Drama

• Lady On A Train | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Nikki Collins witnesses a murder the absence of a body undermines her credibility in the eyes of the police. Undeterred Nikki seeks the help of a popular crime fiction writer. Includes the famous songs: 'Silent Night Holy Night' 'Give Me A Little Kiss' and 'Night And Day'.

• Tarantino Collection | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £25.72   |  Saving you £1.27 (4.94%)   |  RRP £26.99

  Kill Bill - Volume 1 (2003): In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino's delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride' a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party... Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests (the classic Lady Snowblood among them) yakuza gangster thrillers (offering a cameo opportunity to genre icon Sonny Chiba) and Chinese martial arts movies (hence the knowing appearance of Jackie Chan contemporary Gordon Liu) Quentin Tarantino borrows from the best in order to shape his deliciously over the top cinematographic style into a simple but effective plot. Look out too for 'Battle Royale' alumni Chiaki Kuriyama as Lucy Lui's weapon-wielding schoolgirl bodyguard and the gravel-voiced Shun Sugata (he of 'Ichi The Killer' fame who also appeared alongside Tom Cruise in 'The Last Samurai'). Homage? Pastiche? 'Kill Bill' is not just for movie anoraks complete with all the super-smooth tunes that you'd expect from a Tarantino soundtrack it's definitely the most outrageously entertaining film yet from cinema's king of cool! Kill Bill - Volume 2 (2004): The second part of Quentin Tarantino's deliriously stylish movie as The Bride (Thurman) continues her typically blood-soaked revenge quest... Having killed two of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad The Bride continues her mission to avenge the three remaining names on her death list that turned her El Paso wedding party into bloody carnage and left her for dead. Her attention turns to Budd (Michael Madson) Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and finally the corpse littered path leads to Bill (David Carradine). However an unexpected survivor complicates matters... Pulp Fiction (1994): A spectacular mix of explosive action and wickedly funny humor - critics and audiences worldwide have hailed Pulp Fiction as the star studded movie event of 1994! Popular writer/director Quentin Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters - including a pair of low-rent hit men their boss's sexy wife and a desperate last-chance prizefighter - in a wildly entertaining big-screen adventure that will both thrill and amuse! It's fresh and exhilarating motion picture experience that's unlike anything else you have ever seen! Jackie Brown (1997): What do a sexy stewardess (Grier) a street-tough gun runner (Jackson) a lonely bail bondsman (Forster) a shifty ex-con (De Niro) an earnest federal agent (Keaton) and a stoned-out beach bunny (Fonda) have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are who's getting played and who's gonna make the big score... Reservoir Dogs (1991): Quentin Tarantino rocked the film world with this powerful and controversial debut movie. Set mainly in a warehouse in the aftermath of a bungled robbery the story gradually unfolds to introduce the colour-coded gangsters and the planning of the crime step by step through Tarantino's trademark flashbacks. Four have survived after a police ambush - betrayed. What went wrong and who is the betrayer? Brilliantly scripted and complemented by the 70's retro soundtrack the scenes are stylish and violent yet intelligent and full of dark humour. With stunning performances by Harvey Keitel Tim Roth Steve Buscemi and Michael Madsen 'Reservoir Dogs' is a tense and exciting examination of male ego on a collision course that results in an unforgettable climax.

• Midsomer Murders - The Sword Of Guillaume | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £4.96   |  Saving you £12.03 (242.54%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Midsomer Murders 13: The Sword of Guillaume

• Ain't Them Bodies Saints | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £4.50   |  Saving you £11.49 (255.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully shot critically-acclaimed and led by captivating performances from Casey Affleck (The Killer Inside Me) and Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ain't Them Bodies Saints is an unforgettable and powerful love story set amidst the beautiful backdrop of 1970s Texas Hill County. Bob Muldoon (Affleck) and Ruth Guthrie (Mara) an impassioned young outlaw couple are finally apprehended after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds local officer Sheriff Wheeler (Ben Foster) Bob takes the blame and is sent to jail. Four years later Bob escapes from prison and sets out to reunite with his beloved wife and the daughter he has never met with dramatic and heart-breaking consequences. Special Features: Interviews with Director and Cast Three Deleted Scenes Two Character Teasers Music Video from Keith Carradine's The Lights Behind the Scenes Documentary by The Ross Brothers

• To Save The Children | DVD | (25/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A maniac wired to a bomb. His hostages: 154 totally innocent children... Cokeville Wyoming. A small peaceful town. And the perfect place for a maniac to put his evil plot into action. David Young is planning 'The Big One': a scheme to create his own bizarre 'brave new world' - and to make himself fabulously wealthy - by kidnapping every child in Cokeville Elementary School and holding them to ransom. And he's got an ace up his sleeve: a bomb wired to explode if anyone dares to attack or shoot him. With 154 hostages inside the school and the emergency services helpless outside it seems that Young cannot lose...

• Some Kind Of Wonderful Blu-ray Steelbook | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before they could stand together, they had to stand alone. Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, and Craig Sheffer shine in this essential 80s classic that reteams Writer/Producer John Hughes and director Howard Deutch (PRETTY IN PINK). The result is another unforgettable romantic comedy of unconditional, but sometimes unclaimed, love in the time of teen angst. Special Features Commentary by Director Howard Deutch and Lea Thompson Back to Wonderful: A Conversation with Director Howard Deutch (HD) The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful Meet the Cast of Some Kind of Wonderful John Hughes Time Capsule

• Prince Avalanche | DVD | (10/02/2014) from £14.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (24.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) directs this hilarious road movie starring Paul Rudd (Anchorman, Knocked Up) and Emile Hirsh (Alpha Dog, Into the Wild) about two road workers forced to spend the summer together on a desolate highway in Texas. After Alvin (Rudd) a serious-minded outdoors type has reluctantly agreed to employ his girlfriend s lazy younger brother, Lance (Hirsch), and is already regretting it. Acquiring some lethal moonshine from an oddball trucker, drunken...

• Creed | Blu Ray | (16/05/2016) from £12.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (48.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Creed - Zavvi Exclusive Limited Edition Steelbook From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema comes award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler's Creed. The film reunites Coogler with his Fruitvale Station star Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed, and explores a new chapter in the Rocky story, starring Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone in his iconic role. Adonis Johnson (Jordan) never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa. Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks Rocky (Stallone) down and asks him to be his trainer. Despite his insistence that he is out of the fight game for good, Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollothe fierce rival who became his closest friend. Agreeing to take him on, Rocky trains the young fighter, even as the former champ is battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the ring. With Rocky in his corner, it isn't long before Adonis gets his own shot at the title but can he develop not only the drive but also the heart of a true fighter, in time to get into the ring? Creed also stars Tessa Thompson (Selma, Dear White People) as Bianca, a local singer-songwriter who becomes involved with Adonis; Phylicia Rashad (Lifetime's Steel Magnolias) as Mary Anne Creed, Apollo's widow; and English pro boxer and former three-time ABA Heavyweight Champion Anthony Bellew as boxing champ Pretty Ricky Conlan. Ryan Coogler directs from a screenplay he wrote with Aaron Covington, based on a story by Coogler. The film is being produced by Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler, Kevin King-Templeton and Sylvester Stallone, with Nicolas Stern executive producing. Click Images to Enlarge

• Dante's Cove | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The sexy young residents of Dante's Cove a peaceful beachside town are plunged into a world of intrigue secrets and shifting romantic ties when their town's sinister supernatural past comes alive.

• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £24.59   |  Saving you £-4.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit transfers wonderfully to the screen in this BBC adaptation (with a screenplay by Winterson). Jess is the adopted daughter of evangelical Christians living in the northwest of England in the 1960s. Her mother wants Jess to be a missionary, but when she falls in love with Melanie, Jess begins to realise that there is more to life than church. When Jess' mother begins to suspect the girls of "unnatural passions" she tries to destroy their relationship with the help of Pastor Finch (Kenneth Cranham) and his congregation. But their efforts--including a terrifying attempt at exorcism--only push Jess further away. Jess eventually understands that the only way to survive is to escape, and she sets her sights on a place at Oxford. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is both a broad comedy and a moving coming-of-age story. Charlotte Coleman is perfect as the teenage Jess, attempting to reconcile her religious devotion and her adolescent passion, but the film belongs to Geraldine McEwan as Jess' mother. McEwan obviously relishes Winterson's script, and she creates a character both monstrous, ridiculous and surprisingly sympathetic. It's a difficult role to carry off, but McEwan succeeds. Her performance is the high-point of this award-winning, provocative film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com

• Impromptu | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  There are Victorian country-house shenanigans aplenty in Impromptu: novelist George Sand (Judy Davis, affected but pretty charming) has eyes for Franz Liszt's young protégé Chopin (Hugh Grant, solid as always, but burdened by a silly Polish accent and a script that never lets him stretch out), but various lovers, jealous rivals, and Chopin's own overdeveloped sense of propriety conspire to confound her. Impromptu is witty but overlong--probably 20 minutes of hijinks and repartee, not to mention several completely gratuitous and redundant characters, could have been sliced from the film. Davis plays Sand as an impetuous, overgrown tomboy, outraging her genteel hosts by wearing pants, chomping cigars, and falling off horses; her coterie of artist-friends assure us, in a series of naked plot devices, that she nonetheless has a heart of gold. It's all good silly fun, and about as feminist as your average Def Leppard video--the other two developed female characters are ugly stereotypes: a featherbrained, feckless social climber (Emma Thompson, who once again proves she's up for anything) and a spiteful, back-stabbing shrew (the ever-capable Bernadette Peters). Director James Lapine clearly belongs to the Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman school of historical accuracy, so don't expect to learn anything about the period or the artists themselves. --Miles Bethany

• Empire Of The Sun - Special Edition | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £7.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (55.90%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it all in an afternoon? What if you were only 12 years old at the time? Bale's transformation, from pampered British ruling-class child to an imprisoned, desperate, nearly feral boy, is nothing short of stunning. Also stunning are exceptional sets, cinematography and music (the last courtesy of John Williams) that enhance author J.G. Ballard's and screenwriter Tom Stoppard's depiction of another, less familiar casualty of war. In a time when competitors were releasing "comedic", derivative coming-of-age films, Empire of the Sun stands out as an epic in the classic David Lean sense--despite confusion or perceived competition with the equally excellent The Last Emperor (also released in 1987, and also a coming-of-age in a similar setting). It is also a remarkable testament to, yes, the human spirit. And despite its disappointing box-office returns, Empire of the Sun helped to further establish Spielberg as more than a commercial director and set the standard, tone and look for future efforts Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. --N.F. Mendoza

• Law And Order - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Powerful timely and gripping Law & Order has become one of television's most celebrated and widely acclaimed American crime series of all time. Get ready for another thrilling season of ripped-from-the-headlines cases as all 22 episodes of the gripping fourth season come to DVD for the first time ever. Episodes Comprise: 1. Sweeps 2. Volunteers 3. Discord 4. Profile 5. Black Tie 6. Pride and Joy 7. Apocrypha 8. American Dream 9. Born Bad 10. The Pursuit of Happiness

• The Four Minute Mile | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In 1954 four athletes across three continents were trying to run a mile under the milestone 4 minute mark - a feat then thought impossible. With two supremely gifted athletes emerging as front runners: England's Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy a race into the history books was on...Based on Roger Bannister's sporting achievement this film is a story of dedication perseverance and glory.

• Ecstacy | DVD | (13/06/2011) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-3.03 (-16.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ecstasy is a contemporary and relevant film about how drugs transcend all borders of society and affect every facet of our lives. But when it leaves it takes away your soul. A new party drug arrives on the rave scene in a college town and is consumed openly by young people. It's irresistible - making you feel invincible beautiful intelligent and loved. This haunting psychological thriller centers around a mother's struggle to save her daughters from going down the same dark path she once took a handsome jock's (Charlie Bewley from Twilight: New Moon) misplaced faith in God stemming from the temptations that surrounds him and three college girls' horrific experience with their drug-induced guilt fears and demons.

• Call Me Claus | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Call Me Claus is a hysterically delightful and touching story starring Whoopi Goldberg and featuring Nigel Hawthorne as Santa Claus himself. Lucy Cullins (Goldberg) is a cranky volatile producer at a home shopping network in charge of hiring the station's on-air Santa Claus. Nigel Hawthorne is the ""real"" Santa Claus who finding himself at the end of his 200-year contract must convince Lucy that she is the perfect candidate to fill his shoes.

• King's Game | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £28.53   |  Saving you £-10.54 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An ambitious journalist gets caught up in political intrigue in this Swedish drama.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1 Part 2 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £7.22   |  Saving you £34.03 (570.97%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The second half of CSI's first year takes Grissom and his untiring team down some darker paths than before. Nick finally gives in to his urges and sleeps with the hooker who has a crush on him in "Boom"--with predictably disastrous consequences. Sarah is badly affected by the rape and attempted murder of an unknown woman in "Too Tough to Die"; and even Grissom is shaken when dealing with the sudden death of an infant in "Gentle, Gentle". The final episode of the year, "Strip Strangler", is a real shocker, as the team track a brutal serial killer. Elsewhere, the morbid business of investigating corpses and crime scenes is enlivened with flashes of welcome humour: when a horse is found dead with packets of uncut diamonds concealed in its uterus, Grissom deadpans "This horse is a mule". Throughout, the show remains focused on its scientific remit, only revealing enough of the characters' private lives to provide added piquancy to each investigation: Sarah's complete lack of a life outside her work; Warrick's old gambling habit; Catherine's attachment to her daughter and troubles with ex-husband Eddie; Nick's over-eagerness to please. Grissom, meanwhile, like the Dalai Lama, is the model of inscrutable wisdom. The show itself, like a millennial antidote to a decade of X-Files, is relentlessly empirical: everything that initially seems mysterious--from spontaneous human combustion to an apparent case of vampirism--is always explicable and explained by the team's scientific dedication. On the DVD: CSI, Series 1 Part 2 contains 11 episodes on three discs. Extra features consist of a brief promo featurette, production notes and a series of on-set interviews with the cast. Oddly for such a cutting-edge show, picture is old-fashioned 4:3 with basic Dolby stereo sound. --Mark Walker

• Brideshead Revisited | Blu Ray | (09/03/2009) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the most important novels of the 20th Century is brought back to life in this lush period drama.

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 2 | DVD | (27/12/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £20.01 (401.81%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This double DVD contains all six episodes of the second series of Rumpole Of The Bailey that starred Leo McKern as the eccentric Old Bailey defence lawyer. Rumpole is set a wide range of challenges including in the first case 'Rumpole and the Man of God' defending a vicar who is in court on a shoplifting charge. Rumpole is also called in to defend a man who claims that his arrest was a case of mistaken identity as well as a known fascist who is facing a charge under the Race Relations Act and a naive young teacher accused of seducing one of his students. It's not an easy life for the lawyer as all the time Rumpole is also trying to stay on top of the day to day shenanigans at chambers whilst constantly endeavouring to pacify wife she who must be obeyed.