Drama

• Titanic 3D Lenticular & Memorabilia 100th Year Anniversary Edition | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £8.13   |  Saving you £8.86 (108.98%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This TV-mini series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and George C. Scott is based on the tragic event that shocked the world and still today remains a great tragedy. Untold stories of the passengers and crew on the ill-fated liner s maiden voyage. - 3 Hour Complete Mini-Series - EMMY Award winning production - 100th Anniversary Edition on 2 Discs - Limited Edition 3D outer sleeve design Memorabilia Included: Distress call telegram Workers Union letter of condolence White Star line poster - 'The Queen of The Ocean' Titanic

• Miracle In Soho | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Starring John Gregson and produced by the great Emeric Pressburger Miracle in Soho is a charming romantic comedy set in 1950’s London. In London’s cosmopolitan west end Michael Morgan (John Gregson) is a road gang worker and serial lethario. His attitude to life and women is to love ‘em and leave ‘em. One morning Morgan is sent to Soho’s St Anthony’s Lane on a 10 day job where awakens the locals with the sound of his pneumatic drill!! There is never a dull moment in St Anthony’s Lane as the lives of the locals and the workmen begin to intertwine. However Michael’s reputation precedes him and local postman and a Salvation Army member Sam Bishop (Cyril Cusack) warns Morgan to stay clear of the girls in St Anthony's Lane. However Bishops advice is ignored and Michael is soon on the trail of local barmaid Gwladys. Then Michael meets local girl Julia Gozzi and a mutual attraction is immediate. Julia is planning to emigrate to Canada with her family but like so many other women before her she falls in love with Michael. Will a ‘Miracle’ occur with Michael admitting his true feelings for Julia and letting her into his heart?

• Finding Forrester (Dual Format) (Blu-ray & DVD) | Blu Ray | (27/02/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Finding Forrester is a very accomplished example of the sentimental melodrama that Gus Von Sant has made his own--issues like integrity and snobbery are presented with just enough simplification to the set pieces that no-one feels challenged. Brilliant baseball player Jamal gets the chance to move from a sink school in the Bronx to a private academy where his real intellectual and artistic talent will be nurtured along with his sporting skills. This is an American film about class and race, but one that makes the real issue Jamal's unsuspecting need to defend himself against accusations of plagiarism. His artistic mentor is a reclusive novelist, whose whereabouts he keeps secret even when he stands to lose everything. Rob Brown is extraordinary as the boy, conveying the sensitivity, genius, obstinacy and physicality of a character written as a paragon; Sean Connery turns in a predictably fine performance as Forrester, using his authority to make the part credible; F Murray Abrahams is, as always, an effective villain--he brings an observed creepy snobbery to the film; Anna Paquin makes a good impression in the minor part of Jamal's white schoolfellow and supporter. On the DVD: The disc includes two powerful deleted scenes of school choirs, a "making-of" documentary and a short film about the auditions process which found Rob Brown. It has fine sound--Dolby Digital 5.1--that brings out the film's jazz score perfectly. The anamorphic 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16:9 TVs, looks just fine. --Roz Kaveny

• Argo | Blu Ray | (04/03/2013) from £7.39   |  Saving you £-0.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.22

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Set against the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and 1980, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a nerve-jangling footnote to the birth of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic. The movie opens at the crest of the 1979 revolution--the storming of the US embassy in Tehran, and the escape of six diplomats to the precarious safety of the Canadian ambassador’s residence. To the rescue is Tony Mendez--a composed CIA agent whose heroism remained classified until 1997--and his state-approved plan to get the stranded embassy staff out of Iran under a brazen cover story: they’re an innocent film crew on a location hunt for the fake sci-fi blockbuster Argo. Hollywood is usually pressed into the service of the state in the name of comedy (either burying dictators in Team America: World Police or just bad news in Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog), but Argo is a true story, and the tone of Affleck's Oscar-winning script is carefully split, switching between mounting tension in consular Tehran and a satire of the Hollywood machine as fronted by Alan Arkin and John Goodman--two raffish producers hired by Mendez to reverse-engineer some convincing buzz for the Argo movie. Affleck himself takes the role of Mendez, the steady-eyed agent betting everything on Hollywood’s age-old efficiency at creating a media circus for a project long before it exists. ‘History starts out as farce and ends up a tragedy’, remarks Goodman, but Argo ends on a patriotic upbeat, and doesn’t reflect much on history. It politely nods at the context of Iran’s attitude to the West, and we’re told about but not shown--bar the blank rage of the revolutionary mob--Iran’s anger at the Westerly flow of resources under Shah Pahlavi. Instead, Argo concentrates on the eggshell complexities of deception in plain sight, including a climactic set-piece in which Mendez’ team must fend their way through layers of suspicious Iranian airport security--with imminent capture, execution and political calamity only on the other side of their paper-thin pretext. It may have the ring of historical escapism, but Argo holds its nerve as a great Hollywood escape. --Leo Batchelor /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}

• Danielle Steel's Full Circle | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £5.92   |  Saving you £0.07 (1.18%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In this compelling drama from Danielle Steel a tragic event changes a young woman's life forever. For years Tana Robert's mother Jean had been the mistress of a wealthy married man Arthur. Tana determined not to end up like her mother is raped by Arthur's son Billy. With no support from her mother she buries herself in her college studies and later in her career as a powerful lawyer. When her best friend from college Harry is shot and paralysed during a robbery Tana now alone and vulnerable finds herself following in her mothers footsteps when she embarks on an affair with Harry's father. Tana ends their relationship but struggles to gain control of her life and face the emotional issues that hold the key to her happiness.

• Out of Blue Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (02/09/2019) from £9.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  When homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is called to investigate the murder of a leading astrophysicist in New Orleans, she is confronted by a mystery that begins to affect her in ways she had never expected. As the investigation deepens, a darker world is slowly revealed and she must use all of her skills and experience to piece together fragments of a wider conspiracy that lies behind the murder. With a stunning cast that also includes Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver and James Caan, OUT OF BLUE is an unmissable neo-noir mystery from visionary director Carol Morley in which one detective's quest for truth begins to destabilise both her view of the world and her very being.

• Bagdad Cafe | Blu Ray | (13/08/2018) from £8.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

• One From the Heart: Reprise | DVD | (04/03/2024) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Baxter | DVD | (01/09/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A strong cast features in actor-director Lionel Jeffries' emotional drama about a young boy facing the combined challenge of his parents' disintegrating marriage relocation to London and an ongoing attempt to overcome his speech problem. Sympathetic moving but never sentimental Baxter! features a remarkable performance from young actor Scott Jacoby supported by Patricia Neal Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt Ekland. Baxter! is presented in a brand-new digital transfer in its original theatrical aspect ratio from original film elements. The product of a broken home and an enforced move to another country Roger Baxter is an American schoolboy adrift in London. Now living with his selfish uncaring mother in an unfamiliar city it is only the kindness of his neighbours that begins to show Roger the love that has been absent from his life. With his personal situation driving him headlong towards a nervous breakdown however is it too little too late? SPECIAL FEATURES [] Original Theatrical Trailer [] Image Gallery [] Promotional Material PDF

• Three Women | Blu Ray | (18/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Matthew McConaughey Collection | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £6.23   |  Saving you £20.02 (402.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Collection of three films starring Matthew McConaughey. Dallas Buyers ClubThe inspirational story of Ron Woodroof who defied the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he himself is diagnosed. Killer JoeWhen a debt puts a young man's life in danger he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance. MudTwo young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

• Chocolat | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young single mother (Juliette Binoche), with her 6-year-old daughter in tow, moves to a small French village and opens an unusual chocolate shop.

• The People That Time Forgot | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you like big fake dinosaurs--and who doesn't?--then The People That Time Forgot is the movie for you. The third in a loosely themed trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations from director Kevin Connor, all of which starred Doug McClure, this one also features Patrick Wayne (son of John) as the intrepid Major Ben McBride, searching the Arctic for his lost friend (McClure). Sarah Douglas is at his side as Charly, the spunky lady photographer with a dainty puckish streak. As luck would have it, they come across a tropical zone that is home to big fake dinosaurs, surly Neanderthals and nubile cavewomen with truly astonishing cleavages. Ah, but if only it were that simple. An evil rival tribe has been exterminating the gentle cave people and must be stopped. Whatever else you may want to say about producers Samuel Z Arkoff and John Dark, they simply do not skimp on explosions. The People That Time Forgot has a detonation-filled corker of an ending that leaves the cast absolutely showered with dirt clods. Highly entertaining. --Ali Davis

• The Barbarian Invasions | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £7.90   |  Saving you £13.35 (201.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sharp comedic drama about an ageing womanizer who may be dying of cancer but hasn't lost any of his wit or libido.

• Three Came Home | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The true story of one woman's confinement in a World War II Japanese prison camp from the account by Agnes Newton Kieth. She and her British husband were separated when the Japanese invaded Borneo during WWII. Though the camp commander took an interest in her he could not prevent her torture starvation or humiliation by the guards....

• Trespass Against Us | Blu Ray | (03/07/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson. Directed by Adam Smith. Three generations of the notorious Cutler family live as outlaws in the Cotswolds, the heart of Britain's richest countryside. The Cutlers live by their own rules, practising their own way of lifepoaching, pilfering and provoking the police. Chad (Michael Fassbender) finds himself torn between respect for his archaic father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson), and a desire to forge a better life for his children. When Colby coerces him into a major robbery one night, Chad is faced with a choice that will change his life forever. Should he follow tradition and do his father's bidding as his rightful son and heir, or should he break the chain and set out on a new path? With the law cracking down on the clan, Colby tightening his grip on the family, and prejudices among the local populace becoming ever more hostile, Chad discovers that his destiny may no longer lie in his own hands.

• Waterfront | Blu Ray | (02/03/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This outstanding drama traces the turbulent life of a seaman brutalised by a life of hard work and hard drinking and the challenges facing the three children he abandons as they struggle to make their way in Depression-era Liverpool. Featuring powerful performances from Robert Newton Susan Shaw Kathleen Harrison and a young Richard Burton – appearing here in only his third film – Waterfront is presented in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife he leaves her impoverished with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns sacked and humiliated trailing trouble in his wake... Bonus Features: Image Gallery Original Pressbook PDF

• Great Rift | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £19.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (1.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Journey through this amazing geographical feature - seeing how the forces of nature have shaped the landscape creating a hotbed of evolution and the cradle of mankind. Visible from space the Great Rift runs for thousands of miles. It creates connects and defines the wildest most charismatic landscape in the world. From the majestic snow-capped mountains of the Kilimanjaro to the hustle and bustle of the Red Sea's coral reefs; the dry open savannahs of the Serengeti to the rain-soaked forests of the Mountains of the Moon. Journey through this amazing geographical feature - seeing how the forces of nature have shaped the landscape creating a hotbed of evolution and the cradle of mankind.

• Beyond Borders | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £4.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (276.24%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While attending a fundraising gala Sarah Jordan (Jolie) a naive married American socialite living in England witnesses a fiery plea delivered by an intruder renegade humanitarian Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen). His plea made on behalf of impoverished African children under his care turns Sarah's life upside down. Attracted to Nick and his cause she impulsively abandons her sheltered life in England to work along side him in his effort to aid the helpless and anguished victims.

• The Merchant Of Venice | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £12.96   |  Saving you £7.03 (54.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written between the 1596 and 1598 'The Merchant of Venice' is both an early Shakespearean comedy and one of the Bard's problem plays; a work in which good triumphs over evil yet the dramatic tension often remains unresolved and the world is not as put to rights as its heroes would hope.And it is such a tension that surrounds the legendary villain of the Merchant of Venice the Jewish money-lender Shylock who seeks a literal pound of flesh from his Christian opposite the genero