Drama

• Danielle Steel's Changes | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £6.44   |  Saving you £-0.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cheryl Ladd and Michael Nouri star in this highly-charged romantic drama about two successful single parents who fall in love and have to confront many new and traumatic changes in their lives. Melanie is a top TV news reporter living in New York with her two teenage daughters. Peter is a handsome widowed heart surgeon working at an LA hospital with three children of his own. A chance meeting leads to instant romance and eventual marriage bringing out the drastic changes in their

• King of Devil's Island | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £14.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (20.09%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on a true story King Of Devil's Island tells the unsettling tale of a group of young delinquents banished to the remote prison of Basty. Under the guise of rehabilitation the boys' daily regime is dictated by mental and physical abuse at the hands of their wardens. The arrival of new boys Erling (Helstad) and Ivar (Magnus Langlete) spark a chain of events that ultimately ignite rebellion. King of Devil's Island explores a sinister moment in Norwegian history that won't be forgotten.

• United 93 | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Paul Greengrass recounts the final moments of the ill-fated flight in this 9/11 drama.

• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Blu Ray | (19/03/2018) from £7.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Peter Turner's memoir, FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening). Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.

• Il posto + I fidanzati (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (27/01/2025) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Domenico is thrust into the big city by his family to find a job for life. He's up for an exam to secure a post along with many hopefuls. There he meets Antonietta (played by Olmi's then wife Loredana Detto) and the two strike up a friendship and experience the world of work for the first time together. Stunningly shot on the streets of Milan, Ermanno Olmi's (The Tree of Wooden Clogs) touching and often funny portrait of modern life and work won numerous awards on release and is recognised as a classic of world cinema. Giovanni works in a manufacturing plant and takes a promotion that will send him to Sicily. His transfer causes him to leave his fiancée, Liliana, his father and friends behind. Once in Sicily he begins to wonder if he made the right choice. Stunningly shot, I fidanazati channels the industrial isolation of Antonioni with a dreamy and heartfelt lyricism.

• Tabu | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After Our Beloved Month of August, Miguel Gomes returns with Tabu, an engaging, provocative and poetic film set both in Portugal and in an un-named African location. Bearing the same title as F. W. Murnau's classic Tabu (1931), shot in black and white and taking place at least partly in a distant land, Gomes' third feature film is divided in two distinctive yet complementary storylines. Whilst the first part, shot in 35mm and in the present time, portrays a society wallo...

• The Trial of Joan of Arc | Blu Ray | (08/08/2022) from £14.98   |  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 £16.39   |  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 £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  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 Box Man (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/06/2025) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel The Box Man by Kōbō Abe, an adaptation 40 years in the making! A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is fascinated. He decides to do the same thing and become a box man himself. But his path to get there is not easy; countless challenges and dangers lie in wait. They include a fake doctor who wants to rob him of his box-man identity; a military man who seeks to use him for the perfect crime; and a mysterious woman who does everything she can to seduce him. Can Myself achieve his dream of becoming a box man?Feature length audio commentary by Tom MesCast and Crew talk eventCast comments from inside the BoxDirector Q&A at the Japan SocietyTrailersSlipcase Edition (Limited to 2000 copies)

• The Virgin Suicides | Blu Ray | (13/03/2023) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sofia Coppola's stunning directorial debut, featuring a spellbinding performance from Kirsten Dunst. With mesmeric cinematography from Edward Lachman, accompanied by a cult soundtrack from French duo Air, The Virgin Suicides remains a coming-of-age classic. In a quiet, conservative American town in the 1970s, Cecilia Lisbon, just 13, attempts suicide. She is one of five beautiful teenage sisters and this incident begins to unravel the lives of the entire family. The story is told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys who are obsessed with these enigmatic sisters and draws its dark humour from the fabric of teenage life. Little by little, the family begins to shut itself off from friends and neighbours and the girls are soon forbidden to go out. As the situation spirals downward, the boys plot to rescue the girls. Product Features 4K restoration from Criterion, approved by director Sofia Coppola and supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman. NEW Soundtrack by Air: Interview with JB Dunckel & Nicolas Godin Revisiting The Virgin Suicides (2018) In Conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides(2018) Making The Virgin Suicides (1998) Lick the Star short film (1998)

• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £6.99   |  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 £18.02   |  Saving you £1.97 (10.93%)   |  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 £4.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (183.62%)   |  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 £11.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (34.03%)   |  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 £6.00   |  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.