Drama

• Ransom | DVD | (25/09/1998) from £10.16   |  Saving you £2.83 (27.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When it comes to ramping up to vein-bursting levels of tormented anxiety , Mel Gibson has a kind of mainstream intensity that makes him perfect for his heroic-father role in director Ron Howard's child-kidnapping thriller. When you think of Ransom, you automatically think of the scene in which Mel reaches his boiling point and yells, "Give me back my son!" to the kidnapper on the other end of a phone. Trapped in the middle of any parent's nightmare, Mel plays a self-made airline mogul whose son (played by Brawley Nolte, son of actor Nick Nolte) is abducted by a close-knit group of uptight kidnappers. But when a king's ransom is demanded for the child's safe return, Mel turns the tables and offers the ransom as reward money for anyone who provides information leading to the kidnappers' arrest. Thus begins a nerve-racking battle of wills and a test of the father's conviction to carry out a plan that could cost his son's life. The boy's mother (played by Rene Russo, reunited with Gibson after Lethal Weapon 3) disapproves of her husband's life-threatening gamble, and a seasoned FBI negotiator (Delroy Lindo) is equally fearful of disaster as the search for the kidnappers intensifies. Through it all, Howard maintains a level of nail-biting tension to match Gibson's desperate ploy, and the plot twists are just clever enough to cancel out the overwrought performances and manipulative screenplay. Ransom may not be as sophisticated as its glossy production design would suggest, but it's a thriller with above-average intelligence and an emotion-driven plot that couldn't be more urgent. Adding to the intensity is a superior supporting cast including Gary Sinise, Lili Taylor and Liev Schreiber as the kidnappers, who demonstrate that even the tightest scheme can unravel under unexpected stress. Remade from a 1956 film starring Glenn Ford, Ransom is diluted by a few too many subplots, but as a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, it's a slick and satisfying example of Hollywood entertainment. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Taming Andrew | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When her abducted son finally returns home after 5 years Gail Carlson feels as if her prayers have been answered. However her nightmare is far from over when she is confronted with the emotional and mental trauma her son has endured.

• The Upper Hand - Series 1 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Upper Hand: Series 1 (2 Discs)

• Limbo | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £9.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ben Sharrock's critically adored Limbo is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims. Among them is Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician struggling with the guilt, regret and grief that comes with leaving his former life behind. This deadpan comedy-drama from a bold new voice in British cinema shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines.

• M3gan | Blu Ray | (30/10/2023) from £41.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the first time in 4K. From James Wan, the producer of Annabelle, and Blumhouse, the producer of The Black Phone, comes a fresh new face in terror. M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a lifelike doll that is programmed to be a childs greatest companion and a parents greatest ally. Designed by Gemma (Allison Williams, Get Out), a brilliant roboticist, M3GAN can listen, watch, and learn as it plays the role of friend, teacher, playmate, and protector. When Gemma becomes the unexpected caretaker of her 8-year-old niece, she decides to pair the girl with a M3GAN prototype, a decision that leads to unimaginable consequences.Product FeaturesEXCLUSIVE TO UK / LIMITED TO 2000 / INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED EDITION INCLUDES 4K AND BLU-RAY STEELBOOK WITH GLOSS DEBOSS FINISH / LENTICULAR SLIPCASE / 40-PAGE PRODUCTION NOTES BOOK / 4 ARTCARDS / DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER

• Long Day's Journey Into Night | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The world's foremost actor Laurence Olivier and one of America's greatest playwrights Eugene O'Neill are brought together in this acclaimed stage production by the National Theatre Company of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Long Day s Journey into Night gives an autobiographical account of Eugene O'Neill s claustrophobic and explosive home life fused by a drug-addicted mother a father who wallows in drink after realising he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is an emotionally unstable misfit. Laurence Olivier won an Emmy Award and a BAFTA nomination for his performance in this production which also marks one of his rare appearances on television.

• Ladies They Talk About | Blu Ray | (03/04/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In most prison films, the convicted man is rehabilitated by the love of a woman. In Ladies They Talk About, Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who becomes rehabilitated by the love of the man who sent her to prison. Stanwyck is Nan Taylor, a bank robber who gets sent to prison for her role in a bank heist. David Slade (Preston S. Foster) is the reformer who has fallen in love with her. When her two partners are killed in a jailbreak attempt in which she, too, is involved, Nan thinks David is the one responsible for tipping off the authorities. But she soon learns to trust in his love for her, eventually reciprocating and leaving her unsavory past behind. Codirected by William Keighley, who went on to direct The Man Who Came to Dinner, and based on the play by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles, Ladies They Talk About is not only worth talking about, it's worth seeing over and over again. Product Features Vintage Warner Bros. Cartoon I Like Mountain Music

• Nell | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young woman (Foster) is found hiding in the rafters of her Blue Ridge Mountain home after the death of her mother. She has been totally cut off from the outside world and has developed her own impenetrable language. A local doctor (Neeson) attempts to hide her from the outside world's prying eyes but she may have to be locked up in an institution for her own safety from hostile locals...

• An Angel At My Table | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally produced as a three-part miniseries for New Zealand television, this extraordinary film is based on the life of Janet Frame, an introverted, sensitive girl who was later misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent eight years in a psychiatric hospital. She would later become one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets and novelists, publishing her first books while she was still confined to a mental ward. She had endured over 200 electroshock treatments and had almost been lobotomized by careless physicians who took no time to understand that she was merely awkward and shy and suffered from little more than routine depression. From a solid screenplayby Laura Jones, director Jane Campion (The Piano) tells this story without soapy melodrama but rather as anexploration of a challenged creative spirit--a journey into a writer's mind, exploring the power of imagination as a mechanism of survival and self-defense. Three talented actors play Janet Frame at different ages throughout the film, with Kerry Fox giving a powerful performance as the young-adult Janet, whose own skill and creative tenacity would prove to be her salvation. Frightening, harrowing and ultimately a source of humanistic enlightenment, An Angel at My Table (titled after Frame's autobiography) is a film you won't soon forget.--Jeff Shannon

• 3 Leading Ladies Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Bigamist / Hell's House / High Voltage | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Bigamist: A salesman marries a wealthy woman from a blue-blooded L.A. family (Fontaine) and a street-smart waitress in a San Francisco Chinese restaurant. Driven to this agonizing extreme more by his big heart than lust the bigamist strains to keep his double life a secret from the women he truly loves. Hell's House: A naive child takes the rap for a bootlegger and is sent to an appalling reformatory. High Voltage: A bus full of passengers gets stranded in

• Same Kind Of Different As Me | DVD | (19/03/2018) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the New York Times bestseller comes an inspirational true story. Successful art dealer Ron Hall (Oscar® nominee GREG KINNEAR) and his wife Debbie (Oscar® winner RENÉE ZELLWEGER) seemingly have the perfect life. But when their faith and family are tested, an unlikely bond with a homeless drifter (Oscar® nominee DJIMON HOUNSOU) leads them on a remarkable journey that forges an everlasting friendship. Same Kind of Different As Me shows how a simple act of kindness can change everything. Special Features Commentary by Director Michael Carney and Writers Ron Hall and Alexander Foard Love is Patient, Love is Kind The Making of Same Kind of Different As Me

• Somewhere | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £7.71   |  Saving you £12.28 (159.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

• Anglo Saxon Attitudes | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-4.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anglo Saxon Attitudes (2 Discs)

• Catherine Cookson - The Black Velvet Gown | DVD | (29/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The story is set in rural Northumberland amidst the prejudices of the 1830s. The widowed Riah has become housekeeper at Moor House to a scholarly recluse Mr Miller. Her three children already able to read and write are given further tuition by Miller. But his devotion for one of them becomes more than academic...

• Rocky II Steelbook | Blu Ray | (06/03/2023) from £20.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

• Impossible Object (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/01/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Judgment At Nuremberg | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £19.63   |  Saving you £-6.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Presiding over the courtroom in which twenty one members of the Nazi High Command are accused of crimes against humanity is a small-town American judge who is determined to uphold justice and truth in the explosive conflict between freedom and tyranny...

• Raging Bull - 20th Anniversary Edition - 2 Disc Set | DVD | (20/11/2000) from £9.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (72.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt.

• Enigma | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £6.13   |  Saving you £9.86 (160.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The World War Two tale of a young genius's race against time to crack the Nazi 'enigma' code and solve the mystery of his missing girlfriend.

• It's a Dog's Life | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £10.95   |  Saving you £1.05 (8.80%)   |  RRP £12.00

  The story centers on the veteran movie animal trainer Hank O'Hara his two dogs and a trio of horses. His daughter Mary Kate and her daughter Carly move from Texas to live with him after the death of Mary Kate's husband. Feeling lost and missing her father Carly bonds with the young dog Little Chuck. Behind the scenes Carly helps Hank prepare the dogs and his horses for film work and then watches excerpts from the finished movies a Western a commercial with a police chase and K9 unit a television detective series and a tongue in cheek horror movie. Along the way we meet several veteran actors from film and television. It is a warm family story highlighted by a fantasy sequence with Carly as a world famous animal trainer.