Drama

• The Last Witness | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young, ambitious journalist risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to the British Government's collusion in the cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.

• Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A gritty period drama set in industrial Tyneside during World War I. Life for the McQueen family is turned upside down when daughter Bridget comes home with a black husband.

• North And South - Season 2 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £8.90   |  Saving you £27.09 (304.38%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Season Two of the epic saga of the South Carolina Main family and the Pennsylvanian Hazards. In the fateful year 1861 began a war which was to tear America apart and which threatened to destroy the lives of the Hazard and Main clans. Friend fights friend brother stands against brother as the two families once bound by friendship and love are now on opposite sides of the bloody conflict.

• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £10.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (91.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). Guess Who's Coming to Dinner has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: but what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh

• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Blu Ray | (28/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socio-economic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh

• Jacqueline Wilson - Girls In Love / Girls In Tears / Best Friends | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.40

  This box set contains the following titles by Jacqueline Wilson: Girls In Love 1 & 2 Girls In Tears and Best Friends.

• Priest Of Love | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £9.97   |  Saving you £10.02 (100.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the banning and burning of his novel 'The Rainbow' D.H. Lawrence (McKellen)and his wife Frieda travel to the United States and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis they return to England for a short time then to Italy where Lawrence is inspired to write 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'...

• Rita Hayworth - Screen Goddess Boxset | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

• Boys On Film Presents: Campfire | DVD | (06/02/2017) from £11.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Campfire a lovesick boy scout goes on a camping trip in the country and tries to choose between his girl and his best friend. Particularly Now, In Spring follows a boy athlete as he takes his first steps into adulthood. Saint concerns the scantily-clad death of Saint Sebastian. Finally, Sailor looks at the love between a teenager and a seafarer. One of many pleasures in Defurne's work is the playful and unforced way in which he references the work of other artists from Dreyer and Eisenstein to photographers Herbert List and Pierre et Gilles. Most significantly, Defurne and his regular team have created an allegorical and headily romantic gay aesthetic that draws on a wide range of influences, but is uniquely their own. Defurne's choice of using largely unprofessional actors brings a charming innocence to the performances that complements the magical, overwrought worlds that they inhabit.

• Oppenheimer | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The acclaimed, multi award-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, starring Sam Waterston. Sam Waterston stars in this classic seven-part BBC mini-series as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who led the Manhattan Project to build the weapon that would bring a devastating end to World War Two.A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer began to realise the scale of the weapon he was developing, and he became increasingly ambivalent and even hostile about its eventual use. His fears lead the military establishment to suspect him of having Communist sympathies and, during the McCarthy era, Oppenheimer found himself accused of being a risk to national security.The series won three BAFTAs including Best Drama Series, and was nominated for two Emmys. Sam Waterston was nominated for the Best Actor Golden Globe.

• The Cary Grant Collection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Contains the titles: Indiscreet: Wealthy American Philip and famous actress Anne meet just as Anne insists that all the best men have already been taken. Though Philip is taken Anne can't resist their instant attraction and electricity. But the rather big and unexpected secret Philip hides from his new love threatens to spoil everything. Operation Petticoat: When Adm. Matt Sherman's (Grant) submarine the Sea Tiger is damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor he nee

• The Odyssey (L'odyssée) | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family - Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel - live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean sea. By day they dive, by night they watch the stars. Jacques lives and breathes adventure and with his invention, the aqualung, his recently acquired vessel the Calypso, and a crew of free-spirited adventurers he is ready to cross the world's oceans. Jacques is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve his dream.

• The Hours | Blu Ray | (10/10/2011) from £33.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Virginia Woolf (Kidman), in a suburb of London in the early 1920s, is battling insanity as she begins to write her first great novel, Mrs Dalloway. A wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, Laura Brown (Moore) is reading Mrs Dalloway and finding it so revolutionary that she begins to consider making a devastating change in her life. Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a present day version of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, lives in New York City and is in love with a friend (Ed Harris - A Beautiful Mind) who is dying of AIDS. Also starring John C. Reilly (Gangs Of New York), Claire Danes (Brokendown Palace) and Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense) - their engaging stories intertwine until they come together in a surprising moment of shared recognition.

• Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle | DVD | (29/10/2008) from £6.21   |  Saving you £0.04 (0.81%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Bridget Mordaunt a young woman in 1880s Britain inherits a factory from her father and wins respect from the workforce as she turns it into a solid business yet all the while a dark cloud looms on the horizon...

• In The Mood For Love | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hong Kong 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends making the lonely evenings more bearable. As their relationship develops they make a discovery that changes their lives forever... In this sumptuous exploration of desire internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-Wai creates a world of sensuality and longing

• The Woman in the Fifth | Blu Ray | (11/06/2012) from £21.13   |  Saving you £-1.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ethan Hawke (Brooklyn's Finest) plays Harry Ricks in this adaptation of novelist Douglas Kennedy's erotic thriller by the director of 'My Summer of Love' & 'Last Resort'.Ricks' life is out of control - separated from his wife, he heads to Paris in search of his daughter and the bohemian life of a would-be writer. But a series of encounters with the wrong kind of people start to push him towards free fall, until he meets mysterious migr, Margit, played by Kristin Scott Thomas (Sarah's Key), who seduces him and appears to offer him the hedonistic and uncomplicated life he craves...

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With this trailblazing musical, writerdirectorstar John Cameron Mitchell and composerlyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie as unclassifiable as its protagonist. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig (Mitchell) undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an internationally ignored but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as a beautiful gender of one. The film tells Hedwig's life story through her music, an eclectic collection of original punk anthems and power ballads by Trask, matching them with a freewheeling cinematic mosaic of musicvideo fantasies, animated interludes, and moments of bracing emotional realism. A hardcharging song cycle and a tender character study, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a tribute to the transcendent power of rock and roll. Features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Cameron Mitchell and cinematographer Frank DeMarco, with 5.1 surround DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary from 2001 featuring Mitchell and DeMarco New conversation between members of the cast and crew, including Mitchell, DeMarco, composer and lyricist Stephen Trask, hairstylist and makeup artist Michael Potter, animator Emily Hubley, actor Miriam Shor, and visual consultant Miguel Villalobos Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig (2003), an 85minute documentary tracing the development of the project from its beginnings in a New York club to its theatrical premiere at the Sundance Film Festival New conversation between Trask and rock critic David Fricke about the film's soundtrack From the Archives, a new programme exploring Hedwig's production and legacy through its memorabilia Deleted scenes with commentary by Mitchell and DeMarco Trailer PLUS: An essay by Stephanie Zacharek, along with, production photos by Potter and costume designer Arianne Phillips, illustrations by Hubley, and excerpts from two of the film's inspirations, Plato's Symposium and The Gospel of Thomas.

• Archipelago | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston – star of the forthcoming Thor & The War Horse) about to embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, doting mother Patricia wants to give him a good send-off, and gathers her family together for a getaway to a holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly.Edward's father's attendance is eagerly anticipated, though sister Cynthia appears to be there under some duress, going through dutiful motions. Gradually, deep fractures within the family set-up begin to surface in this eagerly awaitied second feature from director Joanna Hogg.

• Madagascar Skin | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £6.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (86.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Harry a shy young man with a Madagascar shaped birthmark flees the city and his unhappy life there and ends up alone on a beach. In strange circumstances he bumps into Flint and hiding out in an abandoned cottage their suspicions of one another start to disappear...

• Talk of a Million | DVD | (07/09/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception from director John Paddy Carstairs! Featured in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, this highly engaging comedy stars Dixon of Dock Green star Jack Warner as Bartley Murnahan, a likeable loafer who manages to give the impression that a large inheritance is due to his family. Bartley uses his wiliness to settle some scores and secure a future for his children, but this new-found prosperity comes at a price he may not be willing to pay!