Drama

• Fish Tank | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.81   |  Saving you £9.18 (134.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In "Fish Tank", 15 year old Mia's life is turned on its head when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Starring Michael Fassbender ("300", "Inglourious Basterds") and talented newcomer Katie Jarvis.

• Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2018) from £13.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, Billy Wilder's engrossingly theatrical courtroom drama, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as a part of The Masters of Cinemas Series from 10 September 2018. Based on the hit play by Agatha Christie, Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution was nominated for six Academy Awards and was reportedly praised by Christie herself as the best adaptation of her work she had seen. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich) but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own. Also starring the incredible Charles Laughton in an Oscar® nominated role, Witness for the Prosecution left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present yet another Billy Wilder masterpiece on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES: 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray Uncompressed LPCM mono soundtrack Optional English SDH subtitles New and exclusive feature length audio commentary by critic Kat Ellinger Monocle and Cigars: Simon Callow on Charles Laughton in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution A new video interview with film scholar Neil Sinyard Archival footage of Billy Wilder discussing Witness for the Prosecution with director Volker Schlöndorff A collector's booklet featuring new essays by film scholar Henry Miller and critic Philip Kemp; a letter from Agatha Christie to Billy Wilder; and rare archival imagery Reversible Sleeve

• Loves Kitchen | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (49.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Ben Ramsey and writer Michael Andrews team for this martial-arts action thriller concerning a mysterious drifter (Michael Jai White) who becomes ensnared in the seedy world of underground street-fighting. In the back alleys of Los Angeles life is cheap and to go against the grain is to take on the most powerful criminal organisation on the West Coast.

• Himizu | Blu Ray | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, all 14-year-old Yuichi Sumida (Shota Sometani) wants to become is a regular boy and live a decent life. His environment though repeatedly drags him into the mud. He runs his parent's rental boat business, which is located next to a nondescript lake. His mother frequently comes home with different men and soon she leaves him entirely. His father only comes around looking for money. Whenever Yuichi's father is drunk he tells Yuichi I wish you were dead.Keiko Chazawa (Fumi Nikaido) is a classmate of Yuichi Sumida. She harbors a severe crush on Yuichi. Keiko's home life isn't much better than Yuichi's. Her mother builds a gallows with a noose in place for Keiko to take her own life. Her mother believes her life would be better off without Keiko.Under these circumstances, Keiko pays a visit to Yuichi's home. A group of people are lingering nearyby who live in make shift tents on the property. Keiko tries to befriend Yuichi, but she is berated and even physically assaulted. She doesn't get deterred though and sticks around.One day, the yakuza come by Yuichi's home. They look for Yuichi's father who is nowhere to be found. The men then tell Yuichi that he has to come up with 6 million Yen by tomorrow to pay off his father's debt. Yuichi already heartbroken by his mother's abandonment and abuse from his father nears a tipping point. A string of incidents then occurs that brings Yuichi's world to a screeching halt. Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Yuichi?

• Chicago Fire - Season 12 | DVD | (18/11/2024) from £22.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Woman In Gold | Blu Ray | (03/08/2015) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren star in this drama based on the real-life story of Maria Altmann and her legal campaign against the Austrian government. Mirren plays Altmann who since fleeing Europe during the Second World War now lives in Los Angeles. When the death of her sister leads to Altmann finding out that a portrait of her aunt painted by Gustav Klimt was stolen by the Nazis from her family home during the war and now hangs in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna she enlists the help of young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Reynolds) and embarks on a legal campaign to reclaim her family's losses...

• A Second Chance | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £9.01   |  Saving you £3.98 (44.17%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Detective Andreas’ (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) seemingly perfect life is thrown into disarray when he is called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple to find their infant son neglected and crying in a closet. With red tape stopping Andreas from intervening to protect the child the usually collected policeman finds himself powerless and shaken to the core. Slowly losing his grip on right and wrong he decides to take justice from outside the law and in to his own hands in an attempt to save the child from a life of destitution and an early grave.

• Pennyworth: The Complete Series | DVD | (06/11/2023) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Crimson Kimono (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (25/10/2021) from £10.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Samuel Fuller re-worked and reinvented popular film genres as lenses through which to examine American history, ideals, and topical events. His detective thriller The Crimson Kimono, with its frank and unsentimental interracial romance twist, attacked the stubborn prejudice, ignorance and bigotry that Fuller saw lurking beneath the surface of the American nation. Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio The Culture of ˜The Crimson Kimono' (2009, 10 mins): analysis by filmmaker Curtis Hanson Switch-Hitting Between Three Triangles (2018, 15 mins): audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López Sam Fuller Storyteller (2009, 25 mins): insightful documentary with contributions from Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, as well as Fuller's wife, Christa, and daughter, Samantha Sam Fuller on Henry Chapier's Couch (1989, 22 mins): archival interview from French TV in which Fuller answers questions about his life ˜The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera' Rushes Tapes 01-06 (1996, 194 mins): unedited interview footage of Sam Fuller in conversation with actor Tim Robbins, recorded for Adam Simon's classic documentary Original theatrical trailers Image gallery: publicity photography and promotional material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Black Demon | DVD | (17/07/2023) from £6.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Phantom Light | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A witty, spooky and fabulously atmospheric comedy-thriller, The Phantom Light was an early feature from British film legend Michael Powell. With leading roles for the multi-talented Binnie Hale and endlessly popular character player Gordon Harker, this classic Gainsborough feature is presented here in a transfer from original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Standing on a lonely stretch of the Welsh coast, the North Stack Lighthouse has an unhappy notoriety: its light sometimes fails and more than one ship has been wrecked on the treacherous coastline. When new keeper Sam Higgins arrives, he scoffs at the locals' tales of a 'haunted' light until he finds out that a former keeper was murdered and another driven insane... SPECIAL FEATURES: Image gallery Original pressbook PDF

• Emperor | DVD | (24/02/2014) from £8.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (45.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

• MacArthur | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  While delivering the farewell address to the students of West Point in 1962 General Douglas MacArthur (Peck) reflects on the events of his life: his achievements as the head of the American forces in the Pacific during World War II his years governing post-war Japan and his final campaign in Korea which lead to clashes with President Harry S. Truman and his subsequent dismissal...

• Table 19 | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £4.17   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ex-maid of honour Eloise (Anna Kendrick) - having been relieved of her duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text - decides to hold her head up high and attend her oldest friend's wedding anyway.

• Philadelphia | DVD | (25/05/1998) from £7.37   |  Saving you £5.62 (76.26%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) wasn't interested in preaching to the converted; he set out to make a film that would connect with a mainstream audience. And he succeeded. Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Denzel Washington is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream-audience surrogate) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general. The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success. The cast also features Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas (as Beckett's lover), Joanne Woodward, and Robert Ridgely, and, of course, those Demme regulars Charles Napier, Tracey Walter and Roger Corman. --Jim Emerson

• Risen | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £5.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (117.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The true story of Howard Winstone is both remarkable and compelling. As a young man he was one of the biggest rising talents in amateur boxing until a factory accident crushed his fingers the tips of three were amputated meaning that hand could no longer make a proper fist! His father wouldnt let him gripe and he was soon punching a coal bag to keep his spirits up. Under a new trainer Eddie Thomas he started to learn a new style and once again rise up victoriously through the amateur ranks. He had completely changed the way he boxed and from there remarkably went on to become Champion of Britain and Champion of Europe.

• In The Name Of The Father | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  If it had been written as a piece of fiction no one would have believed it, but In the Name of the Father is the true story of one of the most shocking episodes in British legal history. Dealing with the events surrounding the Guildford pub bombing in 1974 and the subsequent 15-year fight for justice, the film portrays a nation in the grip of an anti-system, desperate to find culprits at any cost, however immoral, illegal or brutal. By playing out the drama in personal as well as political terms--the relationship between Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis) and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) becomes the story's centrepiece--the film works on numerous levels, but the events are no less shameful for it. The court case that ultimately freed the three men and one woman only takes centre stage for the last 20 minutes but despite that--and the fact that the outcome is no secret--it is high drama and completely gripping. This is an unmissable example of genuinely courageous cinema. On the DVD: Where the real-life events behind the film might have offered huge scope for additional material, the DVD provides little beyond production and cast notes. The film's re-creation of both 1970s Belfast and London is very realistic, intensified by the anamorphic screen ratio, and the excellent soundtrack (including Bono, Sinead O'Connor and Thin Lizzy), which helps drive the action, is intensified by the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. --Phil Udell

• A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (Pka You Are My Friend) | Blu Ray | (08/06/2020) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his scepticism, learning about kindness, love and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbour.

• Above the Street Below the Water | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £4.75   |  Saving you £8.24 (173.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ask is married to Anne and they have everything you could ever want. Good careers lovely children an apartment in a fashionable area of Denmark and each other. Everything appears to be just as it should be in a modern family faced with juggling work schedules child rearing and not least of all love.

• Six Feet Under: The Complete First Series | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £18.93   |  Saving you £32.06 (169.36%)   |  RRP £50.99

  Six Feet Under is not just a smartly written, sublimely acted soap that happens to be set in a funeral home; it's a profound mixture of emotional truths and whimsical black comedy that uses its setting to comment upon the way we live, with the omnipresent spectre of death throwing life's problems into sharp relief. Creator Alan Ball (American Beauty) understands modern neuroses more than most, it seems, and his rich sense of the absurd is given added potency, not to say piquancy, by the sometimes comically ridiculous juxtaposition of life and death. The first series introduces the Fisher family, whose already weighty emotional baggage is bolstered by the sudden demise of their patriarch, who has willed the family funeral home to his two initially hostile sons, wayward Nate (Peter Krause) and in-the-closet David (Michael C Hall). Teenage younger sister Claire (Lauren Ambrose) and repressed mother Ruth (Frances Conroy) have their own problems, as does put-upon mortician Federico (Freddy Rodriguez). The first year's unfolding story arc includes the family's resistance to a hostile big corporation, Nate's budding romance with wild card Brenda (stunningly good Rachel Griffiths), David's attempts to reconcile his Christian faith with his homosexuality, Claire's self-destructive boyfriend trouble and Ruth's gradual realisation that, although she was a wife and is a mother, she's entitled to have a life too. On the DVD: Six Feet Under, Series 1 spreads 13 episodes across four discs. Care has been taken to reflect the show's stylish look in everything from the novel external packaging to the menu layouts. Picture is good, but only standard 4:3 ratio, though sound is vivid Dolby 5.1. The bonus features include two episode commentaries from creator Alan Ball, who happily chats about the pilot and the season finale, both of which he wrote and directed. There's a 22-minute "Behind the Scenes" featurette--standard HBO fare with cast interviews. More interesting is "Under the Main Titles", which explores Digital Kitchen's creation of the fascinating opening title sequence and talks to genius composer Thomas Newman about his theme music. The music can also be heard in an audio-only track as well as in Kid Loco's "Graveyard" remix. Text biographies, episode synopses and Web links complete the extras. One minor niggle: there's no "Play All" facility, so you can't indulge the luxury of watching uninterrupted episodes back-to-back. --Mark Walker