians Julie Kirgo, Paul Seydor and Nick Redman A Bleached Whale - Recreating the Unique Colour of Moby Dick (5:41 featurette) Original theatrical trailer Behind the scenes stills gallery

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Bleasdale pens this original television adaptation of Dickens' classic novel. Having grown up in the workhouse of Mr Bumble (David Ross) young orphan Oliver (Sam Smith) has only ever known hardship and poverty. When he ends up on the streets of London he is taken in by Fagin (Robert Lindsay) and inaugurated into the ways of the pickpocket and it is while attempting to master this new craft that Oliver encounters a family who hold the key to his own hidden past.

• Take This Waltz | Blu Ray | (07/01/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (82.60%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A funny, powerful and beautifully bittersweet story that follows Margot as she struggles to choose between two different types of love. As her mind and heart battle against each other, Margot uncovers a side to herself that she never knew existed.

• Dexter - Season 3 | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £15.98   |  Saving you £21.00 (150.11%)   |  RRP £34.99

  To all around him blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan appears to be a perfect gentleman and respected member of the police force but behind this convincing facade Dexter harbours a terrifying secret. He is a serial killer. The Emmy-nominated series returns for an all-new season - and this time Dexter's got a new take on taking life. Having faced some of his darkest demons Dexter's ready to put the past behind him. Now with family life a day job catching kills and an uncontrollable urge to do away with the ones that get away Dexter's got his work cut out for him. And when a high-profile case sides him with powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado the pressure might be too great for even our most beloved serial killer.

• Edge | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £4.19   |  Saving you £12.06 (411.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (Maxine Peake), who is desperate to recover her past. An older woman (Marjorie Yates) checks into a room to kill herself, but encounters a chambermaid (Ania Wendzikowska) who just won’t let her die. A blind date set up on the Internet between two teenagers (Joe Dempsie, Nichola Burley) fails to turn out like either of them expected. Over the course of two days and one night the hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to thaw- and to find a purpose that connects them all.

• Luther | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £8.65   |  Saving you £16.34 (188.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What if your worst enemy was your own conscience? Starring Idris Elba (The Wire) Luther is a deeply thrilling crime series crackling with energy distinctive characters and snappy clever dialogue. On a moral crusade too often with only his convictions for company John Luther is a deeply troubled man a philosophical cop possessed by the insoluble problem of evil and justice in a Godless world. Confronting depravity in its many terrible forms over a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted perpetrator and prey Luther reveals his capacity for violence as well as kindness; his sudden vulnerability and dizzying visionary mind; why his wife left him for another man and why his colleagues are frequently left open-mouthed in awe. As the stakes get ever higher and more personal Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation. Will the relentless pursuit of light tip him into the ultimate darkness?

• Christmas Shoes | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £5.75   |  Saving you £-0.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Seasonal drama based on the novel by Donna van Liere. Two stories intertwine: in the first, Rob Lowe stars as Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar) and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. As Robert's path crosses with Nathan's, he is moved to learn the value of love, family and giving.

• Jude | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £8.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (14.17%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude is a good example of Michael Winterbottom's inability to make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who holds the dream of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is enlisted to play his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Knight Rider - Series 4 | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  ""Knight Rider - A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent the helpless the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law."" Adventure goes into overdrive as the fourth and final season of Knight Rider blasts onto DVD! Buckle up with lone crusader Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his tricked-out sidekick K.I.T.T. in all 21 high-octane episodes. From ancient terrorist cults to a deadly bacteria outbreak Michael and K.I.T.T. are there to put the skids on evildoers wherever they may be. Episodes Comprise: 1. Knight of the Juggernaut (1) 2. Knight of the Juggernaut (2) 3. KITTnap 4. Sky Knight 5. Burial Ground 6. The Wrong Crowd 7. Knight Sting 8. Many Happy Returns 9. Knight Racer 10. Knight Behind Bars 11. Knight Song 12. The Scent of Roses 13. Killer K.I.T.T. 14. Out of the Woods 15. Deadly Knightshade 16. Redemption of a Champion 17. Knight of a Thousand Devils 18. Hills of Fire 19. Knight Flight to Freedom 20. Fright Knight 21. Knight of the Rising Sun 22. Voo Doo Knight

• Parallel Mothers | DVD | (16/05/2022) from £8.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two women, Janis and Ana, meet in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared and repentant. Janis tries to encourage her as they move like sleepwalkers through the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between them, which by chance will develop and complicate, changing their lives in a decisive way.

• The Iron Maiden | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Aviation designer Jack Hopkins is notably absent from his creation's latest test flight. He is, in fact, many miles away indulging his greatest passion: an old showman's traction engine called The Iron Maiden! Jack has his heart set on entering the prestigious Annual Steam Rally at Woburn Abbey, but hadn't reckoned on some fierce and devious opposition! Michael Craig is the engineering genius whose hobby spells trouble for boss Cecil Parker, with Alan Hale Jr. as the tycoon who eventually comes to share his passion in this stellar comedy from Carry On's Gerald Thomas. The Iron Maiden is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.

• Touch Of Evil | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.70   |  Saving you £1.29 (14.83%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Strangest Vengeance Ever Planned! Orson Welles' Touch of Evil is nothing short of a masterpiece. Beginning with a three-minute-plus tracking crane shot the film explodes onto the screen literally - the opening shot ends with a car blowing up and that detonation sets into motion a classic noir tale of betrayal and murder. Special mention must go to Henry Mancini's score one the most impressive in cinema history! Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan a gr

• Lion | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In LION, five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train travelling away from his home and family. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, escaping all sorts of terrors and close calls in the process, before ending up in an orphanage that is itself not exactly a safe haven. Eventually Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple, and finds love and security as he grows up in Hobart. Not wanting to hurt his adoptive parents feelings, he suppresses his past, his emotional need for reunification, and his hope of ever finding his lost mother and brother. But a chance meeting with some fellow Indians reawakens his buried yearning. With just a small store of memories, and the help of a new technology called Google Earth, Saroo embarks on one of the greatest needle-in-a-haystack quests of modern times.

• The Hitchcock Collection: 4 DVD Set (Rebecca/Notorious/Spellbound/The Paradine Case) | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Box set containing the four films director Alfred Hitchcock made with legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick. In Rebecca, Joan Fontaine stars as a young woman who, after a brief Monte Carlo courtship and a rushed marriage, returns with the handsome and mysterious Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) to his Cornish country estate, Manderlay. The new bride receives a hostile reaction from the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson), and finds herself intimidated and overcome by ...

• Tenko - Complete | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £52.70   |  Saving you £97.29 (184.61%)   |  RRP £149.99

  The story of European women living in Singapore at the outbreak of war in the Far East and their capture by the Japanese. Features the complete episodes from the television series.

• Love Is Strange | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £3.70   |  Saving you £12.29 (332.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ira Sachs writes and directs this gay-themed domestic drama starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. Forced to separate after George (Molina) loses his job teaching music at a nearby Catholic school, the recently married gay couple Ben (Lithgow) and George have trouble adapting to life without the other being nearby at all times. Ben, who moves in with his nephew Elliott (Darren Burrows), his wife Kate (Marisa Tomei) and their teenage son Joey (Charlie Tahan), soon begins to suspect he is overstaying his welcome. Meanwhile, George crashes on the couch of a much-younger gay couple who frequently have lots of visitors.

• A Street Cat Named Bob | Blu Ray | (08/07/2019) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the true life story and international best-selling book, A STREET CAT NAMED BOB is a moving and uplifting film that will touch the heart of everyone. When London busker and recovering drug addict James Bowen (Luke Treadaway) finds injured ginger street cat Bob in his sheltered accommodation, he has no idea just how much his life is about to change. Special Features: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette (30 mins) Director Roger Spottiswoode, cast, crew and James Bowen talk about their experience of bringing the heartwarming tale to the big screen.