Drama

• Like Crazy | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a British college student (Felicity Jones) falls for her American classmate (Anton Yelchin) they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated when she violates the terms of her visa.

• Immortal Story | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £11.59   |  Saving you £1.40 (12.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Welles' second-to-last feature The Immortal Story is an adaptation of a book by Danish author Isak Dinesen and stars Jeanne Moreau. The year is 1860 in the Portuguese colony of Macao Mr. Clay (Welles) is an aging rich merchant who is the subject of town gossip. He likes his clerk Levinsky (Roger Coggio) to read to him to help him relax in the evenings and one night he recounts a tale about a rich man who paid a poor sailor five guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Mr. Clay has no wife and no heir to his fortune and resolves to make the story true...Levinsky approaches Virginie Ducrot (Moreau) another clerk's mistress and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor...

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (08/04/2013) from £7.21   |  Saving you £23.04 (387.23%)   |  RRP £28.99

  It took some time for Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson to return to Middle Earth, but the wait was very much worth it. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey starts off by playing strongly to its links to the previous adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, before setting off on an adventure of its own. The first of three films based on The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey isn't a fast film to get going, but it does spent quality time introducing its key characters. Most moviegoers are more than familiar with Sir Ian McKellen's Gandalf of course, but the collection of dwarves and Martin Freeman's take on Bilbo Baggins are all brought together, and the adventure ensues. It's a journey that's punctuated by terrifically orchestrated action sequences, a swirling score, and lavish production design. Furthermore, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has one or two real standout moments contained within its running time, not least when we finally get reunited with Gollum. The sequence where Bilbo Baggins and Gollum come face to face is as good as anything Jackson put on screen in the Lord Of The Rings films. And while The Hobbit doesn't quite capture the magic of the earlier trilogy often enough, there's a lot here to enjoy, and plenty left to look forward to. It's beautifully, beautifully presented on disc, too. --Jon Foster

• Ransom | Blu Ray | (01/09/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sean Connery gives another powerful and charismatic performance as a Scandinavian security chief battling to thwart the deadly plans of a terrorist leader played by Ian McShane. Beautifully photographed by double Oscar-winning Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist and complemented by Jerry Goldsmith's memorably haunting score Ransom takes us through a tightly plotted relentless race against time. Presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements this intelligent atmospheric thriller has never looked better. Following a series of bomb attacks in London a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to the ficititious state of 'Scandinavia'. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists – yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn... Special Features: Original theatrical teaser and trailer Image Gallery Promotional material PDF

• Boy On A Dolphin | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Phaedra (Sophia Loren in her first Hollywood role) is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While deep diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin. Anthropologist Jim Calder (Alan Ladd), working in Greece to restore national treasures, wants the artifact but he can't pay for it, and asks Phaedra to donate it to his museum. In the meantime, Phaedra's lazy boyfriend has seized on the opportunity to sell the treasure to an unscrupulous art.

• Battleship Potemkin | DVD | (17/04/2000) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

• Lady With The Lamp, The | DVD | (03/01/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In another perfect embodiment of a much-loved historical figure Anna Neagle follows her starring roles as Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell with a turn in this lavish biopic of Florence Nightingale. Based on the play by Reginald Berkeley Herbert Wilcox's film charts Nightingale's dramatic life story from her early years in society through to her pioneering reform work in the nursing service of the 19th century England.

• Without You (ITV) | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Without You, ITV1's hit thriller series based on the bestselling novel What To Do When Someone Dies by Nicci French (the pen name of writing duo Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) and starring Anna Friel (Limitless; London Boulevard; Pushing Daisies), comes to DVD on 16th January 2012 and features all three episodes of the series plus bonus 'Making Of' featurette, which includes interviews with Anna Friel and Nicci French.Directed by Tim Fywell (Waking the Dead; Mistresses), this taut, emotional and effective psychological thriller co-stars Marc Warren (Mad Dogs; Mutual Friends; Hustle), Barnaby Kay (Wuthering Heights; Holby City), Olivia Poulet (The Thick Of It) and Pippa Haywood (Tamara Drewe; Green Wing).Anna Friel stars as schoolteacher Ellie Manning, happily married to accountant Greg, with whom she is eager to start a new family. However, Ellie's plans for a romantic dinner at home with her husband one evening are shattered when the police arrive to inform her Greg has been killed in an horrific car accident, along with an unknown female passenger. The circumstances suggest the victims were pursuing an extra-marital affair, but Ellie, stricken with grief, refuses to even contemplate, let alone believe that Greg would cheat on her.When the passenger is revealed to be married businesswoman Milena Livingstone, a woman previously unknown to Ellie, Milena's husband's cool acceptance of the situation prompts Ellie into investigating matters further, specifically to determine why Milena was in Greg's car at the time of the accident. As she digs deeper, she becomes convinced the crash was no accident, but her obsession with discovering the truth leads those around her to question her emotional state. Meanwhile, Ellie, now unable to trust even her closest friends, is becoming suspicious of everyone, including herself.

• The Hiding | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £4.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (25.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new family. Jo slowly begins to make new friends and builds a new life when her past catches up to her and the fight of her life has begun.

• The Power of the Dog Criterion Colletion - UK Only | Blu Ray | (28/11/2022) from £28.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  JANE CAMPION returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape-pulsating with both freedom and menace- that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog. Set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow (The Virgin Suicides' KIRSTEN DUNST) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (The Road's KODI SMIT-MCPHEE) move in with her gentle new husband (Friday Night Lights' JESSE PLEMONS), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Doctor Strange' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers. Product Features 4K digital master, approved by director Jane Campion, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack Interview with Campion about the making of the film Programme featuring interviews with members of the cast and crew and behind-the-scenes footage captured on location in New Zealand Interview with Campion and composer Jonny Greenwood about the film's score Conversation among Campion, director of photography Ari Wegner, actor Kirsten Dunst, and producer Tanya Seghatchian, moderated by filmmaker Tamara Jenkins New interview with novelist Annie Proulx Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £59.99

  A boxed set containing the three double DVD's which comprise the third series of this classic television drama series starring James Bolam as Jack Ford. Set on Tyneside after the first World War this DVD set contains the all fifteen episodes from the hugely popular and highly acclaimed series.

• Glengarry Glen Ross | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £7.56   |  Saving you £2.43 (32.14%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin star in this classic 1992 movie from director James Foley.

• Wild Child | Blu Ray | (29/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father in order to rid her of her wild ways!

• Monster (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (15/08/2022) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A down-on-her-luck sex worker unexpectedly finds love and is determined to get her life back on track. However, she soon finds out that going straight is never simple and becomes embroiled in a spiral of violent crime as she escalates from petty theft to serial murder. Product Features Archive audio Commentary with Writer / Director Parry Jenkins, Actor / Producer Charlize Theron and Producer Clark Peterson Making a Murderer: a new interview with Director Patty Jenkins Producing a Monster: a new interview with Producer Brad Wyman Light From Within: a new interview with DoP Steven Bernstein Monster: The Vision and Journey Based on a True Story: The Making of Monster Deleted and Extended Scenes with Director Commentary Monster: Evolution of the Score Original Trailer English subtitles for the hearing impaired Limited Edition Contents Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Daniel Benneworth-Gray Soft cover book with new essays by Anton Bitel, Hannah Strong & Shelagh Rowan-Legg 6 collectors' art cards

• A Thousand Times Good Night | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (85.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Thousand Times Good Night tells the moving story of leading wartime photojournalist Rebecca (Binoche) who is torn between a passion for her dangerous job and her loving but worried family. This affecting film which won the Special Grand Prix of the Jury at the Montreal Film Festival 2013 resonates with Poppe whose own experiences from his years as a wartime photographer for Reuters and other media are reflected in the film. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul she gets to near and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work or her family life. The choice seems obvious. Rebecca swears to Marcus that she will never go to a war zone again. Yet the conviction that her photos can make a difference keeps pulling at her resolve making it difficult for her to live a normal life as a mother and wife. Then comes an offer to photograph a refugee camp in Kenya a place allegedly so safe that daughter Steph is allowed to join her mother...

• Navidad | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £17.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's Christmas Eve Aurora and Alejandro have run away to a secluded cabin in the hills outside Santiago. Their plan is to spend this time alone and get to know each other in every way. As they continue to experiment with each other bodies jealousy starts to creep in. Alejandro discovers some letters from the mysterious Luisa a girl who is in love with Aurora. He becomes paranoid about the secret relationship and Aurora's plans to spend New Year's Eve with this girl in Argentina. Alejandro is no longer interested in a relationship and leaves the cabin but finds Alicia unconscious in the greenhouse. Aurora persuades Alejandro to stay and the couple nurse Alicia back to health becoming more and more intrigued by this attractive young woman. The feeling of sensual tension starts to simmer and their fascination with each other starts to grow. As Christmas approaches the three troubled teenagers dance drink and share their minds and bodies eventually discovering a closeness that will soothe their alienation and loneliness even if only for the night...From the director of Gloria and starring a trio of new Chilean talent Alicia Rodriguez (Young and Wild) Maniella Martelli (My Last Round) and Diego Ruiz (Drama) Navidad is an intriguing emotional tale about what happens when you just let yourself go.

• Canterbury Tales | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  BAFTA-award winning drama from the BBC. The Miller's Tale: When smooth talking Nick arrives in a flash red sports car young wannabe pop star Alison thinks that her dreams have come true and incites the jealousy of her husband Dennis Waterman. The Wife Of Bath's Tale: Beth Craddock is a TV actress who still believes in Mr. Right even after a number of failed marriages. But is her dashing co-star Jerome her soulmate despite their large age difference. The Knight

• Animals | DVD | (06/01/2020) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Laura and Tyler are two girls who like to party - drink, drugs and general debauchery infuse their days while their careers and lives remain on hold. As they drift into their thirties, reality begins to bite, but Laura and Tyler will not be tamed so easily. Special Features: Making of Featurette, Deleted & Extended scenes and the theatrical trailer.

• Dirty | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £4.69   |  Saving you £15.30 (326.23%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire Pearl Harbor) and Clifton Collins Jr. (Capote Mindhunters) hit the streets as gang members-turned-cops in this raw hard-edged story about a day in the life of two corrupt cops going for one final score. Featuring Cole Hauser (The Cave Pitch Black) and Aimee Garcia (D.E.B.S. Cadet Kelly) Dirty showcases a darker side of the men in blue where cops are as crooked as the criminals they seek to eradicate.

• Confessions of a Prodigal Son | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £22.94   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A coming-of-age tale that follows Sean (Nathan Clarkson) as he rebels and leaves his home, family and father (Kevin Sorbo), to figure out life on his own. Two years later-while on the journey to find life's answers-Sean suddenly finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew as he is confronted by a professor (Darwin Harris) who challenges Sean to see his life as a story; a best friend (Azel James) walking a dangerous path; and a strong and beautiful young woman (Rachael Lee) who is on her own journey to find answers. Each one of these elements causes Sean to better examine the choices he is making. The story is one of drama, laughter, relationships, faith and redemption, ultimately asking the question, Can broken stories have happy endings? .