Drama

• Children Of Glory | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  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 £17.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  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 £13.79   |  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 £29.99   |  Saving you £-17.00 (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 £17.99   |  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 £6.26   |  Saving you £3.73 (59.58%)   |  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

• The George Bernard Shaw Collection | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £69.90   |  Saving you £30.09 (43.05%)   |  RRP £99.99

  George Bernard Shaw was an Irish dramatist literary critic socialist spokesman and a leading figure in 20th century theatre. The George Bernard Shaw Collection includes the following 10 star-studded productions: 1. Arms and the Man 2. The Man of Destiny 3. The Devil's Disciple 4. Mrs Warren's Profession 5. You Never Can Tell 6. Pygmalion 7. Androcles and the Lion 8. Heartbreak House 9. The Millionairess 10. The Apple Cart

• The Descendants (Blu-ray + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (21/05/2012) from £6.41   |  Saving you £18.58 (289.86%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Only Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne (Sideways) would think to cast the famously handsome George Clooney as a dishevelled dad in his outstanding adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemmings's tragicomic novel. Clooney dials down the glamour to play Matt King, a Hawaii real-estate attorney with a propensity for unflattering shirts and ill-fitting trousers. When Matt's wife, Elizabeth, ends up in a coma after a water-skiing accident, Matt must learn to balance the parenting of his resentful daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alexandra (Shailene Woodley, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), with the sale of a pristine plot of Kauai land that stands to make the King cousins, including scruffy Hugh (Beau Bridges), a fortune. As Elizabeth's condition worsens, Matt contacts friends and relatives, like her fiercely protective father (Robert Forster), so that they'll have the chance to say goodbye. In the process, he finds out she was having an affair with realtor Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard, effectively cast against type), so he and the girls, including Alex's hilariously mellow friend, Sid (Nick Krause), go on an island-hopping trip, ostensibly to add Brian to the mix, but Matt really wants to find out what his wife saw in the guy. His journey from naiveté to knowledge brings out Clooney's soulful side, creating a believably flawed, deeply sympathetic figure. If Payne leans too heavily on the slack-key soundtrack, his love for his characters, including Judy Greer as Matt's female counterpart, results in his most emotionally satisfying movie to date. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• 1985 (dvd) | DVD | (28/01/2019) from £6.28   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

• Cruel Intentions | Blu Ray | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kathryn and Sebastian, two wealthy, manipulative teenage stepsiblings from Manhattan's uppercrust, conspire in Cruel Intentions, a wickedly entertaining tale of seduction and betrayal.

• Molokai: The Forbidden Island | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In 1872 Father Damien shamed the cynical establishment into helping the abandoned lepers on the island of Malakai. Based on Father Damien's true story.

• Macbeth (Limited Edition Steelbook) | Blu Ray | (01/02/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.98 (-9.80%)   |  RRP £10.00

  Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

• Tiptoes | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  No couple could be more in love than Steven (Matthew McConaughey) and Carol (Kate Beckinsale). But Steven has a little secret he's been keeping to himself. He has a twin brother (Gary Oldman) who just happens to be a dwarf. In fact with the exception of Steven his entire family is made up of dwarfs. So when Carol becomes pregnant and Steven is finally forced to tell her the truth - their child may also be born a dwarf - Carol decides to have the baby anyway knowing full well that w

• The Comfort Of Strangers | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on an Ian McEwen novel, The Comfort of Strangers is directed by Paul Schrader at his most portentous. A young couple holidaying in Venice are taken up by an older more sophisticated pair. Christopher Walken as the Eurotrashy Roberto portrays with considerable vigour the sort of smooth stranger from whom anyone who has ever seen this sort of movie ought to run a mile, and Helen Mirren as his complaisant wife is hardly less sinister. Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are believably obtuse as the lovers who fail to understand exactly what they are being sucked into. This ought to be a far better film than it is: Harold Pinter's script is elliptically menacing and Angelo Badalamenti's score attractively gloomy. But in the end The Comfort of Strangers presents a rather low-rent vision of decadence: Roberto's praise of Margaret Thatcher and habit of photographing the unwary and beautiful are not quite enough to make the film's shocking climax entirely plausible. The DVD contains no additional features other than the obligatory theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Monique | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £9.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (37.46%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Bill and Jean engage Monique as an au pair for their children they have no idea what a shattering effect she will have on their lives-especially their sex lives. Bill is strongly attracted to the uninhibited, thoroughly desirable French girl, and succumbs to temptation. Jean, sexually unawakened, proves an exciting challenge to her and eventually achieves a lesbian fulfilment. Her new, intense sexual desire is a revelation to Bill, and the complex situation is uniquely resolved by an unusually satisfying ménage à trois relationship.

• Suburban Girl | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £6.70   |  Saving you £10.55 (193.93%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on stories from the bestselling book "The Girls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing". Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in this funny and disarmingly wise romantic comedy set against the exhilarating backdrop of New York City.

• The Wonderful Crook | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Wonderful Crook (aka Pas si merchant que 'a)