"Actor: Katrin Cartlidge"

• From Hell - Single Disc Edition | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel this dark film follows the police investigation into the Jack The Ripper killings in Victorian London, with Johnny Depp as Scotland Yard Detective Fredrick Abberlines.

• Naked | Blu Ray | (29/11/2021) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Johnny (David Thewlis) is a frenetic and destructive outsider who tears through the lives of others like an emotional tornado. On the run from Manchester, he seeks sanctuary with his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp) in London, where he immediately targets her vulnerable housemate Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) with his unique blend of predatory charm. From there he embarks on a nocturnal odyssey across the city, dragging other disaffected souls into his orbit as he spirals towards his own personal apocalypse. Mike Leigh's Cannes-winning film is a masterful, controversial, and totally unforgettable exploration of society in free-fall at the tail end of Thatcher's Britain. Naked has been newly remastered by the BFI National Archive and is available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

• Naked | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £10.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mike Leighs controversial epic stars David Thewlis as a deeply frustrated idealist. Disappointed with the material world at the end of the last century and the impending millennial apocalypse Johnny is aggressive and confrontational but also eloquent sexy and charming. With a virtuoso script brilliant cinematography by Dick Pope and a cast of stunning performances headed by co-stars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp Leighs masterpiece is by turns hilarious terrifying and thought-provoking. Naked won many awards notably Best Director and Best Actor at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

• Sword of Honour | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Award-winning novelist and screenwriter William Boyd brings Sword of Honour Evelyn Waugh's classic trilogy of the Second World War vividly to life in this epic two-part drama starring Daniel Craig Megan Dodds and Leslie Phillips. At the heart of the story is Guy Crouchback's (Craig) heroic quest to fight for a deep moral cause and to reclaim his manhood after a shattering divorce from the society beauty Virginia Troy (Dodds). But his encounters with the absurd reality of life in the British Army strewn with bureaucratic blunders military debacles and indelibly funny characters prove to be more of a challenge than facing the enemy itself.

• Breaking the Waves | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a naive girl named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgård) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her towards the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark) has made a wonderful, entirely unexpected and rigourous work of discovery in this film, with a formal visual design that recalls classic films by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Watson is a phenomenon, her wide-eyed wonder at the world as God's handiwork is a breathtaking portrayal of conviction. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• No Man's Land | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A brilliant take on the tragedy that beset his country, Danis Tanovic's directorial debut No Man's Land is a bleak comedy set during the war in Bosnia. The story begins as a group of Bosnian soldiers emerge from a fog to realise that they have strayed into a thin strip of land unclaimed by either side in the conflict. A bloody sequence of events ensues, which results in a disputed trench being occupied by weathered Bosnian veteran Branko Djuric and his opposite number, Rene Bitorajac's Serbian greenhorn. There's a standoff between them, complicated by Djuric's injured colleague lying atop a "bouncing mine". He's a human booby trap--move him and the everything within 50 yards will be blown sky-high. As the blue-hatted, ineffectual UN are called in, and with the world's media, led by the late Katrin Cartlidge as a rather snotty BBC reporter, swiftly arriving on the scene, this single trench becomes an almost Beckettian metaphor for the war. Tanovic is not especially concerned with taking sides in the Bosnian-Serb conflict. Whatever its causes, both sides are seen to be as bad, or more accurately as desperate, as each other. That it's hard, for outsiders in particular, to tell who's who much of the time only heightens the irony. There's anger at the media intrusiveness ("Does our misery pay well?" screams Djuric at the reporters), but what's really conveyed is a sense of the absurdity, futility and intractability of war, as summarised in the final image. From the grotesque mess of conflict, Tanovic has fashioned a perfectly judged and beautifully executed movie. On the DVD: No Man's Land is presented in widescreen with a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack. There are no extras, other than an English language option for the hard of hearing. --David Stubbs

• Cinderella - Ch4 | DVD | (21/05/2018) from £5.11   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kathleen Turner leads a star-studded cast in Channel 4's big budget retelling of the classic fairy tale set in 1950's Britain A humorous re-telling of a classic story that will surprise and delight adults and children alike. Cinderella (named Zezolla) lives in the glamorous 1950s in a gorgeous stately home, where fashion is everything. However, when her Father returns from a business trip with her new femme-fatale evil step-mother Claudette (Kathleen Turner) and two wicked step-sisters in tow, she is also faced with the challenge of keeping him from being murdered. Zezolla is banished by her new family to live in the attic and forced to wait hand and foot on her new relations. With no pumpkin in sight, an anti-social mermaid acting as fairy godmother and a guitar-playing Prince with more love for rock n roll and motorbikes than chatting up the ladies, this is a fairy-tale not to be missed. Starring Oscar-nominee Kathleen Turner, Emmy-winner David Warner, Marcella Plunkett, Leslie Phillips, Gideon Turner, Katrin Cartlidge and Lucy Punch. Directed by BAFTA winner Beeban Kidron (Oranges are not the Only Fruit).

• Mike Leigh Collection | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Mike Leigh is one of Britain's most respected film directors with a career spanning nearly 40 years. This box set features 10 great films from the British director including a bonus DVD which features specially commissioned footage of Mike Leigh in conversation with twelve of his actors the 2002 broadcast South Bank Show on Leigh and his controversial 1991 London Film Festival trailer. Vera Drake (2004): Vera Drake spends her days doting on her family and caring for her sick neighbour and elderly mother. However she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. All Or Nothing (2002): In a crowded South London apartment building Penny a working mom struggles to keep her dejected daughter her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path. But when tragedy befalls her loved ones she finds that support comes from the most unexpected places...and brings the most surprising results. Topsy Turvy (1999): The egos. The battles. The words. The music. The women. The scandals. This is the delightfully entertaining story about the musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan and the making of one of their most famous collaborations The Mikado. Career Girls (1997): Former college flatmates Annie and Hannah decide to meet up in London for the weekend. Naturally both girls have changed since their student days of some 10 years earlier. As they talk go flat-hunting get drunk and bump into numerous people from their past the girls start to reminisce upon their earlier friendship. Secrets And Lies (1996): After her adoptive parents die a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is black Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family the resulting chaos leads to a series of Secrets and Lies being revealed at last. Naked (1993): David Thewlis stars as Johnny a charming eloquent and relentlessly vicious drifter in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him the volcanic Johnny hurls himslef into a nocturnal odyssey through the city colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed. Life Is Sweet (1990): The remarkable story of an unremarkable British family told in the classic tragi-comedy style that is uniquely Mike Leigh's. High Hopes (1988): Old-school socialist Cyril gets exasperated with his Tory-voting mum her yuppie neighbours and his nouveau-riche sister. Meantime (1984): Meantime centres on the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their

• The Lost Son | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Former French Policeman Xavier Lombard exiled in disgrace and currently living in London makes a living as a private investigator and takes up a seemingly routine case of finding a rich family's missing drug addict son Leon. What begins as a straight forward missing persons case for Lombard becomes a personal quest to uncover the truth about Leon's involvement in a child smuggling ring. Lombard undertakes to bring the guilty to justice and his journey takes him to Mexico from where the elusive Austrian runs his empire. A taut compelling and uncompromising thriller charting one man's fight to end the suffering.

• Breaking The Waves | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (141.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bess a young girl falls in love with an oil-rig worker called Jan. In a short space of time they marry and have a brief physical relationship before Jan returns to his rig. When an accident paralyses Jan he encourages Bess to take a lover...

• Career Girls | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £5.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (208.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the award winning director of Secrets And Lies comes Career girls - a wonderful film about friendship love sex and hilarious memories of student life. Former college flatmates Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) decide to meet up in London for the weekend. Naturally both girls have changed since their student days of some 10 years earlier. The curry loving ""Cure"" obsessed acne ridden and moody flatmates of yesteryear have been replaced by confident career girls of today. As they talk go flat-hunting get drunk and bump into numerous people from their past the girls start to reminisce upon their earlier friendship. Mike Leigh cleverly weaves together past and present as we share their memories; the touching the funny and the sometimes tragic. Full of classic one liners hilarious comedy and tear inducing emotion Career Girls is Mike Leigh at his very best.

• Breaking the Waves | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £9.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (63.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in an unmercifully rugged, coastal village in Scotland in the 1970s, this extraordinary film by Lars von Trier stars British actress Emily Watson as a naive girl named Bess, who holds regular conversations with God and whose pure and intensely personal faith is hardly tolerated by the gruesome Calvinist elders of her church. Bess marries an oil-rig worker (Stellan Skarsgård) and comes to believe that erotic discovery is a part of God's grand plan. But after her spouse is hurt in an accident, she decides that divine instruction is leading her towards the life of a prostitute--with disastrous but somehow beautiful results. Von Trier (The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark) has made a wonderful, entirely unexpected and rigourous work of discovery in this film, with a formal visual design that recalls classic films by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson. Watson is a phenomenon, her wide-eyed wonder at the world as God's handiwork is a breathtaking portrayal of conviction. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Career Girls | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £9.41   |  Saving you £3.57 (55.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This simple comedy by British filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) concerns the reunion of two women friends from university days who try hard, although awkwardly, to rediscover their early closeness. They succeed beautifully and experience a series of chance encounters with old friends and lovers whom they once knew together. Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves) and Lynda Steadman are outstanding, playing their characters via flashback in their grungy, early 20s as well as their more polished, contemporary selves at age 30. Following the complex ambitions of Secrets and Lies, Career Girls almost looks like a holiday for Leigh, but it is no less the rich product of his now-famous process of symbiotic rehearsal and writing. The film is also graced by some of the most delicate passages of remembered love between two people seen in a long time. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Weight Of Water | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A century old double murder haunts Jean a photographer who travels to the scene of the crime to investigate. The sole survivor of the slaughter was a woman whose unhappy marriage mirrors Jean's. Past and present collide when a cataclysmic storm burgeons into jealousy and suddenly it becomes clear to Jean who the real killer is...

• Before The Rain | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An Oscar nominated foreign language film set in London and the Balkans highlighting the human tragedy involved in civil war. The film was the debut feature of Milcho Manchevski who was better known for working on pop promo videos.

• Sword Of Honour | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £22.08   |  Saving you £-12.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Award-winning novelist and screenwriter William Boyd brings Evelyn Waugh's classic trilogy of the Second World War vividly to life in this epic two-part drama starring Daniel Craig Megan Dodds Leslie Phillips Julian Rhind-Tutt Robert Pugh and Katrina Cartlidge. At the heart of the story is one man's heroic quest: Guy Crouchback (Daniel Craig) returns from his self-imposed exile in Italy in 1939 and joins the army to fight for a deep moral cause and reclaim his self-respect following a shattering divorce from society beauty Virginia Troy (Megan Dodds). But as his encounters with the absurd reality of life in the armed forces in his training at Southend-on-Sea and the Isle of Mugg and in his postings to Dakar Alexandria and Crete prove to be more of a challenge than facing the enemy itself. Virginia has also returned to London from America at the start of the war having parted with husband number three. As Britain's fortunes dwindle so do Virginia's until Guy appears to be her only hope. On his return to London she tracks him down. In strong contrast to the darkly comic nature of his military experience his renewed and passionate acquaintance with his dangerously beautiful ex-wife provokes a personal and moral crisis that tests - to the limits - both his love for Virginia and his profound sense of duty. Sword of Honour is both a war story and a love story - as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.

• Claire Dolan | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Electrifying indie auteur Lodge Kerrigan following up his cult ordeal Clean Shaven explores the desolate existence and paranoid perspective of a women lost in a tangle of high-end prostitution and urban anxiety. Claire Dolan (Katrin Cartlidge Naked Breaking The Waves) an Irish immigrant in Manhattan pays off her debt to a formidable gangster/pimp (Colm Meaney The Snapper Layer Cake) by submitting herself as a call girl to this whims of anonymous businessmen. Craving an ordinary existence and living in cold dread of losing her sense of self Claire attempts to bond with a quietly troubled cab driver (Vincent D'Onofrio Full Metal Jacket Ed Wood) and remake her life. Both a dramatic exploration of exploitation and a psychological portrait of modern womanhood adrift in a world of violation and rootlessness and filmed by Kerrigan with a poet's awareness of detail Claire Dolan stands as one of the 1990's most significant and affecting works of cinema.

• Hotel Splendide | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nobody knows where love and colonic irrigation goes.Terence Gross’ bizarre and satiric dark comedy follows the peculiar travails of chef Kath (Toni Collette) and her former lover Ronald (Daniel Craig). He’s been running decaying resort and spa, the Hotel Splendide, just the way his parents did years before. Bad food and regular enemas are included in the price. After five years away, Kath returns to work with Ronald, with unexpected results. Strange, beguiling and scatological, Hotel Splendide is a singular journey into the gothic and eccentric. An exceptional international cast includes veteran actor Peter Vaughan, the late Katrin Cartlidge and Stephen Tompkinson. Extras: Featurette Trailer Image Gallery

• Mike Leigh: Secrets And Lies, Life Is Sweet, Career Girls | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Secrets And LiesNominated for 5 Oscars winner of 3 BAFTA Awards and the winner of 'Best Film' at the Cannes Film Festival Mike Leigh's hilarious bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Life Is SweetLife is Sweet is the remarkable story of an unremarkable British family told in the classic tragi-comedy style that is uniquely Mike Leigh's. It covers issues of unemployment anorexia failure nervous breakdown and hope as they affect one suburban London family and their friends and acquaintances. The characters and story were created with and by the actors - giving a special edge and momentum to the unfolding events. Leigh's sharply satirical and unsentimentally compassionate view of life strikes a chord with audiences and critics alike. Life is Sweet brings together an impressive cast - including Alison Steadman ('Let Them Eat Cake') Jim Broadbent ('The Avengers') Jane Horrocks ('Little Voice') and Timothy Spall ('Topsy Turvey') - many of whom have worked with Leigh in the past as has producer Simon Channing-Williams. Career GirlsFormer college flatmates Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) decide to meet up in London for the weekend. Naturally both girls have changed since their student days of some 10 years earlier. The curry loving Cure obsessed acne ridden and moody flatmates of yesteryear have been replaced by confident career girls of today. As they talk go flat-hunting get drunk and bump into numerous people from their past the girls start to reminisce upon their earlier friendship.

• Johnny Depp - From Hell / Sleepy Hollow / Edward Scissorhands / Before Night Falls | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £13.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (79.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Edward Scissorhands (1991): An Avon lady discovers the half-made creation of a mad scientist living in the neighborhood's old abandoned castle. The scientist died leaving the shy boy with scissors for hands. When she attempts to bring him into suburbia his hands a metaphor for adolescence make for some awkward and hilarious situatons. An unforgettable contemporary fairy tale a poignant celebration of a visionary spirit struggling to survive in an unforgiving world. (Dir. Ti