Drama

• The Scarlet And The Black | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  During the German occupation of Rome in 1943 an athletic Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) devotes all the time he can spare from his work at the Vatican to hiding Allied POWs from the Nazis. Col. Herbert Kappler (Christopher Plummer) Rome's chief Gestapo Officer suspects O'Flaherty of hiding escapees but can do little about it because of the priest's Vatican diplomatic immunity. But when he unearths proof of O'Flaherty's complicity he orders that the priest be

• The Royal Tenenbaums (Criterion Collection) Uk Only | Blu Ray | (05/12/2016) from £22.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Royal Tenenbaum (Unforgiven's GENE HACKMAN) and his wife, Etheline (Prizzi's Honor's ANJELICA HUSTON) had three childrenChas, Margot, and Richieand then they separated. Chas (Meet the Parents' BEN STILLER) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Shakespeare in Love's GWYNETH PALTROW) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Rushmore's LUKE WILSON) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from WES ANDERSON (The Darjeeling Limited). DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio commentary by Wes Anderson With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Wes Anderson Interviews with and behind-the-scenes footage of actors Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Danny Glover Outtakes The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members Scrapbook featuring young Richie's murals and paintings, still photographs by set photographer James Hamilton, book and magazine covers, and storyboards Studio 360 radio segment on painter Miguel Calderón, along with examples of his work Trailers Insert with Eric Anderson's drawings of the Tenenbaum house PLUS: An essay by film critic Kent Jones

• Get On Up | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the incredible life story of the Godfather of Soul, the film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of James Brown.

• Insignificance | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £11.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Brains and beauty meet in one wildly explosive night. When Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein meet one sweltering night in New York City in 1953 the result is an evening of mistaken identities and marital misgivings. Gary Busey Theresa Russell and Tony Curtis star in this turbulent comedy of secrets and lies from which no one emerges unscathed.

• We'll Meet Again | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This critically acclaimed wartime drama is an epic adventure of love friendship and courage during the Second World War. In a quiet Suffolk village life is disrupted when the 525th Bomber Group of the United States Eight Air Force arrives with its Flying Fortress bombers its two thousand officers its energy and confidence. Despite cultural differences between the brash Americans and the reserved but resilient villagers of Market Wetherby they pull together to face the common ene

• Testament | DVD | (22/06/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Taboo | DVD | (29/05/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy), a man who has been to the ends of the earth and comes back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father's shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. But his father's legacy is a poisoned chalice, and with enemies lurking in every dark corner, James must navigate increasingly complex territories to avoid his own death sentence. Encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal, a dark family mystery unfolds in a combustible tale of love and treachery.

• The Age Of Innocence | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martin Scorsese does not sound like the logical choice to direct The Age of Innocence, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel about the manners and morals in New York society in the 1870s. But these are mean streets, too, and the psychological violence inflicted between characters is at least as damaging as the physical violence perpetrated by Scorsese's usual gangsters. At the centre of the tale is Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), a somewhat diffident young man engaged to marry the very respectable May Welland (Winona Ryder). But Archer is distracted by May's cousin, the Countess Olenska (a radiant Michelle Pfeiffer), who has recently returned from Europe. As a married woman seeking a divorce, the Countess is an embarrassment to all of New York society. But Archer is fascinated by her quick intelligence and worldly ways. Scorsese closely observes the tiny details of this world and this impossible situation; this is a film in which the shift of someone's eyes can be as significant as the firing of a gun. The director's sense of colour has never been keener, and his work with the actors is subtle. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• The Wire - Season 1 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.48   |  Saving you £44.51 (686.88%)   |  RRP £50.99

  From David Simon creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series 'The Corner' this unvarnished highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance where easy distinctions between good and evil and crime and punishment are challenged at every turn. Episodes comprise: 1. The Target 2.

• Wonderwall - The Movie: Digitally Restored Collector's Edition | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £9.69   |  Saving you £6.30 (65.02%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the London of the swinging 60's, a reclusive professor (Jack MacGowran) becomes infatuated with beautiful model Penny Lane (Jane Birkin), the girlfriend of a Svengali like photographer (Iain Quarrier), and embarks on a noble quest to become her champion. To rescue Penny he enters the magical realm of the Wonderwall, and returns to his laboratory a transformed man. The kaleidoscope of images and George Harrison's musical soundtrack catapult the audience into a lost world of innocence, whe...

• Cruel Intentions | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £5.01   |  Saving you £0.98 (19.56%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kathryn and Sebastian, two wealthy, manipulative teenage stepsiblings from Manhattan's uppercrust, conspire in Cruel Intentions, a wickedly entertaining tale of seduction and betrayal.

• Love In A Cold Climate | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This lavish costume drama follows the lives of three best friends looking for love. Centred around the aristocracy of the 1930's Love In A Cold Climate is based on the books by Nancy Mitford.

• Destiny Of Her Own | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Passion. Seduction. Betrayal. A Scandalous Love Story. The sensuous true story of the woman who defied convention in 16th-century Venice. Catherine McCormack plays Veronica Franco who under the knowing tutelage of her mother becomes a courtesan to the rich and powerful. She'll pay a price. Veronica may have to turn away forever from the nobleman she loves. And she may stand alone when the Inquisition charges her wiles are witchcraft.

• Ordinary People | Blu Ray | (02/02/2026) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Robert Redford made his directorial debut with this beloved powerful drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Judith Guest, Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy.The top-notch cast includes Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, and Timothy Hutton, whose Oscar® win (Best Supporting Actor) made him the youngest to ever win in that category. Remastered from a 4K film transfer overseen by Redford, this Blu-ray™ features interviews with author Judith Guest and actor Timothy Hutton.

• Black 47 | DVD | (26/12/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his family. He's seen more than his share of horrors, but nothing prepares him for the famine's hopeless destruction of his homeland that has brutalised his people and there seems to be no law and order. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English. With little else to live for, he sets out on a destructive path to avenge his family.

• Hudson & Rex Season 5 | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 20 episodes from the fifth season of the Canadian crime drama which follows Detective Charlie Hudson (John Reardon) and his trusted German Shepherd Rex as they tackle crime in the town of St. Johns. In this season, the team investigate a case involving Charlie's estranged brother and Rex is accused of attacking a former policeman. The episodes are: 'Lost in the Barrens', 'Punch Drunk Glove', 'Run, Donovan, Run', 'Hand of Cod', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Den of Snakes', 'The Date Escape', 'Bury the Lead', 'Rexpert Witness', 'One Wild Night', 'Working for the Weekend', 'Lost Lives Club', 'The Miranda Act', 'Rexit, Stage Left', 'Northern Rexposure', 'Due North', 'Lost and Found', 'Jail Break', 'The Cook, the Chief, the Cop and His Lover' and 'One for the Road'.

• Double Jeopardy | DVD | (05/02/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her.

• Lincoln | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £7.48   |  Saving you £14.50 (264.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As with the great John Ford (Young Mr. Lincoln) before him, it would be out of character for Steven Spielberg to construct a conventional, cradle-to-grave portrait of a historical figure. In drawing from Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, the director instead depicts a career-defining moment in the career of Abraham Lincoln (an uncharacteristically restrained Daniel Day-Lewis). With the Civil War raging, and the death toll rising, the president focuses his energies on passage of the 13th Amendment. Even those sympathetic to the cause question his timing, but Lincoln doesn't see the two issues as separate, and the situation turns personal when his son, Robert (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), chooses to enlist rather than to study law. While still mourning the loss of one son, Mary (Sally Field) can't bear to lose another. Playwright Tony Kushner, who adapted the screenplay, takes a page from the procedural handbook in tracing Lincoln's steps to win over enough representatives to abolish slavery, while simultaneously bringing a larger-than-life leader down to a more manageable size. In his stooped-shoulder slouch and Columbo-like speech, Day-Lewis succeeds so admirably that the more outspoken characters, like congressman Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and lobbyist W.N. Bilbo (James Spader), threaten to steal the spotlight whenever they enter the scene, but the levity of their performances provides respite from the complicated strategising and carnage-strewn battlefields. If Lincoln doesn't thrill like the Kushner-penned Munich, there's never a dull moment--though it would take a second viewing to catch all the political nuances. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Agatha Raisin: Series 1-4 (inc. The Christmas Special) | DVD | (06/06/2022) from £29.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High-flying, PR whiz Agatha Raisin (Ashley Jensen, Extras, Catastrophe) leaves London to retire to the quiet, picturesque Cotswold village of Carsely. Entering a local competition she somehow finds herself the prime suspect of murder and by launching her own investigation to clear her name, Agatha accidentally becomes an amateur sleuth. As Agatha settles in to the village and the life she always dreamed of, trouble is never far away.Together with her friends Roy (Mathew Horne, Gavin & Stacey), Gemma (Katy Wix, Not Going Out), James (Jamie Glover, Waterloo Road) and Sir Charles (Jason Merrells, Waterloo Road), Agatha is always a step or two ahead of the local police and proves to be a dab hand at solving the village's bizarre murders. This boxset includes the feature length movie Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death as well as the complete Series One, Two, Three and Four plus the Christmas Special, Kissing Christmas Goodbye.

• Air Force One | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  If you can manage to suspend your disbelief for the duration, you won't be disappointed with Air Force One. Harrison Ford plays a US president who single-handedly employs his rigid anti-terrorism policy when a band of Russian thugs hatch a mid-flight takeover of Air Force One. Gary Oldman, who chews the scenery as the lead terrorist, will shoot a hostage at the slightest provocation. Glenn Close plays the sternly pragmatic vice president who negotiates with Oldman from her Washington seat of power. If you can believe that the aircraft's pressurized cabin can sustain hundreds of rounds of machine-gun fire, you'll buy anything in this entertaining potboiler, especially thanks to Ford's stalwart heroics and some nifty special effects. Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) keeps the action moving so fast you won't be sweating the details.--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com