Drama

• Criterion Collection: John Cassavetes - Five Films | Blu Ray | (22/10/2013) from £63.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Seven Psychopaths | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £16.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Guilty As Sin | DVD | (12/02/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Odd teaming of man-of-integrity A-list studio director Sidney Lumet (Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, The Verdict) with muckraking, lively independent screenwriter Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent), the court-room drama Guilty As Sin relies rather heavily on the plot of Jagged Edge. Jack Warden reprises Robert Loggia's grumpy but decent private-eye role exactly, while ice-maiden lawyer Rebecca De Mornay is ensnared in a web of duplicity and violence by her client (Don Johnson), accused of murdering his wife. It hasn't got the gravitas of Lumet's best or the maniacal energy of top-rate Cohen film, but as a no-brain thriller it offers a couple of edgy, interesting star performances, with Johnson in particular cutting loose from his image with a display of razor-edged smiling charm as the killer gigolo. --Kim Newman

• Postcards From London | DVD | (17/12/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.

• Margaret | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

• Magnum P.I. Season Five | DVD | (15/04/2024) from £33.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Ladies They Talk About | Blu Ray | (03/04/2023) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In most prison films, the convicted man is rehabilitated by the love of a woman. In Ladies They Talk About, Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who becomes rehabilitated by the love of the man who sent her to prison. Stanwyck is Nan Taylor, a bank robber who gets sent to prison for her role in a bank heist. David Slade (Preston S. Foster) is the reformer who has fallen in love with her. When her two partners are killed in a jailbreak attempt in which she, too, is involved, Nan thinks David is the one responsible for tipping off the authorities. But she soon learns to trust in his love for her, eventually reciprocating and leaving her unsavory past behind. Codirected by William Keighley, who went on to direct The Man Who Came to Dinner, and based on the play by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles, Ladies They Talk About is not only worth talking about, it's worth seeing over and over again. Product Features Vintage Warner Bros. Cartoon I Like Mountain Music

• Aimee And Jaguar | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set during the battle of Berlin in 1943/44 this German drama tells of the extraordinary love between two women, one a member of the Jewish underground, and one a devoted mother.

• The Atom Egoyan Collection | Blu Ray | (20/12/2021) from £49.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Next Of Kin (1984)A sly, smart and slippery comedy filled with haunting, symbolic imagery, Atom Egoyan's debut feature is a mesmerising meditation on disaffection, longing and the roles played out in modern society that secured his place at the forefront of independent cinema.Family Viewing (1988)Darkly humorous and boldly unpredictable, this complex journey into a world of brutality and sentiment uses stunning cinematic trickery and a wide range of visual media to portray the breakdown and restoration of a dislocated family unit. One of Egoyan's defining early works.Speaking Parts (1989)An intricate, beguiling labyrinth of desire, hewn from the impressive medium of video, Speaking Parts is the apotheosis of Egoyan's early style. Mysterious, mesmerising and swarming with unforgettable images, it is a true classic of indie arthouse cinema.The Adjuster (1991)Inspired by the real life fire that burnt down Egoyan's family home, this hypnotic, dream-like tale of passionate yet dislocated characters is quintessential Atom and sees the director at his very best.Calendar (1993)A bold, precise and sometimes painfully honest depiction of love, loss and the strange twists of fate life can throw our way, Calendar is one of Egoyan's most accomplished and celebrated works. Includes two early Egoyan short films.Exotica (1994)A multi-layered and mysterious portrayal of lives shaped by desire and delusion, this bold erotic thriller is a stunning combination of directorial flair and keen philosophical insight that won 13 international festival prizes. Includes a 52 minute documentary on the director.The Sweet Hereafter (1997)Atom Egoyan's most critically acclaimed film, graced by a pair of Academy Award nominations and over 40 international festival prizes, The Sweet Hereafter is an emotionally gripping, powerfully affecting portrait of grief, loss and human interconnectivity. Includes the Egoyan short film Open House.

• Frivolous Lola | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Frivolous Lola is a spirited adult production that keeps very much to Italian director Tinto Brass' modus operandi of making light-hearted sex films with a European art house sensibility. The Lola of the title (played with gusto by Serena Grandi) is a flighty young woman, frustrated by her relationship with local baker's son Masetto. Her constant attempts to seduce him meet with little success, resulting in a passionate affair with her mother's lover, André. As with all of Brass' work, Frivolous Lola is an odd combination of European erotica and Carry On film--not helped by the clumsy English language dubbing and the somewhat bizarre appearance of Britain's own Patrick Mower. Aficionados of the director will also spot his primary fascination with a certain part of the female anatomy as Grandi's bottom dominates the shot at every possible opportunity. On the DVD: Frivolous Lola on disc is digitally remastered, and the picture shows off the lushness of the Italian countryside, even though that was probably the last thing on the director's mind. Extras include an erotic photogallery and an interview with Tinto Brass himself, which does nothing to divert from the image of this man as something of an enigma in his chosen field. --Phil Udell

• Father Came Too! | Blu Ray | (24/02/2020) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young married couple experience difficulties doing up a cottage, and are hindered by the wife's father.

• Sex, Lies And Videotape | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Steven Soderbergh made a striking directorial debut with 1989's Sex, Lies and Videotape, a film that's intimate yet alienated, objective yet intense. James Spader is at one with the part of friendly yet distant Graham, returning to his home town for a reunion with school friend and now up-and-coming lawyer, John, and his sexually frustrated wife, Ann. The "special project" that Graham keeps close to his chest in his apartment gradually draws in the others, turning their emotional lives upside down and providing the catharsis that they sorely need. Soderbergh keeps the pacing taut, encouraging an ensemble-like interplay that evokes a theatre piece perfectly remade for film. Andie MacDowell gives one of her most convincing screen portrayals as Ann, with Peter Gallagher cynically self-righteous as John. Laura San Giacomo proves choice casting as nymphet sibling Cynthia. Cliff Martinez's sultry ambient score adds much to the aura of mystery and intrigue. On the DVD: Sex, Lies and Videotape's widescreen picture format captures much of the movie's claustrophobic tension. There are overdubs in five European languages and subtitles in 13 languages, but no other special features--not even the original theatrical trailer--which is a pity. Soderbergh is among the most inventive directors at work today, so a commentary would have been a welcome enhancement. Even so, this DVD reissue reinforces the claims of an absorbing and disturbing indie masterpiece. --Richard Whitehouse

• The Secret Garden | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Secret Garden, a Sky original, tells the story of Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx ), a 10 year old girl sent to live with her uncle Archibald Craven (Colin Firth), under the watchful eye of Mrs. Medlock (Julie Walters) with only the household maid, Martha for company. The film is set in 1940s England at Misselthwaite Manor, a remote country estate deep in the Yorkshire moors. Mary begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after chancing upon her cousin Colin, who has been shut away unwell in a wing of the house. Whist exploring the grounds of the Misselthwaite Manor, Mary discovers a wondrous garden and meets a local boy Dickon, who helps her fix stray dog Hector's injured leg using the garden's restorative powers. The three children adventure deep into the mysteries of the garden a magical place that will change their lives forever. Your copy of the film will also come with some magic bonus features, including: Meet the characters Meet Mary Meet Fozzie Bringing The Secret Garden to life From page to screen: Adapting the book into a film

• Hallmark Double Feature: Unleashing Mr. Darcy & Marrying Mr. Darcy | DVD | (31/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Prisoners of War - Series 1 | Blu Ray | (16/07/2012) from £60.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prisoners of War is the gripping ten-part drama on which the American series Homeland is based. When three Israeli Defence Force reservists are captured behind enemy lines in Lebanon their fate is unknown, that is until seventeen years later, when they mysteriously return - two of them alive, the third in a coffin. The story of their time in captivity unfolds as they attempt to reintegrate into society; trying to cope with the pressures of being reintroduced to their families and friends, as well as handling the national hero status being thrust upon them via the public limelight.The gripping plot unravels through three time plains; before capture, life in captivity and present day, which all intertwine to reveal dark secrets about their life in captivity.

• Flowers In The Attic | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews' classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular, namely the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. The movie insinuates but does not make explicit incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does--not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Gervaise | DVD | (07/01/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by Rene Clement and based on the novel L'Assommoir by Emile Zola. Gervaise Macquart, (Maria Schell, Le Notti Bianche) a young crippled laundress, is left alone with two young children when her lover, Auguste Lantier decides to leave. Despite many struggles she works hard to turn her life around and marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer and fulfils her dream of buying her own laundry, however things takes a turn for the worse as her old lover returns and her husband starts drinking heavily.

• L'amour fou | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sebastian (Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Weekend) is staging an adaptation of Racine's tragedy, Andromaque while a film crew captures their rehearsals on handheld 16mm. The production's star and Sebastian's girlfriend, Claire (Bulle Ogier, Out 1), cannot take the pressure and removes herself. Life imitates art, creating a tragedy for the couple when Sebastian recasts the role with his ex. L'amour fou is a hypnotic study of tempestuous love, told with director Jacques Rivette's signature reflexivity and containing striking examinations of performance, art, theatre and life. A classic of the French New Wave and one of Rivette's most radical works, L'amour fou was unavailable for years, with the original elements tragically burned in a fire. Now meticulously restored, Radiance Films is proud to present this masterpiece from a new 4K restoration. In my opinionand I think it will be shared by manythis is one of the five or six best films of the New Wave. - François Truffaut L'amour fou is still my favourite film. - Bulle Ogier The work of a rebel, of an artist seeking to smash the codes and clichés of the ˜normal' productions of the time. - Jean-Pierre Kalfon L'amour fou, is cinema without formal precedent. As with all great films, it feels like watching the birth of cinema, seeing the first ever film, and also the last. - André S. Labarthe A filmmaker sets up his camera and, above all, watches the actors, with no concern for characters or respect for a preestablished scenario. I'd like to draw inspiration from this. I'd like to grasp the personality of my actors and make cinéma vérité. - Bernardo Bertolucci L'amour Fou speaks to those who are madly in love with cinema.  Jean De Baroncelli, Le Monde, 1969 One of Rivette's best films. Serge Daney, Libération, 1991 SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from materials kept at Les Archives du Film and in Éclair-Preservation, under the supervision of Caroline Champetier Uncompressed mono PCM audio A newly filmed feature-length documentary featuring new interviews with star Jean-Pierre Kalfon; writer/director and Rivette collaborator Pascal Bonitzer; Rivette biographer Antoine de Baecque; critic/historian Sylvie Pierre; and archival footage of Jacques Rivette (Robert Fischer, 2024, 95 mins) New interview with Caroline Champetier, renowned cinematographer and restoration supervisor (2024) The Third Eye - A video essay by film critics Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin (2024) Newly translated English subtitles

• Rollercoaster (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (08/10/2018) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Title number 003 in our Black Label range. 101 Films presents an unforgettable trip filled with sense-shattering twists and hairpin turns in Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), George Segal (Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death) and Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men). Thrills abound in this high-speed suspense yarn as a determined terrorist (Bottoms) begins to turn America s amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as affable safety inspector Harry Calder (Segal) attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country s most popular rollercoaster and its riders for senseless destruction. The edge-of the-seat excitement mounts as the battle of wits between Calder and the terrorist builds to an explosive climax. Includes both the U.S. theatrical cut and the German uncut version. Extras: Brand New Extras: The 1970s: A Rollercoaster of Disasters: A new documentary on Rollercoaster and the era of disaster movies, with film historian Simon Fitzjohn Commentary with Allan Bryce and David Flint Additional Extras: An interview with Associate Producer / Writer Tommy Cook Theatrical Trailer

• Criterion Collection: In the Mood for Love | Blu Ray | (02/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A