Drama

• The Double Life of Veronique 4K UHD + Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (17/04/2023) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This new 4K Ultra HD of Krzysztof Kieślowski's celebrated Sixties-set drama follows two young women, both called Veronica, who seem to have a single existence, albeit in different countries. They are identical, sharing mannerisms, predilections and musical talent. They nurture ambition, hopes and loves, and suffer from the same rare heart disease. Kieślowski's oblique, luminously photographed and hauntingly scored film is an enigmatic tale of double identity. The Double Life of Veronique | 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray 4K Ultra HD disc, new 4K restoration presented in Dolby Vision HDR, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD sound, English & optional English SDH subtitles Blu-Ray disc with DTS Master Audio and Special Features 5 Art cards each illustrated by a different artist O-ring with alternative design by Andrew Bannister Product Features Conversation with Kieślowski Interview with Irène Jacob Kieślowski Polish Filmmaker (Documentary, 2005) 3 short films by Kieślowski: Factory (1971), Hospital (1977), Railway Station (1980) Additional short film: The Musicians (1958), by Kieślowski's teacher and mentor

• Iceman | DVD | (17/09/2018) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Ötztal Alps, more than 5,300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled nearby a creek. It is their leader Kelab s responsibility to be the keeper of the group's holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab's wife and son, only one newborn survives... and Tineka is gone. Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab is out for one thing alone: vengeance. He sets out after the murderers on what turns into a grand odyssey where he must fight constantly for the infant s survival; against the immense forces of nature; against hunters he encounters; and, amongst the loneliness of the quest, against a growing sense of doubt over the morality of his mission. Inspired by the discovery of Ötzi The Iceman , the oldest known human mummy, found in 1991 approximately 5,300 years after his death, ICEMAN is an epic, riveting, visually stunning and immersive revenge thriller that investigates a five-thousand-year-old murder mystery. NB: the characters in ICEMAN speak an early version of the Rhaetic language. The film intentionally has no subtitles as translation is not required to comprehend the story.

• Jakoman and Tetsu | Blu Ray | (21/04/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jakoman and Tetsu is an early action masterpiece from Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale), adapted from a script written by the legendary Akira Kurosawa. Set in 1947 in a small coastal village among the majestic snowy landscapes of Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, Ken Takakura (the Abashiri Prison series, Ridley Scott's Black Rain) is Tetsu, the prodigal son who returns from the war to help out his father Kyubei with the family herring fishing business. His arrival coincides with that of a one-eyed miscreant named Jakoman, played by Tetsuro Tamba (Harakiri, You Only Live Twice), who bears a long-standing grudge against Kyubei and is intent on causing as much mayhem among the hordes of seasonal fishermen as possible.

• The Monuments Men | Blu Ray | (09/06/2014) from £7.03   |  Saving you £19.22 (333.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Starring a phenomenal ensemble cast led by Matt Damon and George Clooney and based on a true and untold story of World War II The Monuments Men is suspenseful ticking-clock adventure-thriller about a ragtag team of unlikely but charismatic heroes embarking on the greatest treasure hunt in history taking on the seemingly impossible high-stakes mission to rescue the world's greatest works of art which the Nazi's are hell-bent on destroying.

• How Do You Know | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £4.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (270.93%)   |  RRP £17.99

  From legendary director/writer James L. Brooks comes a humorous and romantic look at the How Do You Know question. When everything she's ever known is suddenly taken from her Lisa (Reese Witherspoon) begins a fling with Matty (Owen Wilson) a major league baseball player and self-centred ladies man. Before their relationship takes off Lisa meets up with George (Paul Rudd) a straight-arrow businessman facing his own serious issues both with his father (Jack Nicholson) and the law. Just when everything seems to be falling apart they discover what it means to have something wonderful happen.

• The Crown Season 6 | Blu Ray | (16/09/2024) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In the final season of the groundbreaking series,a relationship blossoms between Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed before a fateful car journey hasdevastating consequences. Prince William tries to integrate back into life at Eton in the wake of his mother's death as the monarchy has toride the wave of public opinion. As she reaches her Golden Jubilee, the Queen reflects on the future of the monarchy with the marriage of Charles and Camilla and the beginnings of a new royal fairy tale in William and Kate.

• Maria | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie and Spencer) and starring Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie, MARIA tells the glamorous, moving story of the iconic opera singer, Maria Callas. Paris, 1977: Once the world's greatest soprano, Callas now hides in an apartment, having lost her voice and retreated from the world. She dreams of returning to the stage, but can her body and mind take the pressure?

• The Accused | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in The Accused (1988), based on an actual incident. While out for a night of fun at a poolroom, before her character knows what's happening she finds that the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centres on the efforts of a district attorney (Kelly McGillis) to press her case, in spite of a wall of silence by the participants--and then to take the unusual step of going after the witnesses as accomplices. Foster is outstanding as a tough, blue-collar woman who persists in what seems like an unwinnable case, despite the prospect of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall Fine

• Psycho | DVD | (01/01/1999) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  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 £4.88   |  Saving you £13.11 (268.65%)   |  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 £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  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 £7.55   |  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 £22.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (13.59%)   |  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 £8.25   |  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

• 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 £7.10   |  Saving you £17.89 (251.97%)   |  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