Drama

• North by Northwest Steelbook | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate 65 years of Alfred Hitchcock's legendary North by Northwest with a brand new 4K restoration featuring a Steelbook with new key art. Cary Grant is the screen's supreme man-on-the-run in his fourth and final teaming with Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock. He plays a Manhattan adman plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased, and in a signature set-piece, crop-dusted. He also hangs for dear life from the facial features of Mount Rushmore's Presidents. On-Disc Special Features4K: Commentary by Ernest LehmanNorth by Northwest: Cinematography, Score, and the Art of the EditDestination Hitchcock: The Making of North by NorthwestThe Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature StyleNorth by Northwest: One for the AgesA Guided Tour with Alfred HitchcockBD: ¢ Commentary by Screenwriter Ernest Lehman¢ New 2009 Documentary Reveals The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style¢ Explore in Depth the Movie's Innovations and Influences in the New North by Northwest: One for the Ages¢ Vintage 2000 Documentary Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest¢ Stills Gallery¢ Theatrical Trailers & TV Spot

• Live By Night | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £20.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar winner Ben Affleck (Argo) directed and stars in the dramatic crime thriller Live by Night. Affleck also wrote the screenplay, based on the award-winning best-seller by Dennis Lehane; it marks the second collaboration for the fellow Boston natives, following the acclaimed drama Gone Baby Gone.What you put out into this world will always come back to you, but it never comes back how you predict. Taking fatherly advice is not in Joe Coughlin's nature. Instead, the WWI vet is a self-proclaimed anti-establishment outlaw, despite being the son of the Boston Police Deputy Superintendent. Joe's not all bad, though; in fact, he's not really bad enough for the life he's chosen. Unlike the gangsters he refuses to work for, he has a sense of justice and an open heart, and both work against him, leaving him vulnerable time and againin business and in love. Driven by a need to right the wrongs committed against him and those close to him, Joe heads down a risky path that goes against his upbringing and his own moral code. Leaving the cold Boston winter behind, he and his reckless crew turn up the heat in Tampa. And while revenge may taste sweeter than the molasses that infuses every drop of illegal rum he runs, Joe will learn that it comes at a price.Click Images to Enlarge

• Eleven Days, Eleven Nights | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Italian sexploitation reached a belated peak with 11 DAYS, 11 NIGHTS (1987), one of the biggest blockbusters from the late-day era of Rome-based sleaze! Helmed by the late, great Joe D'Amato (ABSURD/ BEYOND THE DARKNESS), this all-time flesh-flashing classic weaves a web of intrigue and deceit that, over 30 years afterwards, is still infinitely edgier than anything in 50 SHADES OF GREY! Featuring a landmark performance from the leggy and luscious pin-up and actress Jessica Moore (SODOMA'S GHOST), who is writing a book about her 100 lovers, not only is 11 DAYS, 11 NIGHTS a wild and wonderful ride of bondage, bare-boobs and broken households, but it is a strangely enriching slice of erotica that develops some genuinely appealing characters and an unexpectedly fetching heroine! See 11 DAYS, 11 NIGHTS in sinful HD and relive the glory days of girls and gams, Italian-style! Extras: Brand New 2K Remaster from The Original 16mm Negative in 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio Extensive Cleanup and Colour Correction Carried out in the UK Remastered Uncompressed English Audio Optional English SDH Subtitles Remastered Uncompressed Italian Audio with Newly Translated Subtitles Audio Commentary by Genre Expert Troy Howarth Interview with Composer Piero Montanari Italian opening and Closing Credits Remastered English and Italian Trailers

• Close My Eyes | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two siblings raised by different parents reunite as adults only to discover a deep passion for one another. Over a hot summer in London things have changed since they last met and Natalie the older sister is married to a hugely wealthy man and languishing in the home countries whilst Richard is seeking escape from the anxieties and pressure of working life. Overwhelmed by their love they struggle to overcome their addiction not wishing to hurt those around them and yet seemingly unable to part.

• Mansfield Park | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £14.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (8.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the story of Fanny Price, who emerges from this comedic maze of manners having discovered the rightness of of true love.

• The Rum Diary | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Actor-producer Johnny Depp pays homage to his friend Hunter S. Thompson through this sprightly adaptation of the novelist's semi-autobiographical novel. Depp plays Paul Kemp, the booze-sozzled journalist who takes centre stage in Bruce Robinson's period comedy. Out of desperation, the New Yorker takes a job with a San Juan newspaper in 1960, where he reports to the cynical Lotterman (Richard Jenkins) and shares a squalid flat with laid-back photographer Sala (The Sopranos' Michael Rispoli) and the truly unhinged "crime and religion" reporter Moburg (a scene-stealing Giovanni Ribisi). The three Ugly Americans do their best to drain the island's rum supply until Kemp meets Aaron Eckhart's slick Sanderson, who recruits the writer to promote his real estate ventures, regardless as to the number of poverty-stricken Puerto Ricans his hotels will displace. Politically, Kemp leans left, but he needs the dough, so he accepts the offer, only to find the ultimate temptation in Sanderson's uninhibited fiancée, Chenault (the stunning Amber Heard). It's a tricky balancing act, but when the natives start getting restless, Kemp risks losing everything. If the conclusion feels anticlimactic, Robinson keeps the antic energy going through nerve-wracking car chases, balletic cock fights, and a hilarious acid excursion that recalls the hotel trip-out in Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to which Robinson's film serves as a less surrealistic cousin. If it isn't as certain to become a cult classic, like the director's equally inebriated Withnail and I, Depp and company always remain true to Thompson's irascible spirit. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Lions For Lambs | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £6.42   |  Saving you £13.57 (211.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robert Redford directs and stars in this powerful and gripping story that digs behind the news, the politics and a nation divided to explore the human consequences of a complicated war.

• Lost Highway | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  David Lynch's Lost Highway is one of the most puzzled over movies of the 1990s. After Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart audiences were prepared for more questions than answers. But this mystery is without doubt the most sinister and disturbing of all his work, which is to say it's arguably the most worthy of puzzling out. Bill Pullman goes to jail for murdering his wife Patricia Arquette the Brunette. He metamorphoses into Balthazar Getty who falls for Patricia Arquette the Blonde. They're involved in many bad things. Getty morphs back to Pullman who's left with neither girl, but a lot of explaining to do about how Robert Loggia was involved with both and who/what on earth Robert Blake is. There are no straight answers. It might just be possible to twist the film into a Moebius strip and work out half the chronology, but that would be missing the point. Lynch makes paintings that move and if they happen to tell a tale (thank you The Straight Story), that's just a happy by-product. This film is "about" a lot of things: obsession, the impossible notion of owning a partner, why tailgating is wrong. Beyond that, it's about nothing more than enjoying just how sensually delicious everything looks and sounds on Lynch's Highway. On the DVD: Lost Highway is presented on disc in Lynch's preferred 2.35:1 ratio (anamorphically enhanced), even if it isn't the cleanest of transfers. Sound however, is only two channel stereo, whereas 5.1 mixes do exist elsewhere. The teaser trailer is hardly worth the effort. --Paul Tonks

• Wings of Desire | DVD | (12/12/2022) from £9.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This remastered version of Wim Wenders' heart-breaking Berlin masterpiece is a glorious love letter to a city and a time capsule of a bygone era. Damiel (Bruno Ganz at his best) is one of a legion of angels who watches over the lives of residents in a divided city. Set towards the end of the 1980s, before the Berlin Wall came down, the film charts Damiel's desire to feel, just as the subjects he watches over do. In particular, he is enraptured by Solveig Dommartin's Marion, an acrobat in a circus. Although it is only children who can see the angels, Marion is faintly aware of Damiel's presence. As is Peter Falk's actor, filming on location in the city, who has a past that links him with the otherworldly guardians. Outside the central romance, the richness of Wenders' film lies in the snapshots of the lives of Berlin's populace individuals who exist on the periphery of the narrative but who inform Damiel's desire to achieve a human state. Wenders' camera flies above the city (the film's original German title is literally translated as The Sky Over Berlin ), capturing these lives in motion, as Damiel's fellow angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) reminds his friend of what he will lose by achieving a mortal state. Mirroring the shift between colour and black and white first employed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1946 drama A Matter of Life and Death , Wings of Desire matches that film's magical aura not just in its subject matter, but as a work of transcendent cinema.

• I Am Love | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £5.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (170.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family finds comfort and routine in a life geared towards her husband and children. But a chance encounter ignites long repressed passions and sets her on a journey of sexual awakening.

• The Blacklist Season 08 | DVD | (27/09/2021) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the startling revelation that Raymond Red Reddington (James Spader) isn't who he says he is, Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) is torn between the relationship she's developed with the man claiming to be her father and her desire to get to the bottom of years of secrets and lies. Meanwhile, Red leads Liz and the FBI to the most strange and dangerous criminals yet, growing his empire and eliminating rivals in the process. All throughout, Liz and Red engage in an uneasy cat-and-mouse game in which lines will be crossed and the truth will be revealed.

• Equinox Flower / There Was a F | Blu Ray | (17/01/2011) from £15.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) comes this much loved family comedy. Shin Saburi plays Wataru Hirayama an old-fashioned father whose outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter tells him she wants a love match. Outwitted and outflanked by his wily female relatives Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat. The director's playful use of colour poetry and arch humour combine to make this tale of old versus new at once deeply moving and razor-sharp. Also contains full length feature There Was a Father Ozu's powerful war-time drama as an extra.

• Fences | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An African-American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life. Click Images to Enlarge

• Babylon | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £69.99   |  Saving you £-50.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Babylon is set in South London at the start of the '80s a time when reggae music was at its peak and racism was rife and follows Blue the lead rapper for Ital Lion Sound in the run-up to a Sound System competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka. Over the course of the film Blue clashes with his friends family police and the violent racists who endeavour to make life hard for him; all of which in turn set up for the film's violent climax.

• The Shipping News | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £6.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (150.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Kevin Spacey stars as a man who moves to his family's ancestral home in Newfoundland after a tragedy. Slowly, he starts to put his life back together.

• The War Lord (Blu-ray Edition) | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  One of the finest historical adventure films ever made The War Lord dramatises with uncommon intelligence and integrity the brutality difficulties and injustices of the Middle Ages. Charlton Heston stars as Chrysagon an honoured knight who takes over a castle tower in the swampland of Normandy to strengthen his duke's authority. But his struggles to maintain power in the face of Pagan villagers barbarian attackers and his brother's jealous counsel are shaken by his growing weariness with bloodshed in a cruel world. Never before released in high definition anywhere in the world this collaboration between director Franklin Schaffner (Patton) and the legendary Charlton Heston three years before their iconic reunion on Planet of the Apes is a gripping saga of ferocious battles heartfelt emotion and powerful storytelling. Special Features: Gorgeous 1080p transfer the film in its original aspect ratio Optional English SDH Isolated music and effects track Original theatrical trailer More on disc extras to be announced close to release Booklet with a new essay and rare archival imagery

• Charmed - Season 7 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £45.00 (300.20%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Charmed ones Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Paige (Rose McGowan) have cast a spell and the fans are enchanted! This seventh season of Charmed will reel you in with more. More what you ask? The supernatural sisters bring you more mystical adventures and suspense more charming humour and more intriguing storylines that will pull you in to a magical world that challenges your imagination; a world that only the Charmed ones can show you! Join th

• Scrooge | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gilmore Girls - Season 6 | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £12.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (130.87%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The rapid-paced banter between the mother-daughter team of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is the calling card for Gilmore Girls. The show's sixth year--which aired during the 2005-2006 TV season--remains witty, charming, and touching. The previous season left Yale undergrad Rory in trouble with the law after a night of very un-Gilmore-like behavior with her rich, handsome boyfriend Logan (Matt Czuchry). This season opens with Rory potentially facing jail time, undecided about returning to college, and--most disturbingly of all--fighting with her mother. This isn't a fight over who gets to eat the last egg roll, but rather a battle of wills. It will take a few episodes before the two are talking to each other again and the viewer can breathe a sigh of relief that all is well in Stars Hollow. In the meantime, Rory moves into her busybody grandparents' pool house. One evening, they invite their minister over to dinner. His job? To encourage Rory to remain chaste. Not one to be told how to live her life, Rory is nonplussed. After telling him he's a little too late to offer that advice, she asks, "Have you seen The 40 Year Old Virgin"? After many years of playing verbal footsy, Lorelai and Luke (Scott Patterson) finally get serious and engaged. But just when things are going smoothly, Luke learns of a daughter he never knew he had. The introduction of the little girl doesn't do much for the plot--other than to slow it down and cause more fights between Luke and Lorelai. When Luke warns Lorelai, "I don't like ultimatums," she snaps back, "I don't like Mondays, but unfortunately they come around eventually." This 5-disc 22-episode set includes an eclectic and impressive range of guest stars (Skid Row's Sebastian Bach, Paul Anka, Sonic Youth, and Madeline Albright, who appears in a dream sequence as Rory's mom). But it's cast regular Kelly Bishop as Lorelai's mother Emily who is one of the show's true gems. Prim, proper, and judgmental, she's also fiercely protective of her brood. When she learns that Logan's mother said unfavorable things about Rory, Emily confronts the woman and puts her in her place. Politely, of course. By the end of the season, one of the main characters will get married, another will have an affair, and a third will have a dalliance with an ex-boyfriend. But the relationship between Lorelai and Rory remains strong. And that's what keeps viewers watching. --Jae-Ha Kim

• Maze | DVD | (22/01/2018) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the true story of the 1983 mass breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze high-security prison in Northern Ireland. As Larry Marley (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor), the chief architect of the escape, schemes his way towards pulling off this feat, he comes into contact with prison warder, Gordon Close (Barry Ward). Initially Larry and Gordon are confirmed enemies, born on opposite sides of Northern Ireland's political divide, but when Larry realises that Gordon may be unwittingly useful for his escape plan, a slow seduction begins. Larry intends to use and manipulate Gordon in order to get closer to his goal but what follows is a tense, and intriguing drama in which an unlikely relationship is forged between two enemies that will have far reaching consequences for both of them.