Drama

• The Best Man | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (334.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar-nominated drama based on the slyly subversive play by Gore Vidal. The film is set in the months leading up to a presidential election and stars Henry Fonda as one of five presidential candidates who are willing to do anything to gain an advantage over their fellow contenders. Cliff Robertson stars as Joe Cantwell, another likely candidate and Lee Tracy plays outgoing President, Art Hockstader.

• Danielle Steel's The Ring | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £8.60   |  Saving you £-2.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) a woman who gains strength and courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. As the daughter of an upper-class Berlin family Ariana watches her family and her country torn apart at the hands of impending war. Aware of the dangerous political climate her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerland. He returns to rescue Ariana but he is killed as a traitor. Unsure of her father and brothers fate Ariana is now truly alone. She seeks comfort in the arms of a German soldier but the harsh war claims him as yet another victim. Pregnant with his child Ariana realizes she has nothing left from her past but her late mother's signet ring. She decides to flee to America to start her life again...

• Grindhouse 16: Arcade | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  All the kids in town are dying to play the hot new video game Arcade. Trouble is once you play the game you can kiss reality good-bye. Arcade has seven levels of excitement adventure and terror for its players. The game transports you to another world with its stunning graphics thrilling sound effects and virtual reality simulation. It is the ultimate experience in a video game. But excitement like this doesn't come cheaply - when you battle with Arcade you're putting your life on the line. The kids have accepted the challenge and are absorbed into the game. Only Alex (Megan Ward) realizes that their mysterious disappearances are linked to Arcade. She must battle the game alone. Too bad she's never been very good at games... Featuring an all-star cast including Megan Ward (Encino Man Dark Skies) Peter Billingsley (A Christmas Story Iron Man) Seth Green (Robot Chicken Family Guy) and John de Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). Written by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins The Man of Steel Blade). Directed by Albert Pyun (Cyborg The Sword and the Sorcerer).

• Whispering Corridors | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £12.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (15.57%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ostensibly a teen fright-fest about a vengeful ghost Whispering Corridors follows in the horror tradition of using the supernatural for displaced social commentary. The film is an illustration of the growing gap in Korean society between the values of the youth and the older generations focused around the misogyny and cutthroat competition in the educational system. It became a huge hit in its native country after word got out that the ministry of education wanted to

• The Legend Of The Tamworth Two | DVD | (13/04/2004) from £10.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (20.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1998 two piglets escaped from an abattoir. This is their story as they hit the headlines as 'Butch and Sundance'. Evading capture for some time they finally earn their freedom and take up residence at an animal sanctuary in Kent.

• When Zachary Beaver Came To Town | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Drama for all the family as Zachary Beaver a sideshow attraction also known as the world's fattest boy arrives in the sleepy town of Granger Texas.

• Goodbye Mr Chips | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Hilton's beloved novel Goodbye Mr Chips is tenderly remade here in this 2002 TV production. Martin Clunes plays the schoolteacher over a 50-year period, from his first day as a novice Latin instructor until his death at 83 as retired headmaster. The world and Mr Chipping change dramatically over the decades. He marries a proto-feminist (Victoria Hamilton) who nicknames him "Chips" and gives him courage to test his humanitarian impulses. World War I hits home in many ways--a long list of the school's graduates die or are maimed and Chips struggles with the discriminatory exile of his best friend, the German teacher. Despite obvious breaks for commercials, this film has a graceful honesty that transcends the sometimes sentimental storyline. The casual cruelty at the all-boys' school may make parents flinch more than their children, rendering this a safe choice for family viewing. --Kimberly Heinrichs

• An Ideal Man | DVD | (14/12/2015) from £5.22   |  Saving you £14.77 (282.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Twenty-five-year old Mathieu (Pierre Niney Yves Saint Laurent) has always aspired to become a famous author, but despite all his efforts, he has never managed to be published. Meanwhile, he earns his living by working for a moving company. One day, on a removal job, his destiny takes a new turn as he stumbles across the manuscript of an elderly and solitary man who has recently died. Initially hesitant, Mathieu eventually decides to steal the text and pretend he wrote it. Unexpectedly, he quickly becomes the bright new star of French literature. Everyone is now eagerly anticipating his second novel, and as each day passes and pressure mounts, Mathieu plunges ever deeper into a criminal spiral of lies in order to keep his dark secret hidden.

• Warrior | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £8.45   |  Saving you £16.54 (195.74%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Warrior stars Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises) and Joel Edgerton (The Thing). An inspirational and exhilarating roller-coaster of a film, Warrior centres around Tommy (Hardy) - an ex marine haunted by a tragic past, who enlists the help of his estranged father (Nick Nolte) to train up for the fight of his life. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path towards SPARTA - the biggest 'winner takes all' Mixed Martial Arts event in history. His brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, also returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. So when Brendan's unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other - and the forces that pulled them apart - in the ultimate face off.

• The Killing Of John Lennon | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £6.55   |  Saving you £13.44 (205.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An equally shocking and powerful dramatization of Mark Chapman's plan to murder John Lennon.

• Ten Items Or Less | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With his career drying up a Hollywood Icon is forced to consider a low budget movie. Out researching the role he is abandoned by his driver with no cash or mobile phone and on the wrong side of the tracks. His saviour is Scarlett a check out girl with attitude and what looks like another celebrity scandal reveals an unexpected friendship that will leave a lifelong impression.

• Children Of Glory | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £7.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (57.80%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The year is 1956. The coldest year in the Cold War to date. But Hungary wishes to show the Soviet Block that it too is a superpower...its national water polo team is invincible.

• Cinema 16 - British Short Films | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring 16 short films by British Directors; About A Girl Boy And Bicycle Dear Phone Doddlebug Eight Gasman Girl Chewing Gum Home Joyride Inside Out Je T'aime John Wayne The Sheep Thief The Short And Curlies Telling Lies UK Images and Who's My Favourite Girl? Plus filmmaker commentaries.

• Orchid House | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring an all-star cast and based on one of the great novels of West Indian literature; Orchid House is a gripping and at times breathtaking drama of thwarted passion, desire and colonialism in Dominica, directed by acclaimed independent director Horace Ov. Lally tells the story of all she has seen, raising the three white daughters of a formerly powerful but now impoverished family.Master has returned from war a broken man, chained to a curse from which there is no release. Nurtured and cared for by both his wife Madam, and Mamselle the children’s tutor, the tides of change sweep and swirl around them, eating away at the oncesolid rock of the white man’s dominance and the all-powerful control of the church. When the three daughters, having left the island, reconvene to shore up what is left of their household, they find an island sultry with the sweat of toil, protest, unresolved passion, death and desire. Secrets that have lain suppressed too long are about to be exposed at the Orchid House. Special Features: Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Parallel Mothers | Blu Ray | (16/05/2022) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two women, Janis and Ana, meet in a hospital where they are about to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, has no regrets and is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared and repentant. Janis tries to encourage her as they move like sleepwalkers through the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between them, which by chance will develop and complicate, changing their lives in a decisive way.

• To Sir with Love | Blu Ray | (28/11/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced and directed this 1967 British film (based on the novel by E. R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Sidney Poitier is very good as a man struggling with the extent of his commitment to the job, and even more as a teacher whose commitment is to proffering life lessons instead of just academic ones. The spirit of this movie can also be found in more recent films such as Dangerous Minds and Mr. Holland's Opus, but none are as moving as this. Besides, the others don't have a title song performed by Lulu, who also stars. --Tom Keogh

• The Lost Medallion | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Billy Unger and Sammi Hanratty star in this fantasy adventure from writer and director Bill Muir. As Billy Stone (Unger) prepares to take over the family business of searching for a lost medallion, he and his friend Allie (Hanratty) manage to transport themselves back 200 years to a time when all there was to do was jump off waterfalls, explore caves and avoid animal traps. As they search for a way back home, Billy must try to find the key to utilising the medallion's true powers.

• To Sleep With Anger (1990) | Blu Ray | (25/03/2019) from £14.38   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Charles Burnett's 1990 masterpiece, a family drama suffused with magical realism. A slowburning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover (The Color Purple) plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smouldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poeticrealist images, To Sleep with Anger is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of black mysticism and folklore. Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Charles Burnett, with 2.0 surround DTSHD Master Audio soundtrack New interview programme featuring Burnett, actors Danny Glover and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and associate producer Linda Koulisis A Walk with Charles Burnett, a new hourlong conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend that revisits Burnett's films and shooting locations Short video tribute to Burnett produced for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards ceremony in 2017 PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark

• The Fault In Our Stars / Juno / 500 Days Of Summer - 3 Film Collection | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.99

  The Fault In Our Stars Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort) share a sarcastic sense of humour a distaste for convention and ultimately a love that will sweep them onto a transformative journey that they – and you – will never forget. Although the two teens face extraordinary challenges their courage and dedication to each other prove that while life isn’t perfect love is. Laura Dern (TV’s Enlightened The Master) and Willem Dafoe (Out of the Furnace Spider-Man films) also star in this powerfully moving film based on John Green’s best-selling novel. Juno Don’t miss the outrageously offbeat comedy hit that has everyone talking— and laughing! Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page - X-MEN) is a cool confident teenager who takes a nine-month detour into adulthood when she’s faced with an unplanned pregnancy—and sets out to find the perfect parents for her baby. With the help of her charmingly unassuming boyfriend (Michael Cera – Superbad) supportive dad (J.K. Simmons) and no-nonsense step mum (Allison Janney) Juno sets her sights on an affluent couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) longing to adopt their first child. 500 Days of Summer In this anti-romantic comedy about love and fate a young greeting card writer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is hopelessly helplessly searching for the girl of his dreams...and his new co-worker Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) may just be “the one.” But the 500 days of their offbeat relationship reveal (in no particular order) that the road to happiness can be unpredictable uncontrollable — and unbelievably funny! This is not a love story. This is a story about love. Features songs from The Smiths Doves Regina Spektor and The Temper Trap.

• On The Waterfront | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Marlon Brando's famous "I coulda been a contenda" speech in On the Water Front is such a war horse by now that a lot of people probably feel they've seen the film already, even if they haven't. And many of those who have seen it may have forgotten how flat-out thrilling it is. For all its great dramatic and cinematic qualities, and its fiery social criticism, Elia Kazan's has created one of the most gripping melodramas of political corruption and individual heroism ever made in the United States, a five-star gut-grabber. Shot on location around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s, it tells the fact-based story of a longshoreman (Brando's Terry Malloy) who is blackballed and savagely beaten for informing against the mobsters who have taken over his union and sold it out to the bosses. (Karl Malden has a more conventional stalwart-hero role, as an idealistic priest who nurtures Terry's pangs of conscience.) Lee J Cobb, who created the role of Willy Loman in Death of Salesman under Kazan's direction on Broadway, makes a formidable foe as a greedy union leader. --David Chute, Amazon.com