Drama

• The Kid (1921) (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (26/06/2023) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn't merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director-it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, a picture with a smile-and perhaps, a tear.Special Edition FeaturesNew 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackNew audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles MalandJackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa HavenA Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent-film specialist Ben ModelInterviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey ChaplinExcerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo RothmanDeleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid Charlie on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to EuropeFootage of Chaplin conducting his score for The KidNice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy BrockTrailersPLUS: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

• Room | Blu Ray | (09/05/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (156.87%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Ma has created a whole universe in 'Room' for five-year-old Jack, where they have both lived for Jack's whole life. But when Ma decides they have to escape, she risks everything to give Jack the chance to make a thrilling discovery: the world.

• Green Street | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rival football firms go head-to-head in this story of violence, adrenaline, loyalty, rivalry and back-street warfare. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) moves to London after being kicked out of Harvard University for alleged drug dealing. Before long he gets sucked into the hardcore world of booze, balls and violence with London's toughest football firm- the Green Street Elite. While Matt's busy proving himself in battle, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.

• Long Hot Summer, The | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Newman plays Ben Quick, the mysterious drifter who stirs up a town and its women when he hitches up in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, where life is dominated by elderly patriarch Will Varner (Orson Welles). Will's daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward) and son Jody (Anthony Franciosa) are a disappointment to him. While Jody spends his time fooling around with his alluring wife, Eula (Lee Remick), the strong-willed Clara is courted by Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson), a milquetoast mama's boy. Will himself is resisting being pressured into marriage by his long-term mistress Minnie (Angela Lansbury), but he sees in Ben the passion and drive that Jody lacks. He invites Ben to live with the family, and Ben launches a relentless campaign to break Clara's will and win her heart. This proves the final straw for Jody, who is driven to desperate measures to prove his manhood a situation that sparks both deadly danger and shocking revelations over the course of one long, hot summer.

• The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | DVD | (09/03/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (261.24%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adapted from John Boyne's best-selling novel, "The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas" is a moving story told through the eyes of an eight year old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II.

• Monarch Of The Glen - Series 5 - Part 2 | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £4.20   |  Saving you £17.05 (579.93%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Monarch Of The Glen is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary place. Archie MacDonald is the young Laird of Glenbogle a 40 000 acre estate in the Scottish Highlands. He and Lexie return home after their round the world honeymoon however Archie is restless. After years of financial struggle Glenbogle is finally solvent and Archie needs a new challenge. He finds the prospect of a job in New York very tempting and Lexie is horrified that he would even consider such a

• Rams | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £6.89   |  Saving you £11.10 (161.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In a secluded valley in Iceland, brothers Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their prized ancestral sheep. But a long-term grudge means that they haven't spoken to each other for four decades, passing messages via the sheep dog. When a lethal ovine disease suddenly appears in the valley, the authorities move in to cull all of the livestock. But Gummi and Kiddi don't give up easily and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. As the authorities close in the brothers will need to come together to save the special breed of sheep passed down for generations - and themselves - from extinction.

• Breathless | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), an ex-airline steward turned hoodlum, steals a car and heads to Paris. Discovering a gun in the car's glove department, he uses it to shoot and kill a cop who tries to wave him down. He wants to escape to Italy with his American girlfriend Patricia (Jean Seberg), but the police are after him, and he is distracted by all the pleasures Paris has to offer.Story-wise, Jean-Luc Godard's A Bout De Souffle (1960) (aka Breathless) is pretty thin, but as its director always proclaimed, you don't need much in the way of narrative to make a movie. Sometimes a girl and a gun are quite enough. The effortlessly cool and laconic Belmondo mirrors the director's mischief and flamboyance. With his fat cigarette stub perched on his bottom lip, his shades, his felt hat and white socks, he looks like a cross between a left-bank intellectual and an American gumshoe (perhaps his beloved Bogart). With her close-cropped hair and New York Herald Tribune T-shirt, his girlfriend (Jean Seberg) is equally stylish. A Hollywood star (she had appeared in the lead in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan in 1957 when she was still a teenager), the Iowa-born Seberg is turned by Godard into the lithe embodiment of European radical chic.The film has a spontaneity that studio-bound offerings of the time missed by a mile. Cameraman Raoul Coutard uses natural light and real locations whenever possible. Lots of the pet tricks in the movie--jump cuts, whip pans and improvised tracking shots--have been copied relentlessly by imitators ever since. A Bout De Souffle, though, is unique: anarchic, liberating and hugely stylish, "the best film around now", as its trailer proclaimed. It made Godard, almost overnight, into "the world's most discussed, interviewed and quoted filmmaker". --Geoffrey MacnabOn the DVD: Godard's greatest movie has been lovingly transferred to disc by Optimum, and comes with several extras including trailers and production notes and an old Godard short, Charlotte Et Son Jules, also starring the swaggering, arrogant Belmondo. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Dear Frankie | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £5.11   |  Saving you £10.88 (212.92%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A single mum must either tell her son the ugly truth about his real Dad or find the perfect stranger to play his father in this moving Scottish drama.

• The International | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £4.05   |  Saving you £15.94 (393.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An Interpol agent teams up with a tenacious District Attorney in order to bring down one of the world's most powerful banks.

• U-Turn | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £8.42   |  Saving you £-2.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Oliver Stone used such words as "liberating" and "fun" to talk about U-Turn's relatively quick production schedule of 42 days. Stone's ideas of film fun, however, are something older generations would call sick. This film is a Southwestern noir tale about Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), a hotshot who is stuck in the tight confines of Superior, Arizona, when his car breaks down. His subsequent adventure is a meatball comedy--loud, obnoxious and violent, and stuffed with diffused light, a hot cast and a no-fat Ennio Morricone score. This film has plenty of odd characters but you never really find out much about them. Bobby's first encounters include a repulsive mechanic (Billy Bob Thornton under the grease) and a blind Indian (Jon Voight under the makeup). Then there's Grace McKenna (a sizzling Jennifer Lopez), who is as dangerous as the curves of her red sundress. Bobby's got time to kill and Grace seems more than willing. Unfortunately, it seems that Bobby has never seen a movie such as A Touch of Evil; if he had, he would know it can only get worse. About the time Grace's husband, Jake (Nick Nolte), shows up, Bobby is knee-deep in murder plots and double-crosses. The first 40 minutes or so are "fun" to a point. Penn is the perfect near-creep to root for and as he wanders back into town after meeting Grace, the eclectic characters pile up. But soon it gets monotonous, tiring and just plain ugly. And when incest and bloody fights begin, the fun is gone. If Penn wasn't so solid an actor and able to be empathetic in the most morose situations, the movie would be unwatchable in stretches. Lopez makes another good impression but this is not a performance that stands out. Nolte, raspy and ill-looking, is the Lee Marvin of the 90s. Before U-Turn is over, you are already wondering if Oliver Stone will do something else, something more important, soon. --Doug Thomas

• The Old Curiosity Shop | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £6.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (103.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A costume drama at its very best this triumphant BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' most moving novel stars Natalie Ogle as Little Nell.

• Shelter | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Charged with the electric crackle of first love this sweet and sexy California romance is about a confused young artist torn between his family and his future. Fresh out of high school Zach (Trevor Wright) gives up a full scholarship to spare his 5-year-old nephew from their dysfunctional family. Now restless and isolated the gifted youth toils at a local diner. But everything changes when he finds himself drawn to thirtysomething Shaun (Brad Rowe) a confident young writer. As the two hit the surf and Shaun's mattress with equal enthusiasm they fall into a secret relationship that may give Zach the courage he needs to follow his passions.

• A Place For Annie | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £5.47   |  Saving you £-2.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A baby suffering with AIDS and abandoned in a hospital is given a home by a nurse who fights for custody... Based on a true story.

• Molly's Game | Blu Ray | (14/05/2018) from £6.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Molly's Game is the true story of Molly Bloom a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe.

• Shameless - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £13.98   |  Saving you £23.00 (191.83%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Shameless the BAFTA award-winning and brilliantly funny drama series from writer Paul Abbott follows the roller coaster lives and loves of the highly un-orthodox yet extremely tightly knit Gallagher family. With Christenings riots salsa school reunions sibling rivalry shoot-outs cross-dressing weddings gigolos and messages from beyond the grave the wonderful inimitable world of Shameless is back for the seventh series.

• The Accidental Tourist | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  William Hurt and Kathleen Turner join Geena Davis in the bittersweet comedy about a travel writer's unlikely new romance. After the death of his son Macon Leary a travel writer seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife seems to be having trouble too and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up Macon meets a strange outgoing woman who seems to bring him back down to earth. After starting a relationship with the outgoing woman Macon

• What Dreams May Come | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra star in this visually stunning metaphysical tale of life after death. Neurologist Chris and artist Annie had the perfect life until they lost their children in an auto accident; they're just starting to recover when Chris meets an untimely death himself. He's met by a messenger named Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and taken to his own personal afterlife--a freshly drawn world reminiscent of Annie's own artwork, still dripping and wet with paint. Meanwhile a depressed Annie takes her own life, compelling Chris to traverse heaven and hell to save Annie from an eternity of despair. The multitextured visuals seem to have been created from a lost fairy tale. Heaven recalls the landscape paintings of Thomas Cole and Renaissance architecture complete with floating cherubs, while hell is a massive shipwreck, an upside-down cathedral overgrown with thorns and a sea of groaning faces popping out of the ground (one of those faces is German director Werner Herzog). Williams is the perfect actor to play against the imaginative computer-generated imagery--he himself is a human special effect. But the lack of chemistry between Williams and Sciorra is painfully apparent, and the flashback plot structure flattens the story's impact despite its deeply felt examinations of the heart and the spirit. Still, there's no denying Eugenio Zanetti's triumphant production design and the Oscar-winning special effects, which create a fully formed universe that is at once beautiful, eerie, and a unique example of movie magic. --Shannon Gee

• Lark Rise To Candleford - Series 2 | Blu Ray | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Following critical acclaim the residents of Lark Rise and Candleford return in this warm-hearted adaptation of Flora Thompson's novels. Set in the Oxfordshire countryside in the 1890s this rich funny and poignant series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers craftsmen and gentry detailing the little conflicts romances and misunderstandings between the tiny Lark Rise and the more worldly Candleford. Series two sees the arrival of a dashing and elegant stranger in Candleford. Rich enterprising worldly and apparently without a wife James Dowland is a successful businessman with a string of London hotels and has come to transform Candleford and bring it new prosperity. But not everyone welcomes his entrepreneurial qualities and it isn't long before he is sparring with the spirited yet suddenly unusually flustered Dorcas and aggravating the pride of the male Lark Risers with his superior business acumen and somewhat overbearing manner. The second series of Lark Rise To Candleford sees the welcome return of Julia Sawalha (Pride And Prejudice Cranford) as Dorcas Lane Olivia Hallinan (Sugar Rush Girls In Love) as Laura Timmins her assistant Brendan Coyle (Prime Suspect True Dare Kiss) as Robert Laura's opinionated father Claudie Blakley (Jane Eyre State of Play) as Laura's mother Emma and Mark Heap (Green Wing Love Soup) as Thomas Brown the Head Postman and devout Christian. Joining the cast for the second series are Jason Merrells (Cutting It Waterloo Road) who plays the charming new hotelier James Dowland and Ruby Bentall (Oliver Twist New Tricks) as Minnie a new addition to the Post Office in Candleford.

• Rebus: Series 1 Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (19/08/2024) from £27.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Demoted John Rebus is at a psychological crossroads,Involved in a toxic affair with the wife of his disabled former police partner and all but replaced in his daughter's life by his ex-wife's new wealthy husband, Rebus wonders if he still has a role left either as a family man or as a police officer,In a world of divisive politics and national deprivation, does the law still have meaning or is everyone reverting to an older set of rules? And if so, why shouldn't Rebus? A brazen daylight attack draws Rebus and his new partner into a gang war which escalates when Rebus's ex-soldier brother steals from drug dealer,Rebus finds himself torn between protecting his brother and enforcing the law to bring him to justice,A fresh and thrilling offering in the high-end crime genre, with a globally recognisable character at the heart of the story.