Drama

• She's Out | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £12.82   |  Saving you £12.17 (94.93%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Dolly Rawlins is free again. Having served her sentence for her husband's murder she's now looking to collect a cool 6 million in diamonds hidden after a robbery eight years ago. She had dreams of a new life and the loot will help her start afresh. However the girls with whom she served time have their own plans...

• Lease Of Life | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Anne Of Green Gables - The Continuing Story | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Now in her twenties Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla Cuthbert's death. Gilbert has been offered a staff position at a hospital in New York and persuades Anne to come as he has arranged a postion for her at a large publishing house. Big city life isn't what they expected. Anne's manuscript is stolen by a dashing American writer Jack Garrison and Gilbert becomes frustrated with the politics of working in a large city hospital. Anne convinces Gilbert to go home to Avonlea so that they can be married and put their horrible experiences behind them. When they return to Prince Edward Island they are catapulted into the middle of wartime society. Gilbert soon feels the pressure from the community and enlists as a medical officer. Anne's hopes are shattered when Gilbert is listed as missing in action which takes her on a cross-Atlantic search for him as the fury of war is unleashed around her. A bizarre twist of fate reunites Anne with Jack Garrison now working as a war correspondent. He is travelling with a young French girl Colette and their baby son Dominic. Colette is killed during an attack on their field hospital. Anne learns of Jack's role in an American intelligence effort to end the war. Her affiliation with him lures into a web of intrigue in exchange for help in finding her husband. Jack falls through on his promises. As the war comes to a close Anne finds Gilbert weaving through the crowded streets of a German city released from a POW camp. She loses Jack forever. However she is determined to find his child whom she and Gilbert adopt upon their return to Prince Edward Island.

• Women Of Twilight (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of the 1952 film directed by Gordon Parry. Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by Nellie Alistair, a ruthless woman with sinister motives, who takes pleasure exploiting her vulnerable tenants. Product Features Melanie Williams on Women of Twilight From Stage to Screen: Interview with Marc David Jacobs Stills gallery

• Scattered Dreams | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. Torn from the only thing that mattered: each other. And to reunite them it would take their greatest strengths: love and courage. Scattered Dreams is the powerful heart-warming drama that tells the true story of a family's fight to prove its innocence when it is ripped apart by a cruel and wrongful accusation.

• Jubilee | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Jarman's Jubilee combines a safety-pin and barbed-wire vision of 1977 London in ruins (all burning prams and castrated policemen), a meditation on English mysticism guided by a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth I (the immensely regal Jenny Runacre) and a wild 'n' crazy account of the rampages of a gang of personality punk psychos, to become the closest a British film could come to the John Waters of Pink Flamingos. But there are surprisingly lyrical stretches (the only songs sung all the way through are "Jerusalem" and "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose") and, though future pop stars Toyah Wilcox and Adam Ant are embarrassingly amateurish as rebel street angels, some of the one-note maniacal performances--especially Lex Luther look-alike Orlando as mad media tycoon Borgia Ginz--are relishable. Among the people you've forgotten are in it are Ian Charleson of Chariots of Fire, celebrity shop assistant Jordan (as narrator Amyl Nitrate), Richard O'Brien and Little Nell of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lindsay Kemp Dance Troupe and Adolf Hitler of World War II. Arguably the only Derek Jarman movie you might consider watching for pleasure, this is still not exactly the 1970s nostalgia fodder you might expect: even as the haircuts and music have receded into cultural history, the movie's acid-look vision of the worst of England remains horribly sound. The soundtrack features Adam and the Ants ("Deutscher Girls"), Wayne County and the Electric Chairs ("Paranoia Paradise"), Chelsea ("Right to Work"), Suzi Pinns (a thrash punk "Rule Britannia" best appreciated by those with the aural range of a fox terrier), Siouxie and the Banshees ("Love in a Void"), Amilcar ("Wargasm in Pornotopia"), the Slits and Brian Eno ("Slow Water", "Dover Beach"). In the 21st Century, the creative team are either dead or doing pantomime--which is so appropriate that irony doesn't even come into it. --Kim Newman

• The Man in the Iron Mask | DVD | (09/03/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  D'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King.

• London Kills: Series 4 | DVD | (27/11/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer, Father Brown) has always been a maverick, but his behaviour is starting to spin out of control. When his subordinate DC Rob Brady (Bailey Patrick, The Nest) is implicated in the death of a witness, David interferes in the case, alarming second-in-command DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon Small, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries). Even as the team investigates other crimes - the murder of a military major, the stabbing of a medical student, an alcoholic who can't remember if she killed her husband - dissension grows within their ranks. Exacerbating the tension, David and Vivienne are dealing with the fallout from their shared indiscretion, which DC Billie Fitzgerald (Tori Allen-Martin, Unforgotten) reveals was caught on camera. As David pursues a vendetta from his past while looking into a boxing promoter's death, he faces a reckoning: Has he lost the trust of his team for good?

• Babel | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide in this multi-stranded drama.

• The Pawnbroker | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £15.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), a survivor of the Nazi death camps which took the lives of his wife and children is a man bereft of hope, instead taking refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity, while managing a Harlem pawnshop where he's subjected to an endless parade of prostitutes, pimps and thieves. Seemingly only caring about money, he is continually haunted by vivid flashbacks of the concentration camp. Oscar-nominated for his performance, Steiger firmly established his credentials as an actor of international standing, wonderfully supported here by Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) and Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird). The film also boasts a score from then first-time film composer Quincy Jones. Extras Presented in High Definition Other extras TBC **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet including new writing on the film

• The Girl From Monday | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £15.40   |  Saving you £0.59 (3.83%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Girl From Monday

• Romantics Anonymous | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two emotionally challenged people come together in the most unlikely of settings in this touching romantic drama from acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Ameris.

• Angel Heart | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £13.95   |  Saving you £0.30 (2.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The film packed with stunning images jaw-dropping scenes and superb performances from Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke is a fusion of two genres - the classic Chandleresque detective story and the supernatural. Harry Angel is hired for $125 a day to track down the big band swinger Johnny Favourite. What seems like a straight-forward missing person case dramatically becomes a murder hunt for this down-and-out private detective. His client Louis Cypher a mysterious stranger is forced to up his fee to keep Angel on the case. Each of Angel's leads ends up as a victim of a ritualistic act of murder as he begins to put together the pieces in the jigsaw of Johnny's strange story... the nightmare has just begun.

• A Place to Call Home | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £12.94   |  Saving you £17.05 (131.76%)   |  RRP £29.99

  As Australia faces internal and external threats to its way of life so too do the people of Inverness, and previous alliances and relationships are tested. In the brand new season, Sarah˜s dilemma between her feelings for George and her duty to her husband Rene, is exacerbated by a heart breaking secret. James and Olivia's relationship is under pressure by the desire of physical fulfilment, while the true parentage of baby George is threatened with exposure. Elizabeth Bligh's decision to leave Ash Park to explore a life of her own proves more difficult than she thought. The difference between the fairy tale romance of Anna and Gino and the reality of married life threatens to tear them apart. Starring Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Adams and Noni Hazlehurst as Elizabeth Bligh, this historical show has a terrific cast and pleasantly revisits the dramas of the past. This DVD set contains all 10 episodes of A Place to Call Home Series 3 as well as an alternative Series 2 finale.

• Eleanor's Secret | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring the best of children's fairytales characters such as Alice in Wonderland Red Riding Hood Peter Pan and many more Eleanor's Secret is a beautifully animated tale about the importance of being able to read. When their beloved aunt Eleanor dies Nathaniel and his family are left the house where they have spent every summer and Nathaniel has been bequeathed all the books in the library where he makes a startling discovery - after dark all the characters come to life! They tell him that to save them from extinction he must read the magic spell in the library. There is only one problem - Nathaniel can't read. In a race against time Nathaniel must battle against all the odds including a wily antique dealer who wants to buy all the books from his parents to save his new friends. A charming film for all ages.

• Generation Kill - Complete HBO Series | Blu Ray | (05/07/2010) from £23.39   |  Saving you £-3.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.49

  Baghdad Iraq 2009. Mission: Unclear. Enemy: Unidentified. Duration of Tour: Unknown. It was impossible for the Marines of the First Recon Battalion to anticipate what would occur during those first 40 days of the Iraq war as they found themselves struggling with Shoddy supplies frustrated by the chain of command and questioning the mission at every turn. Fused with camaraderie faith and fury Generation Kill brings you the gritty raw and brutally honest insider's look at what has become of our contemporary American War. Based on Evan Wright's best-selling book and produced by David Simon and Ed Burns two of the men who brought you the critically heralded HBO series The Wire Generation Kill is now an equally acclaimed seven-part miniseries event from HBO Films.

• Prayers For Bobby | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £5.79   |  Saving you £14.20 (245.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The amazing true story of a mother torn between her loyalties challenged by her faith and moved by a tragedy that would change her life and the lives of others forever. Bobby Griffith (Ryan Kelly Smallville) was his mother's favourite son the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of - much less understood - Bobby finally came out to his family. Despite the tentative support of his father two sisters and older brother Bobby's mother Mary (Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver Working Girl) turned to the fundamentalist teachings of her church to rescue her son from what she felt was an irredeemable sin. As Mary came closer to the realization that Bobby could not be 'healed ' she rejected him denying him a mother's unconditional love and driving her favourite son to suicide. Anguished over Bobby's death Mary finds little solace in her son's poignant diaries revelations of a troubled boy fighting for the love of his mother and God. Finding it difficult to reconcile her feelings of guilt her conflicted emotions over religious teachings and her struggles with understanding her son's orientation Mary finally and unexpectedly reaches out to the gay community as a source of inspiration and consolation. For Mary Griffith it's the beginning of a long and emotional journey that extended beyond acceptance to her viable role a vocal advocate for gay and lesbian youth. In 1996 twelve years after Bobby's death she was invited to address the Congress of the United States establishing her as a major force in the fight for human rights.

• Heartstone | DVD | (08/01/2018) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.

• Girl on a Motorcycle | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Caught midway between 1970s soft-porn clunker The Story of O and Bunuel's sado-masochistic fantasy Belle de Jour, the 1968 erotic curio Girl on a Motorcycle is one of Marianne Faithfull's chief claims to notoriety. She stars as Rebecca, a leather-clad, former bookstore clerk in search of sexual fulfilment who flees her dependable schoolteacher husband for a dangerous liaison with Daniel (Alain Delon), a dashing Professor addicted to speed. The story is told entirely in flashbacks as Rebecca rockets along the road, having donned her leathers and walked out on her sleeping husband at the crack of dawn. It all must have seemed fairly daring and provocative in 1968, providing viewers with ample opportunities to view a naked Faithfull at the height of her allure. But today the existential musings of the lead character seem achingly pretentious, the erotic symbolism merely gawky and unintentionally amusing: the sight of Alain Delon with a phallic pipe dangling from his mouth is like something out of a Rene Magritte painting. The sex scenes between Delon and Faithfull are all swamped in a polarised visual effect that, while garish and psychedelic, is dated and distinctly unerotic. Director Jack Cardiff is better known as a cinematographer on classics such as The African Queen and Black Narcissus. Among Cardiff's other directorial credits is a worthy adaptation of DH Lawrence's Sons & Lovers, but Girl on a Motorcycle is a saucy road movie with no final destination. On the DVD: This DVD version is misleadingly presented as being the fully restored and uncut version of the film. Yet it was the US version not the European one that was heavily cut (and titillatingly re-titled "Naked Under Leather"). The restoration certainly does not refer to the print quality: although the colours are vivid and bright, the print used to master the DVD (in 16:9 anamorphic format) is extremely grainy and, at times, speckled with dirt and scratches. Included as one of the special features, a theatrical trailer loaded with innuendo shows just how much the film was marketed to a prurient audience. Director Jack Cardiff provides an audio commentary but has few revelatory things to say about his film beyond technical considerations, and even makes several clunking errors (recalling his casting decisions concerning a scene that takes place in a provincial German café, he raves about how he strove to find authentic French locals!). He does reveal that the film's use of a voice-over was inspired by the internal monologue that forms the basis of James Joyce's Ulysses. Given Cardiff's age and experience one feels that he must have more interesting anecdotes and insights, making this commentary feel like a wasted opportunity. --Chris Campion

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Masters Of Cinema) Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, Elia Kazan's heartfelt and sentimental first feature, presented on Blu-ray from a 2K restoration as a part of The Masters of Cinemas Series from 22 July 2019. Director Elia Kazan's first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn shows that the filmmaker's great empathy for his characters was already quite evident at this early juncture, and this endures as one of the most moving Hollywood dramas of the 1940s. Based on Betty Smith's novel a bestseller in the U.S. but also one of the most popular books among American soldiers overseas in WWII Kazan's debut is a sensitive, masterful adaptation. Set among Brooklyn tenements circa 1912, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a portrait of the Nolans, an Irish-American family living in financially challenging circumstances, often made worse by father Johnny's drinking and employment problems. But matriarch Katie keeps the family together during all of the obstacles, caring for son Neeley and daughter Francie, as well as Katie's outspoken, oft-married sister Sissy. But just as Francie's gift for writing opens up new avenues, more tragic developments test the family's resolve. Winning Academy Awards for actors James Dunn (as Johnny) and Peggy Ann Garner (as Francie), and featuring splendid work by Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a heartfelt testament to the strength of family, and offers an early indication of Kazan's unrivalled proficiency with actors. Special Features: 1080p transfer of the film on Blu-ray from a 2K restoration completed from a 4K scan of the original film elements Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Feature-length commentary by Richard Schickel with Elia Kazan, Ted Donaldson, and Normal Lloyd The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn An Appreciation of Dorothy McGuire A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Hollywood Star Time: Original radio broadcast version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn from 1946, starring Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn and Joseph Kearns PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring new essays by Kat Ellinger, Phil Hoad, and Philip Kemp, alongside rare archival imagery