Drama

• Julieta | Blu Ray | (09/01/2017) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Julieta is a teacher of fifty five. She writes a long letter to her daughter, Antía, trying to explain all the things she has kept secret from her over the last 30 years. When she has finished her confession, she doesn't know where to post the letter. Her daughter abandoned her when she was eighteen and Julieta hasn't heard from her in the past twelve years. She has searched everywhere, but now realises that Antía has become a total stranger to her. JULIETA is about destiny, guilt complex and the unfathomable mystery that leads some people to abandon those they love, erasing them as if they meant nothing. It is also about the pain that this brutal desertion provokes in the victim.

• 7 DAYS IN HAVANA | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £13.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (15.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A contemporary portrait of this eclectic, vital, unique city, told through a movie made of 7 chapters, directed by 7 internationally acclaimed directors.

• Shakespeare In Love/Marie Antoinette/Vanity Fair | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £11.22   |  Saving you £8.77 (43.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden) (1998): When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Marie Antoinette (Dir. Sofia Coppola) (2006): A decadently imaginative interpretation of the life of France's iconic teenage queen Marie Antoinette from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI aged 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the termination of her royal tenure and ultimately the fall of Versailles in the French Revolution... Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband.

• The Best Of Men | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Cleopatra | DVD | (07/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Possibly the most alluring mysterious and powerful woman of all time Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) changed the course of history when two of the most powerful men in Rome fell in love with her. Rex Harrison is Julius Caesar who wins the Egyptian throne for Cleopatra marries her and provides her with a child Caesarion. Upon returning to his native country Caesar is crowned Dictator of Rome but his desperate desire for even greater power causes a worried Roman Senate to fatally conspire against him on the Ides of March.

• Street of joy | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £9.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (31.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This slice of powerful eastern erotica takes place over one day in a house of pleasure in 1950's Tokyo on the eve of a new law which will ban prostitution. With an observant and perceptive eye director Kumashiro depicts the sometimes sad sometimes funny but always highly engaging lives of the girls who work on this 'street of joy'. This is one of the most successful of Nikkotsu's famous 'romantic porno' movies. Many critics consider it amongst the best Japanese films of the 1970's.

• Casino (Special Edition) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (140.76%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modelled on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honour in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon Stone is the stand out among the actors; she nabbed an Oscar nomination for her role as the voracious Ginger, the glitzy call girl who becomes Rothstein's wife. The film is not as fast-paced or gripping as Scorsese's earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and Good Fellas) but it's still absorbing. And, hey--it's Scorsese! --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• The Power Game - Complete Collection | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  ITV's famous boardroom drama from the 1960's starring Patrick Wymark Barbara Murray Clifford Evans Rosemary Leach Peter Barkworth Ian Holm and George Sewell. A spin-off from the earlier 'The Plane Makers' The Power Game made a star of Patrick Wymark as the now knighted Sir John Wilder the ruthless and power hungry executive who everybody loved to hate. The series captivated the viewing public in 1965 when first aired (one of the five most watched programme of 1966 when this first series ended) and again in 1985 when Channel 4 re-screened the saga at peak time on Saturday evenings. Episodes Comprise: 1. The New Boy 2. Lady for a Knight 3. Hagadan 4. The Politician 5. Point of Balance 6. Saturday's Women 7. The Switch 8. The Crunch 9. Late Via Rome 10. Persons and Papers 11. Trade Secrets 12. The Man With Two Hats 13. Confound Their Politics 14. Nothing's Free 15. Ambassador Status 16. Grounds for Decision 17. The Front Men 18. A Matter for Speculation 19. The Big View 20. The Dead Sea Fruit 21. The Chicken Run 22. Safe Conduct 23. The Side of the Angels 24. Tax Return 25. Where Do I Want to Go? 26. There's No Such Thing as a Dead Heat 27. One Via Zurich 28. The Big Nothing 29. The Outsider 30. The Goose Chase 31. Private Treaty 32. Without Prejudice 33. Cat is You. Bird is Me. 34. Standard Practice 35. The Heart Market 36. The New Minister 37. Drinks on Sunday 38. Triangles 39. Mergers

• The Beaver | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £6.25   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson in The Beaver - an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.

• Violent Moment | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lyndon Brook plays a man on the run from his own past in this taut British drama from the late '50s. Featuring the directorial debut of cult director Sidney Hayers and a screenplay by Oscar nominee Peter Barnes Violent Moment is featured here in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. The film elements were physically edited in the 1960s to replace the original titles with ones for the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series and it is from these film elements that this brand-new transfer has been made. The original titles are included as a separate special feature. Douglas Baines a wartime army deserter is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy's second birthday he learns that Daisy has had the boy adopted. When she refuses to tell him where the boy is he strangles Daisy and goes on the run... Special Features: Original Opening Titles Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery

• Dope | DVD | (04/01/2016) from £3.77   |  Saving you £14.22 (377.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a brilliant geek who is obsessed with 90s hip-hop. He and his two best friends play in a punk band together and get hassled at high school for their throwback style. When illegal substances are hidden in his backpack at an underground dance club, his life gets extremely complicated. Malcolm will go to crazy lengths to achieve his dreams: getting into Harvard University, getting closer to his fantasy girl Nakia (Zoë Kravitz) and cashing in his fortune in bitcoins. Produced by Forest Whitaker and featuring a funky retro soundtrack curated by Executive Producer Pharrell Williams, DOPE is a fresh, funny and vibrant film that wowed audiences at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals.

• Rider On The Rain | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Who will he terrorise... Who will he attack... Who will be his next victim? This nailbiting French/Italian thriller stars Marlene Jobert as 'Mellie' a young woman being stalked in the rain by a mysterious stranger. When her husband is away the stalker breaks in and rapes her. In an act of vengeance she kills her assailant dumping the body into the ocean. When the body is recovered an American military officer Col. Harry Dobbs (Charles Bronson) is called in to investigate not only the murder but the missing US Army money that the rapist had been carrying with him...

• Made In Britain | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Written by David Leland and directed by Alan Clarke, Made in Britain is a slice of horrible but not inaccurate life from 1982. It holds a terrific early performance from Tim Roth as a skinhead with a swastika caste-mark tattoo, who constantly bares shark-like teeth as he spits embittered, articulate defiance at caring social workers and truncheon-wielding policemen alike. Sixteen-year-old Trevor (Roth) is remanded to an assessment centre before sentencing, but remains determined to disobey the rules imposed on him by any authority figures and spends the whole 73-minute play challenging the system to smack him back down, by vandalising the Job Centre, using his case-file as a toilet, stealing cars, victimising members of the "immigrant community" and shouting bile at people. The cycle that will lead him to an adult life in prison is explained to him with blackboard diagrams, but he believes he's better off keeping his hatred burning than toeing the line to end up as a no-hoper in a society that prizes obedience over conscience. It was originally televised as one of four Leland-filmed dramas about different aspects of the British education system, which made it seem less monomaniacal in its focus on an extreme case. There's no denying that it's an honest portrait of a monster calculated to terrify even the most concerned liberals which still manages to celebrate his self-destructive defiance. A film for television rather than a TV play, it has very strong language but the violence is all in Roth's face.On the DVD: No extra features here, but it does come with optional English sub-titles, and the theme song by the Exploited over the menu. --Kim Newman

• Moulin Rouge | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the most lavish British films of the silent era in both budget and scope, Moulin Rouge stars Jean Bradin, Eve Gray and Russian-German screen sensation Olga Tschechowa in the story of a young aristocrat driven to a suicide attempt after falling in love with a young dancer and her elegant, ravishingly beautiful mother. Set in and around the famous dance-halls of Paris, Moulin Rouge showcased British International Pictures' engagement of leading Continental film-makers during the late 1920s. The first British film directed by expressionist pioneer Ewald Andre Dupont, it also features Werner Brandes' stylish, distinctively European cinematography and art direction by Oscar winner Alfred Junge. Filmed at Elstree through the winter of 1927, the film was originally trade shown in March 1928 as a silent film with live musical accompaniment. It was re-released in 1929 with a recorded, synchronised score by John Reynders. SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Original script PDF

• Taggart - Halfway House and Four Other Cases | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £15.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  INCLUDES: Halfway House: A young man is found shot in a public park and the only clue to his identity is a library ticket from a local college. Burke Ross and Reid set about tracing the young man which leads them to a halfway house boasting a familiar list of numerous ex-cons. An Eye For An Eye: A doctor at a women's health clinic is murdered and an anti-abortion group become the prime suspects. Burke and his team investigate whether the protesters have been framed. Penthouse & Pavement: A famous horror novelist Jason Randell is found murdered in an alley the morning after a book launch and police discover the victim enjoyed a secret life amid Glasgow's sleazy underworld. Atonement: When Billy McCree is found dead in his workshop recently-released prisoner Jim Naysmith is the prime suspect for his murder - as the dead man's testimony had put Naysmith behind bars twenty years before. Forensic evidence places the victim's mistress at the crime scene but she denies killing him and Ross is inclined to believe her. Compensation: Reid and the team leave their urban patch and head for the countryside of Fenmore to investigate a farmer's suspicious death in a blaze - but instead of discovering a rural idyll they find themselves in the middle of a private war. DCI Burke's private life comes to the fore as inquiries proceed and a second fire gives the case an added urgency.

• Charlotte Gray / Land Girls | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Charlotte Gray Cate Blanchett stars as a young Scottish woman recruited by the Secret Service who ends up risking her life to find the man she loves. Based on Sebastian Faulks' best selling novel. The Land Girls The comical and heart-warming tale of three young women who encounter tragedy passion and love during wartime.

• La Prisonniere | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £14.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Josée is the wife of an artist whose work is exhibited in Stan Hassler's modern art gallery. Stan, impotent and depraved, satisfies himself by photographing women in humiliating poses. Josée is fascinated by the man and soon falls completely in love with him...

• Story Of O | DVD | (30/10/2000) from £19.85   |  Saving you £-1.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This film is based on the hugely successful S&M novel that has been read by millions of people worldwide. The author Pauline Reage tells the story of a beautiful young woman known only as 'O' who is taken by her boyfriend Rene to a chateau just outside Paris. There 'O' is trained in bondage and sexual perversion. 'O' is deeply in love with Rene and in order to prove her love she allows herself to be subjected to all kinds of degradation and abuse. Finally, Rene discharges a personal debt by transferring possession of 'O' to his stepbrother Sir Stephen. In the film which produced in 1975, Just Jaeckin the director explores the cruel world in which 'O' finds herself. A world of sado-masochism and kinky and bizarre sexual practices. The film was refused certification when it was originally submitted, has now been passed uncut by the BBFC.Also available in a Box Set together with the novel.

• Silkwood | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As a tale of self-discovery, Silkwood, Mike Nichols' 1982 biopic of the plutonium factory worker who uncovered negligence and dangerous practices at the heart of her employer's company, works well enough. Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) is no saint. She drinks, cheerfully gets 'em out for the boys, has left her husband and kids and lives in a curious ménage à trois with her lover, (Kurt Russell) and their lesbian friend (Cher). But, through her own dawning suspicions, she is drawn into union activism and embarks on a crusade to expose the rottenness of her paymasters, only to die in a mysterious car crash. And here is the flaw. The film can't decide whether it's quirky soap opera, a campaigning blow for the anti-nuclear lobby or an allegory for the conflict between the rights of the individual and the demands of the corporate giant. It stops short of providing some important conclusions about what really happened to its central character, and why. Streep is fine though, injecting her character with a studied mixture of innate intelligence and trailer park trash. Russell offers solid support and Cher is outstanding as housemate Dolly Pelliker. Their performances give Silkwood its heart as a powerful human drama. On the DVD: Silkwood is well-served on this DVD release by sharp picture and sound quality (Georges Delerue's poignantly jaunty country and western soundtrack benefits in particular), but the extras are static and add little to the package apart from a strictly "budget" feel: standard biographies of the stars and director with some pretty pointless trivia facts, and a brief history of the production. There's nothing here that even the most generalist of film fans won't already know. A director's commentary explaining why the film loses its bottle in the final reel would be more interesting. --Piers Ford

• Threads | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The original BBC drama that shocked a generation. Set in the paranoia of nuclear war this chilling and BAFTA-award winning BBC2 drama was aired causing outrage and anxiety amongst the viewing public due to its graphic and realistic storytelling of a possible nuclear strike. After its initial airing Threads became a national talking point and became a powerful and terrifying glimpse into a post holocaust world after a devastating nuclear bomb. Even more terrifyin