Drama

• Romper Stomper - Deluxe Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (30/05/2022) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Featuring a young Russell Crowe in a knock out early performance, Romper Stomper is a gritty Australian urban thriller highlighting the danger of scapegoating and racial prejudice. With its skinhead protagonists and violent motif, the movie walks in the shadow of productions such as Alan Clarke's MADE IN BRITAIN and acted as a precursor to later work like American History X and This is England. Hando (Crowe), the psychotic leader of a gang of marauding neo-Nazi teenagers, begins a relationship with the epileptic Gabrielle, but though they at first make a good team the courtship soon turns abusive. Though Gabrielle has designs to take Hando away from his life of crime and destruction, his indoctrination into a racist world viewpoint seems all-consuming. Hard-hitting and at times cruel, this sadistic drama bleeds with unpalatable truths and difficult to face up to notions of culture, identity and working-class disintegration.

• Happy Gilmore | Blu Ray | (12/10/2020) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adam Sandler stars as Happy Gilmore in the over-the-top comedy that scores a hole in one for hilarity. After his dream of stardom on the hockey ice melts, Happy Gilmore discovers he has a gift that could bring him glory on the greens. Trouble is, with his hot head and hard-hitting drives, Happy doesn't just play golf...he destroys it. With the help of a retired golfer (Carl Weathers) and hot publicist (Julie Bowen), can Happy perfect his game and tame his temper to win the tournament prize money? With unforgettable appearances by Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald and Kevin Nealon, this comedy favorite features non-stop laughs that are par for the course!

• Separate Tables | DVD | (12/07/2005) from £12.97   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the film version of Terence Rattigan's 1955 West end theatre production. Major Pollack (David Niven) is a retired officer who likes to wax eloquent about fanciful acts of heroism in WWII North Africa and Sybil Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr) is a repressed spinster boxed in by an oppressive mother (Gladys Cooper). John Malcolm (Burt Lancaster) a cynical hard-drinking occasional writer is surprised by the sudden arrival of his ex-wife Ann (Rita Hayworth). Though Ann's legenda

• August: Osage County | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £5.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  August: Osage County tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the Weston family. A deep family crisis draws three daughters back to the family home, each returning with husbands and boyfriends in tow to solve the mystery of what happened.

• Bergerac - Series 3 | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £15.30   |  Saving you £12.68 (103.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Jim Bergerac (Nettles) is a recovering alcoholic divorcee and father of a young daughter a Detective Sergeant with the Bureau des Etrangers Jersey. Jim likes doing things his own ways a true maverick and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations in the traditional manner the way his boss would like... Episodes Comprise: 1. Ninety Per Cent Proof 2. A Hole In The Bucket 3. Holiday Snaps 4. Ice Maiden 5. Come Out Fighting 6. A Touch Of Eastern Promise 7. A Cry In The Night 8. The Company You Keep 9. Tug Of War 10. House Guests

• Secret of Santa Vittoria | DVD | (26/09/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Summer 1943: Benito Mussolini's Fascist government has fallen and the German army has occupied most of Italy - bad news indeed for the sleepy little hill-town of Santa Vittoria, where life revolves around the making (and consumption) of wine. But buffoonish town mayor Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) has devised a cunning plan. Knowing that the Germans intend to seize their wine, Bombolini and the townspeople stash some one million bottles in a secret cave shortly before German army commander Capt. von Prum (Hardy Krüger) and his forces take over the town. Von Prum, however, is not fooled when Bombolini tries to palm him off with a few thousand bottles. So starts a battle of wills between these two wily adversaries as Bombolini enlists every trick in the book to keep the town's ˜treasure' out of enemy hands while simultaneously dodging the marital brickbats thrown by his fiery wife, Rosa (Anna Magnani).

• Simple Men | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What do you do if your father a former all-star shortstop and mod-bomber anarchist breaks out of Jail? You go after him of course. Even if his trail leads straight into being caught. Two brothers trek through deepest darkest Long Island only to discover that sometimes even the oddest things really are just what they seem.

• A One and a Two (Yi Yi) | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  A subtitled three-hour saga of an ordinary middle-class urban family in modern-day Taiwan, at first glance, A One and a Two might not seem the most appealing of prospects. But don't be misled: this is a film that draws you in with all the warmth and density of a good novel, and once you are past the surface unfamiliarity of Taipei society, there's nothing in this tale of a troubled family that would seem alien anywhere in the world. Romantic stories often end with a wedding. Realistic stories are as likely to begin with one. Writer-director Edward Yang's film starts in a mass of floaty white dresses and heart-shaped pink balloons, but the smiles seem a little too effusive, the jollity feels forced. And sure enough, disaster is lurking. The seeming simplicity of Yang's narrative style conceals a subtle, intricate design. His camera moves obliquely, often holding its distance from the action, letting us take in all the elements of a scene and draw our own conclusions. Wider social implications--about modern society, about international business ethics--are hinted at, but never rammed home. By the end we realise we've been watching a microcosm of human life, with all its humour and tragedy. For all the apparent narrowness of its canvas, A One and a Two makes most British and American films feel hopelessly parochial. The Best Director Prize at Cannes was rarely more richly deserved. On the DVD: A One and a Two comes to disc with a generous helping of extras. The original theatrical trailer, wordless and intriguing; numerous cast and crew biographies; a brief stills gallery; and, best of all, a full three-hour commentary track of Edward Yang in conversation with Tony Rayns, UK expert on Chinese-language cinema. Their discussion is relaxed and illuminating. The print, and the SR Dolby Digital sound, are clean and crisp, and we get the full 1.85:1 ratio of the original release. --Philip Kemp

• In The Mood For Love | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  This Special Edition 2-disc set of 'In The Mood For Love' presents a vast and sumptuous array of the very best of director Wong Kar-Wai's selected additional features. The special bonus features will satisfy the longings for audiences who have been seduced by 'In The Mood For Love' and its timeless beauty style and sensuality. Hong Kong 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband s

• The Electric Horseman | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This rousing romantic adventure Robert Redford plays ex-world champion cowboy reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flash lights. Jane Fonda is a chic sharp member of the electronic media a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol a multi-million dollar racehorse Jane is determined to discover why. She does one step ahead of a posse of pursuing police. But by the time they reach a remote rendezvous high in the Utah mountains she is in love with both the Cowboy and his convictions...

• James Dean - The TV Years | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Before he ever made the movies like Rebel Without A Cause that would forever burn his name into the collective consciousness fifties legend James Dean appeared in numerous television programmes. Here on one remarkable DVD are complete live dramas from that Golden Age of television starring the one and only James Dean: The Bells Of Cockaigne (1953) featuring Dean as a man who comes to the rescue of a sickly child; and I Am A Fool (1954) with Dean as a poor boy who

• Burnt | Blu Ray | (30/10/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adam Jones had it all -- and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time, and only cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste.

• NYPD Blue - Season 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Originally broadcast in 1994, the second series of NYPD Blue was disrupted by the departure of star David Caruso (Detective John Kelly) after just four episodes--apparently under less than amicable circumstances. He was ably replaced as Detective Sipowicz's partner by Jimmy Smits as the smoother Detective Bobby Simone, and the series managed not to miss a beat. More streamlined and downbeat than its predecessor Hill Street Blues (also created by Steven Bochco), NYPD Blue continued second time around to mix near-the-knuckle detective work in pursuit of New York's scummiest with more character and relationship-based drama. Although it's regrettable that its ethnic-minority characters such as Lieutenant Fancy are increasingly marginalised here, the series is more comfortable, and even has fun with, regular characters such as the nervy Detective Medavoy and his on-off paramour Donna Abandando. Andy Sipowicz's simmering, tough-nosed recovering alcoholic is increasingly and amusingly put to the test in a number of situations, including a murder investigation in a gay bar; being sung to at his own wedding by Nic Turturro's Detective Martinez; and a love scene in the shower in which we experience the dubious pleasure of seeing his bare bum. New female introductions, such as the strong but sympathetic Detective Lesniak, also helped to shake up the series with a much-needed oestrogen boost. There's also fun to be had in spotting a number of guest appearances by up-and-coming actors destined to make it in their own right such as Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) and Debra Messing (Will and Grace). On the DVD: NYPD Blue, Series 2 DVD box set contains a number of extras, primarily a one-hour documentary in which the cast and programme-makers discuss the series episode by episode, the self-congratulatory mood only broken by some subtle digs at departing star David Caruso (apparently, he walked straight off the set following his final take into a waiting limo without any farewells). There's also a small piece paying tribute to the music of theme-writer Mike Post and an item covering the relationship between Sipowicz and Assistant DA Sylvia Costas, in whose marriage this series culminates. --David Stubbs

• Bad Timing | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £11.18   |  Saving you £3.81 (34.08%)   |  RRP £14.99

  His terrifying obsession took them to the brink of death and beyond Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). When their all consuming passion takes a life-threatening turn Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is assigned to piece together the sordid details. Acclaimed for its innovative editing raw performances and stirring musical score - featuring Tom Waits The Who and Billie Holiday Nicolas Roegs Bad Timing is a masterful deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession.

• A Hologram For The King | Blu Ray | (19/09/2016) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Light-hearted comedy drama starring Tom Hanks as struggling American businessman Alan Clay. Desperate to recoup lost earnings and pay for his daughter's tuition fees, Clay travels to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to secure a lucrative IT contract with a wealthy Saudi king. After discovering on arrival that the king hasn't visited the development in 18 months and, facing the sack, Clay must find the money and willpower to make his project a success and turn his fortunes around. The cast also includes Ben Whishaw, Sarita Choudhury, Tom Skerritt and Sidse Babett Knudsen.

• Alamar | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he likes an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she prefers a more urban existence.

• The Brute | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £11.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (55.22%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two of Mexicos finest actors star in this fiery melodrama by master director Luis Buuel. Pedro Armendariz (Maria Candelaria; Three Godfathers) plays a physically strong but simple-minded slaughterhouse worker who is hired by a brutal landlord to evict unwanted tenants. His life is complicated when he falls for the slumlords seductive wife played by Ariel-winner Katy Jurado (Broken Lance; High Noon). Bold brutal and blistering THE BRUTE is a highlight of Buuels Mexican period in which he fit his themes and ideas into the popular Mexican melodrama.

• Computer Chess (Masters of Cinema) (DVD & BLU-RAY DUAL FORMAT) | Blu Ray | (20/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The fourth feature film from the brilliant and maverick American filmmaker Andrew Bujalski whose previous works include Funny Ha Ha (the early '00s film that arguably kicked-off the so-called 'mumblecore' movement of American independent cinema) Mutual Appreciation (an acclaimed comic portrait of love and longing in the Brooklyn indie music scene) and Beeswax (which among its principals starred Alex Karpovsky the filmmaker and actor who has gone on to renown for his own comedy features and his role in Lena Dunham's Girls). A boldly intelligent ensemble comedy with a feel and atmosphere that surpass easy comparison Computer Chess takes place in the early-1980s over the course of a weekend conference where a group of obsessive software programmers have convened to pit their latest refinements in machine-chess and the still-developing field of artificial intelligence (AI) against an assembly of human chess masters. Computer Chess is a portrait not only of the crazy and surreal relationships that come to pass between the abundance of characters who participate in the weekend event (and among whose ranks include Wiley Wiggins the revered indie-game developer and star of Richard Linklater's classic Dazed and Confused) but of the very era of early computing itself - and of the first rudimentary video games - and (if that weren't enough) of the hopes and insecurities that persisted through the film's 'retro' digital age into the present-day - that semi-virtual hyper-social maybe-kind-of-dehumanised landscape that let's face it is our very own era. If that still weren't enough: it's also one of the wittiest most shift-and-cringe-in-your-seat and entirely LOL-hilarious movies of recent times. With its radical retro video aesthetic and wry rumination on digitality and where-we-are-today Computer Chess is a far-reaching and ambitious benchmark for the modern American cinema. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess in its UK home-viewing debut in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) release. Special Features: 1080p presentation of the feature film on the Blu-ray Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Two trailers for the film Andrew Bujalski's short 2013 film Analog Goose New and exclusive video interviews with Bujalski actor Wiley Wiggins and producer Alex Lipschultz 56-Page Full-Colour Booklet Featuring: A new essay by Craig Keller A discussion on retro gaming with Wiley Wiggins A profile on cover artist (and original Atari 2600 packaging artist) Cliff Spohn A plethora of full-colour photography from the set

• Witchhammer | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (the Witchhammer of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule. With echoes of Bergman and Franti ek Vlá il, and with literary antecedents in Arthur s Miller s The Crucible and Aldous Huxley s The Devils of Loudon, it is a disturbing political fable; and like Ken Russell's controversial, expressionistic adaptation of Huxley s text, The Devils (1971) and other films of the period such as Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968) and Michael Armstrong's Mark of the Devil (1970), it serves as both grim genre film and compelling historical drama.

• A Marine Story | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A decorated Marine officer unexpectedly returns home from the war and is quickly recruited to help a troubled teen prepare for boot camp but when the true reasons for her return become known it threatens the future for both of them. Dealing with an issue that has polarized the American people for almost two decades A Marine Story highlights the absurdity of the recently repealed military ban on homosexuals serving openly through the personal story of one courageous woman.