Drama

• Psycho | DVD | (01/01/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony.

• Les Miserables | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (259.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the classic novel from Victor Hugo this is an epic tale of love honour and obsession against the dramatic background of the French Revolution. Jean Valjean (Depardieu) lives a life on the run his punishment for stealing a loaf of bread when starving. Settling in a remote town he devotes himself to the care of the poor including the poverty stricken Fantine. When she dies her daughter Cosette (Ledoyen) is raised by Valjean but both are haunted by Javert (Malkovich) a

• Arrested Development - Complete Seasons 1-3 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  They say 'family' is an institution; this family belongs in one! After his father is imprisoned level-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs in the Bluth empire. But the rest of his spoiled dysfunctional family are making the job unbearable! This three season box set includes every episode from the first three seasons of the Emmy Award-winning show.

• Buddha of Suburbia | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £9.92   |  Saving you £10.07 (101.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Karim's mother is English and his father is Indian. Therefore Karim has some problems with life in British society which is becoming more and more racist and intolerant; he experiences this especially when he wants to find himself a way of becoming an actor.

• Only The Brave BD | Blu Ray | (12/03/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All men are created equal then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it they watch over our lives, our homes, everything we hold dear, as they forge a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire.

• The Magician | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sort of existential horror movie set in what often feels like a darkly imaginary 1846, The Magician is Ingmar Bergman's meditation on the restrictive nature of modern rationalism. Max Von Sydow cuts a suitably melancholy and mystical figure as Dr Vogler, the mute hypnotist who travels with a group of players to Stockholm, only to be examined and humiliated by a team of sceptical inquisitors led by Gunnar Bjornstrand's Dr Vergerus and a hog-like police chief. Dr Vogler exacts his revenge on Vergerus, however, in an extraordinary feat of illusion.With its elaborate, occasionally expressionistic sets and its feel of a scrupulously re-enacted nightmare, The Magician is reminiscent at times of Poe or even The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. However, the "below stairs" characters--including Ake Fridell's ebullient Master of Ceremonies and a host of giggling wenches--add comic energy to what is otherwise a startling and sombre reflection of the nature of art and life. It would prove a turning point in Bergman's career as he moved away from his early, "romantic" period.On the DVD: Presented in the original academy ratio, the mix of soft light and harsh shade for which credit should go to photographer Gunnar Fischer, is well-restored here. In notes from his memoirs included here, Bergman relates how his adventures and privations as part of a theatre company in Malmo provided inspiration for The Magician, while critic Ronald Bergman's notes talk of "the ability of the artist to find truth in both fact and fantasy". --David Stubbs

• Heartbeat - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £18.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (37.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and initially starring former EastEnder Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines with a host of colourful characters that viewers took to their hearts and a wonderfully nostalgic soundtrack. Staple Sunday-night viewing for two decades Heartbeat won several prestigious TV awards - including Best Performing Peak-Time Drama in 1999 and a number of ITV Programme of the Year awards. Attracting a peak audience of 14 million and spawning a highly successful spin-off The Royal and a Top Ten hit single the series has garnered a devoted following and remains prime-time viewing world-wide. Available for the first time on DVD this complete third series was originally transmitted in October 1993 and features guest appearances by among others Daniel Craig Dora Bryan Clive Swift and Susan Jameson.

• A Private War | DVD | (10/06/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the extraordinary life of Marie Colvin, A Private War is brought to the screen by Academy Award® and BAFTA nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts), this is his pulse pounding narrative feature debut. In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Academy Award®and BAFTA nominee Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado. After being hit by a grenade in Sri Lanka, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable sipping martinis with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Colvin sacrifices loving relationships, and over time, her personal life starts to unravel as the trauma she's witnessed takes its toll. Yet, her mission to show the true cost of war leads her --along with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) - to embark on the most dangerous assignment of their lives in the besieged Syrian city of Homs.

• Bugsy | DVD | (09/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bugsy represents an almost miraculous combination of director, writer and star on a project that represents a career highlight for everyone involved. It's one of the best American gangster movies ever made--as good in its own way as any of the Godfather films--and it's impossible to imagine anyone better than Beatty in the movie's flashy title role. As notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary "Bugsy" Siegel, Beatty is perfectly cast as a man whose dreams are greater than his ability to realise them--or at least, greater than his ability to stay alive while making those dreams come true. With a glamorous Hollywood mistress (Annette Bening) who shares Bugsy's dream while pursuing her own upwardly mobile agenda, Bugsy seems oblivious to threats when he begins to spend too much of the mob's money on the creation of the Flamingo casino. Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) and Mickey Cohen (Harvey Keitel) will support Bugsy's wild ambition to a point, after which all bets are off, and Bugsy's life hangs in the balance. From the obvious chemistry of Beatty and Bening (who met and later married off-screen) to the sumptuous reproduction of 1940s Hollywood, every detail in this movie feels impeccably right. Beatty is simply mesmerising as the man who invented Las Vegas but never saw it thrive, moving from infectious idealism to brutal violence in the blink of an eye. Director Barry Levinson is also in peak form here, guiding the stylish story with a subtle balance of admiration and horror; we can catch Bugsy's Vegas fever and root for the gangster's success, but we know he'll get what he deserves. We might wish that Bugsy had lived to see his dream turn into a booming oasis, but the movie doesn't suggest that we should shed any tears. --Jeff Shannon

• Vera: Series 11 (Eps 5 & 6) | DVD | (27/02/2023) from £18.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Final two episodes from the eleventh series of the ITV crime thriller based on the novels by Ann Cleeves, starring Brenda Blethyn as Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Along with trusted partner Detective Sergeant Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty), Vera and her team carry out various murder investigations in Northumberland. In these episodes, Vera investigates the murder of a popular GP and a body found on the banks of the River Tyne. The episodes are: 'Vital Signs' and 'The Way the Wind Blows'.

• Come And See | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Elem Klimov's powerful mesmerising and dynamic award winning feature has been deservedly hailed as one of the greatest war films ever produced. Set in Soviet Belarus during the Second World War the story follows Florya a newly enlisted and innocent partisan as he staggers dazed and petrified through the merciless horror of the struggle against a cruel German aggressor. Essentially the film is a rite of passage and Florya's face physically ages during the progression of the film a

• My Week with Marilyn | Blu Ray | (16/03/2012) from £3.19   |  Saving you £21.80 (683.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Anyone doubting the layered, nuanced, and heartbreaking acting abilities of Michelle Williams will find My Week with Marilyn a tremendous revelation. And Williams fans will enjoy it even more. In My Week with Marilyn Williams takes on the formidable challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe, and does so with depth and assuredness, and without resorting to caricature. Williams's Marilyn commands the screen with pain and delicacy, and doesn't let go until the final credits. My Week with Marilyn focuses on a small time frame in Monroe's life, right after her marriage to Arthur Miller. Monroe, already "the world's most famous woman," still feels the need for validation as an actress. What better way to achieve that, she believes, than committing to costarring with Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl, a film she firmly believed would finally cement her reputation as a serious actress. My Week with Marilyn is based on the short memoir of Colin Clark, a crew member on The Prince and the Showgirl, who quickly became the confidant of the wildly insecure Monroe and watched a train wreck of egos--mostly Olivier's and Monroe's--collide in a fiery near-disaster. Kenneth Branagh gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as the exasperated Olivier, resentful of the "new blood" in Hollywood that the young Monroe represents, and disdainful of her cult-like devotion to Method acting. (And of Monroe's chronic tardiness, which threatens to undermine the veddy, veddy strict British work schedule.) Eddie Redmayne plays Clark with a sweet, gentle veneer, someone who grows to care genuinely about the complex Monroe. Julia Ormond is clipped and proper as Olivier's then-wife, Vivien Leigh, and Emma Watson shows a lovely gravitas as Lucy, Monroe's acting coach. But it's Williams who gives the revelatory performance, capturing with painful intensity the insecurity that begins to seep out of Monroe like a fearful sweat. "Excuse my horrible face," she blurts out, while looking nothing less than her usual radiant self. Where does this tragic insecurity come from? My Week with Marilyn doesn't attempt to answer the unanswerable, but instead shines a light on the very real woman who became lost in the giant shadow of legend. --A.T. Hurley

• Ganges | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (56.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Ganges River (Gang Ma or Great Mother) is the holiest river in the world. Rising from the pure glacial meltwaters of the Himalayas it flows down onto India's Northern Plain then heads eastwards into the swamplands of Bangladesh finally discharging a 500-km (310-mile) tongue of red silt into the Bay of Bengal. As well as filling wells and irrigating crops to sustain the cities and villages along its banks it is the spiritual life-blood for India's primary religion Hinduism. B

• Moby Dick | Blu Ray | (11/11/2019) from £14.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  John Huston's 1956 classic, Moby Dick, is one of the great epic adventure movies. Adapted from the novel by Herman Melville and starring Gregory Peck and Orson Welles, this is the tale of Capt. Ahab who has a vendetta against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for taking his leg. He sets out on a treacherous sea voyage aboard The Pequod, along with a crew including Starbuck (Leo Genn), Father Mapple (Orson Welles) and Ishmael (Richard Basehart), to hunt down the elusive beast. With reckless abandon, Ahab leads the crew on his obsessive and suicidal quest, anxious for a final showdown with the legendary white whale. Extras: Interview with Script Supervisor to Moby Dick and many more John Huston films - Angela Allen Audio commentary with film historians Julie Kirgo, Paul Seydor and Nick Redman A Bleached Whale - Recreating the Unique Colour of Moby Dick (5:41 featurette) Original theatrical trailer Behind the scenes stills gallery

• Oliver Twist | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Bleasdale pens this original television adaptation of Dickens' classic novel. Having grown up in the workhouse of Mr Bumble (David Ross) young orphan Oliver (Sam Smith) has only ever known hardship and poverty. When he ends up on the streets of London he is taken in by Fagin (Robert Lindsay) and inaugurated into the ways of the pickpocket and it is while attempting to master this new craft that Oliver encounters a family who hold the key to his own hidden past.

• Take This Waltz | Blu Ray | (07/01/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (82.60%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A funny, powerful and beautifully bittersweet story that follows Margot as she struggles to choose between two different types of love. As her mind and heart battle against each other, Margot uncovers a side to herself that she never knew existed.

• Dexter - Season 3 | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £29.00 (484.14%)   |  RRP £34.99

  To all around him blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan appears to be a perfect gentleman and respected member of the police force but behind this convincing facade Dexter harbours a terrifying secret. He is a serial killer. The Emmy-nominated series returns for an all-new season - and this time Dexter's got a new take on taking life. Having faced some of his darkest demons Dexter's ready to put the past behind him. Now with family life a day job catching kills and an uncontrollable urge to do away with the ones that get away Dexter's got his work cut out for him. And when a high-profile case sides him with powerful Assistant DA Miguel Prado the pressure might be too great for even our most beloved serial killer.

• Edge | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £6.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (130.97%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Washed-up pop star (Paul Hilton) arrives at the Cliff Edge Hotel looking for inspiration and meets a guilt-ridden woman (Maxine Peake), who is desperate to recover her past. An older woman (Marjorie Yates) checks into a room to kill herself, but encounters a chambermaid (Ania Wendzikowska) who just won’t let her die. A blind date set up on the Internet between two teenagers (Joe Dempsie, Nichola Burley) fails to turn out like either of them expected. Over the course of two days and one night the hotel guests, frozen into the snowy landscape, begin to thaw- and to find a purpose that connects them all.

• Luther | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £3.81   |  Saving you £21.18 (555.91%)   |  RRP £24.99

  What if your worst enemy was your own conscience? Starring Idris Elba (The Wire) Luther is a deeply thrilling crime series crackling with energy distinctive characters and snappy clever dialogue. On a moral crusade too often with only his convictions for company John Luther is a deeply troubled man a philosophical cop possessed by the insoluble problem of evil and justice in a Godless world. Confronting depravity in its many terrible forms over a succession of psychological duels between hunter and hunted perpetrator and prey Luther reveals his capacity for violence as well as kindness; his sudden vulnerability and dizzying visionary mind; why his wife left him for another man and why his colleagues are frequently left open-mouthed in awe. As the stakes get ever higher and more personal Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation. Will the relentless pursuit of light tip him into the ultimate darkness?

• Christmas Shoes | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £4.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (6.00%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Seasonal drama based on the novel by Donna van Liere. Two stories intertwine: in the first, Rob Lowe stars as Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar) and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. As Robert's path crosses with Nathan's, he is moved to learn the value of love, family and giving.