Drama

• The League of Gentlemen | Blu Ray | (13/01/2020) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A rogues gallery of the cream of British acting star in Basil Dearden's much-loved crime caper The League of Gentlemen. Jack Hawkins gives a memorable performance as an embittered former army officer, alongside Roger Livesey, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes - who also wrote the BAFTA-nominated screenplay. The film is presented here as a brand-new transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. After being 'retired' from the army, an ex-Colonel nurtures a bitter resentment at his country's ingratitude. Luckily for him he's not the only one and he assembles a small group of bankrupt or embittered ex-army officers in a bid to stage an ingenious bank robbery.

• The Good Doctor: Season 2 | DVD | (02/11/2020) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome, is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital.

• Wrecked | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A sexually-explicit drama about a gay teens tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on the right track. This course is quickly threatened with the sudden arrival of his sort-of ex Daniel who arrives at Ryans door wanting a place to stay and offering the promise of a normal loving relationship. But Daniels drug addiction and attitude towards casual sex derail any hope for normalcy and soon ensnares Ryan in his own downward spiral. Handheld cameras a hot young cast and a boldly upfront approach to sex combine to make Wrecked a unique film experience.

• Alice In Wonderland | DVD | (24/11/2014) from £15.66   |  Saving you £9.33 (59.58%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Alice in Wonderland the haunting nightmarish 1966 BBC Television version writ-ten and directed by Jonathan Miller and starring Peter Sellers Sir John Gielgud Sir Michael Redgrave Wilfrid Brambell Peter Cook Alan Bennett John Bird Leo McKern and Anne-Marie Mallik as Alice. Shot in pinpoint ghostly black and white with a dream-like editing schematic actors dressed not in costumes but in period clothes and a jarring seductive beautiful score by Ravi Shankar this Alice in Wonderland is like no other version you'll see of the Lewis Carroll classic. Alice in Wonderland is a dark nightmarish excursion into pointless almost listlessmadness...which makes it even more off-putting and uncomfortable in its rigid diffidence. Alice in Wonderland doesn't look like anything I've ever associated with the literary source. Instead Miller gives us an Alice who sleepwalks through increasingly madden-ing scenes that although she says she's a bit confused by them on the soundtrack she doesn't appear fazed by them at all.

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £5.50   |  Saving you £-3.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Life is a terrible thing to sleep through. Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) a young man who lives in Endora Iowa population 1 091. Gilbert lives with his mother whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead his brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother and Gilbert's world begins to change...

• Umberto D. (1952) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (15/08/2022) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This neorealist masterpiece by VITTORIO DE SICA (Bicycle Thieves) follows the daily life of an elderly pensioner as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto is determined to maintain his dignity in a city where human kindness seems to have been swallowed up by the forces of modernization. His simple quest to satisfy his most fundamental needsfood, shelter, companionshipmakes for one of the most heart-breaking stories ever filmed, and an essential classic of world cinema. Product Features High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack That's Life: Vittorio De Sica, a fifty-five-minute documentary made for Italian television in 2001 Video interview with actress Maria Pia Casilio from 2003 Trailer PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Stuart Klawans and reprinted recollections by De Sica and Carlo Battisti, who plays Umberto D.

• The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya | Blu Ray | (13/07/2015) from £19.05   |  Saving you £-4.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From Oscar-winning animation house Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away Grave of the Fireflies The Wind Rises) and directed by Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of The Fireflies) comes the spellbinding and visionary tour de force The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Visually inspired by Eastern brush painting this haunting story is based on the 10th century Japanese folktale ‘The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter’. Nominated for an Academy Award the film is another superb addition to Ghibli’s well-loved catalogue its unique animation style will appeal to all existing Ghibli fans and new audiences alike.

• We Are Marshall (1-Disc Edition) | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (60.80%)   |  RRP £13.99

  There seems to be no end to "beating-the-odds" American football movies these days, but We Are Marshall, based on a true story, is in the top tier of that clutch of movies. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity American football team in Huntington, West Virginia, after the school's 37-member team and coaches (and a number of others) die in a plane crash in the Appalachian Mountains on November 14, 1970. Facing an indifferent college president (David Strathairn) ready to shut the football program down, a morose assistant coach (Matthew Fox of Lost fame), and a charged-up player (Anthony Mackie) who missed the doomed flight due to an injury, Lengyel is faced with fielding a new team and putting the players through their paces. There are the usual, perhaps too-familiar, training montages and field action, but screenwriter Jamie Linden and director McG (Charlie's Angels) also draw some very good performances from the likes of Kate Mara and Ian McShane, contributing to an emotional tapestry conveying a powerful sense of how such a sizable loss affects a small community. --Sally Giles

• Hustlers | Blu Ray | (20/01/2020) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. Starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles

• She's Out | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Dolly Rawlins is free again. Having served her sentence for her husband's murder she's now looking to collect a cool 6 million in diamonds hidden after a robbery eight years ago. She had dreams of a new life and the loot will help her start afresh. However the girls with whom she served time have their own plans...

• Lease Of Life | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Anne Of Green Gables - The Continuing Story | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Now in her twenties Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla Cuthbert's death. Gilbert has been offered a staff position at a hospital in New York and persuades Anne to come as he has arranged a postion for her at a large publishing house. Big city life isn't what they expected. Anne's manuscript is stolen by a dashing American writer Jack Garrison and Gilbert becomes frustrated with the politics of working in a large city hospital. Anne convinces Gilbert to go home to Avonlea so that they can be married and put their horrible experiences behind them. When they return to Prince Edward Island they are catapulted into the middle of wartime society. Gilbert soon feels the pressure from the community and enlists as a medical officer. Anne's hopes are shattered when Gilbert is listed as missing in action which takes her on a cross-Atlantic search for him as the fury of war is unleashed around her. A bizarre twist of fate reunites Anne with Jack Garrison now working as a war correspondent. He is travelling with a young French girl Colette and their baby son Dominic. Colette is killed during an attack on their field hospital. Anne learns of Jack's role in an American intelligence effort to end the war. Her affiliation with him lures into a web of intrigue in exchange for help in finding her husband. Jack falls through on his promises. As the war comes to a close Anne finds Gilbert weaving through the crowded streets of a German city released from a POW camp. She loses Jack forever. However she is determined to find his child whom she and Gilbert adopt upon their return to Prince Edward Island.

• Women Of Twilight (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £11.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of the 1952 film directed by Gordon Parry. Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by Nellie Alistair, a ruthless woman with sinister motives, who takes pleasure exploiting her vulnerable tenants. Product Features Melanie Williams on Women of Twilight From Stage to Screen: Interview with Marc David Jacobs Stills gallery

• Scattered Dreams | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £6.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. Torn from the only thing that mattered: each other. And to reunite them it would take their greatest strengths: love and courage. Scattered Dreams is the powerful heart-warming drama that tells the true story of a family's fight to prove its innocence when it is ripped apart by a cruel and wrongful accusation.

• Jubilee | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Derek Jarman's Jubilee combines a safety-pin and barbed-wire vision of 1977 London in ruins (all burning prams and castrated policemen), a meditation on English mysticism guided by a time-travelling Queen Elizabeth I (the immensely regal Jenny Runacre) and a wild 'n' crazy account of the rampages of a gang of personality punk psychos, to become the closest a British film could come to the John Waters of Pink Flamingos. But there are surprisingly lyrical stretches (the only songs sung all the way through are "Jerusalem" and "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose") and, though future pop stars Toyah Wilcox and Adam Ant are embarrassingly amateurish as rebel street angels, some of the one-note maniacal performances--especially Lex Luther look-alike Orlando as mad media tycoon Borgia Ginz--are relishable. Among the people you've forgotten are in it are Ian Charleson of Chariots of Fire, celebrity shop assistant Jordan (as narrator Amyl Nitrate), Richard O'Brien and Little Nell of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Lindsay Kemp Dance Troupe and Adolf Hitler of World War II. Arguably the only Derek Jarman movie you might consider watching for pleasure, this is still not exactly the 1970s nostalgia fodder you might expect: even as the haircuts and music have receded into cultural history, the movie's acid-look vision of the worst of England remains horribly sound. The soundtrack features Adam and the Ants ("Deutscher Girls"), Wayne County and the Electric Chairs ("Paranoia Paradise"), Chelsea ("Right to Work"), Suzi Pinns (a thrash punk "Rule Britannia" best appreciated by those with the aural range of a fox terrier), Siouxie and the Banshees ("Love in a Void"), Amilcar ("Wargasm in Pornotopia"), the Slits and Brian Eno ("Slow Water", "Dover Beach"). In the 21st Century, the creative team are either dead or doing pantomime--which is so appropriate that irony doesn't even come into it. --Kim Newman

• The Man in the Iron Mask | DVD | (09/03/2020) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  D'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King.

• London Kills: Series 4 | DVD | (27/11/2023) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DI David Bradford (Hugo Speer, Father Brown) has always been a maverick, but his behaviour is starting to spin out of control. When his subordinate DC Rob Brady (Bailey Patrick, The Nest) is implicated in the death of a witness, David interferes in the case, alarming second-in-command DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon Small, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries). Even as the team investigates other crimes - the murder of a military major, the stabbing of a medical student, an alcoholic who can't remember if she killed her husband - dissension grows within their ranks. Exacerbating the tension, David and Vivienne are dealing with the fallout from their shared indiscretion, which DC Billie Fitzgerald (Tori Allen-Martin, Unforgotten) reveals was caught on camera. As David pursues a vendetta from his past while looking into a boxing promoter's death, he faces a reckoning: Has he lost the trust of his team for good?

• Babel | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide in this multi-stranded drama.

• The Pawnbroker | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £15.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), a survivor of the Nazi death camps which took the lives of his wife and children is a man bereft of hope, instead taking refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity, while managing a Harlem pawnshop where he's subjected to an endless parade of prostitutes, pimps and thieves. Seemingly only caring about money, he is continually haunted by vivid flashbacks of the concentration camp. Oscar-nominated for his performance, Steiger firmly established his credentials as an actor of international standing, wonderfully supported here by Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) and Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird). The film also boasts a score from then first-time film composer Quincy Jones. Extras Presented in High Definition Other extras TBC **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet including new writing on the film

• The Girl From Monday | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £15.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (3.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Girl From Monday