Drama

• Forrest Gump | Blu Ray | (09/11/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (82.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Forrest Gump is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks).

• East is East Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (22/07/2019) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For the seven kids of George Khan - proud Pakistani and chip shop owner - life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari, hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he's really at art school, heart-throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova, and Sajid hasn't even been circumcised yet. For George Khan ('Genghis' to his kids), life is an uphill battle to get his family to conform to traditional Pakistani values. But this is Salford in the 1970's. George's English wife Ella is Lancashire born, and his kids have got minds of their own. In the Khan's cramped terraced house with it's scant indoor plumbing, anarchy erupts on a daily basis. When the Khan kids begin to oppose their father's petty tyrannies, Ella is forced to make a choice between her love for her husband and the right of her children to make their own way in the world.

• Summer in February | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £13.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (30.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Christopher Menaul and starring Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper and Emily Browning, SUMMER IN FEBRUARY is a deeply moving and tragic love story played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

• Doubt | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Doubt" is a gripping story about the quest for truth, the forces of change and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.

• The Manchurian Candidate | DVD | (31/07/2017) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. --Jim Emerson

• Plenty | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £8.77   |  Saving you £4.22 (32.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She would settle for nothing less... Susan Traherne (Streep) has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants no matter who is hurt or how.

• Guarding Tess | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £13.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (43.09%)   |  RRP £19.99

  What do you do with a former First Lady who's unpredictable ornery and impossible to please? Anything she wants!! Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this comic compassionate look at life after the White House for two former Washington insiders : First Lady Tess Carlisle and Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic. As uproarious as it is uplifting Guarding Tess is ""a grand mixture of laughter and tears"" (Gary Franklin KCOP-TV).

• Nip/Tuck - Season 3 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £8.53   |  Saving you £41.46 (486.05%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon return as the elite plastic surgery team of Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, whose skill at giving others perfect bodies contrasts with their own imperfect lives.

• Crash | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  David Cronenberg's controversial drama examines the relationship between sex and danger. Adman James Ballard (James Spader) becomes sexually aroused by car crashes after colliding with fellow driver Dr Helen Remington (Holly Hunter). Through Helen who shares his arousal James meets Vaughan (Elias Koteas) who enjoys staging and causing car crashes; James then introduces his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) to Vaughan and the two embark on a sexual relationship. Despite being h

• Oz - Series 1-6 - Complete | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Welcome to Emerald City an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or Oz. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glynn Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer whether you're in for a few years or in for life you have a role to play. Once inside choose your friends carefully. Every group - Muslims Latinos Italians Aryans - stick close to mutual friends and terrorize mutual enemies. Don't smile. Get yourself a weapon. Stay on everybody's good side... if you can find one.

• Charlie St. Cloud | Blu Ray | (07/02/2011) from £11.43   |  Saving you £13.56 (118.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on an acclaimed novel Charlie St. Cloud is a romantic drama starring Zac Efron as a young man who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way. In this emotionally charged story he begins a romantic journey in which he embraces the dark realities of the past while discovering the transformative power of love. Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud (Efron) has the adoration of mother Claire (Oscar winner Kim Basinger) and little brother Sam (newcomer Charlie Tahan) as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After his high-school classmate Tess (Amanda Crew) returns home unexpectedly Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. And as he finds the courage to let go of the past for good Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.

• Dog Days | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £6.49   |  Saving you £13.50 (67.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If your idea of Austrians is of cheerful folk cavorting about mountains or relaxing in old-world coffee-shops, Dog Days will come as quite a shock. Set amid the residential streets and shopping precincts of a charmless, sterile southern suburb of Vienna, documentary-maker Ulrich Seidl's first feature revels in the ugliness, both physical and moral, of his characters. None of these are people you'd want to spend time with: in fact most of them you'd go several miles out of your way to avoid, which perhaps accounts for the strangely perverse fascination there is about watching them. Dog Days--it takes place, as you might guess, during a sticky, sweltering July heatwave that improves tempers not one bit--comes on rather like a low-rent version of Robert Altman's Short Cuts. We meet a dozen or so main characters, all of whom gradually come to impact on each other's lives in various ways. Among them, a girl with a psychotically jealous boyfriend; an elderly man who obsessively stockpiles groceries, first weighing them to check for the least hint of short measure; an estranged couple still sharing a house, where the wife entertains her lovers under her husband's morose gaze; a middle-aged schoolteacher whose abusive lover invites lowlifes to join in humiliating her; a no-hoper salesman of security systems; and the world's most excruciatingly irritating hitch-hiker. There's a dark humour at work here; after a while the sheer bleakness and collective vindictiveness become wincingly funny. Seidl's disenchanted view of his compatriots, and his contempt for their vaunted gemütlichkeit, is epitomised by his image of a man forced to sing the Austrian national anthem ("A nation blessed by its sense of beauty") stark naked with a lighted candle up his backside. To cap it all, he can't remember the words. --Philip Kemp

• Waterloo Road Series Five - Autumn Term | DVD | (14/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rival pupils rival teachers - if someone thought opposites attract they're about to find out otherwise - I predict a riot! It's a whole new dawn for Waterloo Road when the school is joined together with the John Foster School. Its pupils are a little posher a little prouder and a lot more disciplined - or that's how it seems on the surface. It's not long before a culture-clash between the schools becomes a massed turf war and that's only the beginning of the challenges facing Rachel Mason as Head Teacher. She's also up against a ruthless new Executive Head Max Tyler who wants to bring his iron rule to the pupils of Waterloo Road - and won't let anyone stand in his way. Max brings with him a bullying attitude along with a new teacher and ex-lover Helen Hopewell. Max's marriage and severed relationship with Helen doesn't prevent him seducing teacher Kim Campbell into supporting him a policy of divide and conquer which soon leaves the school at breaking point. Elsewhere Steph finds herself under a new department head the openly lesbian Jo Lipsett and Tom Clarkson takes on his role of department head responsible for Grantley Budgen and Max Tyler's fragile prot''g'' Helen Hopewell. Pupils new and old face problems of their own as they have to live with the consequences of their actions - and others - from bullying through drink offences schizophrenia and even murder. It's more than just a new term for Waterloo Road it's a new beginning. And with every new beginning comes new challenges - but the bigger they are the harder they fall.

• Poldark - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £5.63   |  Saving you £15.35 (581.44%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The second half of the acclaimed second series of the classic BBC drama. Welcome to Cornwall near the turn of the nineteenth century where an air of celebration pervades. However even as Admiral Lord Nelson defeats the french fleet in the battle of the Nile the situation between the recently returned Ross Poldark and George Warleggan is no nearer a conclusion. And things at home aren't much better for Ross for Demelza is playing a very dangerous game with Lord Falmouth's nephew

• Those Were The Days | DVD | (09/06/2014) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapted from Arthur Pinero's relentlessly popular stage farce The Magistrate Those Were the Days was a perfect early vehicle for the comedic brilliance of Will Hay. Hay's feature-length debut is a typically entertaining study of the upstanding but ineffectual magistrate Mr Poskett while a youthful John Mills is the 20-year-old stepson who must pretend to be 15 to preserve the secret of his mother's falsified age; Angela Baddeley and veteran character-comedians Claude Allister H.F. Maltby and George Graves are among an impressive supporting cast. Presented in a brand-new digital transfer from the original film elements this rare cinematic gem - directed by former variety star Thomas Bentley - notably includes a wonderful evocation of the atmosphere of a 1890s music hall with Lily Morris and Harry Bedford among a number of leading acts featured. Special Features: Image Gallery Original Script PDF

• The Scarlet Letter | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin love is the most defiant crime of all. Hester Pryanne is a beautiful sensual woman in the New World Of Americas. She is a free spirit trapped in a harsh and puritanical colony and dominated by a violent husband Roger Chillingworth. She falls in love with the reverend a passionate man of God who risks everything for their tempestuous affair. But the couple must face the settlers toughened by their harsh lives bent on purging sin

• Blue Lamp, The / The Nanny | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This is a double-feature of two British crime classics, The Blue Lamp (1949) and The Nanny (1965). The Blue Lamp is the film that introduced PC George Dixon, played by Jack Warner, later immortalised in the BBC's long-running Dixon of Dock Green (1955-76). Here Dixon's murder is the catalyst for an exciting London manhunt, shot largely on location in a fast-moving, starkly efficient style showing the influence of The Naked City (1948). The war-damaged East End and the car chases through almost vehicle-free streets offer a documentary-like vision of a London now long gone, and a young Dirk Bogarde makes a serious impact in an early starring role. In contrast, The Nanny has a superstar, the imported Hollywood legend Bette Davis, in the declining years of her career. Just one of three psychological thrillers Hammer produced in 1965 (the others were Frantic and Hysteria), the film capitalises on the popularity of Davis's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) with a comparable mix of hateful insanity and paranoia. The screenplay skilfully juggles the audience's sympathies between a superb Davis and the dysfunctional family of which she becomes a part, developing a powerful sense of dread which shows such clichéd later fare as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) how to do this sort of thing with real class. On the DVD: The Blue Lamp and The Nanny are presented in black and white with adequate mono sound. The Blue Lamp is in its original 4:3 ratio; The Nanny is cropped from its theatrical 1.85:1 to 4:3, though it's only in a few shots that it becomes obvious that information is missing at the sides of the screen. The print of The Blue Lamp is soft and grainy, while The Nanny is grainy with a considerable amount of flicker. There are no extras. --Gary S. Dalkin

• The Door In The Floor | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £8.41   |  Saving you £9.58 (113.91%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Adapted from an acclaimed novel by John Irving "The Door in the Floor" explores the complexities of love in its brightest, most mysterious, and darkest corners.

• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Series 1 | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Suspecting that the Pimpernal is an English aristocrat Chauvelin is sent to England to discover the identity of the mystery man. Once there Chauvelin meets his former lover the beautiful French actress Marguerite who is married to a foppish English aristocrat. Marguerite reluctantly gives Chauvelin information to find the elusive Pimpernel and has unwittingly betrayed him...

• Let Him Have It | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  From the director of The Krays comes a horrifying true story of injustice and murder..... A policeman is shot dead and two South London boys stand accused of his murder. The verdict and the sentence passed upon the young Derek Bentley proved to be as controversial as the crime. Both the verdict and the sentence were subsequently quashed. This is the case that shocked the nation.