Drama

• Bridget Jones 1-4 Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (02/06/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two-time Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger returns to the role that established a romantic-comedy heroine for the ages, a woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre

• Dirty Dancing | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £3.95   |  Saving you £12.04 (304.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Patrick Swayze returns to our screens as rebellious dance teacher Johnny Castle in the re-release of this classic '80s hit.

• Forrest Gump | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £11.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you read the label on a box of chocolates you'll know exactly what you're gonna get. Life isn't like that in Forrest Gump, however, which is one of the reasons why this movie divided appreciative audiences from hard-hearted critics like few others before it. Audiences responded to the Frank Capra-style sentimentality of this warm-hearted tale of a good ol' American boy making his way in the world without ever losing his pure and simple innocence. Critics, however, were made uneasy by the apparently reactionary subtext to the parallel lives of Forrest and his girlfriend Jenny. Her fate, contrasted with his, suggests a triumph for plain ol' American values over dangerous freethinking hippies and liberals. Whether the movie is just unadulterated sentiment or right-wing propaganda, one thing at least was acknowledged by all: that Forrest Gump displays all the craftsmanship of one of Hollywood's most inventive directors and features a central performance from an actor renowned for his total commitment to every role. Thanks to Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks, even the most cynical critic will find it hard not to shed at least one tear by the end of this undeniably engrossing movie. The soundtrack is great, too. --Mark Walker

• Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia | Blu Ray | (08/07/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Nobody loses all the time. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia concluded a remarkable period for filmmaker Sam Peckinpah. It brought to an end a seven-year and seven-film run of masterpieces that included the taboo-breaking ultra-violence of The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs, and the more elegiac tones of The Ballad of Cable Hogue and Junior Bonner. A love story that plays out in a brutal environment, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia sits somewhere between these moods and may just be Bloody Sam s greatest work, as well as his most autobiographical. Warren Oates plays Bennie, a piano player in a Mexican bar who gets himself involved in the manhunt for Alfredo Garcia, a man with a million-dollar price-tag on his head having impregnated the daughter of crime boss El Jefe (Emilio Fernández). Sensing an easy pay day, Bennie takes his girlfriend, Elita (Isela Vega) on a trip that ll prove fatalistic for many of those involved. During a career that was blighted by studio interference, Peckinpah would later say that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was the only which ended up exactly as he wanted: I did it exactly the way I wanted to. Good or bad, like it or not, that was my film. And it was. This is as close to Pure Peckinpah as it gets beautiful, violent, troubling, heartbreaking, astonishing.

• Trumbo | DVD | (20/06/2016) from £5.97   |  Saving you £14.02 (234.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.

• The Truman Show | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  He's the star of the show but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir about a man whose life is a non-stop TV show. Truman doesn't realise that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris) that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually Truman gets

• Sully: Miracle on the Hudson | DVD | (17/04/2017) from £6.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the Miracle on the Hudson when Captain Sully Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.Click Images to Enlarge

• Burlesque | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ali (Christina Aguilera making her feature film debut) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA.

• A Room With A View | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £7.30   |  Saving you £8.69 (119.04%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Off to the sensuous landscape of Florence for her horizon-broadening tour Lucy a perfectly proper young Edwardian lady is chaperoned by her even more proper Aunt Charlotte. At the merest hint of scandal - Lucy is kissed by an improper suitor - Charlotte whisks her back to the serene English countryside where she is betrothed to a supposedly suitable gentleman insufferably in love with himself. Based on E.M. Forster's classic novel.

• The Shawshank Redemption | Blu Ray | (13/09/2021) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A prominent banker unjustly convicted of murder spends many years in the Shawshank prison. He is befriended by a convict who knows the ropes and helps him to cope with the frightning realities of prison life. Special Features Commentary by Writer/Director Frank Darabont Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature Comic Spoof The SharkTank Redemption Stills, Storyboards and Collectibles Galleries Theatrical Trailer

• Miami Vice | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Going back to the original TV show which he&'d helped create, Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat, Thief) wrote and directed this big-screen revisit of his well-loved property. Starring Collin Farrell (In Bruges, The Batman) and Jamie Foxx (Collateral, Django Unchained) this neo-noirish thriller drips with the filmmaker's distinctive vision. Complex, cool and cinematically perfect it's a must for all completist collectors of Mann's impressive back catalogue.

• Emma (DVD) | DVD | (22/06/2020) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jane Austen's beloved comedy about finding your equal and earning your happy ending, is reimagined in this delicious new film adaptation of EMMA. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along. Bonus Features Feature Commentary with Director Autumn de Wilde, Screenwriter Eleanor Catton, and Director of Photography Christopher Blauvelt Deleted Scenes Gag Reel A Playful Tease

• Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Collection | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £129.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A spectacular critical and ratings success when first transmitted on ITV, Upstairs, Downstairs still maintains its position as one of the major success stories of British television worldwide. Multi-award-winning (including ones from BAFTA, the Writers' Guild, the Royal Television Society, Emmys and Golden Globes), the series stars Jean Marsh, Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Pauline Collins and Lesley-Anne Down. Upstairs, Downstairs takes place at 165 Eaton Place from the turn of the century through the Great War and into the Roaring Twenties. It concerns the Bellamy family: politician Richard Bellamy, his wives Marjorie and Virginia, wastrel son James, wayward daughter Elizabeth and his flighty ward, Georgina Worsley. The house domestics are led by Hudson, the butler, a conservative Scot who must contend with the 'below stairs' behaviour of the household staff, including cook Mrs Bridges and maids Rose and Sarah. THIS SET CONTAINS ALL 68 EPISODES, ALONGSIDE THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL FEATURES: The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs five exclusive documentaries Commentaries for selected episodes Variant version of On Trial Archive interviews with Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh and Angela Baddeley An interview with composer Alexander Faris, and a 5.1 mix of Faris conducting the Upstairs, Downstairs theme with a live orchestra Russell Harty Goes Upstairs, Downstairs a 1975 Christmas special

• The Madame Blanc Mysteries: Series 1-4 | DVD | (02/06/2025) from £52.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 10 | DVD | (02/12/2024) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Chungking Express Blu-Ray (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (21/04/2025) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.

• Judy | Blu Ray | (03/02/2020) from £8.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in THE WIZARD OF OZ, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians, and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she embarks on a courtship with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood; gripped by a desire to be back home with her kids. Will she have the strength to go on? Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love and the sheer pizzazz of the world's greatest entertainer.

• Their Finest | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  1940, London, the Blitz; with the country's morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton; Gemma Bovery), an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the nation's flagging spirits; and inspire America to join the war. Partnered alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley (Sam Claflin; Me Before You), the pair set off to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation and capture the imagination of the American population. Alongside Gemma Arterton and Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy (Love Actually) stars as fading matinee idol Ambrose Hilliard, who reluctantly joins their production in a supporting role. Based on Lissa Evans' novel, ˜Their Finest Hour and a Half', THEIR FINEST is a witty, romantic and moving portrayal of a young woman finding her way, and her voice, in the mayhem of war and the movies!

• Cast Away (2 Disc Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £12.76   |  Saving you £13.22 (135.31%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Cast Away reunites star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in their first collaboration since the heavy-handed sentimentality of Forrest Gump. Thankfully, this time their film's life-affirming message is delivered with more subtlety, attributable both to an extraordinarily committed, physically demanding central performance from Hanks and to Zemeckis' technically masterful but carefully understated direction. It's also a film with three distinct "acts" or, to be old-fashioned about it, a proper beginning, middle and end. The story follows schedule-obsessed but fulfilled FedEx supervisor Chuck Noland (Act 1) on a personal journey into the bleakest, most solitary despair (Act 2), before Helen Hunt, in the thankless role of ex-girlfriend, unwittingly allows him to glimpse an optimistic future full of untapped possibilities (Act 3). Hanks' sojourn on the island is the centrepiece, but this is no tropical island idyll: following a terrifying plane crash (the one sequence in the film where Zemeckis shows off his uncanny ability to choreograph action), life on the island is seen to be a depressing and bitter experience filled with disappointment, danger and suicidal despair. Having lost all hope of rescue, ultimately Noland's greatest test is not to survive, but to find a reason to survive. He has no Man Friday for company, just a volleyball named "Wilson" that is both a narrative device allowing Hanks to deliver dialogue and an intriguingly pagan personification of the island's spirit under whose protection Noland is finally able to summon fire (significantly, and heartbreakingly, Wilson leaves him as he regains contact with the world). In an era of MTV-style film editing, Zemeckis and Hanks fearlessly take their time establishing with total conviction the grim realities of Noland's situation, his devastating loss of hope and the means by which he achieves his escape. Like Contact before it, Cast Away is a refreshingly thoughtful piece of mainstream cinema that explores weighty existential issues but retains a warm human intimacy. On the DVD: The luminous anamorphic print with vivid Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is accompanied on the first disc by a technical commentary from Zemeckis and key crew personnel. It's plenty insightful for budding filmmakers, although for pure listening pleasure one might have preferred a more relaxed piece with just the director and Tom Hanks. The second disc includes a 30-minute making-of documentary in which the director sums up the moral of the movie--"Surviving is easy but living is difficult". This draws on material from the three other mini-documentaries about survival skills, Wilson the volleyball and the Fijian island location of Monu Riki respectively. There's also a section on the sometimes surprising use of CGI effects and a storyboard-to-film comparison sequence. Tom Hanks chats with American TV host Charlie Rose about this movie and his career in the extensive 50-minute interview. Trailers, artwork and stills round out a valuable two-disc set. --Mark Walker

• On The Run | Blu Ray | (07/08/2023) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Directed by Alfred Cheung and starring the legendary Yuen Biao (THE PRODIGAL SON, RIGHTING WRONGS), noir crime drama ON THE RUN remains a classic staple of the thriller genre from Hong Kong. In the aftermath of his wife's brutal murder, struggling cop Heung Ming (Yuen Biao) is forced to go into hiding after discovering corruption in the ranks. His only ally is a deadly assassin Chui (Pat Ha) as they each try to avoid arrest, and even death. Product Features BRAND NEW 2K transfer from the Original Negatives High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) Presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio LPCM 2.0 Cantonese Mono Newly remastered English subtitles Audio Commentary with Kenneth Brorsson and Phil Gillon of the Podcast On Fire Network Audio Commentary with Asian Cinema Experts Frank Djeng and FJ DeSanto [new] Running Away - An Interview with Alfred Cheung [new] Predicting the Future - An Interview with David West Alternate Ending Hong Kong Trailer Reversible sleeve with original Hong Kong poster artwork