Crime Thriller

• Magnum P.I: Season 4 | DVD | (29/05/2023) from £27.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Contractor | Blu Ray | (07/04/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An action packed, thriller from the makers of John Wick. After Special Forces Sergeant James Harper (Chris Pine) is involuntarily discharged from the army, he finds himself in debt and desperate. In order to continue to provide for his family, he decides to join a private military company alongside his best friend (Ben Foster) and under the command of another veteran (Kiefer Sutherland). His first, seemingly simple mission takes him to Berlin, but the elite soldier quickly realizes that he is in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy and finds himself fleeing for his life across Eastern Europe.

• Murder 101 | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-35.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When a college English professor tells his senior seminar to write the perfect murder mystery little does he know that one of his students will turn his murder scheme into reality and in turn frame the professor for the murder.

• Kill Your Friends | DVD | (04/04/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An A & R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.

• Fanatic (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/06/2020) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl), Fanatic, also known as Die! Die! My Darling, stars Hollywood great Tallulah Bankhead in her final film performance. She stars as the psychotic religious zealot Mrs Trefoile, who terrorises and imprisons her dead son's fiancée Patricia (Stefanie Powers) and is determined to 'cleanse' her soul... With a supporting cast that includes the ever-excellent Yootha Joyce, Peter Vaughn and a young Donald Sutherland in one of his earliest screen roles, Fanatic is a rich and disturbing thriller, powered by a superb Richard Matheson script and a power-house performance from the legendary Bankhead. Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Die! Die! My Darling!: alternative presentation with the US title sequence House of Horror: Inside ˜Fanatic' (2017, 14 mins): an analysis of the film by Hammer expert Jonathan Rigby and cultural historian John J Johnston Hammer's Women: Tallulah Bankhead (2017, 10 mins): Kat Ellinger explores the life and work of the inimitable star of stage and screen David Huckvale on Composer Wilfred Josephs (2017, 14 mins): an appreciation of the composer's work by the author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde Fanatical Detail (2017, 9 mins): continuity supervisor Renée Glynne and second assistant director Stuart Black recall the making of Fanatic Matthew Lombardo on Tallulah Bankhead and ˜Fanatic' (2017, 7 mins): the acclaimed playwright discusses his play Looped and his fascination with Tallulah Bankhead Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: an extensive collection of original international promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• No Trees In The Street (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (05/08/2024) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Then it was an area of overcrowded tenements teeming with impoverished unemployed people with little or no hope. He relates the story of attractive young Hetty who desperately tried to stop her younger brother descending into crime while her mother was endlessly urging her to take up with Wilkie, a smooth local racketeer, in the belief this would get the family out of poverty.

• Master Gardener | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £7.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tales Of The Unexpected | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring all the first series episodes from the acclaimed mystery/suspense TV series. Episodes Comprise: 1. Man From the South 2. Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat 3. William and Mary 4. Lamb to the Slaughter 5. The Landlady 6. Neck 7. Edward the Conqueror 8. A Dip in the Pool 9. The Way Up to Heaven

• The Raven | DVD | (30/07/2012) from £4.15   |  Saving you £13.84 (333.49%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.

• Margin Call | DVD | (12/11/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (30.16%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Evolving over 36 hours in a troubled New York trading firm, J.C. Chandor's Margin Call--the true-ish story of the origins of the 2008 financial crisis--ranks alongside Wall Street, American Psycho and Glengarry Glen Ross in Hollywood’s long-standing fascination with the corrupting logic of late capitalism. The film’s opening round of lay-offs, one of several, includes that of a risk analyst (Stanley Tucci) who has secretly uncovered the runaway corrosive effects of the firm's big success story (and the bête noire of recent economic history): hyper-leveraged securities backed by sub-prime lending. Sensing meltdown, his protégé (Zachary Quinto) sends a warning signal up the corporate ladder--an overnight crisis meeting is convened; a drastic plan is forged--and the firm resolves to dump the bad schemes at the cost of projected global recession. The rest, we know, is history. Like Charles Ferguson's 2010 documentary Inside Job, Margin Call is tuned in to our suspicions of post-Keynesian economics, imagining high finance as an alchemy of unreal quantities from which huge profits can be netted. But if nobody, even academia, comes out of Inside Job intact, Margin Call presents a range of ethical positions: Kevin Spacey is a believably weary sales manager for whom Wall Street status is a gilded cage, while Simon Baker and Demi Moore are superb as unreflecting high-rollers, frosted over with greed and cynicism. Neither extremes are as interesting as Paul Bettany's pragmatic rank-and-file trader with a talent for corporate survival--and Jeremy Irons’ towering performance as CEO John Tuld (not to be confused with former CEO of Lehman Brothers Richard Fuld, obviously) is the most primal embodiment of capitalism since Daniel Day-Lewis prospected for oil in There Will Be Blood. His verdict sounds depressingly like authentic Wall Street cant: financial crises and the misery they inflict are a necessary part of the economic cycle. --Leo Batchelor

• Vanilla Sky / The Firm / Mission: Impossible 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Tom Cruise Collection. Vanilla Sky: David Aames (Tom Cruise) appears to lead a charmed life. Handsome wealthy and charismatic the young New York City publishing executive's freewheeling existence is enchanting yet he seems to be missing something. Then in one night David meets Sofia (Penelope Cruz) the girl of his dreams but loses her by making a small mistake. Thrust unexpectedly onto a roller-coaster ride of romance comedy suspicion love sex and dreams Davi

• Hitchcock Vol. 2 | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Volume 2 of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films including The Birds Vertigo Frenzy Topaz Marnie Torn Curtain and Family Plot. Vertigo (1958)A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the activities of an old friend's wife whilst becoming dangerously obsessed with her. Special Features: Obsessed with Vertigo: New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators Hitchcock / Truffaut Interview Excerpts Foreign Censorship Ending The Vertigo Archives Feature Commentary with Associate Producer Herbert Coleman Restoration Team Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz and Other Vertigo Participants Feature Commentary with Director William Friedkin 100 Years of Universal: The Lew Wasserman Era Theatrical Trailer Restoration Theatrical Trailer The Birds (1963)A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a Northern California town that takes a bizarre turn when birds of all kinds begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. Special Features: Deleted Scene Original Ending The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie - New! (Blu-ray Exclusive) All About The Birds Storyboards Tippi Hedren's Screen Test Hitchcock-Truffaut Interview Excerpts The Birds Is Coming (Universal International Newsreel) Suspense Story: National Press Club Hears Hitchcock (Universal International Newsreel) Production Photographs 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics 100 Years of Universal: The Lot Theatrical Trailer Marnie (1964)Mark marries Marnie although she is a thief and possesses serious psychological problems. Mark tries to help her confront and resolve the issues. Special Features: The Trouble with Marnie The Marnie Archives Theatrical Trailer Torn Curtain (1966)An American scientist defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin and has to figure out a plan to escape back West. Special Features: Torn Curtain Rising Scenes Scored by Bernard Herrmann Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Topaz (1969)A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in Cold War politics first uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then back to France to break up a Russian spy ring. Special Features: Alternate Endings Topaz: An Appreciation by Film Historian and Critic Leonard Maltin Storyboards: The Mendozas Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Frenzy (1972)A serial killer is murdering women in London with a necktie the police have a suspect but he isn't the correct man... Special Features: The Story of Frenzy Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Family Plot (1976) Plotting Family Plot Storyboards: The Chase Scene Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Family Plot (1976)Suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while following a missing heir in California.

• Lower City | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £6.93   |  Saving you £13.06 (188.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two friends face jealousy, temptation and lust when they fall for the same woman.

• Antebellum | Blu Ray | (02/08/2021) from £4.66   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Successful author Veronica Henley (Janelle Monáe) is finishing a book tour before she returns home to her husband and daughter. But a shocking turn of events is about to upend Veronica's existence, plunging her into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future before it's too late. From the producer of Get Out and Us comes this tense and provocative thriller with a terrifying twist. Extra Contents The History in Front of Us: Deconstructing Antebellum Part 1 The History in Front of Us: Deconstructing Antebellum Part 2 A Hint of Horror: The Clues of Antebellum Opening Antebellum Deleted Scenes

• Zeder | Blu Ray | (19/02/2024) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

   From Italian director Pupi Avati (THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS) Zeder combines the aesthetics and atmospherics of the Giallo feature with those of the zombie movie in a slickly presented horror thriller.When Stefano, a young novelist is given a vintage typewriter as a birthday present, he discovers that the machine's ribbon contains the writings of a scientist proposing the existence of ˜K-Zones', places where the dead can actually rise from their graves.Stylish, creepy and downright chilling, Zeder is the perfect movie for lovers of 80s Italian exploitation.Product Features Remastered 2K Transfer in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio from the Original NegativeHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation2.0 English DTS-HD MA2.0 Italian DTS-HD MA with newly-translated English Subtitles Audio commentary with Asian cinema experts Kim Newman and Sean HoganAudio commentary with Italian Genre experts Barry Forshaw and Eugenio ErcolaniThe Avati Brothers - An Interview with Antonio AvatiWorking with the Avati's - An Interview with Gabriele LaviaNorthern Gothic - An Interview with Pupi Avati Dressing Terror - An Interview with Steno Tonelli Original Italian Trailer

• Hustlers | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £10.43   |  Saving you £5.56 (53.31%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The hustle is on! Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) Vincent D’Onofrio (Men in Black) Academy Award Nominee Matt Dillon (Crash) Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead) Thomas Jane (Hung) Lukas Haas (Inception) and Paul Walker (Fast & Furious) star in 3 twisted tales all connected by items from a Southern small-town pawn shop. A man searching for his kidnapped wife a couple of white-supremacist drug dealers and a sad-sack Elvis impersonator plus more desperate characters come to life in the action-packed and hilarious story written by Adam Minarovich and from the director of The Cooler and Running Scared Wayne Kramer.

• The Responder: Series 2 | Blu Ray | (24/06/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following his mother's death, Chris is broke, separated, and living alone in his dingy flat. But he is determined not to go back to his old ways. No more taking the law into his own hands. Now, Chris does things by the book. When gang war erupts between two of Liverpool's top drug-dealers, Chris is inexorably drawn in after his DCI threatens to expose his past misdeeds. But Chris is alone. The low-level criminals who once formed his network of informants are now either out of the game or in too deep. Which leaves only his former partner Rachel. Desperate to rebuild her own life and career, Rachel soon realizes she needs a partner who bends the rules. She needs Chris. As they are both sucked back towards the darkness, Chris and Rachel must pull each other back towards the light. Starring: Martin Freeman, Warren Brown, Rita Tushingham, Philip Barantini, Adelayo Adedayo.

• Stoker | Blu Ray | (23/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Stoker is a masterful psychodrama that teems with unsettling vibrations that hark directly back to Alfred Hitchcock, but also to the wave of contemporary cinema that has been surging in South Korea for the past decade. It is the first American feature by the auteur Park Chan-wook, whose widely seen trilogy of "revenge" films, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance, paved the way for the meticulous craftsmanship of Stoker. The inspiration for Wentworth Miller's haunting script was Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, though Stoker makes for an altogether creepier tale of a mysterious uncle, his melancholy niece, and the deadly interplay of family secrets slowly revealed. Park's delicate weaving of style transforms the material into a narrative symphony, with thematic elements conveyed in the smallest details of composition, art direction, and graceful cinematography. Mia Wasikowska is India Stoker, the teenage niece who just lost her father to a violent auto accident. It's a complete surprise to India and her mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman) when his handsome younger brother Charlie (Matthew Goode) shows up at the brooding family mansion (itself a character that is integral to the story). Charlie's enigmatic smirk signals both calm and danger, and his presence is a catalyst that ratchets up the emotional turmoil India and Evelyn are already experiencing. India senses the danger even as she is drawn to Charlie, and her mother's repressed sexuality turns into a bonfire under his mysterious charm. He tempts and teases them both in an expertly choreographed dance of menace that fuels the rage building in India and puts further pressure on her mother's cataclysmic despair. Charlie's psychopathic presence infests the brooding, yet deceptively airy surroundings of the Stoker estate with a sense of peril that is just out of reach. Several key scenes unfold at the family dinner table, where poison lurks in Freudian undercurrents and maybe in the food and wine, too. The most mesmerising sequence captures a visit from the sheriff, who's investigating the murder of one of India's schoolmates. The crime is just one of many acts of deadly violence that erupt with jarring force in the past, present, and future of Stoker's disturbing timeline. As the sheriff talks to India and Charlie, the camera swirls around to the rhythm of the scene, separating, uniting, then retreating from them in a virtuosic room-to-room sweep. The extended take says much more about the interplay of India and Charlie's dread connection than the oblique dialogue. It's also a breathtaking illustration of Park's obsessive attention to shot design. But Stoker is much more than an exercise in style; it is also an unnerving and understated thriller that gives big rewards for all that attention to detail. To say that there are plot twists is an understatement for a movie whose elegant creativity is the biggest twist of all. --Ted Fry

• Identity | Blu Ray | (30/04/2007) from £18.69   |  Saving you £1.30 (6.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Identity is a daring thriller from director James Mangold (the writer/director of Girl Interrupted Cop Land and Heavy) and producer Cathy Konrad (Scream 1 2 & 3 Cop Land Girl Interrupted) featuring an all-star ensemble cast including John Cusack Ray Liotta Amanda Peet Alfred Molina Jake Busey Clea DuVall and Rebecca De Mornay. Caught in a savage rainstorm ten travellers are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. They soon realize they've found anything but shelter. There is a killer among them and one by one they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living one thing becomes clear: each of them was drawn to the motel not by accident or circumstance but by forces beyond imagination forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny.

• Four Film Noir Classics Vol 2 Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (20/03/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tormented protagonists, sadistic villains, sublimated sex and murder most foul. Take a walk through the shadowy streets of Film Noir in these four atmospheric classics. In The Suspect (1944) a genial shopkeeper, Philip Marshall, is constantly nagged by his shrewish wife, Cora, while secretly yearning for a pretty young stenographer. When Cora falls to her death the police are suspicious, and Marshall's neighbour sees a chance for blackmail. A classic noir with an unusual Edwardian setting directed by Robert Siodmak (The Killers), and starring Charles Laughton (The Big Clock), Ella Raines (Phantom Lady) and Henry Daniell (The Body Snatcher). Meanwhile, The Sleeping City (1950) sees an undercover policeman investigating murder and narcotics racketeering at New York's Bellevue Hospital. Starring Richard Conte (Thieves' Highway) and Coleen Gray (Nightmare Alley) this tense, semi-documentary thriller was shot entirely on location by director George Sherman. In Thunder on the Hill (1951) convicted murderer Valerie Carns is being transported for execution when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital, where Sister Mary Bonaventure becomes convinced of Valerie's innocence and sets out to find the real killer.Celebrated director Douglas Sirk is best known for his classic melodramas, but he made a number of noir thrillers and this is one of the best; starring Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) and Ann Blyth (Mildred Pierce). Finally, in Six Bridges to Cross (1955) streetwise delinquent Jerry Florea is shot and wounded by rookie policeman Eddie Gallagher while fleeing the scene of a robbery. Despite this, the two develop a friendship as Eddie and his wife take Jerry under their wing, trying to keep him on the straight and narrow. As an adult Jerry marries and seems to settle down, until an armoured security company across the street from him is robbed of two and a half million dollars. Directed by Joseph Pevney (Man of a Thousand Faces) the film stars Tony Curtis (Some Like it Hot), George Nalder (Robot Monster), Julie Adams (Creature from the Black Lagoon) and Sal Mineo (Rebel Without a Cause), with cinematography by the great William H. Daniels (The Naked City). This showcase of lesser known noir classics features sterling performances from a host of screen greats, as well as taut direction, stunning cinematography, and superb screenwriting from the likes of Oscar Saul (A Streetcar Named Desire), Jo Eisinger (Gilda, Night and the City), Andrew Holt (In a Lonely Place) and Sydney Boehm (The Big Heat). Embrace the darkness with these hard-boiled genre gems. Product Features High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all four films Original lossless mono audio on all films Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on all films Audio commentaries by leading scholars and critics Farran Smith-Nehme (The Suspect), Imogen Sara Smith (The Sleeping City), Josh Nelson (Thunder on the Hill) and Samm Deighan (Six Bridges to Cross) It Had to be Done, a new interview in which author and scholar Alan K. Rode takes a detailed look at the life and work of Robert Siodmak director of The Suspect and other classic noirs The Real Deal, a new visual essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas looking at realism and reality in The Sleeping City José Arroyo on Thunder on the Hill, a new appreciation by the esteemed film scholar and critic Style and Place, a new visual essay by film critic Jon Towlson examining the work of celebrated cinematographer William H. Daniels Vintage radio play versions of The Suspect and Thunder on the Hill starring Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Claudette Colbert and Barbara Rush Theatrical Trailers Poster and stills galleries Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow Double-sided fold-out posters for each film featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow Hardback collector's book featuring new writing on the films by film critics Kat Ellinger, Philip Kemp and Jon Towlson [Limited Edition Exclusive]