Drama

• Pilgrimage | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ireland, 1209. A group of monks including a young novice (Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Lost City of Z) and a mute lay-brother (Jon Bernthal, The Punisher, The Wolf of Wall Street) are tasked with transporting an ancient relic across the wilderness. As the true significance of the relic becomes apparent; their path becomes increasingly fraught with danger. The monks quickly realise that in this wild land of ancient superstitions, the faith that binds them together may ultimately lead to their destruction.

• The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil - Complete Series | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete series of the 1986 BBC Bafta award winning drama starring Patricia Hodge Dennis Waterman and Julie T Wallace. A screen of bizarre probably satanic sigils set the scene for this adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel about infidelity and impersonation.

• Robbery | Blu Ray | (31/08/2015) from £15.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the planning and execution of criminal cause celebre the Great Train Robbery, this taut, meticulously researched drama stars Stanley Baker as a crime boss undertaking the heist of his career with Frank Finlay and Barry Foster among the gang he assembles, and James Booth as the dogged detective who's determined to catch them all.Co-produced by Baker and directed by multiple-Oscar-nominated Peter Yates, Robbery is a classic of British Film exceptionally scripted (winning a WGGB Award for Best British Screenplay), powerfully acted and sporting a legendary score by composer-arranger Johnny Keating. It is presented here as a brand-new High Definition restoration from original film elements in its original aspect ratio.Having successfully pulled off a daring jewel heist, Paul Clifton prepares to hit a mail train heading south from Glasgow. Several difficulties stand in his way, however, not the least of which is the police who are hot on his tail and already know he's planning something bigger...SPECIAL FEATURES:Brand-new interview with Michael Deeley recorded for this release Cinema: Stanley Baker an archive interview from 1972 German film The Great Train Robbery Waiting for the Signal: The Making of Robbery brand-new documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew Behind-the-scenes footage archive news footage of the filming at Market Harborough Image gallery - posters, lobby cards, memorabilia and production stills Original campaign guide, exhibitors' manual and flyers in PDF format 32 page booklet by film historian Sheldon HallABOUT THE RESTORATION:Previously released on DVD from an old 1.33:1 (4:3 pan and scan) transfer, Robbery has now been scanned to 2K resolution from the 35mm original negative and restored in its correct theatrical aspect ratio (1.66:1).The restoration involved grain management, both automated and manual removal of film dirt and damage, and correction of major instability, warping and density fluctuations. The image has been fully colour corrected. While conforming, it was found that a ten second interior shot of the police car during the opening chase sequence had been cut from the DVD release. This has been re-instated for this restoration.The original 35mm magnetic audio elements were unfortunately in a very poor condition and unable to be used due to deterioration, so the existing mono soundtrack has been restored.

• Romeo And Juliet | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Italian director Franco Zeffirelli stunned the world when he cast two young unknowns to portray the star crossed lovers in 'Romeo and Juliet' but it was a gamble that resulted in one of the most popular motion pictures of the time winning international acclaim and two Academy Awards. Shakespeare's classic romance comes to stunning visual life in a modern young person's interpretation bringing new vitality and a fresh insight to the most durable love story ever written.

• The Big Easy | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £10.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A hot and steamy thriller in more ways than one! To Lieutenant Remy McSwain life in New Orleans is all about the 'Big Easy' until a series of gang killings spiral out of control. When a beautiful investigator Ann Osborne arrives from the D.A.'s police corruption task force Remy realises he is caught between truth and lies honour and corruption. Soon he finds himself jailed for attempting bribes and life is far from 'The Big Easy'.

• Wilde | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £16.66   |  Saving you £-6.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Wilde could easily have been nothing more than another well-dressed literary film from the British costume drama stable, but thanks to a richly textured performance from Stephen Fry in the title role, it becomes something deeper--a moving study of how the conflict between individual desires and social expectations can ruin lives. Oscar Wilde's writing may be justifiably legendary for its sly, barbed wit, but Wilde the film is far from a comedy, even though Fry relishes delivering the great man's famous quips. It takes on tragic dimensions as soon as Wilde meets Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie, the strikingly beautiful but viciously selfish young aristocrat who wins Oscar's heart but loses him his reputation, marriage and freedom. Fry is brilliant at capturing how the intensity of Wilde's love for Bosie threw him off balance, becoming an all-consuming force he was unable to resist. Jude Law expertly depicts both Bosie's allure and his spitefully destructive side, there are subtle supporting performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle and Zoe Wanamaker, and the period trappings are lavishly trowelled on. But this is Fry's show all the way: from Oscar the darling of theatrical London to Wilde the prisoner broken on the wheel of Victorian moralism, he doesn't put a foot wrong. It feels like the role he was born to play. --Andy Medhurst

• L'Homme Du Train | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  You wouldn't think that a movie, which mostly consists of two old guys talking could be a thriller, but that's exactly what L'Homme du Train is. French singer Johnny Hallyday plays a professional criminal who comes to a small town to take part in a robbery. By chance, he meets talkative Jean Rochefort, who invites the laconic Hallyday to stay at his house because the hotel is closed. The two form an unlikely friendship, each curious about (and envious of) the other's life. But all the while plans for the robbery continue, while Rochefort is preparing for a dangerous event of his own. The pitch-perfect performances make L'Homme du Train completely involving. Rochefort and Hallyday play off of each other beautifully; it's impossible to put your finger on what makes these subtle, supple scenes so magnetic. The whole is directed with spare authority by Patrice Leconte (La Veuve de Saint-Pierre). --Bret Fetzer

• East is East / West is West Double Pack | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  East Is East: George Khan, proud Pakistani and chip shop owner, rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he's raising his seven children to be respectable Pakistanis - but this is Salford in the North of England, in 1971. For the seven kids of George Khan life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari, hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he's really at art school, heart throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local ...

• Step Up | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £4.43   |  Saving you £13.56 (306.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A skilled street dancer with a community service gig at an arts school draws the attention of an elite ballet dancer, and sparks fly both on and off stage.

• The Breakfast Club | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £12.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  They only met once but it changed their lives forever. Without doubt John Hughes' The Breakfast Club is one of the greatest teen movies of all-time if not the best. Without it we might not have witnessed the phenomenal rise of the 'brat pack'; the group of actors synonymous with the teen films of the '80s. They were five teenage students with nothing in common faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their High School library. At 7am they had nothing to say but by 4pm they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply the Jock the Brain the Criminal the Princess and the Kook but to each other they would always be the Breakfast Club. The film's title comes from the nickname invented by students and staff for detention at the school attended by the son of one of John Hughes' friends. Thus those who were sent to detention were designated members of The Breakfast Club.

• Traffic | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.25   |  Saving you £15.74 (370.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The film tells three concurrent stories set in and around the US-Mexico drugs trade that gradually overlap and intertwine. Michael Douglas portrays the US’ latest drugs czar with an addict teenage daughter at home, Catherine Zeta Jones plays the unsuspe

• Marilyn Monroe: The Collection (Vol. 1) | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £22.86   |  Saving you £17.13 (74.93%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Volume 1 of a collection of classic Marilyn Monroe movies including: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1956) Gentlemen may prefer blondes but this blonde bombshell prefers diamonds and lots of them! Glamorous showgirl Marilyn sets sail for France intent on marrying a rich yet boring beau. But anything can - and does - happen with the beautiful and fun-loving Jane Russell acting as chaperone. From celebrated director Howard Hawks this musical comedy classic features Marilyn's s

• The Set-Up | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Journeyman boxer Stoker Thompson (Robert Ryan) thinks that he has one last good fight in him in order to get a payout and retire from the ring. His wife Julie (Audrey Trotter) pleads for him to quit whilst his manager Tiny (George Tobias) is so convinced that his man is going to lose that he has taken money from the mob in exchange for his man taking a ‘dive’. Unaware that his manager has double-crossed him and that he will be a target for the mob if he wins, Stoker strains every sinew of his raw courage to knock out his opponent. Director, Robert Wise, pulls no punches in this gritty drama whose boxing scenes are all the more realistic for Robert Ryan having been a college boxing champion. Hailed by many as one of the greatest films of the 1940’s, with its seventy-two minutes playing out in real time, The Set-Up is worthy of its BAFTA nomination.

• Tommy and Tuppence - Partners in Crime | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Suzhou River | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Mardar is a small-time crook who delivers packages without asking questions. Until he is asked to deliver a MeiMei, the daughter of a shady smuggler. Looking exactly like his long-lost love, Moudan, who threw herself into the Suzhou River, Mardar becomes convinced she is his dead lover. Set within the murky wastelands of Shanghai, Ye Lou's award-winning re-tooling of Hitchcock's Vertigo is a visual treat that features the kinetic style of Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express. A unique take on the neo-noir genre, Suzhou River is newly restored in 4K and made available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

• The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury) | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's film of The Canterbury Tales was one of a trilogy from the early 1970s that, like its companions The Decameron and the Arabian Nights, was an international box-office hit playing for long runs in mainstream cinemas. All of them adapt a masterpiece of literature where man becomes the moral catalyst for his own destiny. Chaucer's ribald sense of humour was a natural outlet for Pasolini's own desire to throw caution to the wind on screen, causing controversy at the time by displaying all facets of the male and female body unadorned. (Although it all looks pretty tame now, the Italian authorities were a threatening presence to Pasolini at the time.) Produced by Alberto Grimaldi with a large budget, the location scenes were filmed in many historic sites in England, notably Wells Cathedral, its crypt, and the surrounding flatlands leading toward Glastonbury, captured in early spring by Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography. The cast with Italian and English actors dubbed into Italian with English subtitles is a mixed blessing. Hugh Griffith as Sir January is one Anglo-Saxon recognisable from his role as the lecherous squire in Tom Jones, and overacts like the rest of the cast. Pasolini himself appears briefly as Chaucer in a non-speaking role that one regrets he didn't enlarge for himself in this sprawling tableaux of pilgrim's tales (Ken Russell's excesses from the same period come to mind). The musical score, an adaptation by Ennio Morricone of some traditional indigenous melodies, prefigures the early music revival by a few years and provides a stimulating soundtrack. --Adrian Edwards

• Diana - Her True Story | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £7.24   |  Saving you £-1.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on Andrew Morton's bestselling book the film traces Diana's transformation from shy young girl to public icon and sophisticated princess whose fairy tale marriage to Prince Charles soon turned into a nightmare well hidden outside the walls of Buckingham Palace. Until the book and this film revealed Diana's side of the story: her marital troubles her loneliness inside the royal family her suicide attempts and her struggles with bulimia. With this critically acclaimed film the world reached a new understanding of this complex fascinating woman.

• Mulholland Drive | Blu Ray | (13/01/2014) from £20.25   |  Saving you £2.74 (13.53%)   |  RRP £22.99

  David Lynch's acclaimed tale of murder and amnesia in Los Angeles. Having narrowly survived a murder attempt and a car crash, a shocked and wounded woman (Laura Elena Harring) takes refuge in a nearby apartment. When she is discovered the next morning by the apartment's official resident, aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), she confesses that she neither knows who she is nor what happened to her. The two women then begin to investigate, and it gradually becomes clear that they have kno...

• Land Of Mine | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Danish historical drama written and directed by Martin Zandvliet. After Germany's surrender in May 1945 signals the end of World War II, a group of young German prisoners are handed over to Danish sergeant Carl Leopold Rasmussen (Roland Moller) to clear the Danish coastline of thousands of live landmines. Promising them that they will be free to return home once the job is done, Rasmussen quickly sends the boys out onto the beaches to begin their dangerous assignment. However, as the group's inexperience starts to show, Carl soon finds himself forming a strong bond with his young charges as they attempt to carry on with their daunting task.

• Vienna Blood Season 1 | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1900s Vienna, a hot bed of philosophy, science and art, where a clash of cultures and ideas collide in the city's grand cafes and opera houses. Max Liebermann is a brilliant young English student of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. When Max comes into contact with Oskar Rheinhardt, a Detective Inspector struggling with a strange case, he agrees to help him investigate a series of unusual and disturbing murders. Max's extraordinary skills of perception and forensics, and his deep understanding of human behavior and deviance, lead them to solve some of Vienna's most mysterious and deadly cases.