Drama

• Anna Karenina | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £4.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (73.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vivien Leigh stars as Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's enduring tragic heroine. Anna leaves her socialite husband behind for a more exciting military officer. In search of a meaningful relationship as well as an exciting and more adventurous life, Anna goes through a string of emotions when she becomes the third party of a strenuous love triangle. From depression to happiness to near emotional destruction, she must learn to deal with the elements that surround her tragic existence.

• In the Club | DVD | (22/09/2014) from £16.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Drama series following the lives of six pregnant women and their partners who meet at a local parentcraft class.

• Six Feet Under: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £21.98   |  Saving you £31.00 (155.08%)   |  RRP £50.99

  In some ways, HBO's Six Feet Under plays kid brother to the Sopranos: it's spunkier, less refined, chancier and a bit of a punk. Nevertheless, the show, set in the southern California mortuary Fisher and Sons, deserves its place in the pantheon of great television series. The initial series was a showcase for the most original characters, including tight-lipped brother David (Michael C Hall) coming out of the closet, emotionally trippy mom Ruth (Frances Conroy) and the most complex girlfriend on the face of the planet, Brenda (Rachel Griffiths). Slowly, the major force in series two 2 is the unassuming lead, Peter Krause. Part of the long line of good-looking actors who never get respect because they make it look too easy, Krause finds the perfect blend of optimism and wonderful, bittersweet anguish as Nate, the prodigal son. The opening series' happy ending is forgotten as relationships change, the business is still under fire from the evil conglomerate Kroehner, and a lively dream sequence is just around the corner. As with the first series, creator Alan Ball lets many others direct and write the show, but his stamp is all over it. The eccentricities of the characters are shaped, and not always suddenly. Take daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose), who sheds her bad boyfriend only to find more complex relationships on her road to discovering her own groove. One person in the mix is Ruth's beatnik sister (Patricia Clarkson, in an Emmy-winning role). She's a joyous embodiment of thriving--if ageing--counter-culture. Another new character is Nate's old girlfriend, the granola-loving Lisa (Lili Taylor). With Brenda heading down another destructive course, Nate is at more than one crossroads by series' end. For fans who groove with the wild, serio-comedic world of the Fishers (and let's face it, many didn't), the second series goes down like a fine meal of fusion cuisine. --Doug Thomas

• Journeyman | Blu Ray | (30/07/2018) from £4.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Journeyman is Paddy Considine's much-anticipated second feature as writer/director following his BAFTA-winning debut Tyrannosaur. Produced by Diarmid Scrimshaw (Tyrannosaur, God's Own Country) and featuring stand-out performances from Paddy Considine (Dead Man's Shoes) and Jodie Whittaker (2018's Doctor Who), Journeyman is a remarkable love story full of raw determination and courage set against the exhilarating backdrop of a Boxing Championship. After winning a punishing title defence on points, world middleweight boxing champion Matty Burton (Considine) collapses. The journey towards regaining his speech, movement and memory will be the toughest fight he'll ever face, and the prize could not be greater, for his relationship with his wife Emma (Whittaker) and baby daughter Mia hangs in the balance.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Plymouth Express / Wasp's Nest | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Plymouth Express: A train journey ends in tragedy forcing Poirot to instigate an investigation. Wasps' Nest: Poirot visits a garden fete bumping into the son of an old friend and mysterious beautiful girlfriend...

• The Man in the Iron Mask | Blu Ray | (09/03/2020) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following the success of The Count of Monte-Cristo, Richard Chamberlain once again stars in a thrilling adaptation of another classic tale from Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Mike Newell and showcasing a memorable performance from co-star Patrick McGoohan, The Man in the Iron Mask also features Louis Jourdan, Jenny Agutter, Ian Holm and Ralph Richardson. It is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Abducted and imprisoned, Phillipe is unaware that he's the rightful heir to the throne of France. While Phillipe was spirited away at birth by the treacherous and manipulative Fouquet, his twin brother Louis has grown into an easily manipulated spendthrift who is unconcerned for the welfare of the country. Phillipe's freedom now depends on the skill and bravery of the Captain of Musketeers the legendary D'Artagnan! Special Features Theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Silent Light | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £8.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (100.12%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Silent Light is the latest breathtaking work from Carlos Reygadas the controversial and prestigious director of the award-winning Battle in Heaven and Jap''n. Johan is the head of a family in a Mennonite community in northern Mexico. However he goes against the law of both God and men by falling in love with another woman and although he is honest with his wife about the affair his actions create conflict in their otherwise serine and tranquil existence. An enlightening and engaging exploration of moral and spiritual crises Silent Light's poetic tone at times invokes Dreyer Bergman and even Kubrick as it weaves its intricate and brilliant way to one of cinema's most exquisite finales. A modern classic from one of the greatest film-makers of our time.

• Catherine Cookson - The Mallen Streak | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £9.49   |  Saving you £-3.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The story of Thomas the Squire of High Banks Hall who wasted his fortune and fathered many illegitimate children each marked with a flash of snowy white hair.

• The Last Tree | DVD | (27/01/2020) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.

• The Irresistable Blueberry Farm | DVD | (11/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Under Fire | DVD | (06/05/2002) from £8.40   |  Saving you £4.59 (54.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Under Fire was one of a trio of notable films from the mid-1980s about journalists involved in Third World war zones. While certainly a lesser film than Salvador (1986) or The Killing Fields (1984) Roger Spottiswoode's movie is still a commendable work from a director who later brought a similarly political edge to Noriega: God's Favourite (2000). Nick Nolte plays an American photo-journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua in 1979, finding himself caught in a dangerous and cynical web of duplicity and self-interest, as well as falling in love with fellow American, Claire (Joanna Cassidy). Nolte gradually uncovers the degree of his own government's involvement with the corrupt regime, and inevitably ends up crossing the line from neutral observer to helping the rebel cause. Under Fire is in essence a reworking of Casablanca, especially as Gene Hackman's network newsman proves to be Cassidy's ex-lover, yet thanks to an intelligent script, strong support from Ed Harris as a mercenary and some genuinely unnerving and frightening scenes of the random chaos of war, it's one which packs a powerful punch. Jerry Goldsmith's evocative score is among his best of the 1980s.On the DVD: Under Fire is presented in an anamorphic 1.77:1 transfer which is very clean and clear with minimal grain. The well-mixed Dolby Pro-logic soundtrack is highly effective, if not so startling as a 5.1 track. Beyond multi-language and subtitle options, the only extra is the original trailer, which is also anamorphically enhanced. --Gary S Dalkin

• Dawson's Creek - Season 5 | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £10.40   |  Saving you £34.59 (332.60%)   |  RRP £44.99

  It's goodbye to Capeside, hello to Boston in Dawson's Creek's fifth season (a.k.a.: Dawson's Creek: The College Years). While the end of the fourth season sent the five friends their separate ways--Dawson (James Van Der Beek) to USC Film School, Joey (Katie Holmes) to Wilmington College, Jen (Michelle Williams) and Jack (Kerr Smith) to Boston Bay College; and Pacey (Joshua Jackson) to the high seas--it doesn't take them long to find themselves together again. That's a good thing, especially when tragedy strikes a family member and threatens to tear the survivors apart. More than anything, the fifth season seems to be about falling into bad relationships. Jen dates a cute but sleazy musician (Chad Michael Murray), Pacey gets a job in a restaurant where he pursues a woman (Lourdes Benedicto) already having an affair with a married man, then fends off a vampish new boss (Sherilyn Fenn, Twin Peaks). Joey is drawn to her handsome English professor (Ken Marino). And Jack joins a frat, becomes a jerk, and starts a devoted relationship with his beer bottle. Dawson meets an eccentric young filmmaker (Jordan Bridges) which in turn leads to a meeting with his favorite Boston film critic (Meredith Salenger). And Joey's new roommate, the annoyance-with-a-heart-of-gold Audrey (Busy Phillipps), becomes the newest major addition to the cast. The irritation factor is high this season, a couple of "Joey is threatened" interludes don't have the punch that they could have, and in the season finale, the inevitable resolution of the show's central relationship doesn't really resolve anything at all. But viewers who have followed the Capeside crew for four seasons will still want to see what happens in the fifth. The fifth season is the first to have no DVD extras at all, and it continues the music-replacement strategy (which, since the second season has replaced much of the music, and since the third season has replaced Paula Cole's theme song, all due to licensing expenses). In addition to the usual background-music switches, some scenes have been edited (for example, the episode "Highway to Hell" has cut two of the performances on-stage at the Drunk & Dead). Also, the opening credits of "The Long Goodbye" and "Downtown Crossing" had originally used instrumental versions of "I Don't Want to Wait," which had underscored the emotion of those episodes. In the DVD set, those have been replaced by the standard version and an instrumental version, respectively, of "Run Like Mad." --David Horiuchi, Amazon.com

• Bronson | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £4.19   |  Saving you £15.80 (79.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring a blistering lead performance from Tom Hardy, "Bronson" charts the life and times of notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.

• The Great: Season Two | DVD | (21/11/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Land Of The Free | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed.

• Goodbye First Love | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Following the critically acclaimed Father if my Children, Mia Hansen-Lvereturns with the equally impressive Goodbye First Love. Loosely auto-biographical in style, the film deals with what Hansen-Lve has described as the defining and central part of her adolescence. The blooming of first love, subsequent heartbreak and renewal are portrayed with a simple directness of stye which nevertheless allow the complexity of emotions to be given full range. Lola Crton (Bluebeard), playing the central character of Camille, creates an incredibly subtle performance allowing the audience to embrace our protagonists growth into maturity and personal liberation.

• The Zero Theorem | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £15.26   |  Saving you £7.73 (50.66%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Near-future London. Shut-in mathematician Qohen Leth (Waltz) is assigned by his employer (Damon) to work at home on solving the near-impossible Zero Theorem. Qohen begins a virtual and perhaps actual relationship with cyber-companion Bainsley (Thierry): either a distraction or the means to find an answer.

• Yellowstone: The First Four Seasons | Blu Ray | (31/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Holy Motors | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £8.19   |  Saving you £10.79 (207.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Leos Carax returns to cinema after a 13-year hiatus with Holy Motors, a brilliant, visually striking film that was one of the toasts of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

• My Dog Tulip | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully animated and featuring an all-star cast voiced by Christopher Plummer the late Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini My Dog Tulip is a touching bittersweet adaptation of the late British author J. R. Ackerley's enduring memoir exploring the 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch Tulip. A profound and subtle mediation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships My Dog Tulip was written and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger.