Drama

• My Brilliant Friend Series 4 | DVD | (03/03/2025) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Kama Sutra - A Tale Of Love | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £18.68   |  Saving you £-8.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Though it contains several erotically charged and explicit love scenes, Kama Sutra - A Tale of Love is not a sex film, but a tragic romance set in the royal court of 16th century India. It is Princess Tara's (Sarita Choudhury) misfortune to marry the debauched, increasingly opium-addled Raj Singh (Naveen Andrews), and servant-girl Maya's (Indira Varma) fate to become the object of the Raj's desire, though she in turn loves the sculptor, Jai (Ramon Tikaram). The Kama Sutra itself is already hundreds of years old at the time of this tale, but it provides the love lessons by which lowly Maya learns to become a royal courtesan. Varma dominates the film in her first starring role, displaying a determination, quiet intelligence and sensuality which offer compensation for the often overly languorous pace. This is certainly a beautiful film, with a deeply evocative score by Mychael Danna, but as a drama it only really comes to life in the last half hour. Both Anna and the King (1999) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) are more effective Eastern historical romances, while the overlooked Heat and Dust (1982) introduced Greta Scacchi alongside Julie Christie as two Western women discovering the erotic pleasures of 20th century India. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Sonny | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (200.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  New Orleans 1981: Sonny Phillips just discharged from the Army returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo working for his mother but he wants to leave that behind. Unfortunately with employment prospects slim his past threatens to catch up with him...

• The Debt | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £4.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington star in The Debt, the powerful story of Rachel Singer, a former Mossad agent who endeavoured to capture and bring to trial a notorious Nazi war criminal.

• The Wild One (Dual Format Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Marlon Brando in his breakthrough - and most iconic - role as Johnny Strabler, ruthless leader of the Black Rebels motorcycle gang who terrorise a small town. The film was considered so shocking and inciteful of delinquent behaviour at the time, it was banned in the UK until 1968. High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with author and film historian Jeanine Basinger The Wild One and the BBFC (2017, tbc mins): ex-BBFC examiner Robert Falcon discusses the films' history with the British censor. Introduction to the film by Karen Kramer (2007, 1 min) Hollister, California: Bikers. Booze and the Big Picture (2007, 28 mins) Brando: An Icon is Born (2007, 19 mins) Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth (2007, 17 mins): a look at Kramer's vision Trailer ; Original theatrical trailer ; Image gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Kat Ellinger UK Blu-ray premiere Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies More TBC

• Only Yesterday | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £9.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (100.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As 27-year old Taeko embarks on a holiday to the country she reminiscences about her childhood and journeys back to a time when she was only 15. Taeko recalls the major events that shaped her life into what it is now. In the present Taoko longs for a change in her humdrum life as an office-worker in Tokyo. When she arrives at her relatives' farm she finds herself attracted to an earnest young farmer. As Taeko flips between the past and the present she realises that she must make important decisions to ensure her future happiness.

• Alone in Berlin | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the best-selling book, Alone in Berlin tells the story of a couple in Nazi-occupied Germany who stand up to Hitler and the SS regime after their son is killed in action. By placing postcards around Berlin with revolutionary messages on the Quangels hope to rally any other anti-Hitler supporter and disrupt the slow creep of War.

• The Perfect Man | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £4.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (267.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Teen queen Hilary Duff tries to find Mr. Right for her single mum in this comedy.

• Exhibition | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £8.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (84.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When artists D (Viv Albertine) and H (Liam Gillick) decide to sell the home that they have loved and lived in for two decades they begin a difficult process of saying goodbye. The upheaval has caused anxieties to surface and D struggles to control the personal and creative aspects of her life with H. Dreams memories and fears have all imprinted themselves on their home which exists as a container for their lives and has played a pivotal role in their marriage. How will their relationship - and their art - exist without its confines? A stark challenging and multi-layered film shot through with penetrative insight and rigorous integrity this new uncompromising work by Joanna Hogg (Archipelago Unrelated) has secured her place at the vanguard of not just British but international arthouse cinema.

• Satantango | Blu Ray | (26/12/2022) from £17.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1994 may have been the year of 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Lion King' and Jim Carrey's trailblazing run of 'Ace Ventura', 'The Mask' and 'Dumb and Dumber'. However elsewhere in the film world an alternative and equally influential film story was being told, in the form of Hungarian master Béla Tarr's 7+ hour behemoth Sátántangó. Tarr's epic rendering of Laszlo Karsnahorkai's novel, about the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe, is a unique and visionary masterpiece that defies classification and transcends genre. Set in a struggling Hungarian agricultural collective, a group of lost souls reeling from the collapse of their Communist utopia face an uncertain future, until the arrival of a charismatic stranger in whom they believe lies their salvation. The collective's individual experiences and fates are gradually revealed in Tarr's immaculately composed, brilliantly photographed and bleakly comic tour-de-force, which confirmed his place as one of contemporary cinema's few genuine auteurs.

• The Libertine | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (217.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Depp stars as the scandalously decadent John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester.

• Bleak House | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies turns his talents to one of Charles Dickens' most brilliant novels - arguably the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London. Fresh and imaginative yet faithful to the original this thrilling fast-paced adaptation is shot with a contemporary edge. At its heart is the story of the icily beautiful Lady Dedlock who nurses a dark secret and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn who seeks to uncover it. The generous John Jarndyce struggling with his own past and his two young wards Richard and Ada are all caught up like Lady Dedlock in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion. As Tulkinghorn digs deeper into Lady Dedlock's past he unearths a secret that will change their lives forever and which is almost as astounding as the final outcome of the Jarndyce case.

• Goya's Ghosts | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £10.16   |  Saving you £9.83 (96.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

• Argo | DVD | (04/03/2013) from £3.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (338.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis, the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades.

• The Color Of Money | Blu Ray | (09/05/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martin Scorcese handles directing duties in this 1986 sequel to the classic 1961 film The Hustler, which marks the return of Paul Newman to the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson. Anxious to break into the big time again, Eddie finds a talented protégé (Tom Cruise) to groom; but with the addition of the latter's manipulative girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and the wild streak in Cruise's character, the trio make for a fascinating portrait in group psychology. The cast is brilliant, the script by Richard Price (Clockers) is a paragon of tightly controlled character study and drama (at least in the film's first half), and Scorcese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus make an ornate show of the collision and flight of pool balls through space--something of a metaphor for the dynamics among the three principals. The film is generally regarded as weaker in its second half, and rightly so, as everything that was interesting in the first place disappears. Still, Newman won a deserved Oscar for his performance. --Tom Keogh

• Paris Blues (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2016) from £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ram Bowen (Paul Newman The Hustler) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier In the Heat of the Night) are jazz musicians who live for music. Their Paris is one of underground, smoke-filled Jazz bars and the rain-drenched streets of the Left Bank at night. However their carefree idyll is disturbed when two American tourists (Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll) enter their lives, and against the backdrop of music and moonlight, they find themselves falling in love. All too soon however, romance is put to the test, as the men find themselves torn between their love for the women, and their passion for music. Featuring the legendary Louis Armstrong as Wild Man Moore, the film's score by the incomparable Jazz musician Duke Ellington was Oscar nominated in 1962. Extras Original trailer Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film

• Bright Star | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £6.16   |  Saving you £15.09 (307.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion.

• Holding The Man | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gay-themed Australian drama based on Timothy Conigrave's memoir. The film follows the relationship of Conigrave (Ryan Corr) and his partner John (Craig Stott), who first met at their Catholic high school. With John the star captain of the school's football team and Tim an aspiring actor in the school play, the pair seem like an unlikely couple but continue their journey together through high school and university where they allow their love for each other to help them overcome the challenges being gay men in '80s Australia throws at them. However, one challenge proves too much for the pair after they are both diagnosed with HIV in 1985.

• Son of Man | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Multi award winning reworking of the Gospels that see Jesus Christ cast as a revolutionary fighting oppression in contemporary Africa. Son of Man challenges the Hollywood depictions of a western looking messiah with a gritty portrayal of a political activist rallying a township. In the state of Judea in southern Africa violence poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighbouring Alliance has invaded to restore 'peace' at gunpoint. Bloody street battles accompany the neighbouring dictatorship's incursion into its weaker satellite. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule accompany summary executions and brutal massacres.

• Shooting Dogs | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £8.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (142.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hugh Dancy stars in this moving drama about the Rwandan genocide.