War

• Starfish Hotel | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £13.15   |  Saving you £-6.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Strange things always happen in Jo Kuroda's mystery novels. There is always a sinister rabbit called Mr Trickster; and someone always ends up dead. A man's wife disappears and he finds her working in a brothel deep in the heart of the city. There is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel. There is a young girl that the man had an affair with in the dead of winter two years ago. She would only meet him in the eerie crumbling Starfish Hotel. Now she's disappeared too. If you meet Jo Kuroda one night don't tell him your dreams.

• Raging Bull | Blu Ray | (09/02/2009) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.65 (-28.30%)   |  RRP £19.98

  "Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt.

• Johnny Got His Gun | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young American soldier tragically injured by a landmine on the last day of the Great War in 1918 lies in a hospital bed. A quadruple amputee without the use of his eyes ears or mouth yet remaining conscious and still able to reason he tries to communicate to his doctors his wish that he be put on show as a demonstration of the full horrors of war... Starring Donald Sutherland and Timothy Bottoms 'Johnny Got His Gun' was winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festiva

• ANONYMA-EINE FRAU IN BERL - MO | DVD | (23/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Secret | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The discovery of a deep family secret and and a passionate story as seen through the eyes of Francois an only child who invents an imaginary brother and imagines his parents' past. The day he reaches 15 a family friend reveals an upsetting truth to the young Francois but one that will make him stronger.

• The Eagle Has Landed | Blu Ray | (06/01/2023) from £63.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Let's Talk About The Rain | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £10.86   |  Saving you £6.39 (66.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The multi-talented writer-director-actress Agn''s Jaoui stars as an aspiring politician who reluctantly revisits her roots in this witty intelligent and superbly performed comedy. When she returns to her childhood home in the South of France for an election rally and help her sister with her late mother's affairs Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is asked to take part in a documentary about successful women. But the ineptitude of the comically amateurish filmmakers (Jamael Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri) manages to exacerbate the tensions of all those around them forcing Agathe to confront the consequences of her own ambitions. Once again collaborating with Jean-Pierre Bacri co-writer and star of Look At Me and Le Go''t des Autres Agnes Jaoui's entertaining film takes a humorous and perceptive look at relationships.

• Souls at Sea | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One man is on trial for murder. One man knows the truth... A ship has caught fire and only one lifeboat remains. Now its captain Michael Taylor (Gary Cooper) must decide who will live and who will surely die. The story begins at Taylor's trial where he is charged for the murders of the ship's passengers who perished. But what his prosecutors don't know is that he was actually onboard under British secret orders. Unexpectedly he is awarded a new trial after a representative of the Queen of England steps forward with a detailed account of the tragedy. Next the real story unfolds via brilliantly photographed flashbacks revealing Taylor and his partner's heroic mission to abolish the inhumane business of slave trading. But will the truth be enough to spare Taylor from a life behind bars? With its talented cast and compelling plot Souls at Sea offers a rare combination of intensity humour and thrilling action that is sure to please classic film lovers everywhere.

• D-Day The Sixth of June | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The great love story of the Great War.Hollywood once again looks back at the undeniably compelling story of D-Day, this time through the device of two officers facing the coming battle, one American and one British, recalling their love for the same woman.

• Pride and Glory | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A saga centred on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. When an officer discovers his brother-in-law is involved in a corruption scandal, there is more than the family's good name at stake.

• Battle Cry | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The most interesting--and entertaining--aspect of Battle Cry, a long, episodic World War II drama, is that it marked the debut of one Justus E McQueen, who subsequently took the name of the good ol' Arkansas boy he played in the movie: LQ Jones. He's only one of eight or nine marine recruits who divide the screen time with commanding officer Van Heflin and James Whitmore as a lifer sergeant named Mac, "just Mac", who ramrods their squad and also delivers the movie's overbearing narration. Unfortunately, the narration is necessary to maintain continuity as the CinemaScope production galumphs its way from rounding up the melting-pot cast to seeing them through basic training and sundry, mostly amatory misadventures in San Diego, to further training in New Zealand and finally to baptism of fire on Guadalcanal. Trouble is, among the recruits only McQueen/Jones (whose job is mostly comic relief) and Aldo Ray (as a brawling lumberjack who's never known family life) have any charisma or acting chops--and that's not forgetting Tab Hunter, whose matinee-idol status at the time does not speak well for the 50s. Battle Cry is also a cardinal example of Hollywood's penchant for buying big, lusty, profane bestsellers (by Leon Uris, in this case) and then bowdlerising all the lustiness and profanity to appease the censors. Raoul Walsh, the poet laureate of lowdown gusto, does what he can in the circumstances, and as one of the first guys ever to direct a widescreen movie (1930's The Big Trail), he makes the battle scenes roar. --Richard T. Jameson

• The Beauty Of Beauties | DVD | (08/04/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• My Brother's Wedding | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £15.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A 2 disc presentation set of the original version and the new Director's Cut of Burnett's warm wry drama about a young man torn between obligations to his hard-working family aspirational brother and criminally-minded friends.

• Cleaner | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The "Cleaner" is a sinister crime thriller from veteran action director Renny Harlin with a lead performance from Samuel L. Jackson.

• Jsa (Joint Security Area) | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the award winning director of Oldboy comes a thrilling a tale of deceit misunderstanding and the ultimate futility of war. On the hyper-militarized border between North and South Korea shots ring out and a wounded South Korean soldier stumbles back across no-mans land leaving two North Korean soldiers dead. The South Korean Army praises him as a hero but was the soldier's actions far less courageous? Is only part of the tale being told? Tough brutal and fiercely intelligent this powerful film from one of the world's most critically acclaimed new directors stars leading actors Kang-ho Song (Shiri and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance) and He-kyun Shin (Save the Green planet and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance).

• Tigerland | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £16.67   |  Saving you £0.58 (3.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Joel Schumacher's acclaimed story of a group of young US infantry men in 1971, in training for Viet Nam, at a time when not even many of the soldiers themselves believed in what they were doing.

• King Lear (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (26/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Royal Shakespeare Company bring their adaptation of this lavish tale the stage with a multi-talented cast.

• Confidence (Bizalom) | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Szab�'s Oscar-nominated 1980 feature is a haunting and moving experience dealing with complex, yet very human questions of love, trust, loyalty, and betrayal under exceptional circumstances. Janos and Kata are thrown together during WW2 and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what th...

• The Sand Pebbles | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £10.23   |  Saving you £2.76 (26.98%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'The Sand Pebbles' tell many stories. It's the story of China a slumbering giant that rouses itself to the cries of its people - and of the Americans who are caught in its bloody awakening. It's the story of Frenchy (Richard Attenborough) a crewman on the USS San Pablo who kidnaps his Chinese bride from the auction block. Most of all it's the story of Jake Holman (Steve McQueen) a sailor who had given up trying to make peace with anything: including himself. Nominated for nine A

• The Desert Rats | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.28   |  Saving you £6.71 (106.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Richard Burton stars in this exciting film about the courageous men who held off notorious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941 and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk which is manned only by a small Australian battalion whom Captain MacRoberts (Burton) must whip into shape - fast! James Mason co-stars in a stunning portrayal as Rommel in this stirring action-packed story of the World War