Drama

• The Trial of Joan of Arc | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The legendary story of Joan of Arc's trial and conviction is powerfully retold in Robert Bresson's minimalist masterpiece. Working from the official transcript of the 15th century trial, Bresson shoots Joan's ordeal with a serene simplicity that reveals her vulnerability and her resilient faith. A transcendent and moving evocation of human suffering and spiritual liberation, The Trial of Joan of Arc remains a powerful exploration of religious virtue with one of cinema's most haunting and poignant finales.

• Hold Back The Dawn | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From one of the most underrated directors of Hollywood s golden era, Mitchell Leisen (Remember the Night), comes the heart-rending romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn... Charles Boyer (Gaslight) gives an enthralling performance as Georges Iscovescu, a Romanian-born gigolo who arrives at a Mexican border town seeking entry to the US. Faced with a waiting period of eight years, George is encouraged by his former dancing partner Anita (Pauline Goddard, Modern Times) to marry an American girl and desert her once safely across the border. He successfully targets visiting school teacher Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland, Gone with the Wind), but his plan is compromised by a pursuing immigration officer, and blossoming feelings of genuine love for Emmy. A moving and thoughtful film with a wonderful script (co-written by Billy Wilder), Hold back the Dawn benefits from evocative performances by Boyer and de Havilland, and an over-arching sense of romantic melancholy. An enduring classic of its era, Leisen s film was nominated for no-less than six Academy Awards and is presented here in High Definition for the first time.

• Sapphire | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £3.24   |  Saving you £11.01 (556.06%)   |  RRP £12.99

  First individual DVD release! Basil Dearden's ground-breaking tale starring Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portraying two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth indictment of racism and bigotry as the detectives investigate the vast array of suspects - everyone from the girl's white boyfriend and his parents who feared that the association would destroy his career to the boys that the girl had spurned when she was accepted by white society. Winner of BAFTA for Best British Film 1960.

• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £5.87   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steven (Colin Farrell), an eminent cardiothoracic surgeon is married to Anna (Nicole Kidman), a respected ophthalmologist. They are well off and live a happy and healthy family life with their two children, Kim, 14 (Raffey Cassidy) and Bob, 12 (Sunny Suljic). Steven has formed a friendship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless 16-year-old boy whom he has taken under his wing. Things take a sinister turn when Steven introduces Martin to his family, gradually throwing their world into turmoil and forcing Steven to make a shocking sacrifice or run the risk of losing everything.

• The Remains of the Day (Anniversary Edition) | Blu Ray | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howards End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens the perfect English butler - an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths - as he serves his master Lord Darlington beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper a high-spirited strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions she and Stevens gradually fall in love though neither will admit it and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvellously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

• Nine Queens | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

• The Piano - 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (05/09/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winner of 3 Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, The Piano is now available in stunning 4K. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin, The Piano is still as powerful and resolute now as when it was first released. Ada - mute since childhood her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand.Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for every lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper and deeper into a complex emotional, sexual bond remarkable for its naive passion and frightening disregard for limits. Features brand new extras and a limited edition poster.Product FeaturesInterview with Jane Campion & Jan ChapmanMaking of25 Years OnTrailerFeaturette with Cinematographer Stuart DryburghFeaturette with Production Designer Andrew McAlpineFeaturette with Maori advisor Waihoroi Shortlan

• The Last of the Mohicans | Blu Ray | (26/11/2012) from £40.17   |  Saving you £-22.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Last of the Mohicans is a large-scale adventure set during the colonial conflicts between Britain and France 20 years before the American War of Independence. Based loosely on the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, but actually inspired by director Michael (Manhunter, Heat) Mann's boyhood love of the 1936 film of the same name, this is rousing, romantic stuff. As "Hawkeye", a white raised by the last of the Mohican tribe, Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance which, had he followed it up, could have established him as an action hero for the 1990s and beyond. Despite an under-written role Madeline Stowe convinces as the heroine. The remaining cast are uniformly excellent. Filmed amid the spectacular mountains, rivers and forests of North Carolina by Mann's regular cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, the film is a visual joy, while Trevor Jones' majestic, spine-tingling score (with additional music by Randy Edleman) is one of the finest of the decade. Taking time to establish the motives of British and French colonists and the various native tribes, as well as the varying opinions and characters within these groupings, Mann offers much greater balance and complexity than The Patriot (2000), yet never looses sight of the object here: telling a stirring yarn laced with bold action set pieces and passionate romance. On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 image is a massive improvement over VHS, but still shows considerable grain in many scenes, possibly a result of the film being shot in low, natural light and containing many very dark sequences. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is very powerful, though little use is made of the rear channels, and in some scenes the sound effects all but drown out the dialogue. Isolated scores are usually only found on feature-packed special editions, so the inclusion here is a welcome surprise--and a testament to its popularity. The only other extra is an anamorphic 2.35:1 presentation of the immensely stirring theatrical trailer. --Gary S Dalkin

• Racing Hearts | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £3.79   |  Saving you £9.20 (70.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ambitious American investment banker (Fifty Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan) has a new challenge; to gain the trust of a Sheikh who is a passionate fan of racing pigeons. But when he meets the stubborn owner's beautiful granddaughter he realizes that his assignment will be more difficult than he had hoped and will learn that there’s more to life than big business. From the Academy Award nominated director of Everybody's Famous. INTERVIEW WITH WRITER / DIRECTOR DOMINIQUE DERUDDERE INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER WOLFRAM DE MARCO INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE DORNAN INTERVIEW WITH CHARLOTTE DE BRUYNE DELETED SCENES

• Wetherby | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £9.74   |  Saving you £6.25 (64.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A lonely Yorkshire schoolteacher Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave) hosts a dinner party for her friends at her cottage in Wetherby. A stranger John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) arrives at the party with Marcia and Stanley Pilborough (Judi Dench and Ian Holm). Unexpectedly he returns the next day and suddenly commits suicide in front of Jean. A policeman arrives to investigate the mysterious death while Jean's mind turns back to memories of a passionate love affair with tragic consequences earlier in her life. In a novel and intriguing approach to storytelling director David Hare has created an engaging mystery and human drama that ostensibly focuses on an innocent dinner party but is really about something else.

• The Silent Invasion | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux in 1940 it is not long before the local men form a resistance group and launch an attack on their new occupiers. During the attack two members of the resistance are captured tortured and subsequently publically executed. One of the dead is a young boy whose sister swears revenge on the German officer she believes is responsible for his death and offers to help the French Resistance obtain information by any means necessary.

• Praying Mantis (1983) | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a Crime Passionel, but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £15.35   |  Saving you £-2.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the best known Shakespeare comedies which blends romance fun confusion and fairies.

• Watcher | Blu Ray | (06/02/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As a serial killer stalks the city, a young actress (Maika Monroe) moves into a new apartment with her fiancé. But when she notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street, she becomes tormented by the notion that she is being stalked by an unseen, increasingly threatening voyeur.

• Taxi Driver | Blu Ray | (06/06/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film", Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realised characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

• Little Drummer Girl (DVD) | DVD | (28/01/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All the episodes from the television drama set in the 1970s and based on the novel by John le Carré in which a talented young actress is given a role like never before when she is used as a pawn in a political minefield. During a holiday in Greece, Charlie (Florence Pugh) is offered an opportunity to help put right a complex situation involving Israeli-Palestine conflict, yet matters are soon complicated further when she begins to question to which side she belongs.

• The Night Won't Talk | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £6.40   |  Saving you £3.59 (56.09%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The cafes and artists' studios of bohemian Chelsea provide the setting for this tightly plotted early-fifties Brit Noir thriller. Starring B-movie favourite Hy Hazell, noted character actor John Bailey and Ballard Berkely Fawlty Towers' much-loved Major Gowen in the type of detective role for which he was best known during his earlier career, The Night Won't Talk is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. London's riverside 'village' awakens to the news that a murder has been committed. The victim, discovered strangled in bed, is Stella Smith, a beautiful young artist's model. Stella, however, was a girl with many enemies a deceiver of men who was ruthless in the pursuit of money and her career. While there are many who may have had the motive to kill her, the suspicions of Scotland Yard's Inspector West are soon narrowed down to just three people...

• Catherine Cookson - The Wingless Bird | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Three very different families become linked by the strong-minded Agnes Conway when at the beginning of the First World War she meets the wealthy Farrier clan for the first time...

• Paradise | DVD | (27/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After a personal tragedy the Reeds take in their ten year old nephew and re-awaken their marriage.... A heartwarming drama based on the French novel and film Le Grand Chemin.

• You Made Me Love You | Blu Ray | (23/09/2019) from £16.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Monkey business abounds in this spirited musical comedy updating Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to 1930s London, with Stanley Lupino as the young man attempting to tame his formidably feisty bride leading Hollywood comedienne Thelma Todd. You Made Me Love You is featured in a new High Definition transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Encountering a captivatingly beautiful young woman in a traffic jam, besotted songwriter Tom Daly is inspired to pen a successful new song, 'What's Her Name?' When Tom tracks down his mystery blonde he finds she's none other Pamela Berne, a horribly spoilt, fear-inspiring heiress who remains violently opposed to the idea of marriage! Special Features: Theatrical Trailer Image gallery PDF material