Drama

• The French Love | Unknown | (07/07/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  They do say that Paris is the city of love and that's certainly true for American TV reporter Bryan Deal: he's barely out of the airport when he's picked up by a pair of beautiful bisexual air-hostesses and whisked back for a spot of le nookie. But can his conservative Anglo-Saxon upbringing allow him to embrace these new freedoms? More ambitious than most seventies soft-core, The French Love captures the mood of fashionable French youth of the time, with sexual liberation linked to political transformation. 88 Films are proud to present this explicit manifesto to a new generation completely uncut. HIGH-DEFINITION BLU-RAY PRESENTATION IN 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO ORIGINAL FRENCH MONO 2.0 AUDIO ENGLISH SUBTITLES

• The Man Who Invented Christmas | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Beauty and the Beast) as Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the true story of how the iconic author came to write the seminal yuletide novel A Christmas Carol in only six weeks. Set in 1840s London, Dickens had been struggling to come up with fresh ideas after the failure of his last three works. However, when he's inspired by the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, he set out to write and self-publish a book that would reignite his career. As the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Academy Award-winner Christopher Plummer) and The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future start coming to life in his head, Dickens began creating a masterpiece that gave birth to the Christmas we know and love today.

• Priscilla | DVD | (08/04/2024) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• August Rush | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A drama with fairy tale elements as an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

• The Apartment | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £5.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (169.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Romance at its most anti-romantic--that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). --Robert Abele

• A History of Violence | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £5.94   |  Saving you £14.05 (236.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Viggo Mortensen stars in this stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg.

• Control | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £7.85   |  Saving you £12.14 (154.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Joy Division's Ian Curtis is the subject of this tough and moving biopic which stars Sam Riley as the enigmatic musician.

• The West Wing - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The second season of The West Wing takes up literally where the first season left off and, after a few moments of patriotic sentimentalism, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. The two-part opener covers the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), switching between the anxious wait on the injured and flashbacks to Bartlet's campaign for the Presidency. Other peaks in a series exceedingly short on lows include "Noel," the episode in which Alan Arkin's psychiatrist forces Josh Lynam to confront his post-traumatic stress disorder and the episodes in which President Bartlet, following a tragic car accident, rails angrily against God in Latin. Other new aspects include the introduction of Ainsley Hayes, a young Republican counsel hired after she beats communications deputy Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) in a TV debate ("Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" crow his colleagues), as well as the revelation that the President has been suffering from multiple sclerosis. Tensions grow between him and the First Lady (Stockard Channing) as she realizes, in the episode "Third State of the Union," that he intends to run for a second term in office. It becomes clear to Bartlet that he must go public with his MS, and his staff is forced to come to terms with this, as well as deal with the usual plethora of domestic and international incidents, which apparently preclude any of them from having any sort of private lives. These include crises in Haiti and Columbia, an obstinate filibuster, and a Surgeon General's excessively frank remarks about the drug situation. Thankfully, the splendid Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is on hand to make chief of staff Leo McGarry's life more of a misery in "The Drop-In." These episodes, though occasionally marred by a sentimental soundtrack and an earnest and wishfully high regard for the Presidential office, are master classes in drama and dialogue, ranging from the wittily staccato to the magnificently grave, capturing authentically the hectic pace of political intrigue and the often vain efforts of decent, brilliant people to do the right thing. The West Wing is one of the all-time great TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• House of Mirth | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz star in this adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel about the hypocrisy at the heart of New York society at the start of the last century.

• Raise Your Voice | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £8.47   |  Saving you £7.52 (88.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Perky teen starlet Hilary Duff wholeheartedly embraces the kind of earnest innocence all parents wish their daughters had. In Raise Your Voice, Terri Fletcher yearns to go to a prestigious music conservatory in Los Angeles. Her father won't let her because L.A. is a bad place, but her loving mom and kooky aunt sneak her away. Once there, she gets a sassy roommate-of-colour, geeky cool friends, a snooty rival, and a sexy British boyfriend. Of course, all conflicts with family and friends come to a head at a big competition at which Terri rediscovers herself. Formulaic? Yes. Bland? Yes. Will preteen girls enjoy it anyway? Maybe, because Duff plays it so sincere. --Bret Fetzer, amazon.com

• Desperate Housewives: Season 5 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Years may pass but desperation is timeless. Experience the rare cultural phenomenon that is also a hit with the critics as the women of Wisteria Lane return in a sexy and stormy seven-disc DVD set that will have you begging for more. Bound by enduring friendships and shared secrets the Housewives are always there for each other. How will their alliances be challenged by the arrival of Edie's mysterious new husband and who will go head-tohead for Housewife Of The Year? It promises to be the most wonderfully wicked season yet for the sirens of suburbia. Wisteria Lane's neatly manicured lawns can no longer hide the dirt of television's hottest women. Dig deep into every provocative episode complete with never-before-seen bonus features and enjoy Desperate Housewives like never before on DVD.

• The Madness of King George | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £5.79   |  Saving you £10.20 (176.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In The Madness of King George George III (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to behave in an odd manner thirty years into his rule over England shouting obscenities at people spouting garbled rubbish and attacking his wife's young Mistress of the Robes Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe). The Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) is determined to see that his father is declared unfit to rule so he can become Regent and denies him access to those close to him. The Prime Minister is forced to i

• Henry V | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and wilful eyes revealing much about the personal cost of war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments: his scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed leader wanders across the battlefield, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) over the hacked bodies of both the English and French, a panorama of blood and mud and death greet the viewer as Branagh opens up the scene and Patrick Doyle's rousing hymn "Non nobis, Domine" provides marvellous counterpoint (like the director, the composer was another filmic first-timer). A more potent expression of the price of victory could scarcely be imagined. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Elizabeth R | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A chronicle of England's Golden Age during the late 16th century recounting the life and times of the remarkable Elizabeth I in a cycle of six plays. Academy Award-winning actress Glenda Jackson stars in one of the most popular and acclaimed Masterpiece Theatre presentations ever created the story of England's Queen Elizabeth I. Filled with palace intrigue royal romance and stunning historical detail it traces her reign from a young Princess through almost 50 years of rule over

• The Walking Dead Season 11 | Blu Ray | (03/07/2023) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The final season finds Daryl, Maggie, and our heroes on a fraught mission with Negan to confront the mysterious Reapers. Meanwhile, Eugene's group must assimilate to the Commonwealth, in order to get aid for Alexandria. Product Features New Haunts Deleted Scene Rogue Element Deleted Scene

• Erin Brockovitch | Unknown | (18/08/2025) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Twice-divorced mother Erin (Julia Roberts in her Academy Award®-winning performance, Best Actress, 2000) struggles to be taken seriously. When working as a file clerk in a small law firm, she stumbles upon a cover-up involving contaminated water in a nearby town. Through sheer determination, she convinces her boss to investigate, and in the process, uncovers the culprit. Although the local citizens are initially wary of becoming involved, Erin's brash manner and ability to speak to them clearly earns their trust.

• The Godfather Part II 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £23.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Widely considered the greatest sequel ever made, this visionary Oscar® winner for Best Picture is both a continuation of the saga and a companion piece expanding the legacy of the Corleone family. Director Francis Ford Coppola brings to PART II a two-part talethe roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro in an Oscar®-winning performance, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Product Features Commentary By Francis Ford Coppola

• Riddle Of The Sands | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on the ""classic spy thriller of the 20th century"" that historians hail as the ""tip-off"" that saved Britain from invasion. Two sailboating Englishmen discover a massive German fleet secretly preparing to attack their nation and set out to do something about it not only do they have to thwart the German Navy but Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

• The French Dispatch | Blu Ray | (10/03/2025) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Five People You Meet In Heaven | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mitch Albom adapts his own novel for this made-for-TV fantasy drama starring Jon Voight, Jeff Daniels and Ellen Burstyn. 83-year-old war veteran Eddie (Voight) works in maintenance at Ruby Pier theme park. When he saves the life of a young girl who is about to be crushed by a malfunctioning ride, Eddie dies and finds himself in heaven. There he meets five individuals he encountered when he was alive and discovers how they shaped the course of his life.