Drama

• Shirley Valentine/First Wives Club/Terms Of Endearment | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £22.72   |  Saving you £-6.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared Terms of Endearment: This Oscar-winning film is both eccentrically funny and an old-fashioned tearjerker. The story centers around the volatile relationship between a mother and daughter spanning 30 years. The various permutations of their lives are examined including the daughter's bout with terminal cancer.

• Wendy And Lucy | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £17.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Michelle Williams stars in this poetic and touching road trip through the edges of American life

• John Ford Collection - My Darling Clementine/The Grapes Of Wrath/The Horse Soldiers | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £25.38   |  Saving you £-11.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.10

  Titles Comprise: My Darling Clementine: In another of his classic Westerns John Ford again reflects upon the advance of civilization on the receding frontier recounting the events leading up to and including the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral. As they drive their cattle toward California Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) and his brothers Morgan (Ward Bond) Virgil (Tim Holt) and young James (Don Garner) stop outside Tombstone Arizona where they refuse an offer for

• Widows | Blu Ray | (05/11/2018) from £28.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A gritty crime series with strong female lead characters and the career breakthrough which started Lynda La Plante on her path as one of television's highest profile writers - Widows was a smash hit for ITV and has now been adapted into a major motion picture by acclaimed director Steve McQueen. Both series of Widows are presented here as brand-new High Definition restorations from their original film materials. Also included, in Standard Definition, is the sequel series made ten years later: She's Out. When their villain husbands are killed during the attempted robbery of a security van, three widows have a chance to start afresh. Then one of them finds the robbery plans and they decide to finish what their husbands started...

• Life Or Something Like It | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A reporter, Lanie Kerrigan, interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead, he tells her that her life going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to change the pattern of her life.

• Poldark - Series 1 - Part 1 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £4.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (264.17%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welcome to Cornwall England's westernmost county. The year is 1780 and the political and social atmosphere is as stormy as the sea that pounds the rocky shores. Into this landscape Captain Ross Poldark (Robin Ellis) returns from the American war to take up his inheritance and take up with his beloved Elizabeth (Jill Townsend). But with false reports of his death having reached Cornwall ahead of him what will he find? And what of the young urchin Demelza (Angharad Rees) the new ho

• Wild Orchid | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £44.32   |  Saving you £-31.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Soft-porn impresario Zalman King's Wild Orchid is supposed to be an "erotic drama", but it fails because there isn't the faintest semblance of chemistry between the three main players. "From the creators of 9 ½ Weeks comes the most eagerly awaited film of the year", trumpets the voice-over on the trailer, but therein lies the problem: in 9 ½ Weeks Mickey Rourke smouldered with Kim Basinger. In Wild Orchid, things have wilted before he even gets on screen. There is a vague semblance of plot: young, naïve, beautiful multilingual lawyer Emily (Carré Otis) is hired to help the obnoxious Claudia (Jacqueline Bisset), a big-time developer, to close a major property deal in Rio. Wheeler (Mickey Rourke) is the poor kid made good who proves the fly in the ointment. Bisset is supposed to have developed an obsession with the emotionally constipated Rourke after he rejected her. And Otis is supposed to be the one who eventually gets under his skin. But child-model turned actress Otis seems to be having trouble getting her swollen lips round a whole sentence at a time, let alone acting. The film dates from 1990 yet seems firmly stuck in the 1980s, from the obsession with all things commercial to the ludicrous fashion-sense (Rourke: big jacket, no shirt, lots of gold jewellery; Otis: virginal flowing dresses and tresses to match). And the sex scene, when it finally arrives in the dying moments, is brief and entirely unerotic. Brazil looks good though. On the DVD: Wild Orchid on disc has acceptable sound and picture, but the lack of any extra features is not impressive. When you get bored you can always amuse yourself by selecting from the substantial list of subtitles. --Harriet Smith

• An Education | Blu Ray | (08/03/2010) from £6.40   |  Saving you £16.59 (259.22%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the rather more exciting alternative offered to her by a charismatic older man.

• Black Snow | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Black Snow

• Resurrecting The Champ | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £3.86   |  Saving you £6.13 (158.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man (Champ) only to discover that he is in fact a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter re-examines his own life and his relationship with his family.

• The Greatest Show On Earth | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £5.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (99.80%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Greatest Show On Earth is a dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Brothers - Barnum and Bailey Circus the best three-ring circus in the land. The great showman Cecil B. DeMille produced and directed this splashy colourful look at life under the big top. Charlton Heston stars as Brad Braden the beloved circus manager who runs a tight ship with integrity and a big heart. In an effort to bring in enough money to guarantee a full tour Brad hires the Great Sebastian (Cornel Wilde) a daredevil trapeze star to replace his girlfriend Holly (Betty Hutton) a beautiful and talented trapeze artist who had been promised the coveted centre-ring spot. Sebastian a suave ladies' man instantly takes a liking to Holly despite their jealous rivalry. Holly and Sebastian carry on their feud high in the air with an audience watching performing a dangerous show of one-upmanship. While the two duel in the air sparks fly on the ground and Brad is too busy running the grand show to notice. This gutsy star-studded spectacle was produced in cooperation with Ringling Brothers - Barnum and Bailey circus and filmed in a pseudo-documentary style with frequent cuts from the full-scale grandiose circus acts and larger-than-life costumes by the legendary Edith Head to real footage of the daily life on the road for the full-scale travelling operation. Jimmy Stewart co-stars in a gem of a role as Buttons the clown who is hiding from a mysterious past. This cavalcade of jaw-dropping visual splendour complete with lions elephants and an action-packed train wreck of a finale is DeMille at his grandiose best. Look for many small guest appearances from circus stars and celebrities including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

• The Informers | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the book of loosely connected stories by Brett Easton Ellis about a week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.

• Venus | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two veteran English actors have their lives disrupted when one's grand-niece enters their lives.

• Everybody's Baby - The Rescue Of Jessica McClure | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £95.72   |  Saving you £-87.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Jessica McClure was an ordinary everyday baby until she fell 20 feet down into an abandoned well shaft in her backyard in Odessa Texas. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery they could cause Jessica to fall further down and die. As the day drags into night and rescue attempt after attempt fails tension reaches a fever pitch.

• Armadillo | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £18.51   |  Saving you £-5.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In February 2009 filmmaker Janus Metz accompanied a group of soldiers on their first tour of duty at Armadillo an army base in the Southern Afghan province of Helmand. Spending six months there Metz followed the lives of the young recruits in this excellent award winning film. On completion it provoked furious debate concerning the controversial behaviour of certain soldiers during the real life shoot out with the Taliban. Gripping thought provoking and visceral this is as close as you get to battle action from the edge of your seat.

• The Sentinel | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A disgraced special agent to the White House endeavours to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the US President.

• Five Days | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes -- leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car -- lost and far from home. Her two small children then set off to find her only to go missing themselves. Their ordeal is captured on CCTV cameras and before long the family's heart-stopping trauma is not only a complex police investigation but a major national news story.

• Borg Vs McEnroe | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The clash of tennis titans is relived with Shia LaBeouf, in a stroke of casting genius, playing John McEnroe. One of the biggest sporting rivalries in history culminated in the Wimbledon finals of 1980. And its result changed the face of tennis forever.

• A Dance To The Music Of Time | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adapted from the novel by Anthony Powell this miniseries tells the story of the upper classes in England from the early 1920s to modern times. Friendship murder adultery ambition and failure are set against a backdrop of social political and artistic life during the pivotal years of this century - from the decadence of the early Twenties to the sobering Thirties from the devastation of the Second World War to the world created in its aftermath. Centre stage is Kenneth Widmerpool and his rise to power through business the military and politics. The comings and goings of Widmerpool and his circle is charted by the omnipresent Nicholas Jenkins.

• Shall We Dance (2004) | Blu Ray | (26/09/2011) from £6.69   |  Saving you £18.30 (273.54%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.