Drama

• Cry, The Beloved Country (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (09/10/2023) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cry, the Beloved Country is the BAFTA nominated film of the acclaimed novel by Alan Paton. A black minister, Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small valley where he grew up for the bright lights of the city, he goes missing. After several months of silence, the minister goes to search for him and comes face to face with the squalor and poverty of the Johannesburg slums. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young clergyman who joins him in his search, but neither are prepared for what they will discover.

• The Grey Zone | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Grey Zone is based on the true story of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli a Hungarian Jew chosen by Josef Mengele to be the head pathologist at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was one of Auschwitz's Sonderkommandos - Special Squads of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of helping to exterminate fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life. Together the Sonderkommandos struggled to organize the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz. As the rebellion is about to commence a group from the unit discovers a 14-year-old girl who has miraculously survived a gassing. A catalyst for their desperate attempt at personal redemption the men become obsessed with saving this one child even if doing so endangers the uprising which could save thousands.

• The Escapist | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £5.86   |  Saving you £10.13 (172.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "The Escapist" is a twisty thriller which focuses on one man's struggle to break free of his own personal hell!

• Barabbas | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £6.03   |  Saving you £13.96 (231.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Anthony Quinn in the title role Barabbas was released in 1961 in the midst of a wave of widescreen epics based on Biblical characters. "It begins where the other big ones leave off", declaims the trailer. The screenplay, by playwright Christopher Fry (who also contributed to Ben-Hur), is an unusually intelligent one: listen out for Barabbas' final encounter with the Apostle Thomas, for example. Further assets are the imaginative, sparingly orchestrated score by Mario Nascimbene and a handsome production design by art director Mario Chiari that is so rewarding to the eye in Aldo Tonti's often dazzling cinematography. Like the other Biblical epics of the day, in its original theatrical incarnation Barabbas had an intermission and orchestral intermezzo which is sadly missing from this version. (It occurred at the point where Barabbas emerges from a 20 years exile in the sulphur mines in Sicily, allowing the audience to dwell on his recuperation before we next encounter him. He now appears muscled and bronzed ploughing the verdant fields outside Rome in all too quick a fashion!). Many scenes, such as Christ's crucifixion, are shot and staged like tableaux in a style reminiscent of the great masters of art. And in Fleischer's hands this film surpasses anything Ridley Scott achieved years later in Gladiator: he fills the huge arena--a vast Roman amphitheatre--with a gladiatorial school of hand-to-hand combat, a parade of elephants and a den of lions, and then caps his production with a riveting and thrillingly mounted duel between Jack Palance, careering round the circumference of the arena in his chariot, and Barabbas dodging him on foot. The supporting cast, who sport a variety of accents call for some tolerance, however. On the DVD: Barabbas on disc comes devoid of any extra features other than trailers for it and another contemporaneous blockbuster, The Guns of Navarone. --Adrian Edwards

• Retro Tv - Cagney & Lacey - The True Beginning | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Cagney and Lacey are two female cops doing the best they can in a male-dominated world. Excellent at their profession they regularly put their macho colleagues to shame by solving numerous tricky cases.

• The Brothers Bloom | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £6.03   |  Saving you £11.96 (198.34%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adrien Brody (Predators, The Pianist) and Mark Ruffalo (Where The Wild Things Are, Zodiac) star as The Brothers Bloom, two notorious and enigmatic conmen.

• Sanders of the River | DVD | (07/03/2016) from £9.25   |  Saving you £0.74 (8.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks and Nina Mae McKinney star in this classic adaptation of Edgar Wallace's celebrated adventure story set in British Colonial Nigeria. A box-office triumph that earned director Zoltan Korda the first of his four nominations for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, Sanders of the River is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Determined to maintain peace in the river district of West Africa, British Commissioner Sanders works closely with Bosambo a probationary chief who, under Sanders' orders, frees a slave convoy sent by another chief, King Mofolaba. Bosambo marries Lilongo, the most beautiful slave, but when Sanders goes on leave King Mofolaba attacks and captures Bosambo's wife. When his attempts to rescue her end in capture as well, all seems lost...SPECIAL FEATURES: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF

• Everybody's Fine | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £5.39   |  Saving you £14.60 (73.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robert DeNiro leads an acclaimed all-star cast - Drew Barrymore Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell - in Everybody's Fine the heartwarming film that will move you to laughter and tears. When Frank Goode's (DeNiro) grown children cancel a family reunion the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. Expecting to share in the joys of their happy successful lives his surprise visits reveal a picture that's far from perfect. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together in a story that will touch your heart.

• Polish Wedding | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An all-star cast stars in this beautiful telling of the Polish-American experience. Hala (Claire Danes) lives with her large family in the suburbs of Detroit and is desperately looking for her own place in the world. Flirty like her mother (Lena Olin) and introspective like her father (Gabriel Byrne) Hala searches for and finds love but at what price?

• Crime And Punishment | Blu Ray | (29/07/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After fleeing Nazi Germany following the success of M and re-establishing himself in Britain as a villain for Alfred Hitchcock, the great Peter Lorre arrived in Hollywood in 1935, signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures. His dream star vehicle: a big-screen adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky s most famous novel Crime And Punishment. His choice of director: Josef von Sternberg, already celebrated and castigated in equal measure for his seven-film collaboration with Marlene Dietrich. Roderick Raskolnikov (Lorre) has graduated from university as a noted expert in criminology, but nonetheless lives in extreme poverty. Desperate and anguished, he murders a miserly pawnbroker, stealing her valuables before fleeing into the night. The next day, he encounters Inspector Porfiry (Edward Arnold), the detective assigned to the murder, and is asked by Porfiry to consult on the case when an innocent man is arrested as a suspect. How long until the conflicted, guilt-ridden Raskolnikov arouses the master detective s suspicions? One of many attempts at the time by Hollywood studios to give cinema an air of prestige by adapting great works of literature, Von Sternberg s stylish direction and Lorre s tour-de-force performance are ready for rediscovery in this Blu-Ray premiere of their only collaboration.

• The Nightmare Man | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the 1978 book Children Of Vodyanoi by David Wiltshire and adapted by Robert Holmes this gripping horror/science fiction drama tells the tale of a lonely Scottish island stalked by a brutal killer who may be from another world... Dismembered corpses are found and a flickery film of one of the murders seems to show a terrifying shadowy monster. Adapted by veteran Dr Who scribe Robert Holmes from the story by David Wiltshire.

• Hera Pheri | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hera Pheri is a story about innocent desires and desperate actions. Shyam (Sunil Shetty) and Anuradha (Tabu) fathers both died in tragic fire at a bank as compensation they both have been offered a job their one small problem...there is only one job available. Shyam decides to wait it out finds accommidation and becomes friends with the other guests. In his desperation for money Shyam takes a phone call not meant for him but the call contains an oppurtunity to get some much nee

• Dogville | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Beautiful fugitive Grace (Kidman) arrives in the isolated township of Dogville pleading that she is on the run from a team of gangsters and desperately needs help. The kindly Tom (Bettany) a self-appointed town spokesman encourages the little community to hide her and in return Grace agrees to work for them. Initial suspicion turns to trust as the townsfolk realise that they need her. Grace and Tom form a relationship. However when a search for Grace is announced the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring her and her workload becomes harder the women take against her and the men start abusing her. Even Tom distances himself from her plight. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one and soon the town of Dogville will regret that it abused Grace so badly.

• A Thousand Acres | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £3.34   |  Saving you £7.91 (380.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning best-selling novel A Thousand Acres (penned by Jane Smiley) follows the saga of the Cook family headed by the indomitable patriarch Larry Cook (Jason Robards). Cook's kingdom is a fertile farm that spans 1 000 acres but the seeds of its destruction are sown when he impulsively decides to distribute it among his three daughters Ginny (Jessica Lange) Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Caroline (Jenn

• Brothers | Blu Ray | (07/06/2010) from £5.49   |  Saving you £17.50 (76.10%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home - with consequences that will shake the foundations of the entire family.

• Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £33.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto) who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have chosen to surrender instead of honourably committing seppuku (ritual suicide). When Yonoi meets Celliers he believes he is an evil spirit and a battle of wills begins between the two men.... This is not your average war movie and the performances by Bowie Sakamoto Tom Conti (who plays Mr Lawr

• 55 Days At Peking | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Diplomats soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions overwhelming odds delayed relief and the support of the Boxers by the Chinese Empress and her generals.

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

  Jim has managed to get a job in one of the top universities but all he has to do to cement a future is survive a terrible weekend at his fellow professors deliver a lecture on 'Merry England' and resist the temptations of Christine...

• Wyatt Earp's Revenge | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £7.70   |  Saving you £5.29 (68.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the true story of the legendary lawman, Earp recounts how he brought together the Best of the West to avenge the vicious murder of his beloved Dora. Joined by the famed Bat Masterson, Charlie Bassett, Bill Tilghman and Doc Holliday, Earp rides after the Kenedy brothers, who are on a murder spree that spans from Dodge City to Mexico. Protected by their powerful father, the ruthless brothers know that the law won't touch them - but they gravely underestimated Earp and his posse. Featuring Shawn Roberts, Matt Dallas, Grammy® nominated Country Music artist Trace Adkins and Val Kilmer.

• The Ginger Tree | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1903, under the gathering storm clouds of the Russo-Japanese War, a young Scotswoman is trapped in a loveless marriage far away from home. Adapted by Oscar-winning Dangerous Liaisons writer Christopher Hampton from Oswald Wynd's novel, The Ginger Tree is a lavish mini-series set in England, Japan and Taiwan. In 1903, Mary MacKenzie (Samantha Bond) joins her aloof diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she finds herself drawn to a Japanese aristocrat, Count Kentaro (Daisuke Ryû). She scandalously becomes pregnant with his child and chooses to travel with her lover to Japan. Little does she know that Count Kentaro is already married, making Mary no more than a ˜concubine'. Even worse, she is mortified to ind she will not be allowed to keep her child. So begins Mary's forty-year saga, during which she strives to carve out a place for herself in Japanese society. Throughout the ordeal, she faces a constant cultural cold shoulder, both as a woman and as a Westerner.