Drama

• It Happened To Jane | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts and an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time (Bell, Book, and Candle), but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmon's jack-in-the-box youthfulness. Doris sings a couple of tunes and brings her downhome tomboy routine to New York City, where the movie employs some of the quaint TV personalities of the day. --Robert Horton

• Secret People | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn stars in her first significant role as an ingénue whose sister becomes ensnared in a web of intrigue and political assassination in this classic Ealing drama from Oscar-nominated director Thorold Dickinson. Co-starring noted European actors Valentina Cortese giving a sensitive, critically-acclaimed performance and Serge Reggiani, Secret People is presented here as a High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Relocated due to increasing danger in their southern European homeland, sisters Maria and Nora settle in London with Maria leaving Louis, the young man she loves, to carry on the fight. In a chance meeting several years later Louis plays on Maria's love for him to involve her in a plot to bomb the man responsible for her father's death a plot that doesn't go to plan. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material

• Sarah's Key | Blu Ray | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Captivating and emotionally powerful, SARAH'S KEY tells the remarkable story of one woman's journey into the past to unveil the truth behind her family's secret. Based on Tatiana de Rosnay's best-selling novel.

• Forrest Gump (4K UHD) | 4K UHD | (11/06/2018) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES... YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET. Experience FORREST GUMP in stunning high definition, accompanied by over two hours of dynamic bonus features. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. Alongside his mamma (Sally Field), his best friend Bubba (Mykelti Williamson), and his favourite girl Jenny (Robin Wright), Forrest has a ringside seat for the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Winner of six Oscars®, including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), and Best Actor (Tom Hanks), FORREST GUMP remains one of the great movie triumphs of all time. Special Features: Commentary with Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey and Rick Carter Commentary with Wendy Finerman Musical Signposts to History Introduction (by Ben Fong-Torres) And much much more!

• A Time To Love And A Time To Die | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel 'A Time to Love and a Time to Die' Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die is set in the devastating ruin of burnt-out Germany during the final days of World War Two. Amid this tumult and desolation is Private Ernst Graeber (John Gavin) who having been sent home on leave from the Russian front finds his town destroyed by Allied bombing. Frantically searching for his parents Ernst encounters his childhood friend Elizabeth Kruse (Lilo Pulver) the daughter of a doctor who has been removed to a concentration camp. In spite of the horror of their surroundings and their close proximity to death Ernst and Elizabeth find hope in their love for one another. Together they try to wrest sanity from a world shattered by fear and hatred. Featuring a cameo appearance by the novel's author Sirk's penultimate film brought him to the attention of critics and theorists worldwide. A Time to Love and a Time to Die stars the American film and TV heart throb businessman and diplomat John Gavin (Pyscho Spartacus Imitation of Life) Keenan Wynn (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Once Upon a Time in the West) Lilo Pulver & Jock Mahoney.

• Everybody's Fine | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  "Everybody's Fine," follows a widower (De Niro) who embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with each of his grown children only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect.

• Selena | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story of life of Mexican 'Tejano' style singer Selena Quintanilla and the progress of her career resulting in her tragic death at the early age of just 23.

• Secret People | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £14.56   |  Saving you £1.43 (9.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A dark and suspenseful drama set in 1930s London. Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European minister. Seven years later during a weekend trip to Paris Maria unexpectedly meets Louis her former lover who is now plotting the assassination of the same minister. Maria and Nora become involved in the plan which goes tragically wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent bystander. Facing the consequences of her actions and harboring dark secrets Maria escapes and assumes a new identity but later discovers that her sister is involved with Louis in a dangerous plot and decides to boldly act in order to save her...

• Concussion | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This modern-day twist on BELLE DE JOUR is a sexy, provocative story about a woman who turns her fantasy life into reality - and then faces the consequences.

• The Easter Egg Adventure | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The idyllic Egg Town is the location for this Easter Egg Adventure which sees the beautiful location under threat from some dastardly thieves. Making off with the collection of Easter Egg's the town has managed to collate it's up to some brave residents to retrieve them from the evil doers. A wonderfully touching children's tale Easter Egg Adventure is a heartwarming seasonal story.

• Higher Learning | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought-provoking issues as prejudice racism and sexism... Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade. Naive Kirstin Conne is il

• Stage Beauty | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £12.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (39.13%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Billy Cudrup and Claire Danes step into period costume for a drama about the arrival of women on the English stage from acclaimed director Richard Eyre.

• There's Always Tomorrow | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Between his twin masterpieces All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind Douglas Sirk created this razor-sharp study of male crisis both a glittering testament to love's labours lost and his most unforgiving vision of suburban conformity. Disregarded and neglected by his family executive toy manufacturer Clifford Groves (Fred MacMurray) is unexpectedly reunited with his former co-worker Norma Miller (Barbara Stanwyck). As the old friends catch up on lost time his children's suspicions and hostility to the new relationship threaten to push their father away permanently and throw into disarray the lives of all concerned. With crystalline noir-tinged cinematography from Russell Metty (Touch of Evil) and heartbreaking performances by Stanwyck and MacMurray reunited 12 years after Double Indemnity in their final on-screen pairing There's Always Tomorrow finds one of Hollywood's greatest dramatists at his finest.

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls + The Seven Minutes | Blu Ray | (18/01/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  When Easy Rider rewrote the box-office rulebook in 1969, Hollywood scrambled to catch up and 20th Century Fox noticed that one particular independent filmmaker was seeing impressive returns from tiny investments. So what would happen if he was given a decent budget and the run of a Hollywood studio and told to make the ultimate Russ Meyer film? Well, this is the result: an initially X-rated cult camp classic about an all-female rock band trying to parlay Midwestern success into a Hollywood contract with the aid of a hefty inheritance. But will they be able to maintain their trademark apple-pie wholesomeness under their new manager, the notorious Ronnie ˜Z-Man' Barzell? Take a wild guess. Co-scripted by film critic Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a merciless satire of Hollywood and the music business, a no-holds-barred psychedelic thrill-ride that gleefully stirs sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, fashion, lesbianism, transvestism and Nazis into one of the most riotously unhinged mainstream films ever made. This special edition also includes the rarely-seen The Seven Minutes (1971), Russ Meyer's Hollywood swansong, an adaptation of Irving Wallace's polemical novel about the absurdities of American obscenity laws. Includes Limited Edition Content: Limited Edition collection of both of Russ Meyer's Hollywood films (3000 copies) High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Standard Definition DVD presentation of The Seven Minutes Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for both films Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Two commentaries on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls by co-screenwriter Roger Ebert and actors Erica Gavin, John LaZar, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page and Dolly Read Introduction to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls by John LaZar Above, Beneath and Beyond the Valley: The Making of a Musical-Horror-Sex-Comedy Look On Up at the Bottom, with composer Stu Phillips and three members of the Carrie Nations discussing the film's music The Best of Beyond, favourite moments selected by cast and crew members Sex, Drugs, Music & Murder: Signs of the Time, Baby!, a look at the late 1960s culture that spawned Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Casey & Roxanne: The Love Scene, discussed by participants Erica Gavin and Cynthia Myers Screen tests for Michael Blodgett, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, Marcia McBroom High Definition photo galleries Multiple trailers Reversible sleeve featuring two original artworks Booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Kat Ellinger

• Crossroads - Part 1 | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Here in all it's glory is Crossroads on DVD for the very first time. Meg and Sandy Richardson Benny Hawkins Adam Chance Shughie McFee - the names still strike a chord in the memories of a generation of people who sat entranced watching the latest escapades of the staff and customers of Crossroads motel. Entranced but usually for the wrong reason! Would the walls wobble? Would the actors dry up or start laughing mid sentence? Anything could happen. Unrepeated for many years th

• The Riot Club | Blu Ray | (19/01/2015) from £5.53   |  Saving you £19.46 (351.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University The Riot Club follows Miles (Max Irons) and Alistair (Sam Claflin) two first year students determined to join the infamous Riot Club where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening. The Riot Club is directed by Lone Scherfig who most recently helmed ‘One Day’ and the Best Picture Academy Award nominee ‘An Education’. It is produced by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures (‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ ‘Seven Psychopaths’). Screenwriter Laura Wade has adapted her critically-acclaimed play ‘Posh’ with development support from the BFI Film Fund and Film4. 'Posh' premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2010 before transferring to the West End.

• Machuca | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andres Wood's semi-autobiographical film is set in Chile in 1973 when General Pinochet's military coup seized power from President Allende's democratically elected government. It follows the unexpected friendship of two 11 year-old boys - Gonzalo who comes from a wealthy middle class neighbourhood and Pedro Machuca who lives in a nearby illegal shantytown. They meet when an idealistic priest admits children from poor families to an elite private school and as they learn about eac

• Gemma Bovery | Blu Ray | (08/02/2016) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Flaubert's 19th century novel, Madame Bovary. Having moved to a rustic farm with her husband, Gemma (Gemma Arterton) soon tires of their ˜simpler' life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin (Fabrice Luchini), a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds, and co-starring Fabrice Luchini (In the House) and Jason Flemyng (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) Gemma Bovery is directed by BAFTA-Nominee Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel).

• The Fabulous Baker Boys | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An inspired casting gimmick, a wonderful mood, a grown-up love story--all this in The Fabulous Baker Boys, but the only thing anybody ever talks about is Michelle Pfeiffer on top of a piano. Granted, it's a showstopper: clad in a slinky dress, Pfeiffer rolls around on the Steinway while she purrs out a languid version of "Makin' Whoopee". Adding to the seductive vibe is the fact that she's not singing to the audience, but to the sullen piano player (Jeff Bridges) whose fancy she has captured. Bridges and his real-life brother, Beau, play two lounge entertainers whose act has grown stale; they're not above doing "Feelings" for the tourist crowd. They've hired songbird Pfeiffer (who does her own sexy singing) to spice up the routine, a strategy that pays off in spades. The three actors are terrific, with the fabulous Bridges boys playing neatly off their own sibling rhythms. Writer-director Steve Kloves captures the feel of second-rate Seattle clubs, and Dave Grusin's jazzy score keeps propelling the film forward. The story itself might have come from a 1940s romance, yet Kloves and his actors keep it unusually modern and thoughtful. And then there's Michelle Pfeiffer rolling around on top of a piano.... --Robert Horton

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Taken from the first television series this finds a former Army sergeant returning home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet...