Drama

• Homicide - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (16/07/2007) from £20.43   |  Saving you £19.56 (95.74%)   |  RRP £39.99

  One of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history Homicide: Life On The Street re-invigorated a tired genre by focusing on the grueling work of solving murders instead of an endless succession of bloody crimes and car chases.

• The Card | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-3.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

• Wall Street | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £6.00   |  Saving you £8.25 (174.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shia LaBeouf stars as a budding Wall Street broker taken under the wing of the financial district's prodigal son, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas).

• Headline | DVD | (29/02/2016) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crime, intrigue... and a murder that was almost perfect!Appearing three years before his career-defining role in Black Narcissus, David Farrar plays a Fleet Street reporter who discovers an uncomfortable truth when he sets out to unravel a murder mystery. Anne Crawford, William Hartnell and silent-era idol John Stuart also feature among the top-line cast of this gripping and complex wartime thriller featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Ellington, a keen editor and newspaperman, has been neglecting his wife for his work; she, bored with her own company and irked by her husband's selfish behaviour, has been carrying on a mild flirtation with man-about-town Paul Grayson. During one of her visits to Grayson's flat, a former girlfriend appears with disastrous consequences for all concerned...

• Soul Food | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production and it has got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: he depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams and Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure ... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet. But when Big Mama falls into a diabetic coma, Ahmad watches as his family begins to fall apart without the stability and love that Big Mama provided with every Sunday meal. Tillman's touch can be overly nostalgic, melodramatic and cloyingly sentimental, but never so much that the movie loses its firm grip on reality. As a universal portrait of family life, Soul Food ranks among the very best films of its kind--believable, funny, emotional and always approaching its characters (well-played by a uniformly excellent cast) with a generous spirit of forgiveness and understanding. As satisfying as one of Big Mama's delicious dinners, Soul Food is the kind of movie that keeps you coming back for more. --Jeff Shannon

• A Few Good Men | Blu Ray | (01/07/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rob Reiner directs this drama starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a soldier by strangling him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by a determined colleague (Demi Moore). Together they take on the might of the army establishment, as the trail of evidence leads to the accused's commanding officer (Nicholson).

• Voyage Of The Damned | DVD | (20/11/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The incredible story of the ship that shamed the world. This was not your standard passenger list. Some were concentration camp victims. Others just wanted to join relatives in Cuba. Some were wealthy enough to afford the voyage. Most left everything behind in the hope they could escape German terror. The passengers are unaware that the voyage is a sham simply one of Goebbels' propaganda exercises. This ship will not be able to dock in Havana and when the rest of the world turns the ship away the Jews will have to return to Germany. Just as hope has all but vanished the passengers receive word that some European countries may take them in. Come what may the passengers resolve not to return to the camps. This tragic true-life epic stars Lee Grant Julie Harris Ben Gazzara and Nehemiah Persoff.

• In the Electric Mist | Blu Ray | (08/02/2010) from £6.00   |  Saving you £13.99 (233.17%)   |  RRP £19.99

  New Iberia Louisiana. Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is on the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young women. Driving home from another gruesome crime scene Dave meets glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard). Sykes is in town shooting his new movie with backing from local crime kingpin Baby Feet Balboni (John Goodman). He tells Dave he saw a body lying in a swamp - the decomposed corpse of a black man in chains. The discovery brings memories hurtling out of Dave's past. He senses the two cases are linked. But as Dave gets closer to the murderer the murderer gets closer to Dave and his family...

• Caesar And Cleopatra | DVD | (19/06/2007) from £7.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (101.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vivien Leigh is the young Cleopatra and Claude Rains is Julius Caesar in the spectacular 1945 version of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. As Rome invades Egypt Julius Caesar (Rains) stumbles across the young and unrefined princess Cleopatra (Leigh) sheltering in the Sphinx. Impressed by her spirit and intelligence seduced by her charm he determines to make her Queen. Cleopatra learns about power and politics at the feet of a master but her downfall begins when she is se

• Monarch of the Glen: The Complete Series 1-7 | DVD | (16/10/2023) from £48.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Michael Powell: Early Works (2-disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Throughout the 1930s, director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom) honed his craft on a succession of modestly budgeted feature films produced under the United Kingdom's screen 'quota' system. Many of these titles remain lost but, those which survive, reveal a burgeoning talent that readily established Powell as one of British cinema's leading lights. This new 2-disc collection brings together five of those early films directed by Powell, newly remastered by the BFI National Archive, including murder mysteries, sensational thrillers and a comedy caper. Discover the formative works of a filmmaking icon, available on Blu-ray for the first time. The Films: Rynox (1932, 47 mins) Hotel Splendide (1932, 53 mins) The Night of the Party (1934, 63 mins) Her Last Affaire (1936, 68 mins) Behind the Mask (aka The Man Behind the Mask) (1936, 55 mins)Special Features Newly remastered from original camera materials and presented in High DefinitionNewly recorded audio commentaries by Marc David Jacobs (Rynox, Behind the Mask, Emeric Powell Home Movie), Lawrence Napper and Dom Delargy (Hotel Splendide), Jo Botting and Vic Pratt (Night of the Party), and Ian Christie (Her Last Affaire), Bryony Dixon (Riviera Revels)Riviera Revels: Travelaughs No. 1 and No. 2 (1927): Powell himself appears in these rare short comedy curiosities from the silent eraInside the Archive: The Early films of Michael Powell (2024): a new documentary exploring the BFI National Archive's role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.Vanishing in Thunder: The Unmade Films of Michael Powell (2023): documentary by Henry Barnes exploring some of Michael Powell's unrealised filmsEmeric Pressburger Home Movie (1954): Powell and Pressburger are both seen on camera as they travel to Argentina for a 1954 Film Festival**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Booklet featuring contributions from James Bell, Marc David Jacobs, Lawrence Napper, Pamela Hutchinson, Ian Christie, Bryony Dixon, Claire Smith, Josephine Botting and Kieron Webb

• Proof Of Life | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £8.24   |  Saving you £5.75 (69.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Russell Crowe stars as Terry Thorne, a K&R (kidnap and rescue) expert called in by the wife of an American engineer (played by Meg Ryan) when her husband is kidnapped in South America.

• Narrow Escape | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £6.60   |  Saving you £-4.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Based on a true story this film tells of the tireless efforts of a US naval ship crew to save an abandoned Korean / American baby from the post-Korean War political fallout.

• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (The Complete Series) | Blu Ray | (01/09/2025) from £79.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Lover | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She gave her innocence her passion her body. The one thing she couldn't give was her love. Indochina 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl she remains aloof for her involvement with him is more out of rebellion towards her family -- and for sexual excitement -- rather than love. However when the gentleman is forced to marry a wom

• Phoenix (Ray Liotta) | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In this town the heat can kill you. These days it seems like everybody's addicted to something and for Detective Harry Collins gambling is his ""drug."" He'll bet on anything no matter the odds just for the rush. But this time he's in over his head. Caught between a brutal bookie a lethal loan shark and a murderous heist gone wrong Harry has a daring plan to settle his debts once and for all.

• Moonstruck | Blu Ray | (13/01/2014) from £9.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (35.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remember the outfit Cher wore to the Oscars when she won an Academy Award for her performance in this 1987 film? Ay-yi-yi. The actress' more retiring character in this infectious comedy leaps several psychological hurdles just giving her hair a permanent. But then the original screenplay of Moonstruck, by John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano), is a wonderful, gently satirical tale of an Italian-American family dealing with repression and dissatisfaction against a backdrop of cultural expectations. Cher is focused and funny as a widow who feels she should marry an older fellow (Danny Aiello), but then falls for his black-sheep brother (Nicolas Cage). Olympia Dukakis and Vincent Gardenia are perfect as her parents, and John Mahoney (of TV's Frasier) has a memorable, small role as a middle-aged man on the make who gets a lecture from Dukakis's character. Shanley's dialogue is comically stylised in a way that makes one appreciate how much words can inform an actor's performance. Taking its cues from him and director Norman Jewison (And Justice for All), the cast immerse themselves in a pool of hilariously operatic emotion. --Tom Keogh

• Cabrini | DVD | (27/05/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Grand Seduction | DVD | (05/01/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A small fishing village is in dire need of a doctor in order to secure a lucrative business contract and ensure the economic survival of their community. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residency they believe their prayers have been answered and hilarity ensues as the villagers rally together to charm him into staying.

• Welcome To Sarajevo | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £6.92   |  Saving you £-0.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Whether as a subject for historical investigation or social drama, the war in the former Yugoslavia is made for film, as 1997's Welcome to Sarajevo demonstrates. Inspired by the book Natasha's Story by ITN reporter Michael Nicholson, this takes very much a human-interest angle on the conflict. Stephen Dillane plays a journalist whose involvement moves from the professional to the personal as he faces up to marauding Serbian mercenaries, then family ties, to get the apparently orphaned Emira out of Sarajevo and back to the security of his own family in the UK. It could have been awash with journalists-are-good-guys-really sentiment, but director Michael Winterbottom is mindful to present the story in the context of the siege--some of the filming here is harrowingly realistic--and draws responsive performances from a cast including Woody Harrelson as a hard-living American reporter and Marisa Tomei as an aid worker determined to save children's lives at all costs. As a film about the "why" of the Yugoslavian war, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame is unsurpassed, but Welcome to Sarajevo is a potent look into the "how". On the DVD: Welcome to Sarajevo comes to DVD with a decent 16:9 anamorphic picture and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound that has the necessary immediacy. English subtitles are included, rightly so in a film of this nature. Special features include 30 minutes of interview snippets with cast and crew, "on location" sequences and three theatrical/TV trailers. --Richard Whitehouse