Crime Thriller

• Strangers On A Train (1951) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.71   |  Saving you £8.54 (156.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. --Jeff Shannon

• FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £15.53   |  Saving you £-2.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Follow-up to the 1986 Original. Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the FX saga with stylish wit unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action. Five years after his first deadly adventure Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated electronic toys for a living. But when his girlfriend’s ex-husband (Tom Mason) a police detective persuades him to devise an illusion to capt

• Blind Horizon | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £8.90   |  Saving you £-1.65 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shot in the head and left to die in the New Mexico wilderness Frank Kavanaugh (Val Kilmer) wakes up in Black Point hospital. He doesn't know who he is what happened to him or what he's doing in a desert town. Trying in vain to piece together his past Frank is tormented by inexplicable flashbacks of a plot to assassinate the American president. Desperate to regain his memory he turns to whoever will listen - but no-one not even the secret service can explain what's going on. Slowly but surely Frank begins to remember who he is and the terrible truth behind his visions...

• Liar | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £7.38   |  Saving you £-1.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  There are two sides to every lie... James Wayland (Roth) is not a typical murder suspect: he's fabulously wealthy a Princeton graduate and has the I.Q. level of a genius. But Detectives Braxton (Chris Penn) and Kennesaw (Michael Rooker) sense that there's more than meets the eye when they interrogate him for the brutal killing of a beautiful call girl (Zellweger). As their search for the truth takes a suddenly dangerous turn Braxton and Kennesaw realize that Wayland is a master m

• Girl's Nite Out | Blu Ray | (16/05/2022) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A host of familiar genre faces including Hal Holbrook (Creepshow), Rutanya Alda (Amityville II: The Possession), Julia Montgomery (The Kindred) and Lauren-Marie Taylor (Friday the 13th Part 2) rounds out the cast of this gloriously mean-spirited slice from the slasher golden age, Girls Nite Out! The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted An unhinged assailant, disguised in the college's goofy bear mascot outfit and bearing knives for claws, two years before Freddy donned his famous gloves is stalking the campus hellbent on carving up co-eds. Originally released under the only marginally more appropriate title of The Scaremaker, Girls Nite Out is a decidedly singular slasher flick which comes on like a frenetic cross between Animal House and Friday the 13th veering from jovial frat antics to jarringly disturbing scenes of the killer shrieking obscenities as he slices up his victims. On this nite out, no one is coming home! Product Features Brand new 2K restoration from 35mm vault elements High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary with genre film critic/author Justin Kerswell and film historian/author Amanda Reyes Staying Alive a brand new video interview with actress Julia Montgomery A Savage Mauling a brand new video interview with actress Laura Summer Alone in the Dark a brand new video interview with actress Lois Robbins It Was a Party! a brand new video interview with actor Paul Christie Love & Death a brand new video interview with actors Lauren-Marie Taylor and John Didrichsen Archival video interview with actress Julia Montgomery The Scaremaker Alternate Title Card Original Trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original artwork and newly-commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Gingold

• The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Shaw Brothers co-production directed by Jeremy Summers (Five Golden Dragons) and co-starring Horst Frank (The Etruscan Kills Again) and Maria Rohm (Marquis de Sade: Justine), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu is the third in a cycle of five films reviving Sax Rohmer's Chinese crime lord, produced and written by Harry Alan Towers (Bullet to Beijing). The Sino-super villain Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee, The Gorgon) has retreated to his mountain lair to plan the destruction of his arch-nemesis Nayland Smith (Douglas Wilmer, Octopussy). This time, his demented plan employs plastic surgery to create a new race of killer doppelgängers and the first looks exactly like Scotland Yard's top policeman! Product Features Restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby (2020) The BEHP Interview with Jeremy Summers (2001, 72 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Summers in conversation with Darrol Blake Vic Pratt Introduces ˜The Vengeance of Fu Manchu' (2020, 7 mins): appreciation by the BFI curator Tall, Lean and Feline (2020, 50 mins): film historian Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic, on the early career of Christopher Lee The Cheque's in the Post (2020, 5 mins): first assistant director Anthony Waye remembers Harry Alan Towers and Fu Manchu The Ghost of Monk's Island (1966, 93 mins): Jeremy Summers directs this exciting mystery made for the Children's Film Foundation Alternative title sequence Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Bully | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bully, based on a true story, sees Larry Clark return to the violent and disturbing underworld previously documented in his controversial and provocative 1995 debut KIDS.

• Timecrimes | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lauded short film director Nacho Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural law gone awry.

• Rollercoaster | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £16.15   |  Saving you £-6.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Watch out for the Man watching the Rollercoaster. In this high-speed suspense thriller a determined terrorist (Timothy Bottoms) begins to turn America's amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as an affable safety inspector (George Segal) attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country's most popular rollercoaster and its riders for senseless destruction. The edge-of-the-seat excitement mounts as the battle of wits between Segal and Bottoms build

• The General's Daughter | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When John Travolta first opens his mouth during the opening credits of The General's Daughter and speaks in a terrible Southern cracker drawl, one briefly hopes the movie will turn out to be just as hilariously bad. Unfortunately, the accent is soon revealed to be part of a disguise, and the movie is just as quickly unveiled as a clumsy, run-of-the-mill potboiler, too mediocre to be truly hysterical fun. A female officer is discovered strangled and tied to the ground; she's the title character, and because of the general's political ambitions, the mystery of who did it and why has to be wrapped up in 36 hours by Travolta and fellow CID officer Madeleine Stowe (Last of the Mohicans, 12 Monkeys). Sexual violence and lurid S&M have been thrown in to shore up the incomprehensible plot, but that only adds to the queasy atmosphere. The supporting actors--an impressive collection including James Woods (Salvador), Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People), and James Cromwell (Babe, L.A. Confidential)--don't embarrass themselves, but even they can't make sense of their blustering, macho dialogue. It's amazing that, screenwriter William Goldman (who wrote such great and genuinely thrilling films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, All the President's Men and Misery) left his name attached to this script; there's no sign of his usual skill and intelligence. Madeleine Stowe, a graceful presence in any film, is equally wasted. It was directed with a lot of empty flash by Simon West (Con Air). --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Public Enemies | Blu Ray | (02/11/2009) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From visionary director Michael Mann ("Heat", "Collateral") comes the film inspired by one of America's most captivating and infamous outlaws - John Dillinger.

• The Guest | DVD | (29/12/2014) from £6.69   |  Saving you £9.30 (139.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adam Wingard directs this US thriller in which an ex-soldier causes mayhem within a family. David (Dan Stevens) knocks at the door of the Peterson family and informs mother Laura (Sheila Kelley) that he was a close friend of Caleb (Chris Harding), the son she lost in combat. Welcomed into the family home, David is initially granted a hostile reception by Caleb's brother and sister, Luke (Brendan Meyer) and Anna (Maika Monroe). However, David's handy ability to buy booze and deal out violent r.

• Murder | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sir John Menier plays a juror in a murder trial of a young woman who is found next to the corpse and is suffering from amnesia due to shock. Sir John and the rest of the jury find her guilty and she is given the death penalty. Sir John has second thoughts and starts to suspect her boyfriend and begins an investigation of his own. In a race against time can he save the girl?

• Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Blatt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show stopping a book and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern another guest in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead strangled and Poirot must find out who it is....

• Solace | Blu Ray | (18/01/2016) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alex Cross | Blu Ray | (06/05/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Having cornered the market on his signature brand of inspirational comedy, Tyler Perry makes a bid for action-movie supremacy with this grisly adaptation of author James Patterson's most popular character. Loosely based on the 12th novel in the series (2007's Cross), the plot follows the early days of the title character, a genius police detective/psychologist trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepting a job with the FBI, he and his team are forced to match wits with a psychotic contract killer (Matthew Fox), who displays a disturbing commitment towards seeing his job through. Director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, XXX) knows this turf well, delivering an effective mix of creeping thriller sequences and go-for-broke action scenes. Faced with the unenviable task of following in the footsteps of Morgan Freeman (who played the character in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider), Perry does a credible job in portraying both the tender and vengeful aspects of his character, even if the script often falls into the trap of having other characters exclaiming how brilliant Cross is, rather than letting the viewers see the deductive process for themselves. Based on his first attempt, any future entries in the franchise appear to be in good hands. Ultimately, however, the other elements of Alex Cross pale in comparison to Fox, who goes all out--and then some--in giving the audience someone to hiss at. He's shorn down to what appears to be a negative body-fat ratio, and occasionally literally froths at the mouth--and his dedication to creating a villain for the ages quickly overpowers the material. Once this freaky beanpole starts chewing the scenery, you'll be glad that the filmmakers decided against shooting in 3-D. --Andrew Wright

• Murder by Contract (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2022) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Vince Edwards (City of Fear) and Herschel Bernardi (The Front), Murder by Contract is a bleak investigation into the mind of a professional killer. Tasked with murdering a witness in a criminal trial, contract killer Claude has second thoughts when the target turns out to be a woman... because women cost double. Killing is just a business to Claude, but when he tries to quit, the hunter become the hunted. The once-blacklisted writer-director team of Ben Maddow (Framed) and Irving Lerner (City of Fear) bring you this stylish, minimalist, and eccentric film noir, beautifully photographed by Lucien Ballard (Bullfighter and the Lady, The Wild Bunch), and championed by Martin Scorsese who has described it as one of his biggest influences. Product Features High Definition presentation Original mono audio Audio commentary with film critic and writer Farran Smith Nehme (2021) Introduction by Martin Scorsese (2014, 5 mins) Swedes in America (1943, 18 mins): Irving Lerner's Oscar-nominated short film, presented by Ingrid Bergman, detailing the influence of Swedish immigrants on the United States Violence Is the Word for Curly (1938, 18 mins): comedy short starring the Three Stooges, which provided an early cinematography credit for Murder by Contract's prolific director of photography, Lucien Ballard Original theatrical trailer Larry Karaszewski trailer commentary (2020, 3 mins): short critical appreciation Image gallery: publicity and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• The Counsellor | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The film tells the story of a lawyer (Fassbender), who finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

• Frank & Lola | DVD | (10/04/2017) from £7.47   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A seductive and intense noir romance for our times, FRANK & LOLA is the story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he falls instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge. With outstanding performances from Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots, FRANK & LOLA is a haunting examination of love, obsession and domination that weaves a twisted yet irresistible spell.

• The Pusher Trilogy: (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (15/09/2025) from £41.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pusher A gang of mid-level criminals navigate Copenhagen's gritty underworld after a drug deal goes wrong. Pusher II Fresh from jail, a criminal vows to leave his past behind following the birth of his first child, but getting out of the life isn't so easy when you're born into it. Pusher III An aging drug dealer and addict struggles to come to terms with his life choices while a new criminal starts making waves in the underworld. Special Features New 4K restorations by Director Nicolas Winding Refn Features Dolby Atmos and original stereo 2.0 mixes New audio commentary with Nicolas Winding Refn and Peter Bradshaw (Pusher) New audio commentary with Nicolas Winding Refn and Catherine Shoard (Pusher II) New audio commentary with Nicolas Winding Refn and Alan Jones (Pusher III) Gambler: feature-length documentary Nicolas Winding Refn presents: Mellem Venner, Call Girl Centralen Villa Vennely and Stenbroens Helte. A trilogy of 1960s films by Danish director Poul Nyrup to whom Pusher III was dedicated, in new 4K restorations. Limited Edition Contents Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Thomas Walker 120-page book with new essays by Jamie Graham, Justin LaLiberty, Janine Pipe, Ariel Power-Schaub, Alison Taylor and Nadine Whitney plus an excerpt from Scandinavian Blue by Jack Stevenson on the films of Poul Nyrup 5 collectors' art cards