Drama

• Jack Reed - Badge Of Honour | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £4.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (33.71%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a young mother is murdered Sergeant Jack Reed sets out to find her killer. But the secret world of undercover operations rears its ugly head.

• The Red Violin | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  François Girard's The Red Violin (1998) is a good-looking but ultimately insubstantial piece from a director who seems more concerned with tone, colour and style than narrative coherence. The film traces the story of a violin originally made in 17th-century Italy, which is taken to an 18th-century monastery to be played by a child prodigy. The violin later comes into the hand of a virtuoso in 19th-century Oxford, from there to China in the Cultural Revolution and on to Montreal, where--before it can be auctioned--it is "acquired"' by Samuel L Jackson. Unfortunately, none of these stories make much of an impression: the episode in Oxford is particularly weak, with Greta Scacchi wasted, and the film is even less than the sum of its parts. Jackson is completely miscast as an expert on musical instruments, even if a criminal one. To be frank, this is a poor effort, though well photographed and with a pleasing score by composer John Corigliano performed by violinist Joshua Bell. On the DVD:The disc contains a theatrical trailer but no other features. The soundtrack is excellent, in Dolby Surround. The image is equally good, in a 1.78:1 anamorphic print. --Ed Buscombe

• Lunch Hour (DVD) | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (157.74%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this inventive and gripping drama written by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) and directed by James Hill (Black Beauty Born Free) Shirley Anne Field (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alfie) gives an unforgettable fiery performance as a young designer on the brink of an affair with a married male executive (Robert Stephens – The Shout Comrades). With its tightly-focused plot telling the story of an illicit rendezvous in real time Lunch Hour is presented here in a stunning digitally remastered transfer and is accompanied by a selection of director James Hill’s colourful and award-winning short films. Extras: Skyhook (1958 17 mins): the adventure of oil exploration deep in the tropics of Papua New Guinea Giuseppina (1959 32 mins): a young girl observes different characters at her father’s rural petrol station The Home-Made Car (1963 28 mins): a man restores his dilapidated car as a curious young neighbour watches

• The Street | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £18.24   |  Saving you £3.01 (17.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jimmy McGovern one of British television's most prolific and influential writing talents returns with a major new drama series starring Jim Broadbent Sue Johnston and Jane Horrocks. Set in the North of England each episode concentrates on a different house in the street; each story is unique and individual but linked by community shared experience and an indomitable sense of humour.

• Flame Trees Of Thika | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £14.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (33.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a young Edwardian family leaves the shores of England to build a home in the wilderness of East Africa what they encounter is beyond their imagination but forever remembered through the eyes of their 11-year-old daughter. Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley The Flame Trees of Thika brings to life the color and adventure of turn-of-the-century Kenya. In 1913 Robin (David Robb) and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot

• Body Shots | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Its Friday night and the girls are getting ready for a big night out. The boys they are meeting up also making their preparations for a wild night ahead. They meet and all seems to be going well the drinks are going down quick and fast and the four women and four lads seem to be well paired off for a night of wild raging. The couples go their own way until 4 am when Emma arrives at Jeans in bad shape accusing Mike an NFL player of rape. When arrested he says he is innocent

• The English Patient | DVD | (08/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Winner of nine Academy Awards and almost every critic's heart, The English Patient (based on Michael Ondaatje's prizewinning novel of love and loss during World War II) is one of the most acclaimed films of modern times. Hana, a nurse (Juliette Binoche), tends to an archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) who has been burnt to a crisp in a plane crash. As their relationship intensifies, he flashes back to his overwhelming passion for a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, Hana begins a new romance with a man who defuses bombs (Naveen Andrews) and Willem Dafoe almost steals the show as the thumbless thief Caravaggio. The intricately layered flashback narrative, sounding the depths of the lovers' hearts, improves with repeated viewings. --Geoff Riley

• Dark Angel | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Good cop. Bad alien. Big trouble! Jack Kane (Lundgren) is an unorthodox Houston cop out to stop a yuppie criminal gang known as the White Boys. However his investigation is about to get a rather odd but deadly extra-terrestrial dimension! Reluctantly partnered with FBI agent Laurence Smith Kane begins to realise that an alien presence is on the streets collecting a priceless intergalactic drug that can only be found in the human brain...

• Spiral - Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (09/08/2010) from £9.88   |  Saving you £25.11 (254.15%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Spiral Box Set

• Tere Naam | DVD | (21/11/2006) from £8.08   |  Saving you £11.91 (147.40%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Radhe is an honest man with a heart of gold. He is a loner who is caught up in his own world. He falls for the innocent and simple Nirjara the daughter of the village priest. Nirjana is shackled to her culture and values and because of this she rejects Radhe's love. But a sudden twist of fate soon creates havoc in their lives. The clock is ticking; will she be able to declare her love for Radhe on time and save him from sadness obsession and insanity? Watch this gripping movie dra

• Scarlet Diva | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anna Battista (Argento) is a young popular 24-year-old Italian-born International film actress who engages herself on a hectic and self-destructive spree which takes her across Europe and America to become an ""artist"" in order to write and direct herself in a semi-biography movie of herself titled ""Scarlet Diva""...

• A Night To Remember | DVD | (19/06/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two years after 20th Century Fox released its melodramatic disaster film Titanic in 1953, Walter Lord's meticulously researched book A Night to Remember surprised its publishers by becoming a phenomenal bestseller. Lord had an intuition that readers craved the reality of the Titanic disaster and not the romantically mythologised translations (like Fox's film, starring Barbara Stanwyck), which relied on fictional characters to "enhance" the world's worst maritime disaster. Lord's book proved that the truth was far more compelling than fiction, outlining the many "if onlys" (if only the iceberg had been spotted a few minutes earlier, etc.) that lent sombre irony to the loss of 1,500 Titanic passengers. Three years after Lord's book appeared, it was brought to the screen with the kind of riveting authenticity that Lord had insisted upon in his own research. The 1958 British production of A Night to Remember remains a definitive dramatization of the disaster, adhering to the known facts of the time and achieving a documentary-like immediacy that matches (and in some ways surpasses) the James Cameron epic released 39 years later. The film erroneously perpetuates the once-common belief that the Titanic sunk in one piece (instead of breaking in half as its bow began to plunge), but many other misconceptions are accurately corrected, and the intelligent screenplay by thriller master Eric Ambler is a model of factual suspense. By making Titanic the star of the film, director Roy Baker emphasises the excessive confidence of the booming industrial age and creates an intense you-are-there realism that pays tribute to Walter Lord's tenacious quest for truth. --Jeff Shannon

• Equals | DVD | (03/10/2016) from £6.39   |  Saving you £0.11 (1.72%)   |  RRP £6.50

• Mental | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness - because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney) - unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry (Anthony LaPaglia) - suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital (telling his constituents that she's on holiday) he finds himself alone with 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker names Shaz (Collette) and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters.

• The Listener - Season 1 | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £8.43   |  Saving you £11.56 (137.13%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Listener: Season 1 (4 Discs)

• The Glass Menagerie | DVD | (13/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hepburn plays Amanda Wakefield, a faded Southern belle now living in a small urban apartment, where she suffocates her two children - her restless son Tom (a very young Sam Waterson) and her painfully shy daughter Laura (Joanna Miles) - with her incessant mixture of insistent cheer and guilt. After much prodding from Amanda, Tom finally brings home a friend from his workplace, in the hope that he might strike up a romance with reclusive Laura. The result is one of the sweetest and most h...

• First Men In The Moon | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's July 1969 and as the world waits with baited breath for news of the Apollo 11 astronauts a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear) who tells an extraordinary story of two men's journey to the Moon way back in 1909. As a young man Bedford chances to meet Professor Cavor (Mark Gatiss) a somewhat unworldly scientist with an amazing invention: Cavorite - anything to which it is applied becomes opaque to the force of gravity. Knowing a miracle when he sees one and with a keen eye on profit Bedford encourages Cavor to think big. And so the two men construct a copper and cast-iron sphere which will fly them to the Moon. But what terrors await them in the lunar interior? And will they ever succeed in returning to Earth?

• Arbitrage | Blu Ray | (15/07/2013) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

• Concussion | Blu Ray | (06/06/2016) from £5.25   |  Saving you £22.74 (433.14%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of a football-related brain trauma, CTE, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful and beloved institutions in the world. With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin and Academy Award® nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast News). Click Images to Enlarge

• Angel and Tony | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (68.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Angele a young woman with a past, moves to a remote fishing harbour in Normandy where she meets fisherman Tony, who finds her attractive but blunt. Tony hires her as a fishmonger and lodges her, but Angele's relationship with Tony's mum is rocky.