Drama

• Betty Blue | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the most iconic films int he history of French cinema arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray in a deluxe box set. A landmark in French Cinema Jean-Jacques Beineix's erotically charged and visually intoxicating film also heralded the arrival of a new screen icon Beatrice Dalle. Laid-back handyman Zorg spends his time doing odd jobs on beach-front chalets making chilli and harbouring dreams of becoming a writer. His life is turned upside down with the arrival of a beautiful but volatile Betty. They begin a romance fuelled by intense passion but as Betty turns increasingly violent and self-destructive Zorg tries desperately to halt her slide into insanity. Special Features: 'The Making of Betty Blue' - A Second Sight Produced Documentary Featuring new Interviews with Jean-Jacques Beineix Beatrice Dalle Jean Hughes Anglade Claudie Ossard Gabriel Yared Jean-Francois Robin Beatrice Dalle Screen Tests

• The Dark Angel - The Complete Series | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Arguably the archetypal Gothic thriller The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu's influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Starring Peter O'Toole in a wonderfully rich performance as the dangerous scheming and perhaps quite mad Silas Ruthyn this three-part drama is elegantly directed by cult favourite Peter Hammond (Sherlock Holmes The Avengers) and also features Beatie Edney as the unfortunate Maud Jane Lapotaire as the grotesquely sinsiter Madame de la Rougierre Tim Woodward as the brutal Dudley and Hammer Horror doyenne Barbara Shelley in her final dramatic television role. Sparkling with corrupted elegance its dark brooding atmosphere makes The Dark Angel the definitive adaptation of this literary classic. When her father unexpectedly dies young Maud Ruthyn becomes heiress to a large fortune that is held in trust for her until she comes of age. Romantically obsessed by a youthful Byronic painting of her Uncle Silas she readily agrees to being placed in his care - ignoring warnings of his behaviour as a known rake wastrel and opium fiend. Unfortunately for Maud things are not what they seem and Silas's benevolent demeanour hides a web of deception and terror.

• Stranger in the House (DVD + Blu-ray) (BFI Flipside 037) | Blu Ray | (25/02/2019) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Once an eminent barrister, cynical drunkard John Sawyer (James Mason) leads a reclusive life, out of touch with the burgeoning youth movement of the mid-1960s. But when his daughter Angela's (Geraldine Chaplin) boyfriend is wrongfully accused of murder, Sawyer decides to confront his demons and the changing world around him in order to defend him. Featuring striking camera work from Academy Award-winner Kenneth Higgins and co-starring music legend Bobby Darin, this intergenerational drama (based on a novel by George Simenon) is a cult British classic ripe for rediscovery. Special Features: Original trailer Other extras TBC Fully illustrated booklet

• The Birth of a Nation | Blu Ray | (17/04/2017) from £8.32   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows the story of Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher (Nate Parker), who leads a fierce rebellion against slavery.

• The Uncle | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £9.25   |  Saving you £0.74 (8.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This moving evocative and highly original drama recalls the mystery the doubts and the poetry that is childhood – as seen through the eyes of an isolated little boy whose life is turned upside down by the unwelcome arrival of his unruly nephew. Directed by BAFTA nominee Desmond Davis and featuring powerful performances from an accomplished British cast including Rupert Davies Brenda Bruce and Maurice Denham this rare highly acclaimed film is presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements. At just seven years of age Gus has been an uncle all his life. When his quarrelsome unmanageable nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with him however he finds the responsibilities of his position almost too hard to bear... Bonus Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF

• A United Kingdom | Blu Ray | (20/03/2017) from £5.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Director Amma Asante (Belle), starring David Oyelowo (Selma) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and set against the breath-taking backdrops of the African savannah and period London, A United Kingdom celebrates the inspiring real-life romance of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. One of the greatest love stories ever told.

• Boyhood Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (27/03/2023) from £22.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Richard Linklater, the director of Slacker, Dazed & Confused and Before Sunrise, Boyhood is a ground-breaking cinematic achievement; a fictional drama made with the same group of actors over a 12-year period. At once epic and intimate, it is a one-of-a-kind trip through the exhilaration of childhood, the seismic shifts of modern family life, and the passage of time itself. Dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason (Ellar Coltrane) is facing upheaval: his struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) re-enters their world. Thus begins a decade of constantly unfolding heartbreak and wonder. Against the tide of family moves and controversies, faltering marriages and re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times and scary times that will shape him, Mason emerges to find his own road in life. A remarkable achievement that builds on Linklater's fascination with time, relationships and the ever-changing nature of our lives, Boyhood is a deeply moving experience that found praise from critics around the world and went on to win the award for Best Film at both the Golden Globes and British Academy Film Awards in 2015. Product Features High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Lossless DTS HD MA 5.1 audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Without Ambition, One Starts Nothing, a new featurette featuring American poet and critic Dan Chiasson in conversation with his son Louis Chiasson about their shared love and connection to the film In Search of Lost Time, a new visual essay by critic and film-maker Scout Tafoya Before and After Boyhood, a previously unheard interview with Richard Linklater by film critic Rob Stone, author of Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater Richard Linklater at the BFI, director Richard Linklater discusses Boyhood and his whole career in this on stage appearance at the British Film Institute Theatrical trailer Image gallery Double-sided fold-out poster 60-page perfect-bound collector's book featuring new writing on the film by film critic Ben Sachs and scholar Rob Stone, author of Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater

• The Snake Pit (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Shocking and highly controversial at the time of release, The Snake Pit broke new ground in Hollywood cinema for its depiction of mental illness and its treatment. Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind; The Heiress), delivers an astounding performance as a young bride who suffers a breakdown and finds herself committed to an asylum. Director Anatole Litvak (Sorry, Wrong Number; Anastasia) had to fight to persuade producer Darryl Zanuck to back the film, but the result remains one of the most potent and powerful films to tackle the subject and was an influence on later works such as Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963), Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) and MiloÅ¡ Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). Extras: 4K remaster from original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with author and film historian Aubrey Solomons The Battles of Olivia de Havilland (2019): critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson discusses the revered actor's illustrious career Neil Sinyard on ˜The Snake Pit' (2019): a new appreciation by the author and film historian Theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Lindsay Hallam, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits World premiere on Blu-ray All extras subject to change

• Turbulence | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A handful of last-minute Christmas Eve passengers are boarding a flight from New York to Los Angeles that will change their lives forever: if they survive! For flight attendant Teri Halloran (Lauren Holly) it's just another plane ride from coast to coast with only one difference. This time they'll be carrying two very special passengers an armed robber named Stubbs (Brendan Gleason) and a seductive serial killer called Ryan Weaver (Ray Liotta) both handcuffed and shackled and

• Chicago Med Season 1-5 | DVD | (07/09/2020) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  SAVING LIVES WITH EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT From Primetime Emmy® Award-winning executive producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) comes all 113 episodes from Seasons One - Five of Chicago Med. The doctors, nurses and staff of the city's most cutting-edge trauma center take on critical medical cases and their ethical dilemmas. Woven into this high-intensity environment are engrossing personal dramas where life or death is always on the line. Along with familiar faces from Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., this powerhouse ensemble cast includes Oliver Platt (The Big C), S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order), Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless), Yaya DaCosta (The Kids Are All Right), Colin Donnell (Arrow), Brian Tee (Jurassic World) and Torrey DeVitto (The Vampire Diaries). BONUS FEATURES Cross-over episodes with Chicago P.D. & Chicago Fire

• McCallum | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A doctor to die for... Set in the East End of London this series stars John Hannah in the title role of Dr Iain McCallum a motorcycling forensic pathologist like no other! Features all eight episodes from both series and the pilot. The Key To My Heart: When the body of a Vietnamese banker washes up near London's Isle of Dogs McCallum's disturbing forensic findings rattle him and fuel his determination to find the truth. But solving the case becomes more complicated w

• MOONRISE OF KINGDOM - MOVIE | Blu Ray | (27/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Knight of Cups | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £6.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles trying to make sense of the strange events around him. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted by the death of one brother and the dire circumstances of the other, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to the daily pain he must endure, and every encounter that comes his way brings him closer to finding his place in the world. From Terrence Malick, the visionary director of The Tree of Life and To The Wonder, and starring Academy Award winners* Christian Bale (The Big Short, The Fighter, The Dark Knight Rises), Cate Blanchett (Carol, Blue Jasmine) and Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Thor) comes a stunning meditation on love, fate and fame

• Sunshine | DVD | (10/04/2013) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sprawling family saga follows a Hungarian-Jewish family across three generations, and stars Ralph Fiennes as the father, the son, and the grandson in three distinctly different roles. As a Europudding vehicle for Fiennes and a top-drawer cast (including Jennifer Ehle, Rachel Weisz, Deborah Unger, Miriam Margolyes and William Hurt), Sunshine delivers on all fronts: there's glossy melodrama, high-moral seriousness as history wears the family down like the wind, and leitmotifs--the family elixir called "Sunshine" that founds their fortune, semi-incestuous adulterous liaisons, photographs and faces--that thread the epic three-hour narrative together. Fiennes begins as a stiff Budapest lawyer-cum-officer and judge during the First World War, torn when anti-Semitism raises its head. His son is a champion fencer who denounces the family faith to attain advancement but ends up in the Nazi-run labour camps all the same. The last in the line, a policeman this time, must navigate the Stalinist forces of repression and endures through the 1956 uprising to take back the family name and faith. And yet as a film by director István Szabó (Colonel Redl, Mephisto), it's a bit of a soggy disappointment lacking the bile and spit and visual inventiveness that makes the best of his other works so outstanding. Perhaps the fact that Szabó is directing an all-English speaking cast is the problem, leaving the film feeling strangely old-fashioned and paradoxically lacking a sense of place (despite much of it being filmed in Hungary itself). Although there are some charged emotional beats throughout, pretty costumes, and lots of entertainingly tasteful bonking sequences, the fencing sequences in particular become tooth-pullingly tedious and the whole thing seems to drag, especially as it takes itself so seriously. --Leslie Felperin

• The Impressionists | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £16.46   |  Saving you £0.53 (3.22%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This 3 hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet Degas Renoir Czanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence special effects transport the viewer inside some of the world's best-loved paintings. Populated by the cream of British acting talent The Impressionists will recreate the illuminated landscapes and haunting portraits of late 19th-century France.

• Under Suspicion | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £7.29   |  Saving you £5.70 (78.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Liam Neeson's battered gloomy features make him a natural for film noir, and the 1991 Under Suspicion makes exemplary use of him as Tony Aaron, a private eye headed for the death cell. Part of the film's strength is its 1959 setting--this is a past where people are hanged, where homosexuality is a crime and where people fake adulteries to get divorces. One such faked adultery leads to the death of Aaron's wife and their client. His own chequered past--he was thrown off the force for getting a colleague killed--means that most of the local police want him to be guilty. Only his best friend (Kenneth Cranham) even begins to be prepared to believe in his innocence and the possible guilt of the client's mistress, Angeline (Laura San Giacomo). Where Under Suspicion is content to recreate the seedy Brighton of the 1950s, and lives trapped by an unthinking puritanism, it is excellent. Unfortunately, much of this emotional power is dissipated by an over-elaborate plot in which artists' signatures, interlocking scams and extortions play a large part. --Roz Kaveney

• Bomber Harris | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Thaw stars in this critically acclaimed BBC drama based on the wartime career of Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris the Commander in chief of Bomber Command from 1942-1945.

• Big Love - Series 1 | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £27.00 (207.85%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Polygamy Loves Company. Think having three wives is a dream come true? Think again. HBO presents the new contemporary drama series that tells the story of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotional romantic and financial needs of his wives...Barb (Jeanne Trip

• Gospel | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £3.00   |  Saving you £16.99 (566.33%)   |  RRP £19.99

  See It! Live It! Spread It! A young R&B singer returns home to find his father's once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a ""new vision"" for the church he is forced to deal with family career and relationship issues that send him on a collision course with redemption or destruction...

• The Lucky Ones | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £9.17   |  Saving you £6.82 (74.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Lucky Ones