Drama

• The House Of Eliott | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The entire first series of the BBC drama series set in 1920's London. When the philandering Eliott dies penniless there is no inheritance for his daughters Beatrice and Evangeline to survive on. Forced to go into business their London dressmaking enterprise grows into an industrial force to be reckoned with...

• The Hunt | Blu Ray | (25/03/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thomas Vinterberg directs this Danish thriller. Mads Mikkelsen stars as Lukas, a recently-divorced primary school teacher locked in an acrimonious custody battle over his teenage son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstr�m). When five-year-old Klara (Annika Wedderkop), the daughter of Lukas's best friend Theo (Thomas Bo Larsen), tells the headmistress of the school - untruthfully - that Lukas has acted abusively towards her, the accusations quickly escalate and Lukas soon faces unanimous condemnation from e...

• Pure | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £5.48   |  Saving you £14.51 (264.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the death of his father 10 year old Paul takes on the role of caretaker to mother Mel and younger brother Lee. Paul's hunger for his mother's affection is as moving as her inability to respond as she seeks solace in drugs. With heroic optimism Paul takes drastic steps to rescue Mel from her addiction...

• The Flamingo Kid | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £12.72   |  Saving you £-6.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  As The Flamingo Kid amply demonstrates, there's always room for one more rites of passage film if it's made with care and affection. Garry Marshall's 1984 study of a young Brooklyn poker player who thinks the grass is greener at a Long Island beach club, nails the bad guy, realises he got it wrong and returns to the bosom of his "humble" family certainly satisfies on both counts. It also has a strong cast: Matt Dillon as Jeffrey, whose niggling aspirations create the inevitable barrier between himself and his parents; Richard Crenna as his prospective role model who turns out to have feet of clay; and Hector Elizondo as his bemused father. But Jessica Walter (Clint Eastwood's stalker from hell in Play Misty for Me) almost steals the show as an acid-tongued beach-club wife. If the whole thing lacks the depth and warmth of, say, Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, it succeeds on its own merits as an homage to a more innocent time when a young man didn't need to stray far from his own tenement block in order to find himself, with the help of a suitably nostalgic early-1960s soundtrack of course. On the DVD: As far as extras go, this is a budget offering. There are detailed actor biographies but precious little on the film itself, apart from the snippet that Richard Crenna earned a Golden Globe award nomination. There is an adequate scene index and, for those who want to study Dillon in detail, a reasonable stills gallery. The picture is presented in standard format, and hardly distinguishable from ordinary VHS or telecast quality, but the stereo audio certainly helps pump out the period soundtrack. --Piers Ford

• Rock Haven | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young spiritual man - Brady moves to the seaside town of Rock Haven - with his mother Marty who is setting up a Christian school in the area. When Brady meets the seductive Clifford - his world is turned upside down. There is an instant attraction between Brady and Clifford but Brady is troubled by his feelings for Clifford - which conflict strongly with his devoutly Christan beliefs.

• Pretty Persuasion | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £9.70   |  Saving you £-3.71 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Taken from Hubert Selby Jr.'s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

• The Trip | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £18.37   |  Saving you £-2.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hedonism isn't just for breakfast anymore. Or so learns TV commercial director Paul (Peter Fonda) on his first LSD trip: a mind-blowing passage through surreal images and stroboscopic light shows... Written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman 'The Trip' takes you to a whole new world of extreme beauty and sheer terror on a passport the size of a stamp!

• Historias Minimas | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A charming and affecting tale charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas offers further evidence of the current riches to be found in Argentine cinema. Awarded a special jury prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival it's a deceptively simple yet delightful road movie concerned with three disparate characters heading for the Argentine city of San Julian amid the beautiful landscapes of Patagonia. Roberto i

• A Swedish Love Story | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two adolescents meet and cautiously fall in love at the peak of an idyllic Swedish summer. Oblivious to social boundaries they innocently create their own milieu in contrast to the distorted relationships and disillusionment of the adult world around them. Beautifully shot by 'Elvira Madigan' cinematographer Jrgen Persson Roy Andersson's debut feature drew favourable comparisons with the work of the great Ingmar Bergman.

• 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 £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  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 £5.93   |  Saving you £14.06 (237.10%)   |  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 £11.22   |  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 £4.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (161.37%)   |  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 £17.00   |  Saving you £2.99 (17.59%)   |  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 £5.98   |  Saving you £44.01 (735.95%)   |  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 £11.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  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.