Drama

• Topkapi | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This wonderful caper film manages to balance the right amount of intrigue suspense and humour created by the stellar cast including the extremely sexy and seductive Melina Mercouri and the wonderfully talented Peter Ustinov who was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role. A small-time con-man (Ustinov) with passport problems gets mixed up with a gang of world-class jewellery thieves plotting to rob the Topkapi museum in Istanbul. Turkish intelligence suspecting a

• Green for Danger | Blu Ray | (28/10/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Alastair Sim gives one of his most memorable performances as a whimsically complacent police inspector investigating a series of murders at a wartime emergency hospital in this masterful comedy thriller from Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Deftly subverting the conventions of the standard whodunit , Green for Danger features atmospheric cinematography from Wilkie Cooper and strong supporting performances from Trevor Howard, Sally Gray and Rosamund John. This classic post-war feature is now presented in a brand-new transfer from original film elements and in its original theatrical aspect ratio. When an air raid casualty dies on the operating table a theatre sister stumbles upon evidence suggesting his death was no accident. When she in turn is killed, Inspector Cockrill realising that each remaining suspect has a strong motive for the murders must reconstruct the crime to reveal the killer's true identity

• Being Human: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (20/04/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £21.00 (526.32%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Russell Tovey plays the lovable George battling with his double identity as a mild-mannered and geeky hospital porter who for one night a month is transformed into a flesh-hungry predatory werewolf. Aidan Turner plays the good-looking and laid-back Mitchell who in contrast to George has the gift of the gab and an easy confidence with the ladies. But he is also a blood-sucking vampire struggling with going cold-turkey from the blood he craves. Completing the flat-share trio is Annie played by Lenora Crichlow a talkative ghost lacking in self-confidence and desperate for company. Annie is still pining after her fianc'' whom she was due to marry before the fatal accident that left her with her ghostly affliction - and who happens to be the landlord of their flat. The series follows the trio as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange and dark secrets. But with unwelcome intruders into their world rumblings about an impending revolution from the vampire underworld and constant threats of exposure - on top of the usual issues faced by young people surrounding love work and mates - the only thing they may be able to rely on in their heightened world is each other.

• Wonderstruck | DVD | (30/07/2018) from £6.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From visionary director of Far From Heaven and Carol, (based on the critically acclaimed book by Brian Selznick), Wonderstruck stars long-time Haynes collaborator Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and newcomers Oakes Fegley and Millicient Simmonds. Set fifty years apart, in the 1920's and 1970's, Wonderstruck is a tender and nostaligic study of two children trying to find their place in the world, weaved with mesmerising symmetry of the two eras and a enchanting soundtrack from Carter Burwell.

• Frances Ha | DVD | (06/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A story that follows a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles.

• Great Rift | Blu Ray | (08/03/2010) from £9.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (150.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Journey through this amazing geographical feature - seeing how the forces of nature have shaped the landscape creating a hotbed of evolution and the cradle of mankind. Visible from space the Great Rift runs for thousands of miles. It creates connects and defines the wildest most charismatic landscape in the world. From the majestic snow-capped mountains of the Kilimanjaro to the hustle and bustle of the Red Sea's coral reefs; the dry open savannahs of the Serengeti to the rain-soaked forests of the Mountains of the Moon. Journey through this amazing geographical feature - seeing how the forces of nature have shaped the landscape creating a hotbed of evolution and the cradle of mankind.

• Stephen Poliakoff | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £27.75   |  Saving you £32.24 (116.18%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Anne, a budding young actress, stumbles across secret recordings of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims.

• The Greatest | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £6.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (109.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon star as the Brewers an affluent couple whose well-ordered life is shattered when their oldest son is killed in a car crash. It's nothing that anyone can prepare for and this pair with their happily calibrated life are particularly susceptible to disaster. The mother becomes obsessed with the minutiae of her son's last moments most severely by trying to rouse the driver of the other car out of a deep coma. The father tries to remain strong seeking sanctuary in the recesses of his professorial mathematical mind. The horrible accident further exacerbates their younger son's feelings of alienation and inadequacy. Further upsetting the Brewers a young woman played by Carey Mulligan appears and rightfully claims that she is carrying their late idealized son's baby.

• The Cinematic Works | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £16.79   |  Saving you £3.20 (19.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eija-Liisa Ahtila's films and cinematic installations explore and experiment with storytelling creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences. Dealing with teenage sexuality family relations mental disintegration and death the films also investigate the processes of preception and attribution of meaning. By mixing and subverting the filmic rules of commercials cinema verite pop promos trailers and documentaries with a lyrical dose of Nordic supernaturalism the

• Murder She Wrote - Season 3 | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.55

  The complete third season of the Emmy award-winning detective drama. Angela Lansbury stars as everyone's favourite super-sleuth Jessica Fletcher a famous mystery writer who has a knack for solving murders on and off the page. Murder seems to follow Jessica Fletcher; a former English teacher and a mystery writer full of charm and a zest for life. She always happens to become ""the investigator"" when traveling around the country to promote her series of novels. Murder always s

• The Bang Bang Club | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers; Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa. Two were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their acclaimed work. The film tells the remarkable and sometimes harrowing story of these young men - and the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures. Anna (Malin Akerman) is their photo-editor, who looked out for them, protected them and made sure their photographs were seen across the world.Based on the book by Marinovich and Silva, The Bang Bang Club tells the true story of these four young men, recounting their relationships with each other and the stresses, tensions and moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence, pain and suffering.

• Darling | Blu Ray | (30/03/2015) from £14.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (76.98%)   |  RRP £22.99

  "It's far too pleased with itself. I wince when I see it now", director John Schlesinger observes of his 1965 film, Darling. You can tell why he's embarrassed. Looking back, his swinging 60s' satire about a model (Julie Christie) so keen to get ahead that she ditches her husband and betrays a succession of boyfriends looks hideously dated. With its self-consciously hip dialogue and unnecessary voice-over, the screenplay by Frederic Raphael (who also wrote Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut) doesn't help. Most of the men Christie encounters, whether Laurence Harvey's slick businessman (who can't pass a mirror without preening himself in it) or Dirk Bogarde's neurotic TV pundit (who has delusions of literary grandeur), are as narcissistic as she is. Although this seems to be a cautionary tale about slick, superficial London media and fashion folk, it's obvious that the filmmakers are half in love with the world they're pretending to lampoon. The visual gags--rich, society matrons at a charity event gorging themselves on food or Christie's poster being plastered over an image of a starving child--are heavy-handed in the extreme. Still, Christie is tremendous in the role which established her as an international star (she won an Oscar). However shallow and selfish her character seems, we can't help but warm to her. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Fat City (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/05/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Huston's sombre but compassionate boxing drama is a criminally underseen late-career masterpiece from the great director. Peppered with outstanding performances this gritty yet affectionate look at the world of small-time boxing highlights a down-and-out fighter and a young up-and-comer, both moving through a world of seedy gyms and flop houses. Special Features 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Alternative 5.1 surround sound track Audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman (2015) Sucker Punch Blues: Looking Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' (2017, 55 mins): documentary featuring interviews with actors Stacy Keach and Candy Clark, casting director Fred Roos and assistant cameraman Gary Vidor An American Classic (2015, 22 mins): illustrated audio interview with Fat City author Leonard Gardner John Huston on 'Fat City' (1972, 6 mins): archival interview filmed for the French TV programme Pour le cinéma The John Player Lecture with John Huston (1972, 88 mins): audio recording of an interview conducted by Brian Baxter at the National Film Theatre, London Isolated score Original theatrical trailer Image gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Boyhood 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (20/01/2025) from £17.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Richard Linklater, the director of Slacker, Dazed & Confused and Before Sunrise, Boyhood is a ground-breaking cinematic achievement; a fictional drama made with the same group of actors over a 12-year period. At once epic and intimate, it is a one-of-a-kind trip through the exhilaration of childhood, the seismic shifts of modern family life, and the passage of time itself. Dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason (Ellar Coltrane) is facing upheaval: his struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) re-enters their world. Thus begins a decade of constantly unfolding heartbreak and wonder. Against the tide of family moves and controversies, faltering marriages and re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times and scary times that will shape him, Mason emerges to find his own road in life. A remarkable achievement that builds on Linklater's fascination with time, relationships and the ever-changing nature of our lives, Boyhood is a deeply moving experience that found praise from critics around the world and went on to win the award for Best Film at both the Golden Globes and British Academy Film Awards in 2015. 4K ULTRA HD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS - 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) - Lossless DTS HD MA 5.1 audio - Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing - Without Ambition, One Starts Nothing, a featurette featuring American poet and critic Dan Chiasson in conversation with his son Louis Chiasson about their shared love and connection to the film - In Search of Lost Time, a visual essay by critic and film-maker Scout Tafoya - Before and After Boyhood, an interview with Richard Linklater by film critic Rob Stone, author of Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater - Richard Linklater at the BFI, director Richard Linklater discusses Boyhood and his whole career in this on stage appearance at the British Film Institute - Theatrical trailer - Image gallery

• 28 Days | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £4.72   |  Saving you £1.27 (26.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  28 DAYS, the story of Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock), a successful New York writer living in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl.

• Hellevator | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set almost entirely in the claustrophic transport elevator between towns stacked on top of one another where a hellish scenario unfolds. The postmodern masses that squeeze into this public transport system are Cell-phone addicted businessmen a child with a human brain as a pet leather clad law enforcers and a 17 year old schoolgirl with psychic abilities. They are joined by a pair of convicted homicidal rapists and soon the order of society is torn apart. Outbursts of excessive vi

• Choke | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £5.11   |  Saving you £14.88 (291.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the leftfield author that brought you "Fight Club" comes a surreal romantic antihero for our times, one Mr. Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell).

• Baffled | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Who dares to walk the line between life and death? Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire and Vera Miles star in this eerie story of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Baffl ed, an intriguing ITC pilot for a never-completed series, is directed by Phillip Leacock and also stars Rachel Roberts, Christopher Benjamin, Angharad Rees and Ray Brooks. Tom Kovak is a hard-nosed racing driver, until a sudden supernatural vision causes him to lose control of his car as he hurtles along at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Tom that his apparitions are signifi cant. When she leads him to the manor house of his vision, he meets glamorous fi lm star Andrea Glenn and her daughter, Jennifer, whose screaming image was the last thing he saw before his near-fatal crash. Despite Tom's initial doubts, he is inextricably drawn into their lives, as together they combat a force that they cannot see, but can feel only too well. An ominous, vengeful presence engulfs the manor house. Its only aim is death, and its intended victim is Andrea; little Jennifer is its weapon. Tom must now find the means to tap his powers. It is their only hope...

• Fools Rush In | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £8.64   |  Saving you £-2.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Opposites attract in Fools Rush In, a conventional but refreshingly unpredictable romantic comedy. New York nightclub designer (Matthew Perry, from television's Friends) is in Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a new project when he meets a fiery Mexican beauty (Salma Hayek). It's lust at first sight, and their one-night stand takes an unexpected turn when she shows up three months later to announce that she's pregnant. They're determined to do right for each other, so they get married in a Vegas chapel with an Elvis impersonator as their witness. Then comes the hard part--trying to figure out if they're actually compatible. The plot complications are mostly familiar, but Perry and Hayek throw some bright sparks as their initial bliss turns to more realistic concerns for family and future. Along the way there's some sharp dialogue and a few good laughs to give this all-too-human comedy an enjoyable spin. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Vera - Series 2 | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £13.09   |  Saving you £11.90 (90.91%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The first series of Vera may have left the show a little bit of work to do, but this follow-up run of stories improves things with considerable skill. The basic premise remains similar. Vera follows the work of Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, a woman driven to solve crime, whilst battling a catalogue of problems of her own. So far, so conventional. Television is hardly short of detectives, after all. But Vera has a trump card, and her name is Brenda Blethyn. The Oscar-nominated actress gives a considered performance in the title role, and the lends the show the gravitas it needs to keep us hooked. Blethyn is front and centre for much of the four episodes collected together here, and it's a complex collection of cases she's presented with. For instance, she has to face the mysterious suicide of a former colleague, and the odd murder of a social worker, each of which comes with a labyrinthine backstory that Vera needs to get to grips with. There are still problems with Vera that this second series doesn't completely solve. Based once more on Ann Cleeves' novels, the wonderful Blethyn has proven to be a divisive choice amongst hardened fans of the books, and whilst her character is deepened here, more work on the writing and less reliance on the leading actress would serve the show well. That said, her adventures here are fleshed out, interesting, and intriguing to watch. And Vera continues, as it did in the second half of its maiden series, to improve. Well worth a look. --Jon Foster