Drama

• Silent Scream | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £3.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (287.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1963: When Larry Winters violently murders a Soho barman in cold blood he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Within ten years he is addicted to prescription drugs and feared as Scotland's most violent inmate. After being transferred to the experimental Barlinnie Special Unit Winters finds new and creative ways to express himself but continues to self-destructively explore drugs as a means to escape the confines of his prison cell. Based on a true story with exceptional performances from both Iain Glen and Robert Carlyle this brutal mind-bending journey into the damaged mind of a violent killer is as uncompromising as it is unforgettable.

• Elizabeth | Blu Ray | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cate Blanchett returns as the Virgin Queen in this lavish sequel to 1998 smash "Elizabeth".

• Made | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This compelling emotional drama stars Carol White as a young single mother who finds herself caught between two people a local priest and a folk singer each of whom wants to convert her to his own worldview. An elegy to a younger generation looking for something to believe in, Made co-stars hugely influential folk-rock musician Roy Harper in his screen debut. Produced by Joseph Janni who previously made the astonishingly successful Poor Cow with White directed by The Long Good Friday's John Mackenzie and featuring new songs specially composed by Harper, this much sought-after film is featured here in a brand-new restoration from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Booklet by Professor Neil Sinyard Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

• Joe Wright Triple Pack | Blu Ray | (13/06/2016) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anna Karenina: The third collaboration of Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with acclaimed director Joe Wright, following the award-winning box office successes Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, is a bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her. Atonement: Keira Knightley (Love Actually) and James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) star in this extraordinary film from the Director of Pride & Prejudice. Through a series of catastrophic misunderstandings, Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) is accused of a crime he did not commit. This accusation destroys Robbie and Cecilia's (Keira Knightley) new found love and dramatically alters the course of their lives. Pride & Prejudice: The five Bennet sisters have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry. When Lizzie meets the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy, what seems like a match made in heaven quickly becomes divided by pride and prejudice. Can they get past this and can Lizzie finally find a reason to marry? Bonus Features: Anna Karenina: Deleted Scenes; Anna Karenina: An Epic Story About Love; Adapting Tolstoy; Keira As Anna; On the Set With Director Joe Wright; Dressing Anna; Anna Karenina: Time-Lapse Photography; Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright Atonement: Deleted Scenes; Deleted Scenes with commentary; Feature commentary with Director Joe Wright; From Novel to Screen: Adapting a Classic; Bringing The Past To Life: The Making of Atonement Pride & Prejudice: Audio Commentary with Director Joe Wright; Conversations with the Cast (AKA On set Diaries); Jane Austen, Ahead of Her Time (AKA Life and Times of Jane Austen); A Bennet Family Portrait (AKA The Bennetts); Pride & Prejudice - A Classic in the Making (HBO First Look); The Politics of Dating (AKA The Politics of 18th Century); The Stately Homes of Pride & Prejudice; Alternate US Ending

• A Christmas Visitor | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Uplifting Christmas family drama. The Boyajian family have not celebrated Christmas for the last eleven years, since their son was killed on Christmas Day 1991 whilst serving in the Gulf War. After learning that their daughter Jean (Reagan Pasternak) has cancer, her dad (William Devane) thinks they should once again celebrate the holiday but he fails to win over his wife (Meredith Baxter). The couple have their faith restored, however, when a visitor (Dean McDermott) who served in the army with their son arrives and recounts their time together. Telling stories consisting of impossible details, he may just be the miracle the family has been waiting for.

• Rise Of The Krays | Blu Ray | (31/08/2015) from £5.59   |  Saving you £14.40 (257.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The early years of the most notorious criminals Britain has ever produced are portrayed in visceral brutality in THE RISE OF THE KRAYS. London, 1961: Ronnie and Reggie Kray begin a reign of terror that would endure and define London s East End for years to come. From protection rackets to members clubs, from brutal street brawls, arson via blackmail extending all the way up to the Cabinet Office, the Krays rained red on anyone who crossed them.

• Kids | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Larry Clark's controversial Kids is a film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope, but it's also an unblinking look at the dehumanising rituals of growing up. It really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin-busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Come and See (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (30/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• How I Live Now | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £3.59   |  Saving you £16.40 (456.83%)   |  RRP £19.99

  American teenager Daisy is sent to live with her cousins for the summer in the English countryside. However, their perfect world is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of war, leaving them isolated and forced to fend for themselves.

• Lip Service - Series 1 | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Lip Service is a bold new lesbian drama created by Harriet Braun (Mistresses Attachments) and follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something friends living in Glasgow. Meet Cat (Laura Fraser - A Knights Tale) a self assured architect whose life is spun upside down when her former lover Frankie (Ruta Gedmintas The Tudors) a talented but emotionally reckless photographer reappears in Glasgow unannounced after disappearing two years earlier. Tess Cat's best friend and flatmate has a proven track record of falling for the wrong sorts of women including sultry Lou (Roxanne McKee Hollyoaks). Starring a hot young British cast including Emun Elliott James Anthony Pearson Heather Peace Natasha O'Keefe and Tom Mannion Lip Service takes a fresh look at modern day relationships - in and outside of the bedroom.

• Sherlock Holmes And The House Of Fear | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £8.85   |  Saving you £-2.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sherlock Holmes ever abetted by the trusty Watson investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims...

• Secrets & Lies (1996) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (26/04/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Writer-director MIKE LEIGH (Naked) reached new levels of expressive power and intricacy in his ongoing contemplation of unembellished humanity with this resonant exploration of the deceptions, small and large, that shape our relationships to those we love. When Hortense (RoboCop's MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE), a Black optometrist who was adopted as a child, begins the search for her birth mother, she doesn't expect that it will lead her to Cynthia (Pride & Prejudice's BRENDA BLETHYN, winner of the Cannes Film Festival's best actress award), a desperately lonely white factory worker whose tentative embrace of her long-lost daughter sends shock waves through the rest of her already fragile family. Born from a painstaking process of rehearsal and improvisation with a powerhouse ensemble cast, Secrets & Lies is a Palme d'Orwinning tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath the surface of everyday lives. Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Mike Leigh and director of photography Dick Pope, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack New conversation with Leigh and composer Gary Yershon New interview with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste Audio interview with Leigh from 1996 conducted by film critic Michel Ciment Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Legend Of 1900 | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £30.00   |  Saving you £-17.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso, comes a remarkable fable about a boy raised on a steam ship who never once sets foot on the land.

• Joe Maddison's War | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in Newcastle in 1939 Joe Maddison's War features shipyard worker Joe (Kevin Whately) who feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war and he's shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge Joe and his friend Harry (Robson Green) reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard. A decision which leads Joe on a journey of self discovery learning lessons of heroism and friendship and also love...

• Basquiat | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In his writing and directorial debut, Julian Schnabel's film Basquiat depicts the life of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, aka SAMO, and the turbulent period from the late 1970s to 1988, as his life was catapulted into fame and notoriety. As Jean-Michel's work gained favourable attention from New York's elite art community, he went from a street punk living in a cardboard box to the first black artist to succeed in the all-white dominated art world. Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright does a brilliant job portraying a man tortured by self-doubt and thoughts of suicide, struggling to survive and be acknowledged as an artist. The film's use of dream-like imagery and rhythmic pace tells the story from the perspective of Jean-Michel's eyes as he manages to "float" through relationships and gallery showings,until his impending death in 1988 from a heroin overdose. Brimming with talent, the film also stars David Bowie as pop-artist Andy Warhol, Michael Wincott as poet Rene Ricard and many others, including Gary Oldman, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper and Courtney Love. --Michele Goodson

• Billy Elliot | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The winner of the audience award at this year's Edinburgh Film Festival.

• Preaching To The Perverted | DVD | (07/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Magnolia - Single Disc Set (1999) | DVD | (02/01/2000) from £8.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (90.36%)   |  RRP £15.99

  24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad.

• The Tree Of Wooden Clogs | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £13.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A three-hour peasant epic in which nothing very much happens might sound like the ultimate turn-off; but The Tree of Wooden Clogs ("L'Albero degli Zoccoli") is made with so much love and dedication that it rarely flags. Set in the Lombardy countryside in the closing years of the 19th century, the film traces the interconnected lives of four peasant families all living in the same large farmhouse. The most dramatic event, which gives the movie its title, is when a father chops down a tree so that his son can have clogs in which to walk to school, which leads to quiet tragedy in the final reel. The film's director Ermanno Olmi--himself of North Italian peasant stock--based his subject on incidents from his own childhood and tales told him by his grandfather. His cast were non-professionals, real peasants chosen from villages of the Bergamo region, whom he encouraged to improvise their own dialogue. All the shooting was done on location with a 16 mm camera, using natural lighting and direct sound--a revolutionary approach in Italy at the time, when almost all films were studio-bound and heavily dubbed. The results carry a rare conviction, the unselfconsciously simple speech and muted earth-tones of the visuals make the film feel more like documentary than fiction. The hardships of peasant life are never softened, though now and then Olmi's affection for his characters verges on sentimentality. And the unquestioning, submissive Catholicism of director and characters alike tends to cloy. But the sense of dignity and harmony, and the film's unhurried pace, always in step with the seasons, create a moving celebration of a vanished way of life. The Tree of Wooden Clogs took the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. On the DVD: The Tree of Wooden Clogs doesn't exactly come packed with extras: cast and technical credits, a stills gallery, and a brief two-minute introduction by Olmi, where he explains why he preferred to record in mono, which still sounds fine on the disc. The images have lost nothing of their muted subtlety, and the transfer is in the full 1.33:1 ratio of the original. --Philip Kemp

• One Day | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £7.16   |  Saving you £7.83 (109.36%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adapted from the internationally praised and bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. After one day together in 1988, Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime.