Drama

• Quiz Show | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This vigorously entertaining film, sharply directed by Robert Redford fr om Paul Attanasio's brilliant screenplay, is based on the game-show scandals of the 1950s, when TV quiz shows were rigged to attract higher ratings and lucrative sponsorships. The fact-based story focuses on the quiz show Twenty-One and popular contestant Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), a charming, well-bred intellectual who agreed to win the game by using answers supplied by the show's producers. This unfair advantage turned Van Doren into a prototypical media darling at the expense of reigning Twenty-One champion Herbie Stempel (John Turturro, in a bravura performance), a working-class Jewish contestant who, according to the show's sponsors, had worn out his welcome in the public eye. When a congressional investigator (Rob Morrow) catches on to the scam and Stempel blows the whistle on this backstage manipulation, Quiz Show becomes a smart, political exposè about the first generation of television, the corrupting effect of celebrity and success, and the ongoing loss of innocence in American society. Bristling with superior dialogue and energized by an excellent cast including Paul Scofield as Van Doren's morally upstanding father, Quiz Show succeeds as history lesson, intelligent thriller, and morality tale, setting the stage for the countless scandals that would follow in a nation addicted to television. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Things We Lost In The Fire | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

• Before The Devil Knows You're Dead | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £6.77   |  Saving you £14.48 (262.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewellery store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that threatens to tear the family apart once and for all.

• La Dolce Vita | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £22.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marcello Mastroianni plays a playboy reporter on the hunt for scandal amongst Rome's high society in this classic Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. Both drawn to and repelled by the decadent lifestyle that provides his living he finds himself torn between his passion for a starlet (Anita Ekberg) and his desire for a Bohemian life like that of his friend (Alain Cuny)...

• An Affair To Remember | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £6.27   |  Saving you £6.72 (107.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this legendary tearjerker the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged to the wrong woman--and she's engaged to the wrong man. They finally agree to spend six months apart; if they still love each other at the end of that time they will reunite at the top of the Empire State Building. But the path of true

• Requiem for a Dream (4K UHD & BD WITHOUT DC) | Blu Ray | (30/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrating its 20th anniversary with a 4K Ultra HD™¬release, Darren Aronofsky's¬Requiem¬ for a Dream with a screenplay by Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr., based on Selby's novel stars Oscar®¬winners* Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Ellen Burstyn, along with Marlon Wayans, in a hypnotic film about four people pursuing their visions of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. UHD Special Features: On Set: 1999 Transcendent Moments: The Score Of Requiem For A Dream Ellen Burstyn On Requiem For A Dream Through Their Eyes: Revisiting Requiem For A Dream Blu-Ray Special Features: Commentary With Director Darren Aronofsky Commentary With Director Of Photography Matthew Libatique The Making Of Requiem For A Dream Memories, Dreams And Addictions - Ellen Burstyn Interviews Hubert Selby Jr. Hubert Selby Jr. Reads To Ellen Burstyn Deleted Scenes With Optional Director'S Commentary

• Last Tango In Paris | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £7.77   |  Saving you £8.22 (105.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Penetrate the moody sensual world of Last Tango in Paris and prepare yourself for 'the most controversial film of its era'. Nominated for two Academy Awards and exuding a sexual energy unlike any film before or after this is the scintillating classic that shocked a nation and 'altered the face of an art form'. He (Brando) is a 45-year-old American living in Paris haunted by his wife's suicide. She (Maria Schneider) is 20 year old Parisian beauty engaged to a young filmmaker. Though nameless to each other these tortured souls come together to satisfy their sexual cravings in an apartment as bare as their dark tragic lives. Caught up in the frenzied beat of a carnal dance they cannot seem to stop these unlikely lovers take their passion to erotic heights - and depths - beyond anything they could ever have imagined.

• The Peasants | Blu Ray | (17/06/2024) from £16.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the Academy Award nominated director and producers of Loving Vincent, comes a stunning and epic new animation based on the Nobel Prize winning novel. A young woman, Jagna, is determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village, rife with gossip, feuds and inequality. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village's richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

• Ran | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £17.50   |  Saving you £2.49 (14.23%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Akira Kurosawa's brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' magically mixes Japanese history Shakespeare's plot and Kurosawa's own feelings about loyalty in this epic masterpiece. Set in 16th century Japan an aging ruler Lord Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) announces his intention to divide his land equally among his three sons. This decision to step down unleashes a power struggle between the three when Hidetora falls prey to the false flattery bestowed upon him by the two older sons and banishes the youngest when he speaks the truth. The ruthless betrayal ultimately drives Hidetora insane destroying his entire family and kingdom. Deep human emotion and outstanding acting combine to create one of the most acclaimed foreign films of all time.

• Blue Collar (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £7.82   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After writing Taxi Driver for Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader made his directorial debut with this profane and profound drama about life on the factory floor of a Detroit car manufacturing plant. With explosive performances from the great Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy), Harvey Keitel (The Border, Pulp Fiction) and Yaphet Kotto (Live and Let Die, Alien), Blue Collar presents one of the most authentic portraits of working-class life in all American cinema, and is one of the finest films of the 1970s. Extras: Indicator Standard Edition Special Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with writer-director Paul Schrader and author Maitland McDonagh Paul Schrader BFI Masterclass (1982, 106 mins): the filmmaker presents a fascinating summary of the many issues and ideas he explores in his screenwriting class, recorded at the National Film Theatre, London 'Visions': Interview with Paul Schrader (1982): archival interview, presented in two versions the broadcast cut with its original Tony Rayns introduction (21 mins), and the complete interview rushes with a newly recorded introduction by Tony Rayns (58 mins) Keith Gordon on ˜Blue Collar' (2018, 12 mins): a new filmed appreciation by the filmmaker and actor Original theatrical trailer Josh Olson trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): a short critical appreciation. Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• Gandhi 4K UHD SteelBook | Blu Ray | (28/04/2025) from £27.47   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sir Richard Attenborough's sweeping biography of Mohandas Gandhi, who rose from simple lawyer to worldwide symbol of peace and understanding. Gandhi earned eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor

• Red Road | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £9.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (104.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A CCTV operator has to confront a man she thought she would never see again.

• The Help | Blu Ray | (12/03/2012) from £10.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (129.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The Help is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behaviour is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.

• Marple - Series 4 | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £12.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (48.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Miss Marple (New): Series 4 (4 Discs)

• The Shillingbury Tales | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring all 6 episodes of ITV's short-lived comedy-drama series. The village of Shillingbury is a tranquil place staunch in the established old-fashioned values of rural England. It is a picture postcard place of honeysuckle and home-made strawberry jam fine thatched roofs a timbered pub and contented folk...

• Father Brown Series 10 | Blu Ray | (13/03/2023) from £27.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The year is now 1954 and the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford sees new faces join Father Brown's team of sleuths. The dashing Chief Inspector Sullivan is back and proves a pleasant distraction for Mrs Devine, Father Brown's lively new Parish Secretary, while plucky new housekeeper Brenda helps the priest's crime solving. With royal visits, kidnappings and notorious gangsters to contend with, Father Brown also faces his old adversary Flambeau who returns to Kembleford after being accused of murder. Father Brown risks his own life to prove his innocence but is his faith in Flambeau misplaced?

• Miss Marple – The Murder at the Vicarage & 4.50 from Paddington | DVD | (30/10/2017) from £10.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Classic murder mysteries by the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, filmed entirely on location, oozing period atmosphere and featuring award-winning actress Joan Hickson, the most popular Miss Marple ever. The Murder at The Vicarage When Colonel Protheroe is murdered in St Mary Mead, Miss Marple wonders why so many people want to confess. 4.50 From Paddington When Mrs McGillicuddy witness a murder on a passing train, the absence of a body leads no-one to believe her. Except Miss Marple.

• Into The Wild | Blu Ray | (20/07/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A young man leaves his middle class existence for a life a adventure in the North American wilderness. His journey takes him to Alaska, where he must fight to survive in the harsh environment.

• Blue Valentine | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £7.55   |  Saving you £10.44 (138.28%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ryan Gosling (The Notebook, Half Nelson) and Michelle Williams (Shutter Island, Brokeback Mountain) star in Blue Valentine, a honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks.

• Going Postal | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £31.96   |  Saving you £-11.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Tale of Love and Revenge... and Stamps. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist of the highest degree: polite charming and skillful in his work. Nevertheless as the story begins he is confined to a cell in Ankh Morpork and scheduled to die within half an hour after having stolen AM0 000. He is saved when Lord Vetinari offers him a choice: he can walk out of the door (and fall to his death) or he can become Postmaster of the city's run down Post Office. Lipwig chooses the latter hoping for a chance to escape. Unfortunately for him Lipwig's first and last attempt at escape is thwarted by a golem named Mr. Pump who delivers Lipwig back to the office of the Patrician...