Crime Thriller

• Bullet to Beijing | Blu Ray | (22/07/2024) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Focus | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £6.00   |  Saving you £15.25 (321.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Will Smith stars as Nicky a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he’s teaching her the tricks of the trade she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later the former flame—now an accomplished femme fatale—shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky’s latest very dangerous scheme she throws his plans for a loop…and the consummate con man off his game.

• The Bride of Frankenstein | Blu Ray | (03/11/2025) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In one of the most popular horror films of all time, The Bride of Frankenstein, Boris Karloff reprises his role as the silver screen's most misunderstood monster who now longs for a mate. Continuing exactly where the original left off, the critically acclaimed sequel introduces Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) as a deranged scientist who forces Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) to help him create a companion for the monster. Once again directed by James Whale and adapted from Mary Shelley's classic novel, the sequel features outstanding makeup and special effects, instantly making the Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lanchester) one of the most recognizable monsters of all time. Special Features SHE'S ALIVE! CREATING THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN ARCHIVE 100 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL: RESTORING THE CLASSICS TRAILER GALLERY FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH SCOTT MACQUEEN

• The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 1 | Blu Ray | (07/10/2024) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Walking Dead: Dead City S1The Walking Dead spin-off series.Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Gaius Charles.Includes: Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired

• The Call | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £3.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the high-stakes edge-of-your-seat thriller The Call a thin thread of survival separates a teenage kidnap victim from her only hope: a compassionate steady voice on the other end of a cell phone marshalling all the resources she can to find her. Veteran 911 Emergency Call Centre operator Jordan (Halle Berry) has the kind of job that's not for the faint of heart: navigating the public's distress in order to save lives. But when a young woman's frantic report of a prowler ends tragically Jordan is devastated. Reassessing her life Jordan wonders if perhaps she's experienced her last fraught-filled phone call. With a supportive cop (Morris Chestnut) for a boyfriend maybe it's time to step back enjoy life and teach others the ins and outs of her high-pressure profession. That lifeline to strangers isn't over yet though. When average American teenager Casey (Abigail Breslin) is abducted by a serial killer (Michael Eklund) she manages to place a 911 call from the trunk of the killer's car. Jordan leading a group of new recruits through the massive Call Center operation is in earshot of the call. It's an all-too familiar scenario for this experienced public servant but before long Casey's situation reveals itself as eerily shockingly familiar. There's only one thing Jordan can do: take charge in a way she's never done before. She must turn Casey into a partner in helping them track down the killer and prove that this call is Jordan's calling. TriStar Pictures and Stage 6 Films present in association with Troika Pictures WWE Studios and Amasia Entertainment A Troika Pictures and WWE Studios production The Call starring Halle Berry (Monster's Ball Cloud Atlas) Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine New Year's Eve) Morris Chestnut (Identity Thief Think Like a Man) Michael Eklund (The Divide) and Michael Imperioli ('The Sopranos'). Brad Anderson (The Machinist) directed the screenplay written by Richard D'Ovidio (Exit Wounds Thir13en Ghosts) from a story written by Richard D'Ovidio and Nicole D'Ovidio and Jon Bokencamp (Perfect Stranger). Jeff Graup Michael J. Luisi Robert L. Stein Michael A. Helfant and Bradley Gallo are the film's producers. William C. Gallo Philip M. Cohen Dale Rosenbloom and Guy J. Louthan are executive producers. Rounding out Anderson's team are director of photography Thomas Yatsko ('Fringe') production designer Franco-Giacomo Carbone (The Expendables) film editor Avi Youabian music by John Debney costume designer Magali Guidasci and casting by Sheila Jaffe and Vanessa Spencer.

• The Birds | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and--despite the sci-fi trappings--one of Hitchcock's most serious films. --Robert Horton

• Jaws 2 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £7.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (25.35%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Judged entirely on its own merits, Jaws 2 isn't a bad film. It even has some passably scary moments (Brody discovering a charred body in the waves; the swimming boy racing the shark back to his dinghy). But it's absolutely impossible to judge this movie on its own merits. Despite being given a great big Panavision camera to play with director Jeannot Szwarc can't hide his TV-movie origins, nor can the script, both of which spend far too long landlocked with the bickering inhabitants of Amity Island. Where the original film boldly set out to sea with Robert Shaw's Ahab-like Quint, in a misplaced desire to attract a teenage audience this movie dwells at interminable length on the courting rituals of the local youth; where Spielberg's original is a masterpiece of pacing and carefully timed tension-building, Jaws 2 sags terribly whenever the plastic shark swims out of sight. Roy Scheider comes off best, reprising his role as Chief Brody, while Lorraine Gary's role as his wife is expanded (she must be a glutton for punishment: she also starred in Jaws 4: The Revenge). Taken as a sequel Jaws 2 is inferior in every way; taken as an unassuming TV movie it's a respectable, workmanlike effort; but looking forward at what was to follow, it begins to look like a minor masterpiece. --Mark Walker

• THE CAT AND THE CANARY and THE GHOST BREAKERS (Eureka Classics) | Blu Ray | (05/12/2022) from £14.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release, The Cat And The Canary And The Ghost Breakers, a charming double-bill of horror-comedies starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Presented as part of the Eureka Classics range in their UK Blu-ray debuts. Available from 5 December 2022, the first print-run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase & Collector's Booklet. Ghosts and gags galore in this charming double-bill of horror-comedies starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. The Cat and the Canary (dir. Elliott Nugent, 1939) - A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. His niece Joyce (Paulette Goddard) is named the sole inheritor, but under the condition that she does not go insane within the next 30 days. The timid Wally (Bob Hope) vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along with her jealous relatives, a creepy maid and a homicidal maniac who has just escaped from a nearby sanitarium. The Ghost Breakers (dir. George Marshall, 1940) - Larry Lawrence (Hope), sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk (and Larry) are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter (Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle. Sensing that Mary is in danger, Larry and his valet precede her to the island, which is inhabited by a ghost, a zombie and perhaps even a flesh-and-blood fiend. There's romance, comedy and chills as Hope and Goddard contend with earthly and un-earthly foes-and try to keep from ending up as ghosts themselves. Eureka Classics is proud to present both films in their UK debuts on Blu-ray. Product Features Limited Edition slipcase (2000 copies) 1080p presentation of both films from scans of the original film elements supplied by Universal with The Ghost Breakers presented from a new 2K master Optional English SDH Brand new audio commentary tracks on both films with Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby Kim Newman on The Cat and the Canary and The Ghost Breakers The Ghost Breakers 1949 radio adaptation Trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original poster artwork PLUS: A limited edition collector's booklet (2000 copies) featuring new writing by Craig Ian Mann

• Baltimore | DVD | (01/07/2024) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Larry Rayder(Peter Fonda) is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers (Adam Roarke) his mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle possible. As such, they decide to rob a supermarket's office of the money in it's safe to pursue their dream. On the most part, their robbery is successful, although their plan breaks down in it's end phase, which doesn't allow them as much getaway time as they wanted. Another problem they face is an unexpected third person in their getaway, Larry's one night stand Mary Coombs (Susan George), who doesn't like the fact that Larry ran off on her, although she eventually says that she doesn't want any of the money. With a police scanner and two-way radio in their souped up Chevy Impala, they try to outrun the police, who have an identification of their vehicle, and a general description of the three. The police pursuit is led by the tenacious Sheriff Everett Franklin (Vic Morrow), who knows he and his team can catch them, but also knows that the three may be able to get out of the state to freedom through a grove of walnut trees, which Larry, Deke and Mary may or may not know. At every literal and figurative turn, Larry needs to show his superiority as a driver, while trying to ditch Mary, who is a little more resourceful in staying with them than he anticipates. If you're an aspiring writer/director or just a fan of the cinema,then you have to watch 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry'. The film isn't just another car chase movie of the 70's. It's the car chase movie that borrows heavily (or steals?) elements from films like, 'Bonnie and Clyde', 'Bullitt' and 'Vanishing Point' then mixes them up in such an original way that, 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry' becomes the 70's car chase movie, that eventually influenced more popular films of the same genre like, 'Smokey and the Bandit', 'The Blues Brothers' and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 'Death Proof'. One of the enjoyable experiences of watching this film, is to identify the many different stunts and characters that 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'Death Proof' borrowed or stole from 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry'. There must be at least three stunts in 'Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry' that Quentin Terantino watched and said, 'I like that!' and wrote it into the 'Death Proof' screenplay. Other obvious cinema influences are the ego-maniacal sheriff played by Vic Morrow who's obsessed with catching both dirty Mary and crazy Larry. A very funny variation of this character is later played by Jackie Gleason as Buford T. Justice in 'Smokey and the Bandit'.

• Exiled (1998) A law and Order movie | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  In the first ever Law and Order movie, Chris Noth reprises his role of Detective Mike Logan which he originated on the series from 1990-1995. Exiled to Staten Island after punching a city councilman, Detective Mike Logan is bored with “chasing stolen lawn mowers”. But a prostitute’s murder may be his ticket back to Manhattan Homicide. His world-weary lieutenant reluctantly assigns Logan to the case and teams him with Detective Frankie Silvera. Along the way, they encounter a mob figure and his father and learn that there’s a dirty cop in Logan’s old precinct.

• The St Valentine's Day Massacre | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Roger Corman directs this gangster thriller, using docu-drama styles to depict the notorious gangland killings in 1929. Al Capone (Jason Robards) is consolidating his grip on Chicago's underworld, with only the Moran gang standing in his way. After Capone wipes them out in the St Valentine's Day shootings, the film goes on to explore how the murders affected the lives of those involved.

• Disturbia | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £17.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbour is a serial killer.

• Exam | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £7.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (106.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A life or death test. A blank exam paper. A race against time...eight strangers prepare to sit a test together, competing for a top-secret, high-level position.

• Strange New World | DVD | (23/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fallen | DVD | (23/10/1998) from £10.35   |  Saving you £3.64 (35.17%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays detective John Hobbes, who witnesses the gas-chamber execution of a serial killer (Elias Koteas). But when another series of murders begins, Hobbes suspects that the killer's evil spirit has survived and is possessing the bodies of others to do its evil bidding. Even Hobbes's trusted partner (John Goodman) thinks the detective is losing his grip on reality, but the dire warnings of a noted linguist (Embeth Davidtz) confirm Hobbes's far-out theory, and his case intensifies toward a fateful showdown. Although its idea is better than its execution, and the story's film noir ambitions are never fully accomplished, this slickly directed thriller has some genuinely effective moments in which evil forces are entwined into the fabric of everyday reality. Among the highlights is a memorable scene in which Detective Hobbes must track the killer as the evil spirit is transferred between many people via physical contact. Even if the film is ultimately less than the sum of its parts, it's an intriguing hybrid that resides in the same cinematic neighbourhood as Seven and The Silence of the Lambs with a cast that also includes Donald Sutherland and James Gandolfini. Included on the DVD is a full-length audio commentary by director Hoblit, screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and producer Charles Roven. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Those Who Wish Me Dead | DVD | (30/08/2021) from £5.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper reeling from the loss of three young lives she failed to save from a fire. When she comes across a bloodied and traumatized 12-year-old boy, they set out together to cross the miles of thick forest with two assassins in pursuit. Braving deadly lightning storms that threaten even Hannah's well-honed survival skills, they are caught between two relentless killers hunting the boy from one direction, and a massive fiery blaze coming straight for them, quickly consuming everything in their path.

• This Is Personal - The Hunt For The Yorkshire Ripper | DVD | (07/01/2013) from £6.65   |  Saving you £6.34 (95.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Richards directs this fact-based drama exploring the case of 'The Yorkshire Ripper'. Throughout the 1970s and early '80s, the serial killer preyed on young women and committed a total of 13 murders in the West Yorkshire area. This film shows a dramatisation of the investigation led by Detective George Oldfield (Alun Armstrong) which took its toll on both his career and personal life but which also led to the conviction of Peter Sutcliffe (Craig Cheetham) in 1981.

• High Crimes | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £6.62   |  Saving you £6.37 (96.22%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ashley Judd plays a succesful lawyer shocked to find her husband as a secret past as a military operative. When he is committed of a terrible war crime she must defend him in a top secret military courtroom, where none of the rules she knows apply.

• The Invisible Man (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (29/06/2020) from £11.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Golden Globe & Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss stars in a terrifying modern tale of obsession, inspired by Universal's classic monster character. Available exclusively to the Home Entertainment release, this is the uncut version of the film which was not shown in cinemas or At Home On Demand. Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister, their childhood friend and his teenage daughter. But when Cecilia's abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see. Bonus Features Uncut Feature Commentary with writer/ director Leigh Whannell Deleted Scenes Moss Manifested Director's Journey with Leigh Whannell The Players Timeless Terror