Drama

• Braveheart | Blu Ray | (23/06/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. Extremely moving, it reveals Gibson as a multitalented performer and remarkable director with an eye for detail and an understanding of human emotion. (His first directorial effort was 1993's Man Without a Face.) The film is nearly three hours long and includes several plot tangents, yet is never dull. This movie resonates long after you have seen it, both for its visual beauty and for its powerful story. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• The Agony And The Ecstasy | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Much of what appeared in Irving Stone's biographical novel of the life of Michelangelo was of the author's invention but few will dispute that the artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which is the subject of Carol Reed's film. Starring Charlton Heston as the irascible genius it traces his life from the age of 13 to his death at 88 but deals mainly with the five years during which he painted the chapel. Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) has commissioned the work in the hope

• Blue Lights: Series 2 | DVD | (27/05/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Deep Blue Sea | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.

• The State Within | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.75   |  Saving you £-1.75 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.00

  A flight explodes in mid-air during take off near Washington DC. Later that day as a shocked capital struggles to come to terms with the disaster a diplomatic catastrophe envelops the British Embassy. A cat's cradle of tangled affinities and conflicting interests told through interlinking stories unfold as British Ambassador Mark Brydon slowly realises that he is being played by an invisible puppeteer with great power. A tightly plotted conspiracy thriller about the limits of diplomacy in a world where government has abdicated responsibility for war.

• Escobar | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £5.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Reach the gate; remake the world. No one knows exactly how the gate was created or what it does. In fact, no one can even see it, touch it, or open it, except for a chosen few. These chosen ones are called Adapters, girls and boys with special elemental abilities like water or fire, who have been deemed fit by the World Council to pursue the gate. The World Council, established to bring order to the world, find these Adapters, then urge them to join a special academy to train for their ultimate destiny: to reach the gate. While they train, the Adapters disagree on the true nature of the gate. Some believe that the gate will grant a wish to anyone who reaches it. Others believe that those who reach it can remake the world. What will they find if and when they reach the gate? What lies beyond this secret door? Contains the complete 12 episode series with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.

• Midsomer Murders - Series 3-4 - Complete | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £21.25   |  Saving you £38.74 (182.31%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This collection contains the entire third and fourth series of Midsomer Murders. Set in the idyllic picturesque county of Midsomer Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby discovers that all is not as it seems and beneath the tranquil surface of village life exists a disturbing and cunning propensity for murder. Episodes Comprise: Series Three: 1. Dead Man''s Eleven 2. Blue Herrings 3. Judgement Day 4. Death of a Stranger Series Four: 1. Garden of Death 2. Destroying Angel 3. The Electric Vendetta 4. Who Killed Cock Robin? 5. Dark Autumn

• Violent Night | Blu Ray | (06/11/2023) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the producers of Nobody and John Wick comes a bare-knuckle, coal-dark holiday action-comedy that says you should always bet on red. When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound taking everyone inside hostage, they are not prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus. David Harbour (Stranger Things) stars as St. Nick, delivering some serious season's beatings to save the family and the spirit of Christmas. Product Features Deleted and Extended Scenes Quarrelin' Kringle Santa's Helpers: The Making Of VIOLENT NIGHT Deck the Halls with Brawls

• The Cruel Sea (Digitally Restored) | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat was an unflinching portrayal of life at sea during WWII on a boat tasked with protecting convoys and seeking and destroying U-boats. Nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film, The Cruel Sea stars Jack Hawkins, Sir Donald Sinden and Stanley Baker, and is a gripping insight into the lives of unsung heroes at sea during the war, and the agonizing decisions and incredible peril they faced on a daily basis.

• TwentyFourSeven | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a 1990s Midlands town, youth from local housing estates are struggling to find purpose. Recently returned to his town, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins) interrupts their lives by reviving the local boxing club of his youth.Directed by cult favourite Shane Meadows (This is England), TwentyFourSeven charts the story of working-class youth finding friendship, self-respect and meaning in post-industrial Midlands. Shot in black and white and scored with classical music, this alternatingly heartwarming and confronting story is threaded through with a sense of undeniable hope.ExtrasNewly remastered by the BFI and presented in High DefinitionExtras tbc

• Blue Sky | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £6.05   |  Saving you £6.94 (114.71%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jessica Lange deserves three cheers for her performance in Blue Sky as an army wife in the early 1960s. Sensuous and unpredictable, Lange bridles at the restrictions in her life and is constantly seeking attention. Tommy Lee Jones is the nuclear engineer who adores her, but is just as passionate toward his career. Lange and Jones sizzle in spite of a weak plot tangent concerning the military cover-up of nuclear testing in the Nevada desert. The love story is everything as it bursts with undercurrents of passion, regret, sorrow and joy. Lange's sexy, high-strung performance earned her an Oscar. It was director Tony Richardson's last film. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• The Last Duel Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (06/12/2021) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jodie Comer makes her mark (Owen Gleiberman, Variety) in this thought-provoking drama set during the 14th century in France from visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott. Based on actual events, the film centres on one woman's (Comer) accusation that she was brutally assaulted by Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), her husband Jean de Carrouges' (Matt Damon) friend. Now, in order to prove his wife's claim, de Carrouges must fight Le Gris to the death, the victor believed to be determined by God. All three lives hang in the balance in this gripping, cinematic film also starring Ben Affleck as Le Gris' scheming ally, Count d'Alençon.

• A Dangerous Method | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them. Into the mix comes Otto Gross, a debauched patient who is determined to push the boundaries. In this exploration of sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought. A Dangerous Method was directed by David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Crash) from a screenplay by Academy Award® winning writer Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons), who adapted his own stage play The Talking Cure for the screen. Academy Award® nominee Keira Knightley (Never Let Me Go, Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) stars as Sabina Spielrein opposite fast-rising star Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Fish Tank, Hunger and the upcoming Jane Eyre, X-Men: First Class and Prometheus) as Carl Jung, with Academy Award® nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Lord of the Rings trilogy) as Sigmund Freud. Vincent Cassel (Black Swan, Mesrine) plays Otto Gross, and Canadian newcomer Sarah Gadon plays Jung’s wife Emma.

• Operation Amsterdam | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First time on DVD! The best kept secret of WWII! One of the covert operations at the beginning of World War II is enacted in this fast-paced thriller about a government-approved diamond heist. A Major from the British army (Tony Britton) joins up with a Dutch diamond expert (Alexander Knox) and another adventurous Dutchman (Peter Finch) to steal a fortune in diamonds from a bank vault in Amsterdam before the Nazis completely close off the city. The trio are launched under the covering fire of a British battleship in the harbour and then chauffeured into Amsterdam by Anna (Eva Bartok), one of many people they encounter who could be either friend or foe. There is no time to waste in emptying the bank vault because it is estimated that the city will be overrun by the Nazi army in just fourteen hours. Meanwhile, the war is intensifying all around them, and the Nazi soldiers already on patrol are a continual threat. Starring Peter Finch (A Town Like Alice), & Eva Bartok (The Crimson Pirate) Based on a true story and the adapted from the book Adventure in Diamonds by David E Walker

• Joy | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £3.85   |  Saving you £16.14 (419.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Joy' is the wild story of a family across four generations centred on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right.

• Bramwell - Series 1-4 Complete | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £17.35   |  Saving you £2.57 (14.81%)   |  RRP £19.92

  Bramwell: Complete Series 1 - 4 (7 Discs)

• Rembrandt | DVD | (17/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring a towering central performance from Charles Laughton, this celebrated biopic saw the legendary actor collaborating once again with director Alexander Korda following their global box-office triumph with The Private Life of Henry VIII. An account of the later life of the great Dutch painter, Rembrandt co-stars Elsa Lanchester (Laughton's wife) and stage star Gertrude Lawrence, while Georges Perinal's innovative cinematography recreates the texture of Rembrandt's work to stunning effect. This compelling character study is featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. In 1642, Rembrandt van Rijn is at the height of his fame. Then, his beloved wife and model, Saskia, dies. Rembrandt is devastated, and when commissioned to paint an important work, creates a dark, brooding piece, considered highly inappropriate by his creditors. Now verging on bankruptcy and cast out by those who previously supported him, he is rescued by a new love; yet even now, happiness cannot be guaranteed SPECIAL FEATURE: Image Gallery

• Decline and Fall | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul Pennyfeather, a dedicated divinity student set upon a quiet life of contemplation as a priest, is unceremoniously expelled from Oxford University through no fault of his own. This kickstarts a series of disastrous events that no-one, least of all Paul, could have anticipated. Without a private fortune to fall back on, Paul is forced to take a position as a teacher at a substandard boarding school in rural Wales. All too quickly it becomes apparent that Paul is not a natural disciplinarian. He finds scant comfort in drinking to excess with the other teachers. Things start to look up, however, when Paul meets Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a wealthy widow and a mother to one of the boys at the school. Could it be that the attraction Paul feels for Margot is returned? Could his fortunes be changing?

• Blow | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz star in this true life story of a young man who worked with Colombian drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine into the United States in the 1970s.

• Safelight | DVD | (02/05/2016) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Safelight is an endearing romantic drama about two young strangers who go on a spontaneous adventure together and rediscover life on the road in the 1970s.