"Director: Jag Mundhra"

• Provoked | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A battered wife seeks justice after being jailed for unintentionally killing her husband.

• Sexual Malice | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Christine and Richard are a very successful married couple. She works in a big office and he is a professor at a nearby university. She is bored and continually complaining to her husband that he is so busy with work that he has no time to fit in her needs. While visiting her husband in his office at the university she sees a young pretty blond student in a short revealing skirt showing off her thighs to her husband by way of receiving higher marks. Christine is suspicious so decides to go on a trip with her friend to another city where they attend a male strip joint. During the performance a friend slips Christine's room key into the stripper's underwear who then pays her a late night visit with passionate results. The heated affair continues when Christine returns home to discover the mysterious stripper has tracked her down and wants to become a part of her life. Swept along by excitement and desire Christine begins to question if this was a chance meeting or is something more sinister at work?

• Sexual Malice | DVD | (19/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sex so hot, it's deadly", announces the tagline for Sexual Malice. Originally screened in 1994, this is a quintessential late-night TV movie. The well-worn plot concerns relationships inside and outside of marriage, with a twist obvious enough for the non-rocket scientists among us to have twigged well before the denouement. As for the sex scenes--there's little here that errs on the outré side of Dirty Dancing (interestingly enough, there's a secondary role for one Don Swayze), and the visuals are stylishly, almost tastefully done--Ashley Irwin's coffee-table funk adding the right musical enhancement. As the upwardly mobile accountant Christine Chandler, Diane Barton gives a creditable portrayal of a woman caught between the routine of marriage to the predictable Richard (stolidly dependable Edward Albert) and the excitement of an illicit affair with the passably seductive Quinn, played with a certain edge by Doug Jeffrey. The two subplots are wafer thin in narrative terms, but those who enjoy bump-and-grind under piers and in changing rooms will certainly stay the course. On the DVD: Sexual Malice comes to DVD in a 4:3 full frame print that's nonetheless a classy looking effort, and the stereo soundtrack is similarly pristine. There are detailed filmographies, a well-reproduced but oddly random photo gallery, and a trailer that manages to summarise a completely different scenario. As its closing voice-over proclaims, "Caught between a boring husband and a dangerous lover, a passionate woman can commit just about anything". Now you know.--Richard Whitehouse

• Shoot on Sight | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £6.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (172.99%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Shoot On Sight

• Rawander | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a true story that sent shock waves through India in 1992 this drama concerns Sanwari (Nandita Das) a lower-caste woman with a husband Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav) and two children who is raising her family in a rural village. While it's generally Sanwari's nature to mind her own business and take care of her family when she sees a neighbor woman being mistreated by an man from the city's upper caste Sanwari is outraged and speaks out in public about the incident. Shobha (Deepti Naval) a social worker is impressed by Sanwari's conviction and hires her as an assistant as the Indian government begins implementing a program to give greater rights and protection to Indian women. While she's timid at first Sanwari soon comes to value her work as a feminist activist but as she becomes more outspoken against sexism and abuse of caste position she earns the enmity of many powerful men in the community. First Sanwari and her family are shunned by the local leaders and then a group of men from the town's leadership take their revenge by subjecting Sanwari first to a savage beating and then to a gang rape. Sanwari Shobha and Sohan refuse to be intimidated or silenced and when the local leadership refuses to bring Sanwari's attackers to justice they bring the crime to the attention of the national media leading people across the country to demand justice for Sanwari -- and for women all over India.