Drama

• What's Eating Gilbert Grape | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £6.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (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 £26.98   |  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 £39.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (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.

• The Three Musketeers | Blu Ray | (27/11/2023) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  To the cry of all for one and one for all comes a version of the Dumas classic that's fun for all - a rousing, swashbuckling adaptation that was Gene Kelly's favourite among his nonmusical movies.Kelly plays country lad D'Artagnan, who comes to Paris with heady ambition and duels his way into the ranks of King Louis XIII's musketeers. He swashes and buckles with brio, bringing to action scenes the virile athleticism that set him apart as a dancer in movie musicals. A top cast - Vincent Price as unctuous Cardinal Richelieu, Lana Turner as villainous Lady de Winter, June Allyson as Constance, Van Heflin as Athos, Robert Coote as Aramis, Gig Young as Porthos, and Frank Morgan and Angela Lansbury as King Louis and Queen Anne - joins Kelly in this exuberant tale.Product FeaturesVintage FitzPatrick Traveltalks Short Looking at London.Classic Cartoon What Price Fleadom.Audio-Only Bonus: Radio Promo.Theatrical Trailer

• We Are Marshall (1-Disc Edition) | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £10.61   |  Saving you £3.38 (31.86%)   |  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 £12.82   |  Saving you £12.17 (94.93%)   |  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 £39.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (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.

• Scattered Dreams | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (19.80%)   |  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 £34.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (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 £N/A   |  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.

• 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 £15.94   |  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 £15.40   |  Saving you £0.59 (3.83%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Girl From Monday

• The Chelsea Detective Series 2 | DVD | (23/09/2024) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Promised Land | DVD | (06/05/2024) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Romantics Anonymous | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two emotionally challenged people come together in the most unlikely of settings in this touching romantic drama from acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Ameris.

• Angel Heart | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £13.95   |  Saving you £0.30 (2.36%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The film packed with stunning images jaw-dropping scenes and superb performances from Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke is a fusion of two genres - the classic Chandleresque detective story and the supernatural. Harry Angel is hired for $125 a day to track down the big band swinger Johnny Favourite. What seems like a straight-forward missing person case dramatically becomes a murder hunt for this down-and-out private detective. His client Louis Cypher a mysterious stranger is forced to up his fee to keep Angel on the case. Each of Angel's leads ends up as a victim of a ritualistic act of murder as he begins to put together the pieces in the jigsaw of Johnny's strange story... the nightmare has just begun.

• A Place to Call Home | DVD | (14/03/2016) from £12.94   |  Saving you £17.05 (131.76%)   |  RRP £29.99

  As Australia faces internal and external threats to its way of life so too do the people of Inverness, and previous alliances and relationships are tested. In the brand new season, Sarah˜s dilemma between her feelings for George and her duty to her husband Rene, is exacerbated by a heart breaking secret. James and Olivia's relationship is under pressure by the desire of physical fulfilment, while the true parentage of baby George is threatened with exposure. Elizabeth Bligh's decision to leave Ash Park to explore a life of her own proves more difficult than she thought. The difference between the fairy tale romance of Anna and Gino and the reality of married life threatens to tear them apart. Starring Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Adams and Noni Hazlehurst as Elizabeth Bligh, this historical show has a terrific cast and pleasantly revisits the dramas of the past. This DVD set contains all 10 episodes of A Place to Call Home Series 3 as well as an alternative Series 2 finale.