Drama

• Philadelphia | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hailed as a landmark film that dazzles with deep emotion and exceptional acting, PHILADELPHIA starsTom Hanks and Denzel Washington as two competing lawyers who join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. And as their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries. Special Features: One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave Documentary Courthouse Protest Footage and Interviews Exclusive new documentary People Like Us: Making Philadelphia Original Making-of Featurette Deleted Scenes

• Dog Pound | Blu Ray | (03/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  DOG POUND is Scum for the 21st Century, a tough and brutal film set in a young offenders institute for teenage boys that the system doesn't know what to do with.

• All Quiet On The Preston Front - Series 1 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another fine comedy series from the BBC All Quiet On The Preston Front charts the everyday lives and mis-adventures of a group of friends most of whom belong to the local unit of the Territorial Army; Hodge and Eric are the best of friends and have known each other since school; Spock is the specky history teacher; Lloydy the man mountain; Ally the solicitor's wife desperately searching for her real self; Dawn the gorgeous college student; and Diesel the human dynamo with

• The Black Shield of Falworth | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  In one of his earliest and most dashing performances a young Tony Curtis pursues his real-life bride Janet Leigh while defending the British throne in this swashbuckling saga filled with jousts jests and medieval super heroics. The setting is England in the reign of King Henry IV Miles (Curtis) is a headstrong handsome peasant determined to learn the name of his slain father and discover his true heritage. His fiery ambition and swift sword lead him to the majestic MacWorth castle. There he must compete for both knighthood as well as the hand of the fair Lady Anne (Leigh) but her love is claimed by the evil conniving Sir Walter Blount. All the while the English throne is being challenged to the death - from sinister forces within. Soon the fate of the realm and his beloved Lady Anne will depend upon his martial skill but not before Miles must unlock the secret of his own shocking mysterious identity. With its outstanding supporting cast and dazzling set design this is truly an epic tale of which legends are made!

• Gandhi | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £3.49   |  Saving you £2.50 (71.63%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In South Africa a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Upon his return to his native India and fed up with the unjust political system he joins the Indian Congress Party which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his ""subversive"" activities land him in jail masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives so the crown responds by slaughtering 1 500 Indians. Enraged the ascetic spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism.

• 24 Frames (2017) | Blu Ray | (04/02/2019) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (Closeup) gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twentyfour still imagesmost of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlifeand digitally animated each one into its own subtly evolving fourandahalfminute vignette, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema. Features: 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with director Abbas Kiarostami's son Ahmad Kiarostami, who helped finish the film after his father's death New conversation between Iranian film scholar Jamsheed Akrami and film critic Godfrey Cheshire New short documentary about the making of the film by Abbas Kiarostami collaborator Salma Monshizadeh Trailer PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri

• A Touch of Frost: Series 2 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £11.39   |  Saving you £13.60 (119.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of investigations featuring the gruff detective. Episodes comprise: 'A Minority Of One' 'Widows And Orphans' 'Nothing To Hide' and 'Stranger In The House'.

• Great Balls Of Fire | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £14.28   |  Saving you £-1.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The meteoric rise to fame of living legend Jerry Lee Lewis; the escapades that shot him to the top of the charts as well as his controversial third marriage to his thirteen-year-old cousin threatened to wreck his career...

• Ballykissangel - Series 2 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £13.01   |  Saving you £6.98 (53.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Young priest Father Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson) arrives in the small Irish town of Ballykissangel. Captivated by local beauty Assumpta (Dervla Kirwan) he is unpopular from the outset and has to work hard to win over the eccentric inhabitants... Episodes comprise: 1. For One Night Only 2. River Dance 3. In the Can 4. The Facts of Life 5. Someone to Watch over Me 6. Only Skin Deep 7. Money Money Money 8. Chinese Whispers

• Eyes Wide Open | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he meets Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, and soon falls in love with him.

• Merlin 2 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sam Neill returns to the small-screen as the mythical wizard Merlin in this sequel to the original Emmy Award-winning smash mini-series. The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot a Kingdom now vulnerable to ill-fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail its greatest gift and protection. With the help of Jack an irascible young beggar-thief imbued with his own unruly magic the fight against unknown dangers begins - to find the Grail restore it to its rightful plac

• Secret Diary Of A Call Girl | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £8.41   |  Saving you £17.58 (209.04%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Billie Piper stars in ITV2's drama Secret Diary of a Call Girl. It's the sexually explicit story of a beautiful prostitute who leads the ultimate double life. To her parents she's Hannah the legal secretary. Hannah has a responsible job that involves working lots of unsocial hours in the evening. Hannah has her own set of clothes and her own friends. Even her closest pal has no idea about her working life. To her clients Belle is whatever they want her to be. She can be the quiet girl-next-door. Or she can be the high-heeled dominatrix who whips them into submission. Her mission is to make money by satisfying male fantasies. As she tells us in the first episode: ""Work out what the client wants as fast as you can and give it to him."" Belle also has strict rules. The most important being that she never becomes emotionally involved. That's before she meets a handsome young single man. On their first meeting Belle looks stunning but it is a complete disaster. He tells her madam (Cherie Lunghi) that next time he'd like a girl just au naturel. Belle was too overpowering. But crafty Belle's professional pride is hurt. She elbows out another call girl and ensures they have a second date. This time everything goes wonderfully and in an unguarded moment she lets slip her real name. Hannah. And the client wants Hannah. Not Belle. And the most important lesson she's learnt: to do this job and keep sane she has to keep Belle and Hannah separate. Follow Belle's further adventures in the eight-part series.

• Never Let Go | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Remembered dimly as Peter Sellers' only venture into "serious" acting, Never Let Go has a lot of other things to recommend it, mostly because it manages to include a lot of the lurid elements that gained it an X certificate in 1960. It has a near-demented melodrama plot, as two desperate obsessives collide in a bizarre feud. Richard Todd, doing meek and put-upon, is a sales rep for smug Peter Jones' cosmetics firm whose life is turned upside-down when his Ford Anglia, bought on hire purchase and uninsured, is stolen by teddy boy Adam Faith. Looking like an inhabitant of Royston Vasey in The League of Gentlemen, Sellers plays a grinning, jumped-up spiv who runs a legitimate garage which is a front for the car thieves and is sugar daddy to teenage tartlet Carol White. Typical of Sellers' demonic rottenness is a scene in which he breaks down-and-out Melvyn Johns' heart by stamping on his beloved terrapin. "Peanut" Todd's crusade to get back his motor (catchphrase "what about my car?") brings trouble too: he gets repeatedly beaten up, abandoned by his wife (Elizabeth Sellars) and dragged to the edge of madness for a final punch-up in a garage. With a delightfully sleazy, jazzy John Barry score, lots of local colour in the caffs and gaffs of criminal London circa 1960 and a parade of welcome character actors (John le Mesurier, David Lodge, Noel Willman, Nigel Stock), this has its soapy spells, but it's a fascinating relic. On the DVD: Never Let Go's menu plays under Faith's theme song ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again--Oh Yeah Oh Yeah!"). The print is slightly letterboxed but looks a few generations away from the master with some careless transfer work that greys shadows and overexposes some scenes. --Kim Newman

• Where Eskimos Live | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the course of his travels Vlado meets Sharkey (Bob Hoskins)a rough-hewn Englishman who claims to be a caseworker for UNICEF. Actually Sharkey is rounding up children for a black market adoption ring in Poland. Sharkey persuades Vlado to join him assuming the boy would fetch a fair price and Vlado unaware of Sharkey's true intentions says yes. Sharkey and Vlado soon become unlikely friends but Sharkey soon learns getting Vlado out of the country may not be so simple; Sharkey

• CSI Miami: Series 1, Part 1 | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £32.00 (355.95%)   |  RRP £40.99

  CSI: Miami follows the same super-successful formula as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Fortunately, this instantly popular spin-off established its own unique identity from the start. Like Gil Grissom's motley crew, the Dade County criminalists of CSI: Miami solve murders using forensic science. Unlike the Vegas crew, however, they're cops with the power to arrest, their coroner talks to dead people, and almost everybody speaks Spanish. Sometimes their crime scene is a swamp, sometimes a resort hotel. Either way, the skies are always sunny, the gators always biting. Real-life Florida resident David Caruso--playing Lt Horatio Caine, the head honcho--is joined by Khandi Alexander (NewsRadio) as coroner Alexx Woods, Emily Procter (The West Wing) as ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne, Adam Rodriguez (Roswell) as underwater recovery expert Eric Delko, and featured player Rory Cochrane (Dazed and Confused) as Tim "Speed" Speedle--though Cochrane wouldn't become a full-fledged cast member until the 12th episode ("Entrance Wound"). Kim Delaney (Caruso's former NYPD Blue cast mate) features in the first few episodes, but left after the tenth, reportedly due to a lack of chemistry with Caruso. Just as CSI has made the most of its location with stories about showgirls and casino owners, so has CSI: Miami exploited its surroundings for all they're worth. Like its parent show, CSI: Miami quickly became a US ratings powerhouse and was followed by CSI: New York in 2004. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Picnic At Hanging Rock | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £15.24   |  Saving you £-7.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Supposedly based on an actual event which remains unsolved to this day 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' is suffused with menace mysticism and languorous adolescent sensuality. In the year 1900 a group of schoolgirls set out on a St. Valentine's Day picnic from which two never returned. With this hauntingly beautiful film director Peter Weir marked the dawn of a new age in Australian cinema.

• Paper Towns | Blu Ray | (14/12/2015) from £7.00   |  Saving you £17.99 (257.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When Quentin is drafted by Margo, the school's queen of cool, to be her accomplice in an all-night revenge spree against her jock ex-boyfriend, he finds himself getting closer to his dream girl.

• Mine Own Executioner | Blu Ray | (09/03/2015) from £6.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (57.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  With compelling sympathetic performances from double Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith and accomplished Irish actor Kieron Moore this powerful psychological drama shows the almost super-human demands of a profession that ranks amongst the most challenging. Adapted from his own novel by BAFTA-winning author and screenwriter Nigel Balchin Mine Own Executioner is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements. Meredith stars as Felix Milne a lay psychiatrist in post-war London who is enlisted to treat Adam Lucian a fighter pilot deeply traumatised by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Beleaguered by emotional problems of his own Milne embodies the mixture of dedication self-distrust and self-criticism that characterises someone with a genuine vocation for the psychiatrist's work; but is he qualified to treat a patient as disturbed and potentially destructive as Adam? Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Digitally Remastered | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Deputy Sheriff 'Coop' (Robert Redford) is the son of a revered Indian scalper who fought in the Indian wars. But now they are over 'Coop's' job is to stop any Indians from getting liquored up and causing trouble on the settlements. Having to take orders from Dr Elizabeth Arnold (Susan Clark) who is in charge of the Indian's welfare riles with Coop's masculinity and their tempestuous relationship descends into sexual frustrations. But when a quarrelsome Indian Willie Boy (Robert Blake) kills his lover's father and runs away with her Coop has to gather together a posse to hunt Willie Boy across the desert to a showdown at Ruby Mountain.

• Withnail and I + How to Get Ahead in Advertising | Blu Ray | (09/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Camden Town the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District – one that will involve rain booze minimal supplies a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former actor turned writer/director Bruce Robinson WITHNAIL and I has become one of British cinema’s most fondly remembered comedies. A cult film in the truest sense that has also become a classic. Perfectly cast – with career-defining roles for Richard E. Grant Paul McGann Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown – and crammed with irresistibly quotable dialogue WITHNAIL and I is a sheer delight even on the umpteenth viewing.