Drama

• DENZEL WASHINGTON 5-FILM COLL. BD | Blu Ray | (03/10/2022) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ! The Little Things Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deke Deaon (washington) is sent to Los Angeles for what should be a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorising the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff's Department Sergeant Jim Baxter (Malek), impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages in his help. But as they track a suspect (Leto), Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering distrubing secrets that could threaten more than his case. Training Day Detective Alonzo Harris is a veteran narcotics officer who has the task of training rookie Jake Hoyt. His methods of enforcing the law are, at times, questionable but his job is to rid the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs. Are his methods right or wrong? The Pelican Brief A New Orleans law student finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after she writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. Fallen A pair of Chicago detectives apprehend a serial killer. However, after t he killer is convicted and executed, a new series of murders carried out in the late killers peculiar style begin to turn up, potentially implicating one of the detectives. American Gangster Oscar®* winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe face off against each other in a relentless confrontation, directed by Ridley Scott (Gladiator). Ruthless and endowed with a very strict sense of honour, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) reigns over the drug world in the streets of Harlem. When cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to destroy Lucas' colossal empire, a merciless showdown takes place in the streets of New York. Bonus Features American Gangster: Feature Commentary with Ridley Scott and Steven Zaillian Deleted scenes including an alternate opening Undercovering the past: The Real Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts Fallen Empire: Making American Gangster Case File The BET Special: The Making of American Gangster Dateline NBC: American Gangster first look Hip-Hop infusion featuring Common and T.I Music Videos Theatrical Trailer The Little Things: The Little Things: Four Shades of Blue: An overview of Denzel Washington's roles in four Warner Bros. cop films: The Little Things, Training Day, Ricochet and Fallen. A contrast of styles: Discover how Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto created three polar opposite characters Training Day: Audio commentary by director Antoine Fuqua Additional scenes Alternate ending The Making Of 2 video clips: No. 1 by Nelly and Got You by Pharoahe Monch Trailer Fallen: Feature-Length Audio Commentary by Director Gregory Hoblit, Screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and Producer Charles Roven Theatrical Trailer The Pelican Brief: Cinematic trailer

• Desert Hearts | Blu Ray | (20/11/2017) from £21.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Donna Deitch's tender, ground-breaking debut, a landmark in queer cinema and a triumph of independent filmmaking The swooning and sensual first narrative feature by DONNA DEITCH, Desert Hearts was ground breaking upon its 1985 release: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a self-financed shoestring budget, by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (The Colour of Money's HELEN SHAVER) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Manhunter's PATRICIA CHARBONNEAU), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breath-taking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by ROBERT ELSWIT (Punch-Drunk Love), Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candour. BONUS FEATURES DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch New conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch New conversation between Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style New interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau Excerpt from Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the Heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based PLUS: An essay by critic B. Ruby Rich

• P.O.W. | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Germany 1940. Flight Sergeant James Caddon is captured when his plane is shot down on a bombing raid over Normandy. He is taken to the Prisoner of War camp Stalag 39 where he discovers that a daring escape is already being planned. There will also be a widespread PR campaign. EPISODE 1: Germany 1940. Flight Sergeant James Caddon is captured when his plane is shot down on a bombing raid over Normandy. He is taken to the Prisoner of War camp Stalag 39 where he discovers that a daring es

• A Good Person | DVD | (09/10/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman star in this drama written and directed by Zach Braff. Allison (Pugh) and Nathan (Chinaza Uche) are engaged when Allison is responsible for a car accident that takes the life of Nathan's sister and her husband. Devastated, she struggles with addiction in the aftermath of the accident until a chance meeting with her would-be father-in-law Daniel (Freeman) changes the course of her recovery. He is also having a difficult time raising his teenage granddaughter Ryan (Celeste O'Connor) and as they bond, they find solace in each other.

• Armchair Theatre - Vol.1 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Armchair Theatre: Volume 1

• Titanic | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200 million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1 billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11 Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world and their brief but never-forgotten love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into an emotional experience. Present-day framing scenes (featuring Gloria Stuart as the 101-year-old Rose) add additional resonance to the story and, although some viewers proved vehemently immune to Cameron's manipulations, few can deny the production's impressive achievements. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the sunset silhouette of Titanic during its first evening at sea, or the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels. In terms of sets and costumes alone, the film is never less than astounding. More than anything else, however, the film's overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Titanic is an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. Titanic is an epic love story on par with Gone with the Wind, and, like that earlier box-office phenomenon, it's a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon

• Danielle Steel's Changes | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £6.58   |  Saving you £-0.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cheryl Ladd and Michael Nouri star in this highly-charged romantic drama about two successful single parents who fall in love and have to confront many new and traumatic changes in their lives. Melanie is a top TV news reporter living in New York with her two teenage daughters. Peter is a handsome widowed heart surgeon working at an LA hospital with three children of his own. A chance meeting leads to instant romance and eventual marriage bringing out the drastic changes in their

• King of Devil's Island | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £14.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (20.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story King Of Devil's Island tells the unsettling tale of a group of young delinquents banished to the remote prison of Basty. Under the guise of rehabilitation the boys' daily regime is dictated by mental and physical abuse at the hands of their wardens. The arrival of new boys Erling (Helstad) and Ivar (Magnus Langlete) spark a chain of events that ultimately ignite rebellion. King of Devil's Island explores a sinister moment in Norwegian history that won't be forgotten.

• United 93 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Paul Greengrass recounts the final moments of the ill-fated flight in this 9/11 drama.

• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Blu Ray | (19/03/2018) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Peter Turner's memoir, FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening). Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

• Tabu | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £6.50   |  Saving you £9.49 (146.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After Our Beloved Month of August, Miguel Gomes returns with Tabu, an engaging, provocative and poetic film set both in Portugal and in an un-named African location. Bearing the same title as F. W. Murnau's classic Tabu (1931), shot in black and white and taking place at least partly in a distant land, Gomes' third feature film is divided in two distinctive yet complementary storylines. Whilst the first part, shot in 35mm and in the present time, portrays a society wallo...

• The Trial of Joan of Arc | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The legendary story of Joan of Arc's trial and conviction is powerfully retold in Robert Bresson's minimalist masterpiece. Working from the official transcript of the 15th century trial, Bresson shoots Joan's ordeal with a serene simplicity that reveals her vulnerability and her resilient faith. A transcendent and moving evocation of human suffering and spiritual liberation, The Trial of Joan of Arc remains a powerful exploration of religious virtue with one of cinema's most haunting and poignant finales.

• Hold Back The Dawn | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From one of the most underrated directors of Hollywood s golden era, Mitchell Leisen (Remember the Night), comes the heart-rending romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn... Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard, Modern Times) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy. A moving and thoughtful film with a wonderful script (co-written by Billy Wilder), Hold back the Dawn benefits from evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland, and an over-arching sense of romantic melancholy. An enduring classic of its era, Leisen s film was nominated for no-less than six Academy Awards and is presented here in High Definition for the first time.

• Sapphire | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First individual DVD release! Basil Dearden's ground-breaking tale starring Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portraying two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth indictment of racism and bigotry as the detectives investigate the vast array of suspects - everyone from the girl's white boyfriend and his parents who feared that the association would destroy his career to the boys that the girl had spurned when she was accepted by white society. Winner of BAFTA for Best British Film 1960.

• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steven (Colin Farrell), an eminent cardiothoracic surgeon is married to Anna (Nicole Kidman), a respected ophthalmologist. They are well off and live a happy and healthy family life with their two children, Kim, 14 (Raffey Cassidy) and Bob, 12 (Sunny Suljic). Steven has formed a friendship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless 16-year-old boy whom he has taken under his wing. Things take a sinister turn when Steven introduces Martin to his family, gradually throwing their world into turmoil and forcing Steven to make a shocking sacrifice or run the risk of losing everything.

• The Remains of the Day (Anniversary Edition) | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howards End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens the perfect English butler - an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths - as he serves his master Lord Darlington beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper a high-spirited strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions she and Stevens gradually fall in love though neither will admit it and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvellously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

• Nine Queens | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

• The Piano - 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (05/09/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of 3 Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, The Piano is now available in stunning 4K. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin, The Piano is still as powerful and resolute now as when it was first released. Ada - mute since childhood her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand.Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex emotional, sexual bond remarkable for its naive passion and frightening disregard for limits. Features brand new extras and a limited edition poster.Product FeaturesInterview with Jane Campion & Jan ChapmanMaking of25 Years OnTrailerFeaturette with Cinematographer Stuart DryburghFeaturette with Production Designer Andrew McAlpineFeaturette with Maori advisor Waihoroi Shortlan

• The Last of the Mohicans | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £40.17   |  Saving you £-22.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Last of the Mohicans is a large-scale adventure set during the colonial conflicts between Britain and France 20 years before the American War of Independence. Based loosely on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, but actually inspired by director Michael (Manhunter, Heat) Mann's boyhood love of the 1936 film of the same name, this is rousing, romantic stuff. As "Hawkeye", a white raised by the last of the Mohican tribe, Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance which, had he followed it up, could have established him as an action hero for the 1990s and beyond. Despite an under-written role Madeline Stowe convinces as the heroine. The remaining cast are uniformly excellent. Filmed amid the spectacular mountains, rivers and forests of North Carolina by Mann's regular cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, the film is a visual joy, while Trevor Jones' majestic, spine-tingling score (with additional music by Randy Edleman) is one of the finest of the decade. Taking time to establish the motives of British and French colonists and the various native tribes, as well as the varying opinions and characters within these groupings, Mann offers much greater balance and complexity than The Patriot (2000), yet never looses sight of the object here: telling a stirring yarn laced with bold action set pieces and passionate romance. On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is a massive improvement over VHS, but still shows considerable grain in many scenes, possibly a result of the film being shot in low, natural light and containing many very dark sequences. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is very powerful, though little use is made of the rear channels, and in some scenes the sound effects all but drown out the dialogue. Isolated scores are usually only found on feature-packed special editions, so the inclusion here is a welcome surprise--and a testament to its popularity. The only other extra is an anamorphic 2.35:1 presentation of the immensely stirring theatrical trailer. --Gary S Dalkin

• Racing Hearts | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £4.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (183.62%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ambitious American investment banker (Fifty Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan) has a new challenge; to gain the trust of a Sheikh who is a passionate fan of racing pigeons. But when he meets the stubborn owner's beautiful granddaughter he realizes that his assignment will be more difficult than he had hoped and will learn that there’s more to life than big business. From the Academy Award nominated director of Everybody's Famous. INTERVIEW WITH WRITER / DIRECTOR DOMINIQUE DERUDDERE INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER WOLFRAM DE MARCO INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE DORNAN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLOTTE DE BRUYNE DELETED SCENES