Drama

• Fanny And Alexander | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Fanny and Alexander is one of the more upbeat and accessible films from Ingmar Bergman. This autobiographical story follows the lives of two children during one tumultuous year. After the death of the children's beloved father, a local theatre owner, their mother marries a strict clergyman. Their new life is cold and ascetic, especially when compared to the unfettered and impassioned life they knew with their father. Most of the story is seen through the eyes of the little boy and is often told in dreamlike sequences. Colourful, insightful, and optimistic, this is far less grim than most of Bergman's work. It was awarded four of the six Oscars for which it was nominated in 1984, including Best Foreign Language Film. Though this was announced as his last film, Bergman continued to work into the late 1990s, though mostly for Swedish television.--Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Little Women | DVD | (28/06/1999) from £6.44   |  Saving you £13.55 (210.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The flaws are easily forgiven in this beautiful version of Louisa May Alcott's novel. A stirring look at life in New England during the Civil War, Little Women is a triumph for all involved. We follow one family as they split into the world, ending up with the most independent, the outspoken Jo (Winona Ryder). This time around, the dramatics and conclusions fall into place a little too well, instead of finding life's little accidents along the way. Everyone now looks a bit too cute and oh, so nice. As the matron, Marmee, Susan Sarandon kicks the film into a modern tone, creating a movie alive with a great feminine sprit. Kirsten Dunst (Interview with the Vampire) has another showy role. The young ensemble cast cannot be faulted, with Ryder beginning the movie in a role akin to light comedy and crescendos to a triumphant end worthy of an Oscar. --Doug Thomas

• Small Town Story | Blu Ray | (09/09/2019) from £4.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This excellent British thriller, thought lost for decades, stars Donald Houston, Alan Wheatley and Susan Shaw (cast against type here in a 'bad-girl' role) in a gripping story of love and deception in the world of British association football. Featured here in a new High Definition transfer from the original film elements, Small Town Story includes appearances from football and cricketing legend Denis Compton along with players from Millwall, Arsenal and Hayes football clubs, and boasts the only screen acting credit of future World of Sport commentator Kent Walton. Though there is noticeable film damage in the first reel, this is the only copy known to exist. Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...

• Day After Tomorrow, The / Independence Day | DVD | (31/05/2005) from £8.47   |  Saving you £7.52 (88.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Day After Tomorrow: Extremely concerned by the Earth's extremely rapid rate of climate change paleoclimatologist Adrian Hall (Quaid) races northward to a freezing New York to rescue his son as the rest of humanity streams south to escape the impending ice age... Independence Day: One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as the ships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hope lies with a determined band of survivors uniting for one last strike against the invaders - before it's the end of mankind.

• Sex, Lies and Videotape | Blu Ray | (06/08/2018) from £25.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Steven Soderbergh's remarkably assured, disarmingly frank debut, a gamechanger for American independent film. With his provocative feature debut, twentysixyearold Steven Soderbergh trained his focus on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher),who is sleeping with her sister (Pretty Woman's Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (a magnetic, Cannesawardwinning James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the softspoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession: videotaping women as they confess their deepest desires. A piercingly intelligent and flawlessly performed chamber piece, in which the video camera becomes a charged metaphor for the characters' isolation, the Palme d'Orwinning sex, lies, and videotape changed the landscape of American film, helping pave the way for the thriving independent scene of the 1990s. Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Steven Soderbergh, with 5.1 surround DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary from 1998 featuring director Steven Soderbergh in conversation with filmmaker Neil LaBute New programme by Soderbergh, featuring responses to questions sent in by fans Interviews with Soderbergh from 1990 and 1992 New documentary about the making of the film featuring actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo New conversation with composer Cliff Martinez and supervising sound editor Larry Blake Deleted scene with commentary by Soderbergh Trailers PLUS: An essay by critic Amy Taubin and excerpts from Soderbergh's diaries written at the time of the film's production

• Tin Star: Season 3 | Blu Ray | (15/02/2021) from £20.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final and concluding Season of the Tin Star saga. Thousands of miles away from the Rocky vista of Canadian town, Little Big Bear, Jack, Angela and Anna return to the UK 20 years after leaving to confront the sinister truth they ran from. The family are on the attack, determined to draw to a conclusion the historic battles they have been fighting from the past, and will have to confront their deadliest enemies in a battle to win freedom in the present.

• Eyes Wide Shut | DVD | (10/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Visually beautiful, Kubrick's last completed film Eyes Wide Shut blends the sinister, the sensual and the clinical in a combination that is rather too personal and idiosyncratic to be entirely successful as the final statement about gender and sexuality he intended it to be. Adapted by Frederick Raphael from the Dream Story of Freud's friend Schnitzler, it shows a young successful couple confront the dangers that lurk beyond monogamy; Nicole Kidman's Alice does little more than fantasise, flirt and dream, but even this causes guilt and pain. Doctor Bill (Tom Cruise) does rather more--he visits a whore, crashes an orgy and continues to ask questions when warned off; if no disaster ensues, and it is possible that two people die as a result, it is only luck that averts it. Much of the best of what is here is to be found in the occasional moments of stillness--Cruise walking through a morgue--or wild comedy--Cruise's attempt to hire a costume in the middle of the night interrupts major shenanigans at the fancy-dress shop. Cruise and Kidman do what they can with material that never means as much as it aspires to and the stand-out performance is Sydney Pollack's, as a worldly wise client. On the DVD: The DVD is presented in a lavish Dolby Sound that makes the most of the obsessive Ligeti piano piece and Shostakovich waltz that dominate the score and in the 1.33:1 ratio that was Kubrick's considered choice. It has subtitles in English, Arabic, Bulgarian and Rumanian, two TV spots and informative interviews with Kidman and Cruise, as well as with Stephen Spielberg to whom Kubrick had talked at length about his artistic intentions. --Roz Kaveney

• Shall We Dance? | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Here's the irresistible comedy treat that had critics and audiences cheering! A middle-aged workaholic's incredibly dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for a ballroom dance class - just to meet the sexy dance teacher. But when he finally muscles up the nerve for lessons he winds up with a different instructor and her colourfully eccentric class of beginners! And now he'll have to step lightly - and do some fancy footwork - if he expects to keep his new passion a secret from

• Second Coming | DVD | (06/07/2015) from £6.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (130.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jackie (Nadine Marshall) is expecting her second child but the maths doesn't quite add up. It's been months since she last slept with her husband Mark (Idris Elba), so she knows it can't be his. But she also knows she hasn't slept with anybody else. Prior to Jackie's discovery, she, Mark and son JJ (Kai Francis-Lewis) are a close-knit family living in London. Then comes Jackie's seemingly Immaculate Conception. Unable to explain her pregnancy she says nothing but knows it's only a matter of time before questions are asked and accusations will start to fly. As the child inside her starts to grow, so does everyone's concern for her state of mind, until it's not only the father of the child that is in question but Jackie's sanity as well.

• Hors Satan | DVD | (13/05/2013) from £10.21   |  Saving you £5.78 (36.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bruno Dumont's latest film Hors Satan is beautifully shot in a protected area on the coast of Northern France, where the director has been living most of his life. Hors Satan engages in a unique way with the landscape to emphasize the inner life of the film's characters, a world of sand dunes, woods and marshes. By the Channel, along the Cte d'Opale, near a hamlet with a river and a marshland, lives a unusual guy who struggles along, poaches, prays and builds fires. A girl from a local farm takes care of him and feeds him. They spend time together in the wide scenery of dunes and woods, mysteriously engaging in private prayer at the edge of the ponds, where the devil is prowling... Special Features: Trailer 5.1 Surround Sound

• Hooligan Escape | DVD | (14/05/2018) from £6.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Five English football fans have a violent encounter with a group of Russian hooligans at the European Cup. Their fight leaves one man dead and a vengeful Russian with an axe to grind. Two years later, former SAS man Ed Leighton (Ben Freeman) and four of his best mates travel to the World Cup in Russia, hoping for a trouble free tournament. Unfortunately for them, the Russians have other ideas. Herded into a Russian prison and dragged to an unknown secure location, Ed and his mates must find a way out. Aided by the mysterious Veronika (Ali Bastian: The Bill), Ed, Tom, Vince, Jeff and Davie (Charlie Wernham: Bad Education) must evade the most dangerous Russian gangster intent on retribution.

• Prisoner Cell Block H - The Edna Pearson Episodes | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £59.90   |  Saving you £-44.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Prisoner Cell Block H: The Edna Pearson Episodes

• Tar | Blu Ray | (17/04/2023) from £38.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she's preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks her life begins to unravel in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power, and its impact and durability in today's society.

• The Doors – The Final Cut Collectors Edition | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £49.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Discover this stunning, new 4K restoration of Oliver Stone's psychedelic music biopic, brought to life with Dolby Atmos®, that will take audiences back into the world and sounds of one of the most iconic rock bands in history. A sonic journey that brilliantly captured the furious energy of the 60s and the myth of The Doors' iconic front man, Jim Morrison -the man whose music shaped an era. This brand new 4K restoration of THE DOORS in Dolby Atmos® will provide far greater overall clarity and dimension for the audience ( ) I wanted the film to be as immersive as possible to a real 60s Doors experience. - Oliver Stone - Extras: Includes two versions of the film the Theatrical 1991 Cut and brand new The Final Cut New interview with Oliver Stone New interview with Lon Bender, mixer for new Dolby Atmos mix Deleted Scenes Jim Morrison: A Poet in Paris THE ROAD TO EXCESS documentary THE DOORS IN LA Audio commentary with Oliver Stone Selected EPK highlights

• Collateral 4K UHD Steelbook | Blu Ray | (05/08/2024) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

• The Art of Getting By | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £7.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (156.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two work-shy kindred spirits (Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts) meet during their senior year and accidentally perfect The Art of Getting By.

• Labor Day | Blu Ray | (04/08/2014) from £8.08   |  Saving you £18.91 (234.04%)   |  RRP £26.99

  On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict.

• Flashdance / Footloose / Pretty In Pink | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £11.74   |  Saving you £8.25 (70.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Flashdance In Adrian Lyne's 'Flashdance' a young woman Alex (Jennifer Beals) strives to achieve success as a classical dancer but economic forces require her to work as a welder by day and an exotic dancer by night. Standing in her way is an abundance of profound social obstacles not the least of which is her boss at the welding factory Nick (Michael Nouri) who is also her boyfriend. Alex strives to be accepted into a prestigious ballet academy and she is furious when s

• Anna Karenina (Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £20.50 (456.57%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright's bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The film marks the third collaboration of the director with Academy Award-nominated actress Keira Knightley and Academy Award-nominated producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster, following their award-winning box office successes Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. The timeless story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, while illuminating the lavish society that was imperial Russia. The time is 1874. Vibrant and beautiful, Anna Karenina (Ms. Knightley) has what any of her contemporaries would aspire to; she is the wife of Karenin (Jude Law), a high-ranking government official to whom she has borne a son, and her social standing in St. Petersburg could scarcely be higher. She journeys to Moscow after a letter from her philandering brother Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen) arrives, asking for Anna to come and help save his marriage to Dolly (Kelly Macdonald). En route, Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky (Olivia Williams), who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When Anna is introduced to Vronsky, there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot - and will not - be ignored.

• The Bible - Solomon | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Solomon is the tale of the king of Israel who rules his land with love peace and respect. When he meets the Queen of Sheba her beauty and charm immediately smite him and he falls hopelessly in love. Against his wishes and desires she must return to her homeland leaving the King in a state of deep depression inevitably leading his kingdom to the verge of collapse.