Drama

• Funny Girl (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (09/12/2024) from £13.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Witness the birth of a movie star as Barbra Streisand makes a screen debut for the ages in this musical spectacular. From humor to pathos, she hits every note as popular 1920s singer-comedian Fanny Brice, a young Jewish New Yorker whose spirit and supernova talent propel her to fame in the Ziegfeld Follies, but whose devotion to an unreliable gambler (a charismatic Omar Sharif) brings drama and heartbreak into her life. Adapted from a hit Broadway show and directed by Hollywood master William Wyler, Funny Girl hits emotional highs in unforgettable performances of songs like People and Don't Rain on My Parademoments that won Streisand one of the most richly deserved Best Actress awards in Oscar history.

• The Bletchley Circle San Francisco Complete | DVD | (20/05/2019) from £20.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two female British code breakers team with American cryptographers to solve a series of murders in San Francisco.

• The Souvenir Part II | Blu Ray | (25/04/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.Joanna Hogg's shimmering story of first love and a young woman's formative years, The Souvenir Part II is a portrait of the artist that transcends the halting particulars of everyday life a singular, alchemic mix of memoir and fantasy. With an outstanding cast that also includes Richard Ayoade, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn and Tilda Swinton, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Souvenir is a truly unmissable cinematic event.Reviews★ ★ ★ ★ ★ One of the most beautiful and extraordinary films of the year Evening Standard★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This rich and mysterious film is a real achievement The Guardian★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Empire★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Radio Times★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Time Out★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Daily Telegraph★ ★ ★ ★ ★ iNews★ ★ ★ ★ ★ CineVue★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jumpcut Online★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Upcoming

• Pete Walker's Sexploitation Collection | Blu Ray | (08/09/2025) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Years before he became revered as the ˜Gentleman of British Horror', prolific filmmaker Pete Walker started his cinema career making hugely popular sexploitation movies and gangland thrillers. Walker's films didn't shy away from controversial subjects prostitution, underage sex, pornography and the criminal underworld and proved irresistible to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. ˜X'-rated productions like School for Sex (which played solidly in London's West End for over a year) display the exceptional early talents of Britain's most celebrated and commercially successful director of his generation.Now for the very first time, Walker's finest non-horror movies are brought together for this spectacular new box-set, starring a host of famous faces: Robin Askwith (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), Francoise Pascal (Mind Your Language), James Aubrey (Bouquet of Barbed Wire) and David Kernan (Carry On Abroad).The Pete Walker Sexploitation Collection collects For Men Only (1967), School for Sex (1968), Cool It Carol! (1970) and Home Before Midnight (1978), all presented here in brand new HD restorations, and featuring an arresting array of exclusive extras, including brand-new interviews with Walker himself.For Men OnlyHD (1080p) presentation in 1.37:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 English MonoOptional English Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearingSelected scenes from the Continental VersionContinental Version TrailerSchool For SexHD (1080p) presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 English MonoOptional English Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearingAudio Commentary with Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (UK Version)Continental VersionBad Education - Making School for SexFrancoise Pascal - Skool's OutSchool for Sex 8mm version (b/w cut-down version)Tricky Treats 8mm (Pete Walker early striptease film)Theatrical TrailerCool it Carol!New 2K Restoration From Original Vault MaterialsHD (1080p) presentation in 1.66:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 English MonoOptional English Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearingAudio Commentary with Critics Kim Newman and Sean HoganWhen Robin Met Janet - An Interview with Director Pete WalkerThe Playboy - An Interview with Actor Jess ConradStep to Drama - Archive Interview with Director Pete WalkerCool Operator - An Interview with Cinematographer Peter SinclairCutting It - An Interview with 1st Assistant Editor Glenn HydeTheatrical TrailerHome Before MidnightRemastered Transfer, Extensive Dust and Damage Repair and RemovalHD (1080p) presentation in 1.66:1 Aspect RatioLossless 2.0 English MonoOptional English Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearingMichael Armstrong - The Midnight ManPete Walker's A Star Is Dead: Sex Pistols ˜77Working For WalkerTheatrical Trailer

• The Big Money | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1950s British comedy in which a petty criminal attempts to pass some counterfeit notes. After stealing a briefcase of money, Willie Frith (Ian Carmichael) realises the notes are fake. However, in an attempt to win the affections of barmaid Gloria (Belinda Lee) Willie begins spending the money. Meanwhile, the man whose briefcase was stolen is out to seek the culprit...

• A Late Quartet | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £7.69   |  Saving you £8.30 (107.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert quite possibly their last only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy. Inspired by and structured around Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor A Late Quartet pays homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York.

• The Sunshine Boys | DVD | (04/01/2016) from £5.89   |  Saving you £9.10 (154.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Neil Simon's THE SUNSHINE BOYS is recognised as one of the great comedy plays of modern times. Now Simon himself has updated the script with new lines and jokes and has rewritten the characters of Lewis and Clark to suit the superb comic styles of Peter Falk and Woody Allen. Vaudeville comedy duo Lewis and Clark were the comic heroes of the 1950's. Now long forgotten, Warner Brothers attempts to bring them back together for cameos in a movie that's funnier than Home Alone. Offered $75,000 a-piece and a chance to resurrect their careers, it's an offer they can't refuse...If only they could stand the sight of each other.

• Varsity Blues | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £5.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (117.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) leads the action in this exciting funny coming-of-age story about a small-town high schooler confronting the pressures and temptations of grid-iron glory. At first backup quarterback Jonathan 'Mox' Moxon (Van Der Beek) is nowhere close to being a football star. He's perfectly content to stay on the bench and out of the win-at-all-cost strategies of coach Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight in a powerful performance). But when the starting quarterback is inj

• Charles II | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £23.57   |  Saving you £-3.58 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the better BBC costume dramas of recent years, 2003's Charles II: The Power and the Passion depends very strongly on its central performance. Fortunately, Rufus Sewell is admirable throughout as the saturnine, witty monarch who has retained popular fondness down the centuries in spite of his conscientious adherence to the bad and losing cause of absolute monarchy. Adrian Hodge's intelligent script dramatises the issue in quick sound bites--many politicians accepted the Restoration to avoid chaos and were determined to bring Charles to heel, whereas he was determined to defend the position for which his father had been martyred. If that meant handing the throne to his Catholic brother in default of a legitimate son of his own, so be it. The four hour-long episodes cover the Restoration, the Plague and the Fire of London, the secret treaties with France and the Popish Plot, as well as giving us a fair bit of Charles's moderately happy marriage to Catherine (Shirley Henderson in the most hideously accurate historical hairdos ever) and his affairs with various mistresses. Among a number of fine supporting performances, Rupert Graves stands out as Buckingham, the friend who betrayed Charles. This sort of costume drama only ever works if the acting is as good as it is here. On the DVD: Charles II on disc comes with a making-of documentary and a commentary on the first episode from writer Adrian Hodge and the director and producer. It also includes an extended documentary on Charles's back story--his education, his attempt to fight Cromwell's forces, his period on the run in England and his long exile--in which a number of eminent historians, including Richard Holmes and Ronald Hutton, talk about how he became the king he was. --Roz Kaveney

• Love in the Time of Cholera | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £5.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (170.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel Prize-winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and directed by Mike Newell, "Love in the Time of Cholera" is an epic romance spanning five decades.

• Kings of The Road | Blu Ray | (22/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An unsettling encounter between two strangers opens this epic road movie, one of cinema's most fascinating portraits of male friendship. A car races along a road, ending up in a shallow pond. Its distraught driver emerges, soaking wet. Robert (Hanns Zischler) is picked up by cinema projection engineer Bruno (Rüdiger Vogler). They initially travel together in order for Robert's clothes to dry out, but an unspoken bond is formed between the two and some friendly help transforms into something deeper. Wenders' film works on various levels. It is a visually striking portrait of Germany both its countryside, and the towns and cities the two men travel through. It is a rumination on the state of cinema, of a transformation from a classic era through to a modern, more divisive style. And it is a study of purely platonic friendship between two men. The ease Bruno and Robert quickly feel in each other's company is a rare sight in cinema. But Wenders asks of this relationship, like so many other elements in his film, how long can such a situation last before progress forces it to move forward or come to an end? With its unhurried pace yet moving swiftly through the three-hour running time Kings of the Road is now regarded as one of the essential European films of the 1970s and a one of the great German films of the last 50 years. It is also a key film in Wim Wenders' accomplished body of work.

• The Angry Silence | DVD | (10/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Angry Silence is the heartfelt story of a young factory worker Tom Curtis played by Richard Attenborough. Curtis stands up against bullying union leaders and refuses to take part in an unofficial wildcat strike. As a result he is immediately ostracized by his fellow colleagues and is victimized by the union circumstances that can only lead to a tragic climax.

• Girls' Night | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £30.55   |  Saving you £-24.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Girls' Night of the title refers to Friday night, the one time of escape from the daily grind for longstanding best friends and factory co-workers, Dawn and Jackie. And Friday night means bingo. One evening their dream comes true when Dawn (the cautious, caring one) scoops £100,000, but the savage twist in the tale is that even before she gets the cheque she discovers she has an inoperable brain tumour. Cue Jackie (the spontaneous, irresponsible one) fulfilling Dawn's lifetime ambition with a holiday in Las Vegas ("Come on, we've got an hour to get the plane"). And from then on it's a buddy movie with inescapable resonances of Thelma and Louise, though the difference here is that the protagonists are two ordinary middle-aged women. Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters are a magical pairing, with both giving mesmerising moving performances (honorary mention should also be made of Cody, the one sympathetic male character in the film, magnificently played by Kris Kristofferson). Though death is ever-present, this is by no means a depressing movie; rather the opposite, in fact, with a remarkably upbeat ending. If there's a message to be found here, it's that even the most apparently ordinary people can be extraordinary given the right circumstances. On the DVD: As well as the original trailer, there is on-location feature

• Model Shop | Blu Ray | (02/12/2019) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two lovers from very different walks of life collide in Model Shop, the first film by French New Wave luminary Jacques Demy (Bay of Angels, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) to be shot in the United States and a zeitgeist-capturing portrait of the late 1960s. Los Angeles architect George Matthews (Gary Lockwood, 2001: A Space Odyssey) is down on his luck. Unemployed, broke and facing imminent deployment to Vietnam, he suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself transfixed by the captivating Lola (Anouk Aimée, reprising her eponymous role from Demy s 1961 film), a pin-up who works in a low rent model shop specialising in erotic photographs. After spending his last $12 to photograph her, George realises they are kindred spirits, both adrift and without hope in the City of Angels, and, during a night of drinking and lovemaking at Lola s apartment, he forges a connection with the damaged woman that will have lasting consequences for them both... Dismissed as a minor entry in Demy s canon at the time of its original release, Model Shop later made Sight & Sound s list of hidden gems that had been unduly overlooked. Replete with Demy s sharp-eyed observations on the human condition and showcasing a masterfully realised sense of both time and place, Demy s American debut is a dreamy, devastating love story about a city and characters at a crossroads between the past and the future. Special Edition Contents: High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation of a 2K restoration of the film Original lossless mono soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Isolated music and effects track New audio commentary by actress and writer Illeana Douglas, author of I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies A City Full of Poetry, a new video appreciation by author and critic Philip Kemp Alternate French-language opening and closing titles Theatrical trailer TV spots Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Neil Mitchell

• Mississippi Burning | Blu Ray | (14/09/2015) from £24.87   |  Saving you £-3.62 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller, Mississippi Burning uses the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration. The film tells the story of two FBI men (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who come in to try to solve the crime. Hackman is a former Mississippi small-town sheriff himself, while Dafoe is a by-the-numbers young hotshot. Yes, there is some tension between the two. The film has an interesting fatalism, as all the FBI's best efforts incite more and more violence which becomes disturbing--the film's message, perhaps inadvertently, seems to be that vigilantism is the only real way to get things done. The brilliant Frances McDormand, here early in her career, is not given enough to do but still does it well enough to have racked up an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. (Hackman also received a nomination for Best Actor and the film won an Academy Award for Cinematography). The storyline of Mississippi Burning is ultimately unsatisfying--it is after all the story of white men coming in to rescue poor blacks--but it is beautifully shot, very watchable, and features a terrific cast playing at the top of their games. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

• Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling Blu-Ray (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the greatest comedians of all time, Richard Pryor gets raw and real in this brutally funny and lacerating self-portrait.

• Nixon | DVD | (01/01/2001) from £10.27   |  Saving you £5.72 (55.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nixon takes a riveting look at a complex man whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power - when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States! With a phenomenal all-star cast.

• The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 1-7 | DVD | (18/10/2021) from £63.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives in Brokenwood on assignment to investigate a murder. In a town where animosities run deep and memories are long, he soon learns that gossip is the local currency. An experienced officer with a 1971 classic car, a collection of country music cassettes and an indeterminate number of ex-wives, the new woman in Shepherd's life is his assistant, Detective Kristin Sims, a by-the-book investigator, who quickly has to get used to his unique and quirky ways. These seven series are filmed amid the beautiful landscape of New Zealand's North Island, a place where beauty is everywhere to be seen, but there lurks beneath a dark undercurrent and an alarming death rate.

• The Happy Prince | Blu Ray | (15/10/2018) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards ruin in the final chapter of his life? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintance, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. THE HAPPY PRINCE is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.

• Dusty Ermine | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Master forger Jim Kent (Ronald Squire), returning home from Wormwood Scrubs, finds his equally crooked nephew Gilbert (Arthur Macrae) has been inveigled into committing the same crime. Kent appoints himself the task of protecting his nephew from the Alpine international counterfeiting gang, but the undertaking is made more complicated when his niece Linda (Jane Baxter) falls in love with the young detective, Det. Insp. Forsythe (Anthony Bushell), in charge of investigations.