Drama

• Dazed And Confused | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Richard Linklater turned his free-range verite sensibility on the 1970s in Dazed and Confused after changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?". It's a little too honest to be a light comedy ("If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.") But it's also way too much fun to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour

• An Unfinished Life | DVD | (25/12/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set against the rugged ranchlands of Wyoming An Unfinished Life is the story of a modern-day Western family as stoic as they are divided learning the true meaning of forgiveness. Robert Redford stars as Einar Gilkyson a tough-skinned retired rancher who long ago turned his back on memories. Still in shock from his only son's death a decade ago Einar has let his ranch fall into ruin along with his marriage. Now Einar spends his days caring only for his hired hand and last trusted friend Mitch (Morgan Freeman) who was gravely injured in an encounter with a grizzly bear. Einar intends to live out his days in this heartbroken solitude . . . until the very person he blames for his son's accident comes to town: his daughter-in-law Jean (Jennifer Lopez). Jean shows up broke on the run and with a girl named Griff (newcomer Becca Gardner) who she swears is the granddaughter Einar never knew he had. Suddenly Einar's quiet life is turned upside down as anger and accusations resurface. But slowly miraculously 11 year-old Griff's curiosity about Western life and her longing for family and a father figure begin to chip away at the stone that has become Einar's heart - opening up the way for unexpected connection adventure mercy and true reunion.

• Deadly Whispers | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Kathy Acton has just disobeyed her father. Is this the deadliest mistake she's ever made?Was Tom Acton a strict but loving father who just cared a bit too much about his family? Or was he a mentally deranged killer, who shot his own daughter to death beacuase she'd dared to disobey him? These were the agonising questions that faced his wife, Carol, and the chilling true story of the Acton murder case is told in Deadly Whispers, a tense and powerfully acted thriller starring Tony Danza (Taxi), Pamela Reed (Proof Of Life), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction, Mission: Impossible) and Heather Tom (The Young And The Restless). Pretty, flirtatious Kathy Acton is a 19-year-old who thinks nothing of having an affair with a married man. Then, one day, she goes missing. Her parents, Tom and Carol, are devastated when a badly mutilated body is discovered. But as the police begin to investigate, they are forced to confront Carol with a terrifying possibility: that the truth behind the killing could lie very close to home.

• Jude | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This curiously dry adaptation of Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude is a good example of Michael Winterbottom's inability to make a particularly good film until Welcome to Sarajevo. Christopher Eccleston plays Jude Fawley, a self-educated stonemason who holds the dream of attending university but identifies with the working class. Kate Winslet is enlisted to play his cousin Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings and a position as a teacher's assistant. When the two enter into an illicit union, they are condemned to the margins of society, ultimately resulting in a horrifying tragedy. Winterbottom takes an oddly lean approach to Hardy's deterministic story, which leaves a viewer feeling short on emotion just when one needs it for the from-bad-to-worse third act. Welcome to Sarajevo proved that Winterbottom needs a whole other level of personal involvement to make a film that inspires him. Jude isn't one of those lucky films. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• SWEET THING (Montage Pictures) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (15/11/2021) from £8.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to release Sweet Thing, the poetic, uplifting story of childhood adventure and imagination from critically-acclaimed filmmaker Alexandre Rockwell, in a worldwide Blu-ray debut as part of the Montage Pictures range from 15 November 2021. The first Print Run will feature a Limited-Edition Collector's Booklet. In New Bedford Massachusetts, a dysfunctional family portrayed in all shades of black-and-white, lead forgotten lives. One eventful summer, in an act of liberation, the kids Billie and Nico set off on their own adventure into the fantastic and poetic world of childhood, unseen by the adults around them. From acclaimed director Alexandre Rockwell (In The Soup, Little Feet), Sweet Thing is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience.

• Le Grand jeu | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A marvellous rediscovery from the golden age of French cinema Jacques Feyder's Le Grand jeu is a tragic doppleg'nger romance steered by the fate of the tarot card and set against the dizzying exoticism of 1930s Morocco. When scandalous Parisian playboy Pierre Martel is forced by his family to leave France and his adored lover Florence (Marie Bell) he begins a new life in the Foreign Legion as Pierre Muller. Drowning his regrets in camaraderie whores and hell-raising he is astonished at meeting Irma (also Marie Bell) a prostitute with an uncanny resemblance to his beloved and begins a fitful scheme to allow her escape. An early benchmark of poetic realism and a fascinating precursor to both Duvivier's P''p'' le Moko and Hitchcock's Vertigo Feyder's fluid masterful storytelling make this a unique classic of the screen: vividly forceful yet subtle acutely observed yet fantastic world-weary yet tender.

• Leaves of Grass | DVD | (21/02/2011) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown where his twin brother a small-time pot grower has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.

• Without A Trace - Season 3 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £32.99   |  Saving you £27.00 (81.84%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The sole responsibility of the FBI special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims' lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted been murdered committed suicide or simply run away... The complete third season of the Emmy Award-winning TV series. Episodes Comprise: 1. In the Dark 2. Thou Shalt Not 3. Light Years 4. Upstairs Downsta

• Words And Pictures | DVD | (02/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

• Secret Diary Of A Call Girl - Series 3 | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £8.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (66.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Season 3

• La Ronde | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £8.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (45.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Max Ophuls' wonderful adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play won a BAFTA for Best Film as well as two Oscar nominations. Starring Simone Signoret, Simone Simon and Anton Walbrook as the enigmatic master of ceremonies who guides us through a series of amorous encounters in 1900's Vienna. A soldier (Serge Reggiani) meets an eager young lady of the night and later has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid who then has an affair with the young master of the house. The young man then seduces a married woman and on and on spins on the gay carousel of romantic life...

• La Strada | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £14.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (33.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The winner of the first ever Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film available on DVD for the first time! Giulietta Masina (the late Federico Fellini's wife) stars as Gelsomina who is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampano (Anthony Quinn) a vicious strongman. They join up with a travelling circus where Zampano encounters his old rival tightrope artist The Fool (Richard Basehart). The Fool befriends Gelsomina and presents her with an uplifting view of the world as oppo

• Station Six Sahara | DVD | (10/02/2020) from £6.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A beautiful blonde (Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.

• To Kill A Mockingbird (2 Disc Special Edition) | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defence of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbour Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his brilliant, almost completely nonverbal screen debut). What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of Harper Lee's enduring novel, a showcase for some of the finest American acting ever assembled in one film, and a rare quality of humanitarian artistry (including Horton Foote's splendid screenplay and Elmer Bernstein's outstanding score) that seems all but lost in the chaotic morass of modern cinema. --Jeff Shannon

• Houdini | Blu Ray | (16/01/2023) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  While working as a Coney Island entertainer, Harry Houdini meets and falls madly in love with Bess. The two quickly marry, and with her at his side, the magician begins his rise to fame as the world's greatest escape artist and magician. But as the escapes get more and more dangerous, Bess worries that Harry may be taking his act too far. This biographical look at the life of Houdini takes several liberties with the facts, including how the magician died. Product Features High-Definition Transfer UK Blu-ray™ Premiere Optional English SDH Subtitles Still Gallery

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete First Series | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.92   |  Saving you £22.33 (291.51%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Landmark British drama series' first season set in turn-of-the-century England chronicles life among the residents of 165 Eaton Place. This is the first series of the classic British drama Upstairs Downstairs. It is obvious in this first season that the budgets are low with the sets sparse and 'bloopers' often not being edited out. Contributer's to the series include renowned author Fay Weldon. Episodes comprise: 1. On Trial 2. The Mistress and the Maids

• I.D. | DVD | (27/12/2017) from £3.52   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Crime drama directed by Philip Davis. Policeman John (Reece Dinsdale) is assigned with his superior, Trevor (Richard Graham), to a secret four-man squad set up to bust a violent football firm. The gang seem to be responsible for much of South London's violent crime, as well as regular crowd trouble at Shadwell Town football club. Not long after becoming fully integrated into the group, John gives Trevor cause for concern as his darker side is gradually unleashed, drawn in by the buzz of football hooliganism.

• Searching for Bobby Fischer - Imprint Limited Edition Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (08/09/2023) from £28.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• King Of Travellers | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

• City Island | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £10.46   |  Saving you £5.53 (52.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Meet the Rizzos a family that might get along a lot better if only they could tell each other the truth. Dad Vince is the worst offender. But since the prison guard won't even admit that poker night is in fact acting class how's he ever going to explain about his illegitimate son? His daughter works as a stripper when she's supposed to be in college while young Vinnie Jr. has a secret sexual fetish that involves a 24-hour webcam and the family's 300-pound neighbour. Vince's wife Joyce is the family's rock but it's been a year since she enjoyed intimacy with her husband and it's no surprise she thinks poker night spells A-F-F-A-I-R. When former prisoner Tony enters the Rizzos' lives Joyce begins to suspect that the handsome young Tony isn't who Vince says he is. City Island is a funny touching and smart family tale about the secrets of the past catching up with the lies of the present and accepting that nobody's perfect - least of all your loved ones.