Drama

• Sinchronicity | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set on the streets of Manchester Sinchronicity is a stylish strange and sexy comedy drama asking the question that haunts us all: ""What if...?"" What role do chance and coincidence play in life? Find out when a string of seemingly inconsequential incidents and casual decisions prove monumental for three hip but unhappy twentysomethings. Follow the fortunes of this love-locked threesome as they encounter an array of romantic conundrums all driven by the fickle whim of Lady Fate.

• The Net | DVD | (07/10/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tense 1950 s Cold War thriller superbly directed by Anthony Asquith. Behind the net , the wire fencing surrounding the top secret British research establishment Port Amberly, researchers have produced a new weapon that could change the balance of power of the Cold War. Led by Professor Heathley (James Donald) an experimental supersonic jet aircraft code named M7 has been developed. All that remains is to test fly the prototype, and whilst Heathley wants to undertake testing himself his wife (Phyliis Calvert) and his boss believe it is too dangerous. The risks are increased by the presence of foreign agents who are trying to sabotage Heathley s work. Will they succeed or will Britain and her allies gain a crucial advantage in the Cold War?

• The Keeper | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When an apparently exemplary cop (Hopper) abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful exotic dancer (Argento) in an effort to teach her a righteous path a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues...

• Disappearing Acts | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (-41.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is a love story waiting to explode. Brooklyn NYC. Franklin Swift is a construction worker who's rarely more than one step away from the dole queue. Zora Banks is a music teacher who dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter. From different worlds a chance encounter throws the pair together - the attraction is instant and it's not long before the unlikely lovers move in together. At first they're lost in their passion for each other but all too soon real life begins to take its toll. Money is tight Franklin's past catches up with him while Zora reveals a frightening secret of her own...

• The Navigators | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ken Loach does for the railways in The Navigators what he did for the construction industry in Riff-Raff (1990). As ever, his sympathies lie firmly with the ordinary working blokes, not above of bit of banter and skiving, but essentially trying to do a decent job and stay loyal to their mates in the face of managerial double-talk and corporate devotion to the bottom line. It's 1995, and the Tories have just carried out their disastrous, pea-brained scheme to break up the railways. We follow the fortunes of a gang of track workers in South Yorkshire as they find themselves confronted with all the fallout of privatisation--redundancies, cost-cutting, corner-cutting and the wholesale junking of any concern with safety or quality of work. Accidental deaths, one hapless time-server explains, "have got to be kept to an acceptable level". Two scenes encapsulate the tragic-comic tone of the film. At one point the disbelieving workers are ordered by managers to smash up a load of new equipment; it's surplus to requirements, but can't possibly be sold to "the competition", their former British Rail workmates at the depot down the line. Later, called to a derailment, the track workers pass a whole series of hard-hat wearing managers, each paying no attention to what needs doing but muttering fiercely into a mobile phone trying to pass the buck for the accident to another company. Loach cast the film using local actors and comics, and there's a strong sense of authenticity in the flat accents and dry Yorkshire humour. But ultimately this is a lament for the destruction, not only of what was once a great rail network, but of the pride and camaraderie of those who worked on it. The film's ending is fittingly bleak. --Philip Kemp

• The Hound Of The Baskervilles | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (125.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sir Basil Rathbone stars as the inimitable Detective Sherlock Holmes in The thrilling mystery of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in mysterious circumstances, with the locals ascribing his demise to the ancient family curse a paranormal hellhound, said to roam the moors searching for its prey. With the trusty aid of Doctor Watson (Nigel Bruce), Holmes sets out to uncover the truth and solve the mystery of the terrifying hound before another Baskerville falls victim to the family curse. Extras: Interview with Sir Christopher Frayling, writer and presenter of Nightmare, The Birth of Horror Interview with Basil Rathbone biographer Michael Druxman

• City Of Lost Souls | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £12.67   |  Saving you £5.31 (54.86%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A stylised and violent thriller, prolific director Miike Takashi's The City Of Lost Souls (2000) is set in the ganglands of Tokyo and pays homage to Sergio Leone, Quentin Tarantino and, in a daft, animated cockfighting sequence, The Matrix. Mario (Teah) is the Japanese-Brazilian gunslinger fresh out jail who, in a hilariously audacious action sequence, hijacks a helicopter to save his Chinese girlfriend Kei (Michelle Reis) from deportation. He must then secure 18 million yen to secure fake passports for both of them to make a new life for themselves in Australia. In a misconceived operation, Mario arrives at the lair of the intriguing Ko, Kei's ex-boyfriend--a self-assured, effeminate young exchange student--who is somehow head of a vicious gang of Triads. He is on the point of buying a consignment of cocaine from decadent, cold-blooded Yakuza gangster Fushimi when Mario's arrival triggers a shootout, with Mario escaping with the wrong suitcase. Now, in time-honoured True Romancefashion, Mario and Kei are on the run from the mob. Although visually tricksy with some strong set-pieces, The City of Lost Souls is rather hazy when it comes to story and characterisation. We get little sense of the runaway couple as people. A young blind girl is introduced into the tale and there are romantic moments between Mario and Kei but these feel like sugary palliatives to the bloodshed rather than touching moments. Better perhaps to check out Takashi's Audition, a brilliantly gruesome satire on male Japanese attitudes towards womanhood. This is a flashier, faster but less artistically satisfying affair. On the DVD: The City of Lost Souls is presented in video aspect ratio 1.85:1, with reasonable clarity and sharpness. However, the English subtitles are a little pidgin and slapdash in places, none of which improves the main special feature, a rather dull and vague interview with director Takashi. --David Stubbs

• The Drummer & The Keeper | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £8.91   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Drummer & The Keeper was written and directed by Nick Kelly, whose acclaimed short film SHOE was shortlisted for an Academy Award®. Winner, Best Irish First Feature, Galway Film Fleadh 2017

• Fall Of Eagles - Complete Series | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Fall Of The Eagles is a stunning BBC dramatisation of the declining years and final collapse of three of the most powerful European dynasties - the Hapsburgs Romanovs and Hohanzollerns - between the mid 19th century and the end of the First World War. The series focuses on the tempestuous reigns of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany....

• Miklós Jancsó Box Set (3 Films) | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £22.89   |  Saving you £2.10 (9.17%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise:My Way Home: In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier.The Red And The White: Available for the first time on DVD, Csillagosok Katonak has been digitally remastered with new English subtitles added.Set in central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, this film from Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancso witnesses the brutality and senselessness of war as the Red and the White armies battle in the hills along the Volga. Told from the vantage point of Hungarian troops fighting for the Red Army, Jancso's Cinemascope frame captures the horror these soldiers endure fighting for the Bolsheviks, and the surreality, chaos, seemingly arbitrary nature of war.The Round-Up: The Round-Up takes place within a detention camp in the remote Hungarian countryside, after the collapse of the 1848 revolution against Austrian domination. A formal variation on the main patterns of ritual power, Jansco deliberately side-steps revolutionary heroics and focuses on the persecutions and de-humanizations which always accompany conflict.Filmed in Hungary's desolate, sun scorched landscape, Jansco's formidable technique - his austere formalism and stark cinematic vision - has produced a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and its cost.

• Perdita Durango | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £19.80   |  Saving you £-3.81 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the novel by cult author Barry Gifford. Perdita is a character that also pops up in Gifford's most famous novel The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula ; later filmed as Wild At Heart by David Lynch. This is the uncut version recently passed by the BBFC available on DVD for the first time. An explosive cocktail of humour love sex and action. Perdita Durango (Rosie Perez) is an unscrupulous woman who loves taking people for a ride and living life to the limit. Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bedem) her demonic lover is dark sensual and highly daring. One fine day the destinies of Perdita and Romeo become one and no one or nothing can put a stop to it. Determined to become the most powerful outlaws in the country Perdita and Romeo are hired by the Mafia to transport an illegal cargo of human ingredients form Mexico to Las Vegas. Together the wanton spitfire and her psychic drug-dealer set the Tex-Mex border alight with their torrid passions bizarre kidnapping crimes and black magic rituals.

• White Sands | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Red-hot stars ignite the white-hot thriller 'White Sands' a volatile mix of action and suspense directed by Roger Donaldson (Species) and filmed in an around New Mexico's glistening White Sands National Park. Willem Dafoe plays Sheriff Ray Dolezal a small-town lawman in big-time trouble. To untangle a mystery he assumes the identity of a murdered FBI agent and goes undercover inside a global crime ring. This precarious new life steers him toward a sinister weapons runner (Mickey R

• What Goes Up (DVD) | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £12.44   |  Saving you £-6.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Starring Steve Coogan and Hilary Duff, What Goes Up takes a comedic look at life, love and all the chaos in between. Also starring Olivia Thirlby and Josh Peck. When a group of teenage social misfits befriends jaded journalist Campbell Babbitt (Coogan), who's on assignment in their small New Hampshire town, they each find themselves searching for meaning and truth in their crazy, mixed-up lives. But as Babbitt gets to know these eccentric kids better - their hidden secrets begin to rise to the surface, changing each other's lives forever.

• Mera Saaya | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  It was the shadow of his dead wife Geeta (Sadhana) which was looming large on the life of young lawyer Rakesh (Sunil Dutt). Hastily summoned to India from London where Rakesh has gone for further studies upon arrival to find his young wife dying in his arms. The magnitude of this personal tragedy staggers him and a long shadow of gloom descends upon him. Meanwhile in a police party's tough encounter with a band of dacoits they arrest a young woman. On interrogation by the police

• Thunder Rock | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Pandaemonium | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Acclaimed director Julien Temple's latest movie tells of the relationship between two of England's greatest poets - Coleridge and Wordsworth - and the drugs and jealousies that eventually destroyed it.

• Le Bossu | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When his great friend the Duke of Nevers is slain in a dastardly assassination plot by Count Gonzague (Luchini) fencing master Lagardere (Auteuil) swears to avenge the murder and to take care of his orphaned daughter Aurore (Gillain). Sixteen years later after secretly hiding with a touring theatre troup Lagardere returns to the sumptuous Parisian courts to honour his deadly oath. Disguising himself as Gonzague's hunchback manservant Lagardere infiltrates the Count's entourage...

• The Rising - Ballad Of Mangal Pandey | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Marking the return of Aamir Khan after 4 years (previously starring in the Oscar-nominated Lagaan) 'The Rising' is a majestic tale of friendship love loss & betrayal. Set against the backdrop of the Indian mutiny of 1857 'The Rising' tells the story of British Army soldier Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) and his friendship with his commanding officer William Gordon (Toby Stephens) who finds that running the affairs of the East India Company conflicts with the compassionate administrati

• Zandalee | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Love has left the marriage of Zandalee (Erika Anderson) and Thierry (Judge Reinhold) so Zandalee finds ecstacy in the arms of Johnny (Nicolas Cage) her husband's boyhood friend. Once aroused her longings cannot be satisfied until her obsessive need for passion overwhelms the three in a dark triangle of desire and death...

• Leave Of Absence | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.73   |  Saving you £-7.74 (-388.90%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A married man asks his wife for time off in their relationship so that he may spend time with his dying lover...