Drama

• Party Girl | Blu Ray | (26/02/2024) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When Nicolas Ray (Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause) turns his talents to a gangster movie, a familiar genre becomes startling and new. Set in 1930s Chicago, Party Girl follows a bum-legged mouthpiece for the mob (Robert Taylor) and a gorgeous, wised-up vamp (Cyd Charisse) who fall in love, try to go straight...and head straight for trouble. Ray deepens the drama and heightens the violence with filmmaking artistry that has given Party Girl cult status: a screen painted in sinister ebony and blood red, an urban landscape of shattered glass and shattered bodies, and a scene where a Jean Harlow-besotted mobster learns his idol has married - and shreds her photo with a rat-a-tat of lead.

• Gone | Blu Ray | (13/08/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When her sister disappears, Jill is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor.

• Too Fat For 40 | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £5.86   |  Saving you £14.13 (241.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmed on the evening of Kevin Smith's 40th birthday before a crowd of rabid fans at the Count Basie Theatre, this two-disc edition features the full, uncut and unexpurgated three-and-a-half-hour version of Too Fat For 40 and includes a Bonus DVD loaded with extra features including additional encore Q&A footage and a look behind the scenes.Taking its title from the much-publicized brouhaha in which an airline declared Smith too fat to fly, Too Fat For 40 puts the spotlight firmly on Kevin Smith's brilliantly self-deprecating humour as he pokes fun at his everyday life through anecdotes and a natural ability to spin a good yarn.Part concert, part Q&A and totally funny, Too Fat For 40 is essential viewing for Kevin Smith fans and anybody with a love of filmmaking and stand-up comedy.

• The Last Face | DVD | (11/09/2017) from £6.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The movie stars Theron as the director of an international aid organization working in Liberia who embarks on a love affair with a stubborn and impulsive relief-aid doctor, played by Bardem.

• The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £10.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (27.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Geoffrey Rush plays the famous actor and founding member of The Goons in this brave and unusual biopic.

• Wings of The Dove | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Kate (Helena Bonham-Carter) falls in love with a penniless journalist named Merton (Linus Roache) she faces an impossible choice: marry him and live in poverty or give him up to receive her inheritance. Of course there is one unthinkable option. Kate could have Merton seduce the beautiful American heiress Millie Theale (Alison Elliott) who's dying and has no one to leave her fortune to! But in doing so Kate risks losing what she values most Merton's own heart. See for yourself how far these lovers will go to have it all - money love and passion and the ultimate price they must pay in the film that has everyone talking!

• Arthur & Mike | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £5.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (128.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One-time talented golfer Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is struggling with a life from which he longs to escape. Faking his own death he acquires a forged passport and a new identity—that of a golfer named “Arthur Newman”. “Arthur” heads out for Indiana to start a new life and a promise of a new job as a resident golf-pro at a prestigious club. Along the way he meets the beautiful but troubled Charlotte (Emily Blunt) who is also traveling under a false identity—that of her schizophrenic twin sister Michaela or “Mike”—and has fled her own home in North Carolina. Arthur and Mike’s relationship flourishes and they embark on an adventurous road-trip where they take a deviation breaking into empty mansions and assuming other people’s identities until eventually the role-playing games begin to lose their lustre revealing two hearts hurt by life’s challenges. Arthur & Mike are then forced to take another look at themselves and the real lives they’ve left behind.

• The Onedin Line - Series 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £13.05   |  Saving you £26.94 (206.44%)   |  RRP £39.99

  From 1971 to 1980 millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series following the trials and triumphs loves and betrayals adventures and disasters of James his family and others in the Onedin Line fleet and boardroom. Series Two heralds the end of the American Civil War and new opportunities for the shipping trade but James faces troubles in his business and personal life. As struggling seamen prepare to strike Anne is torn between her principles and loyalty to her husband and Yellow Fever is putting the whole city in peril. Meanwhile Albert and Elizabeth's marriage has reached breaking point and the rivalry between James and Daniel Fogarty intensifies...

• Family Life | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £9.64   |  Saving you £8.35 (86.62%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The dramatic story of a young girl and her family, shattered by personal conflict. She suffers schizophrenia after a traumatic abortion. Her parents commit her to an asylum, believing they know what's best for her...

• Palms | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £11.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (15.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Between 1986 and 1990 Artur Aristakisian lived among the tramps and beggars of Kishinov the Moldavian capital studying them and empathising with their plight. This documentary follows a series of case studies - all disadvantaged in some way - as they go about their daily business of struggling to eke out an existence in a cruel and hostile world. Profound spiritual and hallucinatory 'Palms is remarkable at every level and one of the most visionary films of recent years.

• 21 Grams | Blu Ray | (07/06/2010) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-1.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  21 grams is the weight we lose when we die, and this moving drama tells of three very different people brought together by the common bond of death.

• Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah & Her Sisters) | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Annie Hall: Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director ""Annie Hall"" is Woody Allen's supreme masterpiece. Coming between such early slapstick farces as ""Sleeper"" and ""Love and Death"" and darker more reflective comedies like ""Manhattan"" and ""Hannah and Her Sisters "" this endearing semi-autobiographical film put Woody in the league with the best directors we have. Starring Allen as New York comedian Alvy Singer and Diane Keaton (in a Best Actress Oscar-winning role) as Annie the film weaves flashbacks flash forwards monologues a parade of classic Allen one-liners and even animation into an alternately uproarious and wistful comedy about a witty and wacky on-again off-again romance. Manhattan: Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1979 and considered one of Allen's most enduring accomplishments Manhattan is a wry touching and finely-rendered portrait of modern relationships against the backdrop of urban alienation. Sumptuously photographed in black and white (Allen's first film in that format) and accompanied by a magnificent Gershwin score Woody Allen's aesthetic triumph is a ""prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence"" (Time Magazine). 42-year-old Manhattan native Isaac Davis (Allen) has a job he hates a seventeen-year-old girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) he doesn't love and a lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) who's writing a tell-all book about their marriage... and whom he'd like to strangle. But when he meets his best friend's sexy intellectual mistress Mary (Diane Keaton) Isaac falls head over heels in lust! Leaving Tracy bedding Mary and quitting his job are just the beginning of Isaac's quest for romance and fulfillment in a city where sex is as intimate as a handshake - and the gate to true love... is a revolving door. Hannah And Her Sisters: Brimming with laughter tears and subtle beauty Hannah And Her Sisters is a magnificent ""summation of (Woody Allen's) career to date"" (The New York Times). Winner of three Oscars and featuring a brilliant all-star cast Hannah And Her Sisters spins a tale of three unforgettable women and showcases Allen ""at his most emotionally expansive working on his broadest canvas with masterly ease"" (Newsweek)! The eldest daughter of show-biz parents Hannah (Mia Farrow) is a devoted wife loving mother and successful actress. A loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters (Barbara Hershey) and Holly (Dianne Wiest) she's also the emotional backbone of a family that seems to resent her stability almost as much as they depend on it. But when Hannah's perfect world is quietly sabotaged by sibling rivalry she finally begins to see that she's as lost as everyone else and in order to find herself she'll have to choose - between the independence her family can't live with... and the family she can't live without.

• Rabbit Proof Fence | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is the true story of Molly Craig, a young black Australian girl who leads her younger sister and cousin in an escape from a camp set up as part of an official government policy to train them as domestic workers and integrate them into white society.

• Bridgend (Dual format DVD & Blu-ray ) | Blu Ray | (07/08/2017) from £21.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Hannah Murray (GAME OF THRONES) and Josh O'Connor (GOD S OWN COUNTRY), BRIDGEND is a haunting mystery drama inspired by true events. Sara and her father Dave (Steven Waddington SLEEPY HOLLOW) move to a small town in Bridgend, South Wales, which has witnessed a series of unexplained suicides amongst its young inhabitants. While Dave, as the town s new police officer, investigates the deaths, Sara befriends a group of local teenagers who frequently gather in woodland to honour their friends that have gone. As her bond with the group deepens, Sara begins a dangerous love affair with Jamie, taking her towards the centre of the very investigation her father is leading.

• The Boxer | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £8.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When Danny Flynn returns to his Belfast neighbourhood after 14 years in prison all he wants is to find peace resume his career and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance they realise cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives.

• Electricity | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £5.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (210.71%)   |  RRP £17.99

  ELECTRICITY is an astonishing journey seen through the eyes of a young woman whose epilepsy brings extraordinary hallucinations as she searches for her lost brother. Lilly O’Connor (Deyn) – brash sexy witty – lives on the Northeast coast away from the world and her past. But when her mother dies the past draws Lily back in. When she discovers that her younger brother Mikey (Cooke) the only one who looked after her when they were kids disappeared to London years ago she resolves to try and find him. But the search could kill her. Lily’s epilepsy brings vivid visual distortions strange auras and terrifying visions that we experience through her eyes. ELECTRICITY takes us on a journey that brings Lily to the brink of death before triumph in a beautiful and uplifting story of self-discovery and the human spirit. Based on the novel by Ray Robinson that the Guardian called ‘a breath-taking assault on the senses’ ELECTRICITY combines passionate drama with stunning special effects in a powerfully uplifting love story with a fearless breakthrough performance by AGYNESS DEYN. The cast of leading British talent includes CHRISTIAN COOKE (Cemetery Junction). PAUL ANDERSON (Heart of the Sea) ALICE LOWE (Sightseers) LENORA CRITCHLOW and TOM GEORGESON (Notes on a Scandal). Directed by BAFTA-Nominee Bryn Higgins adapted by BAFTA-winning writer Joe Fisher and with a stunning score by BAFTA-winner John Lunn ELECTRICITY is a Stone City Films production.

• Code Unknown | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the prelude to Code Unknown, we watch as a class of deaf children play a very sophisticated game of charades. In response to a blank-faced girl shrinking slowly against a wall, the children guess: is it sadness, isolation, loneliness? We are not told the answer before director Michael Haneke cuts to the extraordinary opening sequence of the film. This nine-minute tracking shot along a busy Parisian boulevard, introduces the film's central characters: Amadou, a first generation French boy of West African descent; Maria, a Romanian illegal immigrant; and Anne (Juliette Binoche), a French actress, trying to make the leap from theatre to film. However, this is the only time we will see these characters together in one place before the film fractures into a series of vignettes, which slowly describe their lives, their cultural isolation and their search for small moments of beauty within this alienation.Michael Haneke has been credited with reinvigorating and refreshing Austrian cinema with expectation-smashing early films such as Funny Games; if his newest pan-European films are anything to go by, he could be set to do the same for Euro cinema in general. Though Code Unknown is very different from Haneke's Benny's Video or Funny Games, like them this film also implicates and involves the viewer in the guilt of the on-screen characters. Its structure of intricately woven story strands is entirely provocative and stirring--politically, aesthetically and emotionally. It's exactly the type of film you want to watch again and again. As with the players of the opening game of charades, we won't be given any easy answers to questions about our collective guilt in the racism and alienation of an undeniably multicultural, multiethnic Europe. --Tricia Tuttle

• Frank Capra Box Set | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It Happened One Night (1934) Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly) who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes

• The People Next Door (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The People Next Door is an unflinching portrayal of a New York family torn asunder by drug abuse. Eli Wallach (Winter Kills) and Julie Harris (The Haunting) give compelling performances as parents whose marriage is pushed to the brink when their daughter Maxie (Deborah Winters) experiments with LSD and heroin, before experiencing a mental breakdown. Assuredly directed by David Greene (I Start Counting, Gray Lady Down), making his first American feature, and beautifully shot by Gordon Willis (Little Murders, The Godfather), The People Next Door is an unjustly forgotten melodrama, returning to UK screens for the first time since the days of VHS. Special Features 4K restoration from the original negative Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Rutanya Alda and film historian Lee Gambin (2021) Vic Pratt on David Greene (2021): appreciation of the British filmmaker's eclectic career Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Peter Tonguette, an overview of the reception of the controversial television play on which the film is based, an archival interview with star Eli Wallach, a look at the film's soundtrack album, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and full film credits UK Blu-ray premiere Limited edition of 3,000 copies Extras subject to change

• Amy Foster | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £11.93   |  Saving you £-1.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz star with Sir Ian McKellen and Kathy Bates in this passionate film about star-crossed lovers. To everyone in her village Amy Foster is thought of as strange she is even shunned by her own family. Considered a witch by the more superstitious she is accused of conjuring the fierce storm that causes a shipwreck. Only one man survives and he is immediately drawn to Amy. Caught between their passion for each other and the prejudice and hatred their love has ignited Amy and her lover find themselves ensnared by the small-minded town folk in a haunting tale of courage individuality and the resiliency of the human heart.