Drama

• 1942 | DVD | (13/06/2016) from £3.83   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From acclaimed director Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock, Assembly) comes this breathtaking war epic which revisits one of the most catastrophic periods of twentieth century Chinese history: the famine in Henan Province during the 1942 Sino-Japanese War, which claimed three million lives. Zhang Guoli stars as Master Fan, a wealthy landlord who loses everything when he and his family flee their famine-stricken hometown. Academy Award winner Adrian Brody (The Pianist) co-stars as a courageous American journalist who encounters the horrors of the famine first-hand and endeavours to enlist relief-aid from the Chinese government and expose the plight of the Henan refugees. Extras: Original trailers Promo reel Making Back to 1942 (18 mins) The Characters of 1942 (8mins) Optional 5.1 surround sound

• Colour Me Blood Red | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £10.97   |  Saving you £-2.98 (-37.30%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Fiendish is the word for it! In Herschell G. Lewis's Colour Me Blood Red a demented artist (Don Joseph) finds that his paintings sell better when he uses real human blood for his crimson pigments. Not wanting to use his own vital fluids the artist begins killing his models and disemboweling them when his red paint supply runs low. This is the final film in Lewis's Blood Trilogy that began with Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!

• Pavlova - A Woman For All Time | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From her humble childhood in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, Anna Pavlova (Galina Belyayeva) dreamed of nothing but the ballet. Rising to stardom through the Imperial Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev (Vsevolod Larionov), she became the toast of the Russian court and then all of Europe’s aristocracy. But Pavlova dreamed of still more. Aided by her childhood friend Mikhail (Sergey Shakurov) and her husband and Impresario Victor D’Andre (James Fox), she would raise ballet to new heights, explore new methods of dance and take the beauty of her art to the furthest corners of the world...

• Fighting For Love | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Though their initial meeting doesn't take place under the best of circumstances (a car accident brings them together) these two polar opposite people find themselves in bed together a few short hours afterwards. Complications ensue the next morning when the young lovers figure out that should they want to continue their relationship they may need to learn to like each other! For the first time Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung stars opposite Cantopop singing sensation Sammi Cheng (the pair would be reunited for the 'Infernal Affairs' trilogy) who scooped a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nomination in this bubbly romantic comedy.

• Trishna | Blu Ray | (09/07/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Trishna is a beautifully shot, classic tale of love and tragedy set across modern day rural Rajasthan and the thriving metropolis of Mumbai.Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman, Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed), who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, their relationship must remain a secret due to the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education.Their problems seem to be solved when Jay takes Trishna to an exciting new world of dance, vibrant life and possibilities - Mumbai. But Trishna harbours a dark secret that threatens the very heart of their love affair, and inequalities remain at the centre of their relationship that will lead her to question Jay's intentions towards her.

• Sherlock Holmes - The Naval Treaty / The Solitary Cyclist | DVD | (09/06/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two more cases for Holmes and Watson to solve. The Naval Treaty: Dr Watson's old school colleague 'Tadpole' Phelps needs help with a mysterious problem at the Foreign Office. A top secret treaty has vanished and its disappearance imperils the cause of world peace. Only Holmes can track it down in time. The Solitary Cyclist: For a while Miss Violet Smith's life is quite perfect. However the young heiress soon finds herself being followed by a sinister stranger and Holmes and Watson are engaged in a frantic race against time to prevent her from being kidnapped.

• Steamboy (Director's Cut) | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Katsuhiro Otomo's animation epic - a fusion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics produced with full digital technology - is finally complete! Ten years in the making with a total budget of million Steamboy is the most expensive Japanese anime production ever. The director's complete dedication to every detail of the project is evident throughout the film. A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This young boy must use it to fight evil redeem his family and save London from destruction. The lush Victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical design allows Otomo to create dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film. With more than 180 000 drawing and 400 CG cuts Steamboy is one of the most elaborate animated features ever brought to life!

• Vicar of Bray | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A delightful British romantic comedy set at the time of the English Civil War.

• Freedom Road | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £2.68   |  Saving you £2.31 (46.30%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Gideon Jackson (Muhammad Ali) once a black slave returns home after the Civil War a free man. The Union has won the war but in reality the country still remains bitterly divided. How will the illiterate and propertyless Gideon utilize his newfound freedom? Can he ever hope to achieve real equality with his former white master?

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In The Veiled Lady / The Lost Mine David Suchet once again brings the great detective Hercule Poirot to rich life. The Veiled Lady is a comic caper, as Poirot and the ever-ready Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) resort to burglary to stop a blackmailing cad. The Lost Mine is cleverly set in a Chinatown reminiscent of the 1930s concept of the Mysterious East. Suchet is a perfect Poirot, capturing both his dignity and his humour, and Fraser does a beautiful job of underplaying Hastings enough to keep him the perfect sidekick without ever making him boring. --Ali Davis

• The Italian | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian drama about a young boy living in a rundown orphanage in a remote Russian village. The orphans spend their days hoping they will be adopted by wealthy foreigners. For Vanya (Kolya Spiridonova) hope comes in the form of an Italian couple. But while adoption arrangements are being made the mother of another child appears wanting to be reunited with her son. Vanya begins to think about his... own family and with the assistance of the other children accesses his records and decides to make his escape and go in search of the orphanage where his mother first left him hoping to find some answers.

• The Bastard | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £2.77   |  Saving you £3.48 (230.46%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Bastard is a four-hour two part presentation that combines drama, action, adventure and romance, set against the backdrop of history. Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English Duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution.

• Fight Club / Memento | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £17.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Fight Club (Dir. David Fincher 1999): Jack (Edward Norton) is a chronic insomniac desperate to escape his excruciatingly boring life. That's when he meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) a charismatic soap salesman with a twisted philosophy. Tyler believes self-improvement is for the weak; it's self-destruction that really makes life worth living. Before long Jack and Tyler are beating each other to a pulp in a bar parking lot a cathartic slugfest that delivers joys of physical violence. Jack and Tyler form a secret Fight Club that becomes wildly successful. But there's a shocking surprise waiting for Jack that will change everything... Memento (Dir. Christopher Nolan 2000): Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) remembers everything up to the night his wife was brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy he has suffered from short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event the places he has just visited or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife was killed the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper by taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body.

• Coronation Street 1975 | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Coronation Street was first broadcast in December of 1960 and since then has gone from strength to strength in establishing itself as the nation's favourite soap opera. With a more light hearted slant on the genre Coronation Street has always drawn viewers from across the generations and its longevity is tribute to it's across the board appeal. On this DVD we take a look back to 1975 and eight classic episodes from that year.

• Kim Ki Duk Double Pack | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kim Ki Duk Double Pack (2 Discs)

• Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (Nebolsin) | DVD | (22/07/2004) from £20.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (8.70%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (Nebolsin)

• A Scene At The Sea | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Scene At The Sea

• Hiroshima | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The atomic bombing of Hiroshima is inarguably the single most significant act of the twentieth century. This landmark presentation gives, for the first time, a balanced account of those events leading to the cataclysmic decision, which forever changed the course of human destiny. Beginning in the frenzied final months of World War II, rocketing back and forth between Washington and Tokyo, Alamogordo and Tinian, Hiroshima careens along the rapidly escalating course of the war. Reaching behind ...

• Silence Of The Heart | DVD | (14/06/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A 17-year-old boy (Chad Lowe) is killed in an automobile accident. As the facts come to light the indications are that the boy has actually taken his own life. His mother (Mariette Hartley) and sister (Dana Hill) don't agree and try to search for the truth. Even the father (Howard Hesseman) digs in his heels and refuses to face the probability of a suicide. As the story unravels the boy's best friend (Charlie Sheen) is tormented by the possibility that perhaps he could have prevented the tragedy.

• The Tichborne Claimant | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a true story. 1876. The heir to the vast Tichborne fortune Sir Roger Tichborne presumed drowned at sea in 1866 is reportedly seen in Australia. His brother Alfred and the family servant Andrew Bogle arrive from England to investigate the matter. However Alfred's demise prompts the Tichbourne's to refuse funds for Andrew's return. Andrew desperately searches for a candidate to fill in for the missing heir and settles on local butcher Thomas Castro whom he coaches to succeed in such a scam. With the family divided in their belief that he is their missing kin the impostor is soon standing trial...