Drama

• The People Next Door (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/07/2025) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The People Next Door is an unflinching portrayal of a New York family torn asunder by drug abuse. Eli Wallach (Winter Kills) and Julie Harris (The Haunting) give compelling performances as parents whose marriage is pushed to the brink when their daughter Maxie (Deborah Winters) experiments with LSD and heroin, before experiencing a mental breakdown. Assuredly directed by David Greene (I Start Counting, Gray Lady Down), making his first American feature, and beautifully shot by Gordon Willis (Little Murders, The Godfather), The People Next Door is an unjustly forgotten melodrama, returning to UK screens for the first time since the days of VHS. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Rutanya Alda and film historian Lee Gambin (2021) Tripping with Maxie (2021, 39 mins): Deborah Winters remembers playing the film's troubled teenage protagonist Structured How to Feel (2021, 10 mins): supervising editor Brian Smedley-Aston revisits his various collaborations with director David Greene My Life in Review (2021, 15 mins): musician John Sheldon, formerly of the Bead Game, recalls his band's musical contributions to the film People Person (2021, 19 mins): appreciation of Greene's eclectic career by film historian Vic Pratt Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• The Ten Commandments | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £11.30   |  Saving you £4.69 (29.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, as always, plays both sides of the fence as far as sin goes, surrounding Heston's Moses with worshipful music and heavenly special effects while also making the sexy action around the cult of the Golden Calf look like fun. You have to see The Ten Commandments to understand its peculiar resonance as an old-new movie, complete with several still-impressive effects such as the parting of the Red Sea. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Catch a Fire | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £5.93   |  Saving you £15.32 (328.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This political thriller tells the true story of Patrick Chamusso, an ordinary man forced to resort to terror in extraordinary circumstances.

• Arrow Video Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol 2 Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (20/02/2023) from £46.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, wrote, directed, produced and starred in over 40 films in his short but prolific life, before passing away of a drug overdose in 1982 aged just 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 brings together a collection of his key works from the mid-section of his career in high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. Among Fassbinder's best-loved works, Fear Eats the Soul sees the director paying homage to the classic melodramas of Douglas Sirk in its poignant portrayal of a relationship between a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties and a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties that causes an outrage with her family, friends and neighbours. Fassbinder's long-gestating adaptation of Theodor Fontane's classic German novel Effi Briest, his most expensive production to date as well as one of his most ambitious, tells the tale of a seventeen year-old girl who is married off by her parents to a wealthy Baron more than twice her age. Fassbinder himself plays the protagonist of Fox and His Friends, a sweet working class soul whose relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen, he discovers, is based almost wholly on his unexpected lottery win. Chinese Roulette is a tense psychodrama set in an isolated house during a weekend break in which infidelities are revealed and families break down. Fassbinder's international breakthrough film, The Marriage of Maria Braun charts the rise to prosperity of its tenacious and pragmatic central character across the post-war years as she holds out hope for the return of the young soldier she was married to for less than 24-hours before he was dispatched to the Russian front and later reported dead. Product Features High definition digital transfers of all films prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all films Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound for all films Optional English subtitles for all films Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sister Hyde. Disc One - Fear Eats The Soul Audio commentary by critic and lecturer Mark Freeman My Name is Not Ali, Viola Shafik's 2011 feature-length documentary on the life and death of El Hedi ben Salem, star of Fear Eats the Soul Interview with director of photography Jürgen Jürges Theatrical trailer Disc Two - Effi Briest Audio commentary by Ken Moulden Interview with actor Ulli Lommel Interview with director of photography Jürgen Jürges Theatrical trailer Disc Three - Fox And His Friends & Chinese Roulette Audio commentary by Hamish Ford on Fox and His Friends Interview with actor Ulli Lommel on Chinese Roulette Original theatrical trailers for both films Disc Four - The Marriage Of Maria Braun Life, Love & Celluloid, a 1998 feature-length documentary on Fassbinder, written and directed by his regular editor, Juliane Lorenz Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977, a candid 30-minute interview with the director The Fassbinder Family, featurette detailing the actors who worked with Fassbinder time and again throughout his career

• Dans Ma Peau | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A successful businesswoman accidentally injures herself and develops an obsession with her own wounds. Increasingly she finds secret pleasure in self harm to the detriment of her job and her loving boyfriend... A powerful and darkly disturbing French drama from newcomer Marina De Van.

• Save The Green Planet | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Byung-gu a rather confused young man is the only one who can save our beautiful green planet. You see Byung-gu is convinced that the industrialist Kang is really an alien from outer space who is spying for the prince of (the planet) Andromeda who is planning to conquer the earth. With his dozy circus artiste girlfriend Sun-i Byung-gu kidnaps the industrialist and tries to force him using extremely gruesome interrogation techniques (with an iron as accessory) to reveal his 'roya

• Rosie | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £6.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (60.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Is there anything more complex than a gay mans' relationship with his mother?! When gay writer Lorenz returns from Berlin to his native home a small town in Switzerland he thinks his only concern is taking a break from writer's block. But he is confronted by some uncomfortable problems; his mother Rosie is growing unable to live without help. She is an infuriating but blisteringly honest individual (beautifully played by veteran Sibylle Brunner) who refuses to accept a life without cigarettes and alcohol. Mario son of an old family friend reveals himself to be a fan of Lorenz and his devotion becomes an issue after an unexpected one-night stand. Lorenz's sister is fed up with looking after their mother and some family skeletons are revealed. With Mario helping to look after Rosie all the problems seem to be meshing together making resolution ever more difficult. Refreshing and heart-warmingly authentic.

• A Prophet | Blu Ray | (07/06/2010) from £9.94   |  Saving you £14.31 (164.86%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Gritty, shocking and unforgettable, A Prophet is an epic crime masterpiece that can't be missed.

• The Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• The Zookeeper's Wife BD + digital download | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £2.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion. Click Images to Enlarge

• The Ten Commandments (1923 & 1956) Steelbook | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £34.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Throughout film history, Hollywood has produced a number of sweeping epics and generation-defining movies. However, one Biblical saga Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments has withstood the test of time. Beginning with the original 1923 silent film, a powerful story unfolds comparing the Old Testament morality to contemporary immorality. The 1956 film is universally acknowledged among critics as a cinematic masterpiece with a legendary cast including Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, and Anne Baxter. From its Oscar®-winning director* and revolutionary Oscar®-winning special effects** to its sweeping score and unforgettable sets, The Ten Commandments presents the inspiring story of Moses in all its stunning glory. Disc 1: 1956 4k Ultra Hd Feature Film + Special Feature Commentary By Katherine Orrison, Author Of written In Stone: Making Cecil B.demille's Epic, The Ten Commandments Disc 2: 1956 Blu-ray™ Feature Film (Part 1) + Special Feature Commentary By Katherine Orrison, Author Of written In Stone: Making Cecil B.demille's Epic, The Ten Commandments Disc 3: 1956 Blu-ray™ Feature Film (Part 2) + Special Feature Commentary By Katherine Orrison, Author Of written In Stone: Making Cecil B.demille's Epic, The Ten Commandments Newsreel: The Ten Commandments Premiere In New York Theatrical Trailers: 1956 making Of Trailer/1966 Trailer/1989 Trailer Disc 4: 1923 Blu-ray™ Feature Film + Special Features Hand-tinted Footage Of The Exodus And Parting Of The Red Sea Sequence Photo Gallery

• Sid And Nancy | Blu Ray | (29/08/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (109.19%)   |  RRP £22.99

  BRAND NEW RESTORATION TO CELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUNK, INLCUDES BRAND NEW BONUS FEATURES It's 1977 and The Sex Pistols have taken the music world by storm with lead singer Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) and bass guitarist Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) enjoying all the spoils that fame and money have to offer. Vicious embarks on a relationship with an American groupie Nancy (Chloe Webb) - who has come to London to pursue him but the couple's increasing drug use frays relationships with Johnny and the rest of the band. With Nancy in tow, The Sex Pistols embark on a chaotic tour US tour which ends in disaster with the band breaking up. Vicious attempts to start a solo career, with Nancy as his manager, but by now both are dangerously addicted to heroin. The two continue in a downward, destructive spiral until, in October 1978 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Nancy is found stabbed with Sid lying prostrate at her side. Arrested and accused of murder, he dies of an overdose before his trial.

• Two Letter Alibi | DVD | (14/09/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. You'll have to murder me first , Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence. This rare 1960s thriller features an early screenplay by Roger Marshall, the future co-creator of Public Eye whose credits would also include The Sweeney, The Gentle Touch and The Professionals. A taut, compelling drama, Two Letter Alibi is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

• Cross of Iron (Vintage Classics) SteelBook 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/07/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the novel by Will Heinrich, Sam Peckinpah's only war film is an intense and uncompromising affair that brilliantly reflects both the futility of conflict and the director's fascination with individuals confronted by events beyond their control. A World War II tale told from the German perspective, Cross Of Iron follows a platoon of German soldiers in Russia when the German Wehrmacht forces had been decimated and the Germans were retreating along the Russian front. Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is a German corporal and recipient of the Iron Cross who has grown disenchanted with Hitler's war machine. When Captain Stransky (Maximilian Schell) assumes charge, the pair are thrown into immediate conflict, the autocratic but ultimately cowardly Stransky coveting the loyalty and honour Steiner commands. Evocatively shot by John Coquillon (Billy the Kid) in sombre tones to emphasise the horrors of combat, the superlative lead performances are matched by David Warner and James Mason as war-weary senior officers. Viewed as one of Peckinpah's most powerful works, it's an unflinching vision of the Second World War. Product Features UHD & Blu-Ray Disc 1 Audio Commentary by filmmaker and film historian Mike Siegel NEW Promoting STEINER NEW STEINER on the set NEW Filming STEINER NEW Filming STEINER pt 2 NEW STEINER in colour Blu-Ray Disc 2 On Location: Sam Peckinpah On Location: James Coburn On Location: Maximillian Schell On Location: James Mason On Location: David Warner Passion and Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War Kruger Kisses Kern Vadim & Sam: Father & Son Cutting Room Floor Steiner in Japan: Ads filmed in 1977 Mike's Home Movies: Steiner & Kiesel Meet Again US/UK Trailer German Trailer US TV Spot

• Easy A | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Emma Stone stars as the high-school girl who spins one little white lie and subsequently gets a rather big, and unwelcome reputation!

• Blue Velvet | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £6.67   |  Saving you £-0.68 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle-class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. Lynch strips his surreally mundane sets to a ghostly austerity, which composer Angelo Badalamenti encourages with the smooth, spooky strains of a lush score. Blue Velvet is a disturbing film that delves into the darkest reaches of psycho-sexual brutality and simply isn't for everyone. But for a viewer who wants to see the cinematic world rocked off its foundations, David Lynch delivers a nightmarish masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker

• Ministry Of Fear | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum but it doesn't seem so sane on the outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to.....

• The Whales of August | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two of the greatest motion picture actresses of all time Bette Davis and Lillian Gish unite their legendary talents in this beautifully photographed intensely emotional drama that offers 'unexpected and quite marvellous rewards'. (The New York Times) Libby (Davis) and Sarah (Gish) are widowed siblings who have vacationed since children at the seaside cottage in Maine. Now in their eighties and with their husbands and what children they had behind them they have only each other; Libby blind and resistantly dependent on her sister; Sarah still looking for new ways to see the world. Their relationship with their old friend Tisha and the arrival of a charming Russian gentleman will bring storms to the already turbulent ocean between them - an ocean which nevertheless runs deep. Starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish in what would be her last appearance on the screen; The Whales of August is a superb film and a lasting tribute two of the finest actresses in the history of cinema. Special Features: Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Shadow Run | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Shadow Run ought to be considerably more interesting than it is--Geoffrey Reeve is an efficient director and both Michael Caine and James Fox turn in icy performances as, respectively, an almost completely ruthless thief and the renegade intelligence man who hires him for that one last big job. Caine in particular is convincing in the half-hearted attacks of compunction that never stop him killing obstacles. Many of the bit-players--Lesley Grantham, for example--do a lot with almost nonexistent parts. The film counterpoints the planning of the heist with the social embarrassments of the fat schoolboy who becomes, by a series of coincidences, too informed about it and, ultimately, Caine's secret sharer. Reeve is rather too in love with the cathedral school background of the subplot and skimps too much on the complicated technical business of getting a computerised security van into a radio blackout zone. Still, the boy is excellent, and Caine's affair with the doomed hooker Rae Baker has some much-needed moments of wit. On the DVD: Disappointingly, the DVD, whose Dolby surround sound does miracles for the scenes of schoolboy choristers, is presented in pan and scan 1.33:1, and has no extra features except for chapter selection and trailers for other films.--Roz Kaveney

• Housekeeping (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/01/2021) from £10.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Bill Forsyth (That Sinking Feeling, Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, Comfort and Joy) made his American film debut with this moving and offbeat adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's acclaimed novel, about two young girls who are sent to live with their eccentric aunt (Christine Lahti). Extras High Definition remaster Original stereo audio Writer-Director Bill Forsyth on ˜Housekeeping' (2017, 42 mins) Author Marilynne Robinson on ˜Housekeeping' (2017, 14 mins) Director of Photography Michael Coulter on ˜Housekeeping' (2017, 13 mins) Editor Michael Ellis on ˜Housekeeping' (2017, 11 mins) BFI Interview with Bill Forsyth (1994, 36 mins): archival audio recording of an on-stage interview conducted by Nick James at the National Film Theatre, London Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and production materials from the personal collections of the filmmakers New English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing