Drama

• Bad Guy | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £4.86   |  Saving you £10.13 (208.44%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hard-hitting portrayal of a young girl forced to work in South Korea's neon-lit sex industry until she finds love with the last person she expected.

• Boys Don't Cry | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Brandon Teena, a young man with an infectious, aw-shucks grin and an angelic face that's all angles, wanders into Falls City, Nebraska, he takes to the town as if it's a second skin. In little time he's fallen in with a gang of goofy if temperamental redneck boys, found himself a girlfriend, and befriended enough people to form something of a small family. In fact, it's the best time Brandon's ever had. However, there are shadows looming over Brandon's life: a court date for grand theft auto, a chequered criminal record, and a seemingly innocuous speeding ticket that could prove to be his undoing. Why? Because as it turns out, Brandon Teena is actually Teena Brandon, a woman masquerading as a man. This fascinating story was based on real-life events (as documented in The Brandon Teena Story) that occurred in 1993 and ended in tragedy: Brandon's rape and murder by two of his supposed friends. Despite this horrible outcome, however, in the hands of director Kimberly Peirce (who co-wrote the unfettered screenplay with Andy Bienen), Brandon's story becomes not oppressive or preachy, but rather oddly and touchingly transcendent, anchored by Hilary Swank's phenomenal, unsentimental (and Oscar-winning) performance. Swank inhabits Brandon's contradictions and passions with a natural vitality most actresses would refuse to give themselves over to. Brandon's deception is doomed from the start, but Swank's enthusiasm is infectious, and when Brandon starts romancing the sloe-eyed Lana (a pitch-perfect Chloë Sevigny), he finds a soulmate who wants to transcend boundaries and fated identities as much as he does. The last part of the film, when Brandon's true identity is discovered, is truly painful to watch, but in between the agony there are touching moments of sweetness between Brandon and Lana, who wrestles with the truth of who Brandon actually is. You'll come away from Boys Don't Cry with affection and respect for Brandon, not pity. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Black Swan - Triple Play (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £7.60   |  Saving you £17.39 (228.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• Of Gods And Men | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.

• The Time Traveler's Wife | DVD | (10/10/2022) from £11.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Traveler's Wife follows the spellbinding and intricately out-of-order love story between Clare Abshire (Rose Leslie) and Henry DeTamble (Theo James). At six years old, Clare meets Henry, the future love of her life - and who, as a time traveler, is actually visiting from the future. Fourteen years later, when a beautiful redhead wanders into the library where Henry works claiming not only to have known him all her life but to be his future wife, a magical romance ensues that is as sprawling and complicated as Henry's attempts to explain his condition. Over six hourlong episodes, the genre-bending drama series expertly weaves themes of love, loss, marriage, and survival - in a story that defies the laws and logic of time.

• Gridiron Gang | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £6.19   |  Saving you £11.06 (224.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A detention camp probation officer tries to build a winning team from a ragtag group of dangerous teenage inmates.

• Danielle Steel's Secrets | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  While the couple keep the affair under wraps other stars struggle to conceal their own ghosts. Former Queen of Soap Jane Adams is the victim of a violent and jealous husband but can she resist throwing herself into the arms of her co-star Zack Taylor? Sex-symbol Bill Warwick lands his first major role but then his success is marred by a police investigation into the suspicious death of his wife? Amidst all the scandal and the cover up the show must go on.... but can it?

• Prince of the City | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £16.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The first thing a cop learns is that he can't trust nobody but his partners, Detective Danny Ciello tells an assistant D.A. I sleep with my wife, but I live with my partners. I will never give them up. From Robery Daley's riveting book about New York City police-corruption investigations, director/cowriter Sidney Lumet's film portrays a squad that pays a terrible price when one in its ranks does just that. Treat Williams (as Ciello, inspired by real-life undercover narcotics cop Robert Leuci), Jerry Orbach, Bob Balaban and Lindsay Crouse give standout performance in this gripping film. Lumet also stands out, garnering the New York Film Critics Best Director Award and an Oscar Nomination (with Jay Presson Allen) for the screenplay. Product Features Prince of the City: The Real Story Theatrical Trailer

• Dallas - Series 3 | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £24.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (64.03%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Relive the drama intrigue and deception of TV's most watched event of the 1980s features all 25 episodes from season three. Episodes comprise: 1. What Ever Happened To Baby John (Part 1) 2. What Ever Happened To Baby John (Part 2) 3. The Silent Killer 4. Secrets 5. The Kristin Affair 6. The Dove Hunt 7. The Lost Child 8. Rodeo 9. Mastectomy (Part 1) 10. Mastectomy (Part2) 11. The Heiress 12. Ella Saves The Day 13. Mother Of The Year 14. Return Engagements 15. Love And Marria

• The Shipping News | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £9.90   |  Saving you £10.09 (101.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Kevin Spacey stars as a man who moves to his family's ancestral home in Newfoundland after a tragedy. Slowly, he starts to put his life back together.

• Brat Pack Collection - Breakfast Club / About Last Night / St Elmo's Fire | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Breakfast Club (Dir. John Hughes 1985): 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

• Le Bonheur | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In one of Agnes Varda's more provocative films she presents us with the dilemma faced by husband and father Francois (Jean -Claude Crouot) who finds himself falling in love with an attractive postal worker. What follows is a detailed study of adult fidelity and happiness which will ultimately end with major repercussions for all parties involved.

• Five Feet Apart (DVD) | DVD | (15/07/2019) from £14.46   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old she's attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse). There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Further complicating matters is Will's potentially dangerous rebellion against his ongoing medical treatment. Stella gradually inspires Will to live life to the fullest, but can she ultimately save the person she loves when even a single touch is off limits?

• Boys in Brown | DVD | (04/02/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.

• Fellini's Roma | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £9.90   |  Saving you £6.09 (61.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Italian maestro Federico Fellini delivers a thrilling personal memoir with this monumental and outlandish tribute to his beloved Rome - The Eternal City. This lavish autobiography full of lush fantasy sequences and monumental pageantry begins with Fellini as a youngster living in the Italian countryside. In school he studies the eclectic but parochial history of ancient Rome and then is introduced as a young man to the real thing - arriving in this strange new city on the outbreak o

• Dark Crimes | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £3.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A murder investigation of a slain business man turns to clues found in an author's book about an eerily similar crime.

• Waking Life | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This remarkable film used live-action footage which was subsequently digitally painted to illustrate the main character's journey through his dreams and beyond.

• How I Live Now | Blu Ray | (10/02/2014) from £6.96   |  Saving you £16.03 (230.32%)   |  RRP £22.99

  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.

• Spiral - Series 2 | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £4.94   |  Saving you £5.05 (102.23%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Spiral: Series 2

• Pollock | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ed Harris directs and takes the title role in this biopic of the infamous American artist, almost as famous for his destructive private life as his abstract paintings.