Drama

• Marty | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Before beginning the main feature make sure you watch Burt Lancaster's endorsement of Marty in the appended theatrical trailer first. Yes, he was involved as coproducer, but his conviction clearly stems from the film itself. This screen adaptation of Paddy Chayevsky's play was a breakthrough in an American neo-realism that would sustain itself for two decades. Ernest Borgnine is in his element as the Bronx butcher in his mid-30s seemingly destined for a bachelor existence on account of past disappointments. There's a winningly natural performance from Esther Minciotti as his well-meaning, ever-interfering mother, while Betsy Blair is inspired casting as schoolteacher Clara, plain and diffident but with the proverbial good heart. The supporting cast is one of telling cameos, simply and unselfconsciously delivered. Delbert Mann conveys the energetic bustle of the Italian ex-pat community, and ensures that the intimacy of the original play is not lost. On the DVD: Marty's black-and-white print reproduces crisply in the DVD format, as does Roy Webb's score, which vividly evokes 1950s American city life. There's dubbing in four and subtitles in five European languages, together with the original trailer mentioned above. Having seen Marty, you'll surely agree that Lancaster's enthusiasm was not misplaced. --Richard Whitehouse

• You Kill Me | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £4.24   |  Saving you £13.01 (436.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While drying out on the west coast, an alcoholic hitman befriends a sharp-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

• All The Kings's Men (Sean Penn - 2006) | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £5.65   |  Saving you £14.34 (253.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of larger-than-life politician Willie Stark, who transcended the poverty of the Great Depression to become the governor of Louisiana.

• Dancing Dreams | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £11.94   |  Saving you £6.05 (50.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  World famous choreographer Pina Bausch selected 40 teenagers to be part of her dance piece Contact Zone. Dancing Dreams follows them through ten months of challenging rehearsals from their first attempts at expressing themselves in movement through to the long-awaited Opening Night.

• Women Without Men | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £18.62   |  Saving you £-2.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Women Without Men

• Carmen: The Restored Edition (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (18/07/2011) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The heat and passion of Bizet’s Carmen is brought to life as never before in Francesco Rosi’s definitive, highly-acclaimed version starring Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes and Ruggero Raimondi.In Seville, 1820, a naive soldier Don Jose falls under the spell of sensual temptress Carmen. He deserts from the army, gives up everything to be with her, only to be spurned in favour of the toreador Escamillo. His desperate pleas for her to return are met with further humiliation and Carmen’s taunts lead to a dramatic finale.

• Lantana | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £7.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (120.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A woman disappears. Four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death. Not all of them will survive.

• Britannic | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic...and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic a tumultuous epic voyage of human passion courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan) embarks the Britannic in search of a German spy believed to be on board to sabotage the ship. Posing as a governess the undercover agent finds herself falling in love with the ship's chaplain (Edward Atterton Man In The Iron Mask). In a stunning discovery the lovers suddenly find themselves enemies of war. And when a massive explosion deals a deathblow to the ship their battle becomes one for their own survival. With a dynamic international cast and story line that hosts a chilling tale of espionage politics and romance Britannic brings one of history's most devastating events to riveting new life.

• Ozu - The Melodrama Collection (2 DVD set) | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £16.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (76.52%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The BFI presents three films by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu. Melodrama is not a word usually associated with Ozu's quietly poetic oeuvre but his post-war Early Spring (1956) and Tokyo Twilight (1957) combine darker elements with his idiosyncratic style to create powerful dramas. Also available for the first time on DVD in the UK is Ozu's rare silent Woman of Tokyo (1933), a tragic tale of misunderstood sacrifice. Extra features: Newly commissioned score for Woman of Tokyo by Ed Hughes Comprehensive booklet with newly commissioned essays and extensive film credits

• Made For Each Other | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £5.79   |  Saving you £-0.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  This highly appealing comedy drama stars James Stewart and Carole Lombard as a young couple battling illness lack of money inept servants and interfering in-laws...

• Ask The Dust | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £7.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (105.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on John Fante's novel about a Mexican woman who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American.

• War Box Set 1 | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-2.66 (-13.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Films comprise: 1. The Colditz Story (Dir. Guy Hamilton 1955) 2. The Cruel Sea (Dir. Charles Frend 1953) 3. The Dam Busters (Dir. Michael Anderson 1954)

• The Aviator | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £5.44   |  Saving you £14.55 (267.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the eccentric industrialist and Hollywood film mogul Howard Hughes in this glamorous biopic from Martin Scorsese.

• More Tales Of The City | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best selling and ground-breaking Armistead Maupin books that started life as a daily serial in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1976 the small screen adaptation of 'Tales of the City' wonderfully evoked a unique time and place - the freewheeling San Francisco of the 1970s and forever changed the landscape of television.

• Jane Eyre | Blu Ray | (02/04/2012) from £10.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, the romantic drama stars Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) in the lead roles under the director of Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre).

• Life on Mars - Season 1 | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  To save his girlfriend from a serial killer NYPD detective Sam Tyler chases the criminal all the way... to the past! Hit by a car in 2008 Sam wakes up in 1973 in the cultural hotbed of New York City in the tumultuous times of the Vietnam War Watergate women's lib and the civil and gay rights movements - without a cell phone computer PDA or MP3 player. This is a totally different world: different people different music and different police rules. Is Sam mad in a coma or really back in time? He's trying to understand what has just happened to him and how he can get back home. Immerse yourself in the groundbreaking series that captivated fans and critics from coast to coast. With an irresistible soundtrack and one of the most celebrated casts on television including Jason O'Mara Michael Imperioli Gretchen Mol and Harvey Keitel Life On Mars is smart suspenseful drama with a finish that will blow you away. There's a fine line between delusion and reality. NYPD detective Sam Tyler finds himself walking both sides of that line when he is suddenly hurtled back in time to 1973 after being struck by a car in 2008.

• Beyond The Curtain | DVD | (06/04/2010) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (15.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Beyond The Curtain

• Sylvia | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £5.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (45.50%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

• Thunder Rock | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-50.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A writer tries to reveal what is happening in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy but is unable to do so. Frustrated he retires to a lighthouse in the Great Lakes where he is haunted by the ghosts of travellers who were shipwrecked many years earlier. Eventually he is persuaded to return to the world...

• The Way Back | Blu Ray | (09/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Directed by six-time Academy Award nominee Peter Weir, The Way Back is an epic story of survival, solidarity and indomitable human will.