Drama

• George Stevens | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Woman Of The Year: A female politician and a sports journalist marry for the wrong reasons in this battle of the sexes comedy classic. Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay. Giant - Special Edition: The James Dean legend lives on in 'Giant' George Stevens sweeping Oscar-winning epic about the cataclysmic effect the discovery of oil in Texas has on the lifestyle of the former cattle barons. Dean is Jett Rink a sullen-farm hand who becomes a millionaire overnight. To

• Wonderland | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Covering five days in the lives of a South London family slowly fraying at the edges, Wonderland is a subtle, moving and evocative document of capital life at the end of the 90s.

• Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £17.19   |  Saving you £12.80 (42.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  World War I is over and Eaton Place has moved into the 1920's. The uncertainty of this new age is emphasised as Richard Bellamy's plans for the future with his new wife Virginia cause anxiety. James Bellamy on returning from the war looking for a worthwhile occupation decides to follow in his father's footsteps and enters politics. James and Georgina are caught up in the hysterical gaiety of the times and throw a wild fancy dress party which ends in tragedy. James finds himself bored with his life and embarks on an affair with his best friend's wife. Meanwhile below the stairs Hudson becomes enamoured with a new young housemaid and puts his position as butler in danger... Amidst the political turbulence there is also social exuberance for some members of the upper class. Georgina strikes up a friendship with a wild society girl causing great distress to her family. Meanwhile James is experiencing the heartaches of unrequited love as Georgina doesn't recognise his strong feelings for her. Worst of all a massive blow is dealt to the whole household as tragedy strikes Eaton Place. James has unfortunately made a bad investment and is forced to sell Eaton Place to pay off creditors. Episodes Comprise: 1. On with the Dance 2. A Place in the World 3. Laugh a Little Louder Please 4. The Joy Ride 5. Wanted-A Good Home 6. An Old Flame 7. Disillusion 8. Such a Lovely Man 9. The Nine Days Wonder 10. The Understanding Alberto 11. Will Ye No Come Back Again 12. Joke Over 13. Noblesse Oblige 14. All The Kings Horses 15. Whither Shall I Wander?

• Little Black Book | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £4.32   |  Saving you £6.93 (226.47%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Infuriated by her tight-lipped boyfriend, Brittany Murphy's TV producer delves into his palm pilot to find all about his ex-girlfriends - and finds more than she bargained for.

• The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £7.95   |  Saving you £-2.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This dark melodrama based on the John Patrick story 'Love Lies Bleeding' stars Barbara Stanwyck as the wonderfully wicked Martha Ivers a wealthy and domineering woman who controls a small town after inheriting a large family fortune. She lives with her weakling husband a district attorney running for mayor played by Kirk Douglas in his feature film debut - a role that's an unusual departure from his later work. What no one in the town knows however is that Stanwyck and Douglas are bound by a dark secret involving murder. Gripping and suspenseful this film noir classic also stars Van Heflin as Martha's old love who returns to town after an 18-year absence whom Douglas thinks is there for one reason: blackmail.

• Murder In Coweta County | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  It is the late 1940's. In Merriwether County Georgia john Wallace is 'King'. He has almost total control of agriculture and the illegal whiskey trade. Wallace's rule is assured by intimidation bribery and bloodshed. When Wallace commits the crime in Coweta County he has entered the territory of Sheriff Lamar Potts a man of determination and unquestioned integrity...

• Last Exit To Brooklyn | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £5.85   |  Saving you £0.14 (2.39%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle the Catholic priest Christopher and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor lodge two thousand and five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege of the Hutu militia.

• 13 Minutes | DVD | (23/11/2015) from £39.50   |  Saving you £-21.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The breath-taking story of a man who nearly changed the world. In 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one man stood against him. Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, was one of the greatest resistance fighters.

• The Emperor And The Assassin | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £11.45   |  Saving you £11.53 (136.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the 20th Century BC, THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASIN tells the story of Ying Zheng, a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Qin

• Itty Bitty Titty Committee | DVD | (08/12/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Anna is coming out. But not as gay as a revolutionary. Itty Bitty Titty Committee is a rockin love song to the heady rush of sex freedom and rebellion that happens when an everyday girl discovers her own strength and the righteous indignation needed to take action and change the world.

• Rocket Science | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (221.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A teenager tackles the mysteries of life, love and public speaking in "Rocket Science", a wry comedy of adolescent angst by Jeffrey Blitz.

• Lay the Favourite | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A comedy drama about a thirty-something woman who meets some fifty year old men who have found a way to work the system in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, the odds aren't always in their favour.

• Stand By Me 4K Ultra HD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (04/03/2024) from £33.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a small Oregon town, a group of friends, sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton),tough-guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) are in search of a missing teenagers body. Wanting to be heroes in each others and their hometowns eyes,they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey ofself-discovery. When they encounter the towns knife-wielding bullies whoare also after the body, the boys discover a strength they never knew they had.

• British Gangsters - Faces Of The Underground: Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (14/12/2015) from £10.29   |  Saving you £19.70 (65.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Now regarded as one the best documentary series on true crime of all time, British Gangsters: Faces Of The Underworld offers an honest and powerful insight into a subject matter deemed as taboo by many. With unique access to faces who have never spoken in front of cameras before, author Bernard O Mahoney takes us on a journey through a crime culture that gained notoriety in the 60s and brings it right up to date with gripping and emotional tales of modern day Britain. Drugs, robbery, terrorism, murder and ultimately, consequences. This is the Britain that has always remained silent... until now.

• The Chalk Garden (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ronald Neame (The Odessa File) directs this stately adaptation of Enid Bagnold's play which tells of a haughty matriarch (Edith Evans, The Whisperers) who employs a governess (Deborah Kerr, The Innocents) with a shadowy past to take care of her troubled teenage granddaughter (Hayley Mills, Take a Girl Like You, Endless Night), and her neglected garden. John Mills (Town on Trial, The Wrong Box) plays the butler who develops a soft spot for the governess, and navigates the fraught interpersonal relationships of the house. A hit with audiences upon its original release, The Chalk Garden benefits from a nuanced screenplay by the great John Michael Hayes (Rear Window) and tasteful photography by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagles Dare, Fanatic). INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES High Definition remaster Original mono soundtrack Audio commentary with film historians Lucy Bolton and Josephine Botting (2021) The BEHP Interview with Ronald Neame (1991, 107 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the acclaimed director in conversation with Roy Fowler Fertile Ground (2021, 8 mins): assistant production accountant Maurice Landsberger remembers filming at Eastbourne 8mm Location Footage (1963, 1 min): excerpts from John Mills' home movies shot at Beachy Head during production Clever Conversation (2021, 22 mins): appreciation of Malcolm Arnold's score by author and musician David Huckvale Loved and Envied (2021, 11 mins): Josephine Botting on the life and career of Enid Bagnold Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

• The Wild One | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £18.01   |  Saving you £-8.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful '50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a ""good-girl"" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival Chino (Lee Marvin) plus the hos

• Endless Poetry | Blu Ray | (06/03/2017) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Endless Poetry narrates the years of the Chilean artist's youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from his family, and was introduced into the foremost bohemian artistic circle of 1940s Chile.

• The Way We Were | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £6.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (44.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A classic early 1970s weepie, The Way We Were stars Barbra Streisand as a Communist activist in the late 30s and 40s and Robert Redford as the ambitious young writer who marries her, cheats on her and eventually leaves her in the early days of McCarthyism for the sake of his Hollywood screenwriting career. Arthur Laurent's intelligent screenplay, remarkable performances from the two stars and Marvin Hamlisch's Oscar-winning score and theme song combined to produce a film that even as hostile a critic as Pauline Kael had to admit worked. On the DVD: The DVD re-release includes the usual subtitling facilities, the theatre trailer and a documentary on the film's making, which includes one of the more political scenes deleted for commercial release; it is also possible to watch the film with a detailed commentary from Sydney Pollack about the problems of its making, problems which included writing new scenes so that Redford was not entirely upstaged by Streisand in the audience's sympathies. --Roz Kaveney

• The Georgian House | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £8.39   |  Saving you £-0.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Eerie, unsettling and one of the key children's TV productions of the 1970s, The Georgian House was written by acclaimed author Jill Laurimore with noted producer/writer Harry Moore (The Clifton House Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and produced by the renowned Leonard White (The Avengers, Armchair Theatre). Cult children's television actor Spencer Banks (Timeslip, Tightrope) stars alongside Jack Watson (Sky, Arthur of the Britons) in a series that The Stage lauded as visually rich, sumptuously produced [and] a quality production.Though made as a seven-episode series, unfortunately only a few episodes are now known to exist - two in original transmission format and one on home video held in private hands. Long sought by archive TV collectors, this release includes all three remaining episodes of The Georgian House - episodes one, three and seven.Two students, Abbie and Dan, take a holiday job in a museum that 200 years ago was the home of the Leadbetter family. The pair are drawn to an African carving which suddenly emits a voice summoning them back in time to 1772. Dan is transformed into a kitchen boy and Abbie becomes a member of the Leadbetter household. They soon realise they have a task to fulfil before they can return to their own time - helping a black servant with strange powers who is about to be sent back to the misery of the sugar plantations...

• Murder By Numbers | DVD | (20/01/2003) from £8.45   |  Saving you £5.54 (65.56%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Sandra Bullock stars as a homicide detective saddled with a new inexperienced partner, on the trail of two gifted high school students who execute the "perfect" murder.