Drama

• Hoop Dreams | DVD | (26/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two ordinary inner-city kids dare to dream the impossible-professional basketball glory-in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period Hoop Dreams follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates as they navigate the complex competitive world of scholastic athletics while striving to overcome the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their Chicago streets.

• Human Traffic | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Five friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture.

• Cursed | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trevor and Holly are newlyweds enjoying their honeymoon. On a visit to a tarot reader Holly is told she is pregnant and that her unborn baby is in great danger. When they return home they discover she actually is pregnant but something is very wrong with her. Determined to understand Holly s violent behaviour they discover secrets about her dark past and a curse that could endanger not just the baby but their own lives.

• Rockers | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  It's dangerous! This is the 25th Anniversary DVD edition of the classic reggae film Rockers. Rockers tells the beautiful story of Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace and his struggle to succeed in Jamaica. Horsey lives in a Kingston ghetto with his wife and three children. Although considered the best drummer in Jamaica Horsey remains in poverty because of the structure of the music business. When Horsey takes steps to improve his social standing the establishment s

• Tim Burton 4 Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (70.07%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Collection of four Tim Burton films. The stop-motion animated musical 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993), produced and visualised by Tim Burton, is set in a parallel world where different lands represent different holiday periods. Skeleton Jack (voice of Chris Sarandon) from Halloween Town becomes converted to Christmas and sets out to spread joy in the world. However, when Jack's mission leads him to kidnap Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) it becomes clear that he is not really in tune with the Yuletide spirit. In 'Alice in Wonderland' (2010), based on the characters from the Lewis Carroll classics 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass', the 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the magical world of her childhood adventure to reunite with her friends the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (both played by Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) and the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry). Alice discovers her true destiny as she joins forces with the colourful denizens of Wonderland to overthrow the wicked Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). 'Frankenweenie' (2012), Burton's black and white stop-motion homage to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', is a remake of his 1984 short of the same name. The story follows a young boy called Victor (voice of Charlie Tahan), who harnesses the powers of science to bring his beloved pet dog Sparky back to life - with unexpected and alarming consequences. 'Ed Wood' (1994) is a biopic of one of Hollywood's worst film directors. Setting up shop in Tinseltown with plenty of enthusiasm but no discernible talent, Ed Wood (Depp) is undeterred when his debut feature, cross-dressing drama 'Glen Or Glenda' (in which he also stars) is a flop. He goes on to make 'Bride of the Monster', also a commercial and creative disaster, with ailing horror star Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), before embarking on his most grandiose scheme yet: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'...

• Catherine Cookson - The Gambling Man | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Robson Green takes stars as a rent collector in this acclaimed TV minseries adaptation of the Catherine Cookson drama.

• Smithereens | Blu Ray | (27/08/2018) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Susan Seidelman's electrifying debut, a vivid dispatch from eighties New York and a benchmark for independent film SUSAN SEIDELMAN (Desperately Seeking Susan) established her distinctive vision of 1980s New York with this debut feature, the lofi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (SUSAN BERMAN)a sparkplug in fishnets who lives dangerously downtownmoves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up flyers for herself or hanging at the Peppermint Lounge, she's getting involved with Paul (BRAD RIJN), the nicest guy to ever live in a van next to the highway, and Eric (RICHARD HELL), an aloof rocker. Shot on 16mm film that captures the grit and glam of the setting, with an alternately moody and frenetic soundtrack by the Feelies and others, Smithereens the first independent American film to compete for the Palme d'Oris an unfaded snapshot of a bygone era. Features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by director Susan Seidelman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Seidelman New interviews with Seidelman and actor Susan Berman And You Act Like One Too (1976) and Yours Truly, Andrea G. Stern (1979), two early shorts by Seidelman, with new introductions by the director PLUS: An essay by critic Rebecca Bengal

• The Red Shoes - Plus Documentary | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One of Powell and Pressburger's most famous films, "The Red Shoes" is the tragic and romantic story of Vicky Page, the brilliant young dancer who must give up everything if she is to become a great ballerina.

• The Winter Guest | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £9.73   |  Saving you £3.25 (48.22%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set during the brief hours of light one day in February when the sea has frozen, The Winter Guest is about how four pairs of people at different stages of life attempt to fill the emptiness in their hearts. While that sounds bleak--and the setting in a small town on the East coast of Scotland is certainly stark--there is considerable human warmth in Alan Rickman's directorial debut. Without a conventional story, Rickman simply cuts between four strands, spending most of the time with the difficult relationship between a mother and daughter, played by real-life parent and offspring Phyllida Law and Emma Thomson. Strong dialogue, with a dash of Samuel's Beckett's existential squabbling angst and outstanding performances make this both funny and touching. Meanwhile Thomson's teenage son begins a tentative romance with the new girl in town, two younger boys bunk off school to the icy beach and a pair of elderly ladies attends a funeral. Ultimately the ice-locked sea and Michael Kamen's crystalline piano score become additional characters, the film offering a pseudo-mysticism akin to Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) while echoing with the spare dramas of Krzysztof Kieslowski; especially Three Colours: White (1994). A beautiful drama that demands attention throughout. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Longest Yard | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First Down...And Ten Years To Go. In this rough-and-tumble yarn actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship. Reynolds plays one time pro quarterback Paul Crewe now behind bars for leading State Police on a wild chase in a ""borrowed"" car. He agrees to organize a prisoners' team

• Escape From Sobibor | DVD | (25/06/2018) from £3.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Amazing, gripping true story about the largest ever planned escape from a Nazi death camp. Over 600 prisoners escape and over 300 actually reach freedom and remain safe from the hands of their captors.

• Camille Claudel 1915 | DVD | (13/10/2014) from £7.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Confined to a remote asylum near Avignon by her family the sculptor Camille Claudels claims of persecution are seen as proof of her madness. She rails impotently against her imprisonment the poisoning of her food her abandonment by her family and (most importantly) the theft of her art by her one-time lover Rodin. Awaiting a visit from her sanctimonious brother Paul (Jean-Luc Vincent) whose self-serving love of God convinces him that his sister is somehow possessed. Camille veers between moments of awful lucidity and entirely understandable paranoia her psychological anguish made flesh by Juliette Binoche.

• Awakenings | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the acclaimed book by neurologist Oliver Sacks, director Penny Marshall's hit 1990 drama Awakenings stars Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Sayer is a neurologist who discovers that the drug L-Dopa can be used to "unlock" patients in a mental hospital from the mysterious sleeping sickness that has left them utterly immobilized. Leonard (Robert De Niro) is one such patient who awakens after being in a comatose state for 30 years, leaving Sayer to guide Leonard in adjusting to the world around him. Penelope Ann Miller costars as the daughter of another patient, with whom Leonard falls tenuously in love. Earning Oscar nominations for best picture, actor and screenplay, this moving fact-based drama was a hit with critics and audiences alike. --Jeff Shannon

• The National Health (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jack Gold's film about life and death in a shabby London hospital interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy one which exists in the soap-opera world of ˜Nurse Norton's Affair', where everything is fully funded and patients are miraculously cured. A darkly funny satire on the state of the nation and also a deeply prescient comment on TV's ability to turn tragedy into entertainment, The National Health sits somewhere between the bawdy antics of the Carry On films and the angry satire of Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital, but emerges as a starkly prophetic film, more relevant now than ever. Product Features High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Jim Dale and journalist Nick Pinkerton Back to Health (2017, 24 mins): interview with author and playwright Peter Nichols Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• The Queen & I | DVD | (30/09/2019) from £4.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Made-for-TV comedy drama based on the novel by Sue Townsend. Following the election of the Republican Party, the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister, Jack Barker (David Walliams), carries out his campaign promise to abolish the country's monarchy. Stripped of their vast wealth, the Royal Family is forced to relocate to a council estate in the Midlands, where they struggle to fit in and adjust to their new surroundings.

• Henry of Navarre | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £6.29   |  Saving you £11.70 (186.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Discover the incredible true story of Henry of Navarre the celebrated warrior king who became one of history's great defenders of justice and religious freedom. It is the mid 16th Century and France is awash with blood as the protestant Huguenots fight for survival against dark forces led by the treacherous Catherine De Medici. When she orchestrates the ultimate betrayal at the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre King Henry will fight his life's greatest battle to ensure her treachery does not go unanswered...

• Murder On The Orient Express | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £7.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Just the name "Orient Express" conjures up images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully pernickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the set-up for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ensemble film, director Sidney Lumet gives each of his stars their own solo and each makes the most of it. Bergman went so far as to win an Oscar for her role. But the real scene-stealer is the ever-reliable Finney as the eccentric detective who never misses a trick. --Marshall Fine

• Jesus of Nazareth: Complete Mini Series | Blu Ray | (08/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gerry | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £4.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (72.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two friends both named Gerry become stranded in the desert during a hiking on a wilderness trail.

• Betrayed | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  FBI agent Cathy Weaver (Winger) goes undercover to investigate a suspect in the murder of a local radio personality. As she becomes romantically interested in the apparently innocent Simmons (Berenger) Weaver uncovers an extremist group armed for murder. A horrifying network of violence stretches from the ordinary man in the street to high level government officials. What follows is a shockwave of discovery as Weaver confronts the man she thought she loved and the criminal she mus