Crime Thriller

• Wise Girls | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £12.79   |  Saving you £31.20 (243.94%)   |  RRP £43.99

• Great British Crime Box Set | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This fine collection of Crime films from the 1950’s and 1960’s stars some of Britain’s finest actors including Stanley Baker Joan Collins Yvonne Mitchell James Robertson Justice and Nigel Patrick. The Informers (1963) sees Scotland Yard battle organised crime in this tough Police drama a forerunner to the 1970’s TV series ‘The Sweeney’. Checkpoint (1956) stars Stanley Baker in a taut industrial espionage thriller set in the world of sports car racing. An attempt to headhunt an Italian car designer ends in theft corruption and murder. Sapphire (1959) is a BAFTA winning crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig are Scotland Yard detectives investigating a murder on Hampstead Heath and their enquiries lead them on a manhunt through both the black and white communities where they encounter distrust and prejudice. Turn the Key Softly (1953) starring Joan Collins as one of three women who leave prison on the same day. Over the course of 24 hours each faces a struggle with herself to avoid a return criminal ways.

• The Mummy (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £35.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka but accidentally bring the mummified body of her high priest back to life. Three years later back in England a follower of the same Egyptian religion unleashes 'The Mummy' to exact grisly revenge on the despoilers of the sacred past. Product Features Main feature presented in original UK theatrical aspect ratio 1.66:1 and alternative full frame1.37:1 New audio commentary by film academic Kelly Robinson Archive audio commentary by Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby An Appreciation of The Mummy by David Huckvale The Music of The Mummy Unwrapping The Mummy The House of Horror: Memories of Bray The Hammer Rep Company Original Promo Reel Stills Gallery Limited Edition Contents Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Graham Humphreys Soft cover book with new essays by Kat Ellinger, Lindsay Hallam and Kevin Lyons plus production stills 4 collectors' art cards

• In Fear | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £6.62   |  Saving you £11.37 (171.75%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The film stars Iain De Caestecker (Filth) and Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) as a young couple fighting to make it through the night when they find themselves trapped in a maze of country roads.

• One Hour Photo | Blu Ray | (13/05/2013) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (7.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One Hour Photo is a psychological thriller featuring Academy Award - winner Robin Williams. In this intense and chilling story, Williams gives a critically acclaimed performance as a lonely photo technician who becomes deeply obsessed with a young family whose pictures he develops.

• The Organization | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Organization was the second and final sequel to 1967's In the Heat of the Night and sees Sidney Poitier's homicide detective Virgil Tibbs called in to investigate the murder of a factory manager. In a lengthy, dialogue-free opening (the film's best sequence), it appears that we are witnessing the culprits in action. However, this group turns out to be a gang of idealistic young vigilantes who knew that the factory was a front for an international drugs cartel--the Organization of the title--and have made off with a haul of heroin secreted there. Suspected of the manager's murder, they meet Tibbs and seek his cooperation. He agrees to help them, pitting himself not only against the Organization but his own police department. Set in San Franscisco, The Organization invites invidious comparisons with Bullitt: its somewhat cheesy contemporary soundtrack, derived from Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, certainly marks it as a piece of its period, as do the occasionally less-than-convincing action sequences, risible acting and far-fetched plot. Poitier, as ever, lends the film a certain dignity and poise, worthy of better material to work with than this. The film is also notable for providing early showcases for two of Cop TV's most famous Captains: Daniel J Travanti (Hill Street Blues) and Bernie Hamilton (later Captain Dobey in Starsky & Hutch) are both assigned minor roles here. On the DVD: The Organization comes to disc in an adequate transfer, though still a little grainy. The sole extra is the original trailer. --David Stubbs

• Out of The Furnace | Blu Ray | (02/06/2014) from £9.86   |  Saving you £15.13 (153.45%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Acclaimed director Scott Cooper takes audiences on a vivid and intense journey into the heart of a fading American Dream in Out of the Furnace, as fate, family and loyalty drive an ordinary man to take heroic measures to fight for those he loves.

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day | Blu Ray | (09/12/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hard Eight | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-15.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sydney (Philip Baker Hall - Psycho) is a poker-faced professional gambler with a soft heart for a hard luck story. He plays guardian angel to unlucky John (John C. Reilly - The Thin Red Line) and a hooker Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare In Love) whom he grows to love like family. When Johns and Clementines honeymoon night leads to a disastrous hostage situation Sydney takes care of it as usual. But when slick casino pro Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace) threatens to reveal a secret from Sydneys past that could destroy his relationship with the newlyweds Sydney decides to hedge his bets and not leave anything to chance.

• The Kiss Before the Mirror (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director James Whale (Frankenstein) directs Nancy Carroll (Broken Lullaby) and Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz) in this mysterious and atmospheric drama. Whilst defending a man who stands accused of murdering his wife, attorney Paul Lukas comes to suspect that his own wife is being unfaithful. Following her through the streets of Vienna, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the idea of her infidelity. Made in between Whale's Universal horror classics The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, The Kiss Before the Mirror is a ravishingly staged pre-Code classic. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with film historian Nora Fiore (2023) Mirror Images (2023): video essay comparing The Kiss Before the Mirror to James Whale's 1938 remake, Wives Under Suspicion, which was produced in the era of the Motion Picture Production Code Classification of Enlisted Men (1943): War Department documentary short, directed by James Whale and focusing on four inductees into the US Army Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay on the film, archival interviews and articles, and full film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• Passengers | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

• Dirty Pretty Things | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.63   |  Saving you £10.36 (184.01%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Acclaimed director Stephen Frears returns with a thriller set in the London of illegal immigrants, with "Amelie" star Audrey Tautou.

• Inspector Morse - Disc 13 And 14 - The Sins Of The Fathers / Driven To Distraction | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Mona Lisa | Blu Ray | (09/10/2012) from £11.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Talk To Me | Blu Ray | (23/10/2023) from £36.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.

• The Da Vinci Code 10th Anniversary | 4K UHD | (17/10/2016) from £24.89   |  Saving you £5.10 (20.49%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com

• Keys To Tulsa | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £5.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (1.01%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Keys To Tulsa is a murderously irreverent tale of sex intrigue and humour in the deep dark South. Eric Stoltz heads an all-star cast as Richter Boudreau the black sheep son of a black sheep manoeuvring through a wonderfully bizzare coterie of characters as he finds himself pushed back into the world of wealth and provilege that spawned him. As he becomes the inadvertent pawn in a dangerous scheme of blackmail Richter must at last face the hypocritical values and petty jealousies of smalltown America. What emerges is a dramatic and potentially deadly journey through his past present and future.

• Into The Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When two strangers stumble into international intrigue in the middle of a Los Angeles night anything can happen... and it does in this zany comedy directed by John Landis! Ed Okin is an insomniac with a cheating wife and a dull job. His chance for excitement looks hopeless until a mysterious blonde named Diana drops onto the bonnet of his car. She is being pursued by a gang of Iranian gunmen and despite Ed's reluctance he gets involved and Diana leads him on a murderous chase where

• Killing Machine, The | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £5.58   |  Saving you £10.41 (186.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Killing Machine

• Captivity | Blu Ray | (20/07/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Elisha Cuthbert stars as a supermodel who's taken prisoner by a psychotic torturer in this psychological horror.