War

• Eighteen | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pip is a young street kid trying to deal with life in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives a tape of his grandfather's World War II memoirs which awakens the ghosts of a long lost time and place. His grandfather graphically narrates the story of the day he turned eighteen fleeing German forces through the woods of France with a dying comrade hanging on for life. Soon Pip finds that his own contemporary life story is beginning to parallel that of his grandfathers. He stumbles into an unlikely alliance with Clark a gay street hustler on the make and Jenny an aspiring social worker who tempts him emotionally. He also forges a relationship with a local priest in whom he confides his deepest darkest secrets: The death of his brother and the heinous act his father committed against him before his demise. Generations apart but both lost in their own environments at eighteen years of age Pip and his grandfather have a supernatural connection that surpasses time itself.

• Mein Kampf | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is the book written by Adolf Hitler in which he laid out his political philosophy. Regarded inside Germany as the bible of National Socialism it was an accurate blueprint of what he aspired to accomplish when in power. After its publication few believed that Hitler and his Nazi Party intended to carry out every phrase of his literal program. In this film everything is taken from original footage and actually happened in our time. It tries to answer the burning questions such as what exactly happened during this terrible time in our history and how it was made possible.

• The Burning Plain | Blu Ray | (08/11/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Casino | HD DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  No one stays at the top forever. Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... In an era of over-the-top glitz Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their 'investment' the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal - hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle... until sexy wildcard Ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous facade beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes - and lives - were made and lost with the roll of a dice. Sharon Stone's performance so impressed the Academy that they granted her first and only Oscar (thus far) for a magnificent performance as the glamorous hustler Ginger McKenna.

• Black Narcissus | Blu Ray | (23/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Powel and Pressburger added to their run of daring stimulating and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment - extreme temperatures illness and a young Indian Prince's perfume (Black Narcissus) - leads to psychological disturbance coupled with emotional weakness. Jealousy sexual repression and hysteria all play their part in a fantastic climax which ripped through the British stiff upper lip attitude of the time. The casting is inspired with brilliant performances from the principals and the film deservedly won Oscars for Colour Cinematography and Art Direction.

• Windtalkers / Hart's War / Platoon | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Windtalkers: In 1942 several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) - a Navajo code talker the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands he's to protect the code at all costs. Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan when capture is imminent Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code? Harts War: Fourth generation war hero Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still as the camp's highest-ranking American officer he commands his fellow inmates keeping a sense of honour alive in a place where honour is easy to destroy all under the dangerous ever-watchful eye of SS Major Wilhelm Visser. Never giving up the fight to win the war McNamara is silently planning waiting for his moment to strike back at the enemy. A murder in the camp gives him the chance to set a risky plan in motion. With a court martial to keep Visser and the Germans distracted McNamara orchestrates a cunning scheme to escape and destroy a nearby munitions plant enlisting the unwitting help of young Lt. Tommy Hart. Together with his men McNamara uses a hero's resolve to carry out his mission ultimately forced to weigh the value of his life against the good of his country. Platoon: Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young naive American who upon his arrival in Vietnam quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong but also with the gnawing fear physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers (Oscar-nominated Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe) draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other the conflict chaos and hatred permeate Taylor suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone Platoon is powerful intense and starkly brutal.

• The Magick Lantern Cycle | Blu Ray | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  More than any other filmmaker of his generation Kenneth Anger is recognized by the public as a maker of underground experimental cinema. To main-line film critics he is the first-remembered such filmmaker one who combines cinematic talent and an aura of scandal. This collection of films known as the Magick Lantern Cycle includes: 1. Fireworks (1947) 2. Puce Moment (1949) 3. Rabbit's Moon (1950/1971 the rarely seen 16mins version) 4. Eaux d'Artifice (1953) 5. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) 6. Scorpio Rising (1964) 7. Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) 8. Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969) 9. Rabbit's Moon (1979 version) 10. Lucifer Rising (1981) 11. Anger Me (2006) - Elio Gelminis documentary on Kenneth Anger

• Cast Offs | DVD | (14/12/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two (fictional) producers dream up the idea of placing six disabled people on a deserted island in a misguided hunger for good telly ratings. The series as such takes the form of a faux documentary; six hours six characters - each episode will focus on one. As the Cast Offs struggle to overcome the challenges presented by living on the island so we learn who they are through 'flashbacks' to the year leading up to the marooning during which time in the fictional reality presented by the series the six Cast Offs were followed by documentary crews. The stories will always be darkly comic poignant and sometimes surreal but also give us opportunity to address some of the many misconceptions about disabled people.

• Snow & Ashes | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A war correspondent who wakes from a coma to discover his friend has not returned with him from Eastern Europe sets out to recapture the events that led to the disappearance and his own escape from the war zone.

• The Liar | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From acclaimed director Mika Kaurismaki comes full-length feature The Liar and short film Jackpot 2. The Liar (1981): Young drifter Ville Alfa travels around Helsinki trying to make money by constant lying. Jackpot 2 (1982): A short film where three young people two boys and a girl meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.

• Billu Barber | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £22.91 (73.90%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Billu Barber is the story of a small town man Billu (Irrfan Khan) who mentions to his family that he was once a friend of superstar Sahir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan). Sahir Khan happens to come to the village to shoot a film and Billu's children spread the rumor that their father is his childhood friend. The villagers on hearing their Billu could be their ticket to meeting the star shower him with gifts and promises on condition Billu make contact for them. Billu is embarrassed by his poverty and doesn't want to impose but everyone works themselves up so he's forced to make several ill-fated attempts at contacting the star while he's shooting just outside the village. But it's the school principal who after threatening to expel Billu's children for nonpayment of fees has a turnaround when she believes Billu is able to get the star to appear at a school function and speak to the children. She goes to Sahir herself and requests his presence at the function for the children. Were Billu and Sahir childhood friends? Will Sahir meet with the villagers?

• 2 Minutes Later | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An erotic thriller populated by a cast of smouldering lesbians and sexy gay men 2 Minutes Later is truly a detective story like no other! When famed nude photographer Michael Dalmar suddenly goes missing it is up to his twin brother Kyle and feisty lesbian detective Abigail Marks to try and find some answers - even if that means entering Michael's risqu'' and dangerous world. Packed with nudity and steamy sexual encounters 2 Minutes Later weaves a complex incredible web of intrigue and desire - complete with startling twists and turns.

• Air America | Blu Ray | (25/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Red and White - Blood of Eagles | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An epic action-packed war thriller set in Java during Indonesia's War of Independence in 1947 Blood of Eagles follows a heroic band of guerrilla soldiers. Divided by the secrets of their past and deep conflicts in personality class and religion the four young men unite to stage a desperate assault on a Dutch internment camp in order to rescue the women they love. Surrounded by the enemy around the enemy above and the enemy within the heroes must band together and trust each other as they battle intrigue infighting betrayal and the overwhelming power of a mighty European empire in pursuit of a single goal: Freedom. From the production teams behind Saving Private Ryan Blackhawk Down Batman Dark Knight The Matrix and The Thin Red Line.

• A History Of Violence | UMD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Viggo Mortensen stars in this stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg.

• Casino Royale (PS3 Blu-ray Starter Pack) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £43.99

  Bond is back! Back to the beginning of James Bond's career MI6's newest recruit (Daniel Craig the first blonde 007) is tasked with taking down a man known as Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) a money launderer for terrorists who is raising operational funds at a high-stakes poker game in the exclusive Montenegro establishment of Casino Royale... Exhilarating breathless and at times brutal this is the first Bond adventure since 1987 to be based on one of Ian Fleming's original novels. Paul Haggis (Oscar winning writer/director of Crash) adapts Casino Royale for a new generation as Daniel Craig new Aston Martin DBS in tow fills out the tuxedo of the ultra-smooth and ultra-deadly superspy.

• Jet Pilot | Blu Ray | (30/11/2021) from £20.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• City Of War: The Story Of John Rabe | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Inspired by the astonishing diaries of John Rabe As the globe stands on the brink of World War II Shanghai has fallen and deadly Japanese bombers target the infamous city of Nanking. As panic breaks out and savage bombing raids devastate the city veteran entrepreneur John Rabe a German living the high life in the social whirl of Nanking must make a agonizing choice: to flee or give sanctuary to the terrified population within the gates of his factory When the Imperial Japanese Army discovers rich Nazi Rabe's selfless operation they see it an act of high treason. As a wave of brutality is unleashed on Nanking Rabe and his comrades find themselves in a race against time to fight for a safety zone to protect the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of this ultimate act of war. But as the bombings desist a perilous siege begins.

• James Stewart Silver Screen Collection | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After studying to be an architect James Stewart was drawn to the theatre whilst at university and first made his name on Broadway. After struggling for three years during the Depression he finally got his break in The Farmer Takes A Wife which led to an invitation to Hollywood. He made his first major film in 1936 and by 1938 was established as a major star going on to hold audiences spell bound for the next six decades. Pot O' Gold: A rare musical/comedy outing for James Stewart then at the peak of his career (he won the Best Actor Oscar a year before for The Philadelphia Story). Stewart plays James Hamilton Haskell a former music store worker who joins his uncle's health food business and befriends a band along the way. His uncle hates music his hatred not being helped by the fact that the band practice next door to his factory. Based on a popular radio show of the time (also called Pot O' Gold) the film gave both James Stewart and Paulette Goddard the opportunity of displaying their singing talents. Made For Each Other: Despite knowing each other for just one day Johnny and Jane get married. The first year of their marriage is a struggle with financial worries illness and the hostility of a live in mother-in-law to contend with. When their baby son is dying from pneumonia it seems life can't get any worse.

• A Mighty Heart | Blu Ray | (10/08/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Angelina Jolie stars in this true story of one woman's struggle to cope with the murder of her journalist husband by Islamic extremists.