Drama

• Life And Lyrics | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £2.59   |  Saving you £13.40 (517.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Life & Lyrics" is an exhilarating story of love and loyalty set against the backdrop of London's vibrant urban music scene.

• Mountain - Exploring Britain's High Places (BBC) | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £14.89   |  Saving you £16.10 (52.00%)   |  RRP £30.99

  With names like Snowdon Ben Nevis or Scarfell Pike Britain 's high places are at once romantic and rooted in the nation's sense of identity. In Mountains Griff Rhys Jones brings their stories to life. Travelling the length of the UK by journeying across the rooftops of Britain Griff Rhys Jones explores some of the most arduous and roughest mountain landscapes. It is a journey that takes him from the remotest areas of Northern Scotland to the wilds of Dartmoor in the South West including some of Britain's most beautiful rugged and fascinating locations. Along the way he also reveals how these dramatic terrains came into existence. While Griff experiences the flora and fauna the breath-taking landscapes and stunning seasonal shifts he meets the undiscovered mountain communities and the real people who inhabit Britain's highlands: shepherds mountain rescue teams scientists farmers and artists - they deliver a real understanding and passion for the raw natural beauty that has fascinated us for centuries. Griff also brings to life the history of epic battles communities and famous people connected with the places visited. This magnificent BBC series is Griff Rhys Jones' labour of love a personal journey of discovery and a lasting testament to some of the most exciting unique and treasured parts of Britain.

• The Red Violin | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A skilled craftsman makes a violin for his unborn child. When tragedy strikes and his wife and child are killed he decides to finish the violin. The story follows the instrument as it travels across the centuries and changes hands many times.

• Under The Tree | Blu Ray | (14/01/2019) from £14.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release UNDER THE TREE [Undir trénu], a dark, Icelandic suburban satire, as part of the MONTAGE PICTURES range in a Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 14 January 2019. This dark suburban satire tells the story of a man who is accused of adultery by his ex-fiancée and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a bitter dispute between his parents and their neighbours regarding an old and beautiful tree that casts a shadow on the neighbours' deck. As the dispute intensifies property is damaged, pets mysteriously go missing, security cameras are being installed and there is a rumour that the neighbour was seen with a chainsaw. Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, whose previous credits include Either Way (remade by David Gordon Green in 2013 as Prince Avalanche), and starring Sigurdur Sigurjónsson (Rams), Montage Pictures is proud to present Under The Tree in its UK debut on Blu-ray and DVD. DUAL FORMAT FEATURES: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray, with a progressive encode on the DVD 5.1 audio (DTS-HD MA on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles Making Under The Tree [23 mins] a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film Trailer

• Family For Rent | DVD | (28/12/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paul-André is a shy and introverted 40-something. He's rich but alone, fed up with life, and decides that what he needs is a family. Violette is also in her 40s and full of life, but money troubles mean that she could lose her home and even her family. Paul-André offers her a crazy deal he rents her family in return for paying off her debts. He will finally be able to test out the true joy of family life for better or worse!

• Carol | Blu Ray | (21/03/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £17.00 (212.77%)   |  RRP £24.99

  New York 1952. Carol is elegant, sophisticated, wealthy and married. Therese is just starting out in life; unsure of who she wants to be. A chance encounter in a Manhattan department store sparks an extraordinary friendship between these two women. Carol is caught in a bitter divorce and a custody battle for her daughter, but finds herself mesmerised by this mysterious, quiet beauty. Finding herself alone on Christmas Day, Carol invites Therese to escape on a spontaneous road trip into the heartland of America. It is during this magical journey that the two fall hopelessly and desperately in love. But this is 1952 and Carol is risking everything for this relationship that defies society's conventions. Based on the best-selling novel by Patricia Highsmith, author of ˜Strangers on a Train' and ˜The Talented Mr Ripley', Carol is a powerful romance fuelled by the suspense, danger and exhilaration of forbidden love.

• The House by the Sea | DVD | (22/04/2019) from £8.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  By a little bay near Marseilles lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela, an actress living in Paris, Joseph, who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand, the only one who stayed behind in Marseilles to run the family's small restaurant. It's time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father's ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

• The Stranger | DVD | (29/04/2015) from £12.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles' The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to Edward G. Robinson, who is marvellous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles, the director, is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of the film is a well designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 2 Part 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £16.62   |  Saving you £23.37 (140.61%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Thanks to its focus on more single-case episodes, the second half of CSI's second series is an even more highly concentrated dose of forensic puzzle-solving from the Vegas science sleuths. With the whole team working together on one puzzle crime (or series of crime puzzles), the group dynamic is elaborated and the audience drawn deeper into each investigation. The first three episodes are all single cases: "Identity Crisis" sees the return of Grissom's nemesis, serial killer Paul Millander; in "The Finger", Catherine is caught up in an elaborate kidnap plot; while in "Burden of Proof", a stray body in a "body farm" leads to a difficult case of child abuse. After a brief return to the two-investigation-per-episode format, the team unite once more for one of their most intriguing cases, "Chasing the Bus", in which they must unravel the mystery of a bus crash in the desert. "Stalker" is possibly the show's most terrifying episode to date, with a woman found murdered behind the safely locked doors of her apartment. The season concludes with "Cross Jurisdictions", a rather unsubtle way of introducing the spin-off show CSI: Miami and, finally, "The Hunger Artist", a somewhat strained attempt to comment on our society's obsession with glamour and self-image, which is most notable for Grissom's devastating discovery that his hearing problems are not only congenital, but irreversible. --Mark Walker

• Nebraska | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £37.78   |  Saving you £-10.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  In Alexander Payne's "Nebraska" a father and son steer the American road comedy into a vanishing Midwest on the trail of a dubious fortune - and in search of an understanding of each other that once seemed impossible.

• Tangerine | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.95%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, she and her best friend Alexandra embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the rumour.

• Crime Scene Investigation - New York - Season 1 Part 1 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £5.98   |  Saving you £34.01 (568.73%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The latest spin-off series from C.S.I. in which New York forensic detectives employ the very latest hi-tech methods to catch criminals in the Big Apple... The head of the lab is no-nonsense First Grade Detective Mac Taylor (Sinise) taking a scientists eye to crime Mac believes that everything is connected no matter how big or small. Originally from Chicago his military background fast-tracked him through the force leading him ultimately to the crime lab. Mac's trusted second in

• Empire | DVD | (14/09/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A sexy and powerful new family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

• Agnes of God - Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £11.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Agnes Of God (1985). Import from France with English soundtrack and subtitles. When young nun Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly) is put on trial for giving birth to and then killing a baby in the Quebec convent where she lives and works, subsequently claiming to have no knowledge or memory of either event, it is up to psychiatrist Dr Martha Livingston (Jane Fonda) to decide whether she is mentally responsible for her actions. Martha comes up against the convent's mother superior, Sister Miriam Ruth (Anne Bancroft), who doubts whether the answer can be found in psychology, believing that it is a matter of Christian faith whether Agnes' actions constitute a murder or a miracle. This Broadway hit gets a solid film treatment by director Norman Jewison but that can't make up for the weaknesses of the script (which were as true onstage as they are here). Jane Fonda plays a chain-smoking shrink sent to a convent to do a psychological evaluation of a novice (Meg Tilly) who gave birth to a baby and then killed it in her little room. Was it a virgin birth? A miracle? And what of the bloody stigmata that seem to spontaneously appear on her hands? Fonda also finds herself clashing with the Mother Superior (Anne Bancroft) over the line between faith and science. But writer John Pielmeier can't flesh this out beyond an idea; in the end, the solution is a disappointingly earthbound one that even the strong acting in this film can't elevate.

• Paparazzi | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a bunch of photographers almost kill him and his family, a Hollywood star sets out to exact revenge.

• Australia / a Good Year | DVD | (04/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Australia: Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) is an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle driver (Jackman) to drive 2000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land only to still face the bombing of Darwin Australia by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier. A Good Year: When high-flying English businessman Max Skinner (Crowe) inherits the vineyard in Provence where he grew up with his uncle Henry (Albert Finney) he arrives at his new property with the express intention of promptly selling it only to meets an American woman who claims that the land is actually hers...

• The Brokenwood Mysteries Series 1-8 | DVD | (07/11/2022) from £69.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All episodes of The Brokenwood Mysteries, from Series 1-8.

• Gypsy | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's Emmy Grammy and Golden Globe-winner Bette Midler in the role she was born to play. The superstar of Beaches Ruthless People Down & Out in Beverly Hills and For the Boys delivers a ""standing room only"" performance as Mama Rose the ultimate vaudeville stage mother. Rose's blind ambition for her two daughters forces one to desert her and the other to emerge as the world's most famous striptease artist - Gypsy Rose Lee. Based on the actual memoirs of Ms. Lee and directed by the late Emile Ardolino (Sister Act Dirty Dancing) this musical motion picture extravaganza is true to the original Broadway production... including the glorious Jerome Robbins choreography and the memorable Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim score. The classics are all here - from ""Everything's Coming Up Roses"" to ""Let Me Entertain You"" and as a special bonus the complete version of Gypsy's classic overture. Spectacular performances by Ms. Midler and her supporting cast - Peter Riegert Cynthia Gibb (as the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee) and Ed Asner - will leave you asking for an encore!

• Painted Boats | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £9.62   |  Saving you £6.37 (66.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A drama following the lives of two families who live on colourfully painted canal boats.

• The Untouchables | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £5.25   |  Saving you £10.74 (204.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualise the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters". In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing pot-boiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, the film pits four underdog heroes (the maverick lawmen known as the Untouchables) against a singular villain in Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro as a dapper Caesar holding court (and a baseball bat) against any and all challengers. Kevin Costner is the naive federal agent Eliot Ness, whose lack of experience is tempered by the streetwise alliance of a seasoned Chicago cop (Sean Connery, in an Oscar-winning performance), a rookie marksman (Andy Garcia) and an accountant (Charles Martin Smith) who holds the key to Capone's potential downfall. The movie approaches greatness on the strength of its set pieces, such as the siege near the Canadian border, the venal ambush at Connery's apartment and the train-station shootout partially modelled after the "Odessa steps" sequences of the Russian classic Battleship Potemkin. It's thrilling stuff, fuelled by Ennio Morricone's dynamic score, but it's also manipulative and obvious. If you're inclined to be critical, the film gives you reason to complain. If you'd rather sit back and enjoy a first-rate production with an all-star cast, The Untouchables may very well strike you as a classic. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com