Crime Thriller

• Final Contract | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David is in love with Jenny a girl he works with at a courier company. But he can't bring himself to tell her. He doesn't have much time left; Jenny is packed to leave for Barcelona. So David decides to tell her how he feels over a candle lit dinner....but things don't go to plan. On his last delivery run of the day the gorgeous Lara suddenly jumps into David's car-and the next thing he knows he's dodging bullets. Lara on a mission for the BKA is hunting a notorious professional killer. With David's help she makes it to safety and she thanks him by spending the night with him....with dangerous consequences. David wakes next morning to find himself on the BKA's Most Wanted list.

• Midsomer Murders - Midsomer Life | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.40   |  Saving you £11.59 (214.63%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Midsomer Life magazine and the Morecroft Hotel in Midsomer Sonning become the latest setting for DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones to solve a case.

• Death Dimension | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-65.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Detective Ash (Jim Kelly) must protect a woman who has the secret to a destructive weapon in a microchip implanted in her forehead. When ""The Pig"" creates an ""Ice Bomb"" that destroys people but leaves property intact Ash goes on a mission to stop him before he can use the weapon.

• Betrayed | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £8.16   |  Saving you £5.83 (41.70%)   |  RRP £13.99

  After a six month suspension for reckless disregard of police protocol Detective Max Garret (Stephen Baldwin) is assigned to robbery-homicide and sent downtown to investigate the apparent suicide of a junkie. Teamed with Lieutenant Eddie Fulton (Charles Malik Whitfield) the case quickly unfolds as one in a string of serial murders. The search leads them to the studio of Laura Cross (Kristy Swanson) a sultry wise cracking photographer whose focus is bondage and domination. Max soo

• Girlhouse | Blu Ray | (11/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bullet Ballet | DVD | (30/12/2013) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a thirty-something documentary filmmaker. While his work may seem intriguing to some his life is absolutely average - long hours at the office drinks after work an equally busy girlfriend Kiriko that he's been with for a decade. No surprises. No detours. No shocks. That is until he returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that Kiriko has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws on the books not only is Goda left with the yawning black why behind Kiriko's suicide but also a whole other set of mysterious hows wheres and whos. How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life.

• Go Fast | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £7.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (120.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recalling such prior efforts as Police (1984) and La Balance (1982) Gallic director Olivier van Hoofstadt's relentlessly tense and violent action thriller Go Fast plunges into the violent and dangerous world of French metropolitan police. Roschdy Zem stars as Marek a cop involved in a risky sting operation against a drug trafficking ring. In the process his best friend and partner dies which prompts his transfer to an undercover division of the force. He soon learns that his new mission will involve infiltrating a gang involved in smuggling cannabis from southern Spain to small-town France.

• Dead Or Alive 2 | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (15.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An off-the-cuff Japanese gangster movie with an absurdist streak that shades into surrealism, Dead or Alive 2 isn't thrown by its brief to sequelise a film that ended not only with the deaths of its lead characters but the destruction of Japan. Takashi Miike--the prolific auteur whose best-known film is the atypically considered Audition--brings back his lead actors in different roles and spins off another strange shaggy dog tale. The film starts out with a Yakuza vs Triads gang war in the offing, then sidesteps into "'Beat"' Miike territory as a couple of hit-men who meet when they turn up for the same assassination turn out to be childhood friends and enjoy a nostalgic wallow as they return to the orphanage where they met, re-encounter other old pals and even stand in for some injured actors putting on a play for the children. White-suited and terminally ill Sawada (Riki Takeuchi) and bleached blond and Hawaiian-shirted Otamoko (Sho Aikawa) get back to gunplay, committing contract murders and funnelling the profits into third world charities, which earns them occasional angel-wings or transformations back into innocent children. In constant danger of collapse, the film keeps pulling surprises: txt msg-addicted killers, an animated diagram of bullet trajectories through an unfortunate dwarf's brain. The first film blew up the country because it couldn't think of an ending, and this also has a lot of trouble signing off, with protracted deaths and redemptions for the heroes. Miike alternates clumsiness and confusion with exciting and powerful cinema. --Kim Newman

• Children of Men - Mediabook - Motiv B | Blu Ray | (09/06/2022) from £23.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Thirteen | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Killers Are Not Born ... They Are Made A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage...

• Hierro | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £5.86   |  Saving you £12.13 (207.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Emotionally devastating, visually stunning and truly terrifying, a Spanish genre thriller, Hierro depicts one woman's desperate journey into a nightmare vortex of horror and loss.

• Leon Morin, Pretre | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £11.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (80.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of an unfulfilled love affair set against the troubled backdrop of the French Occupation. Barny is a young widow she is also a militant communist and atheist who one day enters a church and randomly picks a priest to taunt. Leon Morin is a Catholic priest: he is also young handsome and unconventional in his religious approach. The two begin a platonic relationship but soon Barny's admiration for Morin turns to desire and he becomes the object of her romantic obsession

• Betty Fisher And Other Stories | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £2.79   |  Saving you £17.20 (616.49%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Betty Fisher and Other Stories, writer-director Claude Miller follows the examples of Claude Chabrol and Pedro Almodóvar in adapting a Ruth Rendell novel to the screen. In this case the original novel, The Tree of Hands, has been translated seamlessly and stylishly to a Parisian setting. The plot interweaves a complexity of characters and stories, but the central thread concerns the eponymous Betty, a novelist whose young son dies while her disturbed mother Margot is staying with her. Margot, with terrifying directness, calmly abducts another child of similar age to replace the dead boy. From this loopy act there stems a whole series of consequences and side-effects involving a widening and socially diverse circle of people across the city. Miller lucidly traces his way through the intricate story with cool, ironic humour and a sure touch for the different social milieus. Once or twice the plot strains credulity--bringing three major characters together by chance for the showdown at Charles de Gaulle airport is just a little too convenient--but most of the time the social and emotional cross-currents are deftly navigated. As Betty, Sandrine Kiberlain gives an almost painfully vulnerable performance, as if she lacks several layers of skin, while Nicole Garcia makes her mother Margot into a monster of overriding, self-pitying egomania. Their scenes together carry the weight of a whole lifetime of ill-suppressed mutual aversion. As with Rendell's novels, it's endlessly fascinating to watch these people, but you feel very glad you don’t know them. --Philip Kemp

• Impact/Serena | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise:Impact: Jack Moir (Conrad Phillips of William Tell fame), a newspaper reporter, is framed by 'The Duke' (George Pastell), a Soho racketeer against whom he has written a series of articles. Moir serves a two year sentence and then, with the help of his cell-mate, Charlie (John Rees), he lures 'The Duke' and his gang into Charlie's warehouse... A very good Butchers B feature that Conrad Phillips also co-wrote. Its also nice to see that Mike Pratt of Randall and Hopkirk is the detective in charge of the case. The film has good quality picture and sound following extensive restoration.Serena: Scotland Yard Inspector Gregory (Patrick Holt) strives to solve the mystery of an artist's wife found shot dead at an isolated Surrey cottage. The victim's husband, suave Howard Rogers (Emrys Jones), becomes the chief suspect. The mystery takes a complex turn when Rogers goes to identify her, but due to the gunshot wound her face is unrecognisable.However, when he inspects her body for an acknowledged birthmark he realises the body is not that of his wife... This 1962 Butchers production demonstrates again how Butchers were able to put together a good British B movie with a modest budget. The cast is the reliable Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones and Honor Blackman already enjoying success in The Avengers and two years later was Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.Shot on location and at Shepperton Studios its a story of death and deception nicely directed by Peter Maxwell with some 'newsy' type pan and zooms. The Director of Photography was Stephen Dade who created some good stark atmospheres he went on in 1964 to be D.O.P. on Zulu. Serena is a good British b flick with picture and sound of good quality.

• Bloodlust | DVD | (12/08/2024) from £10.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Australian horror written and directed by Jon Hewitt and Richard Wolstencroft. Roaming the streets of Melbourne, three vampires (Jane Stuart Wallace, Robert James O'Neill and Kelly Chapman) allow their urges to dictate their lives. Growing weary of all the sex, drugs and killing, the trio decide to rob the underground casino of mobster Steig (Paul Moder) for a major payday. Invoking Steig's wrath, the vampires find themselves fighting an army of gangsters, as well as the police and a wild preacher (Phil Motherwell) who is on a mission from God to rid the world of undesirables.

• Trust | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £8.25   |  Saving you £14.74 (178.67%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator.

• Midsomer Murders - Written In Blood | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £10.50   |  Saving you £6.49 (38.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Another investigation into homicidal happenings in Midsomer. Gerald Hadleigh secretary of the Midsomer Worthy's writers circle had never wanted to invite best-selling novelist Max Jennings to one of their meetings. When Gerald is found dead the next morning from a brutal battering the other members of the circle wish they had heeded his reluctance. Slowly Gerald is revealed as a man of mystery. He has no national insurance number no relatives and no marriage certificate to match th

• Avalanche | DVD | (15/12/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the peaks above Alaska's Eagle Ridge a dedicated avalanche forester warns that a mine has undermined the glacier's stability. No one listens until an avalanche kills a group of ski tourists. But it's too late to stop the white killer.

• Midsomer Murders - Garden Of Death | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £12.03 (242.54%)   |  RRP £16.99

  More murderous goings on in Midsomer for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby to solve...The Inkpen-Thomas family owners of Inkpen Manor in Midsomer Deverett announce that their memorial garden will no longer be open to the public. The villagers are furious however are any of them angry enough to kill? When members of the Inkpen family are found murdered closure of the garden looks like a positive motive. However Barnaby and Troy uncover many family secrets during the course of t

• The Exorcism Of Emily Rose | Blu Ray | (08/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.