Drama

• I Clowns (The Clowns) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the Fellini films which has been out of circulation for many years I clowns [The Clowns] has long been revered by Fellini enthusiasts for the several decades since its release as among the Maestro's finest works — a thrilling spectacle once seen for the first time — and a picture which after multiple viewings easily takes its place alongside such classics as La strada Le notti di Cabiria La dolce vita Satyricon Amarcord... but in a register all its own. I clowns plays out in dazzling colour and in episodic cascade just as in all of Fellini's late-60s-and-beyond films. As the circus rolls into town and the big-tent gets erected the clowns execute their acts with feverish can-you-believe-it bravado. It's all true — and yet not a documentary per se; rather something in-between a dramatic-comedic portrayal of gags-at-play and the memoria of all that makes the spark for childhood inspiration to ignite into creative virtuosity... and/or into something like Federico Fellini. A great and under acknowledged treasure of the cinema I clowns takes its place alongside such films as Bergman's Carnies' Twilight Ophuls's Lola Montès Étaix's Yoyo Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried and Tati's Parade as one of the grand portraits of the clowning circus of a bygone era of the wandering entertainer. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Federico Fellini's I clowns in a special Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition for the first time in the UK. Bonus Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation of feature on the Blu-ray and in a progressive encode on the DVD New and improved English subtitles Fellini's Circus — an essay-film about the picture by the great Italian critic and scholar Adriano Aprà A 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring new writing about the film rare archival imagery and more!

• Colette | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £4.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unconventional country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette has married a charismatic egomaniacal man of letters, 14 years her senior, known by the single name, Willy. Through his auspices, Colette is introduced into the fecund world of the artistic demimonde in Paris where her creative appetite is sparked. Ever quick to capitalise on talent, Willy permits Colette to write her novels only if she does so in his name. The phenomenal success of her Claudine series makes Willy a famous writer and Colette and Willy the first modern celebrity couple. Although they are the toast of the town, lack of recognition for her work begins to gnaw on Colette. Their marriage starts to internally combust, fuelled by Willy's infidelities and Colette's growing interest in women - particularly her relationship with the gender-defying Missy - but emotionally and artistically, she cannot break free of him. On a downward slide, Willy resorts to increasingly desperate measures to pay his debts and sabotage his wife but Colette is developing resources of her own. Set at the dawn of the modern age, COLETTE is the story of a woman who has been denied her voice by an overbearing man, and who goes to extraordinary lengths to find it; a battle of the sexes at the very beginning of the modern age, when seismic shifts were taking place in the roles of men and women. More than a century after the publication of her first novel, Colette is still one of the best-selling, and beloved, French authors. Unfortunately, because Willy convinced her to ghostwrite for him, she doesn't get any of the credit for the phenomenon that her novel becomes. And in the years to come, while her and Willy's adventures become the talk of Paris, she defies everyone to get her name on the books she writes. Keira Knightley stars as ˜Colette' in this acclaimed drama, alongside Dominic West as Willy.

• The Border (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, Wolf) gives one of his finest and most subtle performances as a hard-working but deeply disillusioned Mexican border-guard in this tough thriller from renowned British filmmaker Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey).

• Sous Le Soleil De Satan | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Positioned somewhere between Bresson's immortal Journal d'un cur'' de campagne and Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster Maurice Pialat's staggering Sous le soleil de Satan [Under the Sun of Satan] addresses the torrent of spiritual and intellectual turmoil unloosed among the denizens of a little country parish. It is a film by turns calm and violent buoyant upon the tears of mercy and gurgling with the blood of the Lamb. G''rard Depardieu (Loulou Le Gar''u) is the self-abasing curate tortured by questions about his role in God's plan - before an encounter with a material Satan touches off a powerful revelation. At the crux of his vision is Sandrine Bonnaire (A nos amours. Police) the madly profligate brewer's daughter whose fate ruptures in a blast of gunpowder and the slash of a razor. As events unfurl Maurice Pialat himself provides witness as the seasoned cleric who pronounces the words: God wears us down. One of the great films of faith made by a non-believer Sous le soleil de Satan left an indelible mark on spectators from the very moment of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 - where it won the Palme d'Or for Best Film.

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.

• Wild At Heart | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £9.87   |  Saving you £10.12 (102.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Stephen Tomkinson (Ballykissangel) and Amanda Holden (Cutting It) Wild At Heart is the story of an English vet and his extended family who move to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve. The Trevanion family has had more than its fair share of problems. When suburban vet Danny brings home a monkey which has been smuggled illegally into the country the family decides to return the animal to its natural habitat - hoping that the journey will help the

• Remember | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.82   |  Saving you £-0.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Ballykissangel - Season 1 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Young priest Father Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson) arrives in the small Irish town of Ballykissangel. Captivated by local beauty Assumpta (Dervla Kirwan) he is unpopular form the outset and has to work hard to win over the eccentric inhabitants... Episodes comprise: 1. Trying To Connect You 2. The Things We Do For Love 3. Live In My Heart And Pay No Rent 4. Fallen Angel 5. The Power And The Gory 6. Missing You Already

• Killer Net | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £7.48   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When murder becomes a virtual reality... The stylish Channel 4 tale of urban murder features Paul Bettany in his first leading role. Two Brighton-based students buy an internet murder game and are amazed by its realistic qualities. They perform the perfect cyber murder but soon the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred when a real copycat killing takes place. Leaving the game it seems can be murder... Written by BAFTA award winner Lynda La Plante.

• The Servant (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (10/01/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of Joseph Loseys 1963 masterpiece The Servant. Adapted from Robin Maugham's short story, The Servant marked the first of three collaborations between Joseph Losey and celebrated playwright Harold Pinter. Nominated for five BAFTA 's and winning three, including best actor for Dirk Bogarde and Best Cinematography for Douglas Slocombe, The Servant is notable for its ambitious technique and its willingness to engage with issues that were, at the time, never seen in British cinema. Experienced manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the annoyance of Tony's girlfriend (Wendy Craig), Barrett slowly initiates himself into the house and begins to manipulate his master. Extras NEW: Locations featurette with Adam Scovell NEW: Video essay with Film Historian Matthew Sweet and Film Critic Phuong Le Trailer Stills Gallery Interview with Wendy Craig Interview with Sarah Miles Interview with Stephen Woolley Harry Burton on Harold Pinter John Coldstream on Dirk Bogarde Audio Interview with Douglas Slocombe conducted by Matthew Sweet Joseph Losey & Adolphus Mekas at the New York Film Festival in 1963 Harold Pinter Tempo Interview Joseph Losey Talks About The Servant James Fox Interviewed by Richard Ayoade

• Cheeky | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carla is an attractive, carefree young woman from Venice who comes to London to find a place for her lover Matteo and herself to live. At an estate agency the proprietress, Moira, makes some explicit sexual overtures to Carla which she finds intriguing. Deciding not to relate these to Matteo she instead starts telling him lies. He becomes very jealous as he imagines Carla's erotic adventures and abandons his trip to London. Carla, upset by his rebuff, goes to a party where she takes part, along with other beautiful girls, in a pleasure-pain endurance test - Trojan Ordeal! Eventually Matteo does come to London and when he confronts Carla, her revelations not only make him madly jealous, but also arouse him sexually. So he tells Carla Swear Carla, that you'll always lie to me!

• Footballers' Wives - The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £12.89   |  Saving you £17.10 (132.66%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Footballers' Wives plays rather like a dramatisation of the worst bits of Heat magazine, fuelling our obsession with worshipping at the celebrity altar. In essence it's Dynasty set in the world of premiership football, though you shouldn't be fooled by the title: this is definitely not a "game of two halves". For the first time in history, men may leave the room at the mention of football to let the women gorge themselves on a surfeit of bad fashion, affairs, drug habits, long-lost children and the gratuitous disposal of excessive wealth. There are more than a few recognisable characters--the foreign manager, the glamour-model wife, the smouldering Italian mid-fielder--whose presence only adds to the (intended) impression that this just might be fact thinly disguised as fiction (though it's unlikely that any real footballer's wife would almost kill the chairman of the club in a fit of rage, as Tanya does in the first episode). Unsurprisingly Footballers' Wives was created by the same team that produced the trash-fest that was Bad Girls and despite never being a contender for best drama it offers a perfect opportunity to become a voyeur in a world with more glitz and leg action than most. On the DVD: Footballers' Wives is presented with an ordinary TV transfer. The special features are nothing to get excited about, just standard interviews and photo galleries. --Nikki Disney

• Anyone for Denis? | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written by actor, best-selling author and noted satirist John Wells and based on his and Richard Ingrams' hilarious Dear Bill letters for Private Eye Anyone for Denis? was a major West End hit in the early 1980s and remains an unequivocally high watermark of British farce. Starring Wells himself as the much-put-upon Denis and Angela Thorne in an arguably career-best performance as The Iron Lady, a remarkable supporting cast includes Robert Stephens, Joan Sanderson, Alfred Molina, Roy Kinnear, Nicky Henson and John Cater. This television adaptation for Thames Television one of the hits of the ITV network's 1982 Christmas season was directed award-winning writer/director (and comedy legend in his own right) Dick Clement. While Maggie is away at a Euro-Conference, Denis invites two of his drinking chums for a weekend of mischief at Chequers. Things start to go seriously wrong, however, when she returns unexpectedly and mistakes her husband's friends for EEC Commissioners!

• Margaret | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

• The Pot Carriers | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £14.51   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ronald Fraser reprises his role as a petty career criminal in the big-screen remake of ITV's 1960 hit comedy-drama Play of the Week. An authentic and original look at life behind bars, The Pot Carriers also stars Paul Massie as a first-time prisoner, Carole Lesley as the girl he left outside and Dennis Price in a memorable turn as the charming-but-unprincipled Smooth-Tongue Bertie. It is featured here as a High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. James Rainbow is sentenced to twelve months for GBH. Assigned to prison kitchen duties, he is taken under the wing of several old lags led by Redband and becomes involved in some of their fiddles. Redband, however, is due to be released soon and wants to pull one really big fiddle before he goes! Special Features: Theatrical trailer Image gallery Those British Faces: Dennis Price

• Suffragette | Blu Ray | (29/02/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £20.04 (223.91%)   |  RRP £28.99

  SUFFRAGETTE is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud (Carey Mulligan) is one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.

• The Limey | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £4.03 (67.62%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Limey follows Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.

• Suspect | DVD | (04/07/2022) from £5.36   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When veteran detective, Danny Frater (played by James Nesbitt), turns up at a hospital mortuary for what he thinks is a routine ID check on a young woman's body, he gets a devastating shock; the corpse turns out to be his estranged daughter, Christina (played by Imogen King). Danny is traumatized by the news that according to the post-mortem report, she's taken her own life. Danny and Christina had a complicated father-daughter relationship in recent years, but he refuses to accept that she would have ended her own life. He sets out on a mission for the truth, retracing her last days and hours, in an agonising crusade to discover what really happened to his only child.

• Ransom | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A passenger plane has been hijacked in Scandinavia at the same time as the British Ambassador has been taken hostage. It is the job of police chief Nils Tahlvik to take control of the situation and help save the victims but he soon discovers all is not what it seems.

• Danielle Steel's The Ring | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £7.40   |  Saving you £-1.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) a woman who gains strength and courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. As the daughter of an upper-class Berlin family Ariana watches her family and her country torn apart at the hands of impending war. Aware of the dangerous political climate her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerland.