Drama

• One True Thing | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-2.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on Anna Quindlen's bestselling novel, this is a mother-daughter and father-daughter story, two for the price of one. But director Carl Franklin also tries to inject a police-mystery angle that it neither needs nor will support. Renee Zellweger plays a young writer on the rise, who has finally got her break for a New York magazine. While home for a birthday party for her nearly famous writer father (William Hurt), she learns that her mother (Meryl Streep) has been diagnosed with cancer. Then her father does the unthinkable: he all but commands her to put her career on hold to take care of her mother and nurse her through her illness. Dad, a popular college professor who has never received the literary acclaim he always believed he deserved, essentially checks out--and daughter must play parent to her mother. Strong performances by Streep and Zellweger give this parent-child relationship the heart--and the anger--of the real thing, while Hurt seems slightly disembodied as the self-involved father whose needs have dominated both women. Still, the detective-story aspect (the film is told in flashback, as the cops try to discover whether someone slipped Mom a fatal dose of morphine) is a construct that could have been done without. --Marshall Fine

• The Chalk Garden | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Laurel (Hayley Mills) is a troubled young girl who has frightened away every governess until the enigmatic Miss Madrigal (Deborah Kerr) is hired - despite her mysterious references. Madrigal sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully neglected chalk garden under the watchful eye of the butler (John Mills).

• Scandal | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £19.97   |  Saving you £-3.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Available for the first time ever on DVD in the UK! An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public threatening their lifestyles and their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963.

• Logan Lucky | Blu Ray | (26/12/2017) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is from a blue-collar family from the hills of West Virginia, whose clan has been famous for its bad luck for nearly 90 years. After being fired from his job, and with his ex-wife (Katie Holmes) threatening to move out of State taking their daughter with her, Jimmy decides he has to do something to get his family's life back on track. With a little help from his brother Clyde Logan (Adam Driver), his sister Mellie (Riley Keough) and an incarcerated explosive expert, the aptly named Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), he plans to steal $14 million from the Charlotte Motor Speedway on the busiest race day of the year. Directed by Academy Award-winner Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Magic Mike, Traffic), Logan Lucky also stars Hilary Swank, Seth MacFarlane, Katherine Waterston, Sebastian Stan, and Brian Gleeson.

• Les Miserables | DVD | (27/09/1999) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this adaptation of Victor Hugo's evergreen classic, Liam Neeson is Jean Valjean, imprisoned for stealing bread then paroled after nearly two decades of hard labour. A gift of silver candlesticks from a kindly priest helps him begin anew. Forging a decent and profitable existence, he finds success as a businessman and as the mayor of a small town. He even takes in a pregnant young woman (Uma Thurman) and raises her daughter as his own. But when a former prison guard (Geoffrey Rush) recognises Valjean, his past catches up to him. Director Bille August culls mesmerising performances from his cast, but loses us with an ending that panders to teen audiences. The focus shifts dramatically, and uncomfortably, from the haunted Neeson and his hawk-like pursuer, to his daughter (Claire Danes) and her romance with a handsome revolutionary. After this narrative shift, the script leaves behind Hugo themes of revenge and redemption to focus improbably on teen angst--hardly what the author had on his mind. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• William Tell | Blu Ray | (03/03/2025) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As the nations of medieval Europe struggle for power, the ruthless Austrian Empire invades neighbouring Switzerland and a peaceful huntsman, William Tell, is thrust into the heart of their resistance.

• Once More | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.49   |  Saving you £6.76 (82.14%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Monte Wildhorn (Freeman), a once legendary novelist whose struggle with alcoholism has sapped his passion for writing, takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle, and befriends the family next door.

• The Imitation Game - 2-Disc Collector's Edition | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Academy Award-winning historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. The film follows Turing from his teenage years to his wartime work and the trouble he later faced in his private life. Along with his friend and colleague Joan Clarke (Keira Knightly) and the rest of his team at the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park, Turing races against time to decipher the Nazi's Enigma machine during World War II. Despite playing a significant role in helping Britain defeat Germany, Turing is later convicted of homosexual acts and suffers greatly in his personal life as a result. The cast also includes Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Matthew Goode and Rory Kinnear. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cumberbatch) and Best Director, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay.

• Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Blu Ray | (13/03/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, this triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston is a no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind the voice of a generation. Follow the inspirational, poignant-and so emotional-journey through Houston's trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon's most beloved hits as you've never heard them before.

• Without Pity | Blu Ray | (08/06/2015) from £20.23   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Day After Tomorrow | Blu Ray | (28/04/2008) from £11.44   |  Saving you £10.30 (106.40%)   |  RRP £19.98

  A big-budget, mega-event epic motion picture that revolves around an abrupt climate change that has cataclysmic consequences for the planet.

• Made In Hong Kong (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released to critical acclaim in 1997, the year of the Hong Kong handover, Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong was praised as an anarchic masterpiece, a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair. Moon (Sam Lee) is a small-time triad, stuck in an endless cycle of pointless violence with no hope of escape. After he and his friends witness the suicide of a young girl, they embark on a journey to deliver two letters she had on her when she died. Produced on a shoestring budget, with non-professional actors and using discarded film reels for stock, the film was rescued from obscurity and fully restored in 4K in time for its 20th anniversary in 2017, thanks to the Far East Film Festival, in collaboration with Andy Lau's Hong Kong production company, Focus Film. Special Features: LIMITED EDITION O-CARD SLIPCASE (2000 Copies Only 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K digital restoration Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio Optional English subtitles New interview with director Fruit Chan New interview with producer Doris Yang New interview with producer Daniel Yu New interview with Marco Muller, former director of the Locarno Film Festival A collector's booklet featuring new writing by film historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; and an archival interview with director Fruit Chan

• Zama | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucrecia Martel's first film in 10 years premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim. Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. It is adapted from Antonio di Benedetto s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature, recently translated into English

• To Kill a Mockingbird (Limited Edition Blu-ray Digibook) | Blu Ray | (13/02/2012) from £10.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (65.81%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch - the Academy Award winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction and nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this beloved classic is now digitally remastered and fully restored for optimum picture and sound quality and boasts hours of unforgettable bonus features. Watch it and remember why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Limited Edition Blu-ray packaging with 44 page bok with Gregory Peck's script pages, personal letters, storyboards and much more! Special Features: Fearful Symmetry - A feature-length documentary on the making of To Kill A Mockingbird with cast and crew interviews A Conversation With Gregory Peck - A feature-length documentary on one of the most beloved actors in film history with interviews, clips, home movies and more. 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics - An in-depth look at the film restoration process Academy Award Best Actor Acceptance speech - Gregory Peck's speech after winning the Academy Award for his performance as Atticus Finch. American Film Institute Life Achievement Award - Gregory Peck receiving the AFI Life Achievement Award Excerpt from Tribute to Gregory Peck - Cecilia Peck's farewell to her father given at the Academy in celbration of his life. Scout Remembers - Actress Mary Badham shares her experiences working with Gregory Peck Feature commentary - with Director Robert Mulligan and Alan Pakula Original theatrical trailer

• Sweeney! | Blu Ray | (04/02/2019) from £8.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rough, tough and politically incorrect, The Sweeney was one of the major television successes of the last fifty years and this first feature film spin-off is just as hard-hitting! Featuring memorable performances from John Thaw and Dennis Waterman - and made by the same team who worked on the hit television series - Sweeney! has been newly transferred in High Definition from original film elements. Hard-bitten, womanising Flying Squad officer Jack Regan becomes embroiled in a political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate a seemingly suspicious death. Framed on a drink-driving charge and suspended from the force, Regan is embroiled in a deadly conspiracy and must think fast and rely on his wits if he's to survive! SPECIAL FEATURES: Theatrical Trailer Image gallery PDF material

• Don't Worry Darling | DVD | (26/12/2022) from £4.96   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ! Don't Worry Darling is a twisted and visually stunning psychological thriller from director Olivia Wilde with intoxicating performances from Florence Pugh and Harry Styles. Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) live in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company housing the men working for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The husbands spend every day inside the Headquarters, whilst their wives enjoy the beauty and luxury of their community. Life is perfect, in return, the company ask for discretion and unquestioning commitment. But when cracks appear in their life, exposing something more sinister, Alice questions exactly what they're doing in Victory, and why.

• Where Angels Fear To Tread | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.24   |  Saving you £4.75 (57.65%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based upon E. M. Forster's best-selling novel this scintillating period drama follows a rich Edwardian widow (Helen Mirren) who marries a handsome Tuscan dentist (Rupert Graves) but dies in childbirth. Her English family travel to Italy in order to bring the child back home to England but are unprepared for what unfolds.

• The Iron Claw | DVD | (06/05/2024) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - The Entire First Series | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £5.90   |  Saving you £19.09 (323.56%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Eccentric defence lawyer Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is the scourge of the courtroom. However at home he is hen pecked by his wife (she who must be obeyed). This double DVD contains the entire first series of John Mortimer's popular Rumpole Of The Bailey including the first ever episode 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation'. Rumpole's initial case sees him called upon to defend the teenage son of a notorious criminal family with whom he is familiar. Rumpole knows that whilst the boy is innocent on this occasion he is destined for a life of crime...

• Beatrice Cenci | Blu Ray | (21/10/2019) from £16.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tomas Milian (Syndicate Sadists), Adrienne Laurussa (The Man Who Fell to Earth) and Georges Wilson (Don't Torture a Duckling) co-star in this brutal re-telling of the Cenci Family. The film depicts the horrific events that led to the demise of one of Italy's most prestigious families, through two timelines we establish how, and why, this much-loved family were sent to the guillotine in 1599. Based on the tragic true story, Beatrice Cenci (A.K.A The Conspiracy of Torture) shook Italy to its very core upon release in 1969 thanks to its strong condemnation of the Catholic church and set Lucio Fulci on a collision course with the graphic violence that would become synonymous with his most popular works. Considered by Fulci himself to be his finest cinematic work, 88 Films are proud to unveil the prized possession within a legendary career. Prepare to witness the birth of the Godfather of Gore, finally uncut, uncensored and unleashed for the very first time in the UK! Extras: Brand New 2K Remasters from The Original 35 mm Negatives in 1.85:1 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