Drama

• Heading South | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £13.38   |  Saving you £6.61 (49.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sea, sex and sun for Ellen, Brenda and Sue, three North American ladies who are on the wrong side of forty.

• Call Me By Your Name | Blu Ray | (05/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.00

  It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio (Timotheé Chalamet), a precocious 17yearold, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his fried Marzia. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever. Features: Snapshots of Italy: The Making of Call Me By Your Name featurette In Conversation With Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg & Luca Guadagnino Commentary With Timothée Chalamet & Michael Stuhlbarg Commentary With Luca Guadagnino Mystery of Love by Sufjan Stevens Music Video

• The Lost Weekend | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £10.70   |  Saving you £-0.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Don Birnam long-time alcoholic has been ""on the wagon"" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Actor Best Screenplay Best Director and Best Film.

• Rocky Balboa Steelbook | Blu Ray | (15/07/2024) from £32.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sixth installment in the popular Rocky franchise - a full 3 years after the first introduction of the young back street brawler from Philly. Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is now a 5-something widower after the death of his beloved Adrian. His relationship with his son (Milo Ventimiglia) has also deteriorated and Rocky finds his only solace in the stories he recounts to the customers who visit his deli. However, everything is about to change as a 'what if' debate emerges as to whether current champion Mason 'The Line' Dixon (Antonio Tarver) would have beaten Rocky in his prime. Nobody ever suspects that the match might actually happen, given the 3-year age difference. However, when Dixon's management sets up an exhibition fight, the gauntlet is well and truly thrown down and an enthusiastic Rocky grasps it with both hands. The 'Italian Stallion' re-applies for his license, rounds up the old gang and sets off on the arduous journey to regain his long-lost fitness and ability.

• Happy As Lazzaro | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.

• Closer | Blu Ray | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen star in this bitingly funny and honest look at modern relaltionships.

• The Lady From Shanghai | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Legend has it that Orson Welles more or less conned studio boss Harry Cohn over the phone into making The Lady from Shanghai by grabbing the title from a nearby paperback. In any case, this is one of Welles's most fascinating works, a bizarre tale of an Irish sailor (Welles) who accompanies a beautiful woman (Rita Hayworth) and her handicapped husband (Everett Sloane) on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot. But never mind all that (the aforementioned legend also claims that Cohn offered a reward to anyone who could explain the plot to him). The film is really a dream of Welles's driving preoccupations both on and off-screen at the time: the elusiveness of identity, the mystique of things lost, and most of all the director's faltering marriage to Hayworth. In the tradition of male filmmakers who indirectly tell the story of their love affairs with leading ladies, Welles tells his own, photographing Hayworth as a deconstructed star, an obvious cinematic creation, thus reflecting, perhaps, a never-satisfied yearning that leads us back to the mystery of Citizen Kane. --Tom Keogh

• About Schmidt | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £7.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (161.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is a man in his 60's. While trying to run his daughter's life, he realizes that he wasted his.

• 3some | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mara Jos is studying painting at the School of Fine Arts in a big city. One morning as she's preparing a canvas for class Jaime one of her classmates draws her portrait though she doesn't notice. Beside him admiring his drawing abilities is Marcos the most talented student in the class. Mara Jos expects Jaime to give her the portrait but after he shows it to her he unexpectedly keeps it for himself. From then on Mara Jos Jaime and Marcos will share their passion for painting and something more a love story that will last until their lives as students come to an end and they must face the real World.

• Grace - Series 3 | DVD | (22/05/2023) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Salo Or The 120 Days Of Sodom | DVD | (02/04/2001) from £43.99   |  Saving you £-24.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (known in Italian as Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) provoked howls of outrage and execration on its original release in 1975, and the controversy rages to this day. Until the British Board of Film Classification finally ventured a certificate in 2000, the movie could only be shown at private cinema clubs, and even then in severely mutilated form. The relaxation of the censors' shears allows you to see for yourself what the fuss was about, but be warned--Salò will test the very limits of your endurance. Updating the Marquis de Sade's phantasmagorical novel of the same title from 18th-century France to fascist Italy at the end of World War II, writer-director Pasolini relates a bloodthirsty fable about how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Four upper-class libertines gather in an elegant palazzo to inflict the extremes of sexual perversion and cruelty upon a hand-picked collection of young men and women. Meanwhile, three ageing courtesans enflame the proceedings further by spinning tales of monstrous depravity. The most upsetting aspect of the film is the way Pasolini's coldly voyeuristic camera dehumanises the victims into lumps of random flesh. Though you may feel revulsion at the grisly details, you aren't expected to care much about what happens to either master or slave. In one notorious episode, the subjugated youths are forced to eat their own excrement--a scene almost impossible to watch, even if you know the meal was actually composed of chocolate and orange marmalade. (Pasolini mischievously claimed to be satirising our modern culture of junk food.) Salò is the ultimate vision of apocalypse--and as if in confirmation, the director was himself brutally murdered just before its premiere. You can reject the movie as the work of an evil-minded pornographer, but you won't easily forget it. --Peter Matthews

• Lady Macbeth | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £7.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  William Oldroyd directs this British drama adapted from Nikolai Leskov's novel. Set in the remote English countryside, the story follows teenage bride Katherine (Florence Pugh) as she is forced to marry shady mining boss Alexander (Paul Hilton). Deeply unhappy with her new situation, Katherine soon finds an escape in the form of servant Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis) and the pair begin having an affair. However, when Alexander learns of her betrayal and reacts violently, Katherine and Sebastian are forced to take matters into their own hands in an attempt to get some retribution of their own. The cast also includes Bill Fellows, Christopher Fairbank and Fleur Houdijk.

• Falling In Love | DVD | (10/06/2002) from £7.45   |  Saving you £2.54 (34.09%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two of the worlds finest actors Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are brought together again in this touching romance about two people who are quite simply falling in love. Set against the backdrop of Manhattan New York City Frank and Molly are two commuters who literally bump into each other in a busy book store during the Christmas rush. Their parcels are sent scattering over the floor. Giggling they collect themselves and their shopping bags and reluctantly head their sep

• Mississippi Mermaid (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/07/2024) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wealthy plantation tycoon Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Breathless) puts up an ad for a bride and luminous beauty Julie (Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour) arrives in answer. More attractive than the photograph he received Louis is nevertheless enraptured despite some strange details in her story. Things get complicated when Julie disappears and Louis determines to find her, leading him on a trail of mystery and erotic obsession. Adapted by Truffaut from a novel by Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black), Mississippi Mermaid is a lush colour noir that features the twists and turns of the genre with the heart of Renoir (to whom the film is dedicated) while Belmondo and Deneuve are on top form.

• Split Decisions | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The 'Fighting McGuinns' are a real tough boxing family suffering the pain of family conflict. It is only when the eldest son is murdered for refusing to fix a fight that the family comes together for their salvation lies not in the fate of a boxing match but in the future of their family.

• Catherine Cookson - A Dinner Of Herbs | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £5.06   |  Saving you £-0.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on Catherine Cookson's best-selling novel of murder passion and betrayed friendships this sweeping drama spans forty years during the second half of the 19th century. Roddy Greenback arrives in a remote Northumberland community. His father meets a violent death leaving the boy alone with no family to speak of. The young Roddy is adopted and raised by Kate Makepeace a good friend of his father and develops a close friendship with Hal and Mary Ellen but their sibling bond is put to the test as they become adults. The hidden secrets of the past are painfully unearthed as their lives continue to be intertwined by a tragic destiny.

• Richard III | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Laurence Olivier produces, directs and stars in this glorious adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece - Richard III. Having helped his brother King Edward IV (Cedric Hardwicke) take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of York (Laurence Olivier), plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne (Claire Bloom), and his brother George, Duke of Clarence (John Gielgud), Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed. Winner of multiple BAFTAs including Best British Film and Best British Actor this a stunning restoration produced in collaboration with The Film Foundation.

• Center Stage | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £17.42   |  Saving you £-11.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A drama with heart and energy that follows the hopes and dreams of a tight-knit group of young dance students as they try to make a name for themselves and become stars in the fiercely competitive world of professional dance.

• Armageddon Time | DVD | (20/02/2023) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray and featuring an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong comes Armageddon Time. Set in 1980s Queens, New York, it is a deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream. Product Features Deleted Scenes Building a Family Cast Growing Up Gray A Grandfather's Legacy

• Daisies (Semikrásky) | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vera Chytilov'''s classic of surrealist cinema comes to Second Run DVD in an all-new digital transfer with improved picture and sound. A satirical wild and irreverent story of teenage rebellion. Two young women rebel against a degenerate and oppressive society attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture. A riotous punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative Daisies was banned in native Czechoslovakia and director Vera Chytilov'' was forbidden to work until 1975.