Drama

• 8 Mile | Blu Ray | (30/03/2009) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eminem makes his movie debut in this tale of an aspiring talented rapper in Detroit, and the most crucial week of his young life.

• Breath | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Death row convict Jang Jin (Chang Chen) attempts to hasten his death sentence by stabbing himself in the neck with a sharpened toothbrush only to fail miserably leaving him temporarily mute. The unfortunate incident reaches the national news catching the attention of housewife Yeon (Park Ji Ah). On the surface Yeon's life resembles the ideal picture - a good husband (Ha Jung Woo) a stable livelihood. But beneath that shell lies sadness and torment over her husband's extramarital affairs. Jang Jin's story hits close to her heart leading her to a new path as she dares to leave her usual life to meet the convict in prison. Ironically it's inside a cold and dark place where all of life's pleasure and privileges have been stripped away that both Yeon and Jang Jin begin a remarkable healing process. But reality remains stern and cold for the condemned as death penetrates through the iron bars still demanding for his last breath.

• Incendies | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Canadian twins Jeanne and Simon are left two envelopes in their mother's will asking them to find a brother and father they never knew they had.

• Heat (Remastered) | DVD | (06/02/2017) from £9.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of The Godfather, Part II, but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, heat qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. Heat is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. --Jeff Shannon

• The Agnès Varda Collection | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eight films from the groundbreaking female director Agnès Varda; Cleo from 5 to 7 Jacquot de Nantes L une Chante, L autre Pas Le Bonheur The Gleaners and I The Beaches of Agnès Vagabond La Pointe Courte

• Charulata (1964) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (05/04/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This film about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning by SATYAJIT RAY (The Music Room) is set in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India. It takes place in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely, stifled wife, Charulata (The Big City's MADHABI MUKHERJEE), whose exquisitely composed features mask a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him to pursue her own writing and dangerously drawn to him physically. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice. Special Features: New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali literature historian Supriya Chaudhuri Archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray by film historian Gideon Bachmann New English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson

• The Lady With a Lamp | Blu Ray | (27/01/2020) from £8.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anna Neagle gives one of her finest performances in a moving study of Florence Nightingale's fight to improve conditions for soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. Directed by Herbert Wilcox, The Lady with a Lamp co-stars Neagle's regular screen partner Michael Wilding and is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. A landowner's daughter, drawn to nursing by her strong faith, travels to Turkey to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimea. Appalled by the squalid conditions that are claiming more lives than the fighting itself, she devotes her energies to the drive to improve care and sanitation. As a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, it is not the only battle she will face but her tireless campaign of reform will lay the foundation for modern nursing, and make her a national icon. Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Materials PDFs

• Things To Come | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mia Hansen-Løve (Father of My Children; Goodbye, My Love; Eden) takes on late-life misdirection in this exquisite, resonant new drama with a beautiful central performance from Isabelle Huppert. Nathalie (Huppert) teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She's passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, students and her possessive mother; until one day, her husband Heinz (Andre Marcon) drops a bombshell. With new freedoms unexpectedly thrust upon her late in life, Nathalie is forced to rethink her future.

• Cemetery Junction | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, Cemetery Junction, set in the 70's, follows the trials and misadventures of three twenty-somethings in the sleepy town of Reading.

• La Dolce Vita (1961) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (18/10/2021) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce vita rocketed FEDERICO FELLINI (8½) to international mainstream successironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalistplayed by a sublimely cool MARCELLO MASTROIANNI (8½)during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. This mordant picture was an incisive commentary on the deepening decadence of the European 1960s, and it provided a prescient glimpse of just how gossip- and fame-obsessed our society would become. Special Features: New 4K digital restoration by the Film Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New visual essay by : : kogonada New interview with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, who worked as assistant director on the film Scholar David Forgacs discusses the period in Italy's history when the film was made New interview with Italian film journalist Antonello Sarno about the outlandish fashions seen in the film Audio interview with actor Marcello Mastroianni from the early 1960s, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera related to La dolce vita from the collection of Don Young PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins

• The Bay: Series 1-2 | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Morven Christie and written by the award-winning Daragh Carville, The Bay is a beautifully crafted crime drama rooted in the families and communities of a distinctive coastal town. In the debut season, Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong (Christie) is assigned to a missing persons investigation that, at first, seems like any other tragic, but all too familiar. But there's something very different about this particular case. With horror, Lisa realises she has a personal connection with this frightened family one that could compromise her and the investigation. Season two begins with Lisa at a low ebb, forced to do menial police work. However, when a new case involving a shocking murder within a loving family emerges, Lisa is called upon once again. Facing huge challenges at work and at home, Lisa must get under the skin of this new family and prove her worth to her colleagues, to her family and to herself.

• The Elephant Man | Blu Ray | (06/04/2020) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of THE ELEPHANT MAN, with both picture and sound overseen by revered director David Lynch, this release is the perfect celebration of the films 40th anniversary. Starring Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an extraordinary and intensely moving true story of bravery and humanity. John Merrick (John Hurt) is The Elephant Man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society because of the disfiguring disabilities he was born with. Rescued by a well meaning surgeon (Anthony Hopkins), he tries to escape a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into a world ruled by Victorian sensibilities. Beautifully shot in black and white by the incomparable Freddie Francis, THE ELEPHANT MAN is an unforgettable story of human dignity and survival. A stunning new 40th anniversary restoration Extras: NEW - Interview with Frank Connor, Stills Photography NEW - BFI Q&A With Jonathan Sanger Interview With David Lynch Interview With John Hurt Mike Figgis Interviews David Lynch The Air Is On Fire: Interview With David Lynch at Cartier Foundation Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

• Queer As Folk: Series 1 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the mind of Russell T. Davis comes the highly successful show that spawned a US re-make and confirmed Davis as a talent to watch. Stuart Jones (Aidan Gillen) has got it all. He's rich drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty close to perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler (Craig Kelly) is funny adorable and definitely a babe but unlike his friend has zero confidence in himself. Since time began Vince has

• Rebel | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Australia, 1942, World War II. Kathy (Debbie Byrne) is a performer in a Quonset hut saloon where she entertains the troops. One night after a performance, Kathy throws a party and meets Marine Sergeant Rebel (Matt Dillon).Injured in battle and recuperating in Australia, Rebel has gone AWOL, determined to leave the war far behind and escape via a cargo ship. Yet as he waits for the boat that will take him to freedom, the two begin to fall in love.A classic World War II heart-warming musical.

• Hideous Kinky | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £12.97   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hideous Kinky journeys back to the early 1970s to Marrakesh, that hippy mecca for everyone from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Gillies MacKinnon, the director of this movie. Here you'll find one nice but confused middle-class young woman escaping the daily grind of a drab London with her two young daughters in tow. Whereas Esther Freud's book was told from the younger girl's perspective, the film-script places Julia centre-stage as she searches for what she describes wistfully as "the annihilation of the ego". Though fresh from her Titanic experience, Kate Winslet is no drippy hippy, bringing a refreshing feistiness to her role and looking fetching swathed in diaphanous layers. As her two daughters, Bella Riza (Bea, the wide-eyed younger one) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy, the sensible one) are brilliant discoveries--unselfconscious, charmingly quirky and enjoying a camaraderie that belies their difference in characters. Completing the family unit is Julia's lover, the endearingly unreliable Bilal (a fiery performance from Saïd Taghmaoui). When the money runs out, their adventures begin and the resilience and practicality of the girls is contrasted throughout with the dreaminess of their mother, her sense of duty vying with her quest for self-discovery. Visually, it's a veritable feast as we're pitched from the colour and cacophony of the market-place to the dusty harshness of the mountains. And that elusive title--which is never explained in the film--is in fact a phrase coined by the girls as a term of approbation. On the DVD: Hideous Kinky is presented in widescreen 16:9 with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. Additional features are disappointing minimal. As well as the usual theatrical trailer, there are brief interviews with the main players (though no marks for imagination as they're all asked the same questions) and approximately eight minutes of behind-the-scenes footage. There are no subtitles. --Harriet Smith

• Frost/Nixon | DVD | (18/05/2009) from £3.93   |  Saving you £16.06 (408.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make.

• Music From Another Room | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (50.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When five year old Danny helps deliver a family friend's baby Anna he tells his father that he will one day marry her. But it's not until he moves back to America- twenty five years later- that fate steps in and literally knocks him off his bike- and into the arms of a beautiful grown up Anna (Mol)! And while destiny might be on his side Danny (Law) discovers that time is not... because Anna is not only sure of her feelings for Danny but she's also engaged to be married to someone

• Paris, 13th District | DVD | (16/05/2022) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jacques Audiard returns to Paris with an adaptation of Adrian Tomine's 2015 collection of graphic short stories Killing and Dying. Written in collaboration with Portrait of a Lady on Fire writer-director Céline Sciamma, and Léa Mysius, Paris, 13th District is set in the French capital's 13th arrondissement, on the left bank of the Seine, and charts the interwoven relationships between four twenty-somethings. Capturing a very different Paris to the one that appeared in his previous films, which were dominated by the city's underworld, Paris, 13th District is a modern story of love and life, reflecting shifting attitudes towards identity and fidelity in today's Paris.

• The Color Purple Steelbook | Blu Ray | (04/12/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steven Spielberg's 1985 cinematic adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple brings the unforgettable story and characters to life with a talented cast. Whoopi Goldberg delivers a remarkable debut performance as Celie, who defies cruelty with love and finds joy in a closed-off world. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and features captivating performances by Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, and Akosua Busia. This enduring classic remains beloved by fans worldwide. Product Features On-Disc Special Features Conversations with the Ancestors: The Color Purple from Book to Screen A Collaboration of Spirits: Casting and Acting The Color Purple Cultivating a Classic: The Making of The Color Purple, The Color Purple: The Musical Theatrical Trailers

• The Passion | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Passion re tells the last week of Jesus' life putting the viewer at the heart of the action with the story being told from three different viewpoints: the religious authorities the Romans and Jesus. Compelling visually arresting drama of the greatest story ever told...