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• Fury | Blu Ray | (01/07/2019) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

• Dick Dynamite '44 | Blu Ray | (05/05/2025) from £22.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paced at about a million miles an hour, Dick Dynamite is a roller coaster ride of a movie where the humour is relentless and unapologetically crass and the violence frenetic and bloody.

• Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Blu Ray | (15/06/2020) from £15.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  David Bowie stars in Nagisa Oshima's 1983 Palme d'Or-nominated portrait of resilience, pride, friendship and obsession among four very different men confined in the stifling jungle heat of a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java during World War II. In 1942, British officer Major Jack Celliers (Bowie) is captured by Japanese soldiers, and after a brutal trial sent, physically debilitated but indomitable in mind, to a POW camp overseen by the zealous Captain Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Celliers' stubbornness sees him locked in a battle of wills with the camp's new commandant, a man obsessed with discipline and the glory of Imperial Japan who becomes unnaturally preoccupied with the young Major, while Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence (Tom Conti), the only inmate with a degree of sympathy for Japanese culture and an understanding of the language, attempts to bridge the divide through his friendship with Yonoi's second-in-command, Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano), a man possessing a surprising degree of compassion beneath his cruel façade. Produced by Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky), it was the first English-language film by Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses, Gohatto), a leading light of Japanese New Wave cinema, and provided breakthrough big-screen roles for comedian Takeshi Kitano and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also composed the film's hauntingly memorable BAFTA-winning score. This powerful wartime drama was adapted from Laurens van der Post's autobiographical novel ˜The Seed and the Sower' (1963) by screenwriter Paul Mayersberg (The Man Who Fell to Earth). SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed stereo audio The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (1983), Paul Joyce's 82-minute documentary profile of Nagisa Oshima The Oshima Gang (1983), a 30-minute documentary following the film's cast and makers at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Video interviews with producer Jeremy Thomas and actor-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Exclusive newly filmed interview with critic Tony Rayns Original theatrical trailer Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Hadley FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jasper Sharp

• Born on the Fourth of July Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (14/12/2020) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Cruise delivers a riveting and unforgettable portrayal of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic in Oliver Stones Academy Award®- winning masterpiece. Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteered for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralysed from the mid-chest down. Deeply in love with his country, Kovic returned to an environment vastly different from the one he left, and struggled before emerging as a brave new voice for the disenchanted. BONUS FEATURES: Feature Commentary from Director Oliver Stone / From the NBC News Archives - Backstory: Born on the Fourth of July

• Hamlet | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £10.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (23.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hamlet (1991)

• La Grande Illusion 75th Anniversary | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During WWI, three French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life. They meet other prisoners from various backgrounds, as Rosenthal, son of wealthy Jewish bankers. They are separated from Rosenthal before managing to escape. A few months later, they meet again in a fortress commanded by the aristocrat Van Rauffenstein. De Boeldieu strikes up a friendship with him but Marechal and Rosenthal still want to escape... One of the very first prison escape movies, La Grande Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.

• The Notebook | Blu Ray | (02/02/2009) from £16.96   |  Saving you £-1.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A sweeping love story about a 1940s romance between two teens from very different worlds.

• Hurricane | DVD | (22/10/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Puccini: La Boheme -- Royal Opera House/Gardelli | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £17.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (5.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This full-blooded 1982 performance of Puccini's most-loved opera demonstrates just how much drive and powerful emotion can make up for a certain lack of subtlety. Cotrubas' Mimi is entirely moving in both joy and death, while never quite feeling as thoroughly frail as some of her quieter rivals; stronger tenor voices than Neil Shicoff's have recorded the role, and yet he has a Romantic passion and a dignity that many of his rivals fail to bring to the role. That under-rated singer Gwynne Howell is especially moving in Colline's farewell to his cloak--one of those perfect little showcase sections Puccini sometimes gives to minor parts. Marilyn Zschau's Musetta is broad and comic and yet somehow includes the audience in the glorious joke that her sexuality is for her; when Thomas Allen sings, to her waltz theme, of youth that is not yet dead, his ardour transcends realism. Gardelli knew this score in his bones--the production bounces along from comedy to tears to eroticism to tragedy and neither cast nor orchestra miss a single one of Puccini's wonderful touches of emotional exploitation. --Roz Kaveney

• The First of the Few | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This year sees the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII and to celebrate our victory we shall be releasing this stunning dual format release of the 1942 War epic The First of the Few , which also features the new Story of the Spitfire 60 minute documentary as an extra! Directed/Starring Gone With The Wind s Leslie Howard in his final performance before his tragic death. Co-starring Oscar winner David Niven (The Pink Panther). Chronicling the life of famed aircraft designer, R.J. Mitchell, this action-packed biopic details how he came to design a new fighter plane that we came to call the Spitfire. By the late 1920's R.J. Mitchell felt he had achieved all he wanted with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. After a holiday in Germany, during Hitler s meteoric rise to power, Mitchell is convinced it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane, that he came to call the Spitfire, whose aerial superiority won the Battle of Britain. Story of the Spitfire details the development of the Supermarine Spitfire from its predecessor the seaplane racer and the effects its creation had on the Battle of Britain.

• Waterloo (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Waterloo is the 1970 epic period war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by legendary producer Dino De Laurentis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo and is famous for its lavish battle scenes. Starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France, and Jack Hawkins all contribute fine portraits of great men against a magnificent backdrop of battle and bloodshed.

• Me Too - Welcome To The City | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the makers of Balamory comes Me Too! a drama series for pre-schoolers set in the fictional city of Riverseafingal. Me Too! revolves around the lives of nine main adult characters in their workplaces - including a teacher doctor market stallholder cleaner on the buses buffet car attendant nurse and a taxi driver - with the contrasting daily adventures of their pre-school child at play with Granny Murray. Granny Murray is warm and welcoming and also the fountain of all wisdom and inspiration. At the beginning of each episode she opens the door of her basement flat in Tattiemoon Lane to a different adult with their pre-school child. Episodes Comprise: 1. Fireworks 2. Snooze 3. The Waterfall 4. The Operation 5. The Rattle 6. Tummy Rumbles

• Flambards: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £32.51   |  Saving you £-2.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Flambards is a delightful tale about a young orphan called Christina (Christine McKenna). Set in the years surrounding the first World War Flambards is a deeply moving story of growing and loving in a world that is continually changing. Christina has been moved from home to home for most of her life until one day she is sent to live at Flambards the once grand country home of her domineering disabled Uncle Russell and his two sons Mark and William. However much as Christina is hoping to find a loving new family she soon discovers the inhabitants at Flambards are an unhappy group torn apart by bitterness and jealousy. Episodes Comprise: 1. Christina 2. The Blooding 3. Entry To A New World 4. Lady Bountiful 5. Point To Point 6. The Cold Light Of Day 7. Edge Of The Cloud 8. Flying High 9. Sing No Sad Songs 10. New Blood 11. Prisoners Of War 12. What Are Servants For? 13. Inheritance

• Angel-A | Blu Ray | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.

• Gift Horse (Vintage Classics) | DVD | (04/04/2022) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Waterloo - Special Edition (LIMITED TO 5,000 COPIES) | Blu Ray | (14/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First time on Blu-Ray in the UK. Waterloo is the 1970 epic period war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by legendary producer Dino De Laurentis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo and is famous for its lavish battle scenes. Starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France, and Jack Hawkins all contribute fine portraits of great men against a magnificent backdrop of battle and bloodshed.

• Desert Fox, The / The Desert Rats | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £5.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (151.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  James Mason plays Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in both The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), a WWII double-bill on DVD. The Desert Fox, released six years after the end of the War, is a solemnly respectful tribute to Erwin Rommel, Germany's most celebrated military genius. James Mason's portrayal of this gallant warrior became a highlight of his career iconography. The film itself is oddly disjointed, though: a pre-credit commando raid to liquidate Rommel is followed by a flashback to the field-marshal's lightning successes commanding the Afrika Korps--a compressed account via documentary footage and copious narration (spoken by Michael Rennie, who also dubs Desmond Young, the Rommel biographer and one-time British POW appearing briefly as himself). The dramatic core is Rommel's growing disenchantment with Hitler (Luther Adler), his involvement in the plot to assassinate the Fuhrer, and his subsequent martyrdom. The Desert Rats stars Richard Burton in only his second Hollywood role (between Oscar-nominated turns in My Cousin Rachel and The Robe), as a Scottish commando put in charge of a battalion of the 9th Australian Division defending Tobruk. The Aussies don't like him, and with a year of grim North African duty already under his belt, he's not too crazy about his new responsibilities either. The outfit is charged with staving off the battering assaults of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for two months, to give the British Army time to regroup in Cairo and prepare for a counterattack. In the end, the "desert rats" play hell with the Desert Fox for 242 days, during which time they and their commander develop some mutual respect. This is a solid, workmanlike World War II picture that, having been made in 1953 rather than 1943, can acknowledge a degree of eccentric humanity and soldierly professionalism in the enemy. Featured guest star James Mason reprises his Rommel from The Desert Fox, playing all his scenes in German except for a scene of ironical repartee with Burton. Another distinguished Brit, Robert Newton, gets costar billing as a boozy, self-confessed coward who used to be Burton's schoolmaster. However, a goodly number of Australians--including Chips Rafferty and Charles "Bud" Tingwell rate at least as much screen time. Robert Wise directed, with a trimness that reminds us he started out as an editor, and the pungent black-and-white cinematography is by Lucien Ballard. --Richard T. Jameson

• The Zone of Interest | DVD | (14/06/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Beauty Of Beauties | Blu Ray | (08/04/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Through the story of Xishi (Hsi Shih), one of Chinese history's greatest beauties, this costume drama tells the story of the war between two Chinese Kingdoms 2,500 years ago.After the kingdom of Yu is defeated by that of Wu, Goujian the King takes pains to prepare for his revenge and rebuilding his country. He knows well that the King of Wu, Fucha is lewd and lustful, so he offers Xisi to the court of Wu to serve as Fucha's concubine, with Fucha unaware that she is also a spy. She uses her charm to draw Fucha from his office and governess, leaving the ruling class of Wu rotten.Meanwhile Goujian secretly summons his friends and equips them with arms. After ten years of of war, can Goujian at last takes his revenge and reclaims his lands?This 1966 multiple award winning epic is lovingly restored in 4K from its original Camera negative.Product FeaturesBrand new 4K Remaster from the Original NegativesHigh Definition (1080p) Blu-ray in 2.39:1 Aspect Ratio2.0 Original Mandarin MonoNewly Translated English SubtitlesAn Interview with Oriental Cinema Expert Tony RaynsOriginal TrailerRestoration Comparison

• Where Eagles Dare | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Scorned by reviewers when it came out, Where Eagles Dare has acquired a cult following over the years for its unashamed and highly concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theatre and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, was eager to try his hand at the action genre. Author Alistair MacLean's novel The Guns of Navarone had inspired the film that started the 1960s vogue for World War II military capers, so he was prevailed upon to write the screenplay (his first). The central location, an impregnable Alpine stronghold locked in ice and snow, is surpassing cool, but the plot and action are ultra-mechanical, and the switcheroo gamesmanship of just who is the undercover double (triple?) agent on the mission becomes aggressively silly. --Richard T Jameson